Beginnings 2

Famous Beginnnings

by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert,

Wagner, Brahms, Debussy, Schoenberg, Bartók,

Stravinsky, Holst, Berg and Strauss

Arranged for piano

by Peter Billam

© Peter J Billam, 2014

This score is offered under theCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

licence; seecreativecommons.org

This edition 24 March 2014.

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Johann Sebastian Bach, famous fugue−themes1

Arranged for piano by Peter Billam

Fuge in C major from WTC Book 1 BWV846

Fuge in B minor from WTC Book 1 BWV869tr

tr

Fuge in D minor from Toccata and Fugue (Dorian) BWV538

2222

trtr

Fuge in G minor from Fantasia and Fugue for Organ BWV542

Die Kunst der Fuge BWV1080 1742

Das Musikalische Opfer BWV1079 1747

22

tr

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Wolfgang Mozart2 W. A. Mozart


Symphony in C K.V.551 17883 3

f Allegro vivace

3

3 p

3 3

f 3 3p

Die Zauberflöte 1791

22

Adagio

22

5 4

3

4

Allegro

f p

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Ludwig van Beethoven3


Fifth SymphonyOp.67 1807

24

ff

24

das Schicksalsmotiv !

(see also Op.2 no.2, Op.57 etc)

p

mf cresc . . . ff

Sixth SymphonyOp.68 1808

p Allegro ma

Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande

non troppo

cresc . . . f f p

cresc . . . f dim . . .

pp

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Franz Schubert, String Quartet No.14 in D minor D810 18244


1st movementAllegro 3

ff 3

3

3

3

pp

3 3

3rd movementAndante con moto

pp

( Der Tod und das Mädchen )

cresc . . . . . . f dim . . . . . . p

pp

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Richard Wagner5


Tristan and Isolde 1865Langsam und schmachtend

6868

pp

68

cresc . . . sf dim . . . p cresc . . .

dim . . . pp cresc . . . più fsf ff pdim

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg 1868Sehr mässig bewegt

f sehr kräftig und gehalten

Ped*

Ped

*Ped

*

*Ped1 1 2

1 2 1 1

3

Ped

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Johannes Brahms6


Ein deutsches Requiem Op.45 1867

ziemlich langsam

Ped

und mit ausdrück

Ped Ped Ped Ped Ped Ped

Ped PedPed Ped

Ped Ped*

Symphonie No.4 Op.98 1885

p

Ped * Ped * Ped * Ped *

Ped*

Ped

* Ped *Ped *

cresc . . .

Ped

Ped Ped

dim . . .

Ped

Ped Ped Ped Ped

cresc . . .

Ped

f

PedPed

dim . . .

Ped*

p

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Claude Debussy, Prélude à l’après−midi d’un faune 18947


p

98

3

Très modéré, doux et expressif

3

Ped

686868

pp

68

Ped

Ped

pp

Ped Ped

p

98

3

98

ppp

98

Ped

Ped

Ped

3

Ped

Ped

Ped

3 3 3

Ped Ped

PedPed

*

oboe

Ped Ped

Ped Ped Ped

Pedcresc . . .

Ped

dim . . .

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Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire Op.21 19108


1: Mondestrunkenpp

24

Bewegt (cro = 66−70)

24

34

34

24

24

34

34

8: NachtGehende (cro = 80)

832pp

832832

9: Gebet an Pierrotp

22Mäßige (min = 60)

22

cresc . . .pparpegg.

21: O alter Duft Bewegt (min = 60)

44

13

pcresc . . .

44

5pp

35

24

15

24

dim . . . cresc . . .

3 1 2 4

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Bela Bartók, Bluebeards Castle 19119


Andante (cro=92)

pp misterioso

meno mosso (cro=72)

mp

44

p

44

3434

34

44

mf cresc . . .

44

34

p

34

molto cresc . . . f sfcresc . . .

p dim . . . pp

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Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring 191310 Igor Stravinsky


The Adoration of the Earth

44

3 3

Lento cro=50 a piacere

44

34

34

3

44

5

44

24

3

24

5

34

poco accelerando

34

13

3 3

23

3 3

23

3

24

3

24

in tempo

24

34

34

3

24

5

24

103 3 3

acceler

34

5

33434

piu mosso

24

3

24

24

3

15

cro=66

153 3

24

3

13

3

3

24

3

24

3

15

6

3 3

3

24

3 3

634

34

3 3

24

13

3

24

125

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Gustav Holst, The Planets, Mars 191511


54

p

854

5

3

4 3 2 5 4 3 2

3 3 3 3

8

3 3 3 3 3

cresc . . .

8

3 3mf

3

Ped

dim . . .

Ped

3 3

*

p

8

3 3 3 3 3

8

3cresc . . .3

Ped

3

*

mf3

Ped

3

8

*

3 3mf cresc

3

Ped

f

Ped

3 3

f

8Ped

3 3 3 3 3

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Alban Berg12


Wozzeck 1922(cro=60)24

p sehr mäßige Viertel

24

etwas zögernd

− − −

−− sf

mfa tempo

dim . . . p

Violinkonzert 1935Andante (cro=56)

pp

Ped

p

Ped Ped Ped*

mp

PedPed Ped

mf

Ped

poco rit . .

mfmp

Ped

molto rit . . .

dim . . . p

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Richard Strauss, Metamorphosen 194513


Adagio ma non troppo

p

Ped aufwärts streben*

Ped

5

*

Schicksal

10

Trauermarsch

15 Gesang . . .

20 3 3

Ped

3 3

Ped Ped

25

*Ped

. . .cresc

Ped *

30

Ped

. . .cresc

*

34

mff

Ped Ped

Ped Ped *Ped Ped

40

Ped Ped

dim . . .

*

Ped

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ccBY

Peter Billam was born in London in 1948, studied piano, and lived in Switzerland from 1973 to1983, where he studied composition, classical guitar, flute and voice, worked as Musical Directorof the Théâtre Populaire Romand, and as recording engineer, record producer and computerprogrammer. He moved to Tasmania in 1983, lectured in composition at the Conservatorium,conducted recorder ensembles and choirs, studied recorder, voice and keyboard. Hefoundedwww.pjb.com.au, becoming the first composer to sell scores on-line, taking scores fromComposer to Performer in one immediate step.Www.pjb.com.auoffers a new approach to musicpublishing. Thesepieces arewritten to be read, made to be played !

Compositionsat www.pjb.com.auinclude:Five Short Pieces, guitar, 1979;Divisions on an ItalianGround, flute and guitar, 1980;De ProfundisandNacht, on poems by Lama Anagarika Govinda, voice andpiano, 1980;Fünf Bagatellen, piano, 1980;Five Rounds, choir, 1986; Go Forth and Multiply, choir, 1986;Three Violin Duets, 1987; Fable, for piano, 1987;To Erich Jantsch, SAATTB recorders, 1988;A Suite ofCurves, trombone (or horn) and piano, 1990;Two Recorder Duets, alto recorders, or other melodyinstruments, 1991;Tr ombone Quintet, trombone, flute, piano, bass, and percussion, 1994;Three Songs, onpoems by Jack Kerouac, Vikram Seth and Dylan Thomas, voice and piano (only the first and third of these areavailable), 1994; Piano Study, piano, 1994;Four Dances, various ensembles including recorder quartet,string quartet, 1995;The Poet in the Clouds, on a poem by S. T. Coleridge,SATB choir, 1995;Tr es Casidasdel Diván del Tamarit, on poems by Federico García Lorca, voice and piano, 1997;Three Suites, for thesolo line, piano, and piano and a solo line, 2000;Die Zeiten, on poems by Kästner, Bachman and Jünger,choir (only the second and third of these are available), 2000;Three Duetsfor flutes, 2001;For Four Handsforpiano four hands, 2002;Three Preludesfor piano, 2003;Second Solo Suitefor flute, violin, viola or cello,2003;Guitar Duetfor two guitars, 2006;We Who Mournfor choir, 2007; Trio With Guitar for guitar andtwo clarinets or two recorders or two violas, 2008;Canonsfor two- and four-hand piano, 2009;Flute Trio,2012;Twenty Studiesfor piano, 2013-14;Music for Stringsfor 2vln, 2vla, 2vlc, 2015.

Arrangements include: By J. S. Bach:Trio BWV 655, piano and flute;Vor deinen Thron BWV 668,piano;Fugue in F minor BWV 689, SATB recorders;Four Duets BWV 802-5, keyboard;Six Preludes andFuguesfrom Book I, keyboard;Flute Sonata BWV 1031transposed into G major for alto recorder andkeyboard;Flute Sonata BWV 1032completed by Peter Billam for flute and keyboard, also in C major foralto recorder, and in G major for descant;Ricercare a 3, from the Musikalisches Opferfor keyboard;Ricercare a 6, for sSATBG recorders, or strings, or two keyboards; andFuga Canonica in Epidiapente;from theArt of Fugue: Contrapuncti 1, 4 and9 for keyboard, andContrapunctus 14as completed by D. F.To v e y, for keyboard, or for SATB recorders, or for strings;Passacaglia and Fugue in cfor piano fourhands;Chorales with Descantfor melody instrument and piano;Cello Suites I, II and III for flute or altorecorder,Forty Chorales for piano,Der Geist hilftfor SATB-SATB recorders. By Brahms:Fugue in Abminor for organ, for SATB recorders and gamba, in A minor;Choralvorspiele for organ plus settings byIsaac, Bach, Praetorius, recorders.John Carr, Divisions on an Italian Ground, flute or recorder and guitar.Franz Liszt,Late piano pieces, G.F. Händel: Concerto Grosso in A minorop 6 no 4, harpsichord andrecorders;Recorder Sonata in Bbno 5, in G for tenor recorder and keyboard. ClaudioMonteverdi, EccoMormorar l’Onde, SSATB recorders. Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht for piano. Franz Schubert:Four Songs, voice and guitar;Dances, recorders and guitar, Dances, piano 4 hands.Scriabin,Two Preludesop.67; Five Preludes op.74, piano. Telemann,Twelve Flute Fantasias, recorder. Wilbye, Draw on sweetNight, SSATTB recorders, and for flute choir. Twelve Italian Songs, voice and guitar;Seven English Songs,voice and guitar;Fourteen Folk Dance Tunes, recorder and guitar;Bushband Dances, violin, accordeon andbanjo;Easy Classical Pieces, Bb trumpet and piano;Famous Beginnings, for piano.

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