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Author:Kaufman Music Center
Who Is Florence Price?
Written and Illustrated by Students of the Special Music School at the Kaufman Music Center, NYFlorence loved her mother's piano playing and wanted to be just like her. When she was just four years old she played her first piano concert and as she...- $12.99
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Author:WR Book House
BBC Proms 2024
The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC. Held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London and across the UK, it is one of the strongest brand...- $15.00
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Author:Theodore Albrecht
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: Rehearsing and Performing Its 1824 Premiere
Brings to life the day-to-day details of staging the premiere of one of the most iconic works of Western classical music. The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven with its final choral movement is one of the iconic works of Western classical music. And...- $105.00
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Author:D. Kern Holoman
Evenings with the Orchestra: A Norton Companion for Concertgoers (First)
This companion to the orchestral concert includes background, biographies, and discussions of 200 masterpieces.Author: D. Kern HolomanISBN-10: 0393029360ISBN-13: 9780393029369Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1994Pages: 756Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.64lbsSize: 9.57h x 6.45w x 1.87dReview Citation(s): Booklist 02/15/1992 pg. 1080ALA Ref Srces for Small/Med Li...- $63.95
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Author:Malcolm Boyd
Bach: Chorale Harmonization/Instrumental Counterpoint
Following methods known to have been adopted by Bach himself, the exercises provided in chorale harmonization are graded in such a way as to encourage the student to develop both technique and imagination within a closely-defined framework. The instrumental counterpoint section is based on...- $24.95
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Author:Alberto Ginastera
The Piano Collection
(BH Piano). The selected piano music of this Argentine master spans the arch of his compositional career. Includes: Pequena Danza, Rondo on Argentine children's folk-tunes, Sonata No. 1, Sonata No. 2, Sonata No. 3 and Suite de danzas criollas.Author: Alberto GinasteraISBN-10: 1617741949ISBN-13: 9781617741944Publisher: Boosey...- $24.99
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Author:Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzon Per Sonare #2: Satb or Aatb, Score & Parts
Canzoni were pieces composed for various combinations of instruments and various sizes of ensembles. This famous canzon has been arranged for AATB with an alternate part for soprano to play the alto 1 part. Antiphonal spacing is always a successful performance practice, allowing the...- $12.00
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Author:Manfred F. Bukofzer
Music in the Baroque Era - From Monteverdi to Bach
This vintage book contains a comprehensive treatise of Baroque music. It was written for the music student and music lover, with the aim of acquainting them with this great period of music history and helping them to gain a historical understanding of music without...- $55.99
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Author:Neil Thomas Smith
Classical Music Futures: Practices of Innovation
This volume brings together contributions from a wide range of international academics and practitioners. It traces innovations within classical music practice, showing how these offer divergent visions for its future. The interdisciplinary contributions to the volume highlight the way contrasting ideas of the future...- $63.95
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Author:Markand Thakar
On the Principles and Practice of Conducting
A practical manual for building musical understanding and physical skills, intended for conductors at all stages of development. This book is a practical manual for anyone who stands on a podium helping an ensemble make music. The four main chapters address the major obligations...- $29.99
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Author:Matthew Guerrieri
The First Four Notes: Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination
A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New Yorker Best Book of the YearLos Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the YearThis revelatory book of music history examines what is perhaps the best known and most-popular symphony ever written--and its famous four-note...- $22.00
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Author:Otakar Sevc?
