Frances Jones

A pastorella (the Latin pastores means shepherds) had evolved during the eighteenth century as a work to be incorporated into midnight Mass that dramatised the role of the sheperds in the Nativity sto...

Little is known about this work, and no original autograph copy exists. The version upon which modern editions are based is a manuscript held in the Westdeutsche Bibliothek, Marburg/Lahn (Mus. ms. Bac...

A pastorella (the Latin pastores means shepherds) had evolved during the eighteenth century as a work to be incorporated into midnight Mass that dramatised the role of the sheperds in the Nativity sto...

A pastorella (the Latin pastores means shepherds) had evolved during the eighteenth century as a work to be incorporated into midnight Mass that dramatised the role of the sheperds in the Nativity sto...

Leo Delibes was born in Saint-Germain-du-Val in 1836 and died in Paris in 1891. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, where Adam was his composition teacher. He was appointed accompanist at the Théât...

3 Flutes and Alto Flute. (Score and Parts).

3 Flutes and Alto Flute. (Score and Parts). The Flight of the Bumblebee is a piece beautifully written to simulate the continuous droning of an insect in flight. It is a virtuoso lollipop, which is al...

Smoke gets in your Eyes is a show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern with lyricist Otto Harbach for the 1933 musical comedy Roberta. The song also featured in the 1935 movie Roberta, famous...

Smoke gets in your Eyes is a show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern with lyricist Otto Harbach for the 1933 musical comedy Roberta. The song also featured in the 1935 movie Roberta, famous...

Delibes composed many operatic works, both serious and light, incidental music, songs, a mass and a cantata, and also wrote music for a number of ballets, the best known being Coppélia, based on E.T.A...

Tico Tico is a Brazilian sparrow. The song that begins 'O tico tico' takes the metaphor of the sparrow in the cornmeal as a symbol of love: when you hear its call, it is time to woo. The Portuguese ly...

Mexican Hat Dance has been popular in Mexico since the 18th century. Also known as Jarabe tapatio, meaning 'a mix of musical flavours', in the 1790s the dance was banned by the Spanish colonists becau...