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Mozart: A LifeVendor: Peter GayA biography of the greatest musical mind in Western history Mozart's unshakable hold on the public's consciousness can only be strengthened by historian and biographer Peter Gay's concise and deft look at the genius's life. Mozart traces the development of the man whose life...
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Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Secular & Sacred Music to 1900Vendor: Laurel ParsonsThrough musical analysis of compositions written between the mid-twelfth to late nineteenth centuries, this volume celebrates the achievements of eight composers, all women: Hildegard of Bingen, Maddalena Casulana, Barbara Strozzi, Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Marianne Martines, Josephine Lang, Fanny Hensel, Clara Schumann, and...
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Notes for Clarinetists: A Guide to the RepertoireVendor: Albert R. RiceNotes for Clarinetists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers important historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces written for the instrument. Numerous contextual and theoretical insights make it an essential resource for professional, amateur, and studentclarinetists. With engaging prose supported by...
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Beethoven's Symphony No. 9Vendor: Alexander RehdingWhen a professional states, "Your child has Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)," it is enough to make your whole world fall apart. What does it mean to be on the autism spectrum? How will this affect your child's life, your life, the life of your...
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Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century MusicVendor: Dana GooleyThe first history of keyboard improvisation in European music in the postclassical and romantic periods, Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century Music documents practices of improvisation on the piano and the organ, with a particular emphasis on free fantasies and other forms of...
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Alfred Schnittke's Concerto Grosso No. 1Vendor: Peter J. SchmelzConcerto Grosso no. 1 is one of Alfred Schnittke's best-known and most compelling works, sounding the surface of late Soviet life while resonating with contemporary compositional currents around the world such as postmodernism. It marked a decisive point in Schnittke's development of theapproach he...
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Samuel Barber: The Composer and His MusicVendor: Barbara B. HeymanSamuel Barber (1910-1981) is one of the most admired and honored American composers of the twentieth century. An unabashed Romantic, largely independent of worldwide trends and the avant-garde, he infused his works with poetic lyricism and gave tonal language and forms new vitality. His...
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Orchestrating the Nation: The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic EnterpriseVendor: Douglas ShadleDuring the nineteenth century, nearly one hundred symphonies were written by over fifty composers living in the United States. With few exceptions, this repertoire is virtually forgotten today. In Orchestrating the Nation: The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic Enterprise, author Douglas W. Shadle explores the stunning...
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Beethoven 1806Vendor: Mark FerragutoBetween early 1806 and early 1807, Ludwig van Beethoven completed a remarkable series of instrumental works. But critics have struggled to reconcile the music of this banner year with Beethoven's heroic style, the paradigm through which his middle-period works have typically been understood.Drawing on...
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The Concerto: A Listener's GuideVendor: Michael SteinbergMichael Steinberg's 1996 volume The Symphony: A Reader's Guide received glowing reviews across America. It was hailed as wonderfully clear...recommended warmly to music lovers on all levels (Washington Post), informed and thoughtful (Chicago Tribune), and composed by a master stylist(San Francisco Chronicle). Seiji Ozawa...
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The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third ReichVendor: Michael H. KaterIs music removed from politics? To what ends, beneficent or malevolent, can music and musicians be put? In short, when human rights are grossly abused and politics turned to fascist demagoguery, can art and artists be innocent? These questions and their implications are explored...
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The New Grove Guide to Mozart and His OperasVendor: Julian RushtonEach entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information on the lives of individual composers, their works, their librettists and interpreters, and the places where they performed....
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Chopin's Polish Ballade: Op. 38 as Narrative of National MartyrdomVendor: Jonathan D. BellmanChopin's Second Ballade, Op. 38 is frequently performed, and takes only seven or so minutes to play. Yet the work remains very poorly understood--disagreement prevails on issues from its tonic and two-key structure to its posited relationship with the poems of Adam Mickiewicz. Chopin's...
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Choral Masterworks: A Listener's GuideVendor: Micheal SteinbergMichael Steinberg's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony and The Concerto--have been universally praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now Steinberg follows these two greatly admired volumes with Choral Masterworks, the only such guide available to this...
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For the Love of Music: Invitations to ListeningVendor: Michael SteinbergThe power of music, the way it works on the mind and heart, remains an enticing mystery. Now two noted writers on classical music, Michael S
