Nancy Nourse

Newfoundland, the last province to join Canada (in 1949) is a rugged and beautiful island shaped by the many inlets where tiny fishing villages are huddled. The Newfoundland ballads and shanties that...

Terranova, la última provincia en unirse a Canadá (en 1949), es una isla escarpada y hermosa formada por numerosas ensenadas donde se apiñan diminutos pueblos de pescadores. Las baladas y shanties de...

A lovely arrangement of a favorite opera overture. Instrumentation: Piccolo (doubles on C Flutes), 5 C Flutes, Alto Flute, Bass Flute

From the opera 'Carmen,' this is an exact transcription of the movement found in the 'Carmen Suite, No. 2' featuring a very famous piccolo duet. Instrumentation: 2 Piccolos (the 2nd doubling on C Flut...

The entire five-movement (Praelude; Sarabande; Gavotte; Air; Rigaudon) work arranged for a full flute choir. Excellent on any flute choir concert. Instrumentation: Piccolo, 6 C Flutes (optional - Flut...

Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, op. 92, created in 1812, was composed entirely without a slow movement. Instead, this famous Allegretto opens with a statement of an A minor chord followed by a rhythmic...

Apollo and Hyacinthus K.38 is the first full, three act opera composed by the eleven-year-old prodigy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, created for his fellow youth at the school of the University of Salzburg...

Of the six Concertos, the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, despite the fact it is composed for string orchestra, is the least like the traditional baroque concerto grosso, in that there is no solo or conce...

Published in 1610, Canzona 'La Padovana' is from Viadana's only purely instrumental collection, his Sinfonie muscali for eight voices, op. 18. Each of the eighteen canzoni therein is named after an It...

This classic virtuoso piece is an entracte in Act III of the fairy-tale opera 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan.' Though the opera has largely been forgotten, the Flight of the Bumblebee has been transcribed f...

In 1908, fourteen years after composing the Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune, Claude Debussy completed the piano suite, Children's Corner, which was dedicated to his daughter 'Chouchou.' The sixth an...

The Romanian Folk Dances were originally completed in 1915 as a set of six movements for the pianoforte: Joc Cu Bata, Braul, Pe Loc, Buciumeana, Poarga Romaneasca, Maruntel. Probably the most famous v...

The Swiss Boy belongs to the vast repertoire of solo feature music of the nineteenth century concert-in-the-park bands. Before the days of electronic amplification, soloists had to be selected from am...

Water Music was composed by George Frederick Handel (1658-1759) and while no copies of this work in the composer's hand are extant, various catalogs and copies from that time show 9 to 20 movements in...

Land of the Silver Birch es una canción tradicional muy conocida y apreciada que se canta mucho alrededor de las hogueras en toda la provincia canadiense de Ontario. En esta fantasía destacan los colo...

Divinum Mysterium: Illuminations on a Christmas Plainsong, set for flute choir by Nancy Nourse. The complex origins of this great Christmas hymn began with the liturgical poem 'Corde natus ex parentis...

Francesco Manfredini's Christmas Concerto (Concerto Grosso per il Santissimo Natale) was published in Bologna in 1718, nine years after Torelli's Christmas concerto and just six years after Corelli's...

Although Frederick Delius' Sleigh Ride remains a lesser-known work from his student days, its simplicity and emotional responsiveness illuminate the journey of poetic expressiveness that the composer...