Discipline / Instrument : voix, ensemble et électronique Nomenclature : S / Hc / T / B / fl / hb / cl / hp / clav / perc / vlc / electr. Durée : 17' Genre : Contemporain Média : Partition Editeur : Lemoine Date de parution : 17/05/2010 Librettiste : Poèmes de Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) Commanditaire : Ircam-Centre Pompidou et Ars Musica Création : 07/06/2010 - Paris, Festival Agora, Centre Pompidou - Ensemble vocal Exaudi, l'Instant Donné, Daniel Lévy (mise en espace), Sébastien Roux (Réalisation informatique musicale, Ircam) ISBN / ISMN : 9790230988889 Notice Méditée depuis 2007, aiguisée par la lecture des cantates de Bach, la création de Gérard Pesson marque sa première rencontre avec l'électronique et la lutherie virtuelle. Toute la poétique du compositeur français, un théâtre de lumières et d'intermittences, investit l'espace scénique des cantates : une machinerie minutieuse de gestes instrumentaux, d'objets trouvés, détournés ou fabriqués - les ciels acoustiques, l'orgue de verre. La dramaturgie se souvient du découpage baroque avec ses mouvements à configuration variable, les rythmes de danse ou l'alternance entre solistes et ensemble. Dans ce pays-cantate qui est tout à la fois trace et mémoire, origine et destination, l'écriture vive du présent (les textes du jeune Mathieu Nuss ou d'Elena Andreyev) est interrompue par la visitation du passé, ici l'immense poésie de Gérard Manley Hopkins et sa vision d'une nature transfigurée. Extrait du programme du Festival Agora J'ai voulu ces cantates comme un théâtre intérieur, un théâtre de mots où le paysage de la musique, son mouvement panoramique, sa vitesse, sont le poème. Poème ami, d'abord supputé, appelé, discuté, biffé, dit et redit. Texte construit par lectures passionnées qui devient la préfiguration exacte du temps de la musique. Alors, musique et poème font territoire. Ils sont l'un à l'autre le pays. La cantate est opéra de climats, respiration articulée dans laquelle la musique devient didascalie du poème, son envers scandé. La cantate est une et fragmentée, c'est une narration librement relancée, souvent interceptée par son propre commentaire. Son fonds d'images serait comme partagé, ainsi que devait l'être, à l'époque de Bach, l'histoire biblique. J'ai souhaité que ces cantates, qui sont une dramaturgie sans action explicite, soient pourtant mises en profondeur, en lumières, en mots aussi, par un artiste venant du spectacle. J'en ai fait la proposition à Daniel Lévy avec qui j'ai déjà eu la chance de collaborer. Ces trois cantates sont distinctes, elles ont des effectifs vocaux et instrumentaux légèrement différents, mais une diagonale les traverse, qui passe par la poésie profonde et sidérante de Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) où se concentrent une méditation sur la présence de Dieu et une observation de la nature, de ses éléments dont la musique elle-même est une part atmosphérique. On retrouve un écho à la question de Dieu et au décor planté dans les deux textes contemporains des cantates 1 (Mathieu Nuss) et 3 (Elena Andreyev). Ces cantates adoptent une forme en numéros successifs, souvent brefs, enchaînés ou non. On trouve, par exemple dans la première, des chorals, des airs, des récitatifs, même si rien dans la musique (à part peut-être le son d'un orgue) ne fait allusion à l'univers baroque - si ce n'est aussi (dans la deuxième cantate) l'utilisation du poème de Manley Hopkins en hommage à Henry Purcell. L'électronique est ici la tentative qui prolonge et met en danger le poème (et non moins le musicien). Elle est pour moi l'aventure par excellence - ma première véritable incursion dans ce domaine. Foi en le poème, doute en l'électronique. Ce qui les lie est une sorte d'instrumentalisation dont la technique du sample devient le précipité poétique, changé ici en un clavier de sensations. Samples de voix, de vents, de pluies, de souffles, de train dans le lointain, d'horloges et d'oiseaux. Le murmure du monde - ce Naturlaut dont parlait Gustav Mahler - rentre tout entier dans une boîte à merveilles, laissant voir ses coutures (jusqu'aux gimmicks des boîtes à rythmes), mais non moins son aspiration presque enfantine à se fondre dans toutes les voix, à les épouser, à les déplier comme un de ces génies des contes orientaux qui sortent de la lampe à huile si on la frotte - et ici, on frotte beaucoup. Puis à son tour le sample, qui est affaire de cadrage serré, réensemence les instruments qui deviennent greffons de clavier. L'électronique, dans les trois cantates, est délibérément non spatialisée. Elle doit former avec les instruments et les voix, tous amplifiés, un son homogène et centré qui délimite l'espace du jeu, celui de la parole. L'électronique (sauf dans la cantate 2, où elle assume davantage la fonction d'un décor sonore) est le plus souvent fondue avec les musiciens en un méta-instrument. A aucun moment l'électronique n'affirme de puissance, de brillance. Sa présence, souvent indiscernable, est un point de fuite de l'écoute, comme une perturbation qu'on peut intégrer pleinement à l'image sonore, ou bien laisser opérer comme un venin légèrement urticant du timbre. God's Grandeur Cette cantate, d'après quatre poèmes de Gerard Manley Hopkins, forme un moment suspendu, découpé selon des unités poétiques auxquelles correspondent ce que j'ai appelé des ciels acoustiques, sortes de monochromes électroniques, cyclos sonores minimaux sur lesquels les voix et les instruments se posent : basse fréquence, ou hyper aiguë, impression sonore de ciel étoilé, bruit de vaporetto au loin, etc. Le son peut sembler parfois comme un léger parasite qui entame l'écoute. Un petit clavier de verre dialogue avec des échantillonnages d'orgue véritable. C'est la plus hiératique, la plus chantée et récitative, la plus sombre aussi des trois cantates. Gérard Pesson

