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STRING QUARTET NO. 3

Composer: 
Richard Brooks
Scoring: 
string quartet

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audio/mpeg iconexcerpt from I. (iO Quartet, 2003 live performance)
List Price: 
$34.95 score with parts

MUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE

Composer: 
Darleen Cowles Mitchell
Instrumentation freestyle: 
flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion

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Composer's note:  The Train by Carl Slotboom is a play about two holocaust survivors who tell their story, remembering the events of several decades ago when they were young. It seems that many of their memories are buried, and they are reluctant to speak of that time in their lives, but the present day couple, on a train trip, finds that they are thrust into a memory loop by the train itself. The train becomes a symbol, a catalyst for something to happen. The older couple begins to remember events in their past, events that have been long buried in their memories. They discover that the presence of the past, buried and then remembered, strengthens their love and gives them hope.

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audio/mpeg iconExcerpt - Darleen Mitchell - Music of Remembrance
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$26.95; $46.95 score with set of parts

IN THE BEGINNING: A Native American Legend from the Tlingit Tribe of the Northwest Coast

Composer: 
Jan Gilbert
Scoring: 
2-1+EH-2-2/4-2-3-1/2 per, hp/str/narrator

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Out of the Alaskan coastal wilderness, Raven creates the earth and then tricks Ganook to help him form all the rivers of the world. The story is set for orchestra and narrator, with narration in between the 15 sections of music. The piece may be performed in excerpts to fit concert programming.

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audio/mpeg iconExcerpt - "Raven's Waltz"
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$49.95 conductor's score, narrator script
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$310.00 full set of parts with strings 87655

CRÓNICA DE UNA MUERTE ANNUNCIADA

Composer: 
Reinaldo Moya
Scoring: 
Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano and Percussion

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audio/mpeg iconExcerpt - Da Capo Chamber Players - live performance
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$22.95 full score

Conveyor

Composer: 
John Gibson
Scoring: 
electronic - stereo

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Sechs Miniaturen für das Meer

Composer: 
Michael Slayton
Scoring: 
guitar, piano

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The miniatures represent six scenes in tableau - a day in a life - sitting and watching the sea.This work was commissioned by Duo Soundways (Chris Bilobram, guitar; Reinhard Wolschina, piano), Weimar, Germany. For both the composer and the performers, this instrumental partnership presents inherent issues of balance; therefore, depending upon the concert space and the specific instruments involved, the guitar is often amplified. The timbral connection between the guitar and piano is a unique one, as each is, simultaneously, a string and percussion instrument, producing together a sonorous effect that currently enjoys growing popularity in modern chamber repertoire.    
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$21.95 score and part

CHAMBER CONCERTO VI: MR JEFFERSON

Composer: 
Elliott Schwartz
Scoring: 
Violin solo, chamber orchestra 1-(Picc)-1 (E.H.)-1 (Bass Clar)-1 (CBsn), 1-1-1-0, Percussion (1 or 2 players), piano (doubles on harpsichord & celesta), strings.

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Chamber Concerto VI: Mr. Jefferson for solo violin and chamber orchestra is built on references to, and associations with, the figure of Thomas Jefferson. It is dedicated to violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved, who first stimulated my interest in Jefferson’s musical connections. In composing the work, I focused on four specific links to Jefferson.

(a) The formal structure, in five connected movements, is meant to reflect Jeffersonian architecture: the symmetrical balancing of components on either side of a central structure. Thus the middle (third) movement is balanced on either side, with movements  I-V, and II-IV, of identical durations.

(b) The piece makes use of motives based on musical spellings, using the letters A through G plus the German H and S and solfege syllables. The most prominent motive of this type is based on the pitches THOMAS EFFERSO. There are musical spellings of many other names as well – including that of violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved.

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$41.50 conductor's score

TEST DRIVE

Composer: 
Elliott Schwartz
Scoring: 
4-hands, grand piano

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$9.95

OPENINGS

Composer: 
Christopher Shultis
Instrumentation freestyle: 
large ensemble of winds, saxophones, harp, piano, brass, percussion, contrabass
Scoring: 
3-2-4(bscl)-2; 4-3-1-1; SAATB(saxes); hp, pf, timp, perc(5), db

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Openings is written for winds and percussion. There are four movements: mouth, mind, eye and ear. The piece began in 2004 as I walked up the Spruce Spring Trail near Red Canyon campground in the Manzano Wilderness for the first time. Openings is physically connected to the density of the trail as one climbs up a ridge of the mountain. When you've reached a certain height there are openings out into the mesa where you can see for miles and miles. Openings is artistically connected to Encounter, the installation piece I made in collaboration with visual artist Hee Sook Kim.

audio/mpeg iconExcerpt - II. Mind U of New Mexico Wind Symphony
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$22.95 full score

DEVISADERO

Composer: 
Christopher Shultis
Instrumentation freestyle: 
pf

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Six Preludes for Solo Piano, 2002-07. Written for Curt Cacioppo.

I. Walking ("Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you" John 12:35b)
II. Wind Blowing
III.Fly Buzzing, Ant Running
IV. Walking (Return)
V. Bird Chirping, Rustling Leaf
VI. Wind Stopping

 

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audio/mpeg iconFalko Steinbach, piano
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$12.50

NIGHT AND VISAGE (NUIT ET APPARITION)

Composer: 
Michael Slayton
Instrumentation freestyle: 
vln, cello, perc.(2), pno

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Night and Visage was commissioned by the Nashville Ballet in 2007, as part of their ongoing Emergence! project. The choreographer (Kim Ratcliffe) asked me to integrate music from my Zwei Gedichte into this larger-scale work for the dance.

SIGOL FOR STRINGS

Composer: 
Brian Fennelly
Instrumentation freestyle: 
(min 6-6-4-4-2)
Scoring: 
String Orchestra

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An expressive work for string orchestra derived from String Quartet No.3 and Sigol Musings. There are two movements: 1)the lyric Dreams and Fantasies and 2)a vigorous Fugue. Written at Copland House (Aaron Copland Award) for the Woodstock Chamber Orchesta.

audio/mpeg iconExcerpt -Moravian Phil. Joel E. Suben, conductor
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$19.50 full score

ETHEREAL WHISPERS

Composer: 
Reinaldo Moya
Instrumentation freestyle: 
Composers and Choreographers Workshop piece

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EL CREPÚSCULO DE LA IGUANA

Composer: 
Reinaldo Moya
Instrumentation freestyle: 
vln, pf

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PALINDROME FOR A SUMMER EVENING

Composer: 
Peter Westergaard
Instrumentation freestyle: 
fl, vn, va, vc