BRICHTMARK MUSIC, Inc.

BRICHTMARK MUSIC, Inc.
200 East 27th Street (Suite 10-V)
New York, NY 10016
United States
ph: 212-685-9048
Brichtmark@aol.com

Catalogue

BOOKS:

__Brock McElheran Music Reading by Intervals BRM-1 $24.95
A modern sight-reading and ear-training method

for singers, conductors, and teachers. Foreword by Robert Shaw. Dedicated to "countless musicians who through the ages have striven to perform music which at first seemed strange and difficult," this book is based on a method developed by the author in his fifty years of conducting and teaching. An essay on historic methods of teaching music-reading is followed by exercises, interval by interval. The music examples are all drawn from works by master composers, mainly from 20th-century repertory. The book is designed for individual and/or classroom use.

- from the reviews:

"...there is much useful material... McElheran's hints on recognising and dealing with the various intervals are fresh, concise and helpful...the range of mostly modern music dipped into is invaluable...anyone who works through all the exercises will learn a lot." - Sept./Oct. Choir & Organ (UK)

"This is a wonderful book for singers, conductors, and teachers, using unique ways to learn to sight-read more easily." - May 1999 American Organist

"...a splendid book that will be helpful beyond words if used as intended." - March/Apr. Journal of Singing

"...the author demonstrates the ability of all superior teachers to reduce complicated subject matter to easily understandable and logically sequenced steps." - Sept.2000 ACDA Choral Journal

__Steven Powell Music Engraving Today
Second edn. BRM-9a $34.50

The art and practice of digital notesetting: winner of Music Publishers' Association Paul Revere Award (2003) for music graphics and design. Years of award-winning professional engraving experience are incorporated into this guide, which provides the rules of engraving and ways to realize them using industry-standard software packages, mainly Finale and Sibelius. Adopted by universities in - among others - California, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Canada, Australia.

Engraving Basics: Page fundamentals, Rhythm, Pitch, Markings, Divisi

Individual Genres: Chorus, Solo voice, Keyboard, Orchestra, Band, Music for books, Commercial copywork

Tools of the Trade: Notation programs, Music fonts, Typography, Page layout

Bibliography: Books, Web sites

- from the reviews:

"An essential book" [which should] "be a staple of any library" - June 2003 Notes (Music Library Association)

"Whether you computer-set melodies, hymns, anthems or symphonies, this book should be no further away than your mouse...You won't believe what you'll learn from any two pages!"- October 2002 American Organist

"To produce professional-quality projects for your singers or publishers, Music Engraving Today is an indispensable resource." - March 2004 ACDA Choral Journal

CHORAL MUSIC:

__Jeffrey Bishop One-erum, Two-erum BRM-2 $2.75

12 two-part canons based on traditional Sussex verse; piano accompaniment optional

1. One-erum, Two-erum (counting sheep)
2. Rock the Cradle
3. Apple Pie
4. Butter Come (churning butter)
5. Ye Bells of Bosham (a legend from the time of Alfred the

Great

6. Sam, Sam (a local character)
7. Open the Gates (circle-game)
8. Punch Cures the Gout (easing ailments)
9. Teddy on the Railway (trains first came to Sussex in the

1840's)

10. Ague, Ague (another folk cure)
11. Ice at Martinmas (weather prediction)
12. Here Comes the Boys Brigade (marching uniformed boys)

These canons were written for Emme Kresek and the school of the Cathedral of St.John the Divine in New York City. They explore many singing intervals, and are intended to be entertaining as well as useful.

- from the reviews:

"...a genuinely English yet contemporary feel...rhythmically intriguing...[the canons] adhere well to tonal schemes that will help the singers perform them securely...well-done explanatory notes...make the texts come alive by providing their meanings and contexts." Summer 2002 Kodaly Envoy

__Jay Elfenbein Stepping-Stones BRM-3 $1.50
Two-part voices with piano (words by Andree Pages)

Written for the New York Children's Chorus (first performance, June 1999, conducted by Peter Coulianos).

The poem begins, "Like stones across a rushing stream my path spreads out before me." Set in lively syncopations, this is particularly appropriate for graduation.

- from the reviews:

"The message of the text is one of self-affirmation...In spite of the changes of meter, and because of the unhurried nature of the piece, the intermediate choir should be able to learn and perform this work in a musically satisfying way."

- Summer 2002 Kodaly Envoy

Bach-Bishop-Sitwell - Four settings for unison chorus with keyboard accompaniment from the Bach Well-Tempered Clavier, Part I (words by Edith Sitwell) :

        -For children’s voices:
____Song: Said the Bee to the Lion (Prelude in Ab, No.17)                                                  BRM-4 $1.00
____Bells of Gray Crystal (in F, No.11)                                                                                  BRM-5 $1.00
        -For women’s voices:
____Song: The Queen Bee sighed (in F# minor, No.19)                                                   BRM-6 $1.00
____Serenade: The tremulous Gold of Stars (in C, No. 1)                                                    BRM-7 $1.00

Written at the request of Judith Willoughby for unison concert openers for her Temple University Children's Choir.

- from the reviews:

"...clear and well-crafted...a melodic and tonal language that is easy on the ear but also pleasantly modern...Bishop sensitively avoids problems of extreme range...should allow choirs to focus on expanding their technique." - Summer 2002 Kodaly Envoy

Daniel Kingman You whose day it is, make it beautiful
Choral cycle for SSA, flute, and percussion (words,
Native American texts).

