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Chamber Music English Horn, Oboe SKU: CF.WF229 15 Pieces for Oboe and ...(+)
Chamber Music English
Horn, Oboe SKU:
CF.WF229 15 Pieces
for Oboe and English
Horn. Composed by
Gustave Vogt. Edited by
Kristin Jean Leitterman.
Collection - Performance.
32+8 pages. Carl Fischer
Music #WF229. Published
by Carl Fischer Music
(CF.WF229). ISBN
9781491153789. UPC:
680160911288. Intro
duction Gustave Vogt's
Musical Paris Gustave
Vogt (1781-1870) was born
into the Age of
Enlightenment, at the
apex of the
Enlightenment's outreach.
During his lifetime he
would observe its effect
on the world. Over the
course of his life he
lived through many
changes in musical style.
When he was born,
composers such as Mozart
and Haydn were still
writing masterworks
revered today, and
eighty-nine years later,
as he departed the world,
the new realm of
Romanticism was beginning
to emerge with Mahler,
Richard Strauss and
Debussy, who were soon to
make their respective
marks on the musical
world. Vogt himself left
a huge mark on the
musical world, with
critics referring to him
as the grandfather of the
modern oboe and the
premier oboist of Europe.
Through his eighty-nine
years, Vogt would live
through what was perhaps
the most turbulent period
of French history. He
witnessed the French
Revolution of 1789,
followed by the many
newly established
governments, only to die
just months before the
establishment of the
Third Republic in 1870,
which would be the
longest lasting
government since the
beginning of the
revolution. He also
witnessed the
transformation of the
French musical world from
one in which opera
reigned supreme, to one
in which virtuosi,
chamber music, and
symphonic music ruled.
Additionally, he
experienced the
development of the oboe
right before his eyes.
When he began playing in
the late eighteenth
century, the standard
oboe had two keys (E and
Eb) and at the time of
his death in 1870, the
System Six Triebert oboe
(the instrument adopted
by Conservatoire
professor, Georges
Gillet, in 1882) was only
five years from being
developed. Vogt was born
March 18, 1781 in the
ancient town of
Strasbourg, part of the
Alsace region along the
German border. At the
time of his birth,
Strasbourg had been
annexed by Louis XIV, and
while heavily influenced
by Germanic culture, had
been loosely governed by
the French for a hundred
years. Although it is
unclear when Vogt began
studying the oboe and
when his family made its
move to the French
capital, the Vogts may
have fled Strasbourg in
1792 after much of the
city was destroyed during
the French Revolution. He
was without question
living in Paris by 1798,
as he enrolled on June 8
at the newly established
Conservatoire national de
Musique to study oboe
with the school's first
oboe professor,
Alexandre-Antoine
Sallantin (1775-1830).
Vogt's relationship with
the Conservatoire would
span over half a century,
moving seamlessly from
the role of student to
professor. In 1799, just
a year after enrolling,
he was awarded the
premier prix, becoming
the fourth oboist to
achieve this award. By
1802 he had been
appointed repetiteur,
which involved teaching
the younger students and
filling in for Sallantin
in exchange for a free
education. He maintained
this rank until 1809,
when he was promoted to
professor adjoint and
finally to professor
titulaire in 1816 when
Sallantin retired. This
was a position he held
for thirty-seven years,
retiring in 1853, making
him the longest serving
oboe professor in the
school's history. During
his tenure, he became the
most influential oboist
in France, teaching
eighty-nine students,
plus sixteen he taught
while he was professor
adjoint and professor
titulaire. Many of these
students went on to be
famous in their own
right, such as Henri Brod
(1799-1839), Apollon
Marie-Rose Barret
(1804-1879), Charles
Triebert (1810-1867),
Stanislas Verroust
(1814-1863), and Charles
Colin (1832-1881). His
influence stretches from
French to American oboe
playing in a direct line
from Charles Colin to
Georges Gillet
(1854-1920), and then to
Marcel Tabuteau
(1887-1966), the oboist
Americans lovingly
describe as the father of
American oboe playing.
Opera was an important
part of Vogt's life. His
first performing position
was with the
Theatre-Montansier while
he was still studying at
the Conservatoire.
Shortly after, he moved
to the Ambigu-Comique
and, in 1801 was
appointed as first oboist
with the Theatre-Italien
in Paris. He had been in
this position for only a
year, when he began
playing first oboe at the
Opera-Comique. He
remained there until
1814, when he succeeded
his teacher,
Alexandre-Antoine
Sallantin, as soloist
with the Paris Opera, the
top orchestra in Paris at
the time. He played with
the Paris Opera until
1834, all the while
bringing in his current
and past students to fill
out the section. In this
position, he began to
make a name for himself;
so much so that specific
performances were
immortalized in memoirs
and letters. One comes
from a young Hector
Berlioz (1803-1865) after
having just arrived in
Paris in 1822 and
attended the Paris
Opera's performance of
Mehul's Stratonice and
Persuis' ballet Nina. It
was in response to the
song Quand le bien-amie
reviendra that Berlioz
wrote: I find it
difficult to believe that
that song as sung by her
could ever have made as
true and touching an
effect as the combination
of Vogt's instrument...
Shortly after this,
Berlioz gave up studying
medicine and focused on
music. Vogt frequently
made solo and chamber
appearances throughout
Europe. His busiest
period of solo work was
during the 1820s. In 1825
and 1828 he went to
London to perform as a
soloist with the London
Philharmonic Society.
Vogt also traveled to
Northern France in 1826
for concerts, and then in
1830 traveled to Munich
and Stuttgart, visiting
his hometown of
Strasbourg on the way.
While on tour, Vogt
performed Luigi
Cherubini's (1760-1842)
Ave Maria, with soprano
Anna (Nanette) Schechner
(1806-1860), and a
Concertino, presumably
written by himself. As a
virtuoso performer in
pursuit of repertoire to
play, Vogt found himself
writing much of his own
music. His catalog
includes chamber music,
variation sets, vocal
music, concerted works,
religious music, wind
band arrangements, and
pedagogical material. He
most frequently performed
his variation sets, which
were largely based on
themes from popular
operas he had, presumably
played while he was at
the Opera. He made his
final tour in 1839,
traveling to Tours and
Bordeaux. During this
tour he appeared with the
singer Caroline Naldi,
Countess de Sparre, and
the violinist Joseph
Artot (1815-1845). This
ended his active career
as a soloist. His
performance was described
in the Revue et gazette
musicale de Paris as
having lost none of his
superiority over the
oboe.... It's always the
same grace, the same
sweetness. We made a trip
to Switzerland, just by
closing your eyes and
listening to Vogt's oboe.
Vogt was also active
performing in Paris as a
chamber and orchestral
musician. He was one of
the founding members of
the Societe des Concerts
du Conservatoire, a group
established in 1828 by
violinist and conductor
Francois-Antoine Habeneck
(1781-1849). The group
featured faculty and
students performing
alongside each other and
works such as Beethoven
symphonies, which had
never been heard in
France. He also premiered
the groundbreaking
woodwind quintets of
Antonin Reicha
(1770-1836). After his
retirement from the Opera
in 1834 and from the
Societe des Concerts du
Conservatoire in 1842,
Vogt began to slow down.
His final known
performance was of
Cherubini's Ave Maria on
English horn with tenor
Alexis Dupont (1796-1874)
in 1843. He then began to
reflect on his life and
the people he had known.
When he reached his 60s,
he began gathering
entries for his Musical
Album of Autographs.
Autograph Albums Vogt's
Musical Album of
Autographs is part of a
larger practice of
keeping autograph albums,
also commonly known as
Stammbuch or Album
Amicorum (meaning book of
friendship or friendship
book), which date back to
the time of the
Reformation and the
University of Wittenberg.
It was during the
mid-sixteenth century
that students at the
University of Wittenberg
began passing around
bibles for their fellow
students and professors
to sign, leaving messages
to remember them by as
they moved on to the next
part of their lives. The
things people wrote were
mottos, quotes, and even
drawings of their family
coat of arms or some
other scene that meant
something to the owner.
These albums became the
way these young students
remembered their school
family once they had
moved on to another
school or town. It was
also common for the
entrants to comment on
other entries and for the
owner to amend entries
when they learned of
important life details
such as marriage or
death. As the practice
continued, bibles were
set aside for emblem
books, which was a
popular book genre that
featured allegorical
illustrations (emblems)
in a tripartite form:
image, motto, epigram.
The first emblem book
used for autographs was
published in 1531 by
Andrea Alciato
(1492-1550), a collection
of 212 Latin emblem
poems. In 1558, the first
book conceived for the
purpose of the album
amicorum was published by
Lyon de Tournes
(1504-1564) called the
Thesaurus Amicorum. These
books continued to
evolve, and spread to
wider circles away from
universities. Albums
could be found being kept
by noblemen, physicians,
lawyers, teachers,
painters, musicians, and
artisans. The albums
eventually became more
specialized, leading to
Musical Autograph Albums
(or Notestammbucher).
Before this
specialization, musicians
contributed in one form
or another, but our
knowledge of them in
these albums is mostly
limited to individual
people or events. Some
would simply sign their
name while others would
insert a fragment of
music, usually a canon
(titled fuga) with text
in Latin. Canons were
popular because they
displayed the
craftsmanship of the
composer in a limited
space. Composers
well-known today,
including J. S. Bach,
Telemann, Mozart,
Beethoven, Dowland, and
Brahms, all participated
in the practice, with
Beethoven being the first
to indicate an interest
in creating an album only
of music. This interest
came around 1815. In an
1845 letter from Johann
Friedrich Naue to
Heinrich Carl
Breidenstein, Naue
recalled an 1813 visit
with Beethoven, who
presented a book
suggesting Naue to
collect entries from
celebrated musicians as
he traveled. Shortly
after we find Louis Spohr
speaking about leaving on
his grand tour through
Europe in 1815 and of his
desire to carry an album
with entries from the
many artists he would
come across. He wrote in
his autobiography that
his most valuable
contribution came from
Beethoven in 1815.
Spohr's Notenstammbuch,
comprised only of musical
entries, is
groundbreaking because it
was coupled with a
concert tour, allowing
him to reach beyond the
Germanic world, where the
creation of these books
had been nearly
exclusive. Spohr brought
the practice of
Notenstammbucher to
France, and in turn
indirectly inspired Vogt
to create a book of his
own some fifteen years
later. Vogt's Musical
Album of Autographs
Vogt's Musical Album of
Autographs acts as a form
of a memoir, displaying
mementos of musicians who
held special meaning in
his life as well as
showing those with whom
he was enamored from the
younger generation. The
anonymous Pie Jesu
submitted to Vogt in 1831
marks the beginning of an
album that would span
nearly three decades by
the time the final entry,
an excerpt from Charles
Gounod's (1818-1893)
Faust, which premiered in
1859, was submitted.
