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Shattinger Music
Wind Band E-Resource
Vol. 1 No. 3 - The Midwest Preview |
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Dear fellow band director,
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Once again, Shattinger Music will be exhibiting at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Convention in Chicago. Stop by booth 1104 to see our wide range of new resource materials, from band scores to chamber works, textbooks to DVD's, new wind band recordings, and much more.
Below is just a small preview of some of the newest materials we have on hand. We can bill to your school, and can even ship your music after the show if you can't fit it in your suitcase for your plane flight back home!
If you can't make it to Midwest, you can also purchase any of these items by going to our E-Resource web page or clicking any of the pictures below to ordering them directly from our web site.
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Dionysiaques
Florent Schmitt/Felix Hauswirth
Here it is. Dionysiaques by Florent Schmitt. Now available for sale - you no longer need to rent the old set of handwritten parts, which probably cost you more in rental fees than it will to buy this set.
Edited by Felix Hauswirth, this masterwork for wind band has long been a staple of the repertoire, considered the pre-eminent composition of original French wind band music. Re-scored by Felix for modern wind instrumentation, the score and parts have been visually cleaned up and corrected for ease of use and study.
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Earth Song
Frank Ticheli
Earth Song for concert band is a transcription of Ticheli's choral work of the same name, which is itself a setting of a chorale section of Ticheli's previous band work, Sanctuary.
After completing Sanctuary, Ticheli became intrigued by the idea of making a choral version of a part of that work. Later that year he was able to create a poem that reflected the music's poignant lyricism, and fit with the rhythmic stresses and melodic contour of Sanctuary's melody.
Six years later he was asked about making a band transcription of the choral setting. This allowed Ticheli to work a piece that had aspects of both settings: the rich textured lyricism and more concise nature of the choral setting, plus the wider color palette and expressive power of the concert band forebear. Thus, Earth Song was born: a more concise (and less technically demanding) descendent of Sanctuary. You can listen to the choral setting of Earth Song here.
Grade 2-3, Dur: 3:00
Set: $95.00
Score: $15.00
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Trois Rag Caprices
Darius Milhaud / Johann De Meij
 The Trois Rag-Caprices for piano were composed by Darius Milhaud in the summer of 1922, one year before one of his most famous and popular ballets, La Creation du Monde, one of the most striking examples of jazz influences in classical music. The Trois Rag-Caprices could be considered as a kind of preliminary sketch for La Creation du Monde, as there are clear similarities between both compositions as to their rhythmical and harmonic aspects.
The Trois Rag-Caprices were orchestrated for symphony orchestra by Milhaud himself some time later. Johan de Meij has now arranged this setting for the wind medium. You can listen to a streaming audio recording at his website. In addition, you can listen to the original piano edition and see how the orchestrational transformation took place.
Grade 4, Dur: 7:00
Set: $99.00
Score: $21.00
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Legacy of Dreams
New works from Studio Music Company, featuring Gordon Jacob's "Prelude to Comedy", Martin Ellerby's "Commemorations", Nigel Clark's large scale work "Earthrise", and many others.
CD: $18.95
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Harry Begian: American Bandmasters Association Commemorative Recording
Collecting some of Begian's best works over the years, including his performances of Lincolnshire Posy, the Symphony in Bb by Hindemith, Aremnian Dances Part I, and many others.
CD: $16.99
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Cochran Chamber Winds Commissioning Series
For many years Jim Cochran, has been organizing commissions of chamber works specifically for younger performers to expose them to the style of chamber playing. Four of these works are collected here for your listening enjoyment.
CD: $15.00
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Naxos Wind Band Classics CDs - all titles always $9.99 each
The Wind Band Classics line of CDs from Naxos of America is a great way to stock up on quality wind literature without paying a lot of money. Every CD in the entire line is just $9.99, so whether you're getting a collection of standard favorites or cutting edge wind compositions, there's sure to be something for you to discover. Five of the newest titles are shown above, but look for others in our extensive CD bins at Midwest.
