Ariel is scored for basset clarinet, violin, cello and piano, and is a response to the poem of the same name by Sylvia Plath. Simpson reacted to the poem musically, jotting down the ideas for instrumental combinations, as well as the emotional content as he read the words. The piece begins, ('Stasis in darkness...') and gradually wakens up to a furious outburst in all the instruments. Scales descend to the depths of the instruments ranges, out of which a slow, winding duet for basset clarinet and cello leads to the centre of the work – a slow, calm three-chord chorale. The work then comes to a stand-still where short outbursts are gradually transformed into new, faster material. The three-chord chorale motif then goes through a number of permutations until a recap of the opening's outburst is quickly side-lined by a boldly expressive return of the chorale motif. This piece is about extremes – extremes of expression, of instrumental textures and capabilities.
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Miniature Quartet No.2 In D Minor. Score only. Parts also available for sale (NOV120190).
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For flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano.
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For flute, violin, viola and cello.
Contents: Flute Quartet In D Major, K. 285 • Flute Quartet In C Major, K. 285b • Flute Quartet In A Major, K. 298
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This is Mozart's only piece of chamber music for the oboe – and no oboist would want to be without it! Like the Clarinet Quintet, the Oboe Quartet of 1781 was written for a friend: Friedrich Ramm, a member of the celebrated court orchestra in Mannheim. Since then it has become the most significant and best-known work in its genre. The playful virtuoso outside movements frame a brief slow movement in the minor mode that brings out the instrument's elegiac timbre. Unlike the Oboe Concerto, this work has come down to us in Mozart's autograph score, which has served as the principal source of our edition.
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15 pieces by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Majkapar, and others. With parts for: I: Violin/Flute/Oboe/Vibraphone, II: Violin/Flute/Oboe/Vibraphone, III: Violin/Viola/Vibraphone, IV: Cello/Bassoon/Marimba.
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Lounge Lizards (1994) was commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestra Association. This tour de force for two pianos and two percussion is a musical recollection of Daugherty's student years when he supported studies in music composition with György Ligeti by playing jazz piano in lounges, bars and nightclubs across America and Europe. Pulsating, syncopated piano and xylophone riffs are punctuatedby pulsating triangles, sizzling cymbals and beatnick bongos. As the music accelerates, it becomes increasingly polytonal and polyrhythmic.
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Inspired by the events of September 11th, this three-movement work incorporates recorded voices of NORAD air traffic controllers, FDNY, and Ground Zero neighborhood residents. Audio component for performance use available directly from the publisher at USRental@boosey.com
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8 quartets for various combinations of instruments, including music by Palestrina, Beethoven, Rimsky-Korsakov, Joplin, and others.
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Tissues is a set of pieces from the larger work Naqoyqatsi (2002), written for the film of the same name. This book contains numbers 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7. For Cello, Harp, Organ, Celesta and Percussion.
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