Par DEBUSSY CLAUDE. The String Quartet in G Minor, opus 10, occupies a singular place in Debussy’s oeuvre. It represents his sole contribution to the most dignified, revered, and intimidating genre of chamber music in the common-practice period, and it embodies a mostsophisticated demonstration of the “Franckian” practice of thematic transformation. The current musical text is reproduced from the …

Your favorite sheet music will come to life with the innovative Piano Play-Along series! With these book/audio collections, piano and keyboard players will be able to practice and perform with professional-sounding accompaniments. Containing cream-of-the-crop songs, the books feature new engravings, with a separate vocal staff, plus guitar frames, so players and their friends can sing or strum alo…

Published together with Three Japanese Lyrics. Par STRAVINSKY IGOR. Two poems by Konstantin Balmont, a poet from the Silver Age of Russian Poetry, plus Three Japanese lyrics, all set to music, by Igor Stravinsky. This is the full Vocal Score of these five expressive pieces for High Voice with a Piano accompaniment and features complete lyrics in Russian, French, German and English./ Répertoire / V…

Symphonie dramatique. Par BERLIOZ HECTOR. Romeo et Juliette Op. 17 Hol. 73: Symphonie dramatique For his third symphony ; Romeo et Juliette (1839) Berlioz turned to his greatest literary passion, Shakespeare, drawing once again on his own most fervent experiences. Berlioz's discovery of Shakespeare in 1827 had been overwhelming not only for the dramatic force of the poetry and drama, but also beca…

Par DESSAU PAUL. Paul Dessau described his Third String Quartet, begun at Laguna Beach near Los Angeles in 1943, as predominantly lyrical. The song-like, melodious main theme of this one-movement work emerges from a series of notes grounded in tonality. A contrapuntally separated little semiquaver figure acquires increasing importance and points the way ahead to the greater rhythmical turbulence o…

This landmark series collects compelling, useful, singer-friendly arias from a distinctly American opera tradition. Each volume includes information about every opera and an aria plot note. A majority of the music in the four volumes has never before been available outside of the opera vocal scores, and some arias in the series have never been in print at all before now. Most arias are appropriate…

Kantate Zum 2. Weihnachtstag. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Two straightforward four-part choral movements frame three solo movements. The tonal language of this easily performable work, taken from a cantata publication of 1748, combines baroque pictorial quality and playfulness with rococo grace and sensitivity. / Date parution : 1988-09-01/ Répertoire / Solo S, Choeur SATB, 2 Violons, Alto et Bass…

More Folk Strings is a collection of melodies from around the world, in a variety of moods and with rhythmic patterns and harmonies that are representative of their country of origin. Because of the flexible scoring used in More Folk Strings, players at a variety of levels can make music together and less experienced players can play the solo (melody) parts, which use little or no shifting and are…

Additional Editing and Transcription by David Rosenthal. Par JOEL BILLY. Billy Joel\'s keyboardist and music director David Rosenthal has attentively arranged all the tracks from Joel\'s final pop studio album to combine the piano parts and vocal melodies into playable arrangements with accurate transcriptions of those classic piano parts that are integral to each song. It also includes a foreword…

lyric coloratura. The OperAria repertoire collection for all voice genres that was successfully launched last year has produced lyrical soprano progeny: From Adele to Zerbinetta, from Pamina to Mimi and Ellen Orford - the first two (of altogether four) soprano volumes contain a representative sampling of important arias from the multifaceted lyrical repertoire. Classical audition arias can be foun…