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Bizet: Jeux D'Enfants (Children's Games) V. Galop (Le bal) - symphonic wind
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Large Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download Composed by Georges Bizet (1838-1875). Ar…
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Large Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download Composed by Georges Bizet (1838-1875). Arranged by Ray Thompson. 20th Century, Children, Standards. Score and parts. 17 pages. RayThompsonMusic #6087957. Published by RayThompsonMus
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Thérèse Brenet: Rondel for SATB chorus, orchestra and organ, score
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Full Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533844 Composed by Therese Bren…
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Full Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533844 Composed by Therese Brenet. Contemporary. Score and parts. 13 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3053313. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533844). A setting of a poem in French by Tristan Corbières (1845-1875) for SATB chorus, and orchestra. The instrumentation is: 2220/2000/timp/3perc/hp/organ/strings. The work may be performed alone or together with the composer's two other owrks for chorus and orchestra (Ciels and Le Bois Amical). This is the score only. The orchestral parts are on rental from the publisher. The chorus part, which contains a piano reduction, is available for sale.RonelIl fait noir, enfant, voleur d'étincelles !Il n'est plus de nuits, il n'est plus de jours ;Dors... en attendant venir toutes cellesQui disaient : Jamais ! Qui disaient : Toujours !Entends-tu leurs pas ?... Ils ne sont pas lourds :Oh ! les pieds légers ! – l'Amour a des ailes...Il fait noir, enfant, voleur d'étincelles !Entends-tu leurs voix ?... Les caveaux sont sourds.Dors : Il pèse peu, ton faix d'immortelles :Ils ne viendront pas, tes amis les ours,Jeter leur pavé sur tes demoiselles...Il fait noir, enfant, voleur d'étincelles !English translationIt is Dark, child, thief of sparks!There are no longer nights, There are no longer daysSleep..waiting for those who say never, who say always, to arriveDo you hear their footsteps? They are not heavy.Oh, the light steps! Love has wings...It is Dark, child, thief of sparks!Do you hear their voices? The tombs are silent.Sleep, it weighs little, your weight of dried flowersThey will not come, your friends the bears,to throw their cobblestone on your firefliesIt is Dark, child, thief of sparks!Translation © 2008 by Paul Wehage
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Thérèse Brenet: Rondel for SATB chorus, orchestra and organ, score
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Thérèse Brenet: Rondel for SATB chorus, orchestra and organ,chorus part
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Full Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533845 Composed by Therese Bren…
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Full Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533845 Composed by Therese Brenet. Contemporary. Score and parts. 12 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3053315. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533845). A setting of a poem in French by Tristan Corbières (1845-1875) for SATB chorus, and orchestra. The instrumentation is: 2220/2000/timp/3perc/hp/organ/strings. The work may be performed alone or together with the composer's two other owrks for chorus and orchestra (Ciels and Le Bois Amical). This is the chorus part, which contains a piano reduction, only. The orchestral parts are on rental from the publisher. The score, is available for sale. Ronel Il fait noir, enfant, voleur d'étincelles ! Il n'est plus de nuits, il n'est plus de jours ; Dors... en attendant venir toutes celles Qui disaient : Jamais ! Qui disaient : Toujours ! Entends-tu leurs pas ?... Ils ne sont pas lourds : Oh ! les pieds légers ! – l'Amour a des ailes... Il fait noir, enfant, voleur d'étincelles ! Entends-tu leurs voix ?... Les caveaux sont sourds. Dors : Il pèse peu, ton faix d'immortelles : Ils ne viendront pas, tes amis les ours, Jeter leur pavé sur tes demoiselles... Il fait noir, enfant, voleur d'étincelles ! English translation It is Dark, child, thief of sparks! There are no longer nights, There are no longer days Sleep..waiting for those who say never, who say always, to arrive Do you hear their footsteps? They are not heavy. Oh, the light steps! Love has wings... It is Dark, child, thief of sparks! Do you hear their voices? The tombs are silent. Sleep, it weighs little, your weight of dried flowers They will not come, your friends the bears, to throw their cobblestone on your fireflies It is Dark, child, thief of sparks! Translation © 2008 by Paul Wehage
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Schumann Kinderszenen op. 15 for orchestra
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Full Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1017422 Composed by Robert Schu…
