1, Comme on voit sur la branche (02'45'')2, Le printemps n'a point tant de fleurs (02'00'')3, Pourtant si j'ay le chef plus blanc (01'00'')4, Ciel, air, et vents (04'15'') Parmi ces quatre poèmes de Ronsard, trois sont tirés du recueil Les Amours : Comme on voit sur la branche au mois de May est extrait du livre Sur la mort de Marie et date de 1578 - Le printemps n'a point tant de fleurs s'intitule Chanson dans le livre Nouvelle continuation des amours (1556) et Ciel, air, et vents est issu du deuxième livre des Amours et date de 1552, Quant au poème Pourtant si j'ay le chef plus blanc, il est tiré du quatrième livre des Odes publié en 1550, Ces poèmes sont un hymne à l'amour, tant spirituel que charnel, Ils trouvent leur résonance dans la musique à travers un langage tonal élargi, des ostinatos mélodiques et des couleurs harmoniques archaïsantes, La ligne vocale, très lyrique, a été conçue dans un souci très scrupuleux de respect prosodique et de compréhension du texte, Enfin, la philosophie de ces poèmes trouve écho dans une philosophie musicale plus générale : que la musique soit amour, joie et plaisir auditif, / Baryton

Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band is a complete curriculum for beginning band students to help them grow as ensemble musicians. The series complements any band method and supplements any performance music. It contains 167 exercises, including more than 100 chorales by some of today's most renowned young band composers. Various exercises at the grade 1/2, 1, and 1 1/2 levels are grouped by key, including: * Long Tones* Passing the Tonic* Pitch Matching* Scale Builders* Interval Builders* Expanding Intervals* Chord Builders* Moving Chord Tones* Diatonic Harmony* Rhythmic Subdivision* 5-Note Scales* Scale Canons (5-, 6-, or 8-Note Scales)* Scale Chorales (5-, 6-, and 8-Note Scales) * ChoralesThe compositions were written by Roland Barrett, Chris Bernotas, Jodie Blackshaw, Matt Conaway, Ralph Ford, Tyler S. Grant, Rob Grice, John O'Reilly, Robert Sheldon, Todd Stalter, Randall Standridge, Michael Story, and Scott Watson. Whether your students are progressing through exercises to better their technical facility, or improving their musicianship with beautiful chorales, we are confident your performers will be excited, motivated, and inspired by using Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Young Concert Band. / Baryton

This outstanding series is an encouragement to beginning singers in preparing a vocal solo. Songs have been carefully chosen for each voice type after consulting many official state contest repertoire lists. All the songs for instance are on the Texas list. The series will be useful to any novice singer not just limited to those preparing an actual contest solo. Each volume contains 10 songs: 5 art songs in English an African-American spiritual 2 songs in Italian a song in German and a song in Spanish. There are new editions and engravings of all songs. Biographical information is included on each composer. Interpretive suggestions are given for each song and the prefaceon Learning a Song is especially instructive. Each companion CD includes beautiful performances of all the songs by a professional singer and excellent accompaniments by pianist Laura Ward. Also on the CD are pronunciation guides in Italian German and Spanish. Baritone/Bass Book Contents: Adela · All Through the Night · Alma del core · Beautiful Dreamer · Du bist wie eine Blume · Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride · O cessate di piagrami · The Sea · The Slighted Swain · Swing Low Sweet Chariot.

It is my aim to give students a modern, systematically structured, well-informed vocal coach that meets the demands of present-day stage practice. And, of course, a cohesive repertoire and logical presentation of audition arias for every vocal genre. (Peter Anton Ling) OperAria is the ideal vocal coach for all voice types. Edited by Peter Anton Ling, the books address all singers and are conceived above all for training and auditions. In addition, through their careful selection, they offer valuable inspiration for opera recitals. Repertoire anthology of opera arias according to vocal criteria (range, tessitura, specifics, type of aria) with due regard to practical aspects of musical and theatrical nature (style, era, role type, national provenance) with comments on the arias information on the composer, the librettist, the work,the range and of versions or casting a short synopsis of the contents illuminating the basic dramatic constellation in the context of the opera's plot an evaluation from the singer's point of view and featuring a CD with a ?phonetic assistant? - aria texts in the original language spoken by native speakers as an audio file (mp3) with aria texts in German and English translations as a text file (pdf) / Baryton - piano / Edition Breitkopf