SKU: PR.411410770
UPC: 680160087945. Text: Christina Rossetti; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Charlotte Blumers; Anonymous; Jacques Rizzo. Various.
SKU: CA.410100
ISBN 9790007097998.
The Baccanale is a genre of traditional Italian choral song without instrumental accompaniment. In most cases it is sung by two tenors and a bass. Most of the anonymous song are in a straightforward, homophonic-syllabic style. These songs are often at carnival time and are jocular in content, with a playful, ironic touch and they contain many erotic allusions. In addition to the Italian text of the 12 settings, sometimes in dialect, German singing texts are also included.
SKU: ST.LS19
ISBN 9790220215209.
CONTENTS ALISON, Richard O Lord, turn not away thy face (AATB or AAT) When we sat in Babylon (AATB or AAT) ANONYMOUS But this, and then no more (C - C) How can the tree but waste (B - B) Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content (D - F) Those eyes that set my fancy on a fire (A - B) CAMPION, Thomas More now with measur'd sound (Duet: D - E and G - A) Now hath Flora robb'd her bow'rs (Duet: D - E and D - G) Woo her and win her (F - E) GILES, Thomas Triumph now with joy and mirth (D - D) HUME, Tobias Cease, leaden slumber, dreaming (F sharp - F) Fain would I change that note (D - G) Soldier's Song: I sing the praise of honour'd wars (G - G) Tobacco! Tobacco! Sing sweetly for tobacco! (D - F) What greater grief (D - F) LANIER, Nicholas Bring away this sacred tree (D - F) LUPO, Thomas Shows and nightly revels (D - E flat) Time that leads the fatal round (D - E) MORLEY, Thomas O grief! e'en on the bud (F - E flat) ROBINSON, Thomas Now, Cupid, look about thee (D - G).
SKU: PR.412410740
UPC: 680160088508. Text: Reginald Scot; Bishop Ernulf of Rochester; Anonymous; Robert Herrick. Anonymous, Robert Herrick, Ernulf of Rochester, Reginald Scot.
SKU: MB.30963
ISBN 9781513468204. 8.75x11.75 inches.
This exceptional collection of 41 truly beautiful airs and ballads from the British Isles offers both well-known tunes by the prolific blind Irish harpist, Turlough Oâ??Carolan and rarely heard melodies by anonymous composers; all have stood the test of time. Arranged for soprano or tenor recorder, these include Oâ??Carolanâ??s classically influenced â??Lord Inchiquinâ? and â??Eleanor Plunkettâ? as well as â??O Gentle Doveâ? and â??Cuckoo Dearâ?â?? both examples of the strong tradition of song in Wales. Among other tunes, the haunting modal melodies of â??The Dark Slender Boyâ? and â??Enchanted Valleyâ? express the melancholic heart and soul of the British Isles.A few of these songs have taken on a life of their own in modern times. â??Bonny at Mornâ?, a popular traditional tune of northern England and Scotland, was arranged for soprano voice and harp by the 20th century British composer, Benjamin Britten. â??The Skye Boat Songâ? originally recounted Bonnie Prince Charles Edward Stuartâ??s journey to the Isle of Skye after his defeat at the historic Battle of Culloden. Later, the song evolved into a lilting lullaby and was more recently used as the theme song for the popular Outlander television series.Departing slightly from recorder notation practice, author Marcia Diehl has judiciously arranged these melodies complete with spare slur markings to aid the amateur player in authentically and musically rendering these tunes.
SKU: HL.49047364
ISBN 9798350124866. UPC: 196288207610.
Four Arms, Two Necks is a setting of a 17th century anonymous poem. The timelessness of the words in the love poem struck me and I set it to music, later dedicating the song to two friends, Anda and Bill Winters, in celebration of a wedding anniversary. Orpheus is from William ShakespeareÂ?s play The Life of King Henry VIII. Between 1996-2000, I composed and produced the music for audio recordings of all 38 Shakespeare plays in the Complete Arkangel Shakespeare collection. This song from the play was originallywritten for lute accompaniment and I later arranged the lute part for piano. Agua, Dónde Vas? is a setting of a poem by Federico GarcÃa Lorca. In 1998, I visited Barcelona to renew with a dear friend, Lucia from an illustrious family of flamenco musicians and dancers. We had met in 1985 when I first visited Granada and was hanging out in the flamenco tablaoÂ?s of the Albaicin and Granada proper. Through Lucia I got a glimpse of a world in which LorcaÂ?s poetry vibrated daily and as casually as the music, songs and rhythms that peppered and punctuated conversations, discussions, exchanges of opinions, mealtimes in homes and bars and the precious moments of just hanging out.
SKU: HL.48024129
ISBN 9781784542344. UPC: 888680708894. 7.25x10.25 inches.
Britten's arrangements of Schubert's The Trout (op 32/D550) for small orchestra, and Schumann's Spring Night (op 39 no 12) for chamber orchestra, dating from 1942, are settings of anonymous English translations. The new edition includes the original German words (Schubart, Eichendorff), as many performers and audiences will prefer the songs in the original language. In his preface, Nicholas Clark, Librarian at the Britten-Pears Foundation, speculates on why the songs were set in English and on the possibility that the translator was Peter Pears, commenting that “the English language settings allowed [Britten] to edge away from existing versions of the songs, to assist him in imprinting his own unique mark on both works.” The Trout is scored for 2 clarinets & strings; Spring Night for flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, trombone, triangle, harp (or piano) and strings.
