Music-Genres & Styles-Chamber

By 1940 the big band sound had grown stale, and jazz musicians began to search out new sounds and styles. At the Harlem nightclub Minton's Playhouse, a small group of musicians -- John Birks, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Beau Hawkins, and Thelonious Monk, among sounding...

Author: Nat BrandtISBN-10: 0595010113ISBN-13: 9780595010110Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2000Pages: 308Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

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."...

Ravel originally conceived of his "choreographic poem" La Valse (The Waltz) as a tribute to Johann Strauss and "a sort of apotheosis of the Viennese waltz." But this is a waltz far removed from the urbane gaiety of old Vienna. A masterpiece of lush...

Beethoven's five sonatas for cello and piano are basic works of the cello repertoire, and his three sets of variations -- on themes by Mozart and Handel -- are perennial favorites of chamber-music programs as well. This volume contains all eight works, carefully reproduced...

As a composer of chamber music Mendelssohn claims greatness almost without qualification. . . . He had a complete mastery of his medium . . . and an intensity of interest in pure music that renders his quartets, in particular, works of integrity in...

This is a complete, unabridged republication of the standard Bach-Gesellschaft editions of the six Brandenburg Concertos and four Orchestral Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach.Among the most frequently performed and recorded works in the entire repertoire, these compositions are provided in full scores with original...

(Ensemble Collection). Easy clarinet trios in score form. Suitable for contest, concert or church performance, these pieces appear on several state contest lists. Includes works by Billings, Corelli, Faber, Grieg, Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Tchaikovsky and others.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 1423444981ISBN-13: 9781423444985Publisher: Rubank PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This is the story of two decades of the Chicago music scene-the 1960s and 1970s, an incredibly vibrant period in urban and suburban music scenes across the country and throughout the world. Chicago was a major player throughout those decades. It was a time...

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 teaches how...

This collection of conversations with the Guarneri members explores all the most important facets of chamber-music playing.Author: David BlumISBN-10: 0801494567ISBN-13: 9780801494567Publisher: Cornell University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/15/1987Pages: 246Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.06w x 0.67d

A book of traditional Celtic tunes arranged for cellos with rockin' groove and chop -based accompaniments. Includes forty-seven tunes from Ireland, Scotland, the Shetland Isles, and Canada in duet arrangements, all chosen with cellists in mind and in a variety of styles including jigs,...

The perfect companion for professional and amateur musicians performing music of the eighteenth century, this book distinguishes various types of appoggiaturas and trills, shows how to perform them, and notes differences between baroque and rococo ornamentation.Author: Kris PalmerISBN-10: 0759609357ISBN-13: 9780759609358Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

While the Beethoven string quartets are to chamber music what the plays of Shakespeare are to drama, even seasoned concertgoers will welcome guidance with these personal and sometimes enigmatic works.This collection offers Beethoven lovers both detailed notes on the listening experience of each quartet...

Written in 1886 for a Mardi Gras celebration, Saint-Sa ns' best-known work consists of 14 pieces scored for flute/piccolo, clarinet, glass harmonica (tuned glass bowls), xylophone, two pianos, and strings. Playfully borrowing themes from other works -- including his own -- the composer paints...

In 1874 Henrik Ibsen invited Edvard Grieg to compose incidental music for a staged version of his Norwegian verse drama Peer Gynt. The result of this collaboration between Norway's greatest dramatist and its greatest composer was a set of pieces that have become among...

Although the string quartet was a rarely used form in 19th-century Russia, Tchaikovsky and Borodin both produced superb, inventive compositions in the genre. Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 11, is notable for its imaginative freshness and world-famous Andante cantabile movement. His...

Considered throughout much of his career as the preeminent French composer, Camille Saint-Sa?s wrote music that embodies a characteristic French concern for clarity and order, together with his own assured mastery of the composer's craft. These qualities are evident in Saint-Sa?s' Symphony No. 3,...

In the course of his musical career, Tchaikovsky attained a thorough mastery of orchestration as he strove to intensify the expressiveness of his musical language. This volume, combining authoritative full-score editions of his first three symphonies -- popularly known as "Winter Daydreams," the "Little...

The six overtures gathered together in this handy volume are among the most recorded, performed, and studied compositions in the orchestral repertoire. They offer musicians and music lovers the opportunity to study the genius of Beethoven in compositions written as preludes to other works,...

"This practical, comprehesive, and well-organized book by an experienced conductor and educator is the very first to concentrate on this type of performing group and its special needs. . . . Valuable appendixes give IRS rulings, suggested auditioning material, addresses of publishers and rental...

The last few years have witnessed an enormous resurgence in the popularity of jazz, after some lean times in the sixties when many potential jazz fans turned to rock. Now the pendulum is on the backswing, and vintage and modern jazz as well as...

In early 2005, an engineer at the Library of Congress accidentally discovered, in an unmarked box, the recording of Thelonious Monk's and John Coltrane's performance at a 1957 benefit concert at Carnegie Hall. Long considered one of the most important musical meetings in modern...

Oxford's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony, The Concerto, and Choral Masterworks--have been widely praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now James Keller follows these greatly admired volumes with Chamber Music. Approaching the tradition of chamber music...

