New Publications,
New Sheet Music Titles - September 26th 2023
Welcome to our selection of new sheet music publications, which this fortnight includes Henle editions of Rachmaninoff and Liszt piano works; really easy arrangements of ABBA songs; the second installment for piano in the Gradebusters series; Christopher Tin's The Lost Birds; a collection of pop songs for primary schools; Carus's new reduced orchestration for Casals The Manger; Faure's Pavane for SATB and piano duet; new Bärenreiter vocal scores; additions to the Stringtastic series; and Bartók guitar duets and string quartets.
Piano, Keyboard, & Organ
This cycle of six piano pieces was composed in 1896, just four years after Rachmaninov had completed his studies at the Moscow Conservatory, and it already shows signs of the mature master he would become. Deeply expressive and complex in texture, the six pieces clearly point towards Rachmaninov’s later large cycles such as the Préludes and the Études-Tableaux.
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Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody no. 3 is the shortest of his series of nineteen rhapsodies published in 1853 and represents an extensive reworking of a Hungarian National Melody published ten years before. Since none of Liszt’s manuscripts for this piece are extant today, all available printed sources were carefully compared.
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40 of ABBA’s most popular hits in easy-to-play arrangements for piano, presented with background notes and performance tips for every song. These arrangements have been abridged and simplified for the beginner player, so structure and key signature may vary from the original recordings.
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Boost your performance with these songs, all specially arranged for students at Grade 2 level. Fifteen awesome solos from Ed Sheeran to Moana.
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Vocal & Choral
The Lost Birds is a musical memorial to bird species driven to extinction by humankind. Sweeping and elegaic, it's a haunting tribute to those soaring flocks that once filled our skies, but whose songs have since been silenced. It's a celebration of their feathered beauty: their symbolism as messengers of hope, peace, and renewal. But it's also a warning about our own tenuous existence on the planet.
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The complete song resource for singing assemblies, school choirs, shows, and classroom music lessons! This book includes popular songs for unison choir, with piano accompaniment and guitar chords; alternative two-part arrangements of every song; lyric videos, with and without the vocal line; demonstration audio for each arrangement; sound-alike backing tracks; printable lyric sheets; and songs from the Model Music Curriculum.
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Pablo Casals composed The Manger in response to the Spanish Civil War and World War Two. It is a musical memorial to peace and humanity in a modern musical style infused with songlike elements. Antoni Ros Marbà has revised the instrumentation, reducing the number of winds.
Choral score, study score, and critical commentary also available.
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Gabriel Fauré’s Pavane is certainly one of his most popular compositions. Supplementing the new edition of the version for mixed choir, Carus has published this contemporary version for choir and two piano for four hands.
Choral score and individual parts also available
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During the last summer of his life, Franz Schubert completed the Mass in E-flat D 950. The occasion for the composition of this Missa solemnis cannot be clarified with certainty. Schubert did not live to see the premiere of his sixth mass, which was first performed posthumously in 1829 under the baton of his brother Ferdinand.
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Ballet in one prologue and three entrées. Part of the Rameau Complete Edition (Opera omnia Rameau). This edition contains all versions of the work, some of which are now accessible for the first time.
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Instrumental Solos & Duets
Stringtastic Book 2: Violin teaches through playing in an engaging exploration of musical styles. Part of the fully integrated Stringtastic series in which violin, viola, cello and double bass can all learn and play together in any combination.
Find all Stringtastic publications here.
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Béla Bartók composed the series of forty-four violin duos in 1931. With the exception of numbers 35 and 36, all the pieces are based on original folk melodies, and the majority were collected by the composer himself during his numerous field trips in the Carpathian Basin. The present transcription faithfully follows the original; fingerings are by the editor.
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Chamber & Orchestral
Even before his String Quartet no. 3 appeared in print in 1929, Bartók was already working on a fourth in the summer of 1928. This five-movement work is arranged symmetrically around a highly expressive middle movement dominated by the cello, and calls for various playing techniques such as pizzicato glissandi and the famous “Bartók pizzicato” in which the string is snapped audibly against the fingerboard.
Henle's edition of String Quartet No. 3 is also available.
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Ellena Taylor - Sheet Music and Books Manager
