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Animando - Clarinet Quartet
Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Parts)4 Bb Clarinets Commissioned by Albion Clarinet Varier. As for the definition of "animando" in the title, let's refer to "animato". Both of these words share the Italian term "animare" meaning "animated" or "lively". Animand is the present progressive form, so it means "animating" or "lively". On the other hand,... Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Pa... -
Antique Introduction and Toccata - Clarinet Quartet
Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Parts)4 Bb Clarinets When we get stuck in something, we often want to or are forced to return to the origin. It is quite meaningful to follow the trajectory that I have taken thus far to move on, and I am surprised that there are new discoveries in the work through my review. When you look back at the past from... Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Pa... -
At the End of Summer - Clarinet Quartet
Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Parts)4 Bb Clarinets The passing of summer may bring a feeling of transient evanescence, or emptiness. This feeling is connected to the Japanese "sense of the vanity of life". This composition captures the awareness of season that resonates with the people of Japan, who possess a keen sense of seasonal change... Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Pa... -
Burlesca - Clarinet Quartet
Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Parts)3 Bb Clarinets Bb Bass Clarinet Commissioned by Albion Clarinet Varier, a clarinet group in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. This is the first quartet with a bass clarinet in a series of Etudes d'execution transcendante. Burlesca means "mischievous" and "naughty", and I expressed it as if a circus clown were fooling... Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Pa... -
Cantos de España (Chants d'Espagne) - Clarinet Quartet
Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Parts) 1. Preludio (Asturias) 3. Bajo la palmera 5. Seguidillas 3 Bb Clarinets Bb Bass Clarinet Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909) is a leading composer of modern Spanish nationalism, known for his work influenced by Spanish folk music, and also as a great pianist. "Cantos de Espana Op.232" is a piano suite of five songs:... Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Pa... -
Chignon - Clarinet Quartet
Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Parts)3 Bb Clarinets Bb Bass Clarinet While judging ensemble contest in recent years I noticed many clarinet players wearing hair buns. When all eight high school students appeared on stage with a chignon hair-do playing my Pater Noster, I forgot about the contest for a moment! So I came up with the idea of writing a... Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Pa... -
Con moto - Clarinet Quartet
Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Parts)4 Bb Clarinets Commissioned by Albion Clarinet Varier (Nagasaki) in 2008. As the title suggests, I composed it with the desire to have it played "with movement." It is intentionally composed in a way to be flexible between phrases. There are many indications such as rit. and accel., and various performance... Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Pa... -
Cricket Chorus - Clarinet Quartet
Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Parts)4 Bb Clarinets [Nanbu-furin A] [Nanbu-furin B] In Japan, you can hear the voices of various insects from summer to autumn. At the end of a hot day, in the cool night air, the chirping sound "rin-rin" is heartwarming and nostalgic. In Japanese history, before the Middle Ages, "crickets" seemed to refer to all... Also Available Digitally Digital Sheet Music SAMPLE SCOREPrinted set (Score & Pa...