Carols And Counterpoint For Keyboard-A Baroque Christmas - Carols And Counterpoint For Keyboard as arranged for Piano by Edwin McLean. Contents include: Nöel Nouvelet; God Rest You Merry Gentlemen; What Child Is This; The Coventry Carol; We Three Kings; Pat-A-Pan; In Dulci Jubilo; O Come; O Come Emmanuel; Good King Wenceslas; Silent Night; and Adeste Fideles.

Roland C30 Digital Harpsichord including stool. Experience the elegance of baroque music.While producing authentically exquisite centuries-old harpsichord sounds and drawing inspiration from 21st century ingenuity the Roland Classic Series C30 Digital Harpsichord uses digital technology to enhance playability and expressiveness. Whether you are a virtuoso or a novice the C30 makes it possible for you to spend as much quality time as you want with the harpsichord. Taking up little space the styling of the C30 is modelled on the virginals. With an authentic wooden cabinet and a high-quality mahogany finish the traditional and simple styling will beright at home in a classic or modern interior. The period styling is enhanced by stained glass on the stand and the decorative panel on the keyboard lid. The C30 can easily switch between the built-in French and Flemish types of harpsichord. Both of these have four dispositions— 8’ I (back eight) 8’ II (front eight) 4’ (upper octave) and lute (buff mute) — and each disposition has its own dedicated selection button. You can play with a single disposition or layer more than one. The C30 also has an excellent fortepiano sound and has two admirable sampled organ options - 8' flute (ideal for solo accompaniment) and 8'+4' Principal which is ideal for use with a choir. The digital C30 doesn’t need tuning and you can simply switch the pitch from a=440 to baroque (415 Hz) and French baroque (392 Hz). If for ensemble playing you need to match the C30 to other instruments fine pitch adjustments can be made. You can easily take the C30 with you to group rehearsals and live performances. Even if the temperature and humidity vary you can be sure that the pitch will remain accurate. Time-consuming maintenance is a thing of the past. Now you can just turn on and play. As well as equal temperament you can select Werckmeister Kirnberger Vallotti and Meantone tuning

