Par CAO HELENE. Les deux tomes des 600 Mots de la musique couvrent l’essentiel du vocabulaire de la musique occidentale dite « savante ». Ce volume A contient les mots concernant la théorie (chromatisme, tonalité), les procédés compositionnels (contrepoint, renversement), les pratiques (basse continue, transposition), les esthétiques et courants musicaux (baroque, style classique, musique spectral…

...called dusk II for string quartet draws its inspiration from a line in Samuel Beckett's short story Lessness: 'Figment dawn dispeller of figments and the other called dusk'.The work is a kind of double Chaconne, each part of which contains 26 chords based on specific permutations of fundamental notes and their harmonics. Each of the parts pass through alternating, harmonically contrasted planes…

Pour venir en aide aux guitaristes, nombreux, qui aiment le répertoire baroque mais ne possèdent ni guitare baroque, ni luth baroque, ni théorbe, il était nécessaire de réaliser cet ouvrage. Les danses de la suite française (Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Menuet, Gavotte, Bourrée, Passacaille, Chaconne, Gigue?) y sont présentées d'abord globalement puis, pour chacune d'elles, on découvre l'origin…

The opera Nais was premiered on 22 April 1749 at the Academie royale in the Palais-Royal, Paris, in celebration of the signing of the so-called Treaty of Aachen. It was revived again in August 1764 shortly before Rameau's death and achieved great success as the 'opera of peace', even though it did not appear in print during the composer's lifetime.In numerous arias Rameau provides his singers ampl…

In order to help the many guitarists that are fond of the baroque music, but neither own a baroque guitar, nor baroque lute, nor a theorbe, it was necessary to write this book. The 'suite française? dances (allemande, courante, sarabande, minuet, gavotte, bourree, passacaille, chaconne, gigue?) are initialy presented in a whole, then, for each of them, we are lead to discover first the origin most…

Les deux tomes des 600 Mots de la musique couvrent l’essentiel du vocabulaire de la musique occidentale dite « savante ». Ce volume A contient les mots concernant la théorie (chromatisme, tonalité), les procédés compositionnels (contrepoint, renversement), les pratiques (basse continue, transposition), les esthétiques et courants musicaux (baroque, style classique, musique spectrale). Le volume B …

Marsch - Chaconne - 3 Tänze - Variationen 'Tanz mir nicht mit meiner Jungfer Käthen'. Par WERDIN EBERHARD. / Répertoire / Orchestre de Chambre

Par ADES THOMAS. Thomas Adès?s Violin Concerto ?Concentric Paths?, written in 2005, is one of the most important additions to the violin concerto repertoire since Ligeti?s. Cast in three contrasting movements ? each linked by a preoccupation with circling musical figures ? the concerto, subtitled ?Concentric Paths? now occupies a place in standard repertoire. Two lithe, rhythmically driven movemen…

One of Mr. Vandall's top-selling collections, this collection has become a staple for training pianists. #1 in C Major, #2 in D Major, #3 in E Minor, #4 in F Major, #5 in G Major, #6 in A, and the famous #7 in B Minor 'Chaconne.' Attractive repertoire for study and performance. / Piano

Arrangement For Piano. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN / BUSONI FERRUCCIO. Aside from the Violin Chaconne (HN 557) and the ten Chorale Preludes for Organ (HN 1293), the Prelude and Fugue in D major ranks among the best-known Piano transcriptions Busoni fashioned from J. S. Bach’s works. Considerable evidence suggests that he viewed these three pieces as paradigmatic examples of his transcription techniq…