Within this album we find
sixty-two entries from
musicians whom he must
have known very well
because they were
colleagues at the
Conservatoire, or
composers of opera whose
works he was performing
with the Paris Opera.
Other entries came from
performers with whom he
had performed and some
who were simply passing
through Paris, such as
Joseph Joachim
(1831-1907). Of the
sixty-three total
entries, some are
original, unpublished
works, while others came
from well-known existing
works. Nineteen of these
works are for solo piano,
sixteen utilize the oboe
or English horn, thirteen
feature the voice (in
many different
combinations, including
vocal solos with piano,
and small choral settings
up to one with double
choir), two feature
violin as a solo
instrument, and one even
features the now obscure
ophicleide. The
connections among the
sixty-two contributors to
Vogt's album are
virtually never-ending.
All were acquainted with
Vogt in some capacity,
from long-time
friendships to
relationships that were
created when Vogt
requested their entry.
Thus, while Vogt is the
person who is central to
each of these musicians,
the web can be greatly
expanded. In general, the
connections are centered
around the Conservatoire,
teacher lineages, the
Opera, and performing
circles. The
relationships between all
the contributors in the
album parallel the
current musical world, as
many of these kinds of
relationships still
exist, and permit us to
fantasize who might be
found in an album created
today by a musician of
the same standing. Also
important, is what sort
of entries the
contributors chose to
pen. The sixty-three
entries are varied, but
can be divided into
published and unpublished
works. Within the
published works, we find
opera excerpts, symphony
excerpts, mass excerpts,
and canons, while the
unpublished works include
music for solo piano,
oboe or English horn,
string instruments
(violin and cello), and
voice (voice with piano
and choral). The music
for oboe and English horn
works largely belong in
the unpublished works of
the album. These entries
were most likely written
to honor Vogt. Seven are
for oboe and piano and
were contributed by
Joseph Joachim, Pauline
Garcia Viardot
(1821-1910), Joseph
Artot, Anton Bohrer
(1783-1852), Georges
Onslow (1784-1853),
Desire Beaulieu
(1791-1863), and Narcisse
Girard (1797-1860). The
common thread between
these entries is the
simplicity of the melody
and structure. Many are
repetitive, especially
Beaulieu's entry, which
features a two-note
ostinato throughout the
work, which he even
included in his
signature. Two composers
contributed pieces for
English horn and piano,
and like the previous
oboe entries, are simple
and repetitive. These
were written by Michele
Carafa (1787-1872) and
Louis Clapisson
(1808-1866). There are
two other entries that
were unpublished works
and are chamber music.
One is an oboe trio by
Jacques Halevy
(1799-1862) and the other
is for oboe and strings
(string trio) by J. B.
Cramer (1771-1858). There
are five published works
in the album for oboe and
English horn. There are
three from operas and the
other two from symphonic
works. Ambroise Thomas
(1811-1896) contributed
an excerpt from the
Entr'acte of his opera La
Guerillero, and was
likely chosen because the
oboe was featured at this
moment. Hippolyte Chelard
(1789-1861) also chose to
honor Vogt by writing for
English horn. His entry,
for English horn and
piano, is taken from his
biggest success, Macbeth.
The English horn part was
actually taken from Lady
Macbeth's solo in the
sleepwalking scene.
Vogt's own entry also
falls into this category,
as he entered an excerpt
from Donizetti's Maria di
Rohan. The excerpt he
chose is a duet between
soprano and English horn.
There are two entries
featuring oboe that are
excerpted from symphonic
repertoire. One is a
familiar oboe melody from
Beethoven's Pastoral
Symphony entered by his
first biographer, Anton
Schindler (1796-1864).
The other is an excerpt
from Berlioz's choral
symphony, Romeo et
Juliette. He entered an
oboe solo from the Grand
Fete section of the
piece. Pedagogical
benefit All of these
works are lovely, and fit
within the album
wonderfully, but these
works also are great oboe
and English horn music
for young students. The
common thread between
these entries is the
simplicity of the melody
and structure. Many are
repetitive, especially
Beaulieu's entry, which
features a two-note
ostinato throughout the
work in the piano. This
repetitive structure is
beneficial for young
students for searching
for a short solo to
present at a studio
recital, or simply to
learn. They also work
many technical issues a
young player may
encounter, such as
mastering the rolling
finger to uncover and
recover the half hole.
This is true of Bealieu's
Pensee as well as
Onslow's Andantino.
Berlioz's entry from
Romeo et Juliette
features very long
phrases, which helps with
endurance and helps keep
the air spinning through
the oboe. Some of the
pieces also use various
levels of ornamentation,
from trills to grace
notes, and short
cadenzas. This allows the
student to learn
appropriate ways to
phrase with these added
notes. The chamber music
is a valuable way to
start younger students
with chamber music,
especially the short
quartet by Cramer for
oboe and string trio. All
of these pieces will not
tax the student to learn
a work that is more
advanced, as well as give
them a full piece that
they can work on from
beginning to end in a
couple weeks, instead of
months. Editorial Policy
The works found in this
edition are based on the
manuscript housed at the
Morgan Library in New
York City (call number
Cary 348, V886. A3). When
possible, published
scores were consulted and
compared to clarify pitch
and text. The general
difficulties in creating
an edition of these works
stem from entries that
appear to be hastily
written, and thus omit
complete articulations
and dynamic indications
for all passages and
parts. The manuscript has
been modernized into a
performance edition. The
score order from the
manuscript has been
retained. If an entry
also exists in a
published work, and this
was not indicated on the
manuscript, appropriate
titles and subtitles have
been added tacitly. For
entries that were
untitled, the beginning
tempo marking or
expressive directive has
been added as its title
tacitly. Part names have
been changed from the
original language to
English. If no part name
was present, it was added
tacitly. All scores are
transposing where
applicable. Measure
numbers have been added
at the beginning of every
system. Written
directives have been
retained in the original
language and are placed
relative to where they
appear in the manuscript.
Tempo markings from the
manuscript have been
retained, even if they
were abbreviated, i.e.,
Andte. The barlines,
braces, brackets, and
clefs are modernized. The
beaming and stem
direction has been
modernized. Key
signatures have been
modernized as some of the
flats/sharps do not
appear on the correct
lines or spaces. Time
signatures have been
modernized. In a few
cases, when a time
signature was missing in
the manuscript, it has
been added tacitly.
Triplet and rhythmic
groupings have been
modernized. Slurs, ties,
and articulations
(staccato and accent)
have been modernized.
Slurs, ties, and
articulations have been
added to parallel
passages tacitly.
Courtesy accidentals
found in the manuscript
have been removed, unless
it appeared to be helpful
to the performer. Dynamic
indications from the
manuscript have been
retained, except where
noted. --Kristin
Leitterman. Introducti
onGustave Vogt’s
Musical ParisGustave Vogt
(1781–1870) was
born into the “Age
of Enlightenment,â€
at the apex of the
Enlightenment’s
outreach. During his
lifetime he would observe
its effect on the world.
Over the course of his
life he lived through
many changes in musical
style. When he was born,
composers such as Mozart
and Haydn were still
writing masterworks
revered today, and
eighty-nine years later,
as he departed the world,
the new realm of
Romanticism was beginning
to emerge with Mahler,
Richard Strauss and
Debussy, who were soon to
make their respective
marks on the musical
world. Vogt himself left
a huge mark on the
musical world, with
critics referring to him
as the “grandfather
of the modern oboeâ€
and the “premier
oboist of
Europe.â€Through his
eighty-nine years, Vogt
would live through what
was perhaps the most
turbulent period of
French history. He
witnessed the French
Revolution of 1789,
followed by the many
newly established
governments, only to die
just months before the
establishment of the
Third Republic in 1870,
which would be the
longest lasting
government since the
beginning of the
revolution. He also
witnessed the
transformation of the
French musical world from
one in which opera
reigned supreme, to one
in which virtuosi,
chamber music, and
symphonic music ruled.
Additionally, he
experienced the
development of the oboe
right before his eyes.
When he began playing in
the late eighteenth
century, the standard
oboe had two keys (E and
Eb) and at the time of
his death in 1870, the
“System Sixâ€
Triébert oboe (the
instrument adopted by
Conservatoire professor,
Georges Gillet, in 1882)
was only five years from
being developed.Vogt was
born March 18, 1781 in
the ancient town of
Strasbourg, part of the
Alsace region along the
German border. At the
time of his birth,
Strasbourg had been
annexed by Louis XIV, and
while heavily influenced
by Germanic culture, had
been loosely governed by
the French for a hundred
years. Although it is
unclear when Vogt began
studying the oboe and
when his family made its
move to the French
capital, the Vogts may
have fled Strasbourg in
1792 after much of the
city was destroyed during
the French Revolution. He
was without question
living in Paris by 1798,
as he enrolled on June 8
at the newly established
Conservatoire national de
Musique to study oboe
with the school’s
first oboe professor,
Alexandre-Antoine
Sallantin
(1775–1830).Vogtâ
€™s relationship with
the Conservatoire would
span over half a century,
moving seamlessly from
the role of student to
professor. In 1799, just
a year after enrolling,
he was awarded the
premier prix, becoming
the fourth oboist to
achieve this award. By
1802 he had been
appointed
répétiteur, which
involved teaching the
younger students and
filling in for Sallantin
in exchange for a free
education. He maintained
this rank until 1809,
when he was promoted to
professor adjoint and
finally to professor
titulaire in 1816 when
Sallantin retired. This
was a position he held
for thirty-seven years,
retiring in 1853, making
him the longest serving
oboe professor in the
school’s history.
During his tenure, he
became the most
influential oboist in
France, teaching
eighty-nine students,
plus sixteen he taught
while he was professor
adjoint and professor
titulaire. Many of these
students went on to be
famous in their own
right, such as Henri Brod
(1799–1839),
Apollon Marie-Rose Barret
(1804–1879),
Charles Triebert
(1810–1867),
Stanislas Verroust
(1814–1863), and
Charles Colin
(1832–1881). His
influence stretches from
French to American oboe
playing in a direct line
from Charles Colin to
Georges Gillet
(1854–1920), and
then to Marcel Tabuteau
(1887–1966), the
oboist Americans lovingly
describe as the
“father of American
oboe playing.â€Opera
was an important part of
Vogt’s life. His
first performing position
was with the
Théâtre-Montansier
while he was still
studying at the
Conservatoire. Shortly
after, he moved to the
Ambigu-Comique and, in
1801 was appointed as
first oboist with the
Théâtre-Italien in
Paris. He had been in
this position for only a
year, when he began
playing first oboe at the
Opéra-Comique. He
remained there until
1814, when he succeeded
his teacher,
Alexandre-Antoine
Sallantin, as soloist
with the Paris Opéra,
the top orchestra in
Paris at the time. He
played with the Paris
Opéra until 1834, all
the while bringing in his
current and past students
to fill out the section.
