SSATB Choir, Piano - Level 3

SKU: CA.926200

Composed by Claude Debussy. Arranged by Denis Rouger. Separate edition to the CD. Lieder, Secular choral music. Full Score. Composed 1883. L 6. Duration 3 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 09.262/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.926200).

ISBN 9790007249243. Key: E major. Language: French. Text: Bourget, Paul.

Beau soir seems to have inspired musicians to make their own arrangements - for violin, cello, saxophone quartet, or even for five-part chamber choir and piano, as in this version by Denis Rouger. Unlike the instrumental versions, this one retains Paul Bourget's text: the poetic depiction of a sunset on a mild summer evening, on which light and shade merge into one another like the rhythm and harmony in Debussy's setting. It is not an unclouded depiction, but the recognition of our own finiteness. This art song was originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted it to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing the any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist. The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD Kennst du das Land ... (Carus 83.495).

Favorite Piano Classics (CC10) by Various. For Piano. Published by Santorella Publications (SP.78200). ISBN 1-58560-526-3. There is certainly an abundance of Classical piano literature in print. Every publisher has a collection of piano classics in their catalog and the differences are determined by several factors. When we narrow the field to include only "unedited original works" of the greatest composers, the largest difference is content. Favorite Piano Classics from Santorella Publications contains the finest assortment of "unedited original" piano works in print. Let's let the titles and their fathers speak for themselves.

Piano - Grade 5

SKU: FA.MFCD014PN

Composed by Claude Debussy and Robert Orledge. Rediscoverd Debussy. Classical, Impressionistic. Score. Musik Fabrik #MFCD014PN. Published by Musik Fabrik (FA.MFCD014PN).

8.27 x 11.69 inches.

Fetes galantes was actually planned as a hybrid opera-ballet to a libretto by Debussy's friend Louis Laloy. For this, Laloy arranged selected poetry by Paul Verlaine into three tableaux, replacing an earlier (unstarted) Debussyan project with Charles Morice entitled Crimen amoris. During his last productive summer of 1915, Debussy set a sequence from the start of the first tableau, 'Les Masques', involving stanzas 1 and 3 of the opening song for Mezzetin in Verlaine's comedy Les Uns et les autres. The action is set in a park a la Watteau late one summer afternoon as Mezzetin attempts to entertain a group of nonchalant masqueraders with only the aid of his voice and a mandolin.

This appears to have been prefaced by a slower, elegiac introduction reminiscent of the opening of the comtemporary Cello Sonata and it leads to a danced minuet by the masqued dancers which has clear echoes of the piano piece L'Isle Joyeuse (1904). Following Laloy's scenario, the mas-queraders then sing extracts from Verlaine's 'A la promenade' (from Fetes galantes itself). The minuet returns at greater length before being cut short by a chilly gust of wind, after which the park returns to its orginal state (and music) as though nothing had really happened.

(Selections from the Cello Repertoire). Compiled, ed., and arr. Carey Cheney. For Cello and Piano. String - Cello Studies or Collection. Companion CD also available (see item 24483). Instrumental Solo Book and Piano Accompaniment Book. 104 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Voice and Piano. By Arthur Honegger. (Voice and Piano). Vocal Collection. Size 9x12 inches. 112 pages. Published by Salabert.