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Full Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1017422 Composed by Robert Schumann. Arranged by R. C. Coleman. Romantic Period. Score and parts. 132 pages. R C Coleman #6620457. Published by R C Coleman (A0.1017422). Robert Schumman´s Kinderszenen op. 15R. C. Coleman orchestra transcriptionVon femden Länder und Menschen(Of foreign lands and people /Gens et pays étrangers)Curiose Geschichte(A curious story / Curieuse histoire)Hasche-Mann(Blind man´s bluff / Colin-maillard)Bittendes Kind(Pleading child / L'enfant suppliant)Glückes genug(Happy enough / Bonheur parfait)Wichtige Begebenheit(An important event / Un évènement important)Träumerei(Dreaming / Rêverie)Am Camin(At the fireside / Au coin du feu)Ritter vom Steckenpferd(Knight of the wooded horse / Cavalier sur le cheval de bois)Fast zu ernst(Almost too serious / Presque trop sérieusement)Fürchtenmachen(Frightening / Croquemitaine)Kind im Einsclummern(Child falling sleep / L'enfant s'endort)Der Dichter spricht(The poet speaks / Le poète parle)
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Claude Debussy ‒ Estampes, Orchestra Suite, Orchestrated by Arkady Leytush, No. 2 La soirée dans
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Full Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: A0.1008374 Composed by Claude Debussy. Arran…
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Full Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: A0.1008374 Composed by Claude Debussy. Arranged by Arkady Leytush. 20th Century. Score and parts. 24 pages. Arkady Leytush #4849775. Published by Arkady Leytush (A0.1008374). Estampes (Engravings) is the title of the triptych of three pieces which Debussy put together in 1903. The first complete performance was given on 9 January 1904 in the Salle Erard, Paris, by the young Spanish pianist Ricardo Viñes, who was already emerging as the prime interpreter of the new French music of Debussy and Ravel. The first two pieces were completed in 1903, but the third derives from an earlier group of pieces from 1894, collectively titled Images, which remained unpublished until 60 years after Debussy’s death, when they were printed as Images (oubliées). Estampes marks an expansion of Debussy’s keyboard style: he was apparently spurred to fuse neo-Lisztian technique with a sensitive, impressionistic pictorial impulse under the impact of discovering Ravel’s Jeux d’eau, published in 1902. The opening movement, ‘Pagodes’, is Debussy’s first pianistic evocation of the Orient and is essentially a fixed contemplation of its object, as in a Chinese print. This static impression is partly caused by Debussy’s use of long pedal-points, partly by his almost constant preoccupation with pentatonic melodies which subvert the sense of harmonic movement. He uses such pentatonic fragments in many different ways: in delicate arabesques, in two-part counterpoint, in canon, harmonized in fourths and fifths and as an underpinning for pattering, gamelan-like ostinato writing. Altogether the piece reflects the decisive impression made on him by hearing Javanese and Cambodian musicians at the 1889 Paris Exposition, which he had striven for years to incorporate effectively in music. In its final bars the music begins to dissolve into elaborate filigree.Just as ‘Pagodes’ was his first Oriental piece, so ‘La soirée dans Grenade’ was the first of Debussy’s evocations of Spain-that preternatural embodiment of an ‘imaginary Andalusia’ which would inspire Manuel de Falla, the native Spaniard, to go back to his country and create a true modern Spanish music based on Debussyan principles. Debussy’s personal acquaintance with Spain was virtually non-existent (he had spent a day just over the border at San Sebastian) and it is possible that one model for the piece was Ravel’s Habanera. Yet he wrote of this piece (to his friend Pierre Louÿs, to whom it was dedicated), ‘if this isn’t the music they play in Granada, so much the worse for Granada!’-and there is no debate about the absolute authenticity of Debussy’s use of Spanish idioms here. Falla himself pronounced it ‘characteristically Spanish in every detail’. ‘La soirée dans Grenade’ is founded on an ostinato that echoes the rhythm of the habanera and is present almost throughout. Beginning and ending in almost complete silence, this dark nocturne of warm summer nights builds powerfully to its climaxes. The melodic material ranges from a doleful Moorish chant with a distinctly oriental character to a stamping, vivacious dance-measure, taking in brief suggestions of guitar strumming and perfumed Impressionist haze. There is even a hint of castanets near the end. The piece fades out in a coda that seems to distil all the melancholy of the Moorish theme and a last few distant chords of the guitar. ‘Jardins sous la pluie’ is based on the children’s song ‘Nous n’rons plus au bois’ (We shan’t go to the woods): its original 1894 form was in fact entitled Quelques aspects de ‘Nous n’rons plus au bois’. The two versions are really two distinct treatments of the same set of ideas, but in ‘Jardins sous la pluie’ Estampes the earlier piece has been entirely rethought. The whole conception is more impressionistic, and subtilized. The teeming semiquaver motion is more all-pervasive, the tunes (for Debussy has added a second children’s song for treatment, ‘Do, do, l’enfant do’) more elusive and tinged sometimes with melancholy or nostalgia. The ending of the piece is entirely new. What it loses, perha.
