Intermediate Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

For as long as there are poets there will be songs. If someone was to put on my tomb: 'Here lies Francis Poulenc, musician to Apollinaire and Éluard': that really would be my finest claim to fame, ' t...

When guitarist John Olson and soprano Gioia De Cari commissioned me to write a piece for them, I envi- sioned writing something theatrical that might especially suit Gioia, who is both a singer and an...

La Courte Paille was the last vocal music Poulenc composed on seven poems of Belgian poet Maurice Carême. At Poulenc’s request Carême titled the cycle, choosing La Courte Paille (The Short Straw), whi...

Poulenc composed this valse chantée as incidental music for Anouilh’s play Léocadia. Within the play, the song is described as a pseudo Viennese waltz and functions as a leitmotif. Sung by Yvonne Prin...

Musique vocale française' is a series designed for students, teachers and professional singers. The present edition includes a selection of Maurice Ravel's best-known songs both in the original key or...

Musique vocale française' is a series designed for students, teachers and professional singers. The present edition includes a selection of Maurice Ravel's best-known songs both in the original key or...

The melodies of MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937) span the entire chronology of his creative output, from his earliest song BALLADE DE LA REINE MORTE D`AIMER (1893), written during his student years at the Pa...

A collection of 12 songs based on Emily Dickenson texts.

An Embarrassing Position, based on a sketch by Kate Chopin, takes place in New Orleans in the 1890s. Willis Parkham is a young bachelor running for political office. Late one night after a so-called “...

The Beautiful Bridegroom, a one-act comic opera for six women, has been hailed as "a little masterpiece" by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Del Tredici. Based on an 18th-century play by Ludvig H...

A charming duet (or duel!) between a woman (who loves music) and a man (who loves poetry). Ah, the battle between Dowland and Spencer, the rivalry between the lute and the couplets! They both survive…

Adapted from the Hans Christian Anderson story, Song of the Nightingale follows a devoted Collector who searches the world for the most beautiful objects and becomes obsessed with acquiring a Nighting...

Homeland as a distant and melancholic memory deeply inscribed in the consciousness is a universally valid theme in Say's well-known setting of the famous poem by Nâzım Hikmet. New singable translation...

I - Ring out, wild bells (Alfred Tennyson) This is a poem for New Year's Eve, when the bells ring out at midnight. The bells are meant to "ring out" all the negatives of life: dishonesty, pain, war, m...

I - Ring out, wild bells (Alfred Tennyson) This is a poem for New Year's Eve, when the bells ring out at midnight. The bells are meant to "ring out" all the negatives of life: dishonesty, pain, war, m...

My song cycle, „Love, Orange Days and Summer Winds“ is a setting of four love poems by the American poet, Pam Morehead. These poems were not originally intended to form a cycle, but I felt they seemed...