Choral Choir (2-Part) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1099392 Composed by Sally Whitwell. Children,Classical,Instructional. Octavo. 9 pages. Sally Whitwell #703279. Published by Sally Whitwell (A0.1099392). Do you want to build a rocket? was originally composed for a wonderful group of children I worked with at the Young Music Society Winter School in Canberra. The first day that I went in to meet them, I sat down with them on the floor and asked them what kind of performance they wanted to build. It was around the time that the Disney animated feature Frozen was very popular with kids. Or not, as it turns out, because one little boy’s hand shot up straight away and he said: “Tell you what I don’t wanna build: a stupid snowman!� He suggested we build a rocket instead. So that’s what we did. It’s a song about the wonder and curiosity we feel about the universe, of our desire to explore it, and of the determination and grit required to achieve that dream. It’s some very hard yards to build a rocket and to learn to fly it, but our dreams are always worth the work! I hope you have fun with this song. Teachers, I invite you to get as theatrical as you dare with it. In our original performance we had all these toy instruments, toy toolkits, and painted cardboard boxes. (So many boxes!). Let’s just say, if you think it’s gonna be ‘too much’, it’s probably exactly the right amount. Sally Whitwell August 2022.

Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1320273 Composed by Various. Arranged by Ander. Chamber,Christmas. 104 pages. Woods Only, Arrangements #908787. Published by Woods Only, Arrangements (A0.1320273). We present our enchanting Collection of Christmas Arrangements for Woodwind Quintet, specially crafted for the festive Christmas season! Delight in the spirit of Christmas with these innovative interpretations of timeless classics, meticulously crafted to bring joy and magic to your musical repertoire.1 - Jingle Bells in Different Styles:Are you ready for a musical journey through various styles of Jingle Bells? Our arrangement for Woodwind Quintet takes you from a slow and gentle opening to an animated version, exploring waltz and samba styles along the way. Perfect for Christmas parties, chamber music groups, recitals, and concerts, this unique arrangement is a charming twist on a holiday favorite. Don’t miss the chance to surprise and delight your audience with this creative interpretation!2 - We Wish You a Merry Christmas:Step into the magic of Christmas with our innovative arrangement for Woodwind Quintet of We Wish You a Merry Christmas. This score breathes new life into the classic melody, creating an enchanting atmosphere while preserving the essence of the original work. Ideal for Christmas events, recitals, concerts, and educational purposes, this arrangement is a valuable addition to any musical collection. Embrace the universal language of music and charm your audience with this special interpretation.3 - Joy to the World:Immerse yourself in the beauty of our reimagined arrangement for Woodwind Quintet of Joy to the World. This classic Christmas hymn takes on a new and magical guise, exploring new rhythms, harmonies, and counterpoints without losing the original essence. Perfect for Christmas events, recitals, concerts, and music education, this arrangement highlights the beauty and creativity that will captivate every listener. Be part of the history of this wonderful song with our exclusive score.4 - Silent Night:Step into the serene magic of our arrangement for Silent Night, a beloved Christmas song translated into over 300 languages. Originally composed in 1818, this rendition captures the longing for redemption and peace, making it perfect for various Christmas occasions. Dive into the historical significance of the piece and add a touch of magic to your musical repertoire with our innovative arrangement.5 - Deck the Halls:Enter the enchanting world of our arrangement for Woodwind Quintet of Deck the Halls. This interpretation offers a fresh and magical perspective on the traditional melody, making it perfect for Christmas events, recitals, concerts, and music education. Originating from the 16th-century Welsh melody, this arrangement adds a modern touch while preserving the essence of the historical piece. Elevate your Christmas celebrations with this charming and historically rich arrangement.Bonus - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen:Uncover the beauty of Christmas with our arrangement for Woodwind Quintet of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. This timeless English Christmas song is reborn in this innovative interpretation, maintaining the original essence while breathing new life into the melody. Whether for chamber music recitals, concerts, public shows, or educational purposes, this arrangement is a perfect blend of tradition and innovation. Capture the magic of Christmas and add this valuable piece to your repertoire today!Our Christmas Collection for Woodwind Quintet is a testament to the transformative power of music. Each arrangement is a journey, taking familiar melodies and presenting them in a new light that is both innovative and respectful of their origins. These arrangements are more than just music; they are an invitation to experience the joy, wonder, and magic of Christmas in a unique and unforgettable way. So, whether you're a seasoned musician or a beginner, we invite you to explore these arrangements and let the music fill your heart with the spirit of Christmas. Enjoy the journey!