In this position, he
began to make a name for
himself; so much so that
specific performances
were immortalized in
memoirs and letters. One
comes from a young Hector
Berlioz
(1803–1865) after
having just arrived in
Paris in 1822 and
attended the Paris
Opéra’s
performance of
Mehul’s Stratonice
and Persuis’
ballet Nina. It was in
response to the song
Quand le bien-amié
reviendra that Berlioz
wrote: “I find it
difficult to believe that
that song as sung by her
could ever have made as
true and touching an
effect as the combination
of Vogt’s
instrument…â€
Shortly after this,
Berlioz gave up studying
medicine and focused on
music.Vogt frequently
made solo and chamber
appearances throughout
Europe. His busiest
period of solo work was
during the 1820s. In 1825
and 1828 he went to
London to perform as a
soloist with the London
Philharmonic Society.
Vogt also traveled to
Northern France in 1826
for concerts, and then in
1830 traveled to Munich
and Stuttgart, visiting
his hometown of
Strasbourg on the way.
While on tour, Vogt
performed Luigi
Cherubini’s
(1760–1842) Ave
Maria, with soprano Anna
(Nanette) Schechner
(1806–1860), and a
Concertino, presumably
written by himself. As a
virtuoso performer in
pursuit of repertoire to
play, Vogt found himself
writing much of his own
music. His catalog
includes chamber music,
variation sets, vocal
music, concerted works,
religious music, wind
band arrangements, and
pedagogical material. He
most frequently performed
his variation sets, which
were largely based on
themes from popular
operas he had, presumably
played while he was at
the Opéra.He made his
final tour in 1839,
traveling to Tours and
Bordeaux. During this
tour he appeared with the
singer Caroline Naldi,
Countess de Sparre, and
the violinist Joseph
Artôt
(1815–1845). This
ended his active career
as a soloist. His
performance was described
in the Revue et gazette
musicale de Paris as
having “lost none
of his superiority over
the oboe….
It’s always the
same grace, the same
sweetness. We made a trip
to Switzerland, just by
closing your eyes and
listening to
Vogt’s
oboe.â€Vogt was also
active performing in
Paris as a chamber and
orchestral musician. He
was one of the founding
members of the
Société des
Concerts du
Conservatoire, a group
established in 1828 by
violinist and conductor
François-Antoine
Habeneck
(1781–1849). The
group featured faculty
and students performing
alongside each other and
works such as Beethoven
symphonies, which had
never been heard in
France. He also premiered
the groundbreaking
woodwind quintets of
Antonin Reicha
(1770–1836).After
his retirement from the
Opéra in 1834 and from
the Société des
Concerts du Conservatoire
in 1842, Vogt began to
slow down. His final
known performance was of
Cherubini’s Ave
Maria on English horn
with tenor Alexis Dupont
(1796–1874) in
1843. He then began to
reflect on his life and
the people he had known.
When he reached his 60s,
he began gathering
entries for his Musical
Album of
Autographs.Autograph
AlbumsVogt’s
Musical Album of
Autographs is part of a
larger practice of
keeping autograph albums,
also commonly known as
Stammbuch or Album
Amicorum (meaning book of
friendship or friendship
book), which date back to
the time of the
Reformation and the
University of Wittenberg.
It was during the
mid-sixteenth century
that students at the
University of Wittenberg
began passing around
bibles for their fellow
students and professors
to sign, leaving messages
to remember them by as
they moved on to the next
part of their lives. The
things people wrote were
mottos, quotes, and even
drawings of their family
coat of arms or some
other scene that meant
something to the owner.
These albums became the
way these young students
remembered their school
family once they had
moved on to another
school or town. It was
also common for the
entrants to comment on
other entries and for the
owner to amend entries
when they learned of
important life details
such as marriage or
death.As the practice
continued, bibles were
set aside for emblem
books, which was a
popular book genre that
featured allegorical
illustrations (emblems)
in a tripartite form:
image, motto, epigram.
The first emblem book
used for autographs was
published in 1531 by
Andrea Alciato
(1492–1550), a
collection of 212 Latin
emblem poems. In 1558,
the first book conceived
for the purpose of the
album amicorum was
published by Lyon de
Tournes
(1504–1564) called
the Thesaurus Amicorum.
These books continued to
evolve, and spread to
wider circles away from
universities. Albums
could be found being kept
by noblemen, physicians,
lawyers, teachers,
painters, musicians, and
artisans.The albums
eventually became more
specialized, leading to
Musical Autograph Albums
(or Notestammbücher).
Before this
specialization, musicians
contributed in one form
or another, but our
knowledge of them in
these albums is mostly
limited to individual
people or events. Some
would simply sign their
name while others would
insert a fragment of
music, usually a canon
(titled fuga) with text
in Latin. Canons were
popular because they
displayed the
craftsmanship of the
composer in a limited
space. Composers
well-known today,
including J. S. Bach,
Telemann, Mozart,
Beethoven, Dowland, and
Brahms, all participated
in the practice, with
Beethoven being the first
to indicate an interest
in creating an album only
of music.This interest
came around 1815. In an
1845 letter from Johann
Friedrich Naue to
Heinrich Carl
Breidenstein, Naue
recalled an 1813 visit
with Beethoven, who
presented a book
suggesting Naue to
collect entries from
celebrated musicians as
he traveled. Shortly
after we find Louis Spohr
speaking about leaving on
his “grand
tour†through
Europe in 1815 and of his
desire to carry an album
with entries from the
many artists he would
come across. He wrote in
his autobiography that
his “most valuable
contribution†came
from Beethoven in 1815.
Spohr’s
Notenstammbuch, comprised
only of musical entries,
is groundbreaking because
it was coupled with a
concert tour, allowing
him to reach beyond the
Germanic world, where the
creation of these books
had been nearly
exclusive. Spohr brought
the practice of
Notenstammbücher to
France, and in turn
indirectly inspired Vogt
to create a book of his
own some fifteen years
later.Vogt’s
Musical Album of
AutographsVogt’s
Musical Album of
Autographs acts as a form
of a memoir, displaying
mementos of musicians who
held special meaning in
his life as well as
showing those with whom
he was enamored from the
younger generation. The
anonymous Pie Jesu
submitted to Vogt in 1831
marks the beginning of an
album that would span
nearly three decades by
the time the final entry,
an excerpt from Charles
Gounod’s
(1818–1893) Faust,
which premiered in 1859,
was submitted.Within this
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fakebook (spiral bound).
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lyrics, piano
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notation. Hymn. Series:
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(1685-1750), edited by
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book. With piano
reduction, introductory
text, instructional text,
lyrics and performance
notes. Baroque. 184
pages. 9x12 inches.
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Composed by Scott Joplin
(1868-1917). Edited by
Lara
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Rediscoverd Debussy.
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by
Claus Kuhnl. Edition
Breitkopf.
In these eleven short
piano
pieces, the composer
follows
the cue of such
modern-day
masters as Olivier
Messiaen,
Karlheinz Stockhausen,
Helmut
Lachenmann and Nicolaus
A.
Huber.
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FA.MFCD017B By
Nicolas Horvath. By
Claude Debussy and Robert
Orledge. Rediscoverd
Debussy. Christmas.
Score. Musik Fabrik
#MFCD017B. Published by
Musik Fabrik
(FA.MFCD017B). 8.27 x
11.69
inches. Contains Le
Roi Lear:
Prelude,Premiere Fanfare,
and La Mort de
Cordelia,Toomai des
elephants, Rodrigue et
Chimene: Prelude a l'acte
1p. Le Martyre de Saint
Sebastien: La Passion ,
and No-ja-li ou Le Palais
du Silence
From
Robert Orledge's
notes:
My interest
in the wonderful music of
Claude Debussy began in
the 1980s when I
researched and published
a book with Cambridge
University Press entitled
Debussy and the Theatre.
During the course of my
studies in Paris, I was
amazed to discover that
Debussy planned over 50
theatrical works but only
finished two of these
entirely by himself (the
opera Pelleas et
Melisande in 1893-1902
and the ballet Jeux for
Diaghilev's Ballets
Russes in 1912-13). Of
the rest, many were never
started musically (like
Siddartha and Orphee-roi
with the Oriental scholar
Victor Segalen, 1907);
some had a few
tantalising sketches
(like the Edgar Allan Poe
opera Le Diable dans le
beffroi, 1902-03); some
were half-finished (like
his other Poe opera La
Chute de la Maison Usher,
1908-17); while others
were musically complete
but had their
orchestrations completed
by other composers (like
Khamma, by Charles
Koechlin, 1912-13; or Le
Martyre de Saint
Sebastien and La Boite a
joujoux by his 'angel of
corrections' ['l'ange des
Corrections'] Andre
Caplet in 1911 and 1919
respectively).
For
it has to be admitted
that what some scholars
call Debussy's
'compulsive achievement'
could equally well be
viewed as laziness,
especially as far as the
minute detail required
for calligraphing his
orchestral scores was
concerned. It was as if
creating the music itself
was of greater importance
than controlling its
final sound, even if
Debussy was an
imaginative orchestrator
when he found the time
and energy to do it. It
also seems true that
Debussy also preferred
inventing ideas to
turning them into
complete pieces. However,
despite the lack of
detail in many of his
sketches (missing clefs,
key signatures, dynamics,
phrasing, etc.) the notes
themselves are
surprisingly accurate,
whether or not they can
be compared with a later
draft. Thus, a large
number of sketches exist
for his Chinese ballet
No-ja-li ou Le Palais du
Silence and it is not too
difficult to see which
parts of Georges de
Feure's 1913 scenario
(see below) inspired
which ideas. But Debussy
hardly made any attempt
to join them together
after the first few
bars.
It was
usually up to his
publisher, Jacques
Durand, to find solutions
when Debussy risked a
breach of contract.
Debussy was supposed to
supervise the
orchestrations completed
by others, but this
supervision was usually
very light and restricted
to quiet, sensitive
moments in which problems
were easier to spot. Far
from jealously guarding
every one of his created
notes, as Ravel did,
Debussy once even went as
far as to ask Koechlin to
'write a ballet for him
that he would sign' on 26
March 1914 when he was
hard-pressed to fulfil
his lucrative contract
for No-ja-li with Andre
Charlot at the Alhambra
Theatre in London. In the
end, Debussy (through
Durand) sent Charlot the
symphonic suite Printemps
instead, whose
orchestration had been
completed by Henri Busser
in the Spring of
1912.
