Par BRANDAO MAICA. Pour la musique, le style baroque naît au début du XVIIe siècle avec l'invention en Italie de l'opéra. L'éloquence et la théâtralité sont les premières caractéristiques de ce nouveau style. Pour le violon, sa promotion, d'instrument populaire à la Renaissance, au statut de roi des instruments d'orchestre, dès les premiers opéras voit le développement de sa facture par les célèb…

Par DEBUSSY CLAUDE. Arabesque No. 1 includes the printed score, a written masterclass from concert pianist and musicologist Roy Howat, in which he considers Debussy’s structures and musical language, a biography of the composer and a short history of the music – all illustrated in full colour. more than the score… is a series of classic piano music, covering much of the essential repertoire from …

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Prelude and Fugue in C major from The Well-tempered Clavier includes the printed score, a written masterclass from international concert pianist Daniel Grimwood, in which he considers how to approach the playing of baroque harpsichord music on the piano, a biography of the composer and a short history of the music – all illustrated in full colour. more than the score… i…

Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. Reverie from Scenes from Childhood includes the printed score, a written masterclass from international concert pianist Daniel Grimwood, in which he considers how to interpret the Romantic language of Schumann’s piano music, a biography of the composer and a short history of the music – all illustrated in full colour. more than the score… is a series of classic piano music, c…

Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Songs Without Words Book 1, No. 1 includes the printed score, a written masterclass from international concert pianist Daniel Grimwood, in which he explores useful practice techniques for this classic example of Mendelssohn’s piano music, a biography of the composer and a short history of the music – all illustrated in full colour.  more than the score… is a serie…

Par CHOPIN FREDERIC. Prélude No. 4 includes the printed score, a written masterclass from international concert pianist Daniel Grimwood, in which he considers how to approach this classic of Romantic piano music, a biography of the composer and a short history of the music – all illustrated in full colour. more than the score… is a series of classic piano music, covering much of the essential rep…

Par CAGE JOHN. In A Landscape includes the printed score, a written masterclass from pianist and John Cage specialist Adam Tendler, in which he considers how to approach this mesmerizing classic of modern American piano music, a biography of the composer and a short history of the music ? all illustrated in full colour. more than the score? is a series of classic piano music, covering much of the…

Description Bb Edition. The Real Books are the best-selling jazz books of all time. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted these volumes to get them through every gig, night after night. The problem is that the books were illegally produced and distributed without any copyrights or royalties paid to the master composers who created these musical canons. Hal Leonard is very proud to present the f…

Song Cycle. Par SEIBER MATYAS. This substantial cycle was written for the tenor Peter Pears, and first performed by him in 1953 at the Royal Festival Hall, London, with the distinguished pianist Noel Mewton-Wood. It follws the example of Britten's Serenade in setting a variety of poets, and the set is framed by settings of the same words by Goethe in translation by Louis MacNeice, the unifying fac…

Noel! is an exciting collection for mixed voice choirs, selected and edited by David Hill. The contents range from the Renaissance to the present: the polyphony of Victoria and Byrd, via Bach, familiar settings of traditional and lesser known carols through the ages, and works by today's composers including Richard Rodney Bennett, Judith Bingham, John Tavener and Judith Weir. Mixed voice choirs of…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. A spectacular dive via an extended chromatic scale immediately submerges us in a charged and somewhat archaic-feeling atmosphere. Trumpets, horns and trombones resound in rhythmic patterns, buttressed by restless motifs in the percussion. A second theme, in the woodwinds, begins much calmer but is quickly pushed aside by that same brass offensive. This introduction is the mu…

for wind orchestra (revised edition 2023). Par DE MEIJ JOHAN. Symphonie no. 1 The Lord of the Rings [Le Seigneur des Anneaux] La première symphonie de Johan de Meij ?The Lord of the Rings? [Le Seigneur des Anneaux] est basée sur la trilogie romanesque du même nom de J.R.R. Tolkien. Depuis leur parution en 1955, ces livres ont fasciné des millions de lecteurs dans le monde entier. La symphonie est …

for wind orchestra (revised edition 2023). Par DE MEIJ JOHAN. Symphonie no. 1 The Lord of the Rings [Le Seigneur des Anneaux] La première symphonie de Johan de Meij ?The Lord of the Rings? [Le Seigneur des Anneaux] est basée sur la trilogie romanesque du même nom de J.R.R. Tolkien. Depuis leur parution en 1955, ces livres ont fasciné des millions de lecteurs dans le monde entier. La symphonie est …