Small Ensemble Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.782269 By Pentatonix. By Matthew Radosevich, Mitchell Grassi, Ruth Anne Cunningham, and Scott Hoying. Arranged by James Haynor. A Cappella. Score and parts. 15 pages. James Haynor #4301387. Published by James Haynor (A0.782269). Pentatonix,the a cappella group from Arlington, Texas, first garnered attention on the third season of NBC's The Sing-Off, where their talent for creating unique vocal arrangements of existing pop songs earned them the grand prize of $200,000 and a Sony recording contract. Misbehavin’ is an original tune by the group scored here for woodwind quintet. Pentatonix baritone singer Scott Hoying, who shares the lead with tenor Mitch Grassi on the track, explains the song's meaning: Some of us have significant others and we wanted to write a song about like how we can’t always be with them 'cos we're always on the road but: 'We're not misbehavin' tonight… Duration 3:37

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.818342 Composed by Darlene Zschech. Arranged by Stephen R. Dalrymple (Dalrymple Designs). Contemporary,Sacred. Score. 18 pages. Stephen R Dalrymple #6252777. Published by Stephen R Dalrymple (A0.818342). The Potter’s Hand ♫ by Darlene Zschech ♫ with Spirit of God Descend Upon My Heart (lyrics by George Croly, melody MORECAMBE by Frederick C Atkinson) ♫ piano solo arrangement by Stephen R Dalrymple♫ With the images of the potter, the clay, and the pottery vessel, Isaiah answers the age-old question “What claim does God have on my life?� Nothing we see, hear, taste, smell, or feel would exist without the Creator. Neither you nor I would or could exist without Him. As a painter, sculptor, composer, designer etc. creates a masterwork for his or her own purposes, so we have a purpose beyond ourselves and our existence. ♫ But the images in Isaiah of the potter go beyond the functionality of the created objects, and the purpose and rights of the artisan. Darlene Zschech brings out the beauty and glory of being the masterwork of a true artist. ♫ A song of commitment and consecration, we need songs like this in our repertoire of worship, to urge us to go beyond the words of worship to the giving of our lives in worship. ♫ If our current worship music wasn’t so disposable, we’d be singing this song for many years to come. ♫ slide presentation by Stephen R Dalrymple ♫ This .pdf file includes 2 files: 1) Letter size piano score 2) Small page piano score for performing from a 10 inch tablet. (Tell your computer which pages you want to print. You can find programs online that will allow you to split pdf files so that you can choose the correct part of the pdf for your tablet.) ♫ The YouTube video contains the full recording.

Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.973171 Composed by Richard deCosta. Christian,Christmas,Gospel,Jazz. Score. 3 pages. Richard deCosta #4805429. Published by Richard deCosta (A0.973171). Light jazz vocal arrangement in the style of Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby or Nat King Cole of a new original Christmas tune by deCosta & Lane.A day like any other day,A dismal one, I want to say.A day when joy seems to have flown away.Is misery to be my dole?But what now do I hear within my soul?They sing to me in lovely tones,I feel it in my flesh and bones,No longer will we be alone.Gone the void so dark and vast.Emmanuel is come at last.CHORUSI hear the chimes so many times,They ring out loud, so clear in my ears.But they don’t sound In just my ears,But deep in the hearts of all gathered here.And as the chimes so sweetly ring,Let us all rejoice and sing,And hearken to the hope they bring.We wonder what that may allow,If our savior’s with us now.We’ll know Him, somedayWe’ll know Him somehow.[CHORUS]

