(2. Trois Beaux Oiseaux Du Paradis - (2. Three Lovely Birds from Paradise)). By Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Mixed chorus. For Soprano Solo, SATB. This edition: SATB, a cappella. Choral. Piano/Vocal Score. Standard notation. 7 pages

SATB a cappella. By Maurice Ravel. (SATB a cappella). Editions Durand. Size 7.5x10.5 inches. 22 pages. Published by Durand.

SATB choir

SKU: ST.EM35A

Composed by Robert Jones. Edited by Edmund H Fellowes. Library Volumes. Edited Edmund Fellowes. Revised Thurston Dart. Paperback. Madrigals. Choral Score. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #EM35A. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.EM35A).

ISBN 9790220209796.

Jones was a famous lutenist and one of the musicians responsible for training the 'children of St Paul's', who acted and sang in Elizabethan and Jacobean court plays. His 16 madrigals are mostly to texts about birds - birds merry, sweet, shrill, crowing or melancholic.

CONTENTS
Are lovers full of fire? (SSAATBB)
But let her look in mine (SST)
Cock-a-doodle-doo (SS (or A) A (or T) B)
Come, doleful owl (SSTTB)
Fair Oriana seeming to wink (SSAATB)
I come, sweet birds (SS (or A) A (or T) B)
Love, if a god thou art (SST)
O I do love (SST (or A))
She only is the pride (SSA)
Shrill-sounding bird (SST (or A) B)
Sing, merry birds (SS (or A) A (or T) B)
Sweet, when thou singest (SSATB)
The more I burn (SSAATTBB)
Thine eyes so bright (SSA)
When I behold her eyes (SST)
Your presence breeds (SSAATB).

Madrigals and Partsongs by Clifford Bartlett. Arranged by John Rutter. For SATB choir, mainly a cappella. Mixed Voices. Oxford Choral Classics Collections. Secular, Choral Collection. Vocal score. 384 pages. Published by Oxford University Press

SATB Choir, Piano - Level 2

SKU: CA.926000

Composed by Charles Francois Gounod. Arranged by Denis Rouger. Separate edition to the CD. Lieder, Secular choral music. Full Score. Composed 1870. CG 449. Duration 3 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 09.260/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.926000).

ISBN 9790007249229. Key: F major. Language: French. Text: Barbier, Jules.

The three verses of Aimons-nous, separated by piano interludes, are cheerful and amorous, an invitation to everlasting mutual love. The text portrays this almost as a law of nature: rivers and streams combine, the sun embraces the earth, and the birds snuggle close to each other in their nest. Light, rippling syncopations in the piano accompany Gounod's typical catchy melodic writing in the vocal parts. The writer Jules Barbier was Gounod's favored opera librettist (Faust, Romeo et Juliette), but many other 19th century opera composers also set his texts, including Camille Saint-Saens, Giacomo Meyerbeer, and Jacques Offenbach. This art song was originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted it to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing the any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist. The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD Kennst du das Land ... (Carus 83.495).