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Claude Debussy ‒ Estampes, Orchestra Suite, Orchestrated by Arkady Leytush, No. 2 La soirée dans
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Claude Debussy ‒ Estampes, Orchestra Suite, Orchestrated by Arkady Leytush No. 1 Pagodes (Pagodas
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Full Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: A0.1008372 Composed by Claude Debussy. Arran…
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Full Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: A0.1008372 Composed by Claude Debussy. Arranged by Arkady Leytush. 20th Century. Score and parts. 24 pages. Arkady Leytush #4849769. Published by Arkady Leytush (A0.1008372). Estampes (Engravings) is the title of the triptych of three pieces which Debussy put together in 1903. The first complete performance was given on 9 January 1904 in the Salle Erard, Paris, by the young Spanish pianist Ricardo Viñes, who was already emerging as the prime interpreter of the new French music of Debussy and Ravel. The first two pieces were completed in 1903, but the third derives from an earlier group of pieces from 1894, collectively titled Images, which remained unpublished until 60 years after Debussy’s death, when they were printed as Images (oubliées). Estampes marks an expansion of Debussy’s keyboard style: he was apparently spurred to fuse neo-Lisztian technique with a sensitive, impressionistic pictorial impulse under the impact of discovering Ravel’s Jeux d’eau, published in 1902. The opening movement, ‘Pagodes’, is Debussy’s first pianistic evocation of the Orient and is essentially a fixed contemplation of its object, as in a Chinese print. This static impression is partly caused by Debussy’s use of long pedal-points, partly by his almost constant preoccupation with pentatonic melodies which subvert the sense of harmonic movement. He uses such pentatonic fragments in many different ways: in delicate arabesques, in two-part counterpoint, in canon, harmonized in fourths and fifths and as an underpinning for pattering, gamelan-like ostinato writing. Altogether the piece reflects the decisive impression made on him by hearing Javanese and Cambodian musicians at the 1889 Paris Exposition, which he had striven for years to incorporate effectively in music. In its final bars the music begins to dissolve into elaborate filigree. Just as ‘Pagodes’ was his first Oriental piece, so ‘La soirée dans Grenade’ was the first of Debussy’s evocations of Spain-that preternatural embodiment of an ‘imaginary Andalusia’ which would inspire Manuel de Falla, the native Spaniard, to go back to his country and create a true modern Spanish music based on Debussyan principles. Debussy’s personal acquaintance with Spain was virtually non-existent (he had spent a day just over the border at San Sebastian) and it is possible that one model for the piece was Ravel’s Habanera. Yet he wrote of this piece (to his friend Pierre Louÿs, to whom it was dedicated), ‘if this isn’t the music they play in Granada, so much the worse for Granada!’-and there is no debate about the absolute authenticity of Debussy’s use of Spanish idioms here. Falla himself pronounced it ‘characteristically Spanish in every detail’. ‘La soirée dans Grenade’ is founded on an ostinato that echoes the rhythm of the habanera and is present almost throughout. Beginning and ending in almost complete silence, this dark nocturne of warm summer nights builds powerfully to its climaxes. The melodic material ranges from a doleful Moorish chant with a distinctly oriental character to a stamping, vivacious dance-measure, taking in brief suggestions of guitar strumming and perfumed Impressionist haze. There is even a hint of castanets near the end. The piece fades out in a coda that seems to distil all the melancholy of the Moorish theme and a last few distant chords of the guitar. ‘Jardins sous la pluie’ is based on the children’s song ‘Nous n’rons plus au bois’ (We shan’t go to the woods): its original 1894 form was in fact entitled Quelques aspects de ‘Nous n’rons plus au bois’. The two versions are really two distinct treatments of the same set of ideas, but in ‘Jardins sous la pluie’ Estampes the earlier piece has been entirely rethought. The whole conception is more impressionistic, and subtilized. The teeming semiquaver motion is more all-pervasive, the tunes (for Debussy has added a second children’s song for treatment, ‘Do, do, l’enfant do’) more elusive and tinged sometimes with melancholy or nostalgia. Th.