Commissioned by the Sacramento Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and the Sacramento Children's Chorus for the 1999 Regional Convention (first performance, June 28, 1999, conducted by Lynn G. Stevens). UK premiere Sacramento Children's Chorus and Broadland Youth Choir, Norwich, June 19, 2000.

Available on CD from www.jmcnet.com/scc

____Two Songs of Welcome (Nos. 1&2 from the above) BRM-8 $1.80

1. Welcoming the Day (Clayoquot) , with flute

2. Welcoming Guests (Inuit), with flute and percussion

Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6 available as print-to-order or rental:

3. Asking for Rain (Zia) with flute

4. Prayer to the Ancients and Corn Song (Zuni and Navajo), with flute and percussion

5. Song to Aid the Runners (Papago), with flute and percussion

6. Concluding Song (from the Papago Salt Ritual), with flute and percussion

Instrumental parts for sale and/or rental

- from the reviews:

"The texts are joyful and represent a celebration of life and the welcoming of guests...well researched and well written."

- Summer 2002 Kodaly Envoy

___Jeffrey Bishop Botanicals BRM-10 $1.80 Four humorous settings for two-part upper voices and any bass instrument (words by the composer)
1. Mushrooms

2. Rapa Brassica (Turnip)

3. Waltz of the Weeds (new words to the famous

'Waltz of the Flowers')

4. Nocturne

___Jeffrey Bishop Gethsemane BRM-11 $2.00
Ten-minute concert work for SSA and trumpet (words from John XX, Rudyard Kipling, and Jack Judge).

_____Trumpet part in Bb or C BRM-11a-b $2.00

When his son was killed in the trenches in WWI, Kipling became preoccupied with the nature of individual fear, of pain, and of the limits of human endurance. His poem 'Gethsemane' and his short story 'The Gardener," which are both quoted here, are results of that preoccupation. On these the composer has overlaid John XX (Mary's vision of "the gardener"), and Jack Judge's WWI song "Tipperary," made famous by the recordings of John McCormack.

___Jeffrey Bishop Dona nobis pacem BRM-12 $1.00 Canon for children’s voices in 6 parts with descant (voice or melody instrument). This setting - evocative of the luminous sound of bells - has been used by both children's and women's choirs as a processional and as a recessional.

___Jeffrey Bishop Three Seventeenth-Century Birds BRM-13 $3.00

For two-part children’s voices and keyboard
1. Sweet Suffolk Owl (Vautor)

2. The Death and Burial of Cock Robbin (Anon.)

3. On a Cock at Rochester (Sedley)
Three contrasting settings: lyrical, solemn, dramatic.

Jeffrey Bishop Mankind and Mother Earth
Choral work in three movements, for combined four-part mixed and two-part upper voices and orchestra, based on the ideas in Arnold Toynbee's final book, which examines the destructive impulses of man in the context of a nurturing earth. Duration, 35'. First performance, Carnegie Hall, June 1997, Jonathan Griffith, conductor.

1. The Directive (words from Genesis, and from the Tao te Ching): SATB

2. The Repudiation (separately published as "To See a World in a Grain of Sand;" see below)

3. The Ideal (words from Mark); SATB and 2-part upper voices

1 and 3 available as print-to-order and/or on rental; full orchestra accompaniment on rental.

____To See a World in a Grain of Sand (No. 2 from the above) BRM-14 $2.00
For two-part upper voices and piano (words from William Blake and Matthew VI). Paul Revere Award, 2007. Two tunes are used separately and contrapuntally: they are based on folk songs collected in Sussex - 'The Unquiet Grave' and 'The Isle of France.' The piano accompaniment has been made especially for this publication.

Orchestra accompaniment (oboe, horn, 2 harps, and strings) available on rental.

____Hilary Tann Contemplations (21, 22)
BRM-15 $2.00
For SSA unaccompanied (words excerpted from a longer poem by Anne Bradstreet, and from Psalm 98). Commissioned by the Radcliffe Choral Society for its 2005-6 season: first performance, November 4, 2005, at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University. Jameson Marvin conducted. (A recording is available from the Radcliffe Choral Society.) Anne Bradstreet was a 17th-century Puritan poet with close connections to Harvard. The composer has linked Bradstreet's phrase, "O happy Flood" to Psalm 98, "Let the floods clap their hands."

____Hilary Tann Wellspring BRM-16 $2.00
For SSA unaccompanied (words by Menna Elfyn); commissioned for the Female Voice Choirs Competition, 2008 Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod: premiere 12 July 2008, Eisteddfod Stage, Llangollen, Wales. The text echoes the Welsh hymn, "Today, the well has open'd," by William Williams Pantycelyn, and, toward the end of the piece, the music pays homage to the hymn tune "Bryntirion" by A.H.T.Lutteroth.

____Hilary Tann That Jewel-Spirit...

BRM-17 $2.50

For SSA, flute, and piano (words by Penny Harter and Basho (translated from the Japanese by W.J.Higginson). Commissioned by the Lick-Wilmerding High School, San Francisco, to commemorate the life of former student Moe Christie Nakamura. First performance, 30 November 2007.

For SSA, flute, and strings: full score and parts on rental

____Claudio Monteverdi Three Canzonets

BRM-18 $2.00

For SSA unaccompanied. Selected from Canzonette a tre voci (1584) and edited for the Radcliffe Choral Society by Jameson Marvin. Italian texts (non-singable English translations). Historical, editorial, and performance notes.

1. Io mi vivea (I always lived as an eagle)

2. Si come crescon (As flowers grow)

3. Hor care canzonette (Now dear canzonets)

May be performed separately or as a group. Total duration, c. 5'