Music-Genres & Styles-Classical

What is the role of classical music in the 21st century? How will classical musicians maintain their relevance and purpose? This book follows the working activities of professional orchestral musicians and opera singers as they move off stage into schools, community centres, prisons, libraries,...

A landmark in Sibelius scholarship, this is the first book that presents all of Sibelius's solo art songs in their musical and aesthetic context. Indispensable for scholars and performers alike. This is the first book to discuss the complete solo art songs of Jean...

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...

(BH Piano). This series highlights composers including Karl Jenkins, Serge Prokofieff, and Dmitri Shostakovich alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world. Each book contains grade-appropriate scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire, sight-reading and improvisation activities and aural awareness tasks. The CD...

(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). 20 pieces in a wide variety of styles from folk to tango. Includes principal cello melody part at an intermediate level, easy cello part for beginners, guitar chords, plus a choice of piano accompaniment or a more advanced cello...

(Brass). Trumpet parts edited and recorded by Canadian Brass virtuosos Fred Mills and Ronald Romm, piano parts recorded by Bill Casey. Arrangements by Bill Boyd. Contains full performances and accompaniment. Contents: Aria * Fairest Isle * I Am the Monarch of the Sea *...

Lieder and the rise of song recital in the United States, 1850-1914 Though viewed as quintessentially German, lieder became a centerpiece of nineteenth century song recitals in the United States. By the 1890s, these songs, which were often sung in English, were a sensation...

(Piano). This new volume provides supplementary material to Piano Sight-Reading 1 . It utilizes an approach based on independent learning and the recognition of rhythmic and melodic patterns. A total of 175 exercises in a range of musical styles and keys including duets to...

(String Solo). Brilliant encore pieces, virtuoso pieces de resistance and reflective melodies by Faure, Raff, Elgar, Wieniawski, Rachmaninoff, Massenet, Tchaikovsky, Paganini, de Falla, Sarasate, and many more. A treasure chest for every performing violinistAuthor: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 3795712874ISBN-13: 9783795712877Publisher: SchottLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2020Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Author: Louis SpohrISBN-10: 190685744XISBN-13: 9781906857448Publisher: Travis and Emery Music BookshopLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/31/2009Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 11.69h x 8.27w x 0.52d

(Music Sales America). 9 well-known clarinet works with historical notes on the development of the instrument, including music by Brahms, Debussy, Mozart, Saint-Saens, Weber, and more.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 1849384843ISBN-13: 9781849384841Publisher: Music SalesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2003Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbs

(Piano Solo Personality). Recorded in a remote monastery in Verona, Ludovico Einaudi's In a Time Lapse explores the concept of capturing emotions and experiences in a single moment in time. This exclusive matching piano folio presents all 14 tracks from the album plus five...

(Bass Instruction). Now available with companion audio Three duets and five solo pieces arranged for bass. The recordings will help players facilate mastery of these pieces, by providing accompaniment for the duets and allowing the listener to hear all of the bass parts. All...

(Vocal Collection). Diction lessons on each aria in the series recorded by top language coaches from the Metropolitan Opera and the Juilliard School plus International Phonetic Alphabet and word for word translations With these book/CD packages that match the standard aria collections edited by...

(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). 12 well-known tangos. Contents include: La Cumparsita, La Payanca, Volver, Vuelvo al sur, El Cachorrito, La Punalada, Catamarca, A la luz de los faroles, Chiquilin de Bachin, El Chamuyo, El dia que me quieras, and El Choclo.Author: Hal Leonard...

(Vocal Duet). Soprano/Alto and Soprano/Tenor.Author: Adolphe AdamISBN-10: 079358275XISBN-13: 9780793582754Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1997Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 11.60h x 8.70w x 0.20d

(Piano Collection). This is Ravel's well-known suite newly edited and arranged for solo piano, conveniently presented along with the original four-hand version.Author: Maurice RavelISBN-10: 0793560748ISBN-13: 9780793560745Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1996Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.60w x 0.50d

(String). John Corigliano's The Red Violin: Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra draws upon music he composed for the film of the same name, which won an Academy Award for best film score. The story spans three centuries in the life of a magnificent but...

The entire corpus of Beethoven's piano sonatas is contained in this two-volume work -- 32 sonatas in all. Volume One contains the fifteen sonatas from Beethoven's first period, including the popular Path tique, Moonlight, and Pastorale sonatas. Volume Two contains the seventeen sonatas from...

A selection of Mozart's letters, translated into English, complete with notes, linking commentary and chronology.Author: Wolfgang Amadeus MozartISBN-10: 0141441461ISBN-13: 9780141441467Publisher: Penguin GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2007Pages: 448Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 7.84h x 5.05w x 1.20dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 06/15/2007 pg. 112

Author: Francis PoulencISBN-10: 1480304735ISBN-13: 9781480304734Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 4Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.60h x 8.80w x 0.20d

"The joy of the book is to hear artists from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds...rhapsodizing about their relationship to Reich's music and how it influenced their own creative processes." --New York Times Book Review Steve Reich is a living legend in the world...

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...

(String Method). For unaccompanied violin.Author: Nicolas LaoureuxISBN-10: 0793554403ISBN-13: 9780793554409Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.70w x 0.60d

(Vocal Score). Reduction for voice and piano based on the critical edition. Includes historical introduction and critical commentary.Author: Giovanni Battista PergolesiISBN-10: 8875929769ISBN-13: 9788875929763Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2015Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 10.75h x 7.75w x 0.32d

Additional title in caption: Dix feuillets de voyage.Author: Alexandre TansmanISBN-10: 1480393088ISBN-13: 9781480393080Publisher: Edward B. Marks Music CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2014Pages: 20Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 12.04h x 8.96w x 0.09d

(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). This collection, representing major composers, was compiled as an introduction to British song literature for collegiate age singers and advanced high school age singers. Britten: Come you not from Newcastle? * Britten: Nocturne * Britten: The Nurse's Song * Clarke:...

