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Books Church History Church Music in the United States 1760–1901

Essays by David W. Music & Paul Westermeyer These essays by David W. Music and Paul Westermeyer discuss church music in the United States from the middle of the eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth. Not a comprehensive history, they can be read singly or as a whole. Their insights into where we have been give perspective on where we may be called to go. Paperback. 328 pages.

90-49

$24.95

Hymnology in the Service of the Church

Essays in Honor of Harry Eskew Edited by Paul R. Powell A collection of 25 essays by colleagues, students, and friends of Harry Eskew, who taught music history and hymnology at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary for 36 years. Broad range of topics with focus on hymnody. Paperback. 407 pages.

90-50

$30.00

The Church Musician and Music Ministry Singing the Church’s Song

Hymn Playing

Essays & Occasional Writings on Church Music

A Modern Colloquium Stuart Forster A fascinating anecdotal compendium of current thought about hymns and hymn playing, this book by Stuart Forster poses questions to recognized experts in the field.

The questions elicit answers about specific issues related to learning new hymns, articulation, tempo, registration, introductions, and more. Respondents include, among others: David Cherwien, John Ferguson, Bruce Neswick, and John Scott. This book fills in the blanks often left by organ primers and university courses on hymn accompaniment and leadership, and is a must-have for your personal library. Paperback. 352 pages.

90-44

Church Musicians

Reflections on Their Call, Craft, History, and Challenges

Essays written at different times and for different occasions over an entire career: three are general essays on the tradition of the Church’s song; six deal specifically with the Lutheran tradition of worship and church music; three essays discuss different aspects of Lutheran hymnody; three essays are on the composer of church music in the Lutheran tradition; and several miscellaneous items address acoustics in worship, appearing together with several brief homilies and other devotional writings.

At the root of these writings is the simple proposition that church musicians need to be both theologically informed and musically skilled. Underlying themes include the central importance of the great tradition of the Church’s worship and song and the central role of proclamation and teaching in the Church’s worship, its music, and its congregational song.

91-08 $20.00

Paul Westermeyer The work of the church musician has always been challenging. In today’s climate, there is a need to find new and effective ways to clearly articulate this calling to clergy, congregations, and choir members. This book of lectures examines their work and craft from a historical perspective through current practices. Paul Westermeyer’s position as clergyman, musician, historian, and musicologist makes him uniquely qualified to give the reader a bird’s eye view of the church musicians’ vocation with all of its challenges and joys. Paperback. 100 pages.

90-60

$24.95

Carl Schalk

$15.00

From Postlude to Prelude — 2nd Edition Music Ministry’s Other Six Days C. Randall Bradley Featuring current language relating to worship styles and terminology; updated sections regarding instruments and technology; reorganized in order to provide better flow and readability; original appendices removed or integrated into the body of the book; significant updates to chapters dealing with: pastoral care concerns, interviewing and job searches, working with volunteers, facility design, and management.

Designed for church music classes and those currently involved in leading music ministries. Paperback. 400 pages.

90-32

Biography The Journey Was Chosen

The Life and Work of Paul Manz Scott M. Hyslop This biographical work examines the unique factors that have shaped and formed the life and music of one of the most influential organists of the latter half of the twentieth-century. Constructed in four parts, this book includes a full biography; an analysis of his chorale-based organ and choral works; a collection of essays by composers, theologians, musicians, and family; and web access that includes sound clips, radio interviews, manuscripts, video, articles, and programs. This book will be of great interest to anyone who knows and enjoys the music of Paul Manz. Paperback. 246 pages.

90-329 $24.00

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$32.00

Books Randall Thompson The Music of Randall Thompson (1899–1984) A Documented Catalogue

Carl B. Schmidt and Elizabeth K. Schmidt This featured publication is a compelling and complete chronological catalogue of the late Randall Thompson’s works, both published and unpublished. Readers will discover information gleaned from correspondence, diaries, personal interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues, newspaper reviews, the composer’s own program notes, recordings, and assorted other sources. Extensive performance histories of Thompson’s most notable works, as well as a complete list of every known performance which Thompson himself conducted or attended are also included. Hardcover. 492 pages.

8016

$45.00

The Story of Randall Thompson’s “Alleluia” Revisited

Randall Thompson: A Choral Legacy

A Facsimile Edition with Commentary Carl B. Schmidt

The fascinating story of Randall Thompson’s Alleluia from its conception to its development is engagingly told.

