Music composed by Sébastien de Brossard and published in 1691 in a collection of serious and drinking songs. Windward the Estandars, Flags, Signs, Colonels and Soldiers, Colonels and Soldiers, Lieutenants, Captains. With the glass in hand, the...
MeF 1777 -Henry Dumont : Heureux qui n'ouvre point son cœur... (psalm 1) Blessed is the one who does not open his heart to... More about Henry Du Mont
"La fille de Madame Angot" (Madame Angot's Daughter( is one of the most famous operettas of the second half of the 19th century. It is located during the Directoire period in France (late 18th century): Young extravagant and extravagant...
This song arranged for 3 male voices by Bernard Lallement, is from the Ambly region, not that of Meuse, but that of the province of Luxemburg in Belgium. It can be sung by any choir or male choir voice thanks to a simple harmonization and without...
Julia Brainard is one of the rare women composers of the 19th century. Some scores were published in the United States, others in France, probably during his stay in France (1865-1871?). This is the only known work written for 4 mixed voices and...
This Marc-Antoine Charpentier short motet was first published in a collection of various music (Meslanges) in 1730. Charpentier composed on this text (even if he was not musician at the Versailles King's Court) at least five versions. This one is...
This motet for three mixed voices (Soprano, Alto, Baritone), organ and violin ad libitum was composed in 1916 in his house in Chessy in Seine and Marne, near Paris, where André Gedalge and his wife very often came. Author of treatises on...
MeF 1119 : Oyez, honorables bourgeois (God rest you merry, gentlemen). Traditional english carol arranged by Bernard Lallement. English and french texts. More about Bernard Lallement
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
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...
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
