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Luciano Berio's Sinfonia (1968) marked a return by the composer to orchestral writing after a gap of six years. This in-depth study demonstrates the central position the work occupies in Berio's output. David Osmond-Smith discusses the way in which Berio used the Bororo myth...

Because of a strong influence of German musical school brought back to China by the composer's father, Prof. Feilih Huang, the last Chinese pupil of Paul Hindemith in Yale, the combination of the traditional West harmony with the Chinese music language has became the...

Japanese folk performing arts incorporate a body of entertainments that range from the ritual to the secular. They may be the ritual dances at Shinto shrines performed to summon and entertain deities; group dances to drive away disease-bearing spirits; or theatrical mime to portray...

"This book is a substantial and timely contribution to Brahms studies. Its strategy is to focus on a single critical work, the C-Minor Piano Quartet, analyzing and interpreting it in great detail, but also using it as a stepping-stone to connect it to other...

Meinrad Sch?tter is one of the most intriguing of recent Swiss composers. His music offers a highly personal synthesis of 20th-century European modernisms, from Hindemith to Bart?k, Stravinsky, Berg and beyond. Meinrad Sch?tter (1910-2006) is one of the most intriguing of recent Swiss composers....

(Transcribed Score). A collection of 14 of their very best, including: Mysterious Traveller * Birdland * Palladium * Mr. Gone * Badia/Boogie Woogie Waltz Medley * Brown Street * 8:30.Author: Weather ReportISBN-10: 0793524156ISBN-13: 9780793524150Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1988Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 11.70h...

When Mavis Himes, a psychoanalyst with an established practice of over forty years, began to contemplate retirement, she decided to learn to play the cello. From meeting her teacher in an overcrowded caf?, through the demanding task of cello practice with its persistent strains...

Author: Otakar Sourek, Oltar YourekISBN-10: 083714342XISBN-13: 9780837143422Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/10/1971Pages: 366Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d

This study is an analysis of the first three of Beethoven's late quartets, Opp. 127, 132, and 130, commissioned by Prince Nikolai Galitzin. The five late quartets, usually considered as a group, were written in the same period as the Missa solemnis and the...

If you want to play one of the most famous songs from the beautiful movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, read on!Often finding effective arrangements for clarinet quartet can be really difficult and complicated. Especially if you look for songs that can excite the audience and...

If you want to play famous songs from the repertoire of the greatest representative of Nuevo Tango, read on!Often finding effective arrangements for string quartets can be really difficult and complicated. Especially if you look for songs that can excite the audience and that...

Each summer, 350 musicians-amateur and professional, performers and composers-leave behind their day-to-day lives to gather for an intense week or more making music together. What makes this experience so compelling?The Music of Friends is a celebration of the history and ethos of this collective...

If you want to play one of the most famous melodies from the Italian classical repertoire, read on Finding effective arrangements for clarinet quartet can often be really difficult and complicated. Especially if you are looking for songs that can excite the audience and...

A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...

On July 1, 1895, under the direction of warden James French, the first federal prison was born. That same year, St. Louis architects Eames and Young went to work drawing up plans for an institution that would house the most notorious offenders in the...

This survey of the string quartet by ten chamber music specialists focuses on four main areas: social and musical background to the genre's development; celebrated ensembles and their significance; and string quartet playing. It reviews aspects of contemporary and historical practice, including "mixed ensembles."...

Now a byword for beauty, Verdi's operas were far from universally acclaimed when they reached London in the second half of the nineteenth century. Why did some critics react so harshly? Who were they and what biases and prejudices animated them? When did their...

Of all his early chamber works, the Nocturne is most clearly by the mature Vaughan Williams, almost anticipating the influence of Ravel which followed his lessons from the French composer in 1908. In the veiled beauty of its highly chromatic harmonies we hear already...

(Brass Ensemble). This collection features eight arrangements in that distinctive Canadian Brass style for two B-flat trumpets and two trombones. Contents include: Angels We Have Heard on High * Ding Dong! Merrily on High * The First Noel * Go, Tell it on the...

""Leaves From The Journals Of Sir George Smart"" is a book written by George Thomas Smart and published in 1907. The book is a collection of excerpts from the journals of Sir George Smart, a prominent English musician and conductor who lived from 1776...

This chronological Index covers every issue of the English Harpsichord Magazine andHarpsichord & fortepiano, vols. i-xxviii, and includes all of the content apart from reports, reviews and advertisements. For a Subject Index (including Interviews and Obituaries)and for an Author Index of articles, see below....

If you want to play famous pieces from the most famous jazz repertoire, read on!Often finding effective arrangements for string quartets can be really difficult and complicated. Especially if you look for songs that can excite the audience and that are easy to listen...

Concise but thorough profiles of symphony orchestras outside the US make this and its companion volume (Symphony Orchestras of the United States) indispensable for music libraries and many general public libraries as well. . . . Using the widely scattered literature on the subject,...

Expand your cello practice repertoire with renowned cellist Alwin Schroeder's third installment in a three-volume set of 170 Foundation Studies for Violoncello. This final volume provides 34 structured exercises designed to develop and improve technical proficiency. Schroeder addresses key aspects of cello playing, from...

