For aspiring and professional singers who love Broadway, Alfred's Singer's Library of Musical Theatre presents an elegant collection of the best-loved musical theatre songs in their original keys, authentically transcribed from their original vocal scores. Perfect for study, and equally suitable for the most important auditions and performances, each volume is dedicated to a specific vocal range, and contains dozens of songs from a variety of shows that span decades of theatre history. Multiple volumes are available for each of four vocal ranges: Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano/Alto, Tenor, and Baritone/Bass. Authoritative historical and contextual commentary, audition tips, and 16-bar cut suggestions for each song make it the most useful and relevant song library of its kind. Titles: My Own Best Friend (Chicago) * Back on Base (Closer Than Ever) * That Mister Man of Mine (Dames At Sea) * A Little Brains, A Little Talent (Damn Yankees) * Something of My Own (Dessa Rose) * Ladies (Destry Rides Again) * I Know the Truth (Elton John and Tim Rice's 'Aida') * Holding to the Ground (Falsettos) * Think of Meryl Streep (Fame: The Musical) * A Little Girl From Little Rock (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) * Lazy Afternoon (The Golden Apple) * What Is a Woman? I Do, I Do) * Old Friend (I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road) * Last Midnight (Into The Woods) * Moments in the Woods (Into The Woods) * Somewhere That's Green (Little hop of Horrors) * West End Avenue (The Magic Show) * Tell Me Why (A Man of No Importance) * Take It on the Chin (Me and My Girl) * Like It Was (Merrily We Roll Along) * The Music Still Plays On A New Brain) * Mad About the Boy (Oh! Coward) * It's a Fine Life (Oliver!) * How Can I Wait? (Paint Your Wagon) * Zip (Pal Joey) * My Cousin in Milwaukee (Pardon My Eng / Instrumental Music, Miscellaneous, Songbooks, Voca / Recueil / Voix et Piano

For aspiring and professional singers who love Broadway, Alfred's Singer's Library of Musical Theatre presents an elegant collection of the best-loved musical theatre songs in their original keys, authentically transcribed from their original vocal scores. Perfect for study, and equally suitable for the most important auditions and performances, each volume is dedicated to a specific vocal range, and contains dozens of songs from a variety of shows that span decades of theatre history. Multiple volumes are available for each of four vocal ranges: Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano/Alto, Tenor, and Baritone/Bass. Authoritative historical and contextual commentary, audition tips, and 16-bar cut suggestions for each song make it the most useful and relevant song library of its kind. Titles: All for You (Saturday Night) * Autumn (Starting Here, Starting Now) * Ballad of Dependency (The Threepenny Opera) * The Boy Friend (The Boy Friend) * Bring on Tomorrow (Fame -- The Musical) * Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye (Anything Goes 1988 Revival) * I Speak Six Languages (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) * I'm a Stranger Here Myself (One Touch of Venus) * Jilted (Of Thee I Sing) * Just Imagine (Good News) * A Little Bit in Love (Wonderful Town) * A Little Bit of Good (Chicago) * Long Ago (Half a Sixpense) * Love in a Home (Lil' Abner) * Love Is Sweeping the Country (Of Thee I Sing) * Mira (Carnival) * My Love Is on the Way (The Golden Apple) * My Man's Gone Now (Porgy and Bess) * Once Upon a Dream (Jekyll & Hyde) * Only Love (Scarlet Pimpernel) * Patterns (Closer Than Ever) * Practically Perfect (Mary Poppins -- Stage Version) * Romance (The Desert Song) * Safety in Numbers (The Boy Friend) * The Sailor of My Dreams (Dames at Sea) * Some Other Time (On the Town)* The Sun Whose Rays Are / Instrumental Music, Miscellaneous, Songbooks, Voca / Recueil / Voix et Piano

A must-own comprehensive collection of 76 songs from musical theatre, movies, folksongs and standards for any budding vocalist! Songs include: Baby Face · The Bare Necessities · Beauty and the Beast · Born to Entertain · Castle on a Cloud · Do-Re-Mi · Do You Want to Build a Snowman? · Edelweiss · Getting to Know You · How Much Is That Doggie in the Window · I Whistle a Happy Tune · Let Me Entertain You · Let There Be Peace on Earth · Little People · Mairzy Doats · My Favorite Things · Never Never Land · Over the Rainbow · Puff the Magic Dragon · The Rainbow Connection · Red Ryder(R) Carbine Action BB Gun · Simple Gifts · Tomorrow · When I Grow Up · Where Is Love? · You've Got a Friend in Me · and more! / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