Besides the narrative, this book includes information concerning the original manuscripts and printed editions as well as complete detailed appendices and color reproductions of the original manuscript. Hardcover. 66 pages.

7524

Study, Reflections, Tributes Edited by Alfred Mann 98 pages 0694 $18.50

$28.95

Games and Puzzles

For Singers and Conductors Diction

Musidoku

The Musical Sudoku: 44 Puzzles to Tickle and Tackle Your Musical Brain Cells Antony Kearns Each book contains 44 puzzles of the widely popular Sudoku—music style!

3.4020, Opus 1 3.4021, Opus 2

$10.50 $10.50

Italian, Latin, French, German: the Sounds and 81 Exercises for Singing Them John Moriarty Text book for singers. A comprehensive singer’s guide to the pronunciation of Italian, French, Ecclesiastical Latin and German, in an approach developed for diction classes at the New England Conservatory of Music. A thorough and scholarly treatment in a practical, easily used format.

0650 $38.00

Musical Mind Benders

Up Front!

Arthur Cohn

ed. Guy B. Webb

Musical Quizzical II

The puzzles, ranging from easy to difficult, offer a rich harvest of fascinating, new and colorful music lore. Whether you are an amateur or professional musician, concert-goer, student, teacher, or music lover, you will find these puzzles stimulating, enlightening, fun, and amusing.

192 pages.

Becoming the Complete Choral Conductor This book shares the experience and knowledge of twelve outstanding professional choral musicians, each writing on just one critical topic. The result is an exceptional resource for all levels of choral directors.

Paperback. 293 pages.

4638 $35.70

4718 $17.35

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Opera NEW FROM STEPHEN CHATMAN Choir Practice Soloists, SATB, and Piano Libretto by Tara Wohlberg Watch this farcical comedy unfold as an unlikely group of eccentric singers attempts to make it through a community choir rehearsal in the 1980s. Part of the long tradition of comic operas, Wohlberg’s libretto is sure to keep any audience laughing along to Chatman’s operatic quotes and upbeat melodies.

Published 2015. Most recent performance: University of British Columbia, 2015

7.0655, Piano/Vocal Score

$35.00

DAVID CONTE

HENRY MOLLICONE

Firebird Motel

Emperor Norton

Soloists, Offstage Chorus, Chamber Ensemble Libretto by David YezziCommissioned by the San Francisco theater company

Soloists, Piano, Violin, Cello Libretto by John S. Bowman

Opera in 1 Act

Opera in One Act

Conte’s ghostly Western follows the lives (and afterlives) of the residents of the seedy Firebird Motel—complete with a shootout! A chamber ensemble of clarinet, violin, cello, bass, and piano adds tension and eerieness to rich vocal melodies.

Published 2003. Most recent performance: University of South Carolina, 2015

This chamber opera for violin, cello, and piano explores the history and fantasy of San Francisco’s self-proclaimed “Norton I, Emperor of the United States,” via a theater production set within the opera. This work has been praised for its lyricism and catchiness, as well as Mollicone’s eclectic style.

Published 1981. Most recent performance: Chelsea Opera (NYC), 2014.

6269, Piano/Vocal Score, $30.00

4717, Piano/Vocal Score, $55.00

The Gift of the Magi

Coyote Tales

Opera in 4 Scenes

Soloists, Chamber Ensemble Libretto by Nicholas Giardini after the short story by O. Henry Opera News: “The music is well orchestrated, vocally sympathetic, and pleasant to listen to...

The level of musical dramatization...becomes simultaneously delicate and intense, and free of cliché.” This take onthe traditional story is a wonderful addition to a short list of accessible Christmas operas.

Published 1998. Most recent performance: Hidden Valley Music Seminars, 2015.

5248, Piano/Vocal Score, $40.00

Soloists, Chorus, Orchestra Libretto by Sheldon Harnick The libretto is based on “Coyote and Pavayoykyasi” (Hopi Coyote Tales), and is guided through five tales by The Storyteller. The music is not intended to resemble Native American songs and traditions—each tale has a unique sound while still being recognizably Mollicone’s tuneful, rhythmic, Broadway-bordering style.

Published 1998.

