The Mystery of Beethoven’s Für Elise Beethoven’s Für Elise – Bagatelle 25 in A minor – is one of our favorites at music scores. Beethoven died in 1827 but the music wasn’t published until 40 years afterwards. Ludwig Nohl, a German music scholar and writer, discovered the manuscript. He published the bagatelle in his book New Beethoven Letters… Read More »
Puccini Sheet Music and Biography Giacomo Puccini was an Italian composer who was born on 22nd December 1858. His best known works are from Operas – Madame Butterfly (One Fine Day), Gianni Scicchi (O Mio Babbino Caro) and Turandot (Nessun Dorma) He was from a very musical family. There were five generations of organists and composers for the… Read More »
Hello Music Scorers! This week Ann has added two new arrangements to Music-Scores.com, both are by Delibes. New Arrangements: The Flower Duet: Lakme2 Alto Horns & Piano – Full VersionAlto Horn, Baritone Horn & Piano Bb Higher Piano Part – Full version You might not necessarily pinpoint this music from its title, however you will immediately recognise it… Read More »
Hello Music-Score Blog Readers! This week Anne has added five new arrangements to music-scores.com which includes Shenandoah Sheet Music. Shenandoah is an American Folk Song that was maybe sung as a logging song or by the fur traders as they canoed down the Missouri river. The fur traders were mostly Canadian and US voyagers and you can imagine… Read More »
Hi There I have just returned from a couple of weeks in Europe (Belgium, Holland and France). Whilst visiting the Flanders Museum in Ypres, Belgium I came across a guy playing the bells via a type of organ .. called a Carillon. Extract from Flanders Museum Website: Playing the carillon, the heaviest of all instruments (some weigh in… Read More »
Have a little laugh at the expense of the conductors amongst us (no offence to any conductors reading this!).. and please feel free to comment… .
When we originally started way back in 1999 our site was just for members. Around 10 years ago we allowed customers to buy individual pieces as we thought it would be a good opportunity to introduce them to the potential benefits of using the site. After some discussion amongst the team we are now going back to our… Read More »
Last week I was sat drinking a medium soya latte (in my new recyclable Costa cup!) in Cafe Nero people watching. In the background, there were the relaxing sounds of classical music. The ambiance was dare I say arty, civilised… overall just very pleasant. I am not sure that everyone was aware of the music playing as they… Read More »
Here at Music Scores we like to do things a little differently and as the 12 days of Christmas approaches we would like to count with you using our music associated connections to the original version. The first day of Christmas is on the 25th December until and including 4th January. Below is the original version of the… Read More »
This is an interesting article illustrating the diversity of classical music and its popularity in areas that you wouldn’t necessarily expect. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music-theatre/2017/11/why-classical-purists-should-start-taking-video-game-music-seriously Media reports that classical music is dying, however millions of people are listening to hours of contemporary classical music every week, often without being aware of it…How? They are listening whilst playing video games. One of our Facebook… Read More »