Organ SKU: BR.EB-3938 12 Compositions of the 15th and 16th Century...(+)
Organ
SKU:
BR.EB-3938
12
Compositions of the 15th
and 16th Century.
Composed by Arnold
Schering. Edited by
Arnold Schering. Solo
instruments; stapled.
Edition Breitkopf.
Renaissance/early
Baroque; Baroque. Score.
40 pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 3938.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-3938).
ISBN 9790004162057. 12
x 9 inches.
Antoine
Brumel (ca. 1460-ca.
1520) Um 1460 in den
franzosischen
Niederlanden geboren,
wirkte Antoine Brumel
1483 als Vorsanger an der
Kathedrale zu Chartres,
spater in Laon. 1498-1500
war er Chormeister an
Notre-Dame in Paris. Uber
Lyon kam er 1505 als
Nachfolger Josquins an
den Hof Alfonsos I. von
Ferrara und starb
wahrscheinlich um 1520.
Brumel gilt als einer der
bedeutendsten
,,Niederlander der
Josquin-Generation. Er
schrieb uberwiegend
Kirchenmusik: Messen
(u.a. die 12stimmige
Missa ,,Et ecce terrae
motus, die noch 1570 in
Munchen unter der Leitung
Orlando di Lassos
aufgefuhrt wurde),
Motetten,
Magnificat-Vertonungen
und Bicinien, ferner
einige Chansons. Brumel
ist ein Meister des
polyphonen Satzes;
gelegentlich treten
homophone Partien auf
(Missa ,,Dringhs). Hans
Buchner (1483-1538)
Buchner wurde am 26.
Oktober 1483 in
Ravensburg (Wurttemberg)
geboren. Bereits in
jungen Jahren kam er nach
Augsburg und Innsbruck,
wo er Schuler Paul
Hofhaimers war. In Wien
lernte er in der
kaiserlichen Hofkantorei
wahrscheinlich Heinrich
Isaac und Ludwig Senfl
kennen. 1506 wurde
Buchner Organist in
Konstanz. Er starb im
Jahre 1538. Von ihm sind
zahlreiche Kompositionen
(Orgelwerke, Motetten,
Lieder, Tanze) erhalten.
Buchners Hauptwerk ist
das ,,Fundamentum, ein
theoretisch-praktisches
Lehrbuch der
Orgelspielkunst. Es
enthalt Anweisungen zur
Improvisation, zum
Orgelspiel und zur
lntavolierung sowie 145
Orgelkompositionen.
Heinrich Finck
(1444/45-1527) Finck
stammt wahrscheinlich aus
Bamberg, wo er um 1444/45
geboren wurde. Uber sein
Leben ist wenig bekannt.
Er wirkte an der
koniglich-polnischen
Hofkapelle in Krakau und
Warschau, war aber
daneben viel auf Reisen.
1510 wurde er
Kapellmeister am Hof des
Herzogs von Wurttemberg,
wirkte spater am
erzbischoflichen Hof in
Salzburg und erhielt im
hohen Alter die Stelle
des Hofkapellmeisters
Ferdinands I. in Wien, wo
er am 9. Juni 1527 starb.
Von Heinrich Fincks
Kompositionen ist nur ein
kleiner Teil uberliefert.
An erster Stelle sind
seine deutschen Lieder zu
nennen; ausserdem schrieb
Finck Messen (Missa in
summis) und Motetten. Der
Komponist gilt als der
erste deutsche
Grossmeister der Musik.
Seine Fruhwerke zeigen
zum Teil noch eine karge
Dreistimmigkeit mit
harten Zusammenklangen;
spater wird sein Satz
vollklingender,
wahrscheinlich unter dem
Einfluss der
,,Niederlander (Isaac).
Josquin Desprez
(ca.1440-1521/24) Josquin
ist der beruhmteste
Meister seiner Epoche,
die nach ihm als
Joaquin-Zeit bezeichnet
wird. Er wurde um 1440
wahrscheinlich in der
Picardie geboren und soll
Schuler Ockeghems gewesen
sein. 1459-1472 war
Josquin Sanger der
Mailander Domkantorei,
1473-1479 Mitglied der
Kapelle am Hof der Sforza
in Mailand. 1486-1494
wird Josquin als Mitglied
der papstlichen
Sangerkapelle in Rom
genannt. Seine Tatigkeit
als Chordirektor am Dom
zu Cambrai 1495-1499 ist
urkundlich nicht
gesichert. Er komponierte
fur den Hof Konig Ludwigs
XII. von Frankreich und
fur den Hof der Este in
Ferrara. 1502 wurde
Josquin von Ercole I. als
Kapellmeister nach
Ferrara berufen, wo er
bis zum Tode des Herzogs
(1505) blieb. Sein
Nachfolger wurde Brumel.
