Music-Genres & Styles-Chamber

Walter Willson Cobbett (1847-1937), Businessman, Violinist and Author. This is volume two of a two-volume encyclopaedia of chamber music which was first published in 1929/1930 and is a comprehensive work on the subject.Author: Walter Willson CobbettISBN-10: 1906857849ISBN-13: 9781906857844Publisher: Travis and Emery Music BookshopLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Walter Willson Cobbett (1847-1937), Businessman, Violinist and Author. This is volume one of a two-volume encyclopaedia of chamber music which was first published in 1929/1930 and is a comprehensive work on the subject.Author: Walter Willson CobbettISBN-10: 1906857822ISBN-13: 9781906857820Publisher: Travis and Emery Music BookshopLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

The first detailed study of string quartets in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Europe through the work of nine scholars who explore little-studied aspects of this multi-faceted genre.Author: Nancy NovemberISBN-10: 1644697874ISBN-13: 9781644697870Publisher: Academic Studies PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/19/2022Pages: 276Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69dReview...

(Music Sales America). Edited by Trevor Wye. Piano arrangement by Robert Scott.Author: Wolfgang Amadeus MozartISBN-10: 0853603774ISBN-13: 9780853603771Publisher: Novello & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2003Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 10.60h x 8.30w x 0.50d

With this revised and enlarged edition of The String Player's Guide to Chamber Music, music lovers learn to play well-known works by Mozart, and Beethoven, among others. The book evaluates each piece, identifying problems performers may face and letting them know the amount of...

(Ensemble). Menotti is best known for his operas, but he has written some wonderful chamber music, among which this piece deserves special notice. It was composed for and has been recorded by the Verdehr Trio as part of their "Making of a Medium" project.Author:...

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...

If you want to play the soundtrack from an Oscar-winning masterpiece of Italian cinema, read on!Finding effective arrangements for a saxophone quartet can often be very difficult and complicated. Especially if you are looking for songs that can excite the audience and are easy...

If you want to play famous songs from the repertoire of the greatest representative of Nuevo Tango, read on!Take advantage of this super offer at a really advantageous price!Often finding effective arrangements for saxophone quartets can be really difficult and complicated. Especially if you...

If you want to play famous songs from the repertoire of the greatest representative of Nuevo Tango, read on!Take advantage of this super offer at a really advantageous price!Often finding effective arrangements for clarinet quartets can be really difficult and complicated. Especially if you...

If you want to play famous songs from the jazz repertoire, then keep reading Often finding effective arrangements for saxophone quartets can be really difficult and complicated. Especially if you look for songs that can excite the audience and that are easy to listen...

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...

Pitched Percussion Instrument Works by Daniel Morgade (Uruguay; n. 1977). "Un artista del hambre" Op11 for marimba, "Los ríos del Edén" Op12 for vibraphone, "Del Sur, y qué?" Op13 for Xylophone, marimba and vibraphone trio, and "Ley Hux" Op22 for xylophone, marimba and vibraphone...

HOW TO SUCCEED IN AN ENSEMBLEREFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE IN CHAMBER MUSICAuthor: Abram LoftISBN-10: 1574670786ISBN-13: 9781574670783Publisher: AmadeusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2003Pages: 300Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 9.28h x 6.38w x 1.11d

In Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble Repertoire, Dirk Meyer provides conductors, musicians, and librarians with all the information needed to plan their performances of modern chamber music. Meyer lists almost 4,000 works written during the 20th and 21st centuries, representing more than 1,100 composers. Entries...

Internationally renowned scholars and performers present a wide range of new analytical, historical and critical perspectives on some of Mozart's most popular chamber music: his sonatas with violin, keyboard trios and quartets and the quintet with wind instruments. The chapters trace a broad chronology,...

The Philadelphia Orchestra is the most-recorded orchestra in the United States, and its recordings have contributed much to its reputation as "The World's Greatest Orchestra." In The Philadelphia Orchestra: An Annotated Discography, Richard A. Kaplan documents more than 2,000 commercial recordings made by the...

""The Real Jazz"" by Hugues Panassie is a comprehensive book that delves into the history and evolution of jazz music. The author, a renowned jazz critic and historian, provides a detailed account of the origins of jazz, tracing its roots back to Africa and...

Already known as a Wagner scholar for his work on the sketches of the Flying Dutchman, Paul Machlin has for many years taken a scholarly interest in the school of Harlem 'stride' jazz pianists. Stride: The Music of Fats Waller is a full analysis...

A thorough examination of Shostakovich's string quartets is long overdue. Although they can justifiably lay claim to being the most significant and frequently performed twentieth-century oeuvre for that ensemble, there has been no systematic English-language study of the entire cycle. Judith Kuhn's book begins...

The revised edition of a text originally published in 1963, this book explores the history of the Twenty-sixth Regimental Band, North Carolina Troops, C.S.A., which was composed of Moravian musicians from Salem. The first section discusses Moravian musical traditions during the 18th and first...

In Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble Repertoire, Dirk Meyer provides conductors, musicians, and librarians with all the information needed to plan their performances of modern chamber music. Meyer lists almost 4,000 works written during the 20th and 21st centuries, representing more than 1,100 composers. Entries...

Quintet presents compelling portraits of five artists known and loved by aficionados of classical music: the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the conductor Jeffrey Tate, the violinist Josef Gingold, the pianist Richard Goode, and the opera singer Birgit Nilsson. This gracefully written book offers a deeply...

What does it mean to talk about musical coherence at the end of a century characterised by fragmentation and discontinuity? How can the diverse influences which stand behind the works of many late twentieth-century composers be reconciled with the singular immediacy of the experiences...

