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Players of chamber music, both amateur and professional, attest to a unique enchantment with playing in ensemble. "It is not an exaggeration to say that there opened out before me an enchanted world", writes Walter Willson Cobbett, instigator of the Cobbett Competition, Cobbett Medal and editor of Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music. [93]
Chamber Dance is cast in one continuous movement and has a duration of approximately 15 minutes. Despite its title, the work is not a piece of chamber music in the traditional sense, being scored for a modest-sized orchestra. In the score program note, Tower explained, "It is chamber music in the sense that I always thought of Orpheus as a ...
Richard Strauss 1938. The Divertimento for Chamber Orchestra after Keyboard Pieces by Couperin, Op. 86 (German: Divertimento aus Klavierstücken von François Couperin für kleines Orchester) is an orchestral suite composed by Richard Strauss published in 1942 which consists of eight movements, each one based on a selection of pieces from François Couperin's Pièces de Clavecin written for ...
Chamber music: 1: 1900: Piano Trio No.1 in D minor: for violin, cello and piano: Chamber music: 2: 1900: Romance: Une Lamentatione d'amour: for violin and piano: Chamber music: 3: 1900: String Quartet in B ♭ major: for 2 violins, viola and cello: Chamber music: 4: 1900: 3 Dances
The movements either were given tempo indications or names that indicated the style of dance, e.g., corrente, sarabande, or gigue. [2] Nevertheless, there is great variation in the form of music that was called sonata da camera , including works such as Legrenzi 's op. 4 of 1656, which are single movements in binary form , and Bononcini 's op ...
1957 Dance at Home (Decca) 1959 Music from the Blue Room (Decca) 1960 Christmas Dance Party (Decca) 1961 Dance Program (Decca) 1961 Dance to the Songs Everybody Knows (Decca) 1961 Street of Dreams (Decca) 1961 Jan Garber in Danceland (Decca) 1961 Everybody Dance (Decca) 1961 You Stepped Out of a Dream (Decca) 1961 College Medleys (Capitol)
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or any small chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers, with one performer to a part.
A Christmas cantata or Nativity cantata is a cantata, music for voice or voices in several movements, for Christmas. The importance of the feast inspired many composers to write cantatas for the occasion, some designed to be performed in church services, others for concert or secular celebration.