PARTITIONS GRATUITES : PIANO ET CORDES
- mysterious environment

Grade 4

SKU: CL.RWS-2335-01

Composed by Robert W. Smith. Concert Band. Extra score. Composed 2023. RWS Music Company #RWS-2335-01. Published by RWS Music Company (CL.RWS-2335-01).

Featuring the concert band’s brass section and an offstage trumpet ensemble, this contemporary work draws its inspiration from the mutation of sound and its transmission throughout the ensemble and performance environment. From a dark and mysterious beginning with muted sounds on all brass instruments, the timbre and sonority slowly mutates through various musical environments. As the brass section mutates to open sounds, the result is a stunning and glorious music statement that transforms the ensemble and audience alike.

Grade 4

SKU: CL.RWS-2335-00

Composed by Robert W. Smith. Concert Band. Score and set of parts. Composed 2023. RWS Music Company #RWS-2335-00. Published by RWS Music Company (CL.RWS-2335-00).

Featuring the concert band’s brass section and an offstage trumpet ensemble, this contemporary work draws its inspiration from the mutation of sound and its transmission throughout the ensemble and performance environment. From a dark and mysterious beginning with muted sounds on all brass instruments, the timbre and sonority slowly mutates through various musical environments. As the brass section mutates to open sounds, the result is a stunning and glorious music statement that transforms the ensemble and audience alike.

Composed by Andrew March. Score and parts. Composed 2001; 2016. Duration 5'40 . Published by Alea Publishing (A7.ALEA1154).

Books and Journals

SKU: UT.APS-7

Edited by Simone Ciolfi. Paperback (Soft Cover). Ad Parnassum Studies. Essays by Mathias Auclair, Jean-Christophe Branger, Simone Ciolfi, Matthew Franke, Vincent Giroud, Stephanie Klauk, Hugh Macdonald, Jurgen Maehder, Claire Paolacci, Jann Pasler, Marco Pollaci, Alban Ramaut, Manuela Rita, Tommaso Sabbatini, Sabine Teulon L. Classical. Books and Journals. Ut Orpheus #APS 7. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.APS-7).

ISBN 9788881094912. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.

Saggi di Mathias Auclair, Jean-Christophe Branger, Simone Ciolfi, Matthew Franke, Vincent Giroud, Stephanie Klauk, Hugh Macdonald, Jürgen Maehder, Claire Paolacci, Jann Pasler, Marco Pollaci, Alban Ramaut, Manuela Rita, Tommaso Sabbatini, Sabine Teulon Lardic


The Mediterranean world represented an inspiring cultural and social environment Jules Massenet. It provided him, in his operas and instrumental music, with characters and scenes that enabled him to interpret the spiritual and psychological tensions of the late Romantic period.
For Massenet the Mediterranean world had broad boundaries in both time and place; it included Roman history, the antique Orient, and also the South of Spain, Italy and France, with their magical, sometimes sinful, nuances. Consequently, Massenet’s engagement with Mediterranean culture is dual-faceted, encompassing antique Roman and Oriental societies, with their mysterious, sensual suggestions useful for passionate opera plots, and contemporary Mediterranean societies, suitable for a more picturesque approach.
This book reflects these two tendencies. The essays analyse the basic duality, but also introduce an additional viewpoint: the reception of Massenet’s music in his contemporary Mediterranean world. The analytical approaches represent an enquiry into the reception of Mediterranean compositional theory in Massenet’s training.
The figure of Massenet and his music has been neglected by scholarship over the last two decades. This book aims to fill this gap with a subject not tied exclusively to music but encompassing the impact of a specific cultural dimension on the composer and his music. This dimension is broad in time and place, but no less specific for this breadth. This novel approach is one we have tried to maintain throughout the contributions. Although the enquiry is never-ending, the contributors hope that their combined effort as embodied in this book might provide a basis for further research.