Joaquin kehrte in seine
Heimat zuruck und wurde
zum Probst der Kirche
Notre-Dame in Conde
(Hennegau) ernannt. wo er
am 27. August 1521 starb.
Als Komponist gelangte
Josquin bereits zu
Lebzeiten zu europaischer
Beruhmtheit. Sein Stil
beeinflusste das gesamte
musikalische Schaffen in
Europa bis in die
Palestrina-Zeit. Unter
seinen Werken sind an
erster Stelle die Messen
zu nennen (darunter ,,L'
homme arme, Missa sine
nomine, sein Meisterwerk
,,La sol fa re mi, die
zart-lyrische Messe ,,Ave
maris stella, die
Reprasentationsmesse
,,Hercules Dux Ferrariae
und die Spatwerke ,,De
beata virgine, ,,Pange
lingua und ,,Da pacem);
weiterhin schrieb er
Motetten (u. a. ,,Stabat
mater, ,,Miserere mei,
,,Memor esto verbi tui,
,,De profundis, ,,In
exitu Israel, ,,Laudate
pueri Dominum) und
Chansons (die
bekanntesten sind ,,Adieu
mes amours, ,,Mille
regretz und ,,J' ay bien
cause). Josquin ist einer
der genialsten Musiker
aller Zeiten. Sein streng
polyphoner Satz fuhrt
konsequent den Stil
Ockeghems weiter. Josquin
erreicht in seinen Werken
die hochste Meisterschaft
im
konstruktiv-imitatorische
n Stil der
,,Niederlander.
Gleichzeitig uberwindet
er jedoch das nur
Artistische dieser Kunst;
sein subjektiv gefarbtes,
von individuellem
Ausdruckswillen
bestimmtes
Wort-Ton-Verhaltnis wird
zum Ideal der
Renaissancemusik.
Josquins
Kompositionslehre wurde
1552 von seinem Schuler
Adrian Petit Coclico im
,,Compendium musicae
aufgezeichnet. Heinrich
Isaac (ca. 1450-1517)
Isaac wurde kurz vor 1450
in den Niederlanden
geboren. Er war
wahrscheinlich Schuler
Squarcialupis in Florenz
und wirkte in Ferrara und
am Hof Lorenzos de'
Medici in Florenz. 1484
weilte er gleichzeitig
mit Paul Hofhaimer in
Innsbruck, war danach bis
1494 wieder in Florenz
und wurde 1496
Hofkomponist Maximilians
I. in Augsburg und Wien.
Er unternahm zahlreiche
Reisen (u.a. 1497-1500 an
den Hof Friedrichs des
Weisen nach Torgau,
1503-1505 zu Ercole I.
nach Ferrara). Spater
lebte Isaac in Konstanz,
wo er sein Motettenwerk
,,Chorale Constantinum
(1550 von seinem Schuler
Ludwig Senfl
herausgegeben) schuf; von
1514 bis zu seinem Tode
1517 lebte er wieder in
Florenz. Isaac ist einer
der vielseitigsten
Musiker seiner Zeit. Er
ist in allen
musikalischen
Nationalstilen
sattelfest. Der Bogen
seines Schaffens spannt
sich vom Konstruktivismus
der niederlandischen
Polyphonie bis zur
anmutigen Intimitat des
schlichten
Renaissance-Satzes. Isaac
schrieb Messen (u. a. die
beruhmte ,,Missa
carminum), Motetten
(,,Chorale Constantinum),
Chorlieder und Chorsatze
auf deutsche,
franzosische und
italienische Texte (sein
Satz ,,Innsbruck, ich
muss dich lassen wurde
weltberuhmt) sowie
Instrumentalsatze.
Johannes Martini
(1430/40-ca.1500) Der um
1430/40 in Flandern
geborene Komponist wirkte
1474 neben Josquin und
Compere an der Mailander
Hofkapelle. 1475 wurde er
Mitglied der Hofkapelle
zu Ferrara, wo er noch
1492 tatig war. Sein
Todesjahr ist unbekannt.