So, when I
was offered early
retirement as Professor
of Music at Liverpool
University in 2004, I
seized the opportunity it
would give me to spend
time trying to
reconstruct some of
Debussy's lost potential
masterpieces from his
existing sketches and
drafts--then
orchestrating them in
Debussy's style when this
was appropriate. I had
begun this mission in
2001 with the most
promising project, the
missing parts of Scene 2
of La Chute de la Maison
Usher and the sheer joy
it gave me at every stage
persuaded me to tackle
other projects,
especially when Debussy
experts were unable to
identify exactly where I
took over from Debussy
(and vice versa) in
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| 3e Symphonie en ut mineur, op. 78 - Avancé Barenreiter
Orchestra, Organ (Fl1, Fl2 , Fl3(Fl-picc), 2 Ob, EnglHn, 2 clarinet, clarinet-B,...(+)
Orchestra, Organ (Fl1,
Fl2 , Fl3(Fl-picc), 2 Ob,
EnglHn, 2 clarinet,
clarinet-B, 2 bassoon,
bassoon-Co, Hn1, Hn2 ,
Hn3(chrom.), Hn4(chrom.),
3Trp, 3trombone, timpani,
Tr-Gr, Tri, Be, Org,
piano-4ms, 2 Violin,
Viola, Cello, Double
Bass) - Level 5 SKU:
BA.BA10303-01
Composed by Camille
Saint-Saens. Edited by
Michael Stegemann. This
edition: Edition of
selected works, Urtext
edition. Linen.
Saint-Saens, Camille.
Oevres instrumentales
completes I/3. Edition of
selected works, Score.
Opus 78. Duration 39
minutes. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA10303_01.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA10303-01).
ISBN 9790006559503. 33
x 26 cm inches. Key: C
minor. Preface: Michael
Stegemann. The
third symphony by Camille
Saint-Saens, known as the
Organ Symphony, is the
first publication in a
complete
historical-critical
edition of the French
composer's instrumental
works.
I gave
everything I was able to
give in this work. [...]
What I have done here I
will never be able to do
again.Camille Saint-Saens
was rightly proud of his
third Symphony in C minor
Op.78, dedicated to the
memory of Franz Liszt.
Called theOrgan
Symphonybecause of its
novel scoring, the work
was a commission from the
Philharmonic Society in
London, as was
Beethoven's Ninth, and
was premiered there on 19
May 1886. The first
performance in Paris
followed on 9 January
1887 and confirmed the
composer's reputation
asprobably the most
significant, and
certainly the most
independent French
symphonistof his time, as
Ludwig Finscher wrote in
MGG. In fact the work
remains the only one in
the history of that genre
in France to the present
day, composed a good half
century after the
Symphonie fantastique by
Hector Berlioz and a good
half century before
Olivier Messiaen's
Turangalila
Symphonie.
You
would think that such a
famous, much-performed
and much recorded opus
could not hold any more
secrets, but far from it:
in the first
historical-critical
edition of the Symphony,
numerous inconsistencies
and mistakes in the
Durand edition in general
use until now, have been
uncovered and corrected.
An examination and
evaluation of the sources
ranged from two early
sketches, now preserved
in Paris and Washington
(in which the Symphony
was still in B minor!)
via the autograph
manuscript and a set of
proofs corrected by
Saint-Saens himself, to
the first and subsequent
editions of the full
score and parts. The
versions for piano duet
(by Leon Roques) and for
two pianos (by the
composer himself) were
also consulted. Further
crucial information was
finally found in his
extensive correspondence,
encompassing thousands of
previously unpublished
letters. The discoveries
made in producing this
edition include the fact
that at its London
premiere, the Symphony
probably looked quite
different from its
present appearance
...
No less
exciting than the work
itself is the history of
its composition and
reception, which are
described in an extensive
foreword. With his
Symphony, Saint-Saens
entered right into the
dispute which divided
French musical life into
pro and contra Wagner in
the 1880s and 1890s. At
the same time, the work
succeeded in preserving
the balance between
tradition and modernism
in masterly fashion, as a
contemporary critic
stated:The C minor
Symphony by Saint-Saens
creates a bridge from the
past into the future,
from immortal richness to
progress, from ideas to
their
implementation.
On
19 March 1886 Saint-Saens
wrote to the London
Philharmonic Society,
which commissioned the
work:
Work on the
symphony is in full
swing. But I warn you, it
will be terrible. Here is
the precise
instrumentation: 3 flutes
/ 2 oboes / 1 cor anglais
/ 2 clarinets / 1 bass
clarinet / 2 bassoons / 1
contrabassoon / 2 natural
horns / [3 trumpets /
Saint-Saens had forgotten
these in his listing.] 2
chromatic horns / 3
trombones / 1 tuba / 3
timpani / organ / 1 piano
duet and the strings, of
course. Fortunately,
there are no harps.
Unfortunately it will be
difficult. I am doing
what I can to mitigate
the
difficulties.
As
in my 4th Concerto [for
piano] and my [1st]
Violin Sonata [in D minor
Op.75] at first glance
there appear to be just
two parts: the first
Allegro and the Adagio,
the Scherzo and the
Finale, each attacca.
This fiendish symphony
has crept up by a
semitone; it did not want
to stay in B minor, and
is now in C
minor.
It would be
a pleasure for me to
conduct this symphony.
Whether it would be a
pleasure for others to
hear it? That is the
question. It is you who
wanted it, I wash my
hands of it. I will bring
the orchestral parts
carefully corrected with
me, and if anyone wants
to give me a nice
rehearsal for the
symphony after the full
rehearsal, everything
will be fine.
When
Saint-Saens hit upon the
idea of adding an organ
and a piano to the usual
orchestral scoring is not
known. The idea of adding
an organ part to a
secular orchestral work
intended for the concert
hall was thoroughly novel
- and not without
controversy. On the other
hand, Franz Liszt, whose
music Saint-Saens'
Symphony is so close to,
had already demonstrated
that the organ could
easily be an orchestral
instrument in his
symphonic poem
Hunnenschlacht (1856/57).
There was also a model
for the piano duet part
which Saint-Saens knew
and may possibly have
used quite consciously as
an exemplar: theFantaisie
sur la Tempetefrom the
lyrical monodrama Lelio,
ou le retour a la Vie op.
14bis (1831) by Berlioz.
The name of the organist
at the premiere ist
unknown, as,
incidentally, was also
the case with many of the
later performances; the
organ part is indeed not
soloistic, but should be
understood as part of the
orchestral
texture.
In fact
the subsequent success of
the symphony seems to
have represented a kind
of breakthrough for the
composer, who was then
over 50 years of age.My
dear composer of a famous
symphony, wrote
Saint-Saens' friend and
pupil Gabriel Faure:You
will never be able to
imagine what a pleasure I
had last Sunday [at the
second performance on 16
January 1887]! And I had
the score and did not
miss a single note of
this Symphony, which will
endure much longer than
we two, even if we were
to join together our two
lifespans!
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Oboes, 3 Clarinets, 3
Flutes, 3 Trombones, 3
Trumpets, 4 Horns, Bass
Drum, Contra-bassoon,
Cymbal, English Horn,
Percussion: Snare Drum,
Strings, Timpani, Tuba
SKU: PR.466411770
Composed by Harl
Mcdonald. This edition:
Study Score.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
84 pages. Duration 15
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #466-41177.
Published by Theodore
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680160640850. 9 x 12
inches. Mississippi
I. Father of Waters: born
of the Highlands and the
Lakes; the Glaciers, the
Mountains, and the
Prairies. The picture of
your birth is clounded in
the ice and mists of
ancient ages but your
spirit remains our life
stream. II. The Red Man
knew your bountiful gifts
and gave thanks to the
Great Spirit on your
banks. -- The Spanish and
French Fathers brought
the glory of Christianity
to America on
Mississippi. But all men,
white and dark; --
Indian, Spaniard, and
Negro; Bourbon and
Yankee, combined to make
Mississippi the heart of
America. Saga of the
Mississippi Harl McDonald
Born near Boulder,
Colorado, July 27, 1899
Now living in
Philadelphia The original
suggestion for a
symphonic work on the
subject of the
Mississippi came
indirectly from the late
Booth Tarkington who saw
in it color and movement
and atmosphere
translatable into the
terms of music. In the
course of time, by the
mysterious processes of
composers' chemistry, it
took shape as a tone-poem
of two sections, one
representing the rise of
the great stream from its
primeval geologic
sources, the other the
human history of the
river. Mr. McDonald
devised the following
verbal outline of the
general scheme of his
diptych: I. Father of
Waters: born of the
Highlands and the Lakes;
the Glaciers, the
Mountains, and the
Prairies. The picture of
your birth is clounded in
the ice and mists of
ancient ages but your
spirit remains our life
stream. II. The Red Man
knew your bountiful gifts
and gave thanks to the
Great Spirit on your
banks. -- The Spanish and
French Fathers brought
the glory of Christianity
to America on
Mississippi. But all men,
white and dark; --
Indian, Spaniard, and
Negro; Bourbon and
Yankee, combined to make
Mississippi the heart of
America. The first of the
two movements, beginning
molto andante, is vaguel
modal to hint at
antiquity. It is built
upon the conventional two
themes, with an episode,
poco piu mosso,
misterioso, for
prehistoric murk and
muck. There are various
changes of pace and mood.
The second, Allegro ma
vigorosamente, prefigures
an Indian ceremony. A
theme presented by flute,
clarinet and bassoon is a
Canadian Indian fishing
call collected by the
late J.B. Beck. A later
passage of
quasi-Gregorian chant
identifies the French and
Spanish priests who made
the great river their
highway. The fishing-call
is altered in rhythm and
harmony to represent
Negro field hands and
roustabous. A turbulent
close brings all these
elemts together in the
muddy swirling currents
of the Mississippi. The
work was begun in the
summer of 1945, and was
revised and completed in
the summer of 1947. Harl
McDonald, who is the
manager of The
Philadelphia Orchestra,
has concerned himself
with music as an art, as
a science and as a
business in course of his
career. He was born on a
cattle ranch in the
Rockies, but since his
was a musical family, his
up-bringing combined
piano lessons with ranch
life. Years of study and
professional experience
followed in Los Angeles
and in Germany. In 1927
he was appointed lecuter
in composition at the
University of
Pennsylvania and he has
since then made is home
in Philadelphia. In 1933
under a grant of the
Rockefeller FOundation he
collaborated with
physicists in research
dealing with the
measurement of
instrumental and vocal
tone, new scale divisions
and the resultant
harmonies. In that same
year he was named head of
the University's music
faculty and conductor of
its choral organizations.