(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). A collection of works by major American song composers for voice students. Argento: Winter * Argento: Spring * Argento: Spring is like a perhaps hand * Bernstein: I hate music * Bernstein: Jupiter has seven moons * Chanler: These, My...

Sheet Music Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff6 Moments Musicals Op.16 Andantino in B flat minor Op.16, no.1 Allegretto in e flat minor Op.16, no.2 Andante Cantabile in B minor Op.16, no.3 Presto in E minor Op.16, no.4 Adagio Sostenuto in D flat major Op.16, no.5 Maestoso...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). Gorecki completed the short score for the symphony in 2006, and played it for his son on the piano that summer, commenting on many details. It fell to the son to complete the orchestration following his father's death in 2010....

(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). Includes practice tips and performance notes on each piece. Now available with a CD.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 0851627064ISBN-13: 9780851627069Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2012Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.80w x 0.40d

(Vocal Collection). Lovely, fresh, artistic arrangements that truly make art songs of Christmas carols. Accompaniment recordings include complete performances as well as accompaniments. Includes eight solos and two duets, with four of the carols requiring either flute or violin obbligato. Contains: I Saw Three...

The enormous popular appeal of Tchaikovsky's orchestral music rests on themes of touching eloquence and emotional power, on endlessly inventive textures, and on a masterful control of sheer symphonic sound -- surely one of the best in all of the nineteenth-century literature. Then there...

The expansive emotional expressions and monumental musical designs of Austrian composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) brought the Romantic era in music to its climax. A remarkable figure who strove for the highest perfection in his works, Mahler created a rare union of musical and spiritual...

Keyboard Music Before 1700 begins with an overview of the development of keyboard music in Europe. Then, individual chapters by noted authorities in the field cover the key composers and repertory before 1700 in England, France, Germany and the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain and...

Music scholarship's views of Franz Schubert's instrumental works continue to evolve. How might aesthetic values, historiographies, revisions to the composer's biography, and disciplinary commitments affect how we interpret his music?Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation explores the aesthetic positions and operations that underlie...

Since its first performance in 1724, J.S. Bach's St. John Passion has captured the spiritual and musical attention of audiences and congregations. Combining expert theological and musical analysis, this booklooks at this monumental work from a twenty-first century perspective, providing a new English translation...

Described by his contemporaries as the greatest pianist of the era, Josef Hofmann performed on world stages for more than fifty years, enjoying phenomenal success. Using previously unpublished letters, documents, interviews, and testimonies, Elizabeth Carr uncovers Hofmann's world from child prodigy to established artist...

(Rubank Book/Audio Products). This top-rated collection of solo literature from the celebrated Rubank catalog is known by teachers and students everywhere. Each edition offers a superb variety of solos customized for that instrument. Most state solo/ensemble contest lists include several solos from this collection....

First English-language publication of fascinating interviews with world-renowned musicians: composers (Gygy Ligeti), conductors (Claudio Abbado), singers (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf), instrumentalists (Yehudi Menuhin, Alfred Brendel), and more. B疝int Andr疽 Varga makes available here for the first time in English nineteen extended interviews with some of the...

Lauded by Verdi, Debussy, and other music legends, the celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini raised the standards of orchestral and operatic performance over an astonishing 69 years on the podium. But as he did so, he acquired a reputation as something of a tyrant, who...

Author: Steve ReichISBN-10: 154006350XISBN-13: 9781540063502Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2019Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 10.30h x 6.60w x 0.10d

Antiche Canzoni di Natale is an old traditional Italian Christmas Carol. his composition by Oreste Ravanello was originally published in the early 20th century. Classic Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of music ever composed, reproduced from...

(Woodwind Method). These studies, a series of short etudes designed to improve technique and musicianship, are intended to supplement or follow any elementary method.Author: R. M. EndresenISBN-10: 142344521XISBN-13: 9781423445210Publisher: Rubank PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1991Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.70h x 11.80w x 0.20d

(Woodwind Method). The classic scale and arpeggio studies of Gabriel Pares were adapted in the 1940s for like-instrument study by Rubank's Harvey Whistler, and are now the standard for elementary scale instruction. Presenting all the major keys up to four flats/sharps (and the relative...

Christoph Neidher is Associate Professor in the Department of Music Research at McGill University. Peter Schubert is Professor in the Department of Music Research at McGill University.Author: Christoph Neidhofer, Peter SchubertISBN-10: 1438493258ISBN-13: 9781438493251Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2023Pages: 502Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.35lbsSize:...

Although a well-connected music teacher by profession, Charles Burney (1726-1814) gained greatest recognition for his writings on music. First published in 1771, this work recounts the 1770 journey that Burney undertook as one of two research trips for his General History of Music (1776-89)....

This book is a comprehensive biography of the great pianist and composer, Anton Rubinstein. Hervey's lively and engaging prose captures Rubinstein's larger-than-life personality and musical genius, and provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of 19th-century performance and culture. With insights into Rubinstein's relationships,...

MUSICAL SCALES that "sing" THE MAYAN CALENDAR Could they really exist?Indeed they do! And anyone holding this book can not only READ about them, but EXPERIMENT with them, since full tuning data is included here. As to their creator, JEREMY HALADYNA, here are clear...