This work was originally scored as a tone poem that was written in 1874 by well-known French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The basis of the piece is an old French superstition where at the stroke of midnight on Halloween, Death appears and summons the dead to dance while he plays his music for them. In a familiar 3/4, it's spooky enough for a Halloween performance and classical enough for any prog…

Par PICHAUREAU G. / GALIEG. French trombonist and composer, Gerard Pichaureau (b. 1916) collaborated with trombonist Marcel Galiègue to compile an excellent series to aid the learning of Trombone studies. The first album of Preambule addresses a variety of aspects, including scales, rhythm, arpeggios, intervals, time signatures, accidentals and performance directions, among other features. Moreove…

Par BEYDTS LOUIS. Two songs -selected for the Lili and Nadia Boulanger Voice-Piano Competition 2019 - by the French composer, music critic and theatre director Louis Beydts. Version for low voice. Two songs -selected for the Lili and Nadia Boulanger Voice-Piano Competition 2019 - by the French composer, music critic and theatre director Louis Beydts. Version for low voice./ Répertoire / Basse et P…

Instrumentation : Medium-Low voice - PfThis is the first ever complete critical edition of Henri Duparc's songs. Edited by Roger Nichols, the elegantly presented music is supported by a fully comprehensive Critical Commentary which illuminates as never before the compositional stages of these beautiful songs. Roger Nichols' international reputation as a leading authority on French music makes this…

Par CANTELOUBE JOSEPH. Regrouped by Joseph Canteloube, this book is the fourth series from the set Chants D'Auvergne. This edition, written for Voice and Piano, contains lyrics in local dialect ; Occitan, with the French translation below. Some directives are given to obtain the correct pronunciation of the language. It features six songs: I. Jou l'pount d'o Mirabel (Au pont de Mirabel) / At the M…

Satie?s ?Ogives? und Gymnopédies? are milestones in the history of modern music. The four metrically free ?Ogives? (meaning pointed arches) reflect the influence of the French New Gothic or Neo-Gregorian movement in architecture with their clear lines and echo effects. The three ?Gymnopédies? proceed with a swaying, chordal momentum, and Satie?s radically sparse writing makes ironic reference to t…

Par RAVEL MAURICE. A moving fugal suite by French composer, Maurice Ravel which he begun even before World War I. This Piano version was completed in 1918 and in honour of the fallen soldiers, he called it Le Tombeau de Couperin literally ‘ Couperin's Tomb' after François Couperin, a 17th-century composer whom Ravel chose to represent the French nation. / Urtext / Répertoire / Piano

Par BOULANGER LILI. The brevity of Lili Boulanger's life (1893-1918) does not obsecure its substantial achievements. With the cantata 'Faust et Helene' (1913) she became the first woman to win the Prix De Rome, and several large projects, including 'D'un Matin De Printemps' and its companion piece 'D'un Soir Triste', both in various scorings, followed during the last five years of her life. 'D'un …

If you've ever felt compelled to play Flight of the Bumblebee on the 5-string banjo, this is the book for you!Challenging banjo transcriptions of classical masterpieces may seem like a humorous anachronism to some, but not for Italian master Claudio Parravicini, a conservatory graduate who, while majoring in French horn, always believed that the banjo was 'a virtuoso instrument capable of enrichin…

for soprano and piano. Par CASKEN JOHN. Chansons de Verlaine were completed in 2006. The third song, Colloque sentimental, was written in 2003 for Alison Smart and Katharine Durran’s New French Song project. It was as a result of having written one short song to words by Verlaine that I subsequently decided to set two further poems to make a group of three. All three were also set by Debussy: L’…