{"title":"Sheet music composed by Harrison Birtwistle (1934-2022)","description":"Harrison Birtwistle (1934-2022) was a composer from United Kingdom. Read more on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harrison_Birtwistle\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWikipedia\u003c\/a\u003e.","products":[{"product_id":"birtwistle-gawains-journey-universal","title":"Birtwistle: gawain's journey","description":"\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComposer\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/harrison-birtwistle\"\u003eHarrison Birtwistle (1934-2022)\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Full Score\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cstrong class=\"original-instrumentation-title\"\u003eInstrumentation\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"original-instrumentation\"\u003eOrchestra\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWork\u003c\/strong\u003e: gawain's journey\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"binding hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISMN\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-barcode\"\u003e9790008055423\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-width\"\u003e11.8\u003c\/span\u003e x \u003cspan class=\"book-length\"\u003e16.5\u003c\/span\u003e inches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"book-pages hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e: None\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c!-- split --\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Universal Edition","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39762307514447,"sku":"UE30878","price":143.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0900\/1828\/files\/15c5c838c708108b20c0d6c3af052e70.jpg?v=1749561151"},{"product_id":"studio-21-book-1-universal","title":"Studio 21 - Book 1","description":"\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComposers\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/mikhail-glinka\"\u003eMikhail Glinka (1804-1857)\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/george-frideric-handel\"\u003eGeorge Frideric Handel (1685-1759)\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart\"\u003eWolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/johann-sebastian-bach\"\u003eJohann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/ludwig-van-beethoven\"\u003eLudwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/muzio-clementi\"\u003eMuzio Clementi (1752-1832)\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/leopold-mozart\"\u003eLeopold Mozart (1719-1787)\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/cornelius-gurlitt\"\u003eCornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901)\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/gerard-hengeveld\"\u003eGerard Hengeveld (1910-2001)\u003c\/a\u003e, Alois Saruer (1901-1980), \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/feliks-rybicki\"\u003eFeliks Rybicki\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/johann-adam-hiller\"\u003eJohann Adam Hiller\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/anthony-hedges\"\u003eAnthony Hedges (1931-2019)\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/johann-philipp-kirnberger\"\u003eJohann Philipp Kirnberger (1721-1783)\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/pyotr-ilyich-tchaikovsky\"\u003ePyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/janina-garscia\"\u003eJanina Garścia (1920-2004)\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/felix-le-couppey\"\u003eFelix Le Couppey\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/harrison-birtwistle\"\u003eHarrison Birtwistle (1934-2022)\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/felix-mendelssohn\"\u003eFelix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/francois-couperin\"\u003eFrançois Couperin (1668-1733)\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/jeno-takacs\"\u003eJenö Takács (1902-2005)\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/david-bedford\"\u003eDavid Bedford (1937-2011)\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/collections\/domenico-zipoli\"\u003eDomenico Zipoli (1628-1726)\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEditors\u003c\/strong\u003e: Shena Fraser, Yvonne Enoch\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eInstrumentation\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"edition-instrumentation\"\u003ePiano\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"binding hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISMN\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-barcode\"\u003e9790008040764\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-width\"\u003e9.1\u003c\/span\u003e x \u003cspan class=\"book-length\"\u003e12.0\u003c\/span\u003e inches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"book-pages hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e: None\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c!-- split --\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"one-half columns\"\u003e \u003ch4\u003eDescription\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"feature_divider\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn choosing the music for the three volumes of \"STUDIO 21\" our aim has been to include music of many periods suitable for each specific Grade. Pianists will find here some weil known classics as weil as less familiar works by composers of past and present times. Editing throughout the volumes has been kept to a minimum; the fingering and pedalling indicated are intended to be used as guidelines. The pieces in each volume are not arranged in any progressive order. Shena Fraser and Yvonne Enoch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuitable for Pianists at Associated Board grade 1-2.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBach, Johann Sebastian: Prelude in G Major\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCouperin, François: Les Coucous Bénévoles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKirnberger, Johann Philipp: Altes deutsches Wiegenlied\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGarscia, Janina: Ein trauriges Huhn (aus: Bagatellen)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich: Mazurka (aus: Album for die Jugend)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClementi, Muzio: Walzer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHengeveld, Gerard: Leichte Improvisationen No. 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Deutscher Tanz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSarauer, Alois: Großmutters Erzählung\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGurlitt, Cornelius: Die Jagd\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMozart, Leopold: Allegro\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTakács, Jenö: Spanischer Eselreiter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlinka, Michael: Russische Polka\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRybicki, Feliks: Glocken\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeethoven, Ludwig van: Menuett in A Major\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHiller, Johann Adam: Tanz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCouppey, Félix Le: Studie in C Major\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHedges, Anthony: Miniatur-Eisenbahn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eZipoli, Domenico: Allegro\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRybicki, Feliks: Die Maschine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTakács, Jenö: Heimkehr der Herde\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandel, Georg Friedrich: Gavotte\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBirtwistle, Sir Harrison: Berceuse de Jeanne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBedford, David: Auf dem Hügel (Up the Hill)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMendelssohn, Felix: Romanze\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e 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class=\"book-length\"\u003e8.9\u003c\/span\u003e inches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"book-pages hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e: None\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c!