This antiphon from a responsory for the Holy Saturday before Easter has been set to music many times for monastic liturgies.Giovanni Croce's polyphonic version (composer of many madrigals too), is certainly intended for Saint Mark's Basilica in...
This song is emblematic in more ways than one. • First of all, it symbolizes the North of France (the Belfry of Lille rings the hours with the melody of the chorus). In addition, his words are characteristic of social and popular song,...
This satirical song, mocking the elegants and their clothing, was published in Italy in Venice in 1504. François-Auguste Gevaert harmonized the melody, and "actualized" in 19th century French. This score is available under the reference MeF 507...
MeF 635PDF - Vittoria Aleotti : Madrigal for 4 mixed voices "O dolce anima mia" Vittoria Aleotti (circa 1573-1646) Composer, harpsichordist and Augustinian nun from the Convent of San Vito in Ferrara . She was one of the five daughters of Giovan...
This Hainaut Christmas Carol has no less than 9 verses, the first five being directly linked to the birth of Christ, the next four relating to the feast of Christmas and the corresponding feasts (...). We can therefore choose the interpretation...
A 4-voice round, which served for the 2018 Festi'choeur days, in memory of the end of the First World War.• Intended to be sung by a large number of participants (flashmob), it is simple to learn. Step by step, breaks all boundaries ......
Restitution from the original manuscript of Léo Delibes. The text is representative of the second half of the 19th century by its moral and "educational" aspect was set to music by several composers. The version for 4 mixed voices has so far...
Renaissance verses song (7), on the traditional theme of the unmarried, telling the story of the girl married by her parents to an old man, the bride having the firm intention of cheating on her husband with a young man ... Pierre Bonnet is a...
Jean-Baptiste Drouard de Bousset was born near Dijon in Burgundy and was master of music at the French Academy and at the Louvre chapel in Paris. Remarkable singer, composer, he published various works grouped in volumes (serious and drinking...
MeF 863 - Fanny Hensel : Abendlich schon rauscht der Wald. In the evening, a whisper rises from the depths of the woods.
MeF 356 - Jean-Baptiste Lully : Air des trembleurs (for 3 mixed voices). Everybody knows Henry Purcell's "Air du Froid", taken from King Arthur, composed in 1691. Lully had used this principle of vocal staccato as early as 1677 to evoke the...
MeF 1781 : César Franck - Ave Maria ( sop, ten (alt), bass) for 3 mixed voices and organ More about César Franck
MeF 1118 : Noël du Languedoc for 3 mixed voices a cappella. A simple and easy joyful traditional carol from the south of France
In an elegant presentation folder : - Claude Debussy : Two songs MeF 859 - Natalia Raykher / Georges Bizet : Bizetissimo ! : MEF 939 - Fernand de la Tombelle : Stabat Mater MEF 1722 - Two mabookmarks - One pencil eraser Gift 01 : For drinking...
MeF 355 - Barbara Strozzi : Quel misero usignolo, madrigal for 4 mixed voices and Basso Continuo. Barbara Strozzi (Venice, 1619 - Padua, 1664), Italian soprano and composer, was the adopted (and natural) daughter of the poet and librettist Giulio...
MeF 1780 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier : motet to the Virgin Mary for mixed voices
MeF 138 / traditional folk song from Flanders, for 4 mixed voices Young lady, do not grieve, the feast of St. Anne's is coming up. It must arrive soon, then it will pass. Let's dance, let's jump, let's enjoy ourselves and be content. Such a life,...
Twelve songs arranged for 2 voices with piano accompaniment. They song some episodes of French History or illustrate a character as well as imaginary or real heroes. Without any particular difficulties, these childhood songs are intended for...
MeF 1779 - Clémence de Grandval : Fac ut portem Christi mortem, for 4 mixed voices a cappella
MeF 635PDF - Vittoria Aleotti : Madrigal for 4 mixed voices "O dolce anima mia" Vittoria Aleotti (circa 1573-1646) Composer, harpsichordist and Augustinian nun from the Convent of San Vito in Ferrara . She was one of the five daughters of Giovan...
MeF 634 - Madalena Casulana : Madrigal for 4 voices : O notte, o cielo, o mare (O night, o heaven, o sea)
This Stabat Mater Dolorosa composed between 1911-1912 and lasting 12 to 15 minutes, alternates the stanzas sung by the choir and those sung in psalmody. Fernand de la Tombelle, very sensitive to access to music for all, wrote a simple, fluid...
How not to fall in love with this hymn composed by Fernand de la Tombelle! This composer is to be rediscovered! His music is elegant, subtle and delicate. The AVE VERUM met with great success at the beginning of the 20th century and remains...
A Pastoral is a musical genre that idyllically illustrates nature, shepherds and shepherdesses. The one entitled "Les Festes de l'Amour et de Bachus", in a prologue and three acts, was performed in 1672. It is made up of extracts from different...
A satirical song (prohibited in its time) mocking the french king Louis the 14th and his many extra marital adventures. We quote in the song both the maids and gardeners as the noble ladies (Mme de Montespan, Mme de Soubise) and, of course, the...
Composed in 1663, the "Airs à 4, basse continu, (...), on the paraphrase of some psalms and hymns by Messire Antoine Godeau" are small motets representative of French Baroque music in the time of Louis th 14th in Paris and in Versailles. "Since...
A Pastoral is a musical genre that idyllically illustrates nature, shepherds and shepherdesses. The one entitled "Les Festes de l'Amour et Bachus", in a prologue and three acts, was performed in 1672. It is made up of extracts from different...
Poem by Paul Verlaine from Les Fêtes Galantes (1869): Calm in the half day What tall branches do. Let’s penetrate our love From this deep silence.
A variation between jazz and contemporary music, on the first lines of the finale of Beethoven's 9th symphony. Hymnus refers to the European Anthem but only keeps a short extract (Freude schöner Götterfunken ...) and uses the onomatopoeias of...
The very famous Slaves Chorusr from Verdi Nabucco's opera. Piano accompaniment available under the reference MeF 901P
MeF 505PDF - Claudin de Semisy : Ceux de Picardie - easy and lively Renaissance song. This earthy and joyful drinking song is very simple and easy to remember. Halfway between Renaissance and Middle Ages music, it celebrates the ability of Piacrds...