In 1939, having been a
member of the Board of
Directors for five years,
he was appointed manager
of The Philadelphia
Orchestra. He continus to
write, but otherwise his
entire attention is now
devoted to managerial
duties. Chief items in
the catalogue of his
compositions are four
symphonies, three
orchestra suites, a
half-dozen tone-poems,
three concertos and
considerable quantity of
choral music. $58.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Élégie Guitare Guitare classique [Conducteur] - Intermédiaire Doberman
Guitar - Intermediate SKU: DY.DO-1522 Composed by Francis Bebey. Arranged...(+)
Guitar - Intermediate
SKU: DY.DO-1522
Composed by Francis
Bebey. Arranged by Ingrid
Riollot. Score. Les
Editions Doberman-Yppan
#DO 1522. Published by
Les Editions
Doberman-Yppan
(DY.DO-1522). ISBN
9782897963026. Fran
cis Bebey est né Ã
Douala en juillet 1929,
dans une grande famille
où son père,
pasteur, luttait pour
nourrir ses enfants. Mais
Francis a eu
l'opportunité d'aller
à l'école. Admirant
son frère aîné,
Marcel Eyidi Bebey, il
s'est éduqué, s'est
distingué, et a
finalement reçu une
bourse pour passer son
baccalauréat en
France. Nous
approchions de la fin des
années 1950 lorsqu'il
est arrivé à La
Rochelle. Plus que
jamais, dans cette France
où les Africains
étaient regardés
avec curiosité,
condescendance ou
dédain, Francis
s'appuyait sur ses
ressources
intellectuelles.
Travailleur assidu, il a
obtenu son
baccalauréat, puis
s'est installé Ã
Paris où il a
commencé des études
d'anglais à la
Sorbonne. Un jour, il a
su ce qui l'attirait
vraiment : il voulait
faire de la radio.
Francis a appris son
métier en France et
aux
�tats-Unis. Après
avoir travaillé
quelques années comme
reporter, il a été
embauché en 1961 en
tant que fonctionnaire
international au
Département de
l'information de
l'UNESCO. Parallèle
ment, Francis a toujours
été attiré par
la création musicale.
Son activité diurne
très sérieuse ne
l'empêchait pas de
fréquenter les clubs
de jazz le soir. Ã?
Paris, le jazz, la
musique à la mode Ã
cette époque, mais
aussi la rumba et la
salsa l'attiraient. Il
collectionnait les
disques et assistait Ã
de nombreux concerts.
Avec son complice Manu
Dibango, Francis montait
sur scène et jouait de
la musique. Francis
aimait la musique
classique depuis son
enfance. Il avait grandi
en écoutant les
cantates et les oratorios
de Bach ou Handel que son
père chantait au
temple. Il s'est
passionné pour la
guitare, impressionné
par les maîtres
espagnols et
sud-américains, et a
décidé d'apprendre
à jouer de
l'instrument
lui-même. Il a
commencé à composer
des pièces pour
guitare, mêlant les
diverses influences qui
le traversaient avec la
musique traditionnelle
africaine qu'il portait
en lui depuis son
enfance. Son approche a
captivé le directeur
du Centre culturel
américain (alors
situé dans le quartier
de Saint-Germain Ã
Paris), qui lui a offert
l'opportunité de se
produire devant un
public. Francis y a
donné son premier
récital de guitare
(1963) devant un public
hypnotisé. Son premier
album solo est sorti peu
de temps
après. Progressivem
ent, Francis est devenu
reconnu comme musicien et
compositeur. Plusieurs
albums de l'ambassadeur
africain de la guitare,
comme le décrivait la
presse, sont sortis. Il a
également écrit des
livres, au point que sa
carrière artistique
est devenue difficile
à concilier avec sa
carrière de
fonctionnaire. En 1974,
même s'il était
devenu le directeur
général chargé
de la musique Ã
l'UNESCO, il a fait le
saut audacieux et a
démissionné de
cette prestigieuse
institution pour se
consacrer aux trois
activités qui
l'intéressaient : la
musique, la
littérature et le
journalisme. Il a
exploré le patrimoine
musical traditionnel du
continent africain,
notamment à travers le
piano à pouce sanza et
la musique polyphonique
des pygmées d'Afrique
centrale, ou en chantant
dans sa langue maternelle
et en composant des
chansons humoristiques en
français ! Le
succès a suivi.
Francis Bebey a parcouru
le monde : de la France
au Brésil, du Cameroun
à la Suède, de
l'Allemagne aux
Caraïbes, ou du Maroc
au Japon... la liste des
pays où il a été
invité à se
produire, Ã donner des
conférences ou Ã
rencontrer des lecteurs
est très longue. En
plus de la reconnaissance
publique, il
bénéficiait de la
reconnaissance de ses
collègues musiciens,
tels que le guitariste
John Williams ou le
Vénézuélien
Antonio Lauro, qui l'ont
invité à faire
partie du jury d'un
concours de guitare
classique Ã
Caracas. Sa vie
était le voyage d'un
pionnier africain, un
homme enraciné dans
son patrimoine culturel
et portant un message de
partage et d'espoir pour
le monde. Son
originalité continue
de résonner dans le
monde entier depuis son
décès à la fin
du mois de mai
2001.
Francis
Bebey was born in Douala
in July 1929, into a
large family where his
father, a pastor,
struggled to feed his
children. But Francis had
the opportunity to go to
school. Admiring his
elder brother, Marcel
Eyidi Bebey, he educated
himself, distinguished
himself, and eventually
received a scholarship to
go and take his
baccalaureate in
France. We approached
the end of the 1950s when
he arrived in La
Rochelle. More than ever,
in this France where
Africans were looked at
with curiosity,
condescension, or
disdain, Francis relied
on his intellectual
resources. A diligent
worker, he obtained his
Baccalaureate, then moved
to Paris where he started
English studies at the
Sorbonne. One day, he
knew what truly attracted
him: he wanted to do
radio. Francis learned
his craft in France and
in the USA. After
working for a few years
as a reporter, he was
hired in 1961 as an
international civil
servant in the UNESCO
Information
Department. In
parallel, Francis had
always been drawn to
musical creation. His
very serious daytime
activity didnâ??t
prevent him from
frequenting jazz clubs in
the evenings. In Paris,
the Jazz, the trendy
music of that time, but
also rumba and salsa
attracted him. He
collected records and
attended numerous
concerts. With his
accomplice Manu Dibango,
Francis took the stage
and played
music. Francis liked
classical music since his
childhood. He grew up
listening to the cantatas
and oratorios of Bach or
Handel that his father
had sung in the temple.
He became passionate
about the guitar,
impressed by the Spanish
and South American
masters, and decided to
learn to strum the
instrument himself. He
started composing guitar
pieces, blending the
various influences that
flow through him with the
traditional African music
he had carried within
since childhood. His
approach captivated the
director of the American
Cultural Center (then
located in the
Saint-Germain
neighborhood of Paris),
who offered him the
opportunity to perform in
front of an audience.
Francis gave his first
guitar recital there
(1963) in front of a
mesmerized audience. His
first solo album was
released shortly
thereafter. Gradually,
Francis became recognized
as a musician and
composer. Several albums
of the African guitar
ambassador, as described
by the press, were
released. He also wrote
books, to the point that
his artistic career
became challenging to
reconcile with his career
as a civil servant. In
1974, even though he had
become the General
Manager in charge of
music at UNESCO, he took
the bold leap and
resigned from this
prestigious institution
to dedicated himself to
the three activities that
interested him: music,
literature, and
journalism. He
explored the traditional
musical heritage of the
African continent,
notably through the thumb
piano sanza, and the
polyphonic music of the
Central African pygmies,
or singing in his native
language and composing
humoristic songs in
French! Success
followed. Francis Bebey
traveled the world: from
France to Brazil,
Cameroon to Sweden,
Germany to the Carribean,
or Morocco to Japan...
the list of countries
where he was invited to
perform, gives lectures,
or meets readers is very
long. In addition to
public recognition, he
enjoyed the recognition
of his fellow musicians,
such as guitarist John
Williams or Venezuelan
Antonio Lauro, who
invited him to be a part
of the jury for a
classical guitar
competition in
Caracas. His life was
the journey of an African
pioneer, a man rooted in
his cultural heritage and
carrying a message of
sharing and hope for the
world. His originality
continues to vibrate
around the world since
his passing at the end of
May 2001. $4.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Junto a Rodrigo. An Anthology of Contemporary Music for Guitar (Podera, Reghezza, Simoni, Smaili, Ugoletti) Guitare Ut Orpheus
Guitar SKU: UT.CH-289 Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero B...(+)
Guitar SKU:
UT.CH-289 Edited by
Piero Bonaguri. Saddle
stitching. Piero Bonaguri
Collection. Classical. Ut
Orpheus #CH 289.
Published by Ut Orpheus
(UT.CH-289). ISBN
9790215325852. 9 x 12
inches. Giovanni
Podera: Fantasia
(In memoriam JoaquÃn
Rodrigo) Marco
Reghezza: Nana
Estrellada Marco
Simoni: Junto a
Rodrigo Marco
Smaili: Fronda de
la tarde (Homenaje a
JoaquÃn
Rodrigo) Paolo
Ugoletti: Fuga a
4
voci
Following
the successful
publication of
Homenaje a Rodrigo
(2015), containing four
pieces by Alessandro
Spazzoli – one of
which was performed in
the presence of the
composer’s
daughter, Cecilia
Rodrigo, during her visit
to the International
Convention in Alessandria
–, here is the
second volume. It
contains more tributes to
Rodrigo written on my
input by five well-known
Italian and Spanish
composers, two of whom
are also guitarists and
have therefore written
the fingering for their
own pieces. Giovanni
Podera plunges us into a
typically Rodrigo-like
atmosphere with his
evocative
Fantasia, while
the following three
compositions are full of
direct quotations from
pieces also for guitar by
the great composer from
Valencia. Thus, Marco
Simoni, in his expressive
Junto a Rodrigo
– which also
provides the title to the
volume – plays
with themes taken from
Junto al
Generalife and from
Dos piezas
caballerescas for a
cello ensemble as well as
hinting at reminiscences
of Tiento antiguo.
As for Marco Smaili, in
his impressionistic
Fronda de la
tarde, he evokes
quite evidently
Zarabanda lejana
and Invocación y
Danza, but there are
more hidden references to
Caminos de
Santiago and even to
the very famous
Concierto de
Aranjuez. Marco
Reghezza builds his
heart-breaking Nana
estrellada on a
sequence of chords used
by Rodrigo in the
fantasia ¡Que buen
caminito!. On the
other hand, there are no
direct quotations and
echoes of
Rodrigo’s way of
writing in the Fuga a
quattro voci by Paolo
Ugoletti. However it was
Rodrigo himself who
constructed four-part
imitative passages for
guitar in
Pasacalle and in
the Ricercare of the
Fantasia para un
Gentilhombre. The
close polyphony of the
piece by Ugoletti may be
considered as a tribute
to this kind of craft
shown by Rodrigo who,
like Ugoletti, was able
to write such dense and
idiomatic counterpoint
without being a
guitar-player. I am
pleased that this volume
comes out in the
imminence of the 20th
anniversary of the
disappearance of the
illustrious Spanish
composer who gave so much
to the musicians –
and not only to
them. (Piero
Bonaguri)
Mucha
s gracias por este
emotivo y excelente
musical homenaje a mi
padre. La edición es
excelente y la
difundiremos con todos
nuestros medios por las
redes sociales a nuestro
alcance. Ha sido un gran
trabajo por su parte,
fruto de sus grandes
conocimientos
guitarrÃsticos y su
devoción por
JoaquÃn Rodrigo.Â
Le reitero mi gratitud y
mi felicitación con el
ruego transmita a los
cinco compositores mi
felicitación y deseos
de éxito.