5400, Piano/Vocal Score, $68.25

RICHARD PEASLEE Marat/Sade

A Wrinkle in Time

“The persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade”

Soloists, Orchestra Libretto by Libby Larsen after the book

by Madeleine L’Engle

Soloists, Chorus, Chamber Ensemble Play by Peter Weiss, English version by Geoffrey Skelton, verse adaptation and lyrics by Adrian Mitchell

LIBBY LARSEN Opera in 1 Act (7 Scenes)

Adapted from Madeleine L’Engle’s best-selling young-adult sci-fi story, this one act work for small orchestra was commissioned primarily as an opera for children, but is enjoyable for all ages.

Published 1991.

4780, Piano/Vocal Score, $52.50

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This opera is precisely what the full title implies—in the early 19th century, the Asylum of Charenton regularly mounted theatrical entertainments as clinical work, drawing audiences from nearby Paris. Peaslee’s music adds color, vitality, and commentary.

Published 1966. Recent performances: Brown University, 2015; University of Ottawa, 2015; Shenandoah Conservatory, 2015; Cornell College, 2014; San Jose State University, 2014

7.0043, Piano/Vocal Score, $22.00

Opera COMING SOON FROM FRANK PESCI The System of Soothing Soloists and Orchestra or Chamber Ensemble Libretto by Frank Pesci after “The Sytem of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether” by Edgar Allan Poe A young doctor’s investigation into a new method of treating the mentally insane reveals a thin line between reality and terrifying masquerade. A devastating conclusion drives home the warning echoed throughout the opera: “believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see!”

8010, Piano/Vocal Score

EDWIN PENHORWOOD

RANDALL THOMPSON

Too Many Sopranos

Solomon and Balkis (“The But-

Soloists, Orchestra Libretto by Miki Lynn

Soloists, Orchestra Libretto by Randall Thompson

This playful comic opera follows four soprano divas trying to join the Heavenly Chorus, only to find themselves in Hell charged with the unthinkable—they must perform a selfless deed in order to take with them as many tenors and basses as needed to maintain balance. The music aids the satire, using idioms that range from heavy Wagner, light Bellini, and the occasional Broadway nod.

Published 2012. 18 performances at 7 universities since publication.

Based on the “Just So Stories” of Rudyard Kipling and subtitled “The Butterfly the Stamped,” Solomon and Balkis was originally commissioned by CBS as a radio broadcast. Thompson’s witty humor pairs wonderfully with this tale of Balkis’ arrangement to save Solomon from the quarrelling of his 999 other wives.

Published 1942. Most recent performance: Towson University, 2015.

A Comic Opera in 2 Acts

7891, Piano/Vocal Score, $55.00

CONRAD SUSA The Dangerous Liaisons Soloists, Orchestra (full or reduced) Libretto by Philip Littel, based on the novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Littel has adapted a tangled web of relationships, intrigue, and manipulation in 18th-century France, retaining its original epistolary form without sacrificing any drive. Susa’s lush orchestration flows continuously, suggesting “a laid-back Richard Strauss...conveying the ornate veneer coating [of ] 18th century French society..and interlocking and unraveling melodies suggest behind-the-scenes intrigues.” (USA Today) Published 1994. Most recent performance: Manhattan School of Music, 2015

4975, Piano/Vocal Score, $70.00

terfly That Stamped”)

2031, Piano/Vocal Score, $61.90

ROBERT WARD The Crucible Soloists, Orchestra (full or reduced) Libretto by Bernard Stambler, based on the play by Arthur Miller Arthur Miller’s famous allegory on the Salem witch trials in the 1690s and McCarthyism in the 1950s becomes even more exciting with the addition of Ward’s compelling melodies.

The Crucible has won the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Critics Circle Citation.

Published 1961. Most recent performances: Glimmerglass Festival, Summer 2016; University of Delaware, 2015; Purchase College, 2015.

7.0028, Piano/Vocal Score, $53.00

Transformations

An Entertainment in 2 Acts Soloists, Chamber Ensemble Texts by Anne Sexton These familiar tales from the Brothers Grimm were originally published as a book of poems

by Anne Sexton in 1971, who worked closely with Susa on the libretto. The music alludes to such popular artists as Bing Crosby, Ethel Smith, and the Andrews Sisters, as well as bearing similarities to Stravinsky and Kurt Weill, while retaining its structure, inventiveness, and intellectualism.

Published 1975. Most recent performances: Merola Opera Program (San Francisco Opera), July 2016; University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2015; San Francisco Conservatory, 2014.

