SKU: HL.260178
ISBN 9781540040244. UPC: 888680726591. 6.75x10.5x1.796 inches.
John Leavitt has established a reputation for carefully selecting important and historic repertoire, editing it in ways to make singers successful, all while staying true to the stylistic period. This new collection includes Fair Phyllis I Saw (John Farmer), Weep, O Mine Eyes (John Bennet), All Lust und Freud, Tanzen und Springen (Hans Leo Hassler), Il est bel et bon (Pierre Passereau), Tant que vivray (Claudin de Sermisy), Fa una canzona (Orazio Vecchi) and Bonzorno madonna (Antonio Scandello). A value-priced collection of important and standard works.
SKU: HL.8552362
UPC: 884088612771. 4.75x5.0x0.157 inches. Mary Donnelly/George L.O. Strid.
Here is a playful contemporary madrigal for younger mixed choirs that will be great for concerts and festivals at any time of year. Set in a buoyant 3/4, the strophic text will be easy to learn and provide a successful first a cappella experience for beginning singers. Available separately: 3-Part Mixed a cappella, VoiceTrax CD. Duration: ca. 1:25.
SKU: UT.ODH-35
ISBN 9790215322578. 9 x 12 inches.
L’amorosa caccia is a collection of 24 madrigals for five voices, created specially by as many composers originating from Mantua. All were distinguished professional people, working within the church, at court or in the Palatine basilica of Saint Barbara, and music lovers of noble birth from the area who were somehow connected to the Academy of the Invaghiti, or perhaps part of the same. Among the established musicians of the collection are to be mentioned: G.M. Bacchino, H. Baccusi, P. Cantino, A. Coma, G. Moro, S. Nascimbeni, A. Nuvoloni, N. Parma, G.B. Recalchi, F. Rovigo, A. Striggio, R. Trofeo. The lesser-known, however, seem to be: C. Accelli, E. Ceruti, S. Cressoni, P. Marni, A. Preti, while the following: H. Borelli, C. Ceruti, O. Grassi, P. Massari, G.B. Orto, F. Ramesini, C. Zucca have become known as composers only thanks to L’amorosa caccia. The realization in score of the madrigals has made it possible to bring to light this collection, establishing its actual musical value and proving the remarkable mastery of madrigal writing of these 24 musicians and offering the opportunity to highlight each one’s different skill as a composer. If some of them have proved to be completely in line with the practices of the time, verging on Augenmusik, others stand out for the wide variety of their harmonies, melodies and rhythms, seeking the best musical expressions to express the affetti contained in the text. There are no major breakthroughs, but, if the contrapuntal procedures are as to be expected, the body of voices, the experimentation, the interplay between the parts and the harmonic sensitivity show familiarity with the vocal virtuosity of the concerti di dame of Ferrara and Mantua, bringing out what was most modern at the time. The possibility that these madrigals may actually have been performed by that very group of talented singers is enchanting and entirely plausible.
SKU: HL.394429
ISBN 9781705157794. UPC: 196288032687. 6.75x9.0x0.115 inches.
This collection features five of the most popular choral works from the English Madrigal School, a brief period from the 1580s to the 1620s that followed the arrival of Italian secular polyphony on English shores. The name SAM-Klang takes the three voice parts from the arrangements -- Soprano, Alto and Men -- and combines it with the Scandinavian and German words for “sound” to create the portmanteau word “sound together” or “harmony.” The series offers basic and advanced choral repertoire. In addition to new repertoire and new arrangements, you will also find essential parts of the classical German, Scandinavian, French and English SATB repertoire, carefully and considerately reworked for SAM. The arrangements retain the characteristic features of the original movements and have almost the same richness of timbre, resulting in works which sound nearly unchanged to an audience. Piano reductions of all choral movements facilitate rehearsal preparation. The arrangements offer development opportunities for all voice sections, bringing new life and new quality to SAM choir work. SAM-Klang enables youth choirs to gain access to classical choral literature and ensures that mixed choirs who face challenges in finding singers for all male voice parts continue to have access to well-loved repertoire.
