Tag: RCM Preparatory

Bransle de Poitou by Adrian Le Roy

Bransle de Poitou comes to us from Adrian Le Roy, a multi-instrumental French composer 16th century. Le Roy has an interesting history as a publisher with his cousin Robert Ballard. Together, they established a virtual monopoly in publishing in their region of France. It lasted well beyond their deaths into the 19th century. You can…

July 9, 2020
Contentment by Shawn Bell

Contentment comes to us from an eclectic Canadian musician, Shawn Bell. His works are published by Doberman-Yppan Editions. A number of them appear in the Royal Conservatory series both past and present. His interests seem to currently lie in the field of media and electronic music rather than straight ahead classical. He currently co-designed, and…

June 25, 2020
Danse des îles by Florian Lambert

Danse des îles comes to us from another hard-to-find composer, Florian Lambert. With each video, I like to give some biographical information. Therefore, if someone finds their way to this site and has some information other than his birth year (1942), then I and those reading would be greatly appreciative. Publications of Danse des îles…

June 23, 2020
Exercise 13 by Elías Barreiro

Exercise 13 comes to us from a performer, teacher, and composer who is little known to most guitarists. That is unless you went to Tulane University in New Orleans. There is a nice interview with him on the Tulane University website (click here) that took place at the 2016 New Orleans International Guitar Festival. Barreiro…

June 19, 2020
Valse d’automne by Lyse Gingras

Valse d’automne comes to us from a composer that I cannot find a single ounce of biographical information through internet searches. I can only assume that he is either French or French Canadian. I assume the latter is due to his appearance in the Royal Conservatory editions for guitar. However, the most current editions do…

June 18, 2020