SKU: AP.36-A932790
UPC: 676737829230. English.
Ralph Vaughan Williams' (1872-1958) English Folk Songs Suite, IRV 16, consists of three movements, the first two of which are based on the folk songs Seventeen Come Sunday and My Bonny Boy; the third adapts four songs from the Somerset region collected by Cecil Sharp. The English Folk Songs Suite quotes the Christmas carol Dives and Lazarus, which Vaughan Williams later published five variations of for harp and string orchestra. Gordon Jacob, a student of Vaughan Williams, arranged this version for orchestra. An earlier version of the English Folk Songs Suite, written for military band, premiered at Kneller Hall in Twickenham, England in July 1923. Instrumentation: 2(2nd dPicc).1.2.1: 2.2.2.0: Timp:Perc(2-3): Str(9.8.7.6.5 in set). Reprint edition.
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SKU: AP.36-A932701
ISBN 9798888520109. UPC: 676737736347. English.
SKU: AP.36-M181291
UPC: 660355185809. English.
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) wrote the first of his CINQ MÉLODIES POPULAIRES GRECQUES (Five Greek Folk Melodies) in 1904 at the urgent request of Pierre Aubry, who wished to illustrate a lecture he was giving on Greek folksong. Initially given five folksongs from which to choose, Ravel supplied a piano accompaniment for them in only thirty-six hours. Having impressed those who supplied the original five, three more were produced, which Ravel also quickly set to piano accompaniment, in a style imitative of the Mediterranean lands, but remaining distinctly French in its execution. The five melodies in this collection were selected from those eight. Ravel had started orchestrating all five as well, completing two, leaving Manuel Rosenthal to complete the remaining three. Songs in the collection: I. Le Réveil de la Mariée (Wake Up, My Dear), II. Là -bas, vers l'église (Out There, Where the Church Tower), III. Quel galant m'est comparable (Which Gallant Can Compare With Me?), IV. Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques (Song of the Lentisk Gatherers), and V. Tout gai! (Be Gay!). The Ravel/Rosenthal orchestrations have been edited by Clinton Nieweg in an edition available from E.F. Kalmus.
SKU: PR.312416820
UPC: 680160050376. 8.5 x 11 inches.
Chen Yi’s most performed and most beloved choral music is a series of 10 Chinese folk songs adapted for S.A.T.B. Chorus (published in 3 volumes: 312-41731, 312-41732, 312-41733). This special version is a setting of the familiar collection, adapted for children’s chorus and strings.Remembering when I studied composition in the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, I learned to sing hundreds of Chinese folk songs collected from more than twenty provinces and fifty ethnic groups, and went to countryside to collect original folk music every year. I got to know that the folk songs are a mirror of people’s daily lives, their thoughts and sentiments, local customs and manners. They are sung in regional dialects and use the idioms of everyday speech with their particular intonations, accents and cadences. This correlation between speech and music distinguishes folk songs of one region from another. I learned all songs by heart and sang them back in the exams every week. They melted in my blood and became my natural music language. The more I walk into the music life,the more I treasure the rich culture I have learned from my homeland. When I became the Composer-in-Residence of Chanticleer and was invited to write the first work for its concert program, as well as another version for its Singing-In-The-Schools program, I decided to introduce A Set of Chinese Folk Songs to my American audiences, and add a new flavor to Chanticleer’srich repertoire. The work includes ten folk songs, taken from eight provinces (Anhui, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Shanxi, Taiwan, Sinkiang, Jiangsu and Guizhou) and five ethnic groups (Han, Hasake, Uighur, Miao and Yi). I arranged them for choirs (men’s or children’s chorus) with various combinations in voices, to be sung mostly in Chinese, some in English.  From the mysterious mountain songs originally sung in the open air with high and long notes that can carry over great distances, the sweet and delicate melodies of young love compared with nature, the humorous antiphony by little children, and the lively dancing tune by villagers, you may get an idea of various music styles in Chinese folk songs according to geographic, ethnic and linguistic differences, and appreciate the beauty of the Chinese folk music. The pure choir sound and the sophisticated singing by Chanticleer, in terms of pitches, language and musical expressions, really attract and inspire me to create some more new works in the years to come. In thisedition of A Set of Chinese Folk Songs for standard SATB mixed choir (with piano rehearsal score), I divided these ten songs into three volumes. They are Fengyang Song, The Flowing Stream, Guessing, Thinking of My Darling, Mayila, Jasmine Flower, Riding on a Mule, Awariguli, Diu Diu Deng, andMountain Song and Dancing Tune.—Chen Yi.
SKU: BT.EMBZ20084
English-Hungarian.
