Music-Genres & Styles-Classical

(String Solo). For