(Cecilia
Rodrigo). $17.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 3 to 4 weeks | | |
| Bartok - For Children Vol 2 Urtext Piano seul G. Henle
Piano SKU: HU.HN1226 Composed by Bela Bartok. Edited by Laszlo Vikarius and Ver...(+)
Piano
SKU: HU.HN1226
Composed by Bela Bartok.
Edited by Laszlo Vikarius
and Vera Lampert. Piano
Solo, Piano and Keyboard,
Repertoire, Solos. For
Children Vol. 2.
Softcover Book. 59 pages.
G. Henle #HN1226.
Published by G. Henle
(HU.HN1226).
12.2 x 9.3 x 0.2 inches.
$27.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| Bartok - For Children Vol 1 Urtext Piano seul G. Henle
Piano SKU: HU.HN1225 Composed by Bela Bartok. Edited by Laszlo Vikarius and Ver...(+)
Piano
SKU: HU.HN1225
Composed by Bela Bartok.
Edited by Laszlo Vikarius
and Vera Lampert. Piano
Solo, Piano and Keyboard,
Repertoire, Solos. For
Children Vol. 1.
Softcover Book. 63 pages.
G. Henle #HN1225.
Published by G. Henle
(HU.HN1225).
$27.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| Melodic Highlights Trompette [Partition + CD] - Intermédiaire Beriato Music
Trumpet - intermediate SKU: BT.BMI11050528-400 For Trumpet. Compos...(+)
Trumpet - intermediate
SKU:
BT.BMI11050528-400
For Trumpet.
Composed by Bert
Appermont. Book with CD.
Composed 2011. 24 pages.
Beriato Music
#BMI11050528-400.
Published by Beriato
Music
(BT.BMI11050528-400).
ISBN 9789043141673.
9x12 inches.
International. With
this collection, you can
enjoy highlights from the
work of Belgian composer
Bert Appermont. The
pieces have been
carefully selected by the
composer himself, who has
paid special attention to
playability, and has
looked for melodies that
appeal to a large
audience. The melodies
have been arranged
according to levels of
difficulty and are
suitable for use in music
lessons or for concert
performances. The pieces
Innocence and
Song of Hope have
been provided with a
second part, so that they
can be performed as duets
with accompaniment. The
book comes with a CD
containing a demo version
as well as a play-long
track for each piece. The
piano accompaniments have
beenprovided on the CD as
printable PDFs!
De hoogtepunten
uit het werk van Bert
Appermont, die vanwege de
vertrouwd klinkende en
mooie melodieën zeer
geliefd zijn! De goed
speelbare stukken werden
voor deze uitgave door de
uit België afkomstige
componist geselecteerd.
Zezijn op
moeilijkheidsgraad
gerangschikt en vormen
een perfecte aanvulling
op elke instrumentale
methode. De cd bevat
demo- en
play-alongversies van
alle stukken evenals
printklare pdf-bestanden
van de
pianobegeleidingen. Die Höhepunkte aus
dem Werk des belgischen
Komponisten Bert
Appermont, die die
aufgrund ihrer vertraut
wirkenden Klangsprache
und der schönen
melodischen Linien sehr
beliebt sind! Die
Stücke wurden vom
Komponisten selbst
ausgewählt, der gut
spielbare Melodien
wählte, die auch ein
breites Publikum
ansprechen. Sie wurden
nach Schwierigkeitsgrad
angeordnet und eignen
sich ausgezeichnet
für den
Instrumentalunterricht.
Zwei Stücke sind
als Duette ausnotiert.
Die CD enthält Demo-
und Mitspielversionen
aller Stücke sowie
PDFs der
Klavierbegleitungen zum
Ausdrucken.
Mel
odic Highlights vous
permettra
d‘apprécier les
plus beaux thèmes des
oeuvres de Bert
Appermont, dont le style
d‘écriture
repose sur l‘emploi
de lignes mélodiques
captivantes et
accessibles. Les
pièces rassemblées
dans ce recueil ont
été
sélectionnées par
le compositeur
lui-même, qui aura
prêté une attention
toute particulière
leur degré de
difficulté. Le CD
joint comporte une
version intégrale puis
une version
‘accompagnement
pour chacune des
pièces, une solution
fort idéale pour
étudier chez soi, mais
aussi pour jouer sous les
feux de la rampe (la
version papier des
accompagnements de piano
sont gravés sur le CD
sous la forme de fichier
PDF
télécharger). Bert Appermont,
compositore belga noto
per la scrittura
melodica, ha raccolto le
sue opere migliori in
questa collana per fiati.
Si tratta di melodie
facili da eseguire e
apprezzate dal pubblico.
Bert Appermont propone i
brani, due dei quali da
eseguire in duo (tutti
perfetti anche per lo
studio), in ordine
crescente di difficolt .
Il CD contiene una
versione demo e una
play-along, mentre gli
accompagnamenti al piano
sono scaricabili in
formato PDF. $26.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Melodic Highlights [Partition + CD] - Intermédiaire Beriato Music
Bb Euphonium TC/BC - intermediate SKU: BT.BMI11050533-400 For Bb Eupho...(+)
Bb Euphonium TC/BC -
intermediate SKU:
BT.BMI11050533-400
For Bb Euphonium
TC/BC. Composed by
Bert Appermont. Book with
CD. Composed 2011. 40
pages. Beriato Music
#BMI11050533-400.
Published by Beriato
Music
(BT.BMI11050533-400).
ISBN 9789043141659.
9x12 inches.
International. With
this collection, you can
enjoy highlights from the
work of Belgian composer
Bert Appermont. The
pieces have been
carefully selected by the
composer himself, who has
paid special attention to
playability, and has
looked for melodies that
appeal to a large
audience. The melodies
have been arranged
according to levels of
difficulty and are
suitable for use in music
lessons or for concert
performances. The pieces
Innocence and
Song of Hope have
been provided with a
second part, so that they
can be performed as duets
with accompaniment. The
book comes with a CD
containing a demo version
as well as a play-long
track for each piece. The
piano accompaniments have
beenprovided on the CD as
printable PDFs!
De hoogtepunten
uit het werk van Bert
Appermont, die vanwege de
vertrouwd klinkende en
mooie melodieën zeer
geliefd zijn! De goed
speelbare stukken werden
voor deze uitgave door de
uit België afkomstige
componist geselecteerd.
Zezijn op
moeilijkheidsgraad
gerangschikt en vormen
een perfecte aanvulling
op elke instrumentale
methode. De cd bevat
demo- en
play-alongversies van
alle stukken evenals
printklare pdf-bestanden
van de
pianobegeleidingen. Die Höhepunkte aus
dem Werk des belgischen
Komponisten Bert
Appermont, die die
aufgrund ihrer vertraut
wirkenden Klangsprache
und der schönen
melodischen Linien sehr
beliebt sind! Die
Stücke wurden vom
Komponisten selbst
ausgewählt, der gut
spielbare Melodien
wählte, die auch ein
breites Publikum
ansprechen. Sie wurden
nach Schwierigkeitsgrad
angeordnet und eignen
sich ausgezeichnet
für den
Instrumentalunterricht.
Zwei Stücke sind
als Duette ausnotiert.
Die CD enthält Demo-
und Mitspielversionen
aller Stücke sowie
PDFs der
Klavierbegleitungen zum
Ausdrucken.
Mel
odic Highlights vous
permettra
d‘apprécier les
plus beaux thèmes des
oeuvres de Bert
Appermont, dont le style
d‘écriture
repose sur l‘emploi
de lignes mélodiques
captivantes et
accessibles. Les
pièces rassemblées
dans ce recueil ont
été
sélectionnées par
le compositeur
lui-même, qui aura
prêté une attention
toute particulière
leur degré de
difficulté. Le CD
joint comporte une
version intégrale puis
une version
‘accompagnement
pour chacune des
pièces, une solution
fort idéale pour
étudier chez soi, mais
aussi pour jouer sous les
feux de la rampe (la
version papier des
accompagnements de piano
sont gravés sur le CD
sous la forme de fichier
PDF
télécharger). Bert Appermont,
compositore belga noto
per la scrittura
melodica, ha raccolto le
sue opere migliori in
questa collana per fiati.
Si tratta di melodie
facili da eseguire e
apprezzate dal pubblico.
Bert Appermont propone i
brani, due dei quali da
eseguire in duo (tutti
perfetti anche per lo
studio), in ordine
crescente di difficolt .
Il CD contiene una
versione demo e una
play-along, mentre gli
accompagnamenti al piano
sono scaricabili in
formato PDF. $25.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Melodic Highlights Hautbois [Partition + CD] - Intermédiaire Beriato Music
Oboe - intermediate SKU: BT.BMI11050526-400 For Oboe. Composed by ...(+)
Oboe - intermediate
SKU:
BT.BMI11050526-400
For Oboe. Composed
by Bert Appermont. Book
with CD. Composed 2011.
24 pages. Beriato Music
#BMI11050526-400.
Published by Beriato
Music
(BT.BMI11050526-400).
ISBN 9789043141604.
9x12 inches.
International. With
this collection, you can
enjoy highlights from the
work of Belgian composer
Bert Appermont. The
pieces have been
carefully selected by the
composer himself, who has
paid special attention to
playability, and has
looked for melodies that
appeal to a large
audience. The melodies
have been arranged
according to levels of
difficulty and are
suitable for use in music
lessons or for concert
performances. The pieces
Innocence and
Song of Hope have
been provided with a
second part, so that they
can be performed as duets
with accompaniment. The
book comes with a CD
containing a demo version
as well as a play-long
track for each piece. The
piano accompaniments have
beenprovided on the CD as
printable PDFs!
De hoogtepunten
uit het werk van Bert
Appermont, die vanwege de
vertrouwd klinkende en
mooie melodieën zeer
geliefd zijn! De goed
speelbare stukken werden
voor deze uitgave door de
uit België afkomstige
componist geselecteerd.
Zezijn op
moeilijkheidsgraad
gerangschikt en vormen
een perfecte aanvulling
op elke instrumentale
methode. De cd bevat
demo- en
play-alongversies van
alle stukken evenals
printklare pdf-bestanden
van de
pianobegeleidingen. Die Höhepunkte aus
dem Werk des belgischen
Komponisten Bert
Appermont, die die
aufgrund ihrer vertraut
wirkenden Klangsprache
und der schönen
melodischen Linien sehr
beliebt sind! Die
Stücke wurden vom
Komponisten selbst
ausgewählt, der gut
spielbare Melodien
wählte, die auch ein
breites Publikum
ansprechen. Sie wurden
nach Schwierigkeitsgrad
angeordnet und eignen
sich ausgezeichnet
für den
Instrumentalunterricht.
