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In the age of the Internet, Elson’s Pocket Music Dictionary remained a staple reference for musicians of all kinds with its compact size, exhaustive range of definitions and composer listings. Theodore Presser is pleased to present the New Elson’s Pocket Music Dictionary, updated to reflect the technologies and theories of 20th- and 21st-century music, along with an augmented composer list and the inclusion of jazz and contemporary music definitions. Now more relevant than ever, the New Elson’s Pocket Music Dictionary will remain essential as a trusted and efficient resource for musicians.

Theodore Presser Company
417-41039 • $5.95  Add to Cart

The New Elson's ... for a New Generation!

McArthur's subject is the amazing Gary Schocker - highly praised flutist and recording artist, and "the most published living composer of flute music" with well over 100 works in print.

Falls House Press
B-LMcA6 • $19.95  Add to Cart

This informative and stimulating volume with CD on the art and craft of composing will be welcomed by anyone who is learning to compose and is especially suitable for those taking secondary school music examinations. Two well-established music educators, James Rae and Mike Cornick, both of whom are composers with a combined wealth of teaching, have produced a practical and supportive resource to meet the needs of developing composers. The included CD contains over 100 recorded examples directly related to the text, as well as two play-along tracks for jazz improvisation.

Universal Edition
UE021483 • $39.95  Add to Cart

Castle Creek was written by Dan Welcher in celebration of the Aspen Music Festival’s 40th anniversary, and served as a special tribute to the Festival’s longtime President, Gordon Hardy. “Castle Creek” itself is a tributary of the Roaring Fork River on which the Aspen Music Festival campus (as well as Hardy’s home) is built. Gordon’s initials (G.A.H.) are used as the musical basis for the fanfare, which is centered on the ascending pitches G, A and B, and reflects the upward motion and positivity of the Aspen Music Festival itself. For advanced players.
Duration: 5’

Theodore Presser Company
465-00011 • $40.00   Add to Cart

Written for the Southeastern Conference Band Directors Association, Dan Welcher’s Glacier is the fourth composition in his series inspired by national parks in the American West (following The Yellowstone Fires, Arches and Zion). The feeling of icy stillness permeates the piece’s opening, and as percussive, brittle motives enter, a sense of warming eventually melts the ice and brings new life, only to be frozen over once again as the glaciers prevail. For advanced players. Duration: 10’

Theodore Presser Company
465-00012 • $40.00   Add to Cart

From Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Melinda Wagner, we have a playful new piece entitled Scamp for wind ensemble, commissioned by the United States Marine Band. Bearing the exquisitely crafted style characteristic of Wagner’s work, Scamp is a delightful romp. For advanced players.

Theodore Presser Company
415-41132 • $40.00   Add to Cart

Dan Welcher’s Spumante for wind ensemble was commissioned by the Boston Pops and its conductor, Keith Lockhart, and premiered during the celebratory opening of their 1998 season. This later transcription for band by Paul Bissell in 1999 was premiered by the Dallas Wind Symphony in January of 2000, conducted by Dr. Kevin L. Sedatole. Spumante, named for an Italian sparkling wine, recalls the neoclassical style of the ’40s exemplified by composers such as William Schuman and Vincent Persichetti. It also employs inversion, a technique in which the first theme is simply turned inside-out and presented as a second theme. For advanced players. Duration: 7’

Elkan-Vogel
465-00004 • $40.00   Add to Cart

Commissioned by the Pennsylvania chapter of Phi Beta Mu (Internationall Bandmasters Fraternity). A 5-minute work which describes the prototypical hero journey, as distilled by Joseph Campbell and Christopher Vogler. Vivid musical imagery describes this “journey” from beginning to end.

Presser Custom Print
115-40200 • $258.95  Add to Cart
Score only: 115-40200F • $23.95  Add to Cart

Maggio develops and creates variations on melodies written by students in a high school music writing class! Three movements include: 1. Grand Opening; II. A Friend You Know Really Well; III. Psychedelic Circus.

