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Carter, Sydney: One More Step. Piano, Vocal and Guitar. PDF file Ref: F004

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This solo song version of One More Step with piano accompaniment and chord symbols is available for immediate download as an Adobe PDF file and is sold under the terms of a personal use licence. You will obviously need PDF reading software such as the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view or print the file.

Price: £2.00 (Excluding VAT at 20%)

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1. Carter, Sydney: Lord of the Dance. Piano, Vocal and Guitar. PDF file (Ref: F001)

2. Carter, Sydney: Lord of the Dance. SATB and Piano arr. John Rutter (Ref: W206)

3. Depart in Peace (Ref: H464)

Carter, Sydney: When I Needed a Neighbour. Piano, Vocal and Guitar. PDF file Ref: F006

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This solo song version of When I Needed a Neighbour with piano accompaniment and chord symbols is available for immediate download as an Adobe PDF file and is sold under the terms of a personal use licence. You will obviously need PDF reading software such as the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view or print the file.

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Gurney, Ivor: Ludlow and Teme for Tenor Voice. Score Ref: H462

For Tenor, String Quartet and Piano. Critical edition by Philip Lancaster.
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Ivor Gurney's masterpiece has a complex textual history, which the leading Gurney scholar Philip Lancaster has thoroughly explored to create a definitive text of the work with extensive critical apparatus. The composer's revisions and variants are clearly and comprehensively presented, and the edition is compatible with the composer's arrangement of the song cycle for voice and piano.

CONTENTS
Far in a Western Brookland (D flat - G flat)
The Lent Lily (E - A)
Ludlow Fair (E - G)
On the idle hill of summer (F - A)
'Tis time, I think (F - G flat)
When I was one and twenty (E - G)
When smoke stood up from Ludlow (D - G sharp)

Price: £19.50

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1. Gurney, Ivor: Ludlow and Teme for Tenor Voice. Set of String Parts (Ref: Y260)

2. Samuel, Rhian: What Cheer? (Ref: Y287)

3. Stanford, Charles V: Coronation Gloria in B flat (Ref: W227)

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Gurney, Ivor: Ludlow and Teme for Tenor Voice. Set of String Parts Ref: Y260

For Tenor, String Quartet and Piano. Critical edition by Philip Lancaster.

Price: £18.00

People who bought this item also bought:

1. Gurney, Ivor: Ludlow and Teme for Tenor Voice. Score (Ref: H462)

2. Samuel, Rhian: What Cheer? (Ref: Y287)

3. Stanford, Charles V: Coronation Gloria in B flat (Ref: W227)

Hayes, Morgan: Dictionary of London. Soprano and Piano. Ref: Y246

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For his contribution to the songbook commissioned from more than 100 British composers to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the leading new-music label NMC, Morgan Hayes has chosen words from the Dictionary of London: An Unconventional Handbook by Charles Dickens, Junior (1839-1896), little known scion of the great novelist, who also wrote dictionaries of Paris and of the river Thames.

For soprano and piano, this playfully ironic song consists of three brief episodes to words taken at random from the collection. First, there is a warning against the peril of carriage thieves. Then there is praise for the Lord Mayor's show as a welcome pageant for the 'lower working orders'. The song ends with a grand description of the gentlemen members 'of the first distinction and character' who belong to the 'Oriental Club, 18 Hanover Square'.

Singers will welcome this unusual addition to the contemporary vocal repertoire, which will receive its first performance at Kings Place, London on 3 April 2009, performed by soprano Loré Lixenberg and pianist Jonathan Powell. Dictionary of London has also been recorded on the 4-CD boxed set, The NMC Songbook.

Price: £4.25

Northcott, Bayan: Poet and Star. Ref: Y247

Soprano, Tenor and Piano
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One of our most respected commentators on classical music, and a composer of refined choral and ensemble scores, Bayan Northcott has chosen words by Thomas Hardy for his contribution to the 20th anniversary celebrations of the leading new-music record label NMC.

Commissioned as part of the 4-CD boxed set, The NMC Songbook, where it appears alongside contributions from more than 100 British composers, Poet and Star is a duet for soprano, tenor and piano and is a highly atmospheric setting of one of the poet's most enigmatic contemplations of time and mortality.

