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1. The French Piano Collection – 48 Pieces by Chaminade, Couperin, Debussy, Faure, Ravel, and Satie: Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics Volume 2118
Author: by Hal Leonard Corp.
Published at: G. Schirmer, Inc. (December 1, 2016)
ISBN: 978-1495051616
(Piano Collection).CHAMINADE: Serenade, Op. 29 * Scarf-Dance (Pas des Echarpes) from Cinq Airs de Ballet Calliroe , Op.37b, No. 2 * Lolita (Caprice Espagnol), Op. 54 * COUPERIN: Soeur Monique from the eighteenth order of the Third Book of Harpsichord Pieces * Suite in C minor from the third order of the First Book of Harpsichord Pieces * DEBUSSY: Children’s Corner * Deux Arabesques * La plus que lente * Le petit negre * Pour le piano * Les sons et le parfums tournent dans l’air du soir from Preludes , Book I * Des pas sur la neige from Preludes , Book I * La fille aux cheveux de lin from Preludes , Book I * La Cathedrale engloutie from Preludes , Book I * Minstrels from Preludes , Book II * La Puerta del vino from Preludes , Book II * La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune from Preludes , Book II * Reverie * Suite bergamasque * FAURE: Impromptu in A-flat Major, Op.34, No.
3 * Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op.36, No. 4 * Berceuse in E Major, Op.56, No. 1 * Improvisation in C-sharp minor, Op.84, No. 5 * RAVEL: Minuet on the Name of Haydn * Pavane for a Dead Princess (Pavane pour une infante defunte) * Sonatine * SATIE: Three Gymnopedies * Three Gnossiennes
2. Cello Music by French Composers from Couperin to Debussy for Violoncello and Piano
Author: by François Couperin
Published at: G. Schirmer, Inc. (November 1, 1986)
ISBN: 978-0793552238
(String Solo).Contents: La Bandoline (Couperin) * Two Old Dances (Marais) * La Milanese (d’Hervelois) * Chants Russes (Lalo) * Melodie (Massenet) * Allegro Appassionata (Saint-Saens) * Elegy (Faure) * Papillon (Faure) * Apres un Reve (Faure) * Reverie (Debssy) * Menuet (Debussy).
3. Complete Keyboard Works, Series One (Dover Music for Piano)
Author: by Francois Couperin
Published at: Dover Publications (December 1, 1988)
ISBN: 978-0486257952
“His melodic imagination displays admirable freshness. He possesses a delicate harmonic sense. His themes show the inspirations of an impassioned musician: perfectly created, firm in line, vivid, and enduring in color. His art never wavers; it consistently exhibits a magnificent technique.” John Gillespie, Five Centuries of Keyboard MusicThis famous edition, prepared a century ago by Johannes Brahms and Friedrich Chrysander, presents all of the 27 keyboard suites, or Ordres, by the great French composer Franois Couperin (16681733).
Also included are the Allemande and 8 Preludes from Couperin’s famous harpsichord treatise, L’Art de Toucher le Clavecin. In these magnificent works (there are over 200 compositions in the two volumes) lies the supreme achievement of French keyboard music, a rich source of subtle, sometimes startling, always pleasurable music for keyboard artists and students at every level of expertise.
The moods, rhythms, and melodies of these distinctive compositions range across a broad musical spectrum, from crisp gavottes to noble sarabandes, from flowing allemandes to lively gigues. Some of the pieces suggest carnival merriment, others tender reflection; most have colorful and mysterious names.
4. Le Tombeau de Couperin (Alfred Masterwork Edition)
Author: by Maurice Ravel
Published at: Alfred Music; 2nd edition (March 1, 1997)
ISBN: 978-0739063811
This major 20th-century Neoclassical work is Ravel’s last work for piano solo. A tombeau is a lament, and each of the six movements is intended as a musical epitaph to friends lost in the war. The difficulty found here, especially in the “Toccata,” is understood when one learns that Ravel studied Liszt’s transcendental etudes in preparations for writing the suite.
The meticulously researched stylistic information and clear, accurate text of this performing edition will prove to be invaluable to the advanced pianist.
5. Complete Keyboard Works, Series Two: Ordres XIV-XXVII and Miscellaneous Pieces (Dover Music for Piano)
Author: by Francois Couperin
Published at: Dover Publications (December 1, 1988)
ISBN: 978-0486257969
“His melodic imagination displays admirable freshness. He possesses a delicate harmonic sense. His themes show the inspirations of an impassioned musician: perfectly created, firm in line, vivid, and enduring in color. His art never wavers; it consistently exhibits a magnificent technique.” John Gillespie, Five Centuries of Keyboard MusicThis famous edition, prepared a century ago by Johannes Brahms and Friedrich Chrysander, presents all of the 27 keyboard suites, or Ordres, by the great French composer Franois Couperin (16681733).
