230 folk songs and spirituals, religious and secular, arranged for piano and voice. From joyous gospel to deeply felt blues, this wonderful collection contains vintage songs sung and played through the years by black Americans - at work, in church and for pure entertainment. Included are spirituals, blues, work songs and a variety of social and dance songs. This is an indispensable treasury of music for singers, musicians and all readers seeking a comprehensive sourcebook of black American folk music. It will be equally welcomed at parties, family get-togethers, sing-alongs, church events and other gatherings where people want to play and sing these classic folk songs thatare an integral part of American musical history./ Recueil / Chant et Piano

Par GREENBERG STEVE. This treasury of part songs and sacred music for one to six voices will delight all lovers of medieval and Renaissance music. Containing a wealth of both religious and secular music from the 12th to the 17th centuries, the collection covers a broad range of moods. Approximately half the songs are secular, some from the popular tradition and others from the courtly poets and musicians surrounding such musically inclined monarchs. Some of the music contained is printed for the first time. Edited by Noah Greenberg / Musique religieuse / Recueil / Chant et Piano

Kammeroper Nr. 2. Par RIHM WOLFGANG. Chamber opera does not mean “little opera.” On the same scale as chamber music is to the symphony, it is rather the other way of talking onstage. The movable apparatus permits sophisticated voice-leading. A large ensemble demands simple conception to achieve the complexity it perhaps intends; this can be formulated more sharply and nuanced in a chamber ensemble. Therefore it is the subject which this type of presentation must sustain – or, better, provoke. Büchner’s Lenz is a description of the conditions within a process of collapse, moments of destruction already occurred but not yet accepted, evident in the points of contact with the environment. And it was those points of contact which Michael Fröhling attempted to reconstruct onstage. Lenz’s distraught state is always the same; only the proximity of the environment to that distraught state grows and ebbs. The musical consequence An hour of extreme chamber music results from this description: always bound for the main character – actually, not a commentary, but the main character himself as a multilayered level of action. Although Lenz acts on many levels – or tries to or believes he is – he has no room to manoeuvre. That is why he is also tightly interwoven in his sonic surroundings; the voices which only he hears are just as much himself as the two men with whom he foregathers (the liberal pragmatist Oberlin and the alert merchant who always “does the right thing” in every situation) – they evoke responses which he deeply desires. Omnipresent Friederike is just as much his inner world as Nature is – Nature, which he can no longer perceive unless it is personified, enlivened or dead. Therefore, the music’s task is both to motivate the “situation” (atmospherically) and to be the psychological constant (via a network of entangled references per se) in an action as it is played out. The compositional process December 1977 to June 1978 – a period identical to the stepwise understanding of an existence as that of Jakob Lenz. Yet the more the historical figure became precisely attendant in my intellect in terms of data and atmosphere, the more it retreated in favour of a cipher of disturbance as I began to understand Lenz. Thence the explanation for the failure of the attempts to approach him – including my attempt to interpret him via musical representation – because, essentially, Lenz himself is the failure. Only the naked stages of that failure remain portrayable, i.e. including the failure of those who wish to “help” Lenz, for example, while Lenz himself is already trapped inextricably in a state of complete destruction. I tried to compose my way into that situation as far as possible; the insistence of several rhythmic and harmonic configurations is the palpable expression of the main character’s ever-recurring rigidity. One sound pervades the entire work. The musical stage For me, this is a place where very magical and very human things take place. In Jakob Lenz, the human aspects often switch to magical ones, since the realism of a self-suasive, unhinged soul takes on surreal traits – or we simply cannot understand that otherwise except as not being real. A character like Jakob Lenz on the stage is complex due to the fact alone that it harbours many stages within itself, and music must represent those constantly present stages. I have tried to do so in the most direct way – by not cleanly separating the musical layers, but keeping them constantly in evidence until they must break forth, each in accord with its own dramaturgy. In an overview, the large form takes on aspects of a rondo, performed in overlapping layers – a type of rondo relief, since perspectives of psychological proximity and distance are indeed formulated musically as atmospheric relations. Above all: the thread on which Jakob Lenz hangs is the current onto the listeners’ hearts. Wolfgang Rihm (January 1979)/ Répertoire / Chant et Piano

Following up on the first collection of Sondheims songs, this volume includes selections from Anyone Can Whistle, Company, Dick Tracy, Evening Primrose, Follies, The Frogs, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, Merrily We Roll Along, Passion, The Seven Percent Solution, Sunday in the Park with George, and Sweeney Todd arranged for voice with piano accompaniment. Includes detailed notes about the shows and films. / Chant Et Piano

Certain songs have the tendency to become massive hits as soon as they are released and continue to be hugely successful as they are covered or reworked, or simply because they are perfect compositions. Timeless Songs For Easy Piano collects 25 of these songs that have stood the test of time in easy Piano arrangement.The works included in this songbook are all examples of the kinds of brilliant melodies, sumptuous harmonies or poetic lyrics that have kept people listening for 50 years and more. Songs like At Last, Blue Moon and Over The Rainbow will never go out of fashion simply because they are universally loved. This makes the songs in this collection perfect for any beginner Piano player because all of these tunes are instantly recognisable and are sure to be crowd-pleasers with any audience.The simplified arrangements included in the Easy Piano books enable pianists of all abilities to easy play the all-time great songs as sung by performers like Etta James, Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra. With chord names and helpful fingering suggestions throughout, this songbook is the perfect introduction to popular songs for the Piano without intimidation.For a beginner who wants to learn to play some of the greatest songs ever written, this Timeless Songs For Easy Piano sheet music makes learning the best Piano standards simple. / Piano

Par BEATLES THE. This Piano Chord Songbook contains complete lyrics and chord symbols for over 50 great Beatles hits, plus clear, easy-to-read diagrams for every chord that you'll need to play. / Niveau : Facile / Recueil / Chant et Piano

Par PORTER COLE. One of the most enduring songwriters of all time, the music of Cole Porter has been transcribed for countless instruments over the years. It's impossible to imagine the world of Jazz without such sophisticated standards as Love For Sale and Night And Day , whilst modern film, television and advertising is overflowing with reworkings of Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye , You Do Something To Me and I Get A Kick Out Of You . Now it's your turn! Twenty Porter classics have been cleverly arranged for the early Piano player in accessible and easy versions. The complete songs are presented with full lyrics, chord symbols and helpful suggested fingering. This is your chance to add the timeless music of Cole Porter to your repertoire at an early stage, and experience the wonderful benefits of mastering these true favourites. / Niveau : Facile / Recueil / Piano, Chant et Guitare

Plus de 25 Hits plus agréable de Berlin, y compris : Count Your Blessings au lieu de moutons, j'aime un Piano, I've Got My Love to Keep Me chaleureux, folie de Manhattan, à jouer une mélodie Simple, embaument sur le Ritz et plus encore. / Chant Et Piano

39 songs, including: Camelot £ September Song £ The Impossible Dream £ Ol' Man River £ Some Enchanted Evening £ and more. / Répertoire d'Examen / Recueil / Chant et Piano

Brought together for the first time, a comprehensive collection of timeless choruses newly engraved in recent editions from the historic Novello series of vocal scores. For programming festivals, concerts, celebrations or just run-through practice for the choral society, events can be organised at last from a single volume of classics without the need for the singers to carry scores of any number of oratorios or motets. Includes introductory notes by Brian Kay. / Chant Et Piano