Pour Choeur Mixte A Cappella. Par POULENC FRANCIS. In 1936 Poulenc began creating the more sombre, austere tones of religion after returning to his Catholic faith. The Salve Regina was one of two motets Poulenc composed in 1941, the other being the Exultate Deo. The setting is exclamatory and triumphant, alternating between strict imitation and assertive homophony. For SATB a cappella./ Répertoire…

Trilogie Sacrée. Par BERLIOZ HECTOR. The history of the composition of the oratorio is odd: the kernel of this three-part work were the movements from the middle section, the “Flight to Egypt, ” which Berlioz composed on a whim in 1850 and which he passed off as the work of a baroque composer whose existence he himself had invented. In 1854 the triptych, which was completed with the parts entitled…

Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. In 1872, shortly after a stay with Thibaut in Heidelberg, 'Tu es Petrus' was composed, an echo of his contact with the style of Palestrina. Mendelssohn himself considered the work, which uses and artful and strictly contrapuntal development of the motif, the 'most successful piece' of that year./ Répertoire / Choeur SSATB, 2 Flûtes Traversières, 2 Hautbois, 2

St. Michael. Par BOURGEOIS LOUIS. The French composer Louis Bourgeois lived from c. 1510 to 1560. Bourgeois was cantor in Geneva and, commissioned by John Calvin, he composed melodies for metrical (rhyming) versions of the psalms. After completing about a hundred one-part psalms, he made some four-part arrangements, which were denounced and even resulted in his imprisonment for a day. Later, Bourg…

Using the Easy Keyboard Library's simple chord diagrams you can easily find the right notes for each chord and play them in any inversion. The chords are transposed for every note of the scale and pictured in the easy-to-read diagrams, familiar to Easy Keyboard Library users. / Niveau : Facile / Recueil / Clavier Electronique

Three Cantatas with Recorder Edited by Barbara Sachs For soprano (d'-a''), two recorders and bc Augellin, vago e canoro Filli, tu sai s'io t'amo Mentre Clori la bella Augellin, vago e canoro, in D minor, has three da capo arias, all in triple metres, separated by recits. The recorders introduce or echo the voice in the first aria, and conclude the second aria which is without them, and …

Surtout connu comme compositeur d'opéra, Donizetti est néanmoins le représentant italien le plus important du quatuor à cordes genre. Alors que les premiers quatuors peuvent encore être considérés comme des expériences de la jeune compositeur avec une forme stricte classique, lepièces intermédiaires et sont ultérieurement une l'expression sans équivoque de son maturité esprit musical / Musique De …

Par FALLA MANUEL DE. Nestor Ausqui hails from the picturesque Argentinian city of Santa Fe: a robust and vibrant city catering to the arts and culture, most notably music. Definitive de Falla is Ausqui's second book from Mel Bay Publications, following the release of the Nestor Ausqui Collection (MB99894EB). This book and accompanying audio represent an important collection in the classical guitar…

Le quintette à vent de Raphaël Fumet illustre bien le côté atypique de ce compositeur qui n'hésite pas à braver le dictat de l'histoire de la musique contemporaine en utilisant un langage harmonique rigoureux mais flamboyant où la diversité des timbres contribue à lui conférer une singulière originalité. Composé de deux parties opposées : la première (le souffle sur les eaux) d'une profondeur rare…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. ‘Spirit of Independence’ was commissioned by the Koninklijke Fanfare ‘Onafhankelijkheid’ (‘Independence’) from Wiekevorst (Belgium) on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. The piece depicts an enthusiastic amateur music club, practicing and making music together in an attentive and companionable atmosphere. The conductor has the good habit of trying to improve the sound of …