Nach 1500 wird Martini
nicht mehr in den Listen
bekannter Komponisten
gefuhrt. Von Martini sind
Messen, Motetten und
Chansons uberliefert, die
stilistisch von Dufay und
Ockeghem beeinflusst
sind. Eine gewisse
Erstarrung des Stils ist
unverkennbar. Gregor
Meyer (ca. 1510-1576)
Meyer wurde um 1510 in
Sackingen geboren und
wirkte um 1535 bis 1558
als Organist in
Solothurn, 1561 bis zu
seinem Tode 1576 am
Munster zu Basel. Auf
Veranlassung Glareans
schrieb Meyer fur dessen
,,Dodekachordon (1547)
zahlreiche
Kompositionsbeispiele;
ausserdem sind in anderen
Sammlungen einige Kanons,
Motetten, einzelne
Messsatze und kirchliche
und weltliche Lieder
erhalten. Jacob Obrecht
(1450/51-1505) Als
einziger der grossen
,,Niederlander stammt
Obrecht aus dem
nordniederlandischen
Raum; er wurde
wahrscheinlich am 22.
November 1450 in Bergen
op Zoom geboren.
1476-1478 war er
Chormeister in Utrecht,
1479-1484 in seiner
Heimatstadt. 1484/85
wirkte er als
Kapellmeister an der
Kathedrale in Cambrai und
anschliessend in Brugge.
1487/88 besuchte Obrecht
den Hof Ercoles I. von
Ferrara. 1492 finden wir
ihn als Chormeister an
Notre-Dame zu Antwerpen,
1496 in Bergen op Zoom,
1498 in Brugge. 1500
schied er
krankheitshalber aus dem
Dienst und lebte bis 1504
in Antwerpen. Auf einer
Reise nach Ferrara starb
er im Jahre 1505
(angeblich an der Pest).
Von Obrechts
Kompositionen sind etwa
25 Messen (darunter
,,Maria zart, ,,L' homme
arme, ,,Caput, ,,Je ne
demande, ,,Fortuna
desperata), Motetten und
Chansons auf
niederlandische,
franzosische und
italienische Texte
uberliefert. Obrecht
gehort mit Josquin, lsaac
und Pierre de la Rue zu
den Grossmeistern der
Josquin-Zeit. Er setzt
die Polyphonie Dufays und
Ockeghems fort, doch
spielen bei ihm die
Durchimitation wie auch
das bei Josquin stark
ausgepragte
Wort-Ton-Verhaltnis eine
geringe Rolle. Obrechts
Musik ist durch ihre
vitale Kraft,
Spontaneitat des
Ausdrucks, klare
Periodenbildung, den Hang
zum vollen harmonischen
Satz und ein neues
Tonalitatsbewusstsein
gekennzeichnet. Im
Spatwerk ist der Einfluss
des volkstumlichen
italienischen Liedes
festzustellen. Obrechte
ausgepragter Penonalstil
ist so unnachahmlich,
dass er keine Fortsetzer
fand. Nicht zu Unrecht
wird Obrecht als der
grosse ,,Aussenseiter
zwischen den Perioden
Dufay-Ockeghem und
Josquin-Isaac bezeichnet.
Marbrianus de Orto (ca.
1450-1529) Orto stammt
moglicherweise ebenfalls
aus Flandern; sein
Geburtsjahr ist nicht
bekannt. 1484-1494 war er
gleichzeitig mit Josquin
papstlicher Kapellsanger
in Rom, spater (1505) am
Hofe Philipps des Schonen
von Burgund. Orto starb
1529 in Nivelles. Von ihm
sind Messen, Motetten und
Chansons erhalten.
Vermutlich redigierte er
wahrend seines romischen
Aufenthaltes gemeinsam
mit Josquin die
Bearbeitung Duf'ayscher
Hymnen. Ortos Messen
reichen nicht an die
Spitzenleistungen seiner
Zeit (Josquin, Obrecht)
heran; bedeutender sind
seine Motetten, wie etwa
die Motette ,,Ave Maria,
die Petrucci 1501 an die
Spitze seines ,,Odhecaton
stellte, und die
Vergil-Motette ,,Dulces
exuviae.
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52 pages. Duration 24
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00272S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.16400272S).
UPC:
680160588442. 8.5 x 11
inches.
My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.164002720 Cassatt. Composed b...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.164002720
Cassatt. Composed
by Dan Welcher. Spiral
and Saddle. Premiere:
Cassatt Quartet,
Northeastern Illinois
University, Chicago, IL.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2007. WRT11142.
52+16+16+16+16 pages.
