Music-Genres & Styles-Classical

(Music Minus One). Performed by Christian Reichert, guitar Accompaniment: Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Nayden Todorov MMO is pleased to bring you one of the all-time classics for the guitar, Mauro Giuliani's Guitar Concerto No. 1 in A major. This familiar and ever-so-beautiful piece has...

Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach's vocal compositions--including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantatas--with particular attention...

(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). These exciting collections feature new transcriptions, previously unpublished material, and some selections never before published separately from complete vocal scores. The High Voice edition features 29 songs, and the Medium/Low Voice edition has 34. Contents: Afterthought * from ARIAS AND...

(PWM). Though the Op. 11 concerto is called Concerto No. 1, it was written after what was later known as Concerto No. 2. One piano plays the solo part; the other plays the piano reduction of the orchestra. The piece is also available in...

(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). Made popular by a series of animated commercials for the British bank Lloyds TSB, now available in an arrangement for violin and piano.Author: Elena Kats-CherninISBN-10: 3793140393ISBN-13: 9783793140399Publisher: Bote & BockLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2015Pages: 12Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 12.00h x 9.00w x...

Originally composed for piano duet, Debussy's Peite suite was first peformed in Paris by the composer and Jacques Durand at a private hearing on February 2, 1889 and became immediately popular after its publication the same year. Its widespread popularity resulted in demands from...

(Creative Concepts Publishing). Features 31 pieces by Antonio Vivaldi arranged for solo guitar with tablature. Includes historical notes, performance suggestions, explanation of ornaments, and more.Author: Antonio VivaldiISBN-10: 1569221944ISBN-13: 9781569221945Publisher: Creative ConceptsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2000Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 12.03h x 9.03w x 0.31d

(Schirmer Performance Editions). Includes music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Bela Bartok, Melanie Bonis, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Friedrich Burgmuller, David Diamond, Norman Dello Joio, William Duncombe, Morton Gould, Cornelius Gurlitt, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Wolfgang Amadeaus Mozart, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Robert Schumann, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Charles Henry...

(E.B. Marks). Two of William Bolcom's earliest and most complex piano solos are now available in this excellent volume featuring new engravings and explanatory and programmatic notes by the composer. Fantasy-Sonata (1961) exhibits a youthful enthusiasm for the European triumvirate of Boulez-Berio-Stockhausen dating from...

The literature found in the Classics for Students series provides a sequenced course of progression for the pianist who wants to play music of substantial quality. The wide variety of moods, technical features, and colors included in this collection will aid in the development...

(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). A collection of American and British songs for the progressing singer. Contents: Dirge (Argento) * The Ash Grove (Britten) * O Waly, Waly (Britten) * The Salley Gardens (Britten) * At the River (Copland) * Simple Gifts (Copland) * Fear...

(Music Sales America). Extensive collection of organ music, arranged for manuals only by C.H. Trevor.Author: C. H. TrevorISBN-10: 0853605165ISBN-13: 9780853605164Publisher: Novello & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2004Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 11.90h x 8.70w x 0.20d

(World's Favorite (Ashley)). 25 pieces for violin and piano with separate violin section. Includes works by Mozart, Molique, Mendelssohn, Bach, Handel, Bach-Gounod, Beethoven, and others.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 0825651077ISBN-13: 9780825651076Publisher: Ashley PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1996Pages: 239Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 11.84h x 8.86w x 0.69d

(Full Score). English Only Cloth Score.Author: Gian-Carlo MenottiISBN-10: 0793566711ISBN-13: 9780793566716Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 112Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.90w x 0.60d

(Piano Collection). Contents: Prelude in F-sharp minor, Op. 23, No. 1 * Prelude in B-flat Major, Op. 23, No. 2 * Prelude in D minor, Op. 23, No. 3 * Prelude in D Major, Op. 23, No. 4 * Prelude in G minor, Op....

(Piano Collection). Contents: 4 Mazurkas, Op. 6 * 5 Mazurkas, Op. 7 * 4 Mazurkas, Op. 17 * 4 Mazurkas, Op. 24 * 4 Mazurkas, Op. 30 * 4 Mazurkas, Op. 33 * 4 Mazurkas, Op. 41 * 3 Mazurkas, Op. 50 * 3...

