Thérouanne is a city close to Saint-Omer which housed a convent of which today only a few traces remain. Monks of the abbey sometimes knew how to break certain vows ... From DU CROC, we know very little. At the same time, an editor, printer DU...
This traditional song, immortalized in its time on the french television, has been harmonized in a subtle and almost instrumental way by Vincent d'Indy. The verses evoke the fishermen of Marennes, today in Charente-Maritime, region of production...
This song belongs to the songbook ORIGINAL SPIRITUALS MeF 130 Other score included in this sheet music: OVER ME MeF 128b
A gallant song nicely turned, but not devoid of humor, on the theme of the parrot, a very fashionable bird within the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie of the 17th and 18th centuries: Although I suffer in your chains, However, I am willing to give...
Ernest Chausson is better known for his melodies and less for his choral pieces. Dying too early from a bicycle accident, he just did few scores for the choirs. This Ballata, written in1897, is a cappella work dedicated to a quartet "les petits...
Tung by sailors and fishermen and collected from a boat captain in the Dunkirk region in the 19th century, this shanty evokes traditional herring (cod) fishing campaigns. Arranged for three male voices by Bernard Lallement, it is proposed...
MeF 863 - Fanny Hensel : Abendlich schon rauscht der Wald. In the evening, a whisper rises from the depths of the woods.
For a 4 mixed voices choir Paul LE FLEM wrote a Breton version and a French version for this traditional song from the Tréguier region (Côte d'Armor). Kloarek translates as "cleric" (intellectual, literate, student). The modal harmonization...
MeF 231 : Song for 2 men voices celebrating the famous Charles Baudelaire poem, Man and the Sea Free man! the sea is to thee ever dear! The sea is thy mirror, thou regardest thy soul In its mighteous waves that unendingly roll, And thy...
MeF 1780 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier : motet to the Virgin Mary for mixed voices
A lullaby in the style of chivalrous novels of the 19th century. (Walter Scott is the author of epic novels such as Ivanhoe, Quentin Durward ...) evoking the Gothic era or the Crusades.
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 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...
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...
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
