Numbering more than 100 in total, and composed across a 60-year period, Gabriel Fauré's songs form the single most influential contribution to the field of French art song. Despite their importance, the songs have long been riddled with misprints and inconsistencies. This first complete critical edition is based on study of hundreds of manuscript and printed sources, along with evidence and interp…

Ces chansons d'abord fait connaître aux Etats-Unis de Pete Seeger et un groupe d'adolescents de New York, appelé le Swappers Song, enregistré certains d'entre eux pour Folkways Records en 1955. (Un des Swappers Song a été Mary Travers, qui devint plus tard 'Marie' de Peter, Paul and Mary.) En 1960, G. Schirmer a publié un recueil de chansons, qui a rendu possible pour les administrateurs et direct…

This expansive collection will provide years of musical enjoyment for anyone who loves Irish music. Nowhere else will you find such a rich array of traditional ballads, airs, love songs, anthems, jigs, reels and hornpipes - along with popular Irish song hits from stage and screen. Just mention a beloved melody and, chances are, you will find it in this essential volume. / Guitare

100 Years Of Popular Music chronicles the greatest music of the last century. This songbook contains more than 70 songs from the 1930s arranged for piano, voice and guitar, providing a fascinating insight into the music of the era. A listing of new inventions first seen during the 1930s is also included. / Pop, Popular / Recueil / Piano, Chant et Guitare

Par BARTOK BELA. Bartók' s 'Romanian Christmas Songs' are based on folk melodies that originated in a pagan celebration of the winter solstice, and which he felt gave ' the impression of a fiery, war-like type of song, rather than a pious and religious one”. Nevertheless, he chose 20 melodies from this collection of ' colinde” and published them under the title of ' Christmas Songs”. In the first …