Duration 24 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#164-00272. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.164002720).
UPC:
680160573042. 8.5 x 11
inches.
My third
quartet is laid out in a
three-movement structure,
with each movement based
on an early, middle, and
late work of the great
American impressionist
painter Mary Cassatt.
Although the movements
are separate, with
full-stop endings, the
music is connected by a
common scale-form,
derived from the name
MARY CASSATT, and by a
recurring theme that
introduces all three
movements. I see this
theme as Mary's Theme, a
personality that stays
intact while undergoing
gradual change. I
The Bacchante (1876)
[Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania] The
painting shows a young
girl of Italian or
Spanish origin, playing a
small pair of cymbals.
Since Cassatt was trying
very hard to fit in at
the French Academy at the
time, she painted a lot
of these subjects, which
were considered typical
and universal. The style
of the painting doesn't
yet show Cassatt's
originality, except
perhaps for certain
details in the face.
Accordingly the music for
this movement is
Spanish/Italian, in a
similar period-style but
using the musical
signature described
above. The music begins
with Mary's Theme,
ruminative and slow, then
abruptly changes to an
alla Spagnola-type fast
3/4 - 6/8 meter. It
evokes the
Spanish-influenced music
of Ravel and Falla.
Midway through,
there's an accompanied
recitative for the viola,
which figures large in
this particular movement,
then back to a truncated
recapitulation of the
fast music. The overall
feeling is of a
well-made, rather
conventional movement in
a contemporary
Spanish/Italian style.
Cassatt's painting, too,
is rather conventional.
II At the Opera
(1880) [Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts]
This painting is one of
Cassatt's most well known
works, and it hangs in
the Museum of Fine Arts
in Boston. The painting
shows a woman alone in a
box at the opera house,
completely dressed
(including gloves) and
looking through opera
glasses at someone or
something that is NOT on
the stage. Across the
auditorium from her, but
exactly at eye level, is
a gentleman with opera
glasses intently watching
her - though it is not
him that she's looking
at. It's an intriguing
picture. This
movement is far less
conventional than the
first movement, as the
painting is far less
conventional. The music
begins with a rapid,
Shostakovich-type
mini-overture lasting
less than a minute, based
on Mary's Theme. My
conjecture is that the
woman in the painting has
arrived late to the
opera, busily stumbling
into her box. What
happens next is a kind of
collage, a kind of
surrealistic overlaying
of two different
elements: the foreground
music, at first is a
direct quotation of
Soldier's Chorus from
Gounod's FAUST (an opera
Cassatt would certainly
have heard in the
brand-new Paris Opera
House at that time),
played by Violin II,
Viola, and Cello. This
music is played sul
ponticello in the melody
and col legno in the
marching accompaniment.
On top of this, the first
violin hovers at first on
a high harmonic, then
descends into a slow
melody, completely
separate from the Gounod.
It's as if the woman in
the painting is hearing
the opera onstage but is
not really interested in
it. Then the cello joins
the first violin in a
kind of love-duet (just
the two of them, at
first). This music isn't
at all Gounod-derived;
it's entirely from the
same scale patterns as
the first movement and
derives from Mary's Theme
and its scale. The music
stays in a kind of
dichotomy feeling,
usually
three-against-one, until
the end of the movement,
when another Gounod
melody, Valentin's aria
Avant de quitter ce lieux
reappears in a kind of
coda for all four
players. It ends
atmospherically and
emotionally disconnected,
however. The overall
feeling is a kind of
schizophrenic,
opera-inspired dream.
III Young Woman in
Green, Outdoors in the
Sun (1909) [Worcester Art
Museum, Massachusetts]
The painting, one
of Cassatt's last, is
very simple: just a
figure, looking sideways
out of the picture. The
colors are pastel and yet
bold - and the woman is
likewise very
self-assured and not in
the least demure. It is
eight minutes long, and
is all about melody -
three melodies, to be
exact (Young Woman,
Green, and Sunlight). No
angst, no choppy rhythms,
just ever-unfolding
melody and lush
harmonies. I quote one
other French composer
here, too: Debussy's song
Green, from Ariettes
Oubliees. 1909 would have
been Debussy's heyday in
Paris, and it makes
perfect sense musically
as well as visually to do
this. Mary Cassatt
lived her last several
years in near-total
blindness, and as she
lost visual acuity, her
work became less sharply
defined - something akin
to late water lilies of
Monet, who suffered
similar vision loss. My
idea of making this
movement entirely melodic
was compounded by having
each of the three
melodies appear twice,
once in a pure form, and
the second time in a more
diffuse setting. This
makes an interesting two
ways form:
A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.
