Partitions musique classique chant

An opera with instrumental parts for strings, keyboard continuo, plus optional guitar for dances This edition, with English and German texts, is based on that by Edward Dent (first published in 1925),...

Puccini's songs were written as occasional pieces: student works, contributions to periodicals, salon pieces for friends. Some passages pre-echo, or were borrowed for, his operas, and they throw fasci...

This collection includes all the songs with piano published by OUP during the 1920s and 30s, plus eight songs never before published. The songs are extremely varied, and the piano partners the voice t...

James Matheson's Times Alone is a 20-minute song cycle on five surrealist poems by the Spanish writer Antonio Machado dating from 1907. The composer has written 'Antonio Machado's early poems are imag...

A beautiful extract from Garrop's major oratorio Terra Nostra, set to the poem by Walt Whitman. Terra Nostra considers, through texts and poems, the world as it was, humanity's rise and impact on the...

A beautiful extract from Garrop's major oratorio Terra Nostra, set to the poem by Walt Whitman. Terra Nostra considers, through texts and poems, the world as it was, humanity's rise and impact on the...

The poetry of Marie Howe has a special place in Ricky Ian Gordon's heart and mind, both haunting and soothing. Without Music is a five-movement work in which Howe's words and Gordon's music together g...

Powerfully poignant and equally tender, My Dearest Ruth is Garrop's musical setting of the final love letter from Martin Ginsburg to his wife, the opera-loving Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsbur...

Stacy Garrop's DIRGE WITHOUT WORDS is a dramatic setting of Edna St. Vincent Millay's elegiac poem of the same name. The music gives voice to the mournful, yet defiant, character of the poetry, which...

What's in a name? While the title is French for 'Eight Flower Songs,' the texts are all in English. The poems' flowers metaphorically evoke fragrance, love and loss, life and death, rebirth and regrow...