For more information and a complete listing of our operas, please visit our website.

Coming Summer 2016 Downloadable material for excerpted opera scenes will be available on our website, along with easy-to-use licensing packages.

0660, Piano/Vocal Score, $65.00

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Featured Works for Orchestra

Full score and parts on rental, unless otherwise noted.

DAVID CONTE

KAREEM ROUSTOM

Eos

Dabke

“Conte...clearly knows what he’s about in writing music for amateur chorus...’Eos’ shows off the voices to best advantage...its speaks in a musical idiom that is immediately accessible...and it knows how to wring the emotions in an old-fashioned, inspirational way.” - Ellen Pfeifer, Boston Globe “Eos is a score of unfailing interest. Both music and text successfully meld in a manner that many a composer would prove wise to study.” - Jason Serinus, Bay Area Reporter

5690, Choral Score 5690A, Piano/Vocal Score

$7.60 $16.15

A Copland Portrait

“This short overture-like composition...is filled with syncopation, vibrant themes, and just enough dissonance...The composer was present to receive the prolonged applause for this fine addition to orchestral literature...” - Andrew Flanigan, The Kettering-Oakwood Times, Dayton, OH

5656, Full score for orchestra version $75.00 8190, Band set and score $90.00 8189, Full score for band version $30.00

DARON HAGEN Composed during the summer of 1984 and completed on 19 May 1984 at Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, New York, the Walt Whitman Requiem was commissioned by the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut and first performed by the Loomis Chaffee School Chorus and Orchestra on 10 May 1993 conducted by Mark Jon Gottschalk. Hagen revised the piece in March of 1999 in New York City.

$8.35

LIBBY LARSEN Deep Summer Music

From the composer: Panorama and horizon are part of the natural culture of the plain states. On the plains, one cannot help but be affected by the sweep of the horizon and depth of color as the eye adjusts from the nearest to the farthest view. The glory of this phenomenon is particularly evident at harvest time, in the deep summer, when acres of ripened wheat, sunflowers, corn, rye, and oats blaze with color. In the deep summer, winds create wave after wave of harvest ripeness which, when beheld by the human eye, creates a kind of emotional peace and awe: a feeling of abundance combined with the knowledge that his abundance is only as bountiful as nature will allow.

4064, Full Score

$35.00

HENRY MOLLICONE In Time of War: Prayers and Meditations Soprano, Percussion, Harp, and String Orchestra In Time of War: Prayers and Meditations was completed in June, 2004. The work was written in response to the wartime events of our time, and juxtaposes vocal movements based upon Latin prayers with purely orchestral sections (meditations on wartime subjects).

Duration: 24’ 50”

Moderately Difficult 6446, Piano/Vocal Score $9.50 6444, Additional Full Score

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LMP025, Score: String Orchestra LMP024, Score: Wind Ensemble

$28.00 $68.00

Ramal

Ramal is the name of one of sixteen pre-Islamic Arabic poetic meters used in classical Arabic poetry. Each of these meters is comprised of variations of the verb “to do.” The work was commissioned for the West-Eastern DIVAN Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim, who says of the piece: “Roustom… has written a very brilliant rhythmical piece, extremely well orchestrated.” The Guardian described Ramal as “arrestingly quirky and postmodern…music with lots of personality.”

Published/Premiered 2014. Recent Performances: Teatro Colón, Lucerne Festival, BBC Proms, Salzburg Festival, and Malmö Opera.

LMP022, Score

Walt Whitman Requiem

4438, Piano/Vocal Score

Dabke is a folk dance and a type line dance from Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, that is typically performed at joyous occasions. The leader of the dance line, called a hawaash, directs the movements of the dancers behind him. There are many variants of this dance that involve men and women and the rhythms that accompany it. This movement is based on a six beat dabke rhythm called sudaasi. Dabke is an arrangement of the third movement of Kareem Roustom’s A Voice Exclaiming; a work for triple string quartet that was originally commissioned for the Kronos Quartet and Providence, Rhode Island based Community MusicWorks.

$82.00

The Son of Man

A six movement oratorio for Soli, (Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Tenor & Bass Baritone) Chorus (SATB), Trumpet, Harp, Percussion and Organ. The commissioning choir, Coro Allegro (Boston), won the Chorus America/ASCAP Alice Parker Award for their premiere of The Son of Man. The Boston Globe “The music… is pitched toward the impassioned, adapting Arabic-derived scales into a rich, heavily perfumed chromaticism, affording both eerie atmosphere and high-impact drama. Moment to moment, [Roustom’s] invention is prolific.”

