Par JOLIVET ANDRE. Pastoreles De Noë l by Andre Jolivet is a piece for Flute, Bassoon and the Harp lasting nearly 13 minutes. This piece is really gentle and restrained which demonstrates the quality of Jolivet 's work but also reflects that period of WWII when France was under occupation. These scores are of medium level of ability. Pastoreles De Noë l features four sections: L'etoile (the Star),…

Italian opera was at the centre of Handel's output for over 35 years with solo arias constituting one of the most important elements in Baroque opera. Dramatic roles, with their various moods and reactions, are characterised through arias. A large number of Handel's operas also contain at least one entire scene for two to three voices. These numbers make use not only of similar lyrical or expressi…

Italian opera was at the centre of Handel's output for over 35 years with solo arias constituting one of the most important elements in Baroque opera. Dramatic roles, with their various moods and reactions, are characterised through arias. A large number of Handel's operas also contain at least one entire scene for two to three voices. These numbers make use not only of similar lyrical or expressi…

after J.S. Bach's Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light. Par Kevin Houben. Lucifer is the name for the devil, or more precisely: the devil before his fall. This composition distinguishes itself by means of a grand and fierce introduction, with a reflection on, and introduction of the main theme, which is based on the devilish tritone (three adjacent whole tones). It is a spectacular piece usi…

Par BRITTEN BENJAMIN. Britten began composing his Quatre chansons francaises in June 1928 and had finished the full score by August of that year, before his 15th birthday. The songs reflect the impact of his lessons with Frank Bridge, which had begun in the autumn of 1927, and he dedicated the work, which was among the most ambitious of his compositions at this time, to his parents, on the occasio…

Par GRAHAM PETER. Galaxies may be considered as theme music to an imaginary science-fiction movie. The contrasting heroic, romantic and reflective styles and themes will hopefully conjure up familiar images of inter-stellar heroes and heroines battling the alien forces of darkness! / Niveau : 2 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band

Par GRAHAM PETER. Galaxies may be considered as theme music to an imaginary science-fiction movie. The contrasting heroic, romantic and reflective styles and themes will hopefully conjure up familiar images of inter-stellar heroes and heroines battling the alien forces of darkness! / Niveau : 2 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

A Step-by-Step Guide to Create Fingerstyle Guitar Arrangements. Par SOLA DIEGO. This book presents a practical step-by-step approach to fingerstyle guitar arranging technique.Two paths are methodically introduced:1.) A description of the technical resources used in solo arranging, with examples in standard notation and tablature plus their respective online audio recordings.2.) An explanation of h…

Par VEILHAN. Jean-Claude Veilhan: Les Nations en Folies for Alto Recorder Solo In the manner of Raymond Queneau's book entitled Excercices de Style. 'Les Nations en Folies' is a pastiche intended musically to portray several of the recorder schools from various regions of France and abroad. The common theme is that of the famous 'Folies d'Espagne' accommodated to reflect the style of each country,…

Original Version. Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. Schumann’s Cello Concerto Rediscovered In her first Urtext edition for Edition Peters, internationally renowned cellist Josephine Knight reveals Robert Schumann’s original version of his Cello Concerto in A minor Op. 129 – a piece he actually called a ‘Concertstück’ – removing generations of inauthentic editorial interventions. This is the only available mode…

Couverture Rigide. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. Handel's 'Il pastor fido”, HWV 8a, is the most modest of his Italian operas: With over half of its numbers drawing from musical material of earlier Italian cantatas, the work deliberately reflects the pastoral style of the Italian serenata. In order to capture the simplicity of this approach to form, Handel made use of several different techniques, s…

Par PART ARVO. Psalm 133, a pilgrim song of David with three verses, is one of the short psalms. It describes the blessing of brotherly unity: 'Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to live in unity!' Arvo Pärt set this verse to music in a brightly reflective choral piece and dedicated it to his long-standing music editor at Universal Edition, Józef Stanislaw Durek. / Musique contempora…