Nancy Nourse

Newfoundland, the last province to join Canada (in 1949) is a rugged and beautiful island shaped by the many inlets where tiny fishing villages are huddled. The Newfoundland ballads and shanties that...

Terre-Neuve, dernière province à avoir rejoint le Canada (en 1949), est une île magnifique et accidentée, façonnée par de nombreux bras de mer où se blottissent de minuscules villages de pêcheurs. Les...

Psalm 126 is a reading heard most frequently at the time of harvest. It is also particularly appropriate for the second Sunday of Advent or the fifth Sunday of Lent. The vocal line is reminiscent of m...

A lovely arrangement of a favorite opera overture. Instrumentation: Piccolo (doubles on C Flutes), 5 C Flutes, Alto Flute, Bass Flute

From the opera 'Carmen,' this is an exact transcription of the movement found in the 'Carmen Suite, No. 2' featuring a very famous piccolo duet. Instrumentation: 2 Piccolos (the 2nd doubling on C Flut...

The entire five-movement (Praelude; Sarabande; Gavotte; Air; Rigaudon) work arranged for a full flute choir. Excellent on any flute choir concert. Instrumentation: Piccolo, 6 C Flutes (optional - Flut...

Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, op. 92, created in 1812, was composed entirely without a slow movement. Instead, this famous Allegretto opens with a statement of an A minor chord followed by a rhythmic...

Apollo and Hyacinthus K.38 is the first full, three act opera composed by the eleven-year-old prodigy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, created for his fellow youth at the school of the University of Salzburg...

Of the six Concertos, the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, despite the fact it is composed for string orchestra, is the least like the traditional baroque concerto grosso, in that there is no solo or conce...

Published in 1610, Canzona 'La Padovana' is from Viadana's only purely instrumental collection, his Sinfonie muscali for eight voices, op. 18. Each of the eighteen canzoni therein is named after an It...

Antonio Vivaldi (c. 1678-1741) remains one of the most-loved and oft-performed of the baroque composers. In 1703, he was appointed to the position of music master at the Ospedale della Pieta in Venice...

Land of the Silver Birch is a well-known, well-loved traditional song sung widely around campfires across the Canadian province of Ontario. In this fantasia setting the colors of the alto and bass flu...

This classic virtuoso piece is an entracte in Act III of the fairy-tale opera 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan.' Though the opera has largely been forgotten, the Flight of the Bumblebee has been transcribed f...

In 1908, fourteen years after composing the Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune, Claude Debussy completed the piano suite, Children's Corner, which was dedicated to his daughter 'Chouchou.' The sixth an...

Claude Le Jeune, a Franco-Belgian composer of psalm settings, instrumental pieces as well as popular chansons, enjoyed considerable recognition as a composer during his lifetime. In John Hawkin's A Ge...

The Romanian Folk Dances were originally completed in 1915 as a set of six movements for the pianoforte: Joc Cu Bata, Braul, Pe Loc, Buciumeana, Poarga Romaneasca, Maruntel. Probably the most famous v...

The Swiss Boy belongs to the vast repertoire of solo feature music of the nineteenth century concert-in-the-park bands. Before the days of electronic amplification, soloists had to be selected from am...

Water Music was composed by George Frederick Handel (1658-1759) and while no copies of this work in the composer's hand are extant, various catalogs and copies from that time show 9 to 20 movements in...

Land of the Silver Birch est une chanson traditionnelle bien connue et très appréciée, chantée autour des feux de camp dans la province canadienne de l'Ontario. Dans cette fantaisie, les couleurs des...