Combocom Salonmusik Music for Flexible Ensemble (Score & Parts)

More than a hundred years ago small get-togethers and domestic recitals were garnished with jewels from the classical repertoire, foxtrots, waltzes, tangos, medleys, and opera and operetta arrangements for small groups of instruments.  “Salon music” of this sort was extremely popular.  In the early twentieth century it moved into the concert hall, luxury resorts, and places of entertainment.  Today the salon has vanished and the belle époque and fin de siècle are things of the past, but salon music is witnessing a renaissance.

Small ensembles are mushrooming to savour this tuneful music and present it to a large and appreciative audience.  This edition for Melody I (voice or violin), Melody II (violin or flute), Piano, and Bass (or cello), with chordal notation for guitar, offers timelessly beautiful nineteenth-century melodies such as Salut d´amour or the Barcarole from Tales of Hoffmann, combined with hits from the early twentieth century.

Score with chords and 7 parts:
Melody I in C (Violin, Oboe)
Melody II in C (Flute, Mallets)
Melody I in B-flat (Trumpet, Soprano Saxophone)
Melody II in B-flat (Clarinet)
Melody I, II in E-flat (Alto Saxophone)
Bass (Double Bass, Cello)

“combocom” is Bärenreiter’s series of music for variable ensemble.  Each volume contains a full score for piano, keyboard or guitar, melody parts (in C, B-flat, and E-flat) and a part for bass instrument.

“combocom” also offers suggestions for using percussion.  It thus permits a wide range of instrumental combinations: if the violin takes the top part, the saxophone can play the counter-melody and the cello the bass while the guitar strums the specified chords.

But many other combinations are possible too, whether at home, at school, or in a “genuine” band, combo or buskers’ ensemble…