Price: £3.75

Samuel, Rhian: A River. Soprano, Baroque or Modern Oboe, Harpsichord and Bass Viol or Cello Ref: Y243

Text by Anne Stevenson
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For A River, Rhian Samuel has turned once again to the writings of Anne Stevenson, and has selected verse from her collected Poems, 1955 - 2005. The work is scored for soprano, baroque oboe, harpsichord and bass viol, though modern oboe and cello may substitute for the 'authentic' instruments. Commissioned by 'Music in the Village', Walthamstow, London, and first performed at St Mary's Church, Walthamstow on 21 February 2008, A River exploits the unusual timbres and textures suggested by this ensemble. Eighteenth-century practice is echoed in the duets of voice and woodwind, but there are also challenging solos for individual performers. The piece would make an excellent addition to early music concerts exploring connections between baroque and contemporary music.

Price: £16.50

Samuel, Rhian: Haze and the Absence of Clouds Ref: Y296

For High Voice, String Quartet and Piano
Score (2 copies supplied) and parts
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Nature and landscape have been the dominant themes of much of Rhian Samuel's vocal music of the last ten years, projected chiefly through the poetry of Anne Stevenson, and in her most recent song-settings, the writings of the Pakistan-born Texas-based poet Zulfikar Ghose. His poem 'Conspiracy of the Clouds' describes how, the clouds having chosen to become invisible, 'Even the astronauts on the space shuttle / looked down on a cloudless America' as hurricanes ravage Louisiana and storms engulf Nebraska. An intriguing conceit in the tradition of magic realism, the text is presented as a scena lasting around 16 minutes, with interpolations from 'Haze' by the nineteenth-century New England transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Thus modern fable and romantic nature-description are juxtaposed, and their interaction becomes the source of musical contrasts too. Thoreau's words are assigned predominantly to the vocalist's highest register, those of Ghose to her lower tessitura; and the suggestive and dramatic accompaniment builds tension steadily to the final ironic response of an incredulous American public: not one of awe and wonder, but the question 'Why weren't we told about it?

Price: £35.00

Samuel, Rhian: Haze and the Absence of Clouds Ref: Y300

For High Voice and Piano (FOR REHEARSAL PURPOSES ONLY)

Price: £6.95

Samuel, Rhian: Moon and Birds. Medium Voice and Piano Ref: Y291

Four songs for medium voice and piano to poems by Anne Stevenson and Emily Dickinson.
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CONTENTS
1. Blackbird (Anne Stevenson) (b - g)
2. The moon is distant (Emily Dickinson) (b - g sharp)
3. Bird in hand (Anne Stevenson) (e flat - g flat)
4. On not being able to look at the moon (Anne Stevenson) (b - g)

For medium voice and piano or ensemble of flute, harp and string quartet, Moon and Birds is a substantial cycle of songs to words by Anne Stevenson and Emily Dickinson. Its sequence of four settings, 'Blackbird', 'The moon is distant' (Dickinson), 'Bird in hand' and 'On not being able to look at the moon' unfolds a symmetrical structure of contrasting yet interlocking moods in which the reflective second and fourth numbers, lunar visions of mystic tranquillity flawed by doubt and pain, temper with human frailty the bright epiphanies of the first and third songs.

There is a fascinating challenge here for the performer to embrace both elation and gravitas in a single reading, Samuel's vigorous musical invention binding the developing web of feeling with its own formal strengths and subtly illustrative moments. In the version for string quartet, flute and harp, first performed by Contemporary Connections on 4 November 2011 at St James's Church Piccadilly, the flute takes a prominent role throughout. Violins, viola and cello at times elaborate on the simpler textures of the keyboard version, though the two scores remain entirely compatible. The bluesy harmonies of the concluding number, whether weighted by sonorous string quartet or profiled in edgier piano chords, bring the cycle to a sombre conclusion with a proper sense of an emotional world traversed.