School of Violin Technics, Op. 1, Vol 3
This Otakar Sevcik method covers Shifting.Author: Otakar Sevc?ISBN-10: 0757928374ISBN-13: 9780757928376Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1985Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 11.60h x 8.70w x 0.20d- $7.95
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Author:Charles Dowell Youmans
Richard Strauss's Orchestral Music and the German Intellectual Tradition: The Philosophical Roots of Musical Modernism
The young Richard Strauss was almost exclusively an orchestral composer. Yet, the year 1903 brought a significant break from orchestral writing, and Strauss then shifted his focus to opera for the next four decades. In the aftermath of the Second World War he returned...- $45.00
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Author:Peter Franklin
Britten Experienced: Modernism, Musicology and Sentiment
Who writes the books we read about music that excites us, and why? Is 'classical music' all about class? Related questions underpin this partly polemical study, written by an academic who believes that the Humanities, to be really humane, must confront their methods and...- $64.95
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Author:Jemima Oosthuizen
Easy Classic Mini-Bassoon and Bassoon Duets: 25 favourite melodies by the world's greatest composers where the mini-bassoon plays the tune and bassoon
Easy Classic Mini-Bassoon and Bassoon Duets comprises 25 fantastic classical melodies where the mini-bassoon plays the tune to an easy accompaniment on bassoon. All are in easy keys. Ideal for music lessons. Brilliant for sight-reading practice. The melody is in the top part and...- $12.30
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Author:Pieter Van Den Toorn
Simply Stravinsky
Born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia, Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) divided his time between law studies and music until 1906, when, under the tutelage of composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, he dedicated himself exclusively to composition. Five years later, he achieved international fame with his ballet...- $9.99
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Author:Russell Stinson
Bach's Legacy: The Music as Heard by Later Masters
Johann Sebastian Bach's legacy is undeniably one of the richest in the history of music, with a vast influence on posterity that has only grown since his rediscovery in the early nineteenth century. In this latest addition to his long list of Bach studies,...- $42.99
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Author:Georg Philipp Telemann
Telemann - 12 Little Fantasias: Piano
(Schott). Previously only available in a rare, scholarly edition, this selection of Telemann fantasias is now available for students and teachers.Author: Georg Philipp TelemannISBN-10: 3795752736ISBN-13: 9783795752736Publisher: SchottLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1985Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.80w x 0.10d- $17.99
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Author:Hal Leonard Corp
Classical Treasures: Violin Play-Along Volume 28
(Violin Play-Along). The Violin Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the music, listen to the CD to hear how the violin should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. With the melody and...- $14.99
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The Singing Of The Future (1906)
The Singing of the Future is a book written by David Thomas Ffrangcon-Davies and published in 1906. The book is a treatise on the art of singing, specifically focusing on the techniques and methods used by professional singers. Ffrangcon-Davies was a renowned Welsh tenor...- $31.95
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Author:Barry A. R. Cooper
The Creation of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies
Offers a unique investigation of the composition of the entire corpus of Beethoven's symphonies, reconstructing their creation through the most extensive study of Beethoven's sketches yet. Beethoven's nine symphonies are a cornerstone of Western classical music and have revolutionised it. Composers succeeding Beethoven found...- $125.00
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Author:Anja Bunzel
Women in Nineteenth-Century Czech Musical Culture: Apostles of a Brighter Future
This volume focuses on the circumstances of women's music-making in the diverse environment of Habsburg Central Europe, especially Bohemia and Lower Austria, during the 19th century. It sheds light on little-known women musicians, and reconsiders well-works and composers from woman-centric perspectives.Author: Anja BunzelISBN-10: 1032206594ISBN-13:...- $170.00
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Author:Alfred Reed
Trilogue: Scherzo for Solo Double Bass and Two Mallet Percussion, Conductor Score & Parts
This scherzo composed by Alfred for solo Double Bass, Vibraphone, and Marimba was commissioned by the Frederick Zimmermann Memorial Fund for Lucas Drew, Principal Double Bass of the Miami Philharmonic Orchestra, and Professor of Double Bass at the School of Music of the University...- $14.00
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Author:Robert Schumann
The Letters Of Robert Schumann: Selected And Edited By Karl Storck. Translated By Hannah Bryant