SKU: HL.35003813
UPC: 747510060369. 8.5x11 inches. J. Paul Williams/Jon Paige.
Rejoice in the Savior's birth with dancing and pipes! This spirited Christmas anthem from the team of Williams and Paige will make both singers and congregation want to move with the spirit and shout for joy! A lively, exciting invitation to celebrate, A Christmas Madrigal will make a great processional or festive call to worship.
SKU: HL.49001310
ISBN 9790001014670. German.
SKU: SU.91480075
SSA (div), opt. speaking parts, opt. percussion (played by singers), piano Duration: 29' Composed: 1991 Published by: Subito Music Publishing.
SKU: ST.EM42
ISBN 9790220223136.
This is the first ever complete published edition of a major madrigal collection that is essential to our understanding of the fruitful interaction of Renaissance Italian and English music. In four, five and six voices, the 57 pieces of Musica Transalpina include 51 madrigals by Marenzio, Palestrina and others, the two parts of Byrd's 'La virginella', and four French chansons. Uniquely, the anthology also features singing translations of the original poems from the Italian into the vernacular, for which it was widely admired and circulated. As a printed source from which composers could learn the madrigal style and aesthetic, it was hugely influential in inspiring the 'golden age' of Tudor and Jacobean vocal music. An important addition to The English Madrigalists series, Musica Transalpina of 1588 is not only of great scholarly interest but is also an outstanding addition to the repertoire that will delight contemporary singers no less than it enthralled those Elizabethans who first responded with such enthusiasm to its fine music and accessible 'Englished' texts. Individual titles from this volume are available as Adobe PDF files...
SKU: MN.50-9903
UPC: 688670599033.
Canzonet introduces young singers to Renaissance music. Less difficult than madrigal, offers challenge for young singer to sing independently and lightly. Based on original publication of 1593. SSA and opt. Piano. Level 3 Difficulty (grades 5-8 and advanced treble ensemble).
SKU: GI.G-RCA425
English.
A rising young composer has given us a spirited 21st-century madrigal set to a medieval Christmas text. A finalist in the BBC Radio 3 Carol of the Year Composition Competition 2016, the music throws singer and listener alike into a joyous dance in Dorian mode that culminates in a cascade of alleluias when the mode shifts to Ionian (major) at the close.
SKU: FG.55011-818-8
ISBN 9790550118188.
Johanna Almark - singer, orchestra and choral conductor, composer, arranger and violinist - is one of Finland's most versatile musicians. The rain it raineth every day is a swinging 21st century madrigal for mixed 5-part choir, set to Feste's song from the The Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.
SKU: HH.HH544-FSP
ISBN 9790708185598.
As a child prodigy, singer (alto), composer and pedagogue (singing master) Francesco Antonio Pistocchi known as ‘Il Pistocchino’ (1659–1726) was acclaimed in numerous theatres in Europe, and his name was praised by musicians and theorists of the time, who included Pier Francesco Tosi, Giuseppe Torelli, Giacomo Antonio Perti, Johann Joachim Quantz, and Charles Burney. His musical oeuvre is rather extensive: it includes operas, a serenata, oratorios, cantatas, duets, terzetti, madrigal, Mass and Mass sections, psalms, responsories, canticles, litanies, hymns, antiphons, motets, lamentations, pastorals and sequences, and instrumental music. The cantatas, in particular, constitute a wide and significant corpus.
SKU: BR.CHB-5342-00
Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2019
ISBN 9790004412725. 9 x 12 inches.
These chants may be performed separately as well, or in pairs. They are related to madrigals and motets by Adrian Willaert, which were set to the same texts. In Willaert's collection Musica Nova (1559), quite unusually when comparing the period practice, the madrigals on Petrarca were printed beside motets on Latin sacred texts. The unusual inspiring idea to write new vocal music related to Willaert by pairing Petrarca and sacred texts was proposed by ensemble Singer Pur, who commissioned this piece. (Martin Smolka)Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2019.
SKU: BR.CHB-5342
