Music-Genres & Styles-Classical

(String Solo). This work won the 1964 Spoleto Festival Competition for Chamber Music and was first performed by violinist Yoko Matsuda and pianist Charles Wadsworth. Duration ca. 22 minutes.Author: John CoriglianoISBN-10: 079353819XISBN-13: 9780793538195Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.40w...

Author: Samuel BarberISBN-10: 0793537231ISBN-13: 9780793537235Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 16Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 11.85h x 6.39w x 0.09d

(Duet Piano Education). This favorite piece was performed at the 1994 Music Teachers' National Association Convention in Washington, D.C. Upper intermediate level. To see other NFMC selections, click here.Author: Anna AschISBN-10: 0793531594ISBN-13: 9780793531592Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1994Pages: 16Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 11.70h x...

(Study Score). For clarinet, bassoon, French horn, violin, viola, cello and double bass.Author: Gunther SchullerISBN-10: 0793514851ISBN-13: 9780793514854Publisher: AssociatedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1992Pages: 122Format: Paperback

(Music Sales America). Victoria's O Magnum Mysterium edited for modern use by Henry Washington. SATB.Author: Tomas Luis VictoriaISBN-10: 0711935769ISBN-13: 9780711935761Publisher: Chester MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1992Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.70h x 6.60w x 0.30d

(Music Sales America). Edited and arranged by Evelyn Rothwell. Figured bass realized by A. Gibilaro.Author: Giovanni Battista SammartiniISBN-10: 0711924449ISBN-13: 9780711924444Publisher: Chester MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1992Pages: 12Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 11.60h x 6.28w x 0.09d

In this major new interpretation of the music of J. S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Bach's music "against the grain" of contemporaries such as Vivaldi and Telemann, Laurence Dreyfus explains...

(Piano). Modern American composer John Harbison wrote this sonata for pianist Robert Levin.Author: John HarbisonISBN-10: 063408027XISBN-13: 9780634080272Publisher: Associated Music Publishers, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2005Pages: 30Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.90w x 0.20d

Author: Jan Mark SlomanISBN-13: 9798994785003Publisher: Bally Mote BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2026Pages: 90Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.19d

Author: Ralph Vaughan WilliamsISBN-10: 1608743268ISBN-13: 9781608743261Publisher: Petrucci Library PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/10/2026Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 11.69h x 8.27w x 0.27d

Defending the Music: Michael Steinberg at the Boston Globe, 1964-1976 brings together, for the first time, some 300 selections from the more than 2,000 reviews, essays, and features written by the eminent critic and musicologist Michael Steinberg during his dozen years--from 1964 to 1976--as...

A Century of the Madison Symphony Orchestra details and celebrates the history of the MSO: from its beginnings in 1926, as the Madison Civic Symphony, a largely volunteer community ensemble, to the fully professional ensemble that exists today, one of America's finest regional orchestras....

Using John Ireland's fascination with Arthur Machen as case study, this book challenges our perception of the correspondence between music and literature in twentieth-century Britain.The composer John Ireland (1879-1962) declared repeatedly that no one could understand his music until they had first read the...

Pathbreaking study that explores the piano as an instrument of globalism, colonialism and mobility and what this meant for women pianists from around the world. This book surveys women pianists around the world. It focuses on the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries, an era...

By carefully piecing together musical and documentary evidence, Amateur Musicians in the Nineteenth Century reveals the musicians that have so far been largely invisible in histories of music. Musical amateurs occupy an indistinct, low-status, peripheral place in musical life today. Often defined by what...

M. A. Zani de Ferranti performed multiple original works for guitar and string quartet in the 1830s and in the 1850s began performing versions for guitar and piano with his student Euphémie Wittmann, whom he later married. Although there was a newspaper announcement of...

(Misc). This ultimate reference on the works of Dmitri Shostakovich presents a chronological list of works, annotated with commentary and citing available publications. There is also a systematic index of works, grouping like compositions by format (stage works, orchestral works, piano solo, etc.), an...

(Schott). This collection of 30 popular original compositions and arrangements for piano presents a selection of pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach that will delight any pianist. Besides the "Prelude and Fugue in C Major" from the Well-Tempered Clavier and other popular educational pieces, this...

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...

Author: Johann Christian BachISBN-10: 3795764882ISBN-13: 9783795764883Publisher: EulenburgLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1985Pages: 42Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 7.30h x 5.10w x 0.20d

Euphonium Sheet Music With Lettered Noteheads Book 1The Euphonium parts in this book are written in treble clef, there is also a bass clef version of this book for players who prefer to read bass clef, you can find this on my author page.20...

Title: Symphony No. 9, Op. 125 Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven Original Publisher: Schott Beethoven's complete Symphony No. 9, arranged for Piano 4 Hands by Franz Liszt (S. 657) and originally published by Schott in 1853. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International...

(E.B. Marks). 51 songs, including music from Casino Paradise, Dynamite Tonite, Greatshot, The Wind in the Willows, Ancient Cabaret, Minicabs, Songs to Dance, and songs not from a show, set, or cycle ("Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise" and more). With notes on the...

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...

