Format : Sheet music
SKU: HL.50566018
ISBN 9781705190319. UPC: 196288126089. 9.0x12.0x0.102 inches.
“Musique française†is a series designed for students and teachers as well as professionals. These editions offer masterworks in French music, with performance suggestions and historical and stylistic commentary by noted scholars. Maurice Ravel wrote Pavane pour une infante défunte in Paris, early in 1899. The piece was dedicated to Winnaretta Singer (1875 – 1943), the wife of Prince Edmond de Polignac and the daughter of the American manufacturer of Singer sewing machines. The popularity of the Pavane was immediate and enduring and the numerous arrangements it generated are testament to the interest of a musical public.
SKU: HL.49016006
ISBN 9780793554003. UPC: 073999444711. 305 X 229 inches.
Contents: Aria (Stradella) oe I Attempt from Love's Sickness oe I See a Huntsman oe Largo & Allegro oe Pavane pour une Infante Defunte oe Reveries oe Romance oe Rondo oe Scherzo oe Symphony No. 5 oe Theme & Variations oe Villanelle.
A collection of music for French Horn, intended to display the instrument's characteristic tone qualities, both lyric and fanfare-like. Transcribed (with Piano accompaniment) and edited by Mason Jones.
SKU: P2.80026
The idea of arranging this piece for large brass ensemble was a result of my intention to present Steven Mead's lyrical qualities and the huge potential of his rich and colorful sound to a Croatian audience when he was a guest soloist in Zagreb. While we spoke about the program for the concert, I mentioned Ravel's Pavane as a nice addition to my Concerto and the other Pavane (one by Faure, for solo euphonium and harp), and Steven supported the idea instantly, as it turned out that this piece was his favorite in his early euphonium soloist days. As he soon became a world famous virtuoso, where listeners constantly asked for higher and faster bravuras, I gladly used my chance to present the forgotten poetic and warm side of the euphonium. I avoided the fashionable stereotypes of many of today's composers--making an artist break his fingers or lips by choosing extra fast pieces originally for violin or flute and arranging it for tuba. The inspiring challenge was to create the atmosphere present in Ravel's own orchestration of this piece, where no instrument plays a typical solo role. It wasn't easy to achieve so many colors without strings and woodwinds. Yet, here we have the euphonium as a lead voice while it is also well incorporated into vertical blocks with french horns, trombones, and trumpets. Full symphony sized brass sections function here mainly to provide harmonic body, with the great percussive and melodic help of marimba and vibraphone. The result is an arrangement that is demanding in a sense of creating the right flow (not too slow - as Ravel hated it this way). Pavane is, after all, a dance. A recording of this arrangement can be found on Bocchino's CD release Croatian Euphonic Brass, together with a recording of another publication by Potenza, an arrangement of the Pavane by G. Faure, presented on this CD in the best possible way--by Steven Mead, who inspired me to try to give these masterpieces new shape.
SKU: CL.MHT-0010-00
