Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. Psalm 137 'Super flumina Babylonis' also known as 'By the rivers of Babylon' was an inspiration for many composers including Camille Saint-Saëns. He repeatedly occupied himself with his psalm motet for solo soprano, mixed choir, saxophone quartet, string orchestra and organ, originally composed in 1854. Two of the four versions – the first version in Latin and a much later…

Concert Band Signature Series. Par WALKER GEORGE. In 1946, George Walker was still doing graduate work at the Curtis institute when he composed Lyric for Strings, which would prove over the coming decades to become one of the most performed and enduring string orchestra works of the 20th Century. This first-ever edition for symphonic wind band was arranged by Dr. Luci Disano and premiered by The P…

Playing Single Double and Triple Bass Kicks. Par ROTHMAN JOEL. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répertoire / Batterie

Par SINGLETON ALVIN. / Date parution : 2023-10-31/ Répertoire / Ensemble de Chambre

Balsam für die Seele . Par . / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Recueil / Piano

Par STEPHENSON JOSEPHINE. “Assemble, first, all casual bits and scraps / That may shake down into a world, perhaps […]” (Robert Graves, The Devil’s Advice to Storytellers). Those were the words that led me on the composition of this short piece: an assemblage of a variety of little motifs, chords and textures, heard progressively in different combinations, separately or together, across the two mi…

Par VILHELMSEN INGEBJORG. 'The Cosmographic Mystery' outlines the great mysteries and secrets of the universe. The musical foundation is a tribute to composer Gustav Holst, and his suite 'The Planets'. Each movement from the suite is quoted in the course of the piece. The title is taken from a book by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, which was published in the 17th century. The book explains…

The complete resource for the Grade 5 clarinettist. Par . La série Grade By Grade (De degré par degré) explore le catalogue riche et diversifié des répertoires classique, contemporain et pédagogique dont dispose Boosey and Hawkes et met l?accent sur des compositeurs tels que Serge Prokofiev, Dimitri Chostakovitch, Karl Jenkins, Carol Barratt et Christopher Norton, à côté d?arrangements de musiques…

Par TOMIYAMA SIYOH. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répertoire / Guitare

Par BARTOK BELA. Béla Bartók composed the series of forty-four violin duos in 1931, prompted by the German violin teacher Erich Doflein. With the exception of numbers 35 and 36, all the pieces are based on original folk melodies, and the majority were collected by the composer himself during his numerous field trips in the Carpathian Basin. The melody for no. 42 was collected by Bartók in Algeria.…