Par PART ARVO. Estonian minimalist composer Arvo Pärt has adapted his celebrated work, Summa, for recorder quartet. Originally written for four solo a cappella voices, it is also available in arrangements for string quartet, string orchestra, and choir with organ. Summa bears the distinctive qualities of Pärt's music, masking its great collective complexity with simplicity in each part. This arra…

This is the Oboe Part for Witold Lutoslawski 's Double Concerto , arranged for Oboe, Harp and Chamber Orchestra.Originally commissioned by Paul Sacher, the work was finished in 1980. / Hautbois

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. In its various reconstructed and completed version, Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Mark Passion BWV 247 occupies a fixed place in the pre-Easter concert repertoire. As the third of what were originally five Passions, not only was it the latest to be written, it is also the most enigmatic of the known Good Friday works composed by the Kantor of the Thomasschule. The fundamen…

Les deux pianos introduisent le motif bass un après l'autre. Chaque nouvelle entrée apporte une augmentation de tempo. Seulement quand ils jouent ensemble, cependant, est le véritable ' Vivace unleashed. Dès lors, c'est seulement dans les sections ' largamente ' et une section du milieu lyrique (cantabile) que la basse de course figure pauses pendant un certain temps. Le motif tisse son chemin à t…

Arr. Timothy Johnson. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. 'Melody is the very essence of music. ' -W. A. Mozart (1786)Mozart confirmed this view on melody by writing the Ave Verum Corpus near theend of his short life. Originally written for chorus, strings, and organ, this work standsamong the most beautiful musical expressions of all time. Timothy Johnson has skillfullymade Mozart's wondrous achievement…

Nine famous Rolling Stones songs scored for small groups, perfect copies of the way they were originally performed. Includes 'Get Off My Cloud', 'Brown Sugar', 'Satisfaction' and 'Paint It Black'. / Scores

This is a complete edition in seven volumes of the collections of dances for instrumental ensemble published by Pierre Attaingnant of Paris between 1529 and 1557. Our edition of this series, which we originally published in the 1970s, has now been extensively revised, and a detailed commentary provided for each volume. All pieces are playable on recorders (ATTB or SATB), viols (TrTTB), violin fami…

Kantate. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. The Vienna Musicians’ Society, a pension fund for the widows and orphans of professional musicians, asked Mozart, among others, to compose a choral work for performance at their benefit concert series. Presumably it was due not just to the pressure of a deadline, but also for the chance to have the music of the torso of the great C minor Mass, K. 427, performe…

de François Grimpret | 10 juillet 2014. Ce livre est le deuxième et dernier volume d'une véritable encyclopédie musicale de poche dont, lors de la sortie du premier volume, la critique unanime s'est plu à saluer l'ingéniosité de la conception, l'agrément visuel et la valeur pédagogique. Après un premier tome consacré à la théorie et à la technique musicales, ainsi qu'à l'histoire de la musique…

Des origines aux années Swing. Par PACZYNSKI GEORGES. Une histoire de la batterie de jazz vient combler une lacune incroyable : c'est en effet la première fois qu'une histoire de cet instrument nous est proposée dans la littérature, française ou étrangère. Pourquoi ce silence sur cet instrument qui sait d'ordinaire si bien se faire entendre, le seul que le jazz ait réellement inventé. Pour oser - …