Also included are the Allemande and 8 Preludes from Couperin’s famous harpsichord treatise, L’Art de Toucher le Clavecin. In these magnificent works (there are over 200 compositions in the two volumes) lies the supreme achievement of French keyboard music, a rich source of subtle, sometimes startling, always pleasurable music for keyboard artists and students at every level of expertise.
The moods, rhythms, and melodies of these distinctive compositions range across a broad musical spectrum, from crisp gavottes to noble sarabandes, from flowing allemandes to lively gigues. Some of the pieces suggest carnival merriment, others tender reflection; most have colorful and mysterious names.
6. Le Tombeau de Couperin and Other Works for Solo Piano
Author: by Maurice Ravel
Published at: Dover Publications (July 10, 1997)
ISBN: 978-0486298061
The consummate craftsmanship, elegance, and originality of Maurice Ravel (18751937) define this collection of masterly compositions for the piano. Here, in one volume are Ma mre l’Oye (“Mother Goose”), Valse nobles et sentimentales, Le Tombeau de Couperin, and three shorter pieces for piano: Prlude, A la manire de Borodine (Valse,) and A la manire de Emmanuel Chabrier.
Ravel’s own piano transcription of his world-famous La Valse completes this attractive edition of the master’s most famous compositions. Intermediate and advanced pianists will welcome this superb compilation of piano classics, reproduced from authoritative French sources. Notes throughout introduce the works, their origins, and their context within the composer’s output.
7. L'Art De Toucher Le Clavecin. The Art of Playing the Harpsichord (French and English Edition)
Author: by Francois Couperin
Published at: Alfred Music (June 1, 1974)
ISBN: 978-0739007600
An important 18th-century instruction book, Couperin’s The Art of Playing the Harpsichord contains valuable information on technique, fingering, phrasing, ornamentation and keyboard performance style. Halford’s scholarly introduction includes a biographical sketch of the composer, a thorough discussion of French Baroque ornamentation and a useful summary of Couperin’s style.
The eight preludes used by Couperin to illustrate his approach are musical gems rarely found in other collections.
8. 35 French Classics for Piano: Debussy, Ravel, Satie, Fauré, Rameau, Saint-Saëns, Bizet, Offenbach, Daquin, Couperin, Lully and much more
Author: by Simplified Piano
Published at: Independently published (October 24, 2020)
ISBN: 979-8552355167
This great piano songbook includes 35 of the most beautiful French classicsContents :Georges BizetCarmen, PrludeCarmen, HanaberaMarc-Antoine CharpentierTe Deum, PrludeFranois CouperinLes Barricades MystrieusesLe petit rienLouis-Claude DaquinLe Coucou (The cuckoo)Claude DebussyPremire arabesqueDeuxime arabesque,RverieClair de luneILa Fille aux cheveux de linLa Cathdrale engloutieGabriel FaurPavane, Op.50Berceuse, Op.16Sicilienne, Op.
78Franois-Joseph GossecGavotte, RH 318Charles GounodAve MariaJean-Baptiste LullyGavotteMarche pour la Crmonie des TurcsJacques OffenbachFrench Cancan, Orphe aux enfersBarcarolle, Les contes d’HoffmannJean-Philippe RameauLes SauvagesLe rappel des oiseauxTambourinMaurice RavelPavane pour une infante dfunteValses Nobles et SentimentalesClaude Joseph Rouget de LisleLa MarseillaiseCamille Saint-SansLe Cygne(The Swan)Erik SatieGymnopdie N 1, Trois GymnopdiesGymnopdie N 2, Trois GymnopdiesGymnopdie N 3, Trois GymnopdiesGnossienne N 1, Trois GnossiennesGnossienne N 2, Trois GnossiennesGnossienne N 3, Trois GnossiennesJe te veux
9. Two Masses for Organ (Dover Music for Organ)
Author: by François Couperin
Published at: Dover Publications (December 2, 1994)
ISBN: 978-0486282855
One of the greatest figures of the French classical school, Franois Couperin (16681733), called le grand, was royal organist at the court of Louis XIV and the leading French composer of his day. Trained early as an organist, he possessed solid contrapuntal skills as well as a softness and naturalness of style characteristic of French music.
His two masses for organ were his only compositions for this instrument. Published when Couperin was only 21, his organ masses display not only a thoroughly assured compositional technique, but a rich gift for melodic lines both expressive and ebullient. The majestic Messe pour les Paroisses was intended for use on principal feast days of the church.