Presser Custom Print
115-40199 • $182.95  Add to Cart
Score only: 115-40199F • $26.95  Add to Cart

Written in 1962, arranged in 1988 and premiered that year by the Harvard Jazz Ensemble. Manuscript facsimile, as rescued from the archives of American Public Radio in Minneapolis. Take Me Back was written by a young (27) Schickele, during his 4-year stint as a teacher at Juilliard, after which he decided to take his act on the road. Fortuitous, that!

Elkan-Vogel Custom Print
165-00095 • $95.95  Add to Cart

July 2011 — Universal Edition has released several new additions to their new line-up of study scores, featuring their most important 20th Century works in handsome new editions.

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Universal Edition replaces their 1999 edition with a new anthology of study scores containing choral works by Estonian minimalist, classical composer Arvo Pärt. This volume, containing 22 works total, is the most accurate representative of Pärt’s work at present, including many new pieces as well as two selections from his major a cappella work, Kanon Pokajanen. The collection was also created with three composer-approved CD recordings in mind: Arvo Pärt: Triodion (Hyperion Records CDA67375), Arvo Pärt: Choral Works (Virgin Classics 0724356243422), and Arvo Pärt: Da pacem (Harmonia Mundi HMU807401).

Universal Edition
UE033880 • $49.95  Add to Cart

Theodore Presser Company is pleased to make available a clean and elegant study score of this standard repertoire concerto, giving flutists the opportunity to study the context of the solo within the orchestra. Concerto, Op. 39 was premiered November 6, 1992 by Sir James Galway with the Saint Louis Symphony, and Leonard Slatkin conducting. Large score and parts available on rental. For advanced players. Duration: 25’

Theodore Presser Company
416-41186 • $40.00  Add to Cart

Liebermann’s Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra, Op. 64 was premiered in 2000 by the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall with Philip Smith on trumpet, conducted by Kurt Masur. It was commissioned by John Marstellar and Helen Marsteller Treutel in memory of Julliard trumpet instructor Edward Treutel. Performance materials are available on rental.

Theodore Presser Company
416-41369 • $40.00  Add to Cart

Anthony Iannaccone's newest orchestral work, Dancing on Vesuvius, is a 12½-minute work for standard-size orchestra that was premiered in November 2008 by the Dearborn (MI) Symphony. The title refers to a metaphor made by Alban Berg in a 1933 letter to his wife, in which Berg compared the carefree decadence of German society while in a growing crisis to dancing on a volcano. Iannaccone's work draws inspiration from Berg's observation, balancing dancing optimism with a dark underlying turbulence that ultimately erupts and engulfs the spirited dance.

Tenuto Publications
496-00065 • $50.00   Add to Cart

Schubert’s compelling Deutsche Tänze in the orchestral setting by Anton Webern, now published as a study score by Universal Edition. Duration: 9’

Universal Edition
UE033719 • $29.95   Add to Cart

Universal Edition gives us an impeccably presented study score for Italian composer Luciano Berio’s most experimental work, the fantasia Eindrücke. It encompasses many of Berio’s various interests: Samuel Beckett, Martin Luther King, Mahler, the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, and more, resulting in an intensely personal and gorgeous work. Duration: 11’

Universal Edition
Study Score UE034124 • $49.95  Add to Cart

A popular rental work, Steven Stucky’s adaptation of Purcell’s Funeral Music for Queen Mary has now become available as a study score with a fresh new engraving from Theodore Presser Company. This has been scored for large ensemble of woodwinds, brass, percussion, piano, and harp, and may be played by orchestras without strings, and bands without euphonium, saxophone and multiple winds. Performance materials are available on rental. For advanced ensembles. Duration: 10’

Merion Music
446-41104 • $30.00  Add to Cart

Originally composed for solo cello and piano in dedication to Russian cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich, Piazzolla’s Le Grand Tango has been arranged for solo cello with the powerful accompaniment of string orchestra. Performance materials are available on rental.

Edizioni Bèrben
514-03862 • $39.95  Add to Cart

Co-commissioned by the Eastman Wind Ensemble and Cornell University Wind Ensemble, this brilliant 5-minute fanfare is scored for performance by either a reduced wind ensemble, or the wind, brass, and percussion sections of a standard orchestra. For advanced ensembles. See sample pages. (PDF)

Theodore Presser Company
445-41002 • $25.00  Add to Cart

Alban Berg dedicated the Chamber Concerto to Arnold Schoenberg for his 50th birthday, and in a letter to Schoenberg describing the work, he ascribes its inspiration to his interest in the symbolics of multiples of three. Indeed, the work is a dedication to the motto: “All good things… are three!” Performance materials are available on rental.