C Instrument - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1381727 By Stacey Plays Hymns. By Stacey Plays Hymns. Arranged by Anastace. Christian,Historic,Praise & Worship,Religious,Sacred. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 4 pages. Anastace #966363. Published by Anastace (A0.1381727). Here is the lead sheet version of the hymn, The Harvest of the Earth�, as heard on my YouTube channel and requsted by listeners. Originally titled “See How Brown Autumn Spreads the Fields�, this song is so rare that I couldn’t find any music for it online, and therefore wrote a new melody and accompaniment for it that captures the the solemnity and even anguish of the lyrics. It’s one of the songs of harvest off of my album entitled “Hymns of Autumn�, but doesn’t talk about harvest in the traditional sense we normally sing about these days.Not many talk about the judgement of God in today’s church, and this hymn will send chills down the spine of the most devout believer as we realize the full spectrum of God's character, including His wrath and power on Judgement Day. I found this in an old hymnal that was so old that the “S�s were still written as “F�s, and I had to squint to read it while learning to sing for this recording. I hope this ancient and powerful hymn finds a place to minister to today's church and believers around the world, perhaps after a sermon on God’s judgement, or for a Lent or Advent service about repentance and turning to God, both individually and as a nation.This version is in B Minor to match the original recording, and includes the chords for the whole song including the reharmonized verse with a different melody.Also available, by searching Stacey Plays Hymns and the song title on this site is the full piano vocal arrangement as played in the original recording.For other formats including large print, simplified, or extended choral harmony versions, please write me at staceyplayshymns@gmail.com and I'll be glad to make them especially for you. Purchase includes a free license for one church service with under 300 people, with proper attribution and credit in any printed or online materials. For a license to use this work on a larger scale, please contact me for permission and other usage details including lyrics formatted for printing in church bulletins or for powerpoint. Please let me know if there is any other way I can serve you as a congregation or fellow music/choir director as I endeavour to write several new choral anthems per year, along with my other recording work.Thank you for supporting modern hymnwriters and musicians!

Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.801629 Composed by Connie Boss. Children,Country,Folk,Holiday,Pop. Score. 4 pages. Connie Boss #6329711. Published by Connie Boss (A0.801629). As I sat one morning by the water, I noticed the sunlight twinkling and sparkling as it reflected off of it. It was so peaceful and beautiful. I wondered about a song that I might reference it. I decided to compose a lullaby for a mother singing to her baby. I think of eyes that twinkle and sparkle and your child definitely has eyes that reflect that. At least I know mine did. There is a piano accompaniment mp3 for sale if you don't play.cdboss@cvalley.netLyrics:My Baby (A Mother’s Lullaby) Composed by Connie Boss   Refrain: My baby, your eyes, twinkle and they sparkle My baby, just like sunlight on the water   Verses:   I fell in Love with you when I saw your face You are my baby, no one can take your place   Refrain:   I count your fingers and then your little toes Each time I look at you, my love for you grows   Refrain:   Your cheeks were made to kiss and I just can’t resist To kiss your little nose and your little toes   Refrain:   Bridge:   We play pat-a-cake and play peek-a-boo These are all the things that you love to do We snuggle close. Rock you to sleep And lay you down without a peep   Refrain:   Ending:   My baby, My baby  

Choral Choir,Choral (SAB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1256120 By Janet Kidd. By Janet Kidd. Arranged by Janet Kidd. Christian,Easter,Praise & Worship,Religious,Sacred. 9 pages. Janet Kidd #849588. Published by Janet Kidd (A0.1256120). Easter Sunday is the 10th song in the Easter Vigil Cantata We Didn't Know. It's a song about the women at the tomb on Easter Sunday morning. Here is a full list of the Easter Vigil cantata in order1. Palm Sunday2. It Seemed Like a Glorious Time3. We Didn't Know4. One Man5. Mob6. The Hope of Nations7. Crucifixion8.  A Singular Night9. Great Dreams10. Easter Sunday11. Alleluia.