7975, Full score 7976, Instr Parts 7977, Organ/Vocal Score 8065, Choral Part

$60.00 $159.50 $36.00 $29.00

ELENA RUEHR O’Keeffe Images

This collection of pieces was inspired by the paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe: Summer Days, Sky Above Clouds, and Ladder to the Moon. Each “painting” may be performed individually or as part of a whole. “They are wondrous pieces, abounding in sonorous awe, grandeur and imagination, as befits the images that stimulated the American composer. A similar sense of urgent brilliance pervades the three Ruehr works preceding the O’Keeffe collection.”

—Gramophone

JULIAN WACHNER Symphony No. 1

“Clearly, one of the musical inspirations behind the symphony was Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms, but Wachner’s work is far less cool and austere. It is powerfully, even violently, rhythmic over many pages....The Incantations movement for orchestra strives to cast spells with its mysterious, often static quality, and its hypnotic mottos for timpani, its oriental colors, its suggestion of a wild sacrificial dance. The Exile section is almost brutal in its depiction of God’s wrath. The Prayer and Remembrance movements offer some calm, albeit couched in odd, unstable harmonies.” -The Boston Globe

5842, Choral Score CD-09-JW, Recording

$8.35 $24.00

Opera Anthologies Opera Aria Anthology

Compiled by Craig W. Hanson Edited by Stanley M. Hoffman This anthology includes biographical information for each com­poser, a brief synopsis of each opera, and a short explanation of the context of each aria. Aside from the joy of learning new repertory, singers, directors, teachers, and coaches will find this collection to be a useful tool for the advancement of contemporary American opera. Each volume features arias drawn from operas in the ECS Publishing catalog.

Volume I: Soprano 6000 $33.60 Volume II: Mezzo-Soprano 6001 $33.60 Volume III: Tenor 6002 $33.60 Volume IV: Baritone 6003 $33.60

Choral Collections Frostiana

Seven Country Songs by Robert Frost Set to Music by Randall Thompson

Commissioned in 1958 for the 200th anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Amherst, Massachusetts and composed in 1959 in Gstaad, Switzerland.

This edition includes a preface by Carl B. Schmidt, family friend to Randall Thompson and historian of the composer’s works. All seven country songs are now gathered here into one collection. Also includes specific instrumentation options. Each of the seven songs are also available separately.

8160

$11.00

Selected Secular Works of Julian Wachner for SATB Chorus A collection of Julian Wachner’s more gentle and romantic settings of secular texts, well suited to choirs of all levels. Drawn from three larger and much more epic works [Sometimes I Feel Alive (1998); Rilke Songs (2001); Come, My Dark-Eyed One (2008)], the selections in this anthology are the portions of those larger pieces that are able to be stand alone performances.

8289 $5.00

#twitterlieder

15 tweets in 3 acts Music by James Eakin III Words by Charles Anthony Silvestri for Soloists, Chorus, and Instrumental Ensemble or Piano “#twitterlieder” chronicles life from birth to old age. It is comprised of 15 tweets, with no more than 140 characters in each. This work is in in three acts: Act I (Youth), Act II (Middle Age), and Act III (Old Age). At the conclusion of each act, an unaccompanied “Greek Chorus” comments on the previous life events and contains the only tweets in the work that rhyme. The very essence of tweeting is brevity, and this is reflected in the duration of each movement; a vignette in a life unfolding. The total duration of the complete work is approximately 25 minutes. However, if a shorter version is desired, the work may be approached in modular manner. For example, a conductor may choose to perform only one of the acts, only two or three from each act, only the unaccompanied choruses, etc. Whichever path you choose, I truly hope you enjoy performing this work. —James Eakin

Piano/Vocal Score (TTBB Version) Full Score (TTBB Version) Parts (TTBB & SATB Versions) Piano/Vocal Score (SATB Version) Full Score (SATB Version)

