Donato Semeraro: Intermediate Sheet Music

The Messa di Gloria (Mass of Glory) is among the most beautiful works that the not yet thirty-year-old Rossini composed in the fruitful period in which he worked in Naples (the years of 'La donna del...

Cesare Andrea Bixio composed Mamma, one of the most well-known Italian classic songs, for lyrics by Bruno Cherubini. The song owes its fame in part to the typical Italian melody, but even more to the...

Agustín Lara (Tlacotalpan 1900 - Città del Messico 1970), compositore di origine messicana, fu anche interprete di canzoni e bolero, considerato tra i più popolari del suo tempo....

Anima Mediterranea (Mediterranean Soul) is a composition by Donato Semeraro for clarinet in G (also called Turkish clarinet) and wind band. As an alternative to the clarinet in G, the solo part can be...

The importance of the muses in ancient mythology was paramount: they represented the supreme ideal of the arts, of which they were the protectors. Terpischori was one of the nine muses and she guarded...

Dedicated to horn player Nilo Caracristi for his 50th birthday, it is structured in two movements: the Ballad, slow and romantic, and the Salsa, lively and rhythmic, with South American and Caribbean...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) was a close friend of Heinrich Joseph Baermann. Baermann was undisputedly the best clarinettist of his day and performed concerts throughout Europe together wit...

Coppélia, a ballet in two acts and three scenes, was premiered at the Opéra National in Paris on 25 May 1870. Despite its early success, performances were interrupted because of the Franco-Prussian Wa...

In the wide-ranging repertoire of medieval music, we often witness a musical development known as contrafactum, whereby sacred texts are adapted to profane melodies. This is the case of Fulget Dies, i...

Yiddish Dance è una composizione di Donato Semeraro, originale per trombone e banda di ispirazione Klezmer. Il brano ha inizio con un introduzione libera affidata al solista, il quale suona questa par...

This piece sees the author leafing through the pages of memories and employing music as the vehicle to describe some of those moments. In particular, he tells of his adolescence, with its alternating...

The composition recalls the sense of adventure and excitement travelling by stream train: the loudspeaker announcing the departure from the station; the laboured struggle of the engine to gradually pi...

This piece sees the author leafing through the pages of memories and employing music as the vehicle to describe some of those moments. In particular, he tells of his adolescence, with its alternating...

Among the many songs composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo, Mattinata (Morning Serenade) is undoubtedly the most famous. Written in 1904 for the amazing voice of the Neapolitan tenor Enrico Caruso, it is on...

Cesare Andrea Bixio composed Mamma, one of the most well-known Italian classic songs, for lyrics by Bruno Cherubini. The song owes its fame in part to the typical Italian melody, but even more to the...

Anticamente le prime composizioni polifoniche erano quasi sempre incentrate su un Cantus Firmus che significa canto fermo, in genere un canto gregoriano, e nel repertorio musicale della Chiesa cristia...