This collection of French Songs and Choruses includes a wealth of original choral music by French composers, as well as many wonderful arrangements of some of the greatest French songs ever composed. Suitable for Mixed-Voice Choirs of all sizes and abilities, this is the perfect collection for finding new performance pieces, but would work equally well as a complete concert programme. The selections in this songbook are second-to-none, with some of the most beautiful and affecting French choral music compiled into one volume. Many original works are included here, with these choral compositions by giants of French classical music often being regarded as some of their finest work. Pieces like Madrigal by Gabriel Fauré, a new edition of Maurice Ravel's incredible Trois Chansons, Camille Saint-Saëns's Calme Des Nuits and Trinquons as well as Reynaldo Hahn's three Rondels, originally written for SATB choir. French Songs And Choruses also features a great many arrangements of works that have been enjoyed by choirs and singers for many years. The harmonies of songs like Chanson D'Amour by Gabriel Fauré convey just how stunning a song this is to hear as well as to sing, while others like Debussy's Beau Soir offer a similarly beautiful take on a different theme. With all of these songs, the joy will be in careful selection, fantastic practice and the thrill of performance for you and your audience. Such a grand selection of Songs And Choruses For Mixed-Voice Choirs is sure to enhance or invigorate your choir's repertoire, giving you an enjoyable introduction to the finest choral music that France has to offer. The delightful arrangements of the carefully-selected French Songs And Choruses included in this collection will make a perfectly French-flavoured addition to your general repertoire, or simply a complete concert in itself. The clear and accurate engravings make this book a pleasure to dip in and out of in your search for the perfect song, and with so many great compositions included, we're sure you'll find it! Please note that most of the lyrics are in French, but translations are included that also serve the purpose of enhancing your understanding of such poetic music./ Recueil / Choeur Mixte (SATB) et Piano

Symphonic Fragments - 2nd Suite. Par RAVEL MAURICE. La Suite n°2 correspond au troisième tableau du ballet Daphnis et Chloé. Lever du jour, Pantomime et Danse générale sont interprétés sans interruption. Cette nouvelle transcription pour orchestre d'harmonie ne fait aucun compromis. Non seulement il vous faudra réunir un ensemble de 60 musiciens ou plus afin de respecter la partition, mais un choeur mixte est également essentiel. Cependant, si les notes secondaires (ou petites notes) sont jouées par les musiciens, le choeur est alors ad libitum. / Niveau : 6 / Répertoire / SATB

This title is taken from the compilation French Songs And Choruses For Mixed-Voice Choir (NOV165198) Chanson Française belongs to Ravel's larger work entitled Chants Populaires. Except for the Chanson hébraïque which was published separately in 1909 these song-settings were first published in a collection with harmonizations by three composers entitled Sept Chants Populaires by P. Jurgenson Moscow in 1910.

Sam Pegg's A Child Of The Snows for SATB choir and Piano accompaniment is a setting of a poem by G. K. Chesterton. Chesterton was known as an avid traveller and was a friend to all he met on his wanderings. In his own house he was famed for his warmth and hospitality. For him the inn was almost a spiritual symbol. 'In all of my settings of his poems I have tried to convey the sense of a yearning journey of life coupled with the joy of finding something thought lost forever: we travel to a place that if we are truthful we never really left. In A Child of the Snows I have tried to suggest the wandering wondering journey to the next staging post 'the Inn at the end of the world'. - Sam Pegg There is heard a hymn when the panes are dim And never before or again When the nights are strong with a darkness long And the dark is alive with rain. Never we know but in sleet and in snow The place where the great fires are That the midst of the earth is a raging mirthAnd the heart of the earth a star. And at night we win to the ancient innWhere the child in the frost is furled We follow the feet where all souls meetAt the inn at the end of the world. The gods lie dead where the leaves lie red For the flame of the sun is flown The gods lie cold where the leaves lie gold And a Child comes forth alone.

Footsteps by Owain Park was commissioned by Tenebrae with generous assistance from Arts Council England PRS for Music Foundation Santander Discovery Foundation Grant Britten-Pears Foundation and The Fidelio Charitable Trust. The work for unaccompanied mixed choirs explores the themes of travel solitude and journeying. Owain Park says: 'Footsteps is the result of many months of researching texts to structure a narrative that cycles the seasons through the view of a lonely traveller who is constantly being moved on before being allowed to settle finding comfort in the sky and stars above.”