Par FAITH REBECCA. In this collection we have gathered fifty Christmas Carols from around the world carefully arranging them for Voice and Piano. Each piano accompaniment is playable by a competent pianist, and there are additional optional harmonies added to the vocal part for choral use if desired. Every country puts its own unique cultural stamp on celebrating the holiday season and this volume can be used to explore those celebrations as part of a wider exploration of the World of Christmas. To this end we have included interesting Christmas related facts, a translation of the text, and both versions where they exist, so each anthem can be easily sung and understood, or compared. Ideal for use in the classroom, or by choirs, and provides wonderful presentational opportunities for themed Christmas concerts. / Choral Music, Songbooks / Recueil / Voix et Piano

Kammeroper Nr. 2. Par RIHM WOLFGANG. Chamber opera does not mean “little opera.” On the same scale as chamber music is to the symphony, it is rather the other way of talking onstage. The movable apparatus permits sophisticated voice-leading. A large ensemble demands simple conception to achieve the complexity it perhaps intends; this can be formulated more sharply and nuanced in a chamber ensemble. Therefore it is the subject which this type of presentation must sustain – or, better, provoke. Büchner’s Lenz is a description of the conditions within a process of collapse, moments of destruction already occurred but not yet accepted, evident in the points of contact with the environment. And it was those points of contact which Michael Fröhling attempted to reconstruct onstage. Lenz’s distraught state is always the same; only the proximity of the environment to that distraught state grows and ebbs. The musical consequence An hour of extreme chamber music results from this description: always bound for the main character – actually, not a commentary, but the main character himself as a multilayered level of action. Although Lenz acts on many levels – or tries to or believes he is – he has no room to manoeuvre. That is why he is also tightly interwoven in his sonic surroundings; the voices which only he hears are just as much himself as the two men with whom he foregathers (the liberal pragmatist Oberlin and the alert merchant who always “does the right thing” in every situation) – they evoke responses which he deeply desires. Omnipresent Friederike is just as much his inner world as Nature is – Nature, which he can no longer perceive unless it is personified, enlivened or dead. Therefore, the music’s task is both to motivate the “situation” (atmospherically) and to be the psychological constant (via a network of entangled references per se) in an action as it is played out. The compositional process December 1977 to June 1978 – a period identical to the stepwise understanding of an existence as that of Jakob Lenz. Yet the more the historical figure became precisely attendant in my intellect in terms of data and atmosphere, the more it retreated in favour of a cipher of disturbance as I began to understand Lenz. Thence the explanation for the failure of the attempts to approach him – including my attempt to interpret him via musical representation – because, essentially, Lenz himself is the failure. Only the naked stages of that failure remain portrayable, i.e. including the failure of those who wish to “help” Lenz, for example, while Lenz himself is already trapped inextricably in a state of complete destruction. I tried to compose my way into that situation as far as possible; the insistence of several rhythmic and harmonic configurations is the palpable expression of the main character’s ever-recurring rigidity. One sound pervades the entire work. The musical stage For me, this is a place where very magical and very human things take place. In Jakob Lenz, the human aspects often switch to magical ones, since the realism of a self-suasive, unhinged soul takes on surreal traits – or we simply cannot understand that otherwise except as not being real. A character like Jakob Lenz on the stage is complex due to the fact alone that it harbours many stages within itself, and music must represent those constantly present stages. I have tried to do so in the most direct way – by not cleanly separating the musical layers, but keeping them constantly in evidence until they must break forth, each in accord with its own dramaturgy. In an overview, the large form takes on aspects of a rondo, performed in overlapping layers – a type of rondo relief, since perspectives of psychological proximity and distance are indeed formulated musically as atmospheric relations. Above all: the thread on which Jakob Lenz hangs is the current onto the listeners’ hearts. Wolfgang Rihm (January 1979)/ Répertoire / Chant et Piano

Une méthode qui a longtemps été très appréciés des enseignants et des étudiants. Chacun de ces livres se compose de trois parties: Partie I décrit le mécanisme vocal et sa fonction brièvement et en termes simples, un langage non technique. Partie II se compose de base, vocalises fondamentale soigneusement sélectionnés pour développer les voix spécifique pour lequel le livre est écrit. La partie III présente les éléments importants de la diction dans les 5 langues les plus couramment utilisés dans le chant: anglais, italien, français, allemand et espagnol. / Voix Et Piano

