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Écrits des castrats sur le chant, volume 2
L?art des castrats repose sur peu de documents imprimés à caractère technique (méthodes, traités). La fameuse « feuille » de Porpora (bref recueil d?exercices censés mener à une haute maîtrise) reste inconnue, même si une édition anglaise tardive clame le contraire. Seuls subsistent de nombreux solfeggi manucrits, composés par les maîtres napolitains (Durante, Scarlatti, Leo, Aprile, etc.). Dans ce contexte, les écrits de Pierfrancesco Tosi (1654-1732) et Giovanni Battista Mancini (1714-1800) prennent une valeur inestimable. Ils ont fait l?objet d?une premier volume. Ce deuxième volume, complément indispensable au premier, rassemble les écrits et exercices de Tenducci (célèbre par ses aventures à Londres), Rauzzini (pour qui Mozart écrivit plusieurs ?uvres), Pacchierotti (admiré dans toute l?Europe) et Crescentini (que Napoléon fit venir en France). Chacun de ces remarquables chanteurs apporte un élément complémentaire : exercices et transpositions de Tenducci, solfeggi de Rauzzini, technique d?ornementation pour Pacchierotti et interprétation (articulation et nuances) pour Crescentini.
Writings of the Castrati on singing, volume two
The castrati?s art is documented by few printed books with exercices, or treatises. The famous « Porpora?s sheet » (few exercices reputed to lead to high virtuosity) remains lost, even if a late English edition announces the contrary. Only extant are numerous manuscript solfeggi, coposed by Neapolitan masters (Durante, Scarlatti, Leo, Aprile, etc.). In this context, the treatises by Pierfrancesco Tosi (1654-1732) and Giovanni Battista Mancini (1714-1800) are of great importance. We edited them in a first volume. This one is a complement and shows the writings, exercices and solfeggi by Tenducci (famous by his adventures in London), Rauzzini (for whom Mozart composed some works), Pacchierotti (admired in all countries of Europa) and Crescentini (invited in France by Napoléon). Each of these renowned artists proposes complementary elements : exercices and transposition by Tenducci, solfeggi by Rauzzini, ornamentation by Pacchierotti and interpretation (articulations and dynamics) by Crescentini. / Partitions classique / Vocale - chorale / Voix solo - piano / LES PRESSES DU COLLEGE MUSICAL

Robert Schumann once described his lieder as a ”mirror image of his self”. This applies particularly to his compositions from Heinrich Heine’s “Buch der Lieder”. What began as a lyrical intermezzo then developed into “Dichterliebe” a work with which Schumann identified the ardour of his love for Clara Wieck. This work still presents an enigma to performers; how Schumann interpretes Heine’s irony in his music is often discussed. But one thing is certain: with “Dichterliebe” the composer created what is perhaps the best-loved and one of the most tightly-woven lieder cycles of the Romanticperiod. This new edition presents the work based on the first edition. It takes Schumann’s autograph score into consideration an autograph score where there have recently been discussions as to whether it should be presented as an independent alternative version. The four lieder omitted by Schumann from the printed edition are included in the appendix. High-quality Urtext edition of this well-known song cycle Appendix includes four lieder by Schumann which he did not include in the original cycle Comprehensive foreword and critical commentary (Ger/Eng)

The composer Rudolf Kelterborn about his work: ?I call the ten compositions for female voice and piano ?DUOS? because the voice and instrument parts are treated musically with absolute equality and indeed often go their own independent ways.

In the vocal part there are several variants, and this makes them accessible for different types of voice.

The 10 duos do not form a complete cycle that can be heard only as an entire work. Smaller groups can be put together and presented according to text-related or musical aspects.