Price: £6.75

Samuel, Rhian: Moon and Birds. Medium Voice and Chamber Ensemble Ref: Y292

Four songs for medium voice and ensemble (flute, harp and string quartet) to poems by Anne Stevenson and Emily Dickinson.
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CONTENTS
1. Blackbird (Anne Stevenson) (b - g)
2. The moon is distant (Emily Dickinson) (b - g sharp)
3. Bird in hand (Anne Stevenson) (e flat - g flat)
4. On not being able to look at the moon (Anne Stevenson) (b - g)

Price: £35.00

Samuel, Rhian: Spring Diary. Baritone and Piano Ref: Y272

Five songs to poems by Anne Stevenson
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1. Arrival Dream
2. Snow Squalls
3. It Happens
4. East Wind
5. A Clearer Memory

The contrasting aspects of nature are a major theme in the work of Rhian Samuel, and in her song cycle Spring Diary for baritone and piano she responds passionately to its vernal magic.

Beginning in dream and ending in memory, the five movements of the collection are a dramatic response to the turning season in Wales, conveyed through the fine detail of its characteristic weather and landscape as observed by the poet Anne Stevenson.

Premiered at London's City University, Spring Diary is excellent material for graduate singers and pianists, who will draw inspiration from its vivid and assured word-setting and substantial and evocative keyboard part.

Price: £6.50

Samuel, Rhian: Summer Songs. Medium Voice and Piano Ref: Y297

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1. In Summer (Denise Levertov) (d - f')
2. A Dragonfly in the Sun (Zulfikar Ghose) (c - g')

The poetry of Denise Levertov (1923-1997) and of Zulfikar Ghose (born 1935) is the inspiration for the two Summer Songs by Rhian Samuel, first performed by tenor James Gilchrist and pianist William Vann at The Forge, Camden Town, on 10 May 2012 as part of the London English Song Festival.

Though Levertov chiefly explored themes of left-wing politics and of religion in her work, her poem 'In Summer' is a brief aubade, uncomplicated by philosophical overtones. Sunrise is observed with a pensive humour that in Samuel's setting is registered through the interrupted flow of predominantly pastoral textures. Complementary to Levertov's image of the slow diurnal transformation of light, 'A Dragonfly in the Sun' by the Pakistan-born poet Zulfikar Ghose presents the intense perception of a moment, the myriad colours of the creature's wing an unalloyed sensation evoked in words and music.

Summer Songs would suit a confident and accomplished singer who is looking in particular for a concise example of contemporary vocal material as a vehicle for sensitivity of declamation and the artful communication of vividly contrasting moods in English.

Price: £6.50

Samuel, Rhian: The Flowing Sand. Baritone and Piano Ref: Y230

Five songs to poems by Samuel Beckett.
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Commissioned with Arts Council of Wales funds by the School of European Studies, Cardiff University, for the centenary celebrations of Samuel Beckett's birth, The Flowing Sand is a setting of five poems by this seminal 20th-century modernist that are unified as a song-cycle by meaningful contrasts of mood and of musical style. The movements are 'what would I do', 'my way is in the sand', 'Da Tagte Es', 'Roundelay' and 'saying it again'. Artistically challenging, yet well within the technical range of enterprising conservatoire students, The Flowing Sand is a major addition to the repertoire of contemporary art-song by British composers, and a significant contribution to the celebrations of the writer's anniversary year.

Price: £7.50

Samuel, Rhian: Yr Alarch (The Swan). Solo Baritone Ref: Y258

Range: G sharp - G sharp (plus falsetto C)
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Prized among Welsh speakers, the anonymous 14th-century poem Yr Alarch ('The Swan') is a striking verbal portrait of 'this being without blemish', conveyed in terms of memorable imagery which has inspired Rhian Samuel's short setting for unaccompanied baritone. A rarity in its being a true solo song, this stirring tone-picture is also a showpiece, part lyrical, part declamatory, with contemporary vocal techniques sensitively employed. It will be enjoyed by Welsh-speaking singers and audiences for its heightened atmosphere that conveys the magical presence of a creature ' bright-white above birds … Heaven's cockerel, a shining crag.'

Price: £3.00

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