Voice and piano - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8492-16E Composed by MeeAe Cecilia Nam and Theodore Gouvy. Instrument part. 8 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8492-16E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8492-16E). French.Gouvy was known for writing some of the most beautiful melodies of the Romantic period. His style is a combination of German forms and an early French romantic harmonic structure. His writing for the piano in the songs is totally unified in mood and description with the voice, just as the piano is in Schubert’s songs. The equal partnership of the vocal line and piano interact closely to bring the poetry vividly into life with unimaginable artistic heights and unbridled passion.This volume includes Gouvy songs set to 18 poems of Philippe Desportes (1546–1606), and 18 poems of Moritz Hartmann (1821–1872). The elements of Romantic love poetry, such as enchanting love and its pain, and the personifying of nature, are fluently described with a great sensitivity in both voice and piano. Gouvy’s melody stir up the imagination because of his special treatment of words through a distinguishable and melodious vocal line, and his story telling and poetic treatment and development of the piano accompaniment. His compositional artistry places him in the upper echelons of art-song composers. One should note that Gouvy had a special fondness for the 16th Century poetry of La Pléiade (a group of Renaissance French poets, led by Pièrre de Ronsard (1524–1585). Desportes was truly the heir to Ronsard; however his work, when compared to that of Ronsard, is filled with greater abstraction and greater fluidity. Desportes seems to avoid any of the passionate anger that is occasionally characteristic of La Pléiade. This may be an indication that Desportes lived in a less distressed time. It also seems necessary to point out that he learned much in his early career by copying and studying the earlier works of La Pléiade. This has led some scholars to label him as a plagiarist, but it is important to realize that all the members of La Pléiade copied from each other when they wished to learn something new, and truly understand the style of the other poets in the group. Gouvy’s only choice of poems from his contemporaries, were the works of Moritz Hartmann (1821–1872), a good friend of Gouvy’s. Much of his poetry was strongly political in support of freedom of the individual. He traveled to Leipzig in 1845, but when the authorities discovered a volume of patriotic poems entitled Kelch und Schwert (Chalice and Sword), he fled to Belgium and France. It is at this time that he possibly met Théodore Gouvy. Eighteen poems of Hartmann were translated from German to French by the French poet, Adolph Larmande, of whom very little is known. Pierre Toussaint Adolphe Larmande seems to have been a rather obscure poet and musician. We know that he taught music theory at the Paris Conservatory at the same time Anton Reicha and Michele Carafa were on the faculty. We also know that in 1847 he married an English woman by the name of Marie Caroline Bradley. There are random documents, such as a Certificate of Arrival in London, England, in 1837, but there are no birth and death dates given, and that includes his obituary notice. Contents:18 Sonnets et Chansons de Desportes pour ténor ou soprano et piano, Op. 45 Six poésies allemandes de Moritz Hartmann pour baryton et piano, Op. 21 Douze poésies allemandes de Moritz Hartmann pour ténor et piano, Op. 26 (Poésies françaises d’Adolphe Larmande).

Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1381714 By Stacey Plays Hymns. By Stacey Plays Hymns. Arranged by Anastace. Christian,Historic,Praise & Worship,Religious,Sacred. Score. 5 pages. Anastace #966349. Published by Anastace (A0.1381714). Here is the full piano vocal arrangement of The Harvest of the Earth�, as heard on my YouTube channel and requsted by listeners. Originally titled “See How Brown Autumn Spreads the Fields�, this song is so rare that I couldn’t find any music for it online, and therefore wrote a new melody and accompaniment for it that captures the the solemnity and anguish of the lyrics. It’s one of the songs of harvest off of my album entitled “Hymns of Autumn�, but doesn’t talk about harvest in the traditional sense we normally sing about these days.Not many talk about the judgement of God in today’s church, and this hymn will send chills down the spine of the most devout believer as we realize the full spectrum of God's character, including His wrath and power on Judgement Day. I found this in an old hymnal that was so old that the “S�s were still written as “F�s, and I had to squint to read it while learning to sing for this recording. I hope this ancient and powerful hymn finds a place to minister to today's church and believers around the world, perhaps after a sermon on God’s judgement, or for a Lent or Advent service about repentance and turning to God, both individually and as a nation.This version is in B Minor to match the original recording, and includes the full piano accompaniment as played in the recording. Also available, by searching Stacey Plays Hymns and the song title on this site is a lead sheet version for those who prefer to play off a chart.For other formats including large print, or extended choral harmony versions, please write me at staceyplayshymns@gmail.com and I'll be glad to make them especially for you. Purchase includes a free license for one church service with under 300 people, with proper attribution and credit in any printed or online materials. For a license to use this work on a larger scale, please contact me for permission and other usage details including lyrics formatted for printing in church bulletins or for powerpoint. Please let me know if there is any other way I can serve you as a congregation or fellow music/choir director as I endeavour to write several new choral anthems per year, along with my other recording work.Thank you for supporting modern hymnwriters and musicians!

