Song Cycle-1840 was Schumann?s famous ?year of song? that brought forth over 100 lieder. They included Myrthen op. 25 which he dedicated ?to his dear bride? Clara Wieck-Schumann. Besides famous songs such as ?Widmung? ?Lotosblume? and ?Nussbaum? to texts by German poets the collection also saw Schumann venture further afield whether to the Scottish Highlands with settings of Robert Burns or t…

The time is the early 1840’s. The place is the shop of Sweeney Todd the barber where many more customers go in than ever come out! This is a fun piece for schools and contains some amusing lyrics set to catchy tunes. It may be performed quite simply as written or the score here may be used as the basis for something more elaborate involving scenery costumes and props. or it can be done in any…

Paperback. Par LISZT FRANZ. This volume contains Liszt's earliest pieces written in a Hungarian style. The complete set of Magyar dallok / Ungarische National-Melodien [Hungarian songs] consisting of 11 items is published here for the first time in a scholarly edition. The composer began to write them resulting from his first return visit to Pest in 1839. The music of these pieces was partly re-us…

Mendelssohn's I Waited For The Lord (The Hymn Of Praise) arranged for two high voices in the Key of D. Although it is often performed as a seperate work The Hymn Of Praise was originally written as part of Mendelssohn's Symphony No.2 completed for the 1840 Gutenberg Festival in Leipzig.

Here is the Lost Heritage of the Irish-American Banjo! The Irish-style Tenor banjo has become immensely popular of late yet the roots of Irish influence on American Banjo music extends right back to the 1840s when the legendary Joel Sweeney picked up a gourd Banjo from Black American Banjo players and proceeded to perform 'jigs reels and breakdowns'. Other Irish-Americans played a leading role …

Par NORMAN BLAKE. Flatpicking Guitar Magazine declares Norman Blake a legend, and includes him in the 'first name club' on the Internet flatpicking news list. The Norman Blake Anthology offers complete lyrics and melody lines to 40 original songs, written and notated just as Norman sings them. Often, the vocal version is followed by a second flatpicking solo edition in notation and tablature inclu…

Symphonie-Kantate. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn describes to his friend Klingemann the 1840 work as 'a ‘symphony for chorus and orchestra’… First three symphonic movements, to which 12 choral- and solo- movements are appendaged; the words from the Psalms, and indeed all pieces, vocal and instrumental, are composed in the words ‘Everything which has breath, Praise the Lord’; one und…

Symphonie-Kantate. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn describes to his friend Klingemann the 1840 work as 'a ‘symphony for chorus and orchestra’… First three symphonic movements, to which 12 choral- and solo- movements are appendaged; the words from the Psalms, and indeed all pieces, vocal and instrumental, are composed in the words ‘Everything which has breath, Praise the Lord’; one und…

Symphonie-Kantate. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn describes to his friend Klingemann the 1840 work as 'a ‘symphony for chorus and orchestra’… First three symphonic movements, to which 12 choral- and solo- movements are appendaged; the words from the Psalms, and indeed all pieces, vocal and instrumental, are composed in the words ‘Everything which has breath, Praise the Lord’; one und…

Symphonie-Kantate. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn describes to his friend Klingemann the 1840 work as 'a ‘symphony for chorus and orchestra’… First three symphonic movements, to which 12 choral- and solo- movements are appendaged; the words from the Psalms, and indeed all pieces, vocal and instrumental, are composed in the words ‘Everything which has breath, Praise the Lord’; one und…

Symphonie-Kantate. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn describes to his friend Klingemann the 1840 work as 'a ‘symphony for chorus and orchestra’… First three symphonic movements, to which 12 choral- and solo- movements are appendaged; the words from the Psalms, and indeed all pieces, vocal and instrumental, are composed in the words ‘Everything which has breath, Praise the Lord’; one und…

Symphonie-Kantate B-Dur Nr. 2-Mendelssohn's Lobgesang Op. 52 (Symphony No. 2) for SATB and Orchestra.Mendelssohn describes to his friend Klingemann the 1840 work as 'a ‘symphony for chorus and orchestra’… First three symphonic movements to which 12 choral- and solo- movements are appendaged; the words from the Psalms and indeed all pieces vocal and instrumental are composed in the words…

Par TOMKINS THOMAS. Anthem/ Répertoire / Choeur Mixte (SAATB) et Orgue

Organ Chorales from the Neumeister Collection-Organ Chorales from the Neumeister CollectionYale University Manuscript 'LM 4708'In 1985 Christoph Wolff working at Yale University discovered a collection of 82 chorales compiled by Johann Gottfried Neumeister (1756-1840) which contained 38 compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. They reveal great stylistic variety whose forebears stem from the North…