The Boyhood of Edward MacDowell is a biographical book written by Abbie Farwell Brown that tells the story of the early life of the American composer and pianist Edward MacDowell. The book is based on extensive research and interviews with MacDowell's family and friends,...

(Vocal Collection). These CDs feature piano accompaniments to all the songs included in the corresponding songbook. 48 songs. Contents: Beautiful Girls (Follies) * Boy for Sale (Oliver!) * The Breeze Kissed Your Hair (The Cat and the Fiddle) * Bring Him Home (Les Miserables)...

""Schumann Heink: The Last of the Titans"" is a biographical book written by Mary Lawton. It tells the story of Ernestine Schumann Heink, a German-born American contralto singer who was widely regarded as one of the greatest singers of her time. The book traces...

Forgotten Musicians by Paul Nettl is a book that explores the lives and music of lesser-known classical composers throughout history. Nettl delves into the reasons why these composers have been overlooked by history, whether it be due to their gender, race, or simply because...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

Recollections Of Johannes Brahms is a book written by Albert Dietrich and published in 1899. The book is a collection of personal anecdotes and memories of the author's friendship with the renowned composer Johannes Brahms. Dietrich, a fellow composer and close friend of Brahms,...

"Modern Music: Being a Book Three of a Narrative History of Music" by Edward Burlingame Hill offers a detailed examination of the evolution of music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This volume explores the transition from Romanticism to the diverse styles...

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...

This book presents composer Richard Wagner's formative ideas in a systematic and coherent manner and examines their development and evolution as reflected in his prose, poetry, letters, and music-dramas.Author: Alan David AberbachISBN-10: 076182524XISBN-13: 9780761825241Publisher: University Press of AmericaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2003Pages: 466Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 8.40h...

This is the first book to examine Schubert's songs as active shaping forces in the culture of their era rather than as mere reflections of it. Responding to rising new forms of social organisation, Schubert discovered that songs could serve as a medium for...

"His distinctive achievement was to present in its final shape the fabric of polyphony." -- Grove's Dictionary of Music and MusiciansThis assessment of Bach's accomplishments is best realized in his organ music. Regarded as the world's greatest composer for organ, Bach coupled mastery of...

Through the systematic analysis of data from music rehearsals, lessons, and performances, this book develops a new conceptual framework for studying cognitive processes in musical activity. Author: Linda KaastraISBN-10: 0367568640ISBN-13: 9780367568641Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2022Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes? Contemporary associations between classical music and social class remain underexplored, with classical music primarily studied as a text rather than as a practice until recent years. In order to answer this question,...

Illuminates how Romantic aesthetic principles manifest themselves through musical sound and structure.In Romantic Voices Douglass Seaton explores the underlying subjectivism whereby nineteenth-century musical works depend on and manifest the ideology and epistemology of Romanticism. Listeners and students have often imagined in a too-casual way...

The Royall Consort has a major importance for 17th-century English music, being a collection of 67 dances and fantasies for strings grouped in Setts and formed in the 1630s by William Lawes (1602-1645). It is remarkable for the outstanding quality of its music, the...

The Royall Consort has a major importance for 17th-century English music, being a collection of 67 dances and fantasies for strings grouped in Setts and formed in the 1630s by William Lawes (1602-1645). It is remarkable for the outstanding quality of its music, the...

This collection features a selection of classical masterworks by the most renowned composers: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, George Frideric Handel, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Antonio Vivaldi and Richard Wagner.All the pieces are presented in simplified...

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...

(Schott). Contents: Vorwort * Hinweise zur Interpretation (H. Szeryng) * Allgemeine Erlauterungen (G. Kehr) * Sonata I (BWV 1001) * Partita I (BWV 1002) * Sonata II (BWV 1003) * Partita II (BWV 1004) * Sonata III (BWV 1005) * Partita III (BWV 1006)...

(Schott). Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 is a work which has both fascinated and perplexed musicologists and performers for many years. It forms by far the larger part of the composer's first significant publication of sacred music, entitled: 'Of the most blessed virgin a Mass...

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...

Kirkus Reviews: "A thorough and enthusiastic introduction to the life and works of Mozart, perfect for readers of all ages." The aim of this book is simple-to give you a direct personal experience with a heavenly state of consciousness while listening to Mozart's music....

This is the biography of Sir Walter Galpin Alcock, organist and composer, written by his daughter, Naomi Judith Bateson. Organist at Salisbury Cathedral from 1916 - 1947. "He lived under five sovereigns and assisted in the coronations of three of them."Author: Naomi Judith BatesonISBN-10:...

This insightful and wide-ranging book 'About Music' covers topics from the discovery of how harmony works to how the brain is affected by music, from why Beethoven was controversial to how music inspired astronomy, from the showmanship of the Romantics to amazing new technologies...

Victor Lederer surveys the music of Hector Berlioz, one of the most pioneering orchestrators in history, and introduces the general music lover to both his masterpieces such as Les Troyens and lesser known gems. The book is accompanied by supplemental audio tracks from the...

(Schirmer Performance Editions). Schirmer Performance Editions are designed for piano students and their teachers as well as for professional pianists. Pedagogical in nature, these editions offer insightful interpretive suggestions, pertinent fingering, and historical and stylistic commentary. Prepared by renowned artists/teachers, these publications provide an...