Experience the passion and genius of Robert Schumann in his own words with this selection of his most compelling letters, carefully edited by Karl Storck and beautifully translated by Hannah Bryant. From his early days as a struggling musician to his turbulent love affair...- $23.95
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Author:Patricia Cleveland-Peck
The Cello and the Nightingales: The Life of Beatrice Harrison
The memoirs of cello prodigy Beatrice Harrison, the woman who brought the music of the nightingale to millions worldwide - and created the first interspecies collaborationIn 1924, Beatrice Harrison broadcast a miracle to the world: a wild nightingale singing with her cello. Over a...- $18.95
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Author:John Adams
China Gates: Piano Solo
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...- $12.99
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Author:Johann Sebastian Bach
Album (21 Favorite Pieces): Schirmer Library of Classics Volume 12 Piano Solo
(Piano Collection). Contents: Aria in D (4th Partita) * Aria in F (Pentecost Cantata) * Bourree in A Minor (2nd English Suite) * Bourree in G (3rd Cello Suite) * Bourree in D (Trumpet Suite) * Bourree in G Minor (2nd Violin Sonata) *...- $10.99
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Author:Leon Plantinga
Beethoven's Concertos: History, Style, Performance
In his concertos Beethoven joined in a sort of human expression that seems almost universal: a discourse of the individual and the group, or of leader and followers who sometimes work together in harmony and sometimes appear pitted one against the other (early definitions...- $32.50
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Author:Jeffrey Kresky
A Reader's Guide to the Chopin Preludes
In Chopin's set of 24 interconnected Preludes (Op. 28), we are presented with 24 distinct compositional surfaces, aiming at as many distinguishable emotional expressions. As such, the Preludes stand as a virtual survey of the developing musical manners of the 19th century--which was, after...- $106.00
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Author:Stewart R. Craggs
Richard Rodney Bennett: A Bio-Bibliography
Richard Rodney Bennett is one of Britain's most distinguished, versatile, and prolific twentieth century composers. His music ranges across a broad spectrum of styles from opera and ballet through orchestral and chamber music to jazz. This book, the first ever to be published about...- $70.00
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Author:Franz Schubert
Schubert's Winterreise: A Winter Journey in Poetry, Image, and Song
Winterreise is perhaps the greatest song cycle ever written. Franz Schubert set to music the evocative poetry of his contemporary, German lyricist Wilhelm M ller. It is a heart-rending portrayal of a winter journey full of misery and woe. This striking and unique multimedia...- $45.00
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Author:Eduardo Sainz De La Maza
Campanas del Alba: Guitar
(Music Sales America). Eduardo Sainz De La Maza's Campanas Del Alba for solo guitar.Author: Eduardo Sainz De La MazaISBN-10: 0711954828ISBN-13: 9780711954823Publisher: Union Musical EdicionesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2004Pages: 8Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 11.60h x 8.70w x 0.20d- $11.95
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Author:Arthur Elson
Orchestral Instruments and Their Use: Giving a Description of Each Instrument Now Employed by Civilised Nations ... and an Explanation of Its Value an
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $23.95
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Author:J. W. N. Sullivan
Beethoven: Beethoven: His Spiritual Development
From the Author's Preface: "I believe that in his greatest music Beethoven was primarily concerned to express his personal vision of life. This vision was, of course, the product of his character and his experience. Beethoven the man and Beethoven the composer are not...- $15.00
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Author:Louis (Ludwig) Spohr
Louis Spohr's Autobiography. (2 vols in 1 book. Facsimile of 1865 copyright edition).
Facsimile reprint of his biography. Translated from German into English and this edition originally published in 1865. NB. This is 2 vols in one book.Author: Louis (Ludwig) SpohrISBN-10: 1849551111ISBN-13: 9781849551113Publisher: Travis and Emery Music BookshopLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2010Pages: 692Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.68lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x...- $39.95
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Author:Jaime Kardontchik
Modulation for Young Musicians: A, B, C, ... notation
"Modulation for young musicians" is intended for teenagers attending Middle and High School and students in their first two years of college. An alternative title would be: "Learn composition the way the young Beethoven did". It includes many fully explained examples of Preludes by...- $18.50
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Author:Jaime Kardontchik
Modulation in Beethoven's Sonatas
"How did he do it"? As when one stands in front of a great novel or mystery book, this question comes to mind when listening to Beethoven's music. Why do his piano sonatas sound so different from Haydn's and Mozart's sonatas? What rules did...- $19.50
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Author:Ludwig Van Beethoven
Weber - Concertino Op. 26 & Beethoven - Trio for Piano, Cello & Clarinet, Op. 11: Music Minus One Clarinet
