A Teenager in Love

The Ukulele Decade Series: The 1950s features Ukulele arrangements for 80 favorites from the early days of rock, including All I Have to Do Is Dream, At the Hop, The Great Pretender, Peggy Sue, A Teenager in Love, You Send Me and more. / Ukulélé

Une formidable collection de 95 hits vintage de 1955 par l'intermédiaire de 1968 arrangé pour voix et piano avec boîtes de corde de guitare. Inclut à the Hop, Barbara Ann, fille de Bobby, attraper une vague, dentelle de Chantilly, Dream Lover, duc de Earl, Earth Angel, Great Balls of Fire, Louie Louie, Peggy Sue, Rock Around the Clock, Ruby Baby, Runaway, (sept petites filles) assis sur la banquette arrière, crier, rester, U.S.A. Surfine, Venus, Wild Thing, Bully laineux et plus encore./ Recueil / Piano, Chant et Guitare

40 favorites from yesteryear, featuring: Book of Love - Doo Wah Diddy Diddy - Duke of Earl - Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight (Goodnight It's Time to Go) - Sixteen Candles - Stay - This Magic Moment and more. / Piano Ou Clavier

Make the silence talk'La Muette knew how to make the silence talk like no one', writes Djavann in his book (La Muette, © Flammarion 2008). Those words deeply touched me for they express one of the most beautiful metaphors in music. Through the lines of discourse, beyond words, I was listening to the silence of 'La Muette'. A rare and intense listening which joins the same internal listening I use when I'm writing my score. I was listening to La Muette, I decided to write a new piece to make the silent voice of La Muette told by Chahdortt Djavann sound through music. Choosing the extracts The text put in music is composed of short extracts from Djavann's story. I focused on this woman's portrait, who conquers her freedom through silence in which she forms a strong love relationship with her niece Fatemeh on the one hand, and the Uncle on the other hand. 'She had made her silence become her art of living, her freedom' writes Djavann. The extremely dramatic tension, the flow of the singing in Persian language, and the oppression in relation to the Iranian context are trying to underline the independent beauty of that woman who resists and exists without a voice. Story A young 15 years old Iranian girl named Fatemeh is in jail. Waiting for her death sentence, she writes the story of her aunt on a small notebook, 'so that someone remembers La Muette and myself'. The young teenager was raised by her aunt who becomes mute because she decided to stop talking on a dark day of her own childhood when she was interrogated, never to tell THE truth. An aunt whose silence makes even more fascinating, haughty, with an insolent look, cigarette at her lips, bare-footed and without any scarf on her head. 'La Muette' had made her silence become her art of living, her freedom. Around her, women start to talk, even considering her mad, for only a mad person could act this way. Fatemeh loves her mute aunt unconditionally, that is how she wants to become a woman, by being like her, fascinated by her silence and her excesses. La Muette embodies a figure of Freedom and makes us remember that in some countries, the woman who won't be submissive risks capital punishment. She will be hung. Following this beautiful text by Chahdortt Djavann, 'La Muette', a powerful text, stiff, tensed, without any lyricism nor compromises, which takes place in Iran under the Mollahs' regime. Persian: Phonological material / Compositional material Djavann's story is written in French. I asked Baharé Khadjé-Nouri to translate the text into Persian, and worked with her on pronunciation, accentuation, metric and the structure of the language, and I thank her again for that. I spent a long time having some people reading me the text in Persian and through listening I immersed myself in that sound universe. From this linguistic material, the beginning of the piece starts with the constitution of a tank of sound objects which will constitute parts of the compositional material. To compose the phonological tank, I worked on writing the pronunciation that lies at the origin of every possible vocal composition, writing the tone as well as the 'percussive - resounding' aspects of phonemes, multiple uses of fricative consonants or sibilants. Finally I used the vocal treatment of the phoneme through modes of play in relation to sprechsang: sing -inspire, or -expire, -blow, -chanting, -whispering, -spitting, -speaking. But a purely phonetic analysis of the vocal structures composing the sung part would reduce the word to its mere phonetic entity. The phonological material then constituted a compositional material by giving to the sung word its semantic entity. Form of the piece To strip the drama off every narrative element, at least of the discursive and linear character of the story, I first re-organized parts of the text extracted from the whole book in an order fitting the form I wanted to give to the piece (except for the beginning and ending which are kept in their linear forms). I imagined Fatemeh in jail, whose memories bounced between the four walls of her cell: recurring musical material, re-injected in an obsessive way, disjointed and contrasted, continuously modified each time, bouncing from one sequence to the next in another state. The piece is divided into 5 sequences, between each of them is an instrumental interlude with a voice-off, the voice of the present in the cell that contrasts with the singing voice of the sequence, evocation of memories of La Muette (sequence 1: preamble, sequence 2: portrait of La Muette, sequence 3: La Muette and Fatemeh, sequence 4: La Muette and the Uncle, sequence 5: epilogue). Electroacoustic setupFor this piece, I wrote the electroacoustic parts myself at the same time I was writing the instrumental parts. The electroacoustic setup is here considered as a whole instrument, an instrument added to the 12 others electroacoustic instruments and to Donatienne's voice. The electroacoustic sounds are divided into three types: - Samples from the singer's voice and instruments of the TM+ ensemble transformed - The narrator's voice Baharé Khadjé-Nouri in Persian, original version or transformed - Extra-musical sounds As for the synchronization between the acoustic and the electroacoustic scores, we will use for the first time an innovative application developed by Frédéric Bevilacqua and Bruno Zamborlin, not to follow the moves as we did it in StreicherKreis (my string quartet created in November 2008), but to follow the voice and orchestra. Thus, we will be using an 'audio-following', which constituted a first. This setup of recognition and following will allow the synchronization between instrumental and electroacoustic scores in a musical and precise way. Concerning the interactivity between performers and device, it will all be in real-time. Characteristics of the musicians' sound will 'interpret' what comes out of the speakers. The musicians will define the settings of the sound transformations, in terms of space, transposition, tone or length. This new piece expresses a message through the choice of subject that goes beyond strictly music. For me, it is important that both the composer and writer can invest their work into problematics which they're confronted to because they are immediate witnesses. / Soprano Et Percussions

