Ed. critica di Ivano Bettin - Riduzione per canto e pianoforte di A. Frigé. Par PERGOLESI GIOVANNI BATTISTA. Some few months after returning to Naples from Rome, where he had gone to follow the premiere of L'Olimpiade at the Teatro Tordinona during the 1735 carnival season, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi -- notwithstanding the quickened pace of the disease that would soon bring his brief life to a cl…

Dans le contexte actuel de brassage et métissage culturel, les bassistes, tous styles confondus (pop, rock progressif, métal, jazz-rock?), sont sans cesse plus nombreux à rechercher de nouvelles sources d'inspiration, notamment dans les musiques venues d'ailleurs où les mélodies asymétriques sont légion. Le rôle de la section rythmique basse/batterie étant avant tout de procurer une stabilité à l'…

Couverture Rigide. Par GLUCK CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD. For his Paris 'Cythère assiégée?, Gluck drew on his eponymous opéra comique from 1759, transforming it into an opéra-ballet. The libretto which was expanded by Charles Simon Favart was adapted: Gluck added recitative passages, reworked individual sections and also added his own compositions, modifying them in parts. By March 1775, the compositional…

Par BARTOK BELA. Les six quatuors à corde de Béla Bartók composés entre 1908 et 1940 sont au nombre des jalons du genre au XXe siècle. Ce coffret regroupe les œuvres en six partitions de poche pratiques et de qualité exemplaire. Chacune de ces œuvres très différentes est un bijou et déploie un véritable feu d'artifice de couleurs sonores pour les cordes et de finesses rythmiques. L’édition, superv…

Alors que la plupart des ouvrages consacrés à l'Histoire de la musique russe font débuter leur propos au XVIIIe siècle, celui-ci est le premier à remonter aux sources. Les chants médiévaux, aussi bien païens que religieux, constituent un patrimoine dans lequel s'est enracinée la musique ultérieure. La constitution progressive de l'Etat russe, à travers la personne de ses souverains, a façonné le p…

For Piano, Violin And Horn (Viola / Violoncello). Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. L' instrumentation inhabituelle de ce trio - cor, violon et piano - a de bonne heure fait l' objet de spéculations au sujet d' un arrière-plan extramusical. Le biographe Max Kalbeck y voyait par exemple une plainte du compositeur, qui venait de perdre sa mère, parce que dans son enfance le petit Brahms aurait joué à celle-ci de…

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning-Intermediate Musical Genre : Ethnic Series : Complete Number of pages : 162 The balalaika is most often associated with Russian folklore. In this comprehensive method book, concert and recording artist Bibs Ekkel shares his extensive knowledge of the balalaika as taught in Russia today. This 160-page book is divided into four sections: an extensive Fore…

Les livres de madrigaux de Chester offrent une collection intéressante de madrigaux européennes laïques, des partsongs et des obus de la 16ème et oreille -y XVIIe siècles, nouvellement éditée provenant de sources au début par Anthony G. Patti, qui contribue copieuses notes historiques de chaque volume. La plupart des paramètres est SATB et clavier simplifié des réductions. Les textes sont dans les…

'The most romantic of all my works? ('Schumann?)Schumann's 'Liederkreis?, after poems by Joseph von Eichendorff, comprises settings of twelve texts with the common motif of being far from home.Our new edition presents the work in its definitive form published in the second edition of 1850, while taking into account Schumann's autograph manuscript and other relevant sources. The detailed Foreword b…

Carl Maria von Weber's fame rests mainly on ?Der Freischütz'. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain works such as ?Preciosa', ?Oberon', and ?Euryanthe', the overtures, solo concertos and piano sonatas, the lieder and chamber works enjoyed great popularity and were widely known in Germany and abroad a…

For All Instruments With Guitar Chords. Par BIELEFELD ROBERT. Players of all kinds of instruments including flute, fiddle, mandolin, recorder, whistle, guitar, harp and more can use this collection of music which is popular at modern renaissance festivals. The music is presented simply, with melody lines and chord symbols, allowing for a wide range of interpretation. In addition to many period dan…

9 Popular Arrangements for Piano solo. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN / ARR JEAN KLEEB. Beethoven often incorporated musical influences from other countries in his works. Jean Kleeb has picked up on this idea and developed it further in these arrangements for piano solo. In his tributes to Beethoven he emphasizes ethnic attributes such as 'alla turca” or he coaxes exotic rhythms out of certain works wit…

Beethoven's Sonata in G is published as part of ABRSM's 'Signature' series - a series of authoritative performing editions of standard keyboard works, prepared from original sources by leading scholars. Includes informative introductions and performance notes. / Piano

Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn's contemporaries frequently mentioned his 'Hymn of Praise” in the same breath as Beethoven's Ninth - and often enough viewed it as an imitation. Mendelssohn authority John Michael Cooper, in his extensive Introduction to this new Urtext edition, shows that the comparison is completely unfounded: with this work Mendelssohn created a new genre to which he…

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. J. S. Bach ’s Four Orchestral Suites belong to that select group of works one could truly call classical hits! They stem from Bach ’s extremely productive time in Cöthen which ended in 1721. Unfortunately the only sources that have come down to us are copyist parts from Leipzig. These originally formed the basis for the critical complete edition volume which was publishe…