French Horn,Piano - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1074151 Composed by G.Puccini. Arranged by Raymond Fenech. Christmas,Easter,Opera,Romantic Period,Wedding. Score and part. 10 pages. Raymond Fenech #678435. Published by Raymond Fenech (A0.1074151). O mio babbino caro (Oh my dear Papa�) is an aria from the opera Gianni Schicchi (1918) by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is sung by Lauretta after tensions between her father Schicchi and the family of Rinuccio, the boy she loves, have reached a breaking point that threatens to separate her from Rinuccio. It provides an interlude expressing lyrical simplicity and love in contrast with the atmosphere of hypocrisy, jealousy, double-dealing, and feuding in medieval Florence. It provides the only set-piece in the through-composed opera. This Aria is arranged by Raymond Fenech The duration is 3.21 minutes and it is an Intermediate level piece.

French Horn,Piano - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.523410 Composed by Lewis H. Redner, Edward MacDowell. Arranged by John A. Dempsey. Christian,Christmas,Holiday,Sacred,Traditional. Score and part. 14 pages. John A. Dempsey #3467772. Published by John A. Dempsey (A0.523410). Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.  A favorite Christmas carol with its everlasting light, O Little Town of Bethlehem is arranged here as a duet for horn in F and piano.  The incidental music composed by Edward MacDowell is the beautiful To a Wild Rose from his Woodland Sketches.  Recommended for Christmas plays, pageants and programs, holiday recitals and Christmas concerts as well as traditional Christmas church services and other seasonal worship events, as a prelude postlude, an offertory, interlude, Christmas play overture, silent prayer accompaniment and special music.  10 pages of music (that includes a separate two-page French horn part).  Key: F major.

French Horn,Piano - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.523237 Composed by John Francis Wade. Arranged by John A. Dempsey. Christian,Christmas,Holiday,Sacred,Traditional. Score and part. 13 pages. John A. Dempsey #3388885. Published by John A. Dempsey (A0.523237). O come let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.  This hymn arrangement of a beloved Yuletide carol (also known as Adeste Fideles) is a Christmas kaleidoscope of praise, since it includes additional themes, melodic and rhythmic variation as well as varied moods, both peaceful and elated, all reflective of the celebration of the Nativity.  With incidental music by Anton Dvorak, this duet for French horn and piano is recommended for Christmas pageants, plays and programs, holiday recitals and Christmas concerts as well as traditional Christmas church services and other seasonal worship events, as a prelude, postlude, an offertory, interlude, Christmas play overture, silent prayer accompaniment and special music.  9 pages of music (that includes a separate two-page French horn part).  Concert Key (Piano): Eb major.  Horn Key: Bb major.

French Horn,Piano - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.548674 Composed by Adam. Arranged by James M. Guthrie, ASCAP. Christmas. Score and part. 10 pages. Jmsgu3 #3410435. Published by jmsgu3 (A0.548674). Duration: 4:56. Score 5 pg. 44 ms. Solo part: 2 pg. Piano part: 3 pg. Cantique de Noël The French composer Adolphe Adam was already famous as a composer of many successful ballets and operas. Then, in the 1840’s he wrote his most famous work - O Holy Night. The original song title was Minuit Chretiens or Cantique de Noël.  Placide Cappeau provided the original song lyrics. The song was first performed in Roquemaure by the opera singer Emily Laurey at midnight mass in 1847. It became very popular among the French, much the way that Silent Night was famous elsewhere. In the 1850’s John S. Dwight, a Unitarian minister and music teacher translated the song into English.   Adolphe Adam In his younger years, Adam studied organ and composition at the Paris Conservatoire. He also played the timpani in the Conservatoire orchestra. Adam used his savings and borrowed money to open a new opera house - the fourth opera house in Paris in 1847. Unfortunately, the Revolution of 1848 forced him to close. He taught composition at the Paris Conservatoire from 1849 until his death in 1856. Placide Cappeau The poet Cappeau was an advocate of the French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire.  Voltaire was renowned for criticizing the Catholic church, religious intolerance, and dogma in general. Consequently, Cappeau made the Redeemer figure in his song a kind of reformer of injustices, in particular, the problem of original sin. To begin with, people recognized Cappeau’s theology as eccentric, probably even doubtful. Theology In the earlier form of Minuit, the Christ figure descends to intervene with His Father’s plan to punish mankind.  Traditional doctrine pronounces that Christ came from love, not to intervene. This version also declares that Christ appeared to expunge the original sin of Adam. Cappeau removed this part from his poem years later, because he just didn’t believe it.  He preferred to portray Christ as the reformer of disparity and unfairness. Before long, the writer/politician Alphonse de Lamartine referred to the Minuit as the the Marseillaise of religion. Most French churchmen agreed with this idea but certainly did not consider it a tribute.    

French Horn,Piano - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.523145 Composed by Enrique Granados, John Henry Hopkins, Jr. Arranged by John A. Dempsey. Christian,Christmas,Holiday,Sacred,Traditional. Score and part. 15 pages. John A. Dempsey #3226595. Published by John A. Dempsey (A0.523145). Arranged as a festive duet for French horn and piano, the well-known, evocative Christmas carol We Three Kings of Orient Are follows a musical path that merges with the wintry road leading to Enrique Granados' delicately beautiful piece Oriental.  A bit of holiday serendipity!  Recommended for Christmas concerts and holiday recitals as well as traditional Christmas church services and other seasonal worship events, including Christmas plays, pageants and programs.  Suggested worship uses: a prelude, postlude, an offertory, interlude, Christmas play overture, special music and silent prayer accompaniment.  11 pages of music (that includes a separate two-page French horn part).  Concert Key (Piano): G minor.  Horn Key: D minor          We three kings of Orient are: bearing gifts we traverse afar     Field and fountain, moor and mountain - following yonder star.     O star of wonder, star of night; star with royal beauty bright,     Westward leading, still proceeding, guide us to Thy perfect light.