Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble Repertoire (Music Finders)
by Dirk Meyer
In Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble Repertoire, Dirk Meyer provides conductors, musicians, and librarians with all the information needed to plan their performances of modern chamber music. Meyer lists almost 4,000 works written during the 20th and 21st centuries, representing more than 1,100 composers. Entries are divided into three categories: Chamber Orchestra, String Orchestra, and Ensemble. Presented alphabetically by composer, each entry fully describes the composition, including its dura...
A collection of critical essays dealing with the chamber music of many of the great classical composers including Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms. Sir Donald Tovey, perhaps best known for his "Essays in Musical Analysis", has also written "Symphonies and Other Orchestral Works", "Concertos and Choral Works" and "Beethoven".
On Claudy Banks
On Claudy Banks is a quiet response to the musical and lyrical content of the traditional folk song, Claudy (sometimes Cloddy) Banks. Hymn-like outer sections are balanced by a somewhat sinister, brooding central section that feeds on the military backdrop to the song's lyric - a woman mourning the supposed loss of her lover at war with the Spanish - by the inclusion of the Irish drum, the bodhran (the river Claudy is in Ireland). The overriding mood of the piece is, however, one of peaceful me...
Ding
for B flat clarinet, percussion (vibraphone & marimba), double bass The meaning of 'Ding' is the perfect concentration of thought into the one object of meditation. Zhou translates this Buddhist concept into concrete musical form by using an abstract-improvisational style and a slow tempo throughout. His thematic elements include a twelve-tone row and a tonal melody, which are treated with a variety of instrumental techniques, including blowing, striking, and bowing the instruments in their full...
Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel for Solo Piano (1917) M.68
by Maurice Ravel
Rhapsody in Red
Rhapsody in Red is based on a 'textwork' by the British artist Richard Long - Red Walk Bristol to Dawlish - which lists objects seen on a walk from Bristol to Dawlish and the distances along the walk that they were seen at. Jackson uses this sequence of distances to derive a sequence of durations, producing one section of music for each stage of the walk. Each section is delineated by a change of key and new musical material, but the tempo remains constant. Thus the piece reflects both the even...
Wam
for flute, bass clarinet, and piano WAM is an investigation of Mozart - it uses hundreds of slightly altered fragments of, or parodies of, his music - and, instead of assembling them as he might if he were composing, allows them to float by rather as he might if he were daydreaming. Finnissy is making a point about the way we listen to music two hundred years after its composition - usually without a sense of the adventure of putting it together from scratch.
Max Bruch's 'Kol Nidrei' and Bloch's 'Schelomo' for Cello and Orchestra
by Max Bruch and Ernest Bloch
2012 marked the centenary of the first performance of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21, and over the last hundred years its mixed chamber ensemble has become, in all its protean forms, a principal line-up for modern music. This book, the first of its kind, chronicles the ensemble's evolution from Pierrot's earliest performances, monitoring its influence on the Continent as well as upon Walton, Britten, Lutyens and Searle in Britain. In particular, it watches the growth of The Pierrot...
GCSE Performance Pieces - Drums (GCSE Performance Pieces)
by Noam Lederman
Ornamentation According to C.P.E. Bach and J.J. Quantz
by Dr Kris Palmer
What does it mean to talk about musical coherence at the end of a century characterised by fragmentation and discontinuity? How can the diverse influences which stand behind the works of many late twentieth-century composers be reconciled with the singular immediacy of the experiences that they can create? How might an awareness of the distinctive ways in which these experiences are generated and controlled affect the way we listen to, reflect upon and write about this music? Mark Hutchinson out...
Complete Sonatas and Variations for Violin and Piano
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart