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Many of his compositions have been recorded; six anthologies have been released by Vienna Modern Masters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"loeb-lyric-pieces","title":"Loeb - Lyric Pieces - P22","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eNow included in the album: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/ummpstore.com\/collections\/loeb-david\/products\/loeb-studies-on-east-asian-pipes-for-solo-piccolo-p35\"\u003eDavid Loeb: Studies on East Asian Pipes\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"\u003eSix individual movements originally written for various Japanese flutes (shinobue, ryuteki, shakuhachi), with a concentration on expressivity and control.  Incorporates some ornaments which players of the traditional intruments might well have added\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2011 Newly Published Music Competition Honorable Mention\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALRY Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46314768262,"sku":"P22","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2136\/9437\/products\/P22__37090.1378671746.1280.1280.jpg?v=1571708546"},{"product_id":"loeb-distant-echoes-piccolo-duet","title":"Loeb - Distant Echoes (Piccolo Duet) - P29","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"\u003eCommissioned by Christine Erlander Beard and Mary Ann Archer, \u003cstrong\u003eDistant Echoes\u003c\/strong\u003e for two piccolos was premiered at the 2015 National Flute Association convention in Washington DC. 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The Fantasias, distinct among Loeb's works, draw on native musical sources while building complex, intriguing music more akin to concert repertoire than native folk music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eBalinese Fantasies\u003c\/strong\u003e utilize several Balinese scale types, rarely combined in single native works. Here they are allowed to intermingle freely throughout the fantasies, and within the ornamentations and variations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eTibetan Fantasias\u003c\/strong\u003e are evocations of images; tone poems for the solo piccolo player. Surprising complexity hides within the three works - the first a beautiful day on a highland plain, the second a moonlight night, and the third a Tibetan minstrel song painted with a particularly haunting brush.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003ePreludes\u003c\/strong\u003e draw from a huge variety of traditions, even occasionally crossing languages within single movements, though each movement still emphasizes a single mood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection contains the previous stand-alone books - catalog numbers P-09, P-11, and P-17.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/888920425\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALRY Publications","offers":[{"title":"Printed Book Only","offer_id":30310423756844,"sku":"P32","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2136\/9437\/products\/P32.jpg?v=1571708956"},{"product_id":"loeb-japanese-tone-poems-for-solo-piccolo-p33","title":"Loeb - Japanese Tone Poems for Solo Piccolo - P33","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"\u003eDavid Loeb's \u003cstrong\u003eJapanese Tone Poems\u003c\/strong\u003e for piccolo alone collects particularly evocative Japanese works from his ouevre - \u003cstrong\u003eNightcolors\u003c\/strong\u003e (P-15), \u003cstrong\u003ePiccolo Perspectives\u003c\/strong\u003e (P-21), and \u003cstrong\u003eSnowsounds\u003c\/strong\u003e (P-24), unique in their vivid portrayal of ancient mountainous forests, winter scenes, and ekphrastic musical descriptions of images inscribed on woodblocks and ceramics; a double-set of tone poems, perhaps. 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The opening Four Legends are stories narrated by piccolo; the Eight Views and stand-alone vignettes are tone paintings of landscapes and moment of time - snowfall, bird migration, rain falling on rivers, and others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALRY Publications","offers":[{"title":"Printed Book Only","offer_id":30310478643244,"sku":"P34","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2136\/9437\/products\/P34.jpg?v=1571708956"},{"product_id":"loeb-studies-on-east-asian-pipes-for-solo-piccolo-p35","title":"Loeb - Studies on East Asian Pipes for Solo Piccolo - P35","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"\u003eThere are various traditions of performing on high pipes throughout the world. By thinking of the piccolo as the modern instrument repository for these traditions and this music, in the same sense that the piano is the modern instrument repository for all keyboard music, the piccolo’s potential repertoire is vastly enlarged. It was with this definition of the piccolo in mind that David Loeb wrote these works, though the piccoloist need not copy all of the performance techniques of the original instruments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new collection for piccolo alone explicitly emphasizes explorations of different Asian instruments. 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