Kormusik

Seit mehr als 525 Jahren singen Knaben in der Wiener Burgkapelle, musizieren mit genialen Musikern und bei geschichtlichen Großereignissen. Manche Weltkarriere hat hier begonnen: Franz Schubert war Hofsängerknabe; Joseph und Michael Haydn sangen als "Substituten" im Chor, Anton Bruckner war Hoforganist und Lehrer der Sängerknaben.Glanzvolle Reichstage, prächtige Hoffeste: die dazugehörige Logistik und der alltägliche Ärger - daraus ergibt sich ein faszinierendes Gesamtbild einer traditionsreichen europäischen Kulturinstitution; der ältesten in Wien.

French Lyric Diction: A Singer's Guide provides a thorough account of the language as it is sung in opera and mélodie, exploring often-overlooked topics including phrasal and emphatic stress, vocalic length, singing the French r, and traditions in the setting of French poetry.

The second volume of the Anthology of Art Songs by Latin American and Iberian Women Composers. It contains 31 songs for voice and piano in Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese by 10 composers from Argentina, Brazil, Catalunya, Cuba, and Colombia. The book includes a bilingual introductory study presenting the composers and poets, poetry translations, & Phonetic transcriptions -IPA-

An illustrated book for all ages w/ text featuring the lyrics of the song, ELF LOVE, this book takes readers on a humorous Christmas adventure.

So Long is a song set as a duet for soprano and tenor with piano accompaniment. The subject is reflections on a long and good marriage and the generations that follow.

French Lyric Diction: A Singer's Guide provides a thorough account of the language as it is sung in opera and mélodie, exploring often-overlooked topics including phrasal and emphatic stress, vocalic length, singing the French r, and traditions in the setting of French poetry.

Hvilken metafor kan man bruge til at beskrive Den Jyske Opera? Forfatteren til denne bog tænker kompagniet som et lille rederi, hvis moderskib sejler rundt mellem nære og fjerne havne med en skrøbelig og ret uhåndterbar last af kostbare kuriositeter fra de seneste fire århundreder. Vejrlig og strømforhold kan være vanskelige at forudsige, og det er da også et faktum, at det gode skib Den Jyske Opera er løbet ind i voldsomme storme undervejs, er gået på grund her og der, men alligevel altid er kommet på ret køl og har kunnet sejle videre, nogle gange med lods ombord, andre gange med frisk vind i sejlene. Det smalle, mytologiske stræde mellem Skylla og Charybdis kunne være et billede på den vanskelige sejlads mellem publikums forventninger, de bevilgende myndigheders krav og den mulige bemanding af moderskibet og mindre fartøjer. Det er ikke nok, at kaptajnen kan sit fag, han eller hun må være meget dygtig til at manøvrere i ukendt farvand, især hvis der sigtes mod fjerne havne langt ude i horisonten, og når passagerdækket er under ombygning.Bogen her skildrer sejladsen gennem de seneste 25 år – men med udblik helt tilbage til 1947, hvor skuden blev sat i vandet af en lille håndfuld sejlere med vovemod, og med glimt fra den ofte farefulde sejlads i de efterfølgende fem årtier. Kaptajner og repræsentanter for besætningen i de seneste 25 år fortæller personligt og farverigt om deres oplevelser med at bringe hele landets opera ud til små og store destinationer.

In addition to being a prolific critic and editor and an occasional fiction writer, S. T. Joshi has long been a classical musician-violinist, singer, composer, and conductor. Over the past several years he has composed more than a dozen songs for unaccompanied four-part choir, based on the poetry of H. P. Lovecraft and others. Three sonnets from Lovecraft's Fungi from Yuggoth-"Background," "Expectancy," and "Continuity" (dedicated to the memory of W. H. Pugmire)-provide the texts of three songs that evoke their author's awareness of humanity's place in the cosmos. Joshi also interprets Lovecraft's love of nature ("Sunset") and of cats ("Little Sam Perkins"). Clark Ashton Smith's "Ecstasy" and "Requiescat" are rendered in lush musical settings, as are George Sterling's "Ever of You," "My Swan Song," and the bleakly atheistic "To Science." Edgar Allan Poe's "To Helen" ("the glory that was Greece, / And the grandeur that was Rome"), Ernest Dowson's evocative "Non Sum Qualis Eram," and "Imprisoned" by the contemporary poet Mary Krawczak Wilson are also turned into moving songs. Accompanying the scores of these pieces is a free download of computer-generated sound files, allowing readers to hear every note of the songs. A truly unique publication by Hippocampus Press!