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Claude Debussy ‒ Estampes, Orchestra Suite, Orchestrated by Arkady Leytush No. 1 Pagodes
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Claude Debussy ‒ Estampes, Orchestra Suite, Orchestrated by Arkady Leytush, No. 3 Jardins sous la
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Full Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: A0.1008375 Composed by Claude Debussy. Arran…
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Full Orchestra - Digital Download SKU: A0.1008375 Composed by Claude Debussy. Arranged by Arkady Leytush. 20th Century. Score and parts. 39 pages. Arkady Leytush #4885449. Published by Arkady Leytush (A0.1008375). Estampes (Engravings) is the title of the triptych of three pieces which Debussy put together in 1903. The first complete performance was given on 9 January 1904 in the Salle Erard, Paris, by the young Spanish pianist Ricardo Viñes, who was already emerging as the prime interpreter of the new French music of Debussy and Ravel. The first two pieces were completed in 1903, but the third derives from an earlier group of pieces from 1894, collectively titled Images, which remained unpublished until 60 years after Debussy’s death, when they were printed as Images (oubliées). Estampes marks an expansion of Debussy’s keyboard style: he was apparently spurred to fuse neo-Lisztian technique with a sensitive, impressionistic pictorial impulse under the impact of discovering Ravel’s Jeux d’eau, published in 1902. The opening movement, ‘Pagodes’, is Debussy’s first pianistic evocation of the Orient and is essentially a fixed contemplation of its object, as in a Chinese print. This static impression is partly caused by Debussy’s use of long pedal-points, partly by his almost constant preoccupation with pentatonic melodies which subvert the sense of harmonic movement. He uses such pentatonic fragments in many different ways: in delicate arabesques, in two-part counterpoint, in canon, harmonized in fourths and fifths and as an underpinning for pattering, gamelan-like ostinato writing. Altogether the piece reflects the decisive impression made on him by hearing Javanese and Cambodian musicians at the 1889 Paris Exposition, which he had striven for years to incorporate effectively in music. In its final bars the music begins to dissolve into elaborate filigree.Just as ‘Pagodes’ was his first Oriental piece, so ‘La soirée dans Grenade’ was the first of Debussy’s evocations of Spain-that preternatural embodiment of an ‘imaginary Andalusia’ which would inspire Manuel de Falla, the native Spaniard, to go back to his country and create a true modern Spanish music based on Debussyan principles. Debussy’s personal acquaintance with Spain was virtually non-existent (he had spent a day just over the border at San Sebastian) and it is possible that one model for the piece was Ravel’s Habanera. Yet he wrote of this piece (to his friend Pierre Louÿs, to whom it was dedicated), ‘if this isn’t the music they play in Granada, so much the worse for Granada!’-and there is no debate about the absolute authenticity of Debussy’s use of Spanish idioms here. Falla himself pronounced it ‘characteristically Spanish in every detail’. ‘La soirée dans Grenade’ is founded on an ostinato that echoes the rhythm of the habanera and is present almost throughout. Beginning and ending in almost complete silence, this dark nocturne of warm summer nights builds powerfully to its climaxes. The melodic material ranges from a doleful Moorish chant with a distinctly oriental character to a stamping, vivacious dance-measure, taking in brief suggestions of guitar strumming and perfumed Impressionist haze. There is even a hint of castanets near the end. The piece fades out in a coda that seems to distil all the melancholy of the Moorish theme and a last few distant chords of the guitar. ‘Jardins sous la pluie’ is based on the children’s song ‘Nous n’rons plus au bois’ (We shan’t go to the woods): its original 1894 form was in fact entitled Quelques aspects de ‘Nous n’rons plus au bois’. The two versions are really two distinct treatments of the same set of ideas, but in ‘Jardins sous la pluie’ Estampes the earlier piece has been entirely rethought. The whole conception is more impressionistic, and subtilized. The teeming semiquaver motion is more all-pervasive, the tunes (for Debussy has added a second children’s song for treatment, ‘Do, do, l’enfant do’) more elusive and tinged sometimes with melancholy or nostalgia. The ending of the piece is entirely new. What it loses, perha.
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