The texts are by authors who have continued to inspire me for years.? / [10 Duos Pour Voix de Femme et Piano] / Classique / Partition / Agrafé /

A New Musical-Rock of Ages tells the tale of a rock star who meets his dream girl at a Los Angeles club performance in the '80s. This Tony Award®-nominated Broadway musical features the hits of bands including Journey Night Ranger REO Speedwagon Pat Benatar Twisted Sister and others. Our songbook includes 30 piano/vocal selections: Any Way You Want It · Can't Fight This Feeling · Cum On Feel the Noize · Every Rose Has Its Thorn · Heaven · Here I Go Again · Hit Me with Your Best Shot · I Hate Myself for Loving You · Just like Paradise · More Than Words · Renegade · Sister Christian · Too Much Time on My Hands · Wanted Dead or Alive · We Built This City · and more.

The new reduction of Il barbiere di Siviglia is based on the critical edition of the full score by Alberto Zedda that republished in 2009 appeared in turn as a fully revised edition - in the light of new sources and updated philological criteria -of the historic and pioneering critical edition of 1969. The 1969 Barbiere di Siviglia was based on the autograph and on manuscript and printed sources still considered primary: the copies from Giovanni Battista Cencetti (now kept at the New York Public Library at the Bibliomediateca of Santa CeciliaAcademy in Rome at the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma and at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris) the copies from Naples Florence the main score and vocal scores of the time the fi rst printed libretto many manuscript copies ofAureliano in Palmira work in which Zedda recognized the source of the Symphony of Il Barbiere di Siviglia. To these in 2009 were added all the materials found and transcribed by Zedda after the publication of the volume of 1969.In the Appendices of this edition are published for the fi rst time in vocal score all the new materials added between 1969 and 2009 among them: the aria added for Rosina ?Ah se è ver? (Appendix II) an alternative aria for Rosina for the lessonscene ?La mia pace la mia calma? (Appendix III) an alternative aria for Bartolo ?Manca un foglio? (Appendix IV) and the vocal autograph variants for NN. 5 7 16 (Appendix I).In addition to the musical texts there are - both in Italian and in English - an historical Introduction (in the first volume) and a Critical Commentary to the musical text (in the second volume).

Thanatopsis op. 4 for female voice and pian. It is a great pleasure to present, with Thanatopsis, maestro Kissin?s opus 4, an expressive setting of the ground-breaking poem from the quill of William Cullen Bryant. Published in in the form known today in 1821, it is an early example of American romantic poetry of the 19th century. Bryant is today reckoned among the group of ?Fireside Poets? or ?Schoolroom Poets?, names that allude to the places where their poems were usually recited. His poems ? first and foremost Thanatopsis (?A Consideration of Death?) as his most famous ? are rooted in the English tradition, but at the same time show Bryant?s openness to a genuine American language and lifeworld. Evgeny Kissin?s setting is a large vocal scene intensely informed by recitative, which congenially allows the prevailing mood of the text to resound. Our edition additionally includes German and French translations of the poem and an informative afterword about Bryant?s life and work and the genesis of Thanatopsis.

This edition of The North Sea Ground is dedicated to the memory of Gordon Cumming the former secretary of the Oxford and Cambridge Musical Club whose interest in Moeran prompted the intervention that rescued the manuscript from possible destruction and ensured its preservation.Editorial NotesThe text written by Moeran in his manuscript shows some differences when compared with the poem as it was published in Punch magazine. Most of these are minor alterations in punctuation and word capitalization. In each case the Punch source has been used for the performing edition.The main textual variation is Moeran’s omission of the fifthverse of the poem. There is no way to change this in the musical setting so for completion the verse is included in brackets in the poem text. There is one difference in the set words: the third line of verse 6 (fifth set verse) has the word sweep in the original where Moeran’s manuscript has keep. This edition replaces Moeran’s word with sweep as this is both poetically consistent and true to the original verse.Throughout the original poem many words are apostrophized: for example lyin’ for lying an’ for and goin’ for going. This usage is consistent throughout the poem with the exception of the last line of the final verse where the word lying evokes a heightened poignancy. Moeran’s text is inconsistent and apparently random. Again the usage in the poem has been followed for this performing edition.The musical transcription is true to Moeran’s manuscript with the exception of the addition of a number of rests that were (presumably accidentally) omitted. Some of the more extreme range notes have also been rendered more readable by the use of octave-shift notation. The ties in the piano in bars 31 and the end of 59 are editorial.AcknowledgementsI am indebted to John Talbot former Chairman of the British Music Society for assistance in the preparation of this performing edition and I would like to