-- split --\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"one-half columns\"\u003e \u003ch4\u003eDescription\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"feature_divider\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBow Down\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is based on the ballad \u003cem\u003eThe Two Sisters,\u003c\/em\u003e which appears and re-appears in folklore all over northern Europe and in North America (where it turns up, in at least one manifestation, as a bluegrass number).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach version has its own idiosyncratic details, depending on the local culture and geography. However, the basic outline of the story remains the same:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA suitor comes to woo the fairer of two sisters. The other (dark) sister is consumed with jealousy and takes the fair one for a walk by the waterside in order to push her in. The fairer sister drowns and her body is swept away, leaving the dark one free to pursue the suitor. Meanwhile, the body is washed up on a nearby shore, where it is found by a rapacious miller who plunders it. Later it is rediscovered by a blind musician who fashions an instrument from it, using the bones for the frame and the hair for the strings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe musician goes on his way, carrying his new instrument, until he comes to a wedding feast which is celebrating the marriage of the suitor and the dark sister. He is invited to play for the couple but, before he can lay his hands on the strings, the instrument itself sings the story of the murder. Enraged, the wedding guests turn on the dark sister and put her to death – burying her alive in the ground as her sister was buried alive in the water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBow Down\u003c\/em\u003e is a story of enormously powerful images – horrific in its details of sibling rivalry, mutilation, torture and murder and yet also transcendent in the way that music is perceived as being capable of overcoming death in order to reveal the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClearly, as with all good legends or fairy stories, the myth is capable of any number of interpretations – Marxist, Freudian and Feminist among them. But \u003cem\u003eBow Down\u003c\/em\u003e does not set out to make that sort of intervention. It rather presents us with a collage of different versions, sometimes overlapping, sometimes contradicting each other. The focus keeps changing, as does the diction (the show includes Scottish, Northumbrian and Danish versions, amongst others) and the detail. By constantly shifting the angle of vision, Harrison Birtwistle has created a piece that is, in a way, cubist. and yet, it's also a rattling good story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn fact, \u003cem\u003eBow Down\u003c\/em\u003e sits squarely in the story-telling-tradition. It is not a play where the music has the role of providing atmosphere or 'numbers'. Nor is it an opera, in which dramatic personae appear on stage while the music comes from a separate 'pit' band. It can only really be classified as music-theatre, a term appropriated by a very diverse range of material but which can perhaps best be defined as 'work whose dramatic content is purposeless without the music and whose music is meaningless without the dramatic content.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is therefore a highly collaborative piece, originally created through a workshop process at the National Theatre in 1977. Composer, poet, director, actors and musicians worked together to devise a piece based on the original ballad texts. 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Peter Maxwell Davies and Alexander Goehr, the other two, were soon to find success outside their immediate sphere, but it has taken Birtwistle much longer. in fact it was not until 1965, when his \u003cem\u003eTragoedia\u003c\/em\u003e for ten players was given at Wardour Castle, that he became known to a wider public. Since then his development has been rapid, and \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Triumph of Time\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most recent fruits of an extremely fertile period. It was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and first performed by it at a concert in June last year [1972]. Many regard it as one of the most important orchestral scores to have been composed by an Englishman during the last decade or so. Some of his colleagues among the younger generation of composers even regard it as flawless – if music can ever be said to be flawless. Yet Birtwistle doesn't put a foot wrong in it. From every aspect the score ‘works', and when it is over one is left with the impression of an event that has been powerful, stimulating and totally integrated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Triumph of Time\u003c\/em\u003e is based on an allegorical painting by the sixteenth-century Flemish artist, Pieter Bruegel. Bruegel's picture shows the figure of Time riding in a cart surrounded by marauding bands of skeletons. The landscape is ravaged and the canvas is covered with manifold images of death. Birtwistle transfers these images to the present. We are invited to watch a slow funeral cortege as it passes us by. As spectators and listeners we are involved and yet uninvolved with the action at one and the same moment. Time is the inescapable mode of our existence and death our ultimate destination: thus we are involved. But there are moments when we can remove ourselves from the inevitability of time, moments when we can stand back from ourselves, moments when we can observe events with passive objectivity. The funeral cortege may be symbolic and activate our empathy or horror, but it may also be an event moving towards us and past us at a speed which allows us to contemplate only the gradual metamorphoses of visual planes. in other words, we are the observers of an event in slow motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecently Birtwistle has been fascinated by slow-motion techniques. in \u003cem\u003eLa Plage,\u003c\/em\u003e the work he composed in 1972 immediately after \u003cem\u003eThe Triumph of Time,\u003c\/em\u003e he takes a simple, hauntingly static story by Alain Robbe Grillet and subjects it to the technique of a slow-motion film sequence. The use of slow-motion in the cinema is usually confined to dream sequences. Time is suspended, the real becomes unreal. 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