Par SPARKE PHILIP. Earth, Water, Sun, Wind is a four movement work with the unifying theme of these four elements. The music varies from being purely descriptive of the movements’ titles to specific sound painting - Earth, for example, is pure music and non programmatic whereas Sun attempts to paint a specific sound picture. The Symphony as a whole concerns itself with man’s relationship with thes…

Par PUGNANI GAETANO. The second volume, containing the final three of six terrific Sonatas for two Violins by Italian composer, Gaetano Pugnani. One of the leading Violinists of the late 18th century, he was a strong and skillful player with adistinctive style and whose talents led to many developments of the bow and advancements in bowing technique that we know today. With great depth and drama, …

Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Franz Schubert's Mass in G major (D 167) was composed in 1815 for his home parish in Vienna-Lichtenthal. It was initially intended as a Missa brevis with string orchestra and organ, but was soon supplemented by two trumpets and timpani ad libitum for more festive occasions. This instrumentation is documented in a set of parts that Schubert himself wrote shortly after his full…

40 Fun Warm-Ups Using Songs from Across the United States. Keeping singers in our ensembles excited and energized during the warm-up process is a consistent hurdle for educators across the nation. By using songs that are indigenous to different parts of our country, teachers in choral classrooms can help students prepare their minds, bodies and voices while sharing a bit of our culture and history…

Mezzo-Soprano Book Only. 32 Chansons de la scène de Broadway. Un trésor de chansons de théâtre musical dans leurs clés originales, sélectionnés par la voix. Pour les chanteurs aspirants et professionnels qui aiment à Broadway, bibliothèque de théâtre du chanteur d'Alfred Musical présente un élégant collectiohe plus aimés du théâtre musical chansons dans leurs clés originales, authentiquement trans…

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Although the ?fantasia? was already considered as old-fashioned around 1700, this genre exerted a particular fascination on the very young Bach ? he had since relocated to Köthen ? and theexperienced composer as well.Volume 3, the latest installment in the Complete Organ Works, gathers together all transmitted organ fantasias by Bach, the fragments of the fugues belongin…

Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Bärenreiter is closely connected with Mozart. The complete works of the ingenious composer have been published in the benchmark “New Mozart Edition” issued by Bärenreiter. Moreover, the vast majority of compositions are available in performing Urtext editions based on the musical text of the “New Mozart Edition”. There is hardly a musical area in which Mozart did not e…

The surviving second and third acts of Catone in Utica, one of Metastasio's most dramatic libretti, premiered in Verona in the spring of 1737 in a setting by Vivaldi, contain some of his finest, most mature, and most original arias, and are published here for the first time. They evince a potential dramatic intensity that makes us regret all the more the loss of the first act. Only one aria of Act…