47 favourite songsInstrument : Voice and PianoType : song bookNombre de Pages : 100Six outstanding collections of favourite songs (Songs of England, Songs of Ireland, Songs of Scotland, Songs of Wales, Songs of Christmas, Songs of the Americans). All arrangements include the melody line in the accompaniment so that the songs work equally well as piano solos. Ideal for playing at home, in the classroom, or even as concert item!An international collection, including Stille Nacht, Fum! Fum! Fum!, Mary Had a Baby and O TannenbaumThe edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grades 1, 2 and 3).Content : As Joseph was a-Walking - Come and Adore Him - En Balén tocan a fuego - En nombre del Cielo - Es steht ein'Lind'im Himmelreich - Gabriel's Message - Go Tell it on the Mountain - Huachitorito - I Wonder as I Wander - Il est né le divin Enfant! - No Room was there for Mary - O Sleep My Pretty Baby - O Tannenbaum - Rise Up Shepherd - Rocky Rocky Road - Stille Nacht! heilige Nacht! - The Carnal and the Crane - The Yodlers' Carol - Un flambeau Jeanette Isabella! - Up Good Christian Folk - Wassail Song - Zither Carol - A la ru-ru-ru - A Yuletide Feast - All Poor Men and Humble - Carol of the Drum - Célébrons la Naissance - Christmas in Rome - De tierra lejana venimos - Earth's Joy - Es wird schon gleich dunkel - Fum Fum Fum! - Heer Jezus heeft een Hofken - Huron Indian Carol - Infant Holy Infant Lowly - Jesi is Crying - Joseph lieber Joseph mein - Lippai steh auf vom Schlaf - Lullaby for baby Jesus - Mary had a Baby - Quelle est cette odeur agréable - Sans Day Carol - The Cuckoo Carol - The Gower Wassail - The Holly Tree - The Praise of Christmas - The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy

L''uvre lyrique de Vivaldi reste paradoxalement méconnue : l'extraordinaire succès rencontré par un petit nombre de concertos a éclipsé tout un pan de ses compositions, notament les opéras, auxquels il consacra pourtant l'essentiel de sa carrière. De 1713 à 1741, Vivaldi donna le jour à une 'uvre colossale, préservée en grande partie par la Bibliothèque de Turin : plus de 450 compositions manuscrites, en grande partie autographes. Orlando furioso, drame héroïco-magique représenté au Teatro S. Angelo de Venise à l'automne 1727, prend place à l'exacte mi-temps de la carrière lyrique de Vivaldi. Quatorze années plus tôt, au mois de mai 1713, le Prete Rosso présentait à Vicence son premier opéra connu, Ottone in villa. Quatorze années plus tard, il s'éteignait dans l'oubli après avoir vainement tenté de faire représenter à Vienne son ultime opéra, L'Oracolo in Messenia. Grâce au travail remarquable du librettiste, Grazio Braccioli, qui a su conserver de l''uvre originale d'Arioste son essence poétique et sa dimension humaniste, Vivaldi y fait éclater le schéma conventionnel du dramma per musica, explorant les formes musicales les plus variées, bousculant la hiérarchie classique des personnages et superposant les actions dramatiques, toutes conduites avec une remarquable efficacité. Près de trois siècles après sa création, l'on demeure confondu face à l'extraordinaire richesse musicale et dramatique de l''uvre, pièce éblouissante où se mêlent toutes les formes existantes du théâtre chanté. La reconstitution de l'opéra a nécessité un important travail préparatoire sur le manuscrit turinois, particulièrement complexe, mêlant des feuillets soigneusement calligraphiés à des feuillets griffonnés à la hâte et comportant de multiples insertions, fragments ou retranchements, ainsi qu'une numérotation irrégulière des scènes. Jacques Manet en a enfin réalisé une version pour clavier très attendue par les chanteurs, mettant ainsi à la portée du plus grand nombre une 'uvre dans sa version complète, telle qu'elle fut conçue en 1727 par Vivaldi. Réduction chant et clavier : format A4, 286 pages, sur papier ivoire - Arrangement pour clavier : Jacques Manet - Présentation : Frédéric Delaméa - Traduction en anglais : Elizabeth Szostak-Clerc

This songbook features easy Piano arrangements of 11 songs from the multi-award winning show, Blood Brothers , including the hit song Tell Me It's Not True . This powerful, modern fable, with music and lyrics by Willy Russell, has had two highly successful productions in London's West End and is regularly seen in provincial theatres accross Britain. / Piano

Six outstanding collections of favourite songs (Songs of England, Songs of Ireland, Songs of Scotland, Songs of Wales, Songs of Christmas, Songs of the Americans). All arrangements include the melody line in the accompaniment so that the songs work equally well as piano solos. Ideal for playing at home, in the classroom, or even as concert item!An international collection, including Stille Nacht, Fum! Fum! Fum!, Mary Had a Baby and O TannenbaumThe edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grades 1, 2 and 3). / Voix Et Piano