No. 1.3420 No. 1.3421 No. 1.3422 No. 1.3423 No. 1.3424

$9.00 $25.00 $60.00 $9.00 $25.00

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Vocal Solo Collections STEPHEN CHATMAN Eight Love Songs for High Baritone Voice, Violin, Violoncello and Piano High Baritone Voice, Violin, Violoncello and Piano The set of eight songs is the result of ongoing collaborations between lyricist, Tara Wohlberg, and composer, Stephen Chatman. The lyrics, full of inner rhymes and wit, explore far ranging aspects of love, such as unexpected encounters, tenderness, dreams, dating, and the wrong and right moves of Mr. Smooth. The contrasting musical settings typify Chatman’s eclectic panoply of classical and popular musical styles, from Ragtime and Tango to Neo-Romanticism. Includes: 1. Excuse Me; 2. Something like that; 3. Not that kind of song; 4. Dream Girl; 5. Dating is a sport; 6. Hanky-panky; 7. My Love; 8. Mr. Smooth.

Total duration: 19'30"

Medium 7.0579, Full/Vocal Score

$16.50

DAVID CONTE Lincoln Baritone Solo, English Horn, Trumpet in C and String Orchestra (or String Quintet) or optional Piano Lincoln was commissioned for the Lincoln Symposium, Concord, Massachusetts, in celebration of the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth, February 13, 2009. The work is scored for Baritone, English Horn, C Trumpet and String Orchestra (minimum number of string players: 3-2-2-2-1 or String Quintet). The present edition can also be performed with Piano, Trumpet, and English Horn. The pianist should play all cue-sized notes if instruments are unavailable. Duration: 8'00"

Medium 8081, Piano/Vocal Score

$7.75

JOHN DAVID EARNEST Songs of Sophistication Medium Voice and Piano Songs of Sophistication is an homage by poet Robert Bode and composer John David Earnest to the wit and verbal swordplay of the members of the “Algonquin Round Table” of the 1920s.The five songs in this set explore such sophisticated topics as travel, food, love, language, and the true nature of genius, subjects that surely would have been discussed, dissected, satirized, and parodied by the brilliant circle of friends at the Round Table. Contents: Cuisine d'amour 2'25"; The Poet's Choice (with apologies to Ogden Nash) 2'00"; A Poet to His Muse 2'40"; Love Song 3'00"; Inspiration 2'00".

Moderately Difficult 7703 $12.00

War Dreams

Song Cycle for Tenor Voice and Piano Tenor Voice and Piano A song cycle for Tenor Voice and Piano based on Robert Bode war poems. Contents: 1. Antietam; 2. Battleground; 3. Memorial; 4. Little Big Horn. Duration: 12'00"

Moderately Difficult 7702 $9.50

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Vocal Solo Collections HENRY MOLLICONE Collected Songs for Soprano and Piano Henry Mollicone

Soprano and Piano Collected Songs for Soprano and Piano includes music from the following sets of songs: Five Love Songs, a montage of poems about the pain and joys of love; Sueños de Esperanza, based on the stories of immigrant women in Northern California; Three Simple Songs, written specifically for college-age and young professional voices; and five excerpts from Seven Songs, each of which is a tribute to valued people in the composer’s life.

Moderately Difficult 8371 $18.00

ZACHARY WADSWORTH Collected Songs for Soprano and Piano Soprano and Piano This collection of songs for soprano and piano by Zachary Wadsworth includes the following titles: Lay thy cheek to mine, love 3'15"; Deep inside the woods 3'00"; Pictures of the Floating World 18'00"; and Present and Future 18'00". Lay thy cheek to mine, love is a setting of words by Duncan Campbell Scott. The words for deep inside the woods are by Ivy Wang. Pictures of the Floating World includes settings of six poems by Amy Lowell. Six poems by Christina Rossetti comprise the words for Present and Future.

Medium 8270 $20.00

GWYNETH WALKER Collected Songs Medium-Low Voice and Piano A collection of nine songs set for Medium-Low voice. Contents: 1. My Love Walks in Velvet (1978); 2.

White Horses (1979); 3. Maggie and Milly and Molly and May (1979); 4. As A Branch in May (1983); 5.

Mornings Innocent (1993); 6. I Will Be Earth (1993); 7. Psalm 23 (2000); 8. Crossing the Bar (2000); 9. The Sunrise Ruby (2003) 3'15"

Moderately Easy 6642 $15.50

Emily!

