for Descant Recorder with additional 2nd part. A new selection of traditional dance movements and arrangements for 1-2 recorders is now published in the successful 'Fun and Games with the Recorder' series. It contains the most important dance types and the most famous composers and dancing masters of the Renaissance and Baroque eras - from Praetorius, Handel and Lully to Purcell, Bach and Rameau. …

Composer arranger and Pianist Bizet might have become the most renowned opera composer in France had he not died aged 36 just one month after the premiere of Carmen. He was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire in 1848 and excelled under the tutelage of Zimmerman Halévy and Gounod as well as winning major prizes including the Prix de Rome in 1857. After travels in Italy he settled back in Par…

Couverture Rigide. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. Handel's 'Il pastor fido”, HWV 8a, is the most modest of his Italian operas: With over half of its numbers drawing from musical material of earlier Italian cantatas, the work deliberately reflects the pastoral style of the Italian serenata. In order to capture the simplicity of this approach to form, Handel made use of several different techniques, s…

Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Richard Wagner?s ?Der Ring des Nibelungen? (The Ring of the Nibelung). Wagner wrote the libretto and music for this cycle of four epic operas over the course of about twenty-six years from 1848 to 1874. The Ring premiered at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus over 4 days from 13 to 17 August 1876. This part of the cycle is primarily inspired by t…

This beautiful duet from Monteverdi's opera 'L'Incoronazione di Poppea? is a wonderful addition to the CME Opera Workshop series. This duet, which occurs at the end of the opera, beautifully illustrates Monteverdi's ability to interweave the vocal lines in a harmonically intriguing way. Ann Small's edition features an ornamented return of the first section of the duet with stylistic trills that co…

Early Intermediate Dynamic Duet (1 Piano 4 Hands)-A great new duet from Carolyn Miller! The opening bass line of the Secondo immediately calls to mind the habanera from the opera Carmen but the duet stands on its own in terms of melodic interest and just plain old fun!

Mozart wrote The Magic Flute as a singspiel opera in two acts in 1791 when it received its first set of performances in Vienna and from that time it has featured as one of the most popular works in operatic repertoire. This love duet with its stuttering ‘pa pa pa’ occurs almost at the end of the opera when the comical couple Papageno and Papagena finally are assured of each other’s love…

from the Opera The Newport Rivals-A duet from the Kirke Mechem opera The Newport Rivals this setting for chorus makes a poetic and expressive work for either mixed or women's ensembles. Light and gracious it would program nicely with otherlove-themed works.

What fun! The translation notes contain an apology for those who speak authentic Italian because this opera spoof is pure comedy! Nancy Grundahl has created a hilarious medley of some of the most famous arias of all time usingItalian musical vocabulary for text as well as some “original” Italian-ish words with a little English mixed in. “La Vocabulario di Musica” uses each…