String Quartet No.3
(Cassatt) is dedicated,
with great affection and
respect, to the Cassatt
String Quartet, whose
members have dedicated
themselves in large
measure to the furthering
of the contemporary
repertoire for
quartet.
Guitar - Intermediate SKU: MB.WBM76M Saddle-stitched. Country. Book and o...(+)
Guitar - Intermediate
SKU: MB.WBM76M
Saddle-stitched. Country.
Book and online audio.
Mel Bay Publications, Inc
#WBM76M. Published by Mel
Bay Publications, Inc
(MB.WBM76M).
ISBN
9781736363096. 8.75x11.75
inches.
This
comprehensive book
contains the solos found
in five William Bay
guitar solo
collections.á The
solos range from colorful
foot tapping reels,
breakdowns, hornpipes,
jigs, fiddle tunes and
sea chanteys to country
and Celtic ballads and
waltzes.á Also
included are numerous
original guitar
solos.á All 143 solos
in this collection are
recorded by the author
and online access to the
recordings is included.
All solos are presented
in notation and
tablature.
By Cari Fuchs. For acoustic instruments. Songbook. Celtic/Irish. Level: Beginnin...(+)
By Cari Fuchs. For
acoustic instruments.
Songbook. Celtic/Irish.
Level:
Beginning-Intermediate.
Book. Size 8.75x11.75.
128 pages. Published by
Mel Bay Publications,
Inc.
Montmartre Flûte traversière et Piano - Intermédiaire De Haske Publications
Flute and Piano - intermediate SKU: BT.DHP-1155653-401 Composed by Pascal...(+)
Flute and Piano -
intermediate
SKU:
BT.DHP-1155653-401
Composed by Pascal
Proust. De Haske Flute
Series. Book Only.
Composed 2015. 8 pages.
De Haske Publications
#DHP 1155653-401.
Published by De Haske
Publications
(BT.DHP-1155653-401).
ISBN 9789043147484.
English-German-French-Dut
ch.
The young
flautists are keen to
take a stroll through the
nostalgic lanes and over
the lively squares of
this famous Parisian
neighbourhood.
The
composer Pascal Proust
has many years’
experience as a musician
and music teacher. His
output includes several
hundred compositions for
the most diverse
instrumentations. He
wrote Montmartre
for flautists at the
level of approximately 3
4years’ study and
paid special attention to
an easy-to-follow,
attractive musical style.
As a result,
Montmartre is an
ideal performance or
competition work for
young
musicians.
De
jonge fluitisten gaan een
wandeling maken door de
nostalgische steegjes en
over de levendige
pleintjes van deze
beroemde Parijse
wijk.
De componist
Pascal Proust kan bogen
op een jarenlange
ervaring als muzikant en
muziekdocent. Zijn oeuvre
omvat honderden
composities voor de meest
diverse instrumentaties.
Hij schreef
Montmartre voor
fluitisten die ongeveer
drie tot vier jaarles
hebben gehad, waarbij hij
speciaal aandacht heeft
besteed aan een makkelijk
te volgen, aantrekkelijke
muziekstijl. Daardoor
is Montmartre een
ideaal voordrachts- of
wedstrijdstuk voor jonge
muzikanten.
Die
jungen Flötisten
wollen einen Bummel durch
die nostalgischen Gassen
und über die belebten
Plätze dieses
berühmten Pariser
Stadtviertels
unternehmen.
Der
Komponist Pascal Proust
kann aus seiner
langjährigen Erfahrung
als Musiker und
Musikpädagoge
schöpfen; sein Oeuvre
umfasst mehrere hundert
Kompositionen für
verschiedenste
Besetzungen. Er
schriebMontmartre
für Flötisten mit
ungefähr 3 4 Jahren
Unterrichtserfahrung und
legte besonderes
Augenmerk auf einen
leicht verständlichen,
attraktiven musikalischen
Stil. Dadurch eignet sich
Montmartre ideal
als Vortrags-
undWettbewerbsstück
für junge
Musiker.
Chamber Music flute, piano SKU: CF.WF228 Philippe Gaubert. Compose...(+)
Chamber Music flute,
piano
SKU:
CF.WF228
Philippe
Gaubert. Composed by
Philippe Gaubert. Edited
by Amy Porter. Arranged
by Amy Porter. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
104+1+32 pages. Carl
Fischer Music #WF228.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.WF228).