(Music Minus One). Carl Maria von Weber, great innovator and orchestrator who paved the way for such Romantic giants as Wagner and Liszt, wrote this famous and oft-performed 'little concerto' in 1811. Lovely sonorities, beautiful themes in short, a great piece for clarinet and...- $22.99
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Author:Franz Liszt
Life Of Chopin
The Life of Chopin is a biography of the famous Polish composer and pianist, Fr�����d�����ric Chopin, written by Franz Liszt. The book provides an in-depth look at Chopin's life, including his childhood in Poland, his studies at the Warsaw Conservatory, and his move to...- $21.95
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Author:Judah a. Joffe
Modern Russian Composers
In this pioneering study, Judah A. Joffe offers the definitive introduction to the lives and work of Russia's great modern composers. From Rachmaninoff to Prokofiev, Joffe provides a comprehensive and illuminating overview of the musical struggles and achievements of one of the world's most...- $22.95
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Author:Leonard Slatkin
Eight Symphonic Masterworks of the Twentieth Century: A Study Guide for Conductors
Based on his decades of experience conducting these works, Leonard Slatkin delves into eight of the most beloved orchestral pieces of the twentieth century and tackles problems conductors face before stepping onto the podium. These works are: Claude Debussy's La Mer Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony...- $34.00
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Author:Samuel
With The Artists World Famed String Players Discuss Their Art
In this exciting collection, some of the world's most celebrated string players share their thoughts on art, music, and life. Through candid interviews and personal stories, readers will gain new insights into the creative process and the challenges of a life in music.This work...- $23.95
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Author:Luca Della Libera
The Roman Sacred Music of Alessandro Scarlatti
This book offers an account of the sacred music written by Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) in Rome, a city where the composer lived and worked for many years throughout his career. Author: Luca Della LiberaISBN-10: 1032172266ISBN-13: 9781032172262Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/2024Pages: 218Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.21h x...- $52.95
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Author:Johann Sebastian Bach
Parkening Plays Bach: Guitar Solo
(Guitar Collection). Nine transcriptions edited and fingered by Parkening: Preludes I, VI & IX * Gavottes I & II * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring * Sheep May Safely Graze * Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stemme * Be Thou with Me * Sleepers...- $9.95
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Author:Franz Schubert
Essential Keyboard Duets, Vol 7: Music of Franz Schubert, Comb Bound Book
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was one of the most prolific composers of ensemble piano music. Some of his most popular works for piano duet (for one piano, four hands) are included in this collection. Titles: Fantasie in F Minor, Op. 103; D. 940 * Rondo...- $16.99
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Author:Franz Liszt
Liszt -- Sonata in B Minor: Book & CD
Romantic piano virtuoso and composer Franz Liszt's Sonata in B Minor is a monumental contribution to piano literature. This critical edition addresses sources, discrepancies, and performance issues (tempi, pedaling, fingering, style, interpretation, and technique). Also discussed are Liszt's life, career, and background on the...- $12.99
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Author:George B. Stauffer
J. S. Bach: The Organ Works
In the obituary that appeared soon after his death, Johann Sebastian Bach was described as "the world-famous organist" and "the greatest organist...we have ever had." In Hamburg, Dresden, and other big cities, Bach dazzled audiences with his organ playing, performing passages with his feet...- $55.00
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Author:Erwin Bodky
The Interpretation Of Bach S Keyboard Works
In this groundbreaking study, Erwin Bodky offers a fresh perspective on the music of Bach, with a particular focus on his keyboard works. With meticulous analysis and detailed attention to historical context, Bodky illuminates the complexities and challenges of interpreting Bach's music.This work has...- $25.95
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Author:Brent C. Robitaille
Classical Guitar Book in Open D Tuning: 45 Classical Guitar Arrangements in DADF#AD Tuning with Tablature and Notes
45 New Classical Guitar Arrangements in Open D TuningThe classical guitar book in open D guitar tuning presents a new, and I think, additional way of approaching classical guitar repertoire. Tuning to an open chord, in this case, DADF#AD can have its benefits. The...- $22.99
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Author:Stephen Pettitt
Philharmonia Orchestra. complete discography 1945-1987 [1987]
Author: Stephen PettittISBN-10: 1906857164ISBN-13: 9781906857165Publisher: Travis and Emery Music BookshopLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/25/2009Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.84d- $34.95
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