Based upon Pavane pour une infante defunte-Absolutely beautiful! Pat Liebergen has arranged Ravel’s timeless masterpiece 'Pavane pour une infante défunte' for choir and adapted Ravel’s orchestration for oboe and strings as optional accompaniment. Jean Anne Shafferman has added a Christmas text that is simply stunning: 'On a silent starry night Christus natus est.' Certain to be the highlight of school seasonal concerts and Christmas worship it is available in three voicings for singers of all ages.

The Tiger is a 1995 piece based on the poem The Tiger by William Blake though it is not a straightforward setting of the work. Part of the poem appears in English and a second part in French German Italian and Spanish. The entire poem appears in a compressed central section which has been extracted for a shorter version entitled The Tiglet.British composer Giles Swayne broke into international consciousness with his huge work CRY for twenty-eight amplified Voices premiered by the BBC Singers. He has written many works for Chorus among his oeuvre. Swayne has travelled extensively in Ghana and Senegal and the percussiveness of The Tiger clearly manifests that influence.

From Quatre Motets Sur Des Themes Gregoriens-Duruflé grew up in Louviers in the northern French region of Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy) where as a boy he was a chorister and studied piano. At the age of 17 he moved to Paris to study organ with Charles Tournemire. A year later Duruflé wasadmitted to the Paris Conservatoire where he studied organ piano and composition and was awarded five first prizes in various subjects. Upon graduation Duruflé became musical assistant to Louis Vierne at Notre Dame but soon after this wasappointed organist at Saint Étienne-du-Mont in Paris where he would remain for the rest of his life. In 1943 he was appointed professor of harmony at the Conservatoire a position he maintained for 27 years. From 1926 until 1977 Duruflé published 14compositions including the Requiem Op. 9 (1947). Duruflé traveled extensively as a concert organist and was active as a recording artist. Later in life he and his second wife often performed as an organ duo. The composer suffered severe injuriesin an automobile accident in 1975 which left him nearly bed-ridden for the final decade of his life.Composed in 1960 Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens Op. 10 (Four Motets on Gregorian Themes) were dedicated to Auguste le Guennant director of the Gregorian Institute in Paris. Each of the four motets begins with an incipit of Gregorianchant which serves as melodic inspiration for the composition that follows. The four motets are (in order): ?Ubi caritas ? ?Tota pulchra es ? ?Tu es Petrus ? and ?Tantum ergo.? ?Ubi caritas? is an early Christian antiphon traditionally used in the Maundy Thursday service during the washing of the feet an act of Jesus from the Last Supper. The antiphon has become closely associated with the Eucharist and is sometimes alsoused at weddings. Duruflé sets only the first of the four stanzas of the text.

from Three Native American Songs-Memley celebrates the Native American culture with an exquisite triptych of poems and song called Three Native American Settings. The original music is consumed with the sounds of the Native American spirit in all three selections. Although they can be performed separately the set provides a reverent tribute to a beautiful culture. High school or college or community choirs. Titles include:: Cherokee Traveller's Greeting Shoshone Love Song and Come on the Trail of Song.

Fragments Symphoniques - Suite Nr. 2. Par RAVEL MAURICE. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répertoire / SATB et Orchestre

MUSIQUE FRANÇAISE POUR CHOEUR MIXTE réunit une sélection des plus belles oeuvres originales pour choeur de compositeurs français et de superbes arrangements de quelques-unes des plus sublimes mélodies françaises. Ce volume qui conviendra aux choeurs de toutes tailles et de tous niveaux comprend des compositions originales de Hector Berlioz Gabriel Fauré Reynaldo Hahn et Camille Saint-Saëns. On trouvera également d’élégants arrangements de mélodies dont le Baïlèro de Joseph Canteloube Beau soir et Nuit d’ étoiles de Claude Debussy ÀChloris de Reynaldo Hahn Deux Prières de Darius Milhaud Nos souvenirs qui chantent de Francis Poulenc Chanson française de Maurice Ravel et le Choral inappétissant d’Erik Satie.

This set of three French songs was written as an homage to the Trois Chansons of Debussy and Ravel. The composer takes a particular interest in combining ideas of the past and the present through these works that are beautiful and challenging. Richard Nance Choral Series.