Soprano and Piano The poetry of Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) is especially appealing due to the wide range of topics, diversity of mood and peculiar imagination of the poet. The writings are reflective, passionate, witty, sensuous, observant and ridiculously humorous. Her heart soars. Her mind pokes fun! Her love of Nature focuses on small things—birds, bees, meadows and a pond. In creating the musical settings, the composer endeavored to capture the spirit of the poetry, and of the poet, with songs diverse in style, and concise in form. Everything from romance to frogs is explored, briefly. Duration: 14'00"

Medium 8317 $12.00

Songs from the High Sierra High Voice and Piano The five letters which provide the lyrics for the songs (adapted by the composer) were selected for their range of topics and sentiments. Some portray the wildlife in the mountains. Others extol the beauty of the Sierra. One expresses the whimsical/temperamental personality of the author, John Muir. And the final letter speaks reverently of the great trees, in a language both naturalistic and sacred. They are the “greatest light in the woods, the greatest light in the world.” Duration: 15'15"

Medium 8318 $13.00

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Chamber Music DAVID CONTE String Quartet No. 2

Trio

String Quartet

Violin, Violoncello and Piano

Commissioned by the Ives String Quartet and composed between July 2009 and January 2010. Five movements:

Commissioned for the Cha Family Foundation for the International Chamber Music Festival, Shanghai Conservatory and San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2011. This piano trio is a three-movement work that shifts from B minor to B major through rich harmonic structures and an ever-present rhythmic intensity.

I. Molto Moderato; Allegro [12:22]; II. Scherzo/Chorale: Allegro scherzando [3:46]; III. Fugue: Adagio serio [6:46]; IV. Elegy: Lento assai [6:37]; V. Allegro energico [4:28] Includes score and parts.

Moderately Difficult 8214 $18.00

Moderately Difficult 8336 $35.00

ENDRE SZERVÁNSZKY

JULIAN WACHNER

Partita

String Quartet No. 1

Arranged by Zoltán Paul Jeney Flute and Violin “This Partita, which was composed fifty years before its publication, is finally in print and available for sale to the public. I am confident that this hitherto unpublished duet will eventually be heard in concert halls and via broadcasting stations around the globe, and that it will become part of the standard repertoire of the world’s greatest violinists and flutists.”

—Zoltán Paul Jeney, 2015. Includes score and parts. Duration: c. 7'20"

String Quartet Three movements: I. Chorale II. Scherzo III. Fugue Moderately Difficult 5838 $44.63

Medium 1.3382 $15.00

WALTER PISTON

ROBERT KYR

Salute

Images from Stillness

Edited by Luis C. Engelke and Carl B. Schmidt 4 B-flat Trumpets and opt. Percussion Walter Hamor Piston was an American composer of classical music, music theorist and professor of music at Harvard University whose students included Leroy Anderson, Leonard Bernstein and Elliott Carter. Salute is one of the two works occasioned by the 1942 Fisk University “Inter-cultural Relations with the Latin Americas” Festival. The edition contains extensive notes by the editors in this scholarly performance edition.

Medium 8113 $14.40

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String Trio Architect Warren Schwartz commissioned this trio to celebrate the completion of his “dream house,” The Villa Transformer. Kyr reflects Schwartz’s architecture and geometry, beginning with a spacious chorale, and moving into eight interlocking sections (a “musical octagon”), to recreate the villa’s upper floor. The eight sections transform one into another, until the movement vanishes into motionless and etheral music, recalling the original chorale.

4544 - Score and Parts, $56.70

Chamber Music CLARE SHORE Sojourn 1 Trombone Solo Sojourn 1 for trombone solo is the first in a series of works for solo instruments titled Sojourn by the composer. Sojourn 1, a single-movement work, was commissioned by trombonist Monique Buzzarte who requested that, rather than employing a plethora of extended techniques as is so often the case in works for solo instrument, this piece would sing. Though much of the time this piece is rather melancholy in feel, with its sojourn referring to life’s ephemerality, Sojourn 1 is loosely based on the traditional spiritual “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,” with the outline of the melody growing in apparency toward the end of the work.

Difficult 7548 $5.25

KAREEM ROUSTOM Abu Jmeel’s Daughter Narrator, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello A modern telling of an old Arab folk tale from a collection edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi. Ridha is a clever girl with average looks who wishes for beauty and Alwan is a prince who seeks the hand of a beautiful bride whom he’s never laid eyes.

Seven djinn sisters intervene to grant Ridha’s and Alwan’s wishes, but at what price?