Zwei Stücke sind
als Duette ausnotiert.
Die CD enthält Demo-
und Mitspielversionen
aller Stücke sowie
PDFs der
Klavierbegleitungen zum
Ausdrucken.
Mel
odic Highlights vous
permettra
d‘apprécier les
plus beaux thèmes des
oeuvres de Bert
Appermont, dont le style
d‘écriture
repose sur l‘emploi
de lignes mélodiques
captivantes et
accessibles. Les
pièces rassemblées
dans ce recueil ont
été
sélectionnées par
le compositeur
lui-même, qui aura
prêté une attention
toute particulière
leur degré de
difficulté. Le CD
joint comporte une
version intégrale puis
une version
‘accompagnement
pour chacune des
pièces, une solution
fort idéale pour
étudier chez soi, mais
aussi pour jouer sous les
feux de la rampe (la
version papier des
accompagnements de piano
sont gravés sur le CD
sous la forme de fichier
PDF
télécharger). Bert Appermont,
compositore belga noto
per la scrittura
melodica, ha raccolto le
sue opere migliori in
questa collana per fiati.
Si tratta di melodie
facili da eseguire e
apprezzate dal pubblico.
Bert Appermont propone i
brani, due dei quali da
eseguire in duo (tutti
perfetti anche per lo
studio), in ordine
crescente di difficolt .
Il CD contiene una
versione demo e una
play-along, mentre gli
accompagnamenti al piano
sono scaricabili in
formato PDF. $26.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Melodic Highlights Clarinette [Partition + CD] - Intermédiaire Beriato Music
Clarinet - intermediate SKU: BT.BMI11050527-400 For Clarinet. Comp...(+)
Clarinet - intermediate
SKU:
BT.BMI11050527-400
For Clarinet.
Composed by Bert
Appermont. Book with CD.
Composed 2011. 24 pages.
Beriato Music
#BMI11050527-400.
Published by Beriato
Music
(BT.BMI11050527-400).
ISBN 9789043141666.
9x12 inches.
International. With
this collection, you can
enjoy highlights from the
work of Belgian composer
Bert Appermont. The
pieces have been
carefully selected by the
composer himself, who has
paid special attention to
playability, and has
looked for melodies that
appeal to a large
audience. The melodies
have been arranged
according to levels of
difficulty and are
suitable for use in music
lessons or for concert
performances. The pieces
Innocence and
Song of Hope have
been provided with a
second part, so that they
can be performed as duets
with accompaniment. The
book comes with a CD
containing a demo version
as well as a play-long
track for each piece. The
piano accompaniments have
beenprovided on the CD as
printable PDFs!
De hoogtepunten
uit het werk van Bert
Appermont, die vanwege de
vertrouwd klinkende en
mooie melodieën zeer
geliefd zijn! De goed
speelbare stukken werden
voor deze uitgave door de
uit België afkomstige
componist geselecteerd.
Zezijn op
moeilijkheidsgraad
gerangschikt en vormen
een perfecte aanvulling
op elke instrumentale
methode. De cd bevat
demo- en
play-alongversies van
alle stukken evenals
printklare pdf-bestanden
van de
pianobegeleidingen. Die Höhepunkte aus
dem Werk des belgischen
Komponisten Bert
Appermont, die die
aufgrund ihrer vertraut
wirkenden Klangsprache
und der schönen
melodischen Linien sehr
beliebt sind! Die
Stücke wurden vom
Komponisten selbst
ausgewählt, der gut
spielbare Melodien
wählte, die auch ein
breites Publikum
ansprechen. Sie wurden
nach Schwierigkeitsgrad
angeordnet und eignen
sich ausgezeichnet
für den
Instrumentalunterricht.
Zwei Stücke sind
als Duette ausnotiert.
Die CD enthält Demo-
und Mitspielversionen
aller Stücke sowie
PDFs der
Klavierbegleitungen zum
Ausdrucken.
Mel
odic Highlights vous
permettra
d‘apprécier les
plus beaux thèmes des
oeuvres de Bert
Appermont, dont le style
d‘écriture
repose sur l‘emploi
de lignes mélodiques
captivantes et
accessibles. Les
pièces rassemblées
dans ce recueil ont
été
sélectionnées par
le compositeur
lui-même, qui aura
prêté une attention
toute particulière
leur degré de
difficulté. Le CD
joint comporte une
version intégrale puis
une version
‘accompagnement
pour chacune des
pièces, une solution
fort idéale pour
étudier chez soi, mais
aussi pour jouer sous les
feux de la rampe (la
version papier des
accompagnements de piano
sont gravés sur le CD
sous la forme de fichier
PDF
télécharger). Bert Appermont,
compositore belga noto
per la scrittura
melodica, ha raccolto le
sue opere migliori in
questa collana per fiati.
Si tratta di melodie
facili da eseguire e
apprezzate dal pubblico.
Bert Appermont propone i
brani, due dei quali da
eseguire in duo (tutti
perfetti anche per lo
studio), in ordine
crescente di difficolt .
Il CD contiene una
versione demo e una
play-along, mentre gli
accompagnamenti al piano
sono scaricabili in
formato PDF. $25.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Melodic Highlights Saxophone Alto [Partition + CD] - Intermédiaire Beriato Music
Alto Saxophone - intermediate SKU: BT.BMI11050529-400 For Alto Saxopho...(+)
Alto Saxophone -
intermediate SKU:
BT.BMI11050529-400
For Alto
Saxophone. Composed
by Bert Appermont. Book
with CD. Composed 2011.
24 pages. Beriato Music
#BMI11050529-400.
Published by Beriato
Music
(BT.BMI11050529-400).
ISBN 9789043141680.
9x12 inches.
International. With
this collection, you can
enjoy highlights from the
work of Belgian composer
Bert Appermont. The
pieces have been
carefully selected by the
composer himself, who has
paid special attention to
playability, and has
looked for melodies that
appeal to a large
audience. The melodies
have been arranged
according to levels of
difficulty and are
suitable for use in music
lessons or for concert
performances. The pieces
Innocence and
Song of Hope have
been provided with a
second part, so that they
can be performed as duets
with accompaniment. The
book comes with a CD
containing a demo version
as well as a play-long
track for each piece. The
piano accompaniments have
beenprovided on the CD as
printable PDFs!
De hoogtepunten
uit het werk van Bert
Appermont, die vanwege de
vertrouwd klinkende en
mooie melodieën zeer
geliefd zijn! De goed
speelbare stukken werden
voor deze uitgave door de
uit België afkomstige
componist geselecteerd.
Zezijn op
moeilijkheidsgraad
gerangschikt en vormen
een perfecte aanvulling
op elke instrumentale
methode. De cd bevat
demo- en
play-alongversies van
alle stukken evenals
printklare pdf-bestanden
van de
pianobegeleidingen. Die Höhepunkte aus
dem Werk des belgischen
Komponisten Bert
Appermont, die die
aufgrund ihrer vertraut
wirkenden Klangsprache
und der schönen
melodischen Linien sehr
beliebt sind! Die
Stücke wurden vom
Komponisten selbst
ausgewählt, der gut
spielbare Melodien
wählte, die auch ein
breites Publikum
ansprechen. Sie wurden
nach Schwierigkeitsgrad
angeordnet und eignen
sich ausgezeichnet
für den
Instrumentalunterricht.
Zwei Stücke sind
als Duette ausnotiert.
Die CD enthält Demo-
und Mitspielversionen
aller Stücke sowie
PDFs der
Klavierbegleitungen zum
Ausdrucken.
Mel
odic Highlights vous
permettra
d‘apprécier les
plus beaux thèmes des
oeuvres de Bert
Appermont, dont le style
d‘écriture
repose sur l‘emploi
de lignes mélodiques
captivantes et
accessibles. Les
pièces rassemblées
dans ce recueil ont
été
sélectionnées par
le compositeur
lui-même, qui aura
prêté une attention
toute particulière
leur degré de
difficulté. Le CD
joint comporte une
version intégrale puis
une version
‘accompagnement
pour chacune des
pièces, une solution
fort idéale pour
étudier chez soi, mais
aussi pour jouer sous les
feux de la rampe (la
version papier des
accompagnements de piano
sont gravés sur le CD
sous la forme de fichier
PDF
télécharger). Bert Appermont,
compositore belga noto
per la scrittura
melodica, ha raccolto le
sue opere migliori in
questa collana per fiati.
Si tratta di melodie
facili da eseguire e
apprezzate dal pubblico.
Bert Appermont propone i
brani, due dei quali da
eseguire in duo (tutti
perfetti anche per lo
studio), in ordine
crescente di difficolt .
Il CD contiene una
versione demo e una
play-along, mentre gli
accompagnamenti al piano
sono scaricabili in
formato PDF. $26.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| A Soldier's Carol Chorale SATB SATB A Cappella Schirmer
Composed by Ronald Perera. Advanced/Collegiate. Catholic Year A The Nativity of ...(+)
Composed by Ronald
Perera.
Advanced/Collegiate.
Catholic Year A The
Nativity of Our Lord.
Secular, Christmas,
21st Century. Octavo.
Duration 4 minutes, 40
seconds. Published by
E.C. Schirmer Publishing
(EC.8320).
$2.85 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Empuries (Partitura) Editorial de Musica Boileau
Orchestra and Cobla SKU: BO.B.3260 Composed by Josep Ma Ruera. Instrument...(+)
Orchestra and Cobla
SKU: BO.B.3260
Composed by Josep Ma
Ruera. Instrumental Sets.
Duration 40:52. Published
by Editorial de Musica
Boileau (BO.B.3260).