For violin and guitar. As recorded by Itzakh Perlman and John Williams.Author: Mauro GiulianiISBN-10: 0769213073ISBN-13: 9780769213071Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1985Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize: 11.50h x 8.70w x 0.20d

(Music Sales America). Jorge Cardoso's Suite Sudamericana for solo Guitar. This suite is subdivided into 10 delightful movements, panning from coast to coast of South America in style and rhythm.Author: Jorge CardosoISBN-10: 071194380XISBN-13: 9780711943803Publisher: Union Musical EdicionesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2008Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.70h x...

(Schirmer Performance Editions). Almost anyone who has studied piano knows one or more of these small gems. All attention in these short, sparkling works is directed to the most basic pianistic concepts: precise phrasing, evenness of touch, and dynamic control.Author: Muzio ClementiISBN-10: 0634073621ISBN-13: 9780634073625Publisher:...

George Crumb is a composer at the forefront of post-World War II American music, and never before has one volume combined a portrait of his life with a catalogue of his extensive work. David Cohen's George Crumb: A Bio-Bibliography corrects this by providing the...

Mozart wrote some of the greatest serenades for wind ensemble. He was not alone in writing works for wind sextet, octet, or larger ensembles--Over 12,000 works for wind harmony by over 2,200 composers are extant. Describing this new genre, Wind Harmony, which is far...

A discography and bibliography of music written for the modern harpsichord, this volume features more than 800 mass-marketed recordings of some 600 compositions written after the revival of the harpsichord (ca. 1889). Also included is information pertaining to performances of compositions arranged for harpsichord....

Appropriately, this work written on the year of the 100th birthday of Frank Martin, is the first English language resource dealing with work by and about the Swiss composer. Charles King provides access to a great deal of critical substantive writing about Martin's work...

For the dedicated record collector and music lover this discography provides invaluable information about Legge himself and a crucial periodin recording history, from his issuance of discs on a subscripion basis tothe creation of the Philharmonia Orchestra to the systematic recording of the greatest...

In this long awaited book, Eric Sams examines each of Johannes Brahms's 213 songs and reveals the full extent of the poetry, fantasy and humour of the composer's work. The book begins with an introduction to Brahms the song-writer, and then provides a complete...

This is the first book-length study of Shostakovich's Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues for piano, Opus 87. Mark Mazullo explains the cultural context in which Shostakovich composed, relates the cycle to piano works (by Bach, Hindemith, and others), and offers individual commentaries on each of...

Arriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, Hungarian-born Paul Henry Lang (1901-1991) went on to exert a powerful influence on musical life and scholarship in his adopted country for more than six decades. As professor of musicology at Columbia University, editor of the...

Lukas Foss's career encompasses the worlds of composition, conducting, performing, teaching, and the organization of major music festivals. His compositional style defies classification; he has used every form of twentieth century style, from neo-classicism to avant-garde, in his works. Karen Perone's bio-bibliography covers Lukas...

A new picture of music at the basilica of St. Peter's in the fifteenth century emerges in Christopher A. Reynolds's fascinating chronicle of this rich period of Italian musical history. Reynolds examines archival documents, musical styles, and issues of artistic patronage and cultural context...

Johann Sebastian Bach has loomed large in the imagination of scholars, performers, and audiences since the late nineteenth century.This new book, edited by veteran Bach scholar Bettina Varwig, gathers a diverse group of leading and emerging Bach researchers as well as a number of...

A new picture of music at the basilica of St. Peter's in the fifteenth century emerges in Christopher A. Reynolds's fascinating chronicle of this rich period of Italian musical history. Reynolds examines archival documents, musical styles, and issues of artistic patronage and cultural context...

Author: Richard WagnerISBN-10: 0793583594ISBN-13: 9780793583591Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 10.30h x 6.50w x 0.40d

(Study Score). This opera full score edition includes a colorful cover and an introductory synopsis in English of the libretto.Author: Gaetano DonizettiISBN-10: 0634095382ISBN-13: 9780634095382Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2005Pages: 534Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.55lbsSize: 10.50h x 7.70w x 1.00d

The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of...