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A great conductor, family memories, and a few, never published photographs are the ingredients that come together in this documentary. Coming a little more than 50 years after his death, it is a portrait of an incredible man, one who had a phenomenal life, many virtues and a few vices. But the documentary also portrays a Toscanini full of contradictions, shy and unhappy, and who always strived for perfection in music.
DVD: $21.99 |
How to get Out of the Cage:
A year with John Cage
From 1982 to 1992 Frank Scheffer worked with John Cage on many different occasions, which resulted in a unique archive of historical audio-visual material. Based on this archive, including interviews, musical performances and images of different locations related to his life and work, the filmmaker Scheffer created this amazing documentary, which as a bonus also includes some of Cage's experimental films.
DVD: $21.99
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Leonard Bernstein:
The Gift of Music
Narrated by Lauren Bacall, this musical documentary chronicles the professional life of the famed conductor Leonard Bernstein, with the help of vintage television and concert recordings. A moving tribute to one of this century's musical giants with rare documentary footage and many musical highlights, "Gift of Music" portrays the musical genius and extraordinary charisma of the man who devoted his whole life to communicating his unabashed joy of music to millions all over the world
DVD: $34.95 |
Leonard Bernstein:
Anniversary 5 DVD set
One of America`s greatest conductors, Leonard Bernstein, is honored with this 5 DVD collection of superb performances. Pieces by Beethoven (Symphony 9), Brahms (Symphony 1 & 3), Bruckner (Symphony 9), Franck (Symphony in D minor), Milhaud (La Creation du Monde), and Mozart (Symphony 39, Piano Concerto 17) are included in this boxed set that finds Bernstein before some of the best orchestras in the world, including, of course, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
DVD: $49.95
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Teaching Music Through Performance in Band: Volume 9
It wouldn't be a Midwest convention without a new book and CD from the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series! Volume 9 continues this tradition with new articles by Tim Lautzenheiser, Ray Cramer, Larry Blocher, Eugene Corporon, Edward Lisk, and Richard Miles, along with information on 100 new works for wind band from grades 2-6. The CD set for the grade 2-3 materials is available as well.
Book: $59.95 CD: $39.95 |
Art of Interpretation of Band Music
All of us want inspired performances, whether we are audience members, players, or the conductor. But once we've mastered the basics, what are best practices for achieving true musical expressivity?
Ten remarkable conductors each provide a chapter with their own thoughts on these matters of artistry, and together share a captivating range of approaches to the world of creative expression.
Book: $24.95
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Just Good Teaching
Student-learning in school music ensembles is often focused on technical skill development. With Sindberg's Just Good Teaching, you can learn to use the Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP) model to help you plan instruction for school ensembles that will allow you to better use your creativity, passion, and vision.
Book: 23.95
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Physical Expression and the Performing Artist
Jerald Schwiebert's book "Physical Expression and the Performing Artist" presents an approach to help identify issues of posture and movement that may be holding you back from your maximum creative potential without you even realizing it. A must-read for every artist who uses his body as a medium for expression.
Book: $40.00
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Tuning for Wind Instruments
This book contains everything a music educator requires to approach fine-tuning intonation with their ensemble. This book also Includes intonation charts for tracking personal progress, along with extensively researched color-coded fingering charts for every instrument providing pitch tendencies and suggestions for alternate fingerings.
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Book: $24.99
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If you can't make it to Midwest, you can still purchase all these items and more by going to our website at www.shattingermusic.com, where we have set up a special page just for these items. In the meantime, share this email with your colleagues, and "Like" us on Facebook to see regular postings about quality wind band literature, news in the wind band world, and other new resources available to help you.
Have a great holiday season, and as always, we thank you for your business and look forward to helping you in the spring semester!
 Jim Cochran, Butch Mestemacher, Jim Kerfoot, Jeff Girard Your Shattinger Music Instrumental staff
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