LMP013, Score LMP013-P, Parts

$42.00 $56.00

Buhur Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello The movements in this work are based on rhythmic patterns of three of the 16 buhur: an Arabic poetic meter, and also the plural of the word “sea.” The music attempts to convey the emotions, or my interpretation of them, of the three buhur that are the basis of this work. The melodic and harmonic materials are derived from loose interpretations of maqam (Arabic modal system). It is a testament to these ancient Arab poetic structures that they can still inspire the imagination to explore their “seas” well over a thousand years after their creation. —Kareem Roustom

LMP007, Score LMP007-P, Parts

$28.90 $44.60

Hanjale Solo Mandolin or Solo Cello ‘Hanjale’, which means swagger in Arabic, derives its name from the colloquial saying “Awal al-raqs hanjale” (the dance begins with a swagger). The saying can be interpreted to mean that larger actions begin with small moves or gestures.

Depending on the context, this Arabic saying can allude to both positive and negative outcomes from simple beginnings.

This work uses an ornate rhythmic cycle with seventeen beats as a frame work for its rhythmic structure and a four note motif as a basis for its melodic and harmonic structure.

Duration ca. 12

LMP017, Solo Mandolin LMP018, Solo Cello

$10.50 $10.50

Letters Home Clarinet and Viola or Cello This is the first work in series of short pieces that are reflections on the ongoing conflict in Syria. The purpose of this series is to encourage a broader awareness to the conflict and the needs of the millions who have been displaced by it and who are desperately in need of aid.

LMP014, Clarinet and Viola LMP015, Clarinet and Cello

$7.90 $7.90

A Voice Exclaiming Triple String Quartet Commissioned for the Kronos Quartet and Community MusicWorks Players (Providence, Rhode Island). “I think that with A Voice Exclaiming, Kareem Roustom has made a vivid, thought-provoking new piece that reflects hope in the time we live in, and the immense possibility for positive change as well as its awesome uncertainties and dangers.” David Harrington – first violinist and founder of the Kronos String Quartet

LMP020, Score LMP020-P, Parts

$60.00 $157.00

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Recordings Music by Su Lian Tan Jamaica Kincaid & John Elder, Readers; Brenda Patterson, Mezzo-soprano; Szilvia Schranz, Soprano; David Bowlin, Violin; Darrett Adkins, Cello; Margo Garrett & Donald Berman, Piano

CD176 $15.95

Passion: Songs of Love and Life San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. Conducted by Dr. Timothy Seelig Music recorded

by Jack Vad and Leslie Ann Jones on March 31 - April 2, 2015 at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA.

CD-22-SFC $15.00

Robert Kyr The Cloud of Unknowing— Songs of the Soul Estelí Gomez (soprano), David Farwig (baritone), Conspirare, Victoria Bach Festival Orchestra, Craig Hella Johnson

CD-20-SFC $19.98

Symphony No. 1: Incantations and Lamentations Music by David Conte

Three-CD set. NOVUS NY; The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Majestic Brass Quintet; The Trinity Youth Choir; Jessica Muirhead, soprano; Christopher Burchett, baritone; Julian Wachner, conductor

CD-09-JW $24.00

Chamber Music of David Conte

Julian Wachner: Chamber Music

Emil Miland, cello; Miles Graber, piano; Friction String Quartet; Kay Stern, violin; Emil Miland, cello; Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano

The Boston Sinfonietta; Julian Wachner, conductor

CD-21-DC $16.99

The Gift of the Magi

Music by David Conte Libretto by Nicholas Giardini The San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble; Nicole Paiement, conductor; Aimée Puentes, Tim Krol, Elena Bocharova, Chad Runyon,Branden Smith, Aaron DiPiazza, Gary Sorenson, soloists

CD129 $15.95

The Metamorphoses of Paul Crabtree Cantori New York; conductor Mark Shapiro; mezzo-soprano Heather Johnson; countertenor Randall Scotting

CD172 $15.95

CD141 $15.95

Firebird Motel

Music by David Conte Libretto by David Yezzi Thick Description Theatre Company; San Francisco Conservatory Chorus & Chamber Ensemble; Jeffrey Thomas, conductor

CD154 $15.95

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Giancarlo Aquilanti Mass: A Celebration of Life Stanford Chamber Chorale & Philharmonia Stephen M. Sano, conductor

CD171 $15.95