The series Der Junge Pop-Chor has vastly expanded the range of contemporary choral material available to choirs. In Volume 3 of this successful series, five more songs are included for 2-part youth choir (or 2-part women's choir), arranged with Piano Accompaniment.This series is mostly aimed at teenagers and young adults, who want to sing the latest chart-topping hits. The accompanying CD contains professional recordings of the complete Piano Accompaniments, so your choir won't need a pianist. / Choeur SSA Et Piano

Internationally known singer/songwriter and guitarist Janis Ian has been writing and recording music since the 1960s. As a teenager, she released her first hit single, the controversial Society's Child. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Janis Ian had several hit songs, both in the U.S. and abroad, including the Grammy Award-winning At Seventeen. A respected songwriter, her songs have been covered by Joan Baez, Mel Torme, Cher, and many others. After a nine year hiatus between 1983 and 1992, Janis Ian returned, releasing Breaking Silence . Her most recent record, Folk Is the New Black , was released in 2006, which she supported with a worldwide tour. The Janis Ian Guitar Songbook features 14 of Janis Ian's biggest hits. This book provides authentic guitar TAB for all the songs included. Titles: At Seventeen * Fly Too High * From Me to You * I Hear You Sing Again * In the Winter * Jesse * Joy * Love Is Blind * Ride Me Like a Wave * Society's Child * Stars * Tattoo * The Last Train * The Other Side of the Sun.

For the girls, a medley of four great nostalia tunes: A Teenager in Love, Lollipop, Earth Angel, Sh-boom. / Choeur (Unisson), Voix Hautes Et Voix Egales

The New Decade Series provides great synopses of the musical decades, including the most iconic songs from each era presented for Piano, Vocal and Guitar. Songs of the 1950s includes hits from Elvis Presley, Perry Como, Cliff Richard and many more! 1. Ain’t That a Shame [Pat Boone] 2. All I Have to Do Is Dream [Everly Brothers] 3. All Shook Up [Elvis Presley] 4. At the Hop [Danny and the Juniors] 5. Blue Suede Shoes [Elvis Presley] 6. Bo Diddley [Buddy Holly] 7. Bye Bye Love [Everly Brothers] 8. Cara, Mia [David Whitfield] 9. Chantilly Lace [Big Bopper] 10. Diana [Paul Anka] 11. Dream Lover [Bobby Darin] 12. Earth Angel [Crew Cuts] 13. The Garden of Eden [Frankie Vaughan] 14. Give Me Your Word [Tennessee Ernie Ford] 15. Great balls of fire [Jerry Lee Lewis] 16. The Great Pretender [The Platters] 17. The Happy Wanderer (Val-De-Ri Val-De-Ra) [Obernkirchen Children's Choir] 18. Heartbreak Hotel [Elvis Presley] 19. Here In My Heart [Al Martino] 20. Hold My Hand [Don Cornell] 21. Hound Dog [Elvis Presley] 22. I Believe [Frankie Laine] 23. I Need Your Love Tonight [Elvis Presley] 24. I’ll Be Home [Pat Boone] 25. It Doesn’t Matter Anymore [Buddy Holly] 26. It’s All In the Game [Tommy Edwards] 27. It’s Only Make Believe [Conway Twitty] 28. Jailhouse Rock [Elvis Presley] 29. Just Walking In the Rain [Johnnie Ray] 30. Lipstick On Your Collar [Connie Francis] 31. Little Darlin’ [Diamonds] 32. Little Things Mean a Lot [Kitty Kallen] 33. Living Doll [Cliff Richard and the Shadows] 34. Magic Moments [Perry Como ] 35. Mambo Italiano [Rosemary Clooney

Paroles et partitions pour piano, chant et guitare (grilles d'accords). Une sélection de plus de 100 chansons des années 50 / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG) / Partition