Suite based on a folk song from Arkansas. Par DE HAAN JACOB. Arkansas, oeuvre de concert en trois mouvements, signée Jacob de Haan, s’inscrit dans la lignée des autres oeuvres du compositeur consacrées à la description d’états américains (Dakota, Oregon et Virginia). La trame de cette suite s’articule autour d’une célèbre mélodie traditionnelle qui sera reprise sous la forme d’une ballade, d’un ca…

Edward Elgar's The Dream Of Gerontius is a splendid oratorio for Mezzo-soprano, Tenor and Bass with Chorus and Orchestra. It is based on the epic poem, The Dream of Gerontius by John Henry Newman written in 1865. The original vocal score of Gerontius was actually printed before Elgar's had even finalised or completed his final orchestration and as such it was printed without many of the markings t…

Par WALTON WILLIAM. Performing edition of Walton's Piano Quartet, first published in 1918 and one of his first compositions to have survived. The work was later revised by Walton in 1974-5, and this edition is based on the score published in the Walton Edition Chamber Music volume./ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Kirchenkantate, Bwv 192, 1730Ca. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The cantata 'Nun danket alle Gott” (Now thank we all our God) BWV 192 is based on the text of the well-known hymn. It is therefore one of a small number of chorale cantatas which contain no free poetic texts. Correspondingly, there are no recitatives either. It has only recently been assumed that this three-movement work was not intended …

Arr. Toshihiko Sahashi. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. This wonderful arrangement by Toshihiko Sahashi is based on themes taken from the massive output of master-composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Several well-known melodies are combined with modern pop styles to form a work that has a unique combination of sound and styles. This fusion of styles creates a piece that will appeal to the musicians and …

Howard Shore: The Hobbit - Desolation Of Smaug features music from the epic movie The Hobbit: Desolation Of Smaug , composed by Howard Shore and arranged for Piano and Voice. The second installment in a three-part film adaptation based on the novel of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien. It starred Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch and was the fourth highest grossing film in 2013…

Le but principal de cette rencontre entre chercheurs et enseignants provenant d'horizons divers (sociologues, musicologues, compositeurs, musiciens, etc,) porte sur les thématiques suivantes :- Interaction oral-écrit, étude des processus et stratégies créatifs, implication de la mémoire collective et individuelle dans la création et dans la réception musicales,- Répercussions de la tradition orale…

Par TOMPSETT BEN. Peter Sculthorpe's programme note reads as follows 'Lullaby is based upon one of the number of indigenous Australian melodies collected by Dr H. C. Lethbridge during the 1930s and is a lullaby for children victimised by war. It opens with several statements of indigenous melody, the words lovingly entreating children to embrace sleep, as night falls. This is followed by a short c…

Alfred's Ultimate Play-Along series gives you everything you need to jam with your favorite songs. This book contains authentic TAB transcriptions, music notation, lyrics, and chords to eight Journey classics. There are two versions of every song on the included CDs: an instrumental sound-alike recording, and an instrumental accompaniment track without guitar so you can play along. When you use th…

Par PURCELL HENRI. The opera “Dido and Aeneas”, a recount of the well-known story from Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, has established itself as a favourite with the public. This is due to the skill of composer Henry Purcell and his librettist Nahum Tate, who combined an overriding tragic theme with masterfully inserted comic episodes. Long believed to have been conceived in 1689 for a performance at …