...supported by a wealth of information --- often novel and fascinating --- which the author has collected from a great variety of sources. Admirable industry, sound judgement, and excellent style have produced a book that ought to be in the hands of every conductor....

Widely considered the most important of the Russian nationalist composers, Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky (1839-1881) finished relatively few works in the course of his tragically short life. Nevertheless, his unorthodox techniques and their dramatically intense effects made a considerable impression on later composers.A Night on...

This wonderful work by Maurice Ravel contains a score for the solo piano. It is a fine example of the composer's work and a fantastic addition to any classical musician's repertoire. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and...

In Catholic doctrine, the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary is the belief that Mary, the mother of Christ, was exempt from original sin from the moment of her conception, and thereby a co-redeemer alongside her son. Praise for this complicated devotion took place...

Authoritative British editions of the 14 Variations, rich with melody and vibrant rhythms, each revealing a facet of a central theme never fully expressed and each depicting an unnamed friend of the composer. Four of the 5 stirring Pomp and Circumstance Marches are included...

Lovers of the rich burnished tones of the cello will appreciate the keynote of this volume: complete scores of three great romantic cello concertos brought together in one convenient source. Spanning the last half of the nineteenth century, the compositions reveal extraordinary lyricism, imagination,...

Often called the last of the great classical composers, Brahms accommodated powerful romantic inclination to the demands of traditional musical form. The result is "a delightful mixture of classical form clothed in the multicolored hues of German romanticism." (John Gillespie, Five Centuries of Keyboard...

John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College London, in German language and literature. He has worked in personnel administration, record retailing and bibliographic research for a government agency and is on the lecture panel of the National Federation of Music...

(LKM Music). Transcribed for solo violin by Stuart Carlson "In this impressive transcription Carlson captures much of the sound and power of the organ and offers it to solo violin. This arrangement requires double stops, accents, jumping across strings, high left-hand work, and dramatic...

The book is devoted to Shostakovich's most controversial symphony, composed at the height of Stalin's Purges. It rescued Shostakovich from official disfavour and deeply moved audiences. The critics recognized it as a masterpiece, but they were perplexed by its ambiguities, especially at the end...

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Navigating the captivating world of ham radio can seem daunting, but with the right preparation, achieving your license is within reach. "Mastering the Airwaves" offers aspiring amateur radio operators a comprehensive roadmap to acing the ham radio licensing exam.Within this guide, you'll find: An...

This meticulous collection of 56 騁udes constitutes the second book of a three-volume set curated by Alwin Schroeder, a former cellist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and accomplished instructor from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Leipzig, Germany. A compilation of 56 exercises presents...

De Leo a Piscis is a piece for guitar quartet or guitar orchestra. Total time: 3'30'' minutes. Style: minimalism. Medium level.Author: Daniel MorgadeISBN-10: 171608962XISBN-13: 9781716089626Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2021Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.07d

Since the publication of Solomon Volkov's disputed memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, the composer and his music has been subject to heated debate concerning how the musical meaning of his works can be understood in relationship to the composer's life within the Soviet State. While...

Beethoven's string quartets form one of the most intimate and revealing sections of his output, giving a full and varied picture of his musical personality. This study of the quartets by Philip Radcliffe, first published by Hutchinson University in 1965, was reissued by Cambridge...

Schuttenhelm provides a detailed account of the events leading up to and through the quartet's compositional process, as well as a brief summary of its reception history. In addition to a comprehensive analysis of the entire quartet, the volume also takes into account Tippett's...

Beethoven's middle-period quartets, Opp. 59, 74 and 95, are pieces that engage deeply with the aesthetic ideas of their time. In the first full contextual study of these works, Nancy November celebrates their uniqueness, exploring their reception history and early performance. In detailed analyses,...

The six string quartets dedicated to his friend Joseph Haydn represent a turning point in Mozart' compositional development. In addition to providing a synopsis of each quartet, this book examines the music in relation to Mozart's earlier quartets, considers the genesis of the six...

Chopin's piano concertos transform the composer's solo keyboard brilliance into grand concert hall performances, in which the orchestral portions offer bold contrasts to the delicate piano parts. The composer first performed the Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11, publicly in 1830,...

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Leading authorities explore, in direct and accessible language, chamber-music masterpieces by twenty-one prominent composers since 1900. Modern composers as diverse as B駘a Bart, Maurice Ravel, Benjamin Britten, and John Cage have confided some of their most personal and intense thoughts to the medium of...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Gabriel FauréISBN-10: 1447474333ISBN-13: 9781447474333Publisher: Classic...

In Chamber Music: An Extensive Guide for Listeners, Lucy Miller Murray transforms her decades of program notes for some of the world's most distinguished artists and presenters into the go-to guide for the chamber music novice and enthusiast. Offering practical information on the broad...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Cecil ForsythISBN-10: 1409726894ISBN-13: 9781409726890Publisher: Williams...

The Real Jazz by Hugues Panassie is a comprehensive book that delves into the history and evolution of jazz music. The author, a prominent jazz critic and historian, provides an in-depth analysis of the genre, tracing its roots from its African-American origins in New...