Books and Journals SKU: UT.QC-4 Edited by Roberto Illiano and Rohan H. St...(+)
Books and Journals
SKU: UT.QC-4
Edited by Roberto Illiano
and Rohan H.
Stewart-MacDonald.
Paperback (Soft Cover).
Quaderni Clementiani.
Essays by Jean-Pierre
Bartoli, Alan Davison,
Therese Ellsworth, Erik
Entwistle, Jeremy
Eskenazy, Michaela
Freemanova, Stephan D.
Lindeman, Rudolf Rasch,
Renato Ricco, Jeanne
Roudet, David Rowland,
Massimiliano Sala, Laure
Schnapper, Rohan H.
Stewart-MacDo. Classical.
Books and Journals. 568
pages. Ut Orpheus #QC 4.
Published by Ut Orpheus
(UT.QC-4).
ISBN
9788881094783. 6.5 x 9.5
inches.
Saggi di
Jean-Pierre Bartoli, Alan
Davison, Therese
Ellsworth, Erik
Entwistle, Jeremy
Eskenazy, Michaela
Freemanová, Stephan D.
Lindeman, Rudolf Rasch,
Renato Ricco, Jeanne
Roudet, David Rowland,
Massimiliano Sala, Laure
Schnapper, Rohan H.
Stewart-MacDonald, Marie
Sumner
Lott
The
career of Jan Ladislav
Dussek (1760-1812) was
notable for its
peripateticism. Starting
out in his native Bohemia
Dussek spent periods of
time in Germany and the
Netherlands, settling in
London for about ten
years in the 1790s,
progressing to Hamburg
and ending his days in
Paris. Although his
activities centred on the
piano, like so many
musicians of his day
Dussek branched out from
performing and composing
to encompass teaching,
publishing and instrument
retail, with varying
success. A plethora of
reviews and biographical
accounts attest to
Dussek’s renown
throughout Europe as a
pianist and composer,
particularly when it came
to sensitive and
cantabile playing; and he
interacted with some of
the most eminent
musicians, artists and
political figures of his
time. Dussek’s
reputation declined
sharply in the nineteenth
century, however, and
with the exception of
isolated revivals of his
work, for instance in
London in the
mid-nineteenth century,
he has remained on the
verge of obscurity in the
minds of many musicians
and music-lovers until
the present day: even his
well-known innovation of
placing the piano
sideways-on to the
audience to display his
striking profile is often
mistakenly attributed to
Franz Liszt. Although
Dussek has provided the
subject of a number of
student dissertations
over the years, in the
published literature he
has largely been
restricted to cameo
appearances or brief
entries in historical
surveys. The
bicentennial anniversary
of Dussek’s death
provides a fitting
occasion for bringing
together scholars from
all parts of the world to
produce the first
multi-author,
multi-lingual study of
the composer. Several
chapters deal with
aspects of
Dussek’s biography
and iconography that
receive only sparse
treatment elsewhere;
others survey the
different branches of his
output, including the
piano sonatas, the piano
concertos, the chamber
music with and without
harp and the three String
Quartets, Op. 60, which
are currently enjoying a
revival via recordings
and a new edition.
This book has two
fundamental aims. One is
to stimulate renewed
interest in, and debate
about, a less than
celebrated – one
might say unjustly
neglected –
figure. The other aim is
to approach
Dussek’s
multi-facetted,
geographically diverse
career as an interface
between ourselves and the
music business at the
beginning of the
nineteenth century, whose
complexity and
vicissitudes emanated
from the sociological
dynamics and political
events with which Dussek
was, to an almost unique
degree, inextricably
associated. The highs and
lows of Dussek’s
career, the surviving
contemporary accounts of
Dussek the performer and
composer, and the letters
he exchanged with
colleagues in several
nations vividly portray
the struggles of a
worldly, ambitious,
versatile and extremely
perspicacious musician
striving to carve out a
place of eminence and
material security for
himself. This meant
negotiating the complex
progression, underway at
this point in history,
from the patronage system
to the emergence of the
artist as a socially and
financially autonomous
entity.
(Serie II - France 1800-1860). Edited by Arlette Biget, Michel Giboureau. For Fl...(+)
(Serie II - France
1800-1860). Edited by
Arlette Biget, Michel
Giboureau. For Flute.
This edition: Facsimile.
Methodes and Traites.
Score. 2264 pages.
Published by Anne Fuzeau
Productions - France