Universal Edition
UE034116 • $47.95  Add to Cart

Kontrapunktus is an imaginative piece commissioned by the Kalamazoo Symphony in honor of their 75th anniversary. It was first performed on February 22, 1977 by members of the Kodo Ensemble with the Kalamazoo Symphony, and Yoshimi Takeda as conductor. For advanced ensembles. See sample pages. (PDF)

Theodore Presser Company
416-41378 • $45.00  Add to Cart

PWM Edition presents another installment in Series A of The Complete Works of Henryk Wieniawski, a collection encompassing his entire extant compositional legacy. Légende was written in 1859, and is an instrumental lyrical piece in ABA structure. One of Wieniawski’s most popular works, Légende is constructed simply but its sentimental and melancholy nature makes it a perfect example of the pièce de salon. Critical edition score; performance materials not yet available.

Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne
514-03937 • $56.95  Add to Cart

This one movement work for orchestra is based on a short story by Edgar Allen Poe about a Mr. Lackobreath who, on the day after his wedding, quite literally loses his breath during an argument with his new wife. The work was commissioned and premiered by the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta conducting. For advanced ensembles. See sample pages. (PDF)

Theodore Presser Company
416-41377 • $35.00  Add to Cart

Serebrier continues to impress fans of Janácek's music, both as conductor and, here, as interpreter. His orchestral distillation of Janácek's opera, The Makropulos Case, brings raves, both as an arrangement and as recorded with the Czech State Philharmonic Orchestra (Brno), Serebrier conducting. He has exactly captured the musical and emotional intent of the composer, laying it expertly in the hands of orchestral forces. Now Universal Edition makes available this important new study score for those fans. Duration: 31'

Universal Edition
UE033395 • $53.95  Add to Cart

Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music Director, Stucky's Pulitzer Prize winning orchestral work is now available in score form.

Merion Music
446-41200 - $60.00  Add to Cart

PULITZER PRIZE 2005!

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Septet is the first major work written for this combination of instruments, and the pioneering process was greatly enjoyed by the composer: “While the instrumentation of the Septet provides an almost orchestral palette, and it was interesting to explore that, I love the idea of seven artist-performers, each of whom can be a stunning virtuoso one moment and a thoughtful partner the next, and I relish the electricity that results from those shifting roles.” Septet was written for the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and the Miami String Quartet, to whom it is dedicated. String parts available on rental. For advanced ensembles. Duration: 24’

Merion Music
Piano Score 444-41028 • $24.95  Add to Cart

Seven Passages is the final work composed in Ranjibaran’s Persian Trilogy, written over 1999-2000 on a commission from the Long Beach Symphony, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts. It was premiered by the Long Beach Symphony on March 25, 2000 with JoAnn Falletta as conductor. This piece, along with the others in this trilogy, was inspired by the Persian epic poem the Shahnameh (Book of Kings), and in particular, describes “the symbolism evident in the story which depicts a heroic struggle with all of its pain, tragedy, self doubt, joy, and ultimate victory.” For advanced ensembles. Orchestra parts and 11” x 14” score available on rental. Duration: 15’

Theodore Presser Company
Study Score 416-41305 • $40.00  Add to Cart

Commissioned by the Juilliard School, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Symphony No. 5 (Concerto for Orchestra) in four movements has already garnered dazzling critical acclaim with Steve Smith of the New York Times, who names it "…a mix of neo-Classical craftsmanship, roiling energy and tonal accessibility.” A Juilliard alumna, Zwilich was especially pleased to compose for the Juilliard Orchestra and its conductor, James Conlon. Consisting of four contrasting movements, Symphony No. 5, according to the composer, “treats the ensemble like a huge chamber ensemble, in which each player or section can be a brilliant soloist one moment and a sensitive partner the next.” Performance materials are available on rental. For advanced ensembles. Duration: 24’

Merion Music
446-41243 • $40.00  Add to Cart