Composed by the youthful John Knowles Paine between 1860 and 1866, the Mass in D, Op. 10 was the first large-scale American work performed before a sophisticated musical audience in a European capital. The premiere, with soli, 200-member chorus and orchestra, was conducted by the composer in Berlin's Singakademie on February 16th, 1867 to much acclaim. This newly engraved and thoroughly researched vocal score here has been prepared by David P. DeVenney from the manuscript and the 1866 first edition vocal score issued under the composer's supervision in New York.

Mass in D, Op.10: Vocal score (Latin Edition)

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Paine, John Knowles

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A companion to the new edition of this American choral masterpiece, this choral score features a complete piano reduction - reduced to cue-note size. This reformatting allows for printing on a more convenient format for choruses, at a more reasonable price.

Mass in D, Op.10: Chorus Score (Latin Edition)

Haydn's "Grosse Te Deum" was probably composed in 1800 for a performance given at Eisenstadt in the fall of that year. Scored with a full orchestral accompaniment, it was first published in 1802 by Breitkopf und Härtel. The score here is a newly engraved vocal score edited by Richard W. Sargeant, Jr. - in a format specially designed for maximum readability for choruses.

Te Deum in C major, Hob.XXIIIc.2: Vocal score (Latin Edition)

Haydn, Joseph

Probably the most famous march in history, Stars and Stripes Forever was composed on Christmas Day 1896 while Sousa was traveling aboard the SS Teutonic bound for New York. In his autobiography, Sousa wites that he imagined the music while at sea and set it down on paper shortly after his return home. The manuscript full score is dated April 26, 1897. The march was first performed by the composer conducting the Sousa Band on May 14, 1897 in Willow Grove Park, near Philadelphia, though this date is dusputed by the city of Augusta, Maine - who claim the premiere took place at a Sousa Band concert given there on May 1. With the Spanish-American War in view, the new march became immensely popular from the very start and has remained a favorite ever since. The piece was first published on the very day of the premiere in the composer's piano reduction. With many reissues and reprintings and the expansion of band instrumentation - some added after the composer's death in 1932 - the scoring became bloated over the years. This new edition by Richard Sargeant goes back to the composer's original source material and to the actual performing practice of the Sousa Band itself to present a masterpiece of band writing as the composer himself used it. As with all of the Serenissima band offerings, it is presented in an easy-to-read format for use as either a study score or a performance score.

The Stars and Stripes Forever: Study Score

Sousa IV, John Philip

Haydn's "Grosse Te Deum" was probably composed in 1800 for a performance given at Eisenstadt in the fall of that year. Scored with a full orchestral accompaniment, it was first published in 1802 by Breitkopf und Härtel. The item offered here is a newly edited and engraved study score perpared by Richard W. Sargeant Jr., who also provides a realized organ continuo - in easy-to-read format for use as either a study score or a performance score.

Te Deum in C major, Hob.XXIIIc.2: Study score (Latin Edition)

Sargeant Jr, Richard W

Percy Grainger, much like his contemporary Bela Bartok, was intensely interested in folk music and became a member of the English Folk-Song Society soon after his arrival in London in the first decade of the 20th century. He produced numerous works based upon folk music from the British isles, with more than 45 items in his "British Folk-Music Settings" alone. As with many titles in the series, Shepherd's Hey exists in multiple arrangements - "dished-up" by the composer himself. This is the first version (BFMS 3), composed between 1908-11, scpred for an ensemble of 12 players. Grainger's original score was a "compressed full score" which did not precisely notate each part in detail. The score offered here is a newly edited and engraved edition prepared by Richard W. Sargeant Jr. based upon both the original score and the actual orchestral parts issued at the same time. Those interested in Grainger's unique orchestrational palette can now see in it full detail.

Shepherd's Hey, BFMS 3: Study score (British Folk Music Settings)

Grainger, Percy Aldridge

Inspired by Canto V of the "Inferno" of Dante's "Divine Comedy", Tchaikovsky initially planned to create an opera on the subject but abandoned the idea in favor the present 25-minute fantasia for orchestra in 1876, fininshing the score on November 17th of that year. Bearing all the hallmarks of the composer's late romantic style, Francesca da Rimini takes full advantage of the powerful orchestral forces employed. The first performance was given on March 9, 1877 in Moscow, with the RMS Orchestra conducted by Nikolay Rubinstein. This is a newly engraved and reserached edition prepared by Howard K. Wolf which was originally issued by E.F. Kalmus in 2012 and is now made available in a convenient size.

Francesca da Rimini, Op.32: Study score

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich

First composed in 1869, Tchaikovsky's popular overture-fantasia was premiered in Moscow on March 16, 1870 with the Russian Musical Society under the baton of Nikolay Rubinstein. The composer expanded the work later that year, which was the first version published (1871, Berlin) and this second version was given in St. Petersburg at that city's branch of the RMS under Eduard Napravnik. Still not quite satisfied, Tchaikovsky revised the work again in 1880, the German publisher issuing the final version the following year. This is the standard version known and heard in concerts worldwide today. Despite this, the final version's first performance wasn't even given in Russia proper, but in Tbilisi, Georgia on March 1, 1886, conducted by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. The newly engraved study score offered here is a reduced-format reissue of the edition by Howard K. Wolf of the large score first issued by E.F. Kalmus in 2012.

Romeo and Juliet (1880 version), TH 42: Study score

Suppe's operetta Dichter und Bauer (Poet and Peasant) was the first to earn him a reputation as a composer in Vienna. His reputation as a conductor was established two years before at the Theater in der Josefstadt, where he composed incidental music to the play Ein Morgen, ein Mittag, und ein Abend in Wien, whose overture remains in the orchestral repertoire to this day. By the premiere of Dichter und Bauer, at the Theater an der Wien on August 24, 1846, Suppe was no longer conducting for free. The operetta was successful and the overture entered the orchestral repertoire soon after. The opening cello solo was even quoted in the American song published in 1894 - "I've been Working on the Railroad". The study score offered here is a reduced-format reissue the newly-engraved and reasreached large score first issued in 2007. <ul> <li>IMSLP page</li> <li>All Music Guide</li> </ul>

Poet and Peasant Overture: Study score

Suppé, Franz von

Mass in D major, Op.86 / B.175: Study score (Latin Edition)

Dvořák, Antonín

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