Piano - Digital Download SKU: A0.1069959 Composed by Steven H. Boothe. Arranged by Ashley Ivers. Pop,Rock. Accompaniment. Duration 184. Boothe Publishing #4633665. Published by Boothe Publishing (A0.1069959). Most of the mistakes I made in life were between the ages of 12-16 years. Somehow I felt that I was smarter than I was. I thought that my friends were smarter than they were. I felt invincible. I made many foolish mistakes during those years. About that time, my family was preparing to move from Oregon to Utah. I remember my mother talking with me and saying that I could start over again. We would be in a new place with new people. No one would know me. I could be the person I truly wanted to be. I thought about this a lot, and when we finally made the move I had decided what kind of person I really wanted to be. In fact, I felt bad for being the wrong kind of person and hurting other people physically and spiritually. I eventually felt so bad about my mistakes that I decided that I would write or call the people I had hurt and apologize to them. Over the period of a year I was able to find, call and apologize to each of them. To my great surprise none of them were still angry with me. I was forgiven. That was a great feeling. This day will be forever what you choose. Once you leave this life you won't be able to return and right any wrongs that you have committed. So when you make a mistake, choose to make it right today so that this day, this day of good choosing will be what will last forever. Never let yourself do something that you know inside is wrong. If your friends are trying to talk you into doing something you know is wrong, don't just sit there and listen to them. Get up and leave the room, or the party, or the situation. Be true. Be the one. Be the son or daughter of God. Do what He would do.

Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1266953 Composed by Kimberly Joy Minarich. 21st Century,Christian. Score. 6 pages. Kimberly Joy Minarich #859598. Published by Kimberly Joy Minarich (A0.1266953). Feeling discouraged, experiencing pain or grief, longing for peace, joy, and love in this crazy journey of life...I don't claim to have all of the answers, but I know the One who does. He may not directly answer when you pray, however, I can promise you that He will never leave your side and will walk with you through whatever you are going through. As a musician, I have always been entranced with how melodies and harmonies, instruments of varying timbres, and beautiful orchestrations create frequencies that combine to make incredible symphonies and compositions. Life is the same...God gives us love, joy, grief, and pain to create a brilliant symphony of our life. Without all the colors we wouldn't understand the overall beauty and purpose. We must trust our composer through it all, knowing that He means every line intentionally for our good and the entire picture that will be beautiful in the end.

Choral Choir (5-Part) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1217531 Composed by A. Routhier/C Lavallee. Arranged by Bill ORANGE Lyons. A Cappella,Jazz,Patriotic,Traditional. Octavo. 6 pages. Bill ORANGE Lyons #814082. Published by Bill ORANGE Lyons (A0.1217531). So, why would an American arrange O Canada? Well, for one, it's one of best anthems around. Truth be told, I used to direct a choir I founded (called the Orange Korale) and we were doing the Star-Spangled Banner for various MLB teams and knew eventually we'd need to sing the Canadian Anthem and finally had that chance for the Toronto team while playing here in the states and they loved it, and I think you will too.Wanting to keep it simple, I did not incorporate any French verse(s) so I hope you'll simply enjoy this simple but beautiful piece. Although it states written for SAATB, there is one place where the alto splits but only for a few notes. It is an easy arrangement but one that should be pleasing to all who hear it. This is a very easy chart to perform. Just tell them it was arranged by someone in one of the 'southern' provinces. I won't tell if you don't. :-).

Voice and piano - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8492-17E Composed by MeeAe Cecilia Nam and Theodore Gouvy. Instrument part. 6 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8492-17E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8492-17E). French.Gouvy was known for writing some of the most beautiful melodies of the Romantic period. His style is a combination of German forms and an early French romantic harmonic structure. His writing for the piano in the songs is totally unified in mood and description with the voice, just as the piano is in Schubert’s songs. The equal partnership of the vocal line and piano interact closely to bring the poetry vividly into life with unimaginable artistic heights and unbridled passion.This volume includes Gouvy songs set to 18 poems of Philippe Desportes (1546–1606), and 18 poems of Moritz Hartmann (1821–1872). The elements of Romantic love poetry, such as enchanting love and its pain, and the personifying of nature, are fluently described with a great sensitivity in both voice and piano. Gouvy’s melody stir up the imagination because of his special treatment of words through a distinguishable and melodious vocal line, and his story telling and poetic treatment and development of the piano accompaniment. His compositional artistry places him in the upper echelons of art-song composers. One should note that Gouvy had a special fondness for the 16th Century poetry of La Pléiade (a group of Renaissance French poets, led by Pièrre de Ronsard (1524–1585). Desportes was truly the heir to Ronsard; however his work, when compared to that of Ronsard, is filled with greater abstraction and greater fluidity. Desportes seems to avoid any of the passionate anger that is occasionally characteristic of La Pléiade. This may be an indication that Desportes lived in a less distressed time. It also seems necessary to point out that he learned much in his early career by copying and studying the earlier works of La Pléiade. This has led some scholars to label him as a plagiarist, but it is important to realize that all the members of La Pléiade copied from each other when they wished to learn something new, and truly understand the style of the other poets in the group. Gouvy’s only choice of poems from his contemporaries, were the works of Moritz Hartmann (1821–1872), a good friend of Gouvy’s. Much of his poetry was strongly political in support of freedom of the individual. He traveled to Leipzig in 1845, but when the authorities discovered a volume of patriotic poems entitled Kelch und Schwert (Chalice and Sword), he fled to Belgium and France. It is at this time that he possibly met Théodore Gouvy. Eighteen poems of Hartmann were translated from German to French by the French poet, Adolph Larmande, of whom very little is known. Pierre Toussaint Adolphe Larmande seems to have been a rather obscure poet and musician. We know that he taught music theory at the Paris Conservatory at the same time Anton Reicha and Michele Carafa were on the faculty. We also know that in 1847 he married an English woman by the name of Marie Caroline Bradley. There are random documents, such as a Certificate of Arrival in London, England, in 1837, but there are no birth and death dates given, and that includes his obituary notice. Contents:18 Sonnets et Chansons de Desportes pour ténor ou soprano et piano, Op. 45 Six poésies allemandes de Moritz Hartmann pour baryton et piano, Op. 21 Douze poésies allemandes de Moritz Hartmann pour ténor et piano, Op. 26 (Poésies françaises d’Adolphe Larmande).

