'Romances sans paroles' c'est ce que Félix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) a appelé son lyrique pièces pour piano, les miniatures romantiques dans lequel le compositeur voulait 'chanter' sur le clavier instrument. Avec eux, il a inventé une forme entièrement nouvelle de la musique de chambre au 19ème siècle. Ces 'morceaux' sont également parfaitement adapté pour le jeu duo: pour un instrument mé…

Par WINTERSON JULIA / HARRIS PAUL. Music Theory: the essential guide offers musicians of all ages and levels a practical and relevant guide to music theory today. Written and structured to make content as easily digestible as possible, this indispensable guide: - introduces key musical concepts such as pitch, tempo, rhythm, harmony, scales, instruments, musical forms and structure - outlines …

Par SAMITZ NICO. 'Nico Samitz has been composing for chamber ensembles since his school days. For over ten years he has been writing works in a wide variety of genres for the „BlechReiz BrassQuintett“ ensemble, in which he himself plays trumpet and piano. His field of expertise ranges from classical pieces to jazz and meditative music—and even to pop-oriented compositions. While honing his skills …

for string quartet. Par VASKS PETERIS. In 2013, Peteris Vasks set Mother Teresa’s peace prayer “The fruit of silence is prayer” for the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. The piece is for mixed choir however the versions for piano quintet and string quartet now make this musical expression of Mother Teresa's words accessible to two traditional genres of chamber music without the help of a choir. /…

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. 'My angel, my all, my self”. With these words Beethoven, in July 1812, began his passionate love letter to a woman whose identity has eluded discovery to the present day. Was he perhaps addressing the same woman four years later when he composed 'An die ferne Geliebte”, his song cycle on poems by Alois Jeitteles? Barry Cooper discusses this and many other questions in the…

The five movements of this mass are based on five Songs Without Words from Leo? Janácek's piano cycle By Overgrown Paths. Poos describes his work as 'Parody, Arrangement and Kontrafaktur? and a metamorphosis of Janácek's piano pieces. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Orgue

Par BARDEN CHRISTINE H. / KOWALCHYK GAYLE / LANCASTER . The Rhythm Speller Book 1 reinforces rhythm skills based on the concepts introduced in the Music Lesson Book 1. Each page of the Rhythm Speller Book has two activities---a rhythm-writing activity and a rhythm-reading activity. The written activities reinforce note values and counting through coloring, circling, drawing, or matching. The rhyth…

Osterkantate. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. This cantata has come down to us, unusually, with two sets of words. Certainly the second, and possibly also the first, is a parody. The first text is clearly intended for Easter, while the second, of a general nature, sings the praises of patience, hope, and trust in God. This extremely effective work, basically heroic in character, might well be performe…

Description Ten short and popular encores for Flute and Piano, edited by James Galway with Piano transcriptions for accompaniments by Phillip Moll. Includes Bach/Gounod's 'Ave Maria' and Mozart's 'Rondo Alla Turca' . Suitable for players around Grade 4-5 standard. Songlist Ave Maria [Bach, Johann Sebastian] [Gounod, Charles] Gavotte [Gossec, Francois Joseph] Irish Tune From County Derry Mi…

Par MARTIN MATTHEW. Written for the choir of New College, Oxford, Ut Unum Sint! (That they may be one) sets words from St John’s gospel in which Christ prays that all may be one. This was the title of Pope John Paul II’s encyclical on church unity. Combining atmospheric sections with more dramatic material, it was given its first performance by the choir of New College in St Peter’s, Rome in June …

All My Hope On God Is Founded scored for unison voices and descant set to words by Robert Bridges. Hymn tune named Michael after his son. / Chant Et Piano

Par DICKBAUER KLAUS / GASSELSBERGER MARTIN. 'My Song Diary”, a joint production by Klaus Dickbauer and Martin Gasselsberger, contains twelve easy to intermediate 'songs without words” for alto saxophone. They explore a range of musical styles, spanning jazz, pop, world music and cinema and encompass a variety of emotions. The composers invite you to enter their world either as in partnership with …

SAM-Klang. Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. The name SAM-Klang takes the three voice parts from the arrangements Soprano, Alto and Men and combines it with the Scandinavian and German words for ‘sound’ to create the portmanteau word ‘sound together’ or ‘harmony’. The SAM-Klang series offers basic and advanced choral repertoire arranged for soprano, alto and one male voice- part. In addition to new repertoire …

Par FAURE GABRIEL. With this early cycle (1863/64), Fauré follows in the footsteps of Mendelssohn's “Lieder ohne Worte” (Songs without Words) whilst at the same time enrolling into the French tradition of the “Romance sans paroles” as penned by composers such as Thalberg, Kalkbrenner, Gounod or Bizet before him. It was not until 1880 that the pieces, the first of his piano works, appeared in print…