Partitions chœur

5 Songs of Ariel for mixed a-cappella choir was composed in 1950. In it, Frank Martin used lyrics from Shakespeare's The Tempest to set them to music. The characteristic idiom of his music is the prod...

Zoltán Kodály's Mátra Pictures are based on hungarian folk songs and were composed in 1931. They premiered in the same year at the Music Academy in Budapest under the direction of Viktor Karvaly.

R. Murray Schafer's Miniwanka or the Moments of Water is part of or popular series Music for Young Players. Miniwanka is an imitative piece describing the various states of water. The text consists o...

Eingeleitet und kontrapunktiert mit einem Cluster auf money weichen die Stimmen von den Akkorden ab und verfolgen ihre eigene melodische Linie in einer Vielfalt von Klangfarben vom nasalen Laut bis zu...

Pärt's composition appears functional, plain, without intellectual secret-mongering. It is built upon single intervals, triads and little rhythm games as well as upon medieval patterns. These Magnific...