ISBN
9788480207584. Engl
ish comments:
Empuries is the result of
the interest Ruera showed
throughout his life for
the culture and music of
ancient Greece. As he
himself writes in the
introduction to the
composition: The motives
behind this work were
inspired by contemplating
and analysing the melos
of ancient Greece. The
few melodies that have
been discovered from
those far-off times
inspired the composer of
Empuries to create this
work, conceived with the
Greek modal system in
mind, and adapted to
modern instruments and
tastes. The tetrachord
and pentachords of these
forms are the very bases
of this work. The
descending drift of the
cadence, the harmonic
priority of the upper and
lower notes of the
tetrachords and the
displacement of these
chords to different
acoustic levels, make it
impossible to specify the
classic concept of a set
tonality which, within
the improvised musical
working of the piece,
leads to a naturally
intertonal or atonal
piece of music. Empuries
came to light in 1971,
when it won group A of
the Ciutat de Barcelona
prize. But one must, in
fact, go back to the
1930s to find its true
origins. Ruera made his
first foray into the
theme of ancient Greece
with the sardana,
Empuries, la grega, with
which he won first prize
in the Jocs Florals in
Girona, in 1931. Shortly
afterwards, he wrote a
piece of organ music
entitled Bucolics, in the
Greek modal style, which
was destroyed during the
Spanish civil war. Ruera
continued to work on the
theme and in 1936 he
presented his work Tres
moviments simfonics, for
a big band, inspired by
the ancient Greek modes,
at the XIV International
Festival of the ISCM held
in Barcelona. The work
was chosen to debut in
the festival's opening
concert on 19 April 1936
at Palacio de Bellas
Artes in Barcelona. In
1959, Ruera won the Pau
Casals Prize at the Jocs
Florals de la Llengua
Catalana, held at the
Sorbonne in Paris, for
his work, Empuries: poema
per a cobla i orquestra,
which would later become
the fourth movement of
Empuries. Nine years
later, in 1968, Barcelona
City Orchestra, conducted
by Antoni Ros Marba, gave
the first ever
performance of the
symphonic poem Pastoral,
written to be the first
movement of Empuries, in
Granollers. The final
step was when he finally
completed the work, won
the Ciutat de Barcelona
prize, opened in
Granollers on 2 May 1976
and recorded it for the
Columbia de Barcelona
label in 1977. Anna Maria
Piera
Comentario
s del Espanol: La
obra Empuries es fruto
del interes que el
maestro Ruera demostro a
lo largo de su vida por
la cultura y la musica de
la antigua Grecia. Como
el mismo escribe en la
cabecera de la
composicion: Los motivos
generadores de esta obra
estan inspirados en la
contemplacion y en el
analisis del melos de la
antigua Grecia. Las pocas
melodias que hasta el
momento se han podido
descubrir de aquellos
tiempos remotos sugieren
al autor de Empuries la
realizacion de esta obra,
concebida pensando en el
sistema modal griego,
adaptado a los
instrumentos y gustos
modernos. Los tetracordes
y pentacordes de dichas
modalidades son las
celulas en las que se
basa la obra. El sentido
descendiente de la
cadencia, la prioridad
armonica de la notas
extremas de los
tetracordes y el
desplazamiento de estos
acordes a varias alturas
acusticas, hacen que no
sea posible precisar el
clasico concepto de una
tonalidad determinada y
que lleven, dentro del
funcionamiento
contrapuntistico, a una
musica naturalmente
intertonal o atonal.
Empuries vio la luz en el
ano 1971, ganando el
Premio Ciutat de
Barcelona, grupo A, pero
en realidad tenemos que
retroceder hasta los anos
30 para encontrar sus
verdaderos origenes. La
primera incursion en el
tema de la antigua Gracia
la hizo con la sardana
Empuries, la grega, con
la que gano el primer
premio en los Jocs
Florals de Gerona del ano
1931. Poco despues
escribio una pieza para
organo titulada Bucolics,
en el estilo modal
griego, que fue destruida
durante la Guerra Civil
espanola. Ruera continuo
trabajando en el tema y
en el ano 1936 presento
su obra Tres moviments
simfonics, en version
para gran banda,
inspirada en las antiguas
modalidades griegas, en
el XIV Festival
Internacional de la SIMC
que se celebro en
Barcelona. La obra fue
escogida para ser
estrenada en el concierto
inaugural de dicho
festival, el 19 de abril
de 1936, en el Palacio de
Bellas Artes de
Barcelona. En el 1959,
Ruera gano el Premio Pau
Casals en los Jocs
Florals de la Llengua
Catalana celebrados en la
Sorbona de Paris con la
obra Empuries: poema per
a cobla i orquestra, que
sera con el paso del
tiempo el cuarto
movimiento de Empuries.
Nueve anos mas tarde, en
1968, la Orquestra Ciutat
de Barcelona, bajo la
direccion de Antoni Ros
Marba, interpreto en
Granollers la primera
audicion del poema
sinfonico Pastoral,
pensado como primer
movimiento de Empuries.
El ultimo eslabon fue
terminar definitivamente
la obra, ganar el Premio
Ciutat de Barcelona,
estrenarla en Granollers
el 2 de mayo de 1976 y
grabarla para la casa
discografica Columbia de
Barcelona, en 1977. $42.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| Three Inventions Clavecin [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Harpsichord SKU: PR.110418390 Composed by Eric Ewazen. Full...(+)
Chamber Music Harpsichord
SKU: PR.110418390
Composed by Eric Ewazen.
Full score. 11 pages.
Duration 10 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#110-41839. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.110418390). ISBN
9781491134603. UPC:
680160685158. Eric
Ewazen’s THREE
INVENTIONS were inspired
by Bach’s Two-part
Inventions, yet they
sound thoroughly like
Ewazen. Composed for
harpsichord (with a piano
adaptation following
later), Ewazen’s
inventions maintain a
pure “one note per
hand†texture until
their final chord, with
strong-but-free imitative
counterpoint between the
two voices. While Ewazen
may be best known for his
wind music, he is a
pianist himself, and
composers’ works
for their own instrument
are a direct insight into
how they write for their
own performances. The
piano adaptation of THREE
INVENTIONS is also
available as a separate
publication. THREE
INVENTIONS was written
for my dear friend Maria
Rojas, who premiered the
work on a faculty recital
at Juilliard. Maria is
both a pianist and a
harpsichordist, and I
first met her when she
gave a demonstration of
the harpsichord for the
students in my theory
classes.I’ve
always been captivated by
Bach’s series of
Two-Part and Three-Part
Inventions. With the
Two-Part Inventions,
I’m amazed how
Bach could create such
wonderful intricacy and
counterpoint with only
two voices. I
consequently modeled my
inventions after the
counterpoint of Bach,
involving the traditional
contrapuntal devices he
used: imitation,
development, harmonic and
modal shifts,
fragmentation, and
sequence, essentially
creating a dialog between
two completely equal
voices conversing with
each other!Bach wrote 15
Two-Part Inventions (as
well as 15 Three-Part
Inventions, not to
mention the 48 preludes
and fugues in The
Well-Tempered Clavier!),
and that’s just
the start of his
voluminous repertoire for
the keyboard! I was happy
just to write
three!!!Each of my
inventions has a
distinctive mood. The
first is in a relaxed,
yet cheerful C Major
tonality (as a nod to
Bach’s Invention
No. 1 in C Major); the
second is heartfelt and
lyrical; and the third
invention (involving a
Gigue rhythm in the
compound meter of 12/8)
is energetic, and full of
life and spontaneity. The
third is primarily in a
minor tonality, resulting
in a feeling of drama,
bringing the THREE
INVENTIONS to an exciting
finale. $14.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Sympathy for the Drummer Livre - Pas de partitions Biographie [Livre]
Why Charlie Watts Matters. By Charlie Watts and The Rolling Stones. Book. ...(+)
Why Charlie Watts
Matters. By
Charlie Watts and The
Rolling
Stones. Book.
Biography/Composers &
Musicians. Softcover.
Published by Rowman &
Littlefield
$16.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| O what joy you have (O wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommen) Orgue Carus Verlag
SATB vocal soli, SATB choir, congregation, 2 violins, viola, cello, contrabass, ...(+)
SATB vocal soli, SATB
choir, congregation, 2
violins, viola, cello,
contrabass, organ SKU:
CA.5040514 Chorale
cantata. Composed by
Max Reger. Edited by
Gunther Massenkeil.
German title: O wie selig
seid ihr doch. Sacred
vocal music, Mourning,
death. Single Part,
Cello. Composed 1903. Op.
WoO V/4 Nr. 2. 2 pages.
Duration 15 minutes.
Carus Verlag #CV
50.405/14. Published by
Carus Verlag
(CA.5040514). ISBN
9790007081744. Key: D
minor. Language:
German/English. The
choral cantatas are
Reger's most personal and
most substantial
contribution to one of
the principal categories
of Protestant church
music, and they are only
major works in this field
by one of the foremost
composers of his time.
This is true despite the
fact that Reger himself
does not appear to have
considered the cantatas
to figure among his
principal compositions,
as he gave them no opus
numbers. In contrast to
the three other chorale
cantatas of Reger which
exist in a definitive
form, there is no record
of the place or date of
the first performance of
O wie selig, or indeed of
any performance of it
during the composer's
lifetime. Score and part
available separately -
see item CA.5040500. $3.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| O what joy you have (O wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommen) Orgue Carus Verlag
SATB vocal soli, SATB choir, congregation, 2 violins, viola, cello, contrabass, ...(+)
SATB vocal soli, SATB
choir, congregation, 2
violins, viola, cello,
contrabass, organ SKU:
CA.5040512 Chorale
cantata. Composed by
Max Reger. Edited by
Gunther Massenkeil.
German title: O wie selig
seid ihr doch. Sacred
vocal music, Mourning,
death. Single Part,
Violin 2. Composed 1903.
Op. WoO V/4 Nr. 2. 2
pages. Duration 15
minutes. Carus Verlag #CV
50.405/12. Published by
Carus Verlag
(CA.5040512). ISBN
9790007081720. Key: D
minor. Language:
German/English. The
choral cantatas are
Reger's most personal and
most substantial
contribution to one of
the principal categories
of Protestant church
music, and they are only
major works in this field
by one of the foremost
composers of his time.
This is true despite the
fact that Reger himself
does not appear to have
considered the cantatas
to figure among his
principal compositions,
as he gave them no opus
numbers. In contrast to
the three other chorale
cantatas of Reger which
exist in a definitive
form, there is no record
of the place or date of
the first performance of
O wie selig, or indeed of
any performance of it
during the composer's
lifetime. Score and part
available separately -
see item CA.5040500. $3.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| O what joy you have (O wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommen) Soli, choeur mixte et accompagnement satb (soli), SATB (chœur), Orchestre Carus Verlag
SATB vocal soli, SATB choir, congregation, 2 violins, viola, cello, contrabass, ...(+)
SATB vocal soli, SATB
choir, congregation, 2
violins, viola, cello,
contrabass, organ SKU:
CA.5040515 Chorale
cantata. Composed by
Max Reger. Edited by
Gunther Massenkeil.
German title: O wie selig
seid ihr doch. Sacred
vocal music, Mourning,
death. Single Part,
Double Bass. Composed
1903. Op. WoO V/4 Nr. 2.
2 pages. Duration 15
minutes. Carus Verlag #CV
50.405/15. Published by
Carus Verlag
(CA.5040515). ISBN
9790007081751. Key: D
minor. Language:
German/English. The
choral cantatas are
Reger's most personal and
most substantial
contribution to one of
the principal categories
of Protestant church
music, and they are only
major works in this field
by one of the foremost
composers of his time.
This is true despite the
fact that Reger himself
does not appear to have
considered the cantatas
to figure among his
principal compositions,
as he gave them no opus
numbers. In contrast to
the three other chorale
cantatas of Reger which
exist in a definitive
form, there is no record
of the place or date of
the first performance of
O wie selig, or indeed of
any performance of it
during the composer's
lifetime. Score and part
available separately -
see item CA.5040500. $3.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
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