Par PART ARVO. On 4 July 2011 Arvo Pärt performed his “Vater unser” (“Our Father”) for Pope Benedict XVI at a ceremony in the Vatican celebrating the 60th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Pärt also presented the Pope with a copy of the manuscript, which is dedicated to him. To honour the anniversary, over 60 artists from around the world have been invited to contribute to a new exh…

Intended for both working guitarists and those who play strictly for the enjoyment of great music, this collection of 14 famous pieces by Mozart will add something special to any party or gathering. Arrangements of masterpieces such as Eine kleine Nachtmusik, the 'Minuet' from Don Giovanni, and even the piano favorite, 'Rondo Alla Turca,' make this a fun and edifying book to play through. A short …

Par MAGIC NUMBERS THE. The unusual arrangement of two brother-and-sister pairs is the basis of The Magic Numbers, the Mercury Music Award-nominated quartet that took 2005 by storm. This is the matching folio to their remarkable debut album. Born in Trinidad, before moving to New York and later settling in London, singer Romeo is a prolific songwriter in a classic, folk-inspired style. The band's s…

Bien que le Quatuor À cordes deuxième de Paul Dessau est très étroitement liée à la musique de douze-note, on ne peut dire à envers son inspiration à la méthode série au sens strict du terme. René Leibowitz avait introduit le compositeur pour le monde fascinant de la musique de douze-note de Schoenberg au cours de sa première période de l'exil à Paris. Avec ce Quatuor À cordes de Dessau a fonction…

Composé Dans Le Style Ancien Pour Le Roi Louis Ii De Bavière (Première Édition). Par ZENGER MAX. Pour ses désormais célèbres représentations privées, le roi Louis II de Bavière a commandé trois ballets historiques. Les sujets de ces ballets étaient festivités organisées à la cour de l'XIV française rois Louis et Louis XV, au cours de laquelle les rois respectifs tenue des danses et des jeux de She…

Offertorium In Festo Sti Benedicti. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Since the autograph of the offertory 'Scande coeli limina' KV 34 has not survived, the discovery of the oldest existing copy of the parts in 1998 in the archives of the Holy Chapel in Altötting were a significant contribution to the preservation of this work. Robert Münster discovered the parts, the new source upon which the present …

In recent times there has been a surge of interest in the uniquely beautiful song forms of Roma (or 'gypsy?) music. Its variety, richness and influence have won international admiration, even as the Romani people themselves have so often been the victims of misunderstanding, prejudice and repression. The Romani people emerged in Eastern Europe almost a thousand years ago and can trace their origin…

' La musique adoucit les moeurs ', Je ne compose pas pour illustrer ce dicton, mais il se trouve que dans les moments de liberté, c'est cette musique, caressante, douce, mélodieuse, qui me sort des doigts et me fait du bien, Les réminiscences des grands compositeurs romantiques sont évidentes mais rarement intentionnelles, - Moderato cantabile- Valse éphémère- Hommage à Schumann- Canzonetta- Papil…

Par LACHNER FRANZ. Among his compositions, Franz Lachner, the long-serving Music Director of the Court of Munich and Director of the Royal Choir, left behind a considerable number of sacred works, including two settings of the Stabat Mater. The first Stabat Mater, op. 154, from 1856 was strictly for a vocal ensemble; the second, op. 168, from 1870 (see p. 5) included strings and organ, in which th…

The Piano is often mistakenly viewed as taking a secondary role to the guitar in the world of rock music, with the industry often favouring the eye-catching antics of a larger-than-life axe-weilding hero to the seated sincerity of the Piano. In the meantime, a new generation of bands and artists are correcting the balance, pushing the Piano to the front of the stage and writing music with a passio…

eingerichtet von dem Dublin Guitar Quartet und Arvo Pärt. Par PART ARVO. 'I have developed a highly formalised compositional system, which I have been using to write my music for twenty years. Summa is the most strict and enigmatic work in this series', said Arvo Pärt in 1994. The neutral title itself embodies the essence of the content as the work is based on the text of the Latin Credo. The grea…

30 minutes de travail basé sur le poème de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 'Conte du propriétaire.' Composée à la mémoire des victimes du 9 / 11. / Soprano Seul, Choeur Mixte (Satb) Et Orchestre / 124 pages / Partition

Par KINKEAD JONATHAN. Every guitarist dreams of owning a handmade instrument, but for most, the cost is likely to be prohibitive. The alternative - building your own fine guitar - is not as difficult as you might imagine, given some skill, patience, and the expert guidance of a master luthier. Every step of construction is fully covered, from choice, selection, and preparation of woods, to conside…

Par D'ADAMO DANIEL. The 3rd piece of 'The Lips Cycle', 'Keep your furies', a duet with electronics based on texts by the composer, evokes the relationship between two entities, two different persons - two instruments - embodying two characters andtwo lives. They produce opposing or convergent sounds and senses, in relationships of causality or independence, emotion or indifference: their interacti…

Dans le jazz, c'est-à-dire à la fois dans les musiques que ce vocable recouvre, dans les usages qui sont faits du terme et dans les projections dont il est le prétexte, se combinent la modernité technique et la spontanéité primitive, l'individualisme et la communauté, la décence pompeuse (Whiteman) et la sensualité débridée (Joséphine Baker), l'Amérique et l'Afrique. Le livre de Denis-Constant Mar…