Polonaises-La polonaise apparaît dans la musique savante dès la fin du 16e siècle en tant que danse styli-sée. Chopin commença à se consacrer à ce genre quasiment dès l enfance rendant ainsi égale-ment hommage à son pays natal. En effet son uvre imprimée la plus ancienne est une polo-naise (KK IIa no 1 en sol mineur) composée à l âge de sept ans. De même les trois polonaises op. 71 ainsi que KK IVa no 1 à 3 5 et 8 publiées à titre posthume sont des uvres de jeunesse datant de la période où il vivait à Varsovie. Les sept grandes polonaises op. 26 no 1 et 2 op. 40 no 1 et 2 op. 44 et 53 et en particulier la Polonaise-Fantaisie op. 61 de 1845/46 qui est aussi la dernière grande uvre pour piano de Chopin sont des uvres de la maturité. Dans leur mélange de solennité et d élégance de force et de douceur de pathos héroïque et d humeur délicate elles sont toutes les témoins du grand art de ce compositeur.
SKU: HL.132303
UPC: 884088971373.
All of the Polonaises included in this volume were written during Chopin's childhood and youthful years, through to the earliest of the Polonaises prepared personally for printing by the composer (op. 22 and 26). This strict division into two groups has no correlation with other Chopin categories: Mazurkas or Waltzes not published by Chopin came into being during his entire period of creative activity at the same time as those he made for publication. Both groups of Polonaises complement each other in a particular way, together giving an understandable cross-section of the whole of Chopins creativity from Polonaise B WN1, being his first surviving compositional attempt for the Polonaise-Fantasy op.61, which belongs to the group of masterpieces crowning his last creative period. The collective publication of his Polonaises till now, which present them in the order of finding and publication gives, from this perspective, a totally chaotic impression. [from source commentary]. Includes Polonaises: in B flat major, G minor, A flat major, G sharp minor, D minor, F minor, B flat minor, G flat major.
SKU: SU.00220615
This CD Sheet Music collection brings together Frédéric Chopin's immense and varied output for solo piano. Includes: Ballades, Barcarolle, Etudes, Concertos, Impromptus, Mazurkas, Polonaises, Preludes, Scherzos, Sonatas, Waltzes, Variations on La ci darem la mano, Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise, and more Also includes biographies and relevant articles from the 1911 edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1100+ pages.
SKU: HL.49003135
ISBN 9780946535132. UPC: 884088991623. 8.25x11.75x0.436 inches. English.
This anthology of 72 music examples, consisting of the Teacher's Manual, Pupil's Questions, Music Book and two recordings on CD or cassettes, is intended to provide comprehensive resource materials for the listening component of the GCSE music syllabuses. The extracts have been selected especially to illustrate the periods, styles and rudiments of music encompassed within the syllabuses, and the four components of the publication produced to ensure maximum assistance to the teacher in the classroom. Selected contents: MUSIC IN THE LATE RENAISSANCE O quam gloriosum est regnum * T. Morley: MUSIC IN THE BAROQUE ERA: H. Purcell: Hark, each tree (from Ode for St Cecilia's Day) * A. Vivaldi: Second Allegro (from Op. 3 No. 11) * G.F. Handel: Lascia ch'io * J.S. Bach: Erschienen ist der herrliche Tag (BWV 629) * F. Couperin: Le Petit-Rein MUSIC IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD: F. Schubert: Am Meer (from Schwanengesang) * H. Berlioz: Un Bal (from Symphonie fantastique) * F. Chopin: Mazurka (Op. 7 No. 5) * R. Schumann: Fantasiestuck (Op. 73 No. 1) * R. Wagner: Prelude (to Tristan and Isolde) * R. Strauss: Epilog (from Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche) * MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: B. Bartok: Third movement (from Sonata for two Pianos and Percussion) * K. Stockhausen: Zyklus * C. Berberian: Stripsody * JAZZ AND POP: F. Molton: Peace in the Valley * Bix Beiderbecke and his Gang: Jazz Me Blues * The Platters: Only You * E. Fitzgerald: Mack the Knife * S. Getz and A. Gilberto: The Girl From Ipanema and more.