Par BASSANO GIOVANNI. Diminution sur Madonna mia gentil de Luca Marenzio Luca Marenzio (1553-1599) est d'abord employé à Rome, successivement au service de deux cardinaux. Il entre ensuite en 1588 à la cour de Florence, où il prend part aux intermèdes de la Pellegrina (1589), comme compositeur et comme chanteur, puis retourne à Rome où il meurt. Il laisse des livres de motets et de chansons sacrée…

The Complete Chorales are an Urtext edition of all four-part chorales by Johann Sebastian Bach and the new standard in editing for this genre. Musicologist Thomas Daniel, a well-known specialist for the topic of Bach chorales, divided the chorales in two parts of about equal length: Chorales from cantatas, motets, and passions that were confirmedly written by Bach are found in the first part, whil…

This James Bond theme tune was released in 1981 with the film starring Roger Moore. The vocalist, Scottish singer Sheena Easton , beat out the band Blondie to record the song which went on to become a chart success and nominated for an Academy Award. The soaring love song integrates the signature style of Bond themes usually composed by John Barry, but this time written by Bill Conti and Mick Lees…

Meditation on 'O come, O come, Immanuel'. The Advent hymn we all know today as O Come, O Come, Immanuel was arranged in its modern form by Thomas Helmore and published in Hymnal Noted in 1856. Both the words and melody, however, predate this version by centuries. The words are based on a 9th century antiphon and the tune, Veni Immanuel, is taken from a 15th century processional of French Francisca…

Classical guitarists, both students and professional performers, require the same high-quality editions that their pianist colleagues have come to expect from Alfred Music. Our Classical Guitar Masterwork Editions continue the Alfred tradition of providing carefully edited, beautifully presented music for practice and performance.This edition of Carcassi's Melodic and Progressive Etudes, Op. 60 in…

L'utilisation des open tunings à la guitare pour accompagner le chant est l'un des sons de la marque Country Blues. Incontestablement, les deux open tunings qui ont été utilisés le plus couramment dans le pays Blues ont été tuning espagnol, souvent appelé Open G tuning et tuning Vestapol, assez souvent appelés open tuning D. Pour cette leçon 2-DVD, nous avons choisi le nom espagnol et Vestapol pou…

COMPLETE EDITION WITH FULL COMMENTARY BY MARIJKE OOSTENKAMP AND BERNARD THOMAS 4 LIVRETS JACOB VAN EYCK'S DER FLUYTEN LUST-HOF IS THE EARLIEST SURVIVING COLLECTION OF MUSIC FOR RECORDER. IT IS ESSENTIAL REPERTOIRE FOR ALL RECORDER PLAYERS, AND PROVIDES IN EFFECT AN EXCELLENT HANDBOOK ON THE ART OF IMPROVISING VARIATIONS. TO UNDERSTAND THIS MUSIC, IT IS NECESSARY TO KNOW THE MELODIES USED BY VA…

Par OSWALD GERALD. La composition est enjouée, dynamique, les notes dansent. Elle ne cherche pas à raconter une histoire, mais à représenter un état, un état de gaieté et de légèreté.?Avec ses motifs malicieux et ludiques, In the Air exprime quelque chose de joyeux, d'insouciant et de positif. La pièce donne l'impression d'une brise, d'un vent léger. Gerald Oswald est né en 1968 à Groß-St. Florian…

Par SCOTT ANDY. A major new work for solo harp in six movements by Andy Scott. Commissioned by and composed for Sioned Williams. The world premiere of Jukebox was given by Sioned Williams at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London in October 2014. The 1950’s were the heyday of the vinyl record jukebox, and this 14-minute work for solo harp mirrors the concept of a jukebox playing short ‘singles…