Founded by Al O'Connor in 1973, the steelband program at Northern Illinois University was the first of its kind in the United States. Thanks to the talent and dedication of O'Connor, Cliff Alexis, Liam Teague, Yuko Asada, and a plethora of NIU students and...

The orchestral overtures and preludes to Wagner's operas have long been concert favorites, even among music lovers who are less familiar with the operas themselves. The drama, romanticism, and sensuous intensity of these shorter works have earned them their own secure place in the...

(String Solo). For Violin and orchestra (piano reduction).Author: Ludwig Van BeethovenISBN-10: 1617804231ISBN-13: 9781617804236Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 76Format: Paperback

Miles Davis's Bitches Brew is one of the most iconic albums in American music, the preeminent landmark and fertile seedbed of jazz-fusion. Fans have been fortunate in the past few years to gain access to Davis's live recordings from this time, when he was...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Stephen HeflingISBN-10: 0415966507ISBN-13: 9780415966504Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2003Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.18h x 6.08w x 0.91d

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: James McCallaISBN-10: 0415966957ISBN-13: 9780415966955Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2003Pages: 284Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.04w x 0.75d

A fun and easy way to learn to play the piano or keyboard, with helpful instruction on classic and favorite songs. Written by the author of the best-selling Build It! series in collaboration with an experienced piano teacher, the Play It! books teach how...

Author: Johann Sebastian BachISBN-10: 0825635896ISBN-13: 9780825635892Publisher: Boston MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2003Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.93h x 8.68w x 0.14d

For its time the most comprehensive treatment of the subject. -- New Grove Dictionary of Music and MusiciansBefore the 17th century, composers seldom indicated in their music whether the composition was to be performed by a particular combination of voices or instruments. Then in...

In 1910, following his successful orchestration of selections for the ballet Les Sylphides, the innovative young composer Igor Stravinsky was commissioned by the director of the Ballets Russes, Serge Diaghilev, to create a completely new score. The dazzling result was The Firebird, a work...

Although the moods may vary throughout these evocative works, the elegance and subtly shifting energies of their musical language could only be those of Maurice Ravel. To study them in this full-score edition is to become more fully aware not only of his great...

Finland's greatest composer and a major figure in the development of Scandinavian music, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) is admired for his complete mastery of symphonic form. Of the seven symphonies he composed, each differs greatly from the others, for Sibelius rarely approached the symphonic "problem"...

Among the most popular and important modern British composers, Gustav Holst (1874-1934) was a true eccentric, given to odd enthusiasms and mystical musings. His spectacular symphonic suite The Planets, first performed in 1918, established his international reputation and remains a staple of the orchestral...

Full orchestral scores of Finlandia, Valse Triste, The Swan of Tuonela, Lemminkainen's Return, En Saga, Pohjola's Daughter, Night Ride and Sunrise, and The Oceanides.Author: Jean SibeliusISBN-10: 0486264831ISBN-13: 9780486264837Publisher: Dover PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1991Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.99lbsSize: 12.23h x 9.40w x 0.63d

This volume contains the scores & parts of ten pre-COVID chamber works in varying combinations for violin, viola, cello & piano by composer Gary Lloyd Noland (b. 1957). These works were composed within a 30-year time frame spanning the last two decades of the...

In a number of his early compositions, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) expressed the strong emotions stirred in him by the poetry of Richard Dehmel. Among these seminal works, Verkl rte Nacht (1988) stands out for the beauty and strength of its chromatic language, drawing on...

It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an important handful of whom had been in his band. Rock music was flying off in every direction, just as...

Perhaps more than any other composer of his time, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) influenced the course of twentieth-century music. His compositional style moved progressively from lush, late Wagnerian chromaticism to a complete break with traditional tonality, later organized theoretically as "composition with twelve tones." This...

Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career-even in the face of deafness-Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency, the music historian Mark Evan Bonds argues, provides the key to understanding the...

These two serenades reflect Brahms's interest, during the years 1858 and 1859, in the symphonies of Haydn and Mozart, as well as the latter's exquisite divertimenti, scored for small instrumental ensembles. Serenade No. 1 in D major was in fact originally composed for nine...

"Mahler inherited the romantic conception of music as an expression of a quest for spiritual reality ... he expressed a four-sided conflict between a devouring love of life, a spiritual need, a skeptical intellect, and an existential dread of ultimate meaninglessness." -- Encyclopaedia Britannica.In...

Few composers of the 20th century have wielded more influence in the musical world than the two impressionist masters represented in this volume. Such composers as Webern, Bart, Var鑚e, Messianen, and even John Cage owe a debt to Debussy's innovations in harmony, coloring, and...

Much esteemed for its charm and purity, Dvoř疚's chamber music is considered among his best work, and the five string quartets in this volume rank among his finest chamber compositions. Reproduced directly from the reliable, well-engraved Simrock editions, published under Dvoř疚's own supervision, the...

Beethoven's sixteen string quartets are some of the most extraordinary and challenging pieces of music ever written. Originally composed and performed between 1798 and 1826, they have inspired artists of all kinds--not only musicians--and have been subject to endless reinterpretation. But what is it...

The clarinetist Rebecca Rischin has written a captivating book.... Her research dispels several long-cherished myths about the 1941 premiere.... Rischin lovingly brings to life the other musicians--ﾉtienne Pasquier, cellist; Henri Akoka, clarinetist; and Jean Le Boulaire, violinist--who played with Messiaen, the pianist at the...

Intended for the music student, the professional musician, and the music lover, Chamber Music: An Essential History covers repertoire from the Renaissance to the present, crossing genres to include string quartets, piano trios, clarinet quintets, and other groupings. Mark A. Radice gives a thorough...