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“Bei mir bist du schön” is a popular Yiddish song which was firstly entitled “Bei Mir Bistu Shein” for the Yiddish musical “Men Ken Lebn Nor Men Lost Nisht” (“I Would if I Could”) wich was only performed during one season in 1932. Secunda sold the publication rights of the song for thirty dollars. The song became famous with its English lyrics, but with the “Germanized” title “Bei Mir Bist Du Schön.” Sammy Cahn discovered a Yiddish performance in 1937, sung by the two African-American artists Johnnie and George, in the Apollo Theater, Harlem, and then he urged his boss to buy the rights to rewrite it in English with Saul Chaplin. After that, he convinced Andrew Sisters to sing it, which they did on November 24, 1937, and it immediately met with huge success. Jacques Larue adapted it into French, and Léo Marjana set it to music, and then it had been sung by Rika Zaraï (2002) and Nicoletta (2006).
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“Bella ciao” is an Italian popular song which melody is based on a song that was sung by mondina women working in paddy fields in Po Valley, North Italy. It was a way for her to denounce their working conditions.
Lyrics were written in 1944. The song became after the protest song of anti-fascist resistance.
The famous melody is performed by every voice each in turn. The secondary voices also change, except for basses, so the song is equally divided between all parts, and your choristers will have no occasion of chatting during the training.
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This sheet music is a perfect example to say that the vocal polyphony enhancing the simplicity and the meaning of a text was famous at the end of the 16th century. This is completely opposite to the Flemish French counterpoint. The structure is simple, strophic, and the harmonization is a note-against-note. The verses require to be sung as if you were telling a story. The vocal polyphony is only a basis to share stories.
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“Belle-île en Mer” is a hit written in 1986 and professional clinicians named it the best 80s song and fourteenth best century’s song. It’s often hummed and now you can sing it with this part-song. Melody is performed by soprano’s voice, and every desk can glorify the counterpoint with tenor singing in canon, for instance. Antoine Dubois skillfully arranged this ballade making every part attractive keeping the original atmosphere of the song.
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