Voice and piano - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8492-06E Composed by MeeAe Cecilia Nam and Theodore Gouvy. Instrument part. 4 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8492-06E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8492-06E). French.Gouvy was known for writing some of the most beautiful melodies of the Romantic period. His style is a combination of German forms and an early French romantic harmonic structure. His writing for the piano in the songs is totally unified in mood and description with the voice, just as the piano is in Schubert’s songs. The equal partnership of the vocal line and piano interact closely to bring the poetry vividly into life with unimaginable artistic heights and unbridled passion.This volume includes Gouvy songs set to 18 poems of Philippe Desportes (1546–1606), and 18 poems of Moritz Hartmann (1821–1872). The elements of Romantic love poetry, such as enchanting love and its pain, and the personifying of nature, are fluently described with a great sensitivity in both voice and piano. Gouvy’s melody stir up the imagination because of his special treatment of words through a distinguishable and melodious vocal line, and his story telling and poetic treatment and development of the piano accompaniment. His compositional artistry places him in the upper echelons of art-song composers. One should note that Gouvy had a special fondness for the 16th Century poetry of La Pléiade (a group of Renaissance French poets, led by Pièrre de Ronsard (1524–1585). Desportes was truly the heir to Ronsard; however his work, when compared to that of Ronsard, is filled with greater abstraction and greater fluidity. Desportes seems to avoid any of the passionate anger that is occasionally characteristic of La Pléiade. This may be an indication that Desportes lived in a less distressed time. It also seems necessary to point out that he learned much in his early career by copying and studying the earlier works of La Pléiade. This has led some scholars to label him as a plagiarist, but it is important to realize that all the members of La Pléiade copied from each other when they wished to learn something new, and truly understand the style of the other poets in the group. Gouvy’s only choice of poems from his contemporaries, were the works of Moritz Hartmann (1821–1872), a good friend of Gouvy’s. Much of his poetry was strongly political in support of freedom of the individual. He traveled to Leipzig in 1845, but when the authorities discovered a volume of patriotic poems entitled Kelch und Schwert (Chalice and Sword), he fled to Belgium and France. It is at this time that he possibly met Théodore Gouvy. Eighteen poems of Hartmann were translated from German to French by the French poet, Adolph Larmande, of whom very little is known. Pierre Toussaint Adolphe Larmande seems to have been a rather obscure poet and musician. We know that he taught music theory at the Paris Conservatory at the same time Anton Reicha and Michele Carafa were on the faculty. We also know that in 1847 he married an English woman by the name of Marie Caroline Bradley. There are random documents, such as a Certificate of Arrival in London, England, in 1837, but there are no birth and death dates given, and that includes his obituary notice. Contents:18 Sonnets et Chansons de Desportes pour ténor ou soprano et piano, Op. 45 Six poésies allemandes de Moritz Hartmann pour baryton et piano, Op. 21 Douze poésies allemandes de Moritz Hartmann pour ténor et piano, Op. 26 (Poésies françaises d’Adolphe Larmande).