Faced with the same instrumentation as Messiaen’s iconic Quartet for the End of Time, composed in a POW camp during World War II, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was moved to give voice to those less fortunate prisoners who would never return home. Zwilich’s chilling memorial quotes music created in concentration camps, drawing on two short excerpts to create an artistic view of a death march and song of grieving.
It's just so much fun adding a jazzy twist to this perennial classic! The bright swing tempo, vocal jazz harmonies, and scat singing are easy to accomplish and create a unique, never-heard-it-this-way-before arrangement. Consider performing with your jazz band playing the optional SoundPax parts, or the SoundTrax CD for a hip holiday effect!
Also Available:
SATB •
3-Part •
2-Part
SoundTrax Accompaniment CD •
SoundPax Score and Parts
SoundPax includes:
Score
Clarinet
Alto Saxophone
Tenor Saxophone
Trumpet 1
Trumpet 2
Trombone 1
Trombone 2
Vibraphone
Percussion (Triangle, Tambourine)
Guitar
Bass
Drumset
It's just so much fun adding a jazzy twist to this perennial classic! The bright swing tempo, vocal jazz harmonies, and scat singing are easy to accomplish and create a unique, never-heard-it-this-way-before arrangement. Consider performing with your jazz band playing the optional SoundPax parts, or the SoundTrax CD for a hip holiday effect!
Also Available:
SATB •
3-Part •
2-Part
SoundTrax Accompaniment CD •
SoundPax Score and Parts
SoundPax includes:
Score
Clarinet
Alto Saxophone
Tenor Saxophone
Trumpet 1
Trumpet 2
Trombone 1
Trombone 2
Vibraphone
Percussion (Triangle, Tambourine)
Guitar
Bass
Drumset
It's just so much fun adding a jazzy twist to this perennial classic! The bright swing tempo, vocal jazz harmonies, and scat singing are easy to accomplish and create a unique, never-heard-it-this-way-before arrangement. Consider performing with your jazz band playing the optional SoundPax parts, or the SoundTrax CD for a hip holiday effect!
Also Available:
SATB •
3-Part •
2-Part
SoundTrax Accompaniment CD •
SoundPax Score and Parts
SoundPax includes:
Score
Clarinet
Alto Saxophone
Tenor Saxophone
Trumpet 1
Trumpet 2
Trombone 1
Trombone 2
Vibraphone
Percussion (Triangle, Tambourine)
Guitar
Bass
Drumset
It's just so much fun adding a jazzy twist to this perennial classic! The bright swing tempo, vocal jazz harmonies, and scat singing are easy to accomplish and create a unique, never-heard-it-this-way-before arrangement. Consider performing with your jazz band playing the optional SoundPax parts, or the SoundTrax CD for a hip holiday effect!
Also Available:
Also Available:
SATB •
3-Part •
2-Part
SoundTrax Accompaniment CD •
SoundPax Score and Parts
SoundPax includes:
Score
Clarinet
Alto Saxophone
Tenor Saxophone
Trumpet 1
Trumpet 2
Trombone 1
Trombone 2
Vibraphone
Percussion (Triangle, Tambourine)
Guitar
Bass
Drumset
It's just so much fun adding a jazzy twist to this perennial classic! The bright swing tempo, vocal jazz harmonies, and scat singing are easy to accomplish and create a unique, never-heard-it-this-way-before arrangement. Consider performing with your jazz band playing the optional SoundPax parts, or the SoundTrax CD for a hip holiday effect!
Also Available:
SATB •
3-Part •
2-Part
SoundTrax Accompaniment CD •
SoundPax Score and Parts
SoundPax includes:
Score
Clarinet
Alto Saxophone
Tenor Saxophone
Trumpet 1
Trumpet 2
Trombone 1
Trombone 2
Vibraphone
Percussion (Triangle, Tambourine)
Guitar
Bass
Drumset
The 'Easy Classics' series of books was meticulously designed to provide beginning to intermediate instrumentalists with an enjoyable introduction to classical melodies. This alto saxophone edition features solos and duets with piano accompaniment. Some of the popular titles include: Emperor Hymn; O Sole mio, William Tell Overture; Cancan plus 10 more by Bach, Bizet, Brahms, Mozart, Strauss, Rossini and others. Includes a 32-page pull-out part for the solo/duet saxophone player.
Contents:
• Adagio (from Clarinet Concerto, K.622) (by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
• Cancan (from the opera Orpheus in the Underworld) (by Jacques Offenbach)
• Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (from Serenade K.525) (by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
• Emperor Hymn (by Franz Joseph Haydn)
• Habanera (from the opera Carmen) (by Georges Bizet)
• Hungarian Dance #5 (by Johannes Brahms)
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (from Cantata No.147) (by Johann Sebastian Bach)
• O Sole Mio (by Eduardo Di Capua)
• Ode to Joy (from Symphony #9) (by Ludwig van Beethoven)
• Radetzky March (by Johann Strauss)
• Scheherazade (by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
• Sleeping Beauty Waltz (from the ballet Sleeping Beauty) (by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
• The Trout (by Franz Schubert)
• Theme from Polovetsian Dances (from the opera Prince Igor) (by Alexander Borodin)
• Toreador Song (from the opera Carmen) (by Georges Bizet)
• William Tell Overture (from the opera William Tell) (by Gioachino Rossini)
Orcus, presented by the composer in a version for contraforte as well, is a virtuoso solo which gives the instrument the character of a 'bass nightingale'. Mockery and humour, however, are disregarded. This composition rather is a piece of archaic language-like character. Lamenting vocal tones are crossed dramatically by staccatos.
Bennett: Deepwood – Bass Clarinet (FISCHER)
Bassi: Lamento – Bass Clarinet (RUBANK)
