SKU: A0.1318176

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Key-C min   Time Sig - 4/4
Andantino & Allegro sections
Caesura 

WOODWINDS - Fl Ob Bsn Clar(2) BC AS TS BS
BRASS - Trpt(2) Hn Tbn Euph Tu
PERCUSSION- Timp(3) Bells SD BD Cym Tamb.

SKU: A0.1025797

This piece is a nice arrangement of The First Noel which joyfully proclaims Christ’s birth. Approachable with some practice for SATB choir.

SKU: A0.1180718

The largo first movement has a lovely sense of progression using imitation through mini-modulations, returning solidly to the home key. For Oboe and Piano.
Duration 1 minute, 20 seconds.
Arranged by Anne L. Christopherson GRSM ARCM at www.music-scores.com.

SKU: A0.1381754

Arrangement for string quintet, flute (or oboe), harp and percussion of the greatest themes from the film Alice in Wonderland by Tim Burton.

Arrangement pour quintette à cordes, flûte (ou hautbois), harpe et percussion des plus grands thèmes du film Alice in Wonderland de Tim Burton.

SKU: A0.548673

Cantique de Noël

The French composer Adolphe Adam was already famous as a composer of many successful ballets and operas. Then, in the 1840s, 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 like Silent Night was famous elsewhere. In 1850, John S. Dwight, a Unitarian minister and music teacher, translated the song into English.  

Adolphe Adam

Adam studied organ and composition at the Paris Conservatoire in his younger years. 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 he died 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, particularly 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 humanity. Traditional doctrine pronounces that Christ came from love, not to intervene. This version also declares that Christ appeared to delete the original sin of Adam. Cappeau removed this part from his poem years later because he didn't believe it. He preferred to portray Christ as the reformer of disparity and unfairness. Before long, the writer/politician Alphonse de Lamartine called the Minuit the Marseillaise of religion. Most French churchmen agreed with this idea but did not consider it a tribute.