The Library Of Classical Music is a wonderfully vast collection of the greatest pieces of music from the Classical period. Featuring a diverse range of compositions from the innovators and masters, each work is arranged for solo Piano in a conveniently spiral-bound volume.Among the many composers whose work is included are C.P.E. Bach, J.C. Bach, Beethoven, Clementi, Czerny, Gluck, Haydn, Hummel, Mozart and Weber. The sheer amount of incredible music featured within The Library Of Classical Music makes this an essential book to have on your bookshelf or music stand. The joy of playing this music will be in learning your favourite pieces or discovering new ones by unfamiliar names. The Classical period saw a broad reaction against the layered complexities of Baroque music and led to a simpler relationship between melody and harmony. It reflected the mid-18th century's wider enthusiasm for reviving the clean, well-ordered structures of Greek classicism across the arts. The orchestra expanded in size, woodwind became a self-contained section and the Harpsichord was increasingly displaced by the recently invented fortepiano. Instrumental music dominated, notably symphony and string quartet, with examples of both strands represented here in beautiful and accurate Piano arrangements that are perfect for seasoned players of Classical music, or those new to the period.The Library Of Classical Music sheet music songbook covers the rich musical period that followed Baroque and preceded Romantic. The Classical era saw some of Europe's greatest composers exploring new musical possibilities, spanning some 70 years starting in the mid-18th century. The spirit of Classicism would last until the new preoccupations of Romanticism defined the next major period of Western music. All of this makes The Library Of Classical Music a brilliant collection of Piano sheet music that works as well as an introduction to the period as it does as a comprehensive anthology of the greatest works of that era. / Piano

from Judas Maccabaeus-From Part III of the oratorio Judas Maccabaeus this joyful chorus dances with Baroque jubilation now in an excellent performing edition with historical notes and background.

Par DUCKETT RICHARD / LOANE CORMAC. Team Woodwind is firmly established as the best-selling series of woodwind tutors. It presents a flexible course which can be tailored to suit each student, ideal for individual, group and class tuition - including the ABRSM music medals. The books in the series contain plenty of carefully graded music in a wide range of styles, from Baroque and Classical eras to film, folk, jazz and Latin American. The Team Series encourages ensemble playing with varied repertoire for both orchestral and brass band instruments and develops instrument-related aural skills, improvisation and composition. Included are scales and arpeggios and a CD comprising of over 70 backing tracks to make every student feel like a star performer. All of the books in the series are fully integrated allowing students using Team Woodwind to play in ensembles with students using Team Brass, Team Percussion, Team Recorder and Team Strings. / Niveau : 1 / Recueil / Flûte Traversière

Un style qui repose sur le contrepoint, ou l'interaction de deux ou plusieurs motifs, la fugue a captivé les auditeurs pendant des siècles.Cette collection originale propose une grande variété de pièces de grande époque de la fugue à l'époque baroque ainsi que d'autres époques, chacune créé par un maître du genre. Avec des oeuvres de Bach, Buxtehude, Brahms, Schumann et d'autres, tous ensemble ici pour orgue solo. / Orgue