"The Podium Papers" is an honest and entertaining dispatch from the front lines of one of the world's most interesting and misunderstood professions. Like Anthony Bourdain in his "Kitchen Confidential," Martin Kessler takes the reader through the swinging doors and into the real 'kitchen'...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

(Boosey & Hawkes Miscellaneous). 15 entertaining and inventive pieces for intermediate to advanced flute, based on well-known spirituals, folk tunes, and classical themes. The play-along CD includes accompaniments and full performances.Author: Christopher NortonISBN-10: 0851625169ISBN-13: 9780851625164Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2007Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize:...

(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). Contains: Overture to Candide * Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront * Prelude, Fugue and Riffs * Divertimento for Orchestra.Author: Leonard BernsteinISBN-10: 0851622186ISBN-13: 9780851622187Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1999Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 11.90h x 8.90w x 0.70d

Franz Schubert was one of the most prolific composers of ensemble piano music, and the Allegro in A Minor, Op. 144, demonstrates his mastery at writing for one piano, four hands. This large and passionate work was composed in 1828, the year of Schubert's...

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was a great harmonic innovator and one of the most original musical voices of the twentieth century. He created fresh, new tonal perspectives without abandoning tonality itself. With a revolutionary sense of instrumental colour and a fleeting, atmospheric sound world, he...

(Music Sales America). Five Old French Dances for Viola, Violin or Cello with piano accompaniment, by Marin Marais, arranged by M.E. Aldis and L.T. Rowe.Author: Marin MaraisISBN-10: 071195660XISBN-13: 9780711956605Publisher: Chester MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1992Pages: 30Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 12.09h x 8.85w x 0.13d

Written between 1923 and 1925, these 10 waltzes were written in Britten's childhood and in publishing them the composer intended that they would be used particularly by the young or the inexperienced to practice.Author: Benjamin BrittenISBN-10: 0571500749ISBN-13: 9780571500741Publisher: Faber & FaberLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1998Pages: 999Format:...

The orchestral overtures and preludes to Wagner's operas have long been concert favorites, even among music lovers who are less familiar with the operas themselves. The drama, romanticism, and sensuous intensity of these shorter works have earned them their own secure place in the...

This collection of chorale settings contains "Three Passion Preludes" for Holy Week, "Three Chorale Versets" for general use, and five settings on well-known Welsh tunes "Aberystwyth" and "Ton-y-Botel" ("Ebenezer"). Also included are two short devotional interludes. The pieces range in character from meditative to...

This guide aims to unlock the world of Richard Wagner and his works, his monumental achievements, and, ultimately, the great emotional power inherent in his art. Decoding Wagner presents a straightforward, fresh overview of what Wagner attempted to achieve with his "artwork of the...

This first American publication of Hensel's important early works features Vier Lieder f? das Pianoforte, Op. 2, Op. 6, and Op. 8, and 2 selections from Six M駘odies pour le Piano, Op. 4 and Op. 5.Author: Fanny Mendelssohn HenselISBN-10: 0486435857ISBN-13: 9780486435855Publisher: Dover PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer who was one of the most important figures in the development of the Classical style in music during the 18th century. He helped establish the forms and styles for the string quartet and the symphony.Joseph Haydn was undoubtedly one of...

In 1958, under the direction of Prof. Marvin Rabin, the Boston University College of Fine Arts established a youth orchestra for junior and senior high school students from the Greater Boston area. The Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (BYSO), formerly known as the Greater Boston...

(Really Easy Piano). Easy piano arrangements of 22 classical favorites by Mozart. Complete with song background notes and playing hints and tips.Author: Wolfgang Amadeus MozartISBN-10: 1849385564ISBN-13: 9781849385565Publisher: Music SalesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2011Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.80w x 0.40d

Music and Ultra-Modernism in France examines the priorities of three generational groupings: the pre-war Société Musicale Indépendente of Ravel and his circle, Les Six in the 1920s and Jeune France in 1936, and questions some of the stereotypes that characterise that period. It shows...