Messe pour les Couvents is more intimate in style, possibly used in pseudo-plainchant musical mass popular in French religious communities in the late 17th century. Both works, reproduced here from earlier authoritative editions, stand at the summit of French classic organ composition.
10. Le Tombeau de Couperin and Valses Nobles et Sentimentales in Full Score (Dover Music Scores)
Author: by Maurice Ravel
Published at: Dover Publications (October 8, 2001)
ISBN: 978-0486418988
This volume contains a pair of works originally written for piano by French composer Maurice Ravel (18751937) and later orchestrated by him. Conceived as homage to eighteenth-century French music, Le Tombeau de Couperin (Couperin’s Tomb) is a four-piece suite consisting of “Prelude,” “Forlane,” “Menuet,” and “Rigaudon.” Written between 1914 and 1917, it was dedicated to the composer’s close friends who died in World War I.
Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (Elegant and Lyrical Waltzes) pays tribute to the work of Franz Schubert. Composed in 1911 and orchestrated in 1912 to serve as music for the ballet Adlade, ou le langage des fleurs (Adelaide, or the language of flowers), these eight uninterrupted waltzes abound in Schubertian characteristics, with their lilting rhythms, rubato, balanced phrases, straightforward form, and unexpected harmonic subtleties.
11. Baroque And Folk Tunes For Recorder: An Unusual Collection of Music Arranged for the Recorder, containing over Fifty Pieces from Over 300 Years of Music
Author: by Leo Alfassy
Published at: Wise Publications (January 1, 1992)
ISBN: 978-0860012757
(Music Sales America). An unusual collection of music arranged for the recorder containing over fifty pieces from over 300 years of music. Contents: Allegro (Haydn) * Andante (Gluck) * Andante Grazioso (Mozart) * Anglaise (Handel) * Ballet Anglois (Fischer) * Beautiful Heaven (Fernandez) * Bourree (J.S.
Bach) * Corrente Terza (Frescobaldi) * English Dance (J.C.F. Bach) * Gavotte * La Diane (Couperin) * Londonderry Air * March (J.S. Bach) * Minuet (Handel) * Moscow Nights * Musette (J.S. Bach) * Orientale (Cui) * Original Rags (Joplin) * Passepied * Poeme (Fibich) * Polovetsian Dances (Borodin) * Santa Lucia * Sarabande (J.S.
Bach) * Scarborough Fair * Serenade (Drigo) * Siciliana (Muffat) * The Entertainer (Joplin) * The Lorelei * Theme from Symphony No.6, Op. 68 “Pastoral” (Beethoven) * Transcription of a Gavotte by Gluck * Victory Dance and Festival (Kuhnau) * Waltz (W.F.E.Bach) * Wiegenlied.
12. Mass for the Convents: Sheet (Kalmus Edition)
Author: by François Couperin
Published at: Alfred Music (March 1, 1985)
ISBN: 978-0769242644
Titles: I, Plein jeu * II, Fugue sur la Trompette * III, Rcit de Chromhorne * IV, Trio 2 dessus de Chromhorne et la basse de Tierce * V, Dialogue * VI, Plein jeu * VII, Petitte fugue sur le Chromhorne * VIII, Duo sur les Tierces * IX, Basse de Trompette * X, Chromhorne sur la Taille * XI, Dialogue sur la Voix humaine * XII, Trio * XIII, Rcit de tierce * XIV, Dialogue sur les grands jeux * XV, Offertoire sur les grands jeux * XVI, Premier Couplet du Sanctus * XVII, Rcit de Cornet * XVIII, Elevation * XIX, Agnus * XX, Dialogue sur les grands jeux * XXI, Deo Gratias.
“Elevation (Tierce en Taille XVIII)” and “Recit de Cromhorne (III)” are Federation Festivals 2016-2020 selections.
13. Le Tombeau de Couperin: M.68 – Sheet music for piano
Author: by Maurice Ravel
Published at: Independently published (August 31, 2020)
ISBN: 979-8681251880
“Le Tombeau de Couperin” (M. 68) by Maurice Ravel, true to the original work.Contents :1.Prlude2.Fugue3.Forlane4.Rigaudon5.Menuet6.Toccata
14. The Graded Couperin (Kalmus Edition)
Author: by François Couperin
Published at: Alfred Music (February 1, 2004)
ISBN: 978-0757919015
This collection presents pieces which are among the most beautiful of this great musician’s works. This is also a graded Couperin, intended to make this an ideal edition for teaching. The text scrupulously follows the original, with editorial details indicated in brackets.