In A Notebook for Viola Players, Ivo-Jan van der Werff offers a guide to playing the viola with the greatest freedom, dexterity, and ease. It includes right and left hand exercises to build a sound technique, sections on how to practice them, how to...

If you want to play a piece taken from the repertoire of one of the greatest Italian composers of cinema, read on!Often finding effective arrangements for saxophone quartets can be really difficult and complicated. Especially if you look for songs that can excite the...

An in-depth study of the Bulgarian harmonic system is long overdue. More than two decades since the Le Myst鑽e des Voix Bulgares choir was awarded a Grammy (1990), there is no scholarly study of the captivating sounds of Bulgarian vertical sonorities. Kalin Kirilov traces...

If you want to play one of the most famous tangos arranged for this formation, read on Often finding effective arrangements for clarinet quartets can be really difficult and complicated. Especially if you look for songs that can excite the audience and that are...

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

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This comprehensive survey shows how the larger scale works relate to Beethoven's chamber music and how the composer evolved an increasing freedom of form. Beethoven's Chamber Music in Context provides professional and amateur musicians, and music lovers generally, with a complete survey of Beethoven's...

The first detailed contextual study of chamber music in Beethoven's Vienna, at a time when the string quartet reigned supreme among the different chamber genres This book is the first detailed contextual study of string quartets in Beethoven's Vienna, at a time when that...

This is the definitive study in English of the role of the wind band during the French Revolution and the Bourbon Restoration. In instrumentation the modern wind band begins here. Finally available in a fully updated second edition including new material on works by...

(Real Book Multi-Tracks Play-Along). Today's best way to practice jazz! Accurate, easy-to-read lead sheets and professional, customizable audio tracks accessed online for 10 songs. The interactive, online audio interface includes: tempo control; looping; buttons to turn each instrument on or off; lead sheet with...

(Piano Duet). Eight of Adele's biggest hits arranged especially for intermediate piano duet Featuring: Chasing Pavements * Hello * Make You Feel My Love * Rolling in the Deep * Set Fire to the Rain * Skyfall * Someone Like You * When We...

This volume presents the complete score for Johann Sebastian Bach's solo organ composition "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor", written at some point between 1704 and the 1750s. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) was a German musician and composer during the Baroque period....

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...

Title: Symphony No. 2, Op. 27 Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff Original Publisher: Gutheil Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony as arranged for Piano 4 Hands by Wladimir Wilschau and originally published by Gutheil in 1910. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score Library Project....

Clashing personalities. Chamber music. Post-War trauma. Is harmony possible?Sent unwillingly into school and thrust into a string quartet, crippled Irish cellist Lucy Straughan must choose between isolation and friendship.What has the morose, math-loving Lucy to offer; and will dainty Della Sotheby, hot-headed Pim Connolly,...

In 1829 Goethe famously described the string quartet as 'a conversation among four intelligent people'. Inspired by this metaphor, Edward Klorman's study draws on a wide variety of documentary and iconographic sources to explore Mozart's chamber works as 'the music of friends'. Illuminating the...

The Op. 50 string quartets contain some of the purest writing Haydn ever accomplished. In this first full account of the six quartets, Dean Sutcliffe evaluates the Op. 50 in relation to Haydn's more frequently performed quartets and considers their relevance to Haydn's wider...

Mozart's friendship with Anton Stadler, the clarinetist in Vienna's Royal-Imperial Court Orchestra, led to the composition of his beloved Quintet in A Major. The four-movement piece is arranged for clarinet, two violins, viola, and cello. Brahms's Clarinet Quintet in B minor, also in four...

Johannes Brahms was one of music's greatest masters of classical forms, a composer whose individuality expanded and enriched those forms, giving them new variety of mood and a freshness of melodic invention. In writing for the orchestra, Brahms's independent approach brought unusual dramatic power...

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), considered the father of modern orchestration, possessed an intuitive musical genius all the more remarkable for his limited formal musical education. A brilliant colorist, a master of the unexpected rhythmic break, he brought a new symphonic richness to Romantic music.Both damned...

This volume contains Mozart's last five piano concertos: No. 23 in A Major, K488; No. 24 in C Minor, K491; No. 25 in C Major, K503; No. 26 in D Major, K537; and No. 27 in B-flat Major, K595. As a bonus in the...

Mozart wrote the 13 symphonies reprinted in this volume in Salzburg and Paris from 1773 to 1780. A number of the earlier works are Italianate in inspiration, in three-movement form, with brisk figures and simple textures. Two of these -- Symphony No. 25 in...

For the rapidly growing thousands (both amateur and professional) who find the deepest satisfaction of life in playing chamber music, this is the only practical and authoritative guide.Beginning with such elementary problems as who should sit where, what kind of music stands to use,...

Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart makes a significant contribution to music theory and to the growing conversation on metric perception and musical composition. Focusing on the chamber music of Haydn and Mozart produced during the years 1787 to 1791, the period of most...

This indispensable book brings us face to face with some of the most memorable figures in jazz history and charts the rise and development of bop in the late 1930s and '40s. Ira Gitler interviewed more than 50 leading jazz figures, over a 10-year...

In the course of the nineteenth century, four-hand piano playing emerged across Europe as a popular pastime of the well-heeled classes and of those looking to join them. Nary a canonic work of classical music that was not set for piano duo, nary a...