Songs Without Words is a set of three short pieces each inspired by a classic twentieth century poem. There is an underlying theme of 'School'.1. School BellThe music urgently moves forward within an anxiously breathless waltz lest we be late for school. Originally inspired by Eleanor Farjeon's famous poem 'Nine O'clock Bell' where pupils hustle and bustle to school in the morning: Some of them scurrying others not worrying Carelessly trudging or anxiously hurrying.2. A Blitz of a BoyWith an affectionate nod to Charles Causley's sad tale about 'Timothy Winters' who 'hasn't heard of the welfare state'. He sleeps ona sack on the kitchen floor and they say there aren't boys like him anymore.Although the music is laden with pathos there is insuppressible energy too portraying that lovable 'Blitz of a Boy'! 3. A Lesson You'll Never Forget!Roger McGough's black poem 'The Lesson' was the catalyst for this piece. The teacher (and later even the headmaster) set upon a notoriously rowdy class with various lethal weapons systematically murdering all the pupils! He picked on a boy who was shouting and throttled him then and there then garrotted the girl behind him (the one with grotty hair). The baroque style recitative passages represent the school 'establishment' and are contrasted ludicrously with savage harmonic 'stabs' and terrifyingly anxious 'chase scenes' around the class room; this poem is not for the squeamish!

Ces arrangements ont été inspirés par le CD de Bill Cunliffe Cette période de l'année, contenant des interprétations de jazz librement improvisé de chants sans âge. La musique est remplie avec de nombreuses influences --- du bebop et le swing à la musique baroque, l'impressionnisme et le jazz moderne. / Piano

This work for soprano and baroque chamber orchestra using text by William Blake was commissioned by The Academy of Ancient Music on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. The piece is dedicated to the memory of Diana Princess ofWales.Quoting Tavener:The concept of solo soprano (representing earth) at ground level handbells (representing the angels) at an intermediate position and the main baroque ensemble at a high level (representing heaven) fittedexactly with the Blake text which I had decided to set. When seen as things truly are the earth is a mirror of the Eternal World and when seen correctly it is possible in this world to live in Eternity's sunrise. God does notexist in the world. And yet at the same time He is reflected in it giving it form and structure. The music should be played with quiet joy as a day of sunshine and calm full of gentleness and radiance.Duration c. 15mins.

The magnificent interweaving of harmonies and dialogue-like Voices in Handel’s For Unto Us A Child Is Born make it a perfect addition to the festive choral repertoire. German-born British Baroque composer George Frideric Handel originally composed this piece in 1741 for the English-language oratorio Messiah which eventually became one of the best-known and most frequently performed choral works in Western music. As the last song of Scene 3 of Part I of the oratorio which addresses Isaiah's specific prophecy about the virgin birth of a Messiah For Unto Us A Child Is Born tells the news of Christmas thebirth of a son in Isaiah’s words as found in the Scripture (Isaiah 9:6). The delicate familiar theme is introduced by the Sopranos and taken up by their counter-voices the Tenors later the same dialog is given over to the Altos and Basses. The tutti culminates in 'Wonderful' 'Counselor' 'The Mighty God' 'The Everlasting Father' and 'The Prince of Peace'.

Selecting music from the baroque classical and romantic periods Diane Bish has arranged this collection of 20 classical favorites for the organ. Some titles include ?Alleluia? from ?Christmas Oratorio?by Camille Saint-Saens ?Echo Noel? by Louis Claude D'Aquin ?Glory to God in the Highest? by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and Handel's ?Hallelujah Chorus.? Spiral bound.

The magnificent interweaving of harmonies and dialogue-like Voices in Handel’s For Unto Us A Child Is Born make it a perfect addition to the festive choral repertoire. German-born British Baroque composer George Frideric Handel originally composed this piece in 1741 for the English-language oratorio Messiah which eventually became one of the best-known and most frequently performed choral works in Western music. As the last song of Scene 3 of Part I of the oratorio which addresses Isaiah's specific prophecy about the virgin birth of a Messiah For Unto Us A Child Is Born tells the news of Christmas thebirth of a son in Isaiah’s words as found in the Scripture (Isaiah 9:6). The delicate familiar theme is introduced by the Sopranos and taken up by their counter-voices the Tenors later the same dialog is given over to the Altos and Basses. The tutti culminates in 'Wonderful' 'Counselor' 'The Mighty God' 'The Everlasting Father' and 'The Prince of Peace'.