Epitaph written for a 31-piece ensemble was the masterwork of composer/bassist Charles Mingus. The extended suite is comprised of multiple movements reflecting a wealth of compositional styles (not just jazz) thatdemonstrate Mingus' invaluable contribution to 20th-century American music. Since its last performance 15 years ago additional movements have been discovered that were originally intended to be a part of the work. This unique500-page score includes these “missing movements” along with historical and program notes. Prepared and edited under the guidance of Gunther Schuller and Sue Mingus it provides a monumental resource for study andanalysis. The first jazz composition of such magnitude ever to be published it is presented in this edition as he left it: a summary work a portrait for all time of his life in music. “I wrote it for my tombstone.”- Charles Mingus

Giles Swayne wrote this piece to commemorate the life of his brother-in-law Nii Sackey Codjoe who came to England from Ghana as an illegal worker. Sackey's goal was to make money to give himself a better future in his home country but he was made redundant with the result that his life fell apart. He gambled and drank away all the money he had saved and eventually died of heart failure. Sackey's story is all too common but none the less tragic for that. He left no children and his warmth and laughter were blotted out by a world for which he was not adequately equipped leaving nothing behind. Nobody except a handful of kind Ghanaian church people came to hiscremation which was paid for by the hospital where he died.In the piece a simple 25-bar refrain is gradually transformed recurring four times. These four refrains are interspersed by four episodes which give a musical portrait of aspects of Sackey's life and character. After the fourth refrain comes the final section Valediction in which we hear his pulse (represented by flute horn and viola) falter and cease while the harp quietly plays the melody of a hymn which was a favourite of Sackey's:'Rock of ages cleft for me Let me hide myself in thee...'

Parts available (NOV120161-01). This work was written during the spring of 1964 and was commissioned by the artist Maurice de Sausmarez in memory of his mother Jessie Rose de Sausmarez. The first performance took place in London during the same year. The work is a kind of epitaph or memorial and each movement tries to express a different aspect of grief culminating in a more extended elegiac fugue. All seven variations are based on a single series of notes and the series is used both thematically and as a structural basis. There is therefore no 'theme' in the traditional sense and in this respect the work follows the practice of many modern essays in variationform.

Contents: The Earth Goeth on the Earth £ Hymnus Circo Exsequias Defuncti £ Two Epitaphs from Arbroath Abbey £ Colours of Rain and Iron. Duration: ca. 14 minutes.

These were commissioned by Pamela Cook and Cantamus and were first performed in 1972. They are for unnacompanied SSA voices.

Par BADLY DRAWN BOY. Cet album de Badly Drawn Boy, avec un titre citant Monty Python Flying Circus a remporté le prix de musique de mercure en 2000. Cette correspondance songbook comprend la tablature pour guitare, les notation standard, les accords et les paroles de toutes les chansons de l'album./ Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures

" Face à un créateur tel que Bob Dylan, plus qu'une rock star, un véritable mythe, toujours présent mais aussi insaisissable qu'à ses débuts, comment se contenter d'une biographie classique, strictement chronologique ? Stéphane Koechlin, fin connaisseur de la culture noire américaine et du blues si chers à Dylan, est parti du c?ur même de son ?uvre : son livre Tarantula, et le fameux texte, 11 Outlined Epitaphs, paru sur la pochette de son troisième album, où, se présentant comme mort, il réfutait toutes les accusations portées contre lui de son vivant. Car Dylan, capable du meilleur comme du pire, de toutes les embardées politiques, idéologiques ou religieuses, a essuyé, grâce en outre à son caractère insupportable et à son ego démesuré, des marées de critiques ! L'auteur ne plaide ni n'accable, il explore méthodiquement les arcanes ...

Cet album de Badly Drawn Boy, avec un titre citant Monty Python Flying Circus a remporté le prix de musique de mercure en 2000. Cette correspondance songbook comprend la tablature pour guitare, les notation standard, les accords et les paroles de toutes les chansons de l'album. / Guitare Tablatures