Bartók's Mikrokosmos has been one of the milestones in pedagogical piano repertoire for 80 years - and yet it is also far more than a classical piano primer. These 153 piano pieces, organized in ascending order of difficulty, engage not only with technical aspects of piano playing but also with the fundamentals of composition - from Imitation and Inversion, Ostinato, and Free Variations, concerning compositional technique, to mood pieces and pieces with programmatic ideas such as Notturno, Boating, From the Diary of a Fly, or the famous Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm. Mikrokosmos first appeared in 1940 in six volumes. Based on volume 40 of the Bartók CompleteEdition published in 2020(Z. 15040), the present Urtext edition offers the series gathered in three volumes. This edition includes Bartók's preface, exercises, and notes written for the first edition. Furthermore, it also features a preface and comments by the editor, which not only discuss the genesis and the compositional sources but also provide performers, teachers and pupils alike, with authentic and detailed information about Bartók's notation and the specific performing problems of Mikrokosmos.
SKU: BT.DHP-1115228-015
9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dut ch.
The Banana Boat Song, otherwise known as Day-O, is Harry Belafonte’s interpretation of the classic Jamaican folk song and has come to be well known all over the world. Roland Kernen has created an uplifting arrangement for a variablewind line-up in five parts.De Banana Boat Song is gebaseerd op een Jamaicaans volksliedje. Harry Belafonte scoorde eind jaren vijftig een grote hit met deze klassieker. Roland Kernen maakte een swingend arrangement in een instrumentatie die geschiktis voor veel combinaties van blaasinstrumenten. De slagwerkpartijen zijn ad libitum. Swingen maar!Der Banana Boat Song, besser bekannt als Day-O in der Interpretation von Harry Belafonte, basiert auf einem jamaikanischen Volkslied. Inzwischen ist es ein wahrer Klassiker. Roland Kernen schuf ein schwungvolles Arrangement für einefünfstimmig variable Bläserbesetzung.La chanson Banana Boat Song, plus connu sous le nom Day-O interprété par Harry Belafonte, est basé sur une chanson folklorique jama caine. Mais peu importe son titre, ce thème reste un grand classique, dont Roland Kernen a écrit uneversion pour instrumentation variable cinq voix.Banana Boat Song, meglio conosciuta come Day-O nell’interpretazio ne di Harry Belafonte, è basata su un canto popolare giamaicano. Col passare del tempo è divenuta un vero classico. Roland Kernen ha creato un vivace arrangiamento perstrumentazione variabile a cinque voci.
SKU: BT.DHP-1115228-215
The Banana Boat Song , otherwise known as Day-O, is Harry Belafonte’s interpretation of the classic Jamaican folk song and has come to be well known all over the world. Roland Kernen has created an uplifting arrangement for a variable wind line-up in five parts. De Banana Boat Song is gebaseerd op een Jamaicaans volksliedje. Harry Belafonte scoorde eind jaren vijftig een grote hit met deze klassieker. Roland Kernen maakte een swingend arrangement in een instrumentatie die geschiktis voor veel combinaties van blaasinstrumenten. De slagwerkpartijen zijn ad libitum. Swingen maar!Der Banana Boat Song, besser bekannt als Day-O in der Interpretation von Harry Belafonte, basiert auf einem jamaikanischen Volkslied. Inzwischen ist es ein wahrer Klassiker. Roland Kernen schuf ein schwungvolles Arrangement für eine fünfstimmig variable Bläserbesetzung. Banana Boat Song, plus connu sous le Day-O interprété par Harry Belafonte, est basé sur une chanson folklorique jama caine. Mais peu importe son titre, ce thème reste un grand classique, dont Roland Kernen a écrit une version pour instrumentation variable cinq voix. Banana Boat Song, meglio conosciuta come Day-O nell’interpretazio ne di Harry Belafonte, è basata su un canto popolare giamaicano. Col passare del tempo è divenuta un vero classico. Roland Kernen ha creato un vivace arrangiamento per strumentazione variabile a cinque voci.
SKU: HL.48022466
UPC: 888680601782. 8.25x12.75x0.07 inches.
Five Estonian lyric folk songs for female choir. Estonian/English language.
SKU: CA.221400
ISBN 9790007188573.
The Folk Songs choral collection explores the musical world of Great Britain and Ireland. It contains 21 arrangements of English-language verse songs, canons, and ballads for mixed unaccompanied chorus. The folk songs are as diverse as the stories they tell: from the moving Greensleeves and Two hearts beat as one, through charming settings such as A rosebud by my early walk and There were three ravens, to saucy and tongue-in-cheek songs such as Dashing away with the smoothing iron and The mother-in-law. The stylistic treatment is very varied: the collection contains both original settings from the 13th century as well as arrangements specially commissioned from contemporary composers for the collection. The settings are in three to five parts, and the vocal parts sometimes divide. They are by well-known British and Irish composers such as Benjamin Britten, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Charles Villiers Stanford, as well as contemporary composers such as John Rutter and Carsten Gerlitz - who give a new twist to these traditional songs. Calmus Ensemble has recorded six arrangements from this collection for their CD Folk Songs (Carus 83.034).
