Par CURNOW JAMES. Throughout the colonial period in America, country dancing was the principal recreation of all social classes. Americans had inherited this tendency from Elizabethan England, and many continental Europeans also took up English country dancing as their own. Four Colonial Country Dances feature country dance tunes that were indigenous to New England and particularly to the Boston a…

Par CURNOW JAMES. FANFARE PRELUDE: O GOD OUR HELP IN AGES PAST is based on the hymn-tune “St. Anne, ” which was used by G. F. Handel in the Chandos anthem “O Praise the Lord, ” and by J. S. Bach in his triple fugue in E-flat “The St. Anne Fugue. ” James Curnow’s FANFARE PRELUDE: O GOD OUR HELP IN AGES PAST captures the thoughts of this magnificent hymn, which speaks of our country’s reliance upon …

In Powhatan County and Song of the James. Par HOSAY JOHN. Powhatan County, Virginia was named after the great Native-American Chief Powhatan, whose confederacy of tribes once dominated the costal Virginia plain. He is most remembered for being the father of Pocahontas. His people are best known as the Native Americans who helped the Jamestown colonists survive. Several of these original tribes sti…

Aulos to a certain degree continues Orbán's easy piano pieces for children, which he composed for Ágnes Lakos's piano tutor and which Editio Musica Budapest published in a separate volume entitled Enchanted Forest in 2011 (Z. 14742). Yet on this occasion the composer took on something which was both significantly different and more than his earlier pieces for children. On the one hand, he did not …

Né à Montréal en 1893, Gilles Amiot grandit au Québec dans une famille aisée. Il entre à l'école dentaire de l'Université Laval de Montréal en 1911 et obtient son diplôme en 1915. Pendant ses années d'université, Gilles participe à de nombreux concours musicaux sur les ondes de la radio canadienne. Bon pianiste et improvisateur, il accompagne par ailleurs les films muets présentés dans un cinéma d…

Une collection unique de trios pour différentes combinaisons d'enregistreurs: 2 descants et triples, descant et 2 triples, descant, treble et ténor. Cette sélection comprend un large éventail de dispositions bien connus, y compris les spirituals, danses latino-américaines, favoris classiques et un medley de Noël ainsi que des pièces originales par John Pitts. Livre de l'élève contient les pièces d…

Threshold of Night (a setting one of Kathleen Raine's Three Poems of Incarnation) was commissioned by St John's College, Cambridge and was premièred under the direction of David Hill in the College chapel on 25th November 2006. Written for Advent, the work aims to highlight the yearning that all societies have, in their time of need, for guidance from beyond their community. By coincidence, howeve…

Confiée à des enseignants du secondaire et à des universitaires, la revue Musicologies nouvelles prépare aux épreuves de musique du baccalauréat. S'appuyant sur l'oeuvre de référence, les candidats doivent établir une comparaison et un élargissement vers d'autres ouvrages et ce, dans toutes les séries. De ce fait, chaque dossier comporte : l'analyse de l'oeuvre au programme ; un ou deux textes au…

Les Fables de La Fontaine ont depuis longtemps attire? les compositeurs, Rythme?es et hautes en couleurs, beaucoup de ces petites sce?nes appellent irre?sistiblement la mise en voix comme autant de petites sce?nes the?a?trales, C'est du moins dans cet esprit que j'ai traite? Le Rat de ville et le Rat des champs, selon une ve?ritable mise en sce?ne miniature, Le piano joue alors un ro?le majeur, co…

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Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Cantata No. 211: Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (Be quiet, chatter not) BWV 211. The Coffee Cantata (BA 10211) and the Peasant Cantata (BA 10212) both on librettos by Picander, are among the best-known and most frequently performed of Bach's secular cantatas. Written in or around 1733, the Coffee Cantata deals humorously with the importance of the newly fashionable beve…

Arrangeur: Florence Eller. Par STRAUSS RICHARD. The Cello Sonata Op. 6 was composed over an apparently frequently interrupted period of three years, an extraordinarily long time for Strauss's early creative phase. The compositional process spawned two independent versions of the work, the first of which is published for the first time on the basis of the text in the Critical Edition of the Works o…