Gaspare Spontini, composer and conductor, was celebrated for his operas in the late 1700s and early 1800s, although he also composed several pieces of vocal chamber music at the same time. The chamber repertoire was composed with the amateur performer in mind: the tessitura of his melodies falls mostly within the medium/high range and does not call for any special techniques. This does not, however, diminish the artistic value of his chamber music- indeed, it is a body of work of great interest and beauty. Each piece was written for a single voice accompanied by the piano or the harp - the two instruments most commonly found in salons of the time - and in a variety of forms: bagatelle, barcarole, chansonnette, romance, stances, stances élégiaques, élégie, strophes, Lied, romanze, ariette, melodici accenti, duetti and duetti notturni. In addition to a selection of compositions for medium-range voices - proposed here in the original tonic key - this book also includes the most celebrated and significant of Spontini's compositions. / Voix Moyenne(s) Et Piano

Nancy Litten\'s Choral and Vocal Warm-Ups for Pianists provides the perfect accompaniment for a whole range of warm-ups she herself uses regularly with choirs. This invaluable guide leads the choral director, step by step, through the various stages of the warm-up and provides a suitable keyboard accompaniment. Litten also offers valuable advice about what and how to practice common harmonic progressions, allowing the pianist to provide precisely the accompaniment the director needs to get the choir warmed-up and ready to sing. / Choral Music, Methods and Tutors / Etude / Voix et Piano

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. On his return to civilian life after five years Army service in the First World War, Vaughan Williams revised some pre-war works, such as The Lark Ascending and his opera Hugh the Drover , and embarked on new compositions - the Pastoral Symphony , the one-act Bunyan episode The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains and the Mass in G minor - all of which have outwardly in common a serene tranquillity. But beneath the surface, especially of the symphony, is a requiem-like mood, a legacy of the war. This ambiguity can also be sensed in the three songs -or rondels - for voice and string trio which he called Merciless Beauty. The texts are attributed to Chaucer./ Répertoire / Chant et Piano

11 sélections à partir du succès montre Chants pour un Nouveau Monde, défilé, les cinq dernières années, Urban Cowboy The Musical, 13 The Musical, et l'album d'usure de quelqu'un d'autre vêtements.Avec CD d'accompagnement, avec des accompagnements au piano effectuées par Jason Robert Brown! Le CD comprend également amélioré le réglage du tempo et du logiciel de transposition de l'utilisation des ordinateurs de CD-ROM ainsi. / Piano Et Chant