Par SZYMANOWSKI KAROL. (VII) The Polish idiom appeared in Szymanowskis music in 1920, foreshadowing the beginning of a new period of creativity, later called nationalistic. Before this idiom was realised and such compositions typical of the Polish style as the ballet Harnasie, the Mazurkas, Stabat Mater, Fourth Symphony and Second Violin Concerto had been written, the change in musical thinking and the first experiments in the new language took place in songs. Symptoms of the new style manifested themselves fully in Slopiewnie, Op. 46 bis, composed in the summer of 1921 and published by Universal Edition. In these bizarre songs to bizarre words by Tuwim Szymanowski attempted to crystallize and generalize artistically some primaeval Polish, racial as he described them elements in music. The inspiring factor was undoubtedly the text by Julian Tuwim, abounding in new-coined words and imbued with its own music. It indicated the direction that artistic creativity was to take, and made the full corellation of the verbal and musical layers possible in, as Mieczyslaw Tomaszewski has stated, all the planse of co-operation phonic, structural, expressional and semantic. Based on A. Neuer Commentary to Complete Edition Volume C11 (VIII) Szymanowski did not yield to the temptation of easy over-stilization. Streching out to the deepest ethnic layers of his native musical culture, he made an attempt to mould and suitably fashion a Polish style of musical utterance. This tendency is apparent in the Three Lullabies, Op. 48, to words by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, composed in 1922 and published by Universal Edition in 1926. In the Lullabies we can find the confirmation of the fact that utterly new atmosphere which, according to the composer, Slopiewnie had introduced into his music, was not a once-for-all phenomemon. The elements of the new musical language, analised in connection with the earlier cycle, may here be regarded as assimilated. These are modalities in vocal melodies (Lullaby I) and cadences (Lullabies I and III), a bourdon effect with a tritone (Lullaby II). However these sometimes sligh and apparently unimportant details recur constatnly, an so acquire the nature of a definite compositional technique establishing a style based in an increasing degree on nationalistic elements. Based on Adam Neuer Commentary to Complete Edition Volume C11 (IX) The Childrens Rhymes, Op. 49, a cycle of twenty short songs by Kazimiera Illakowicz, composed in 1922-23, were a completely new creative experience for Szymanowski. He composed the Rhymes with his 11-year-old niece in mind. She was the daughter of Stanislawa Korwin-Szymanowska, who performed these songs for the first time in Warsaw on 25 February 1924. / Date parution : 2021-12-09/ Recueil / Chant et Piano

Easy Arrangements for Voice and Piano especially created for Young Singers-This collection features 25 folksongs that have been specially arranged for a child's solo voice (including a unchanged boy's treble voice) with a limited range designed to encourage lyric singing and easy Piano accompaniments. 25 Folksong Solos For Children features the folk favourites: All the Pretty Little Horses Animal Fair Annabel Lee The Ash Grove Bill Grogan's Goat Cradle Song Every Night When the Sun Goes In Father's Whiskers The Generous Fiddler How Can I Keep from Singing and more.

Inspired by texts by Polish poets contemporary to Chopin, improvised ?with the book of poetry in front of him? at emgirants' meetings, unfinished, some noted only in sketch form, never pblished during the composer's lifetime, though some instantly gained huge popularity in the form of reductions. In Chopin's creative output they hold a marginal position, among Polish songs ? they are outstanding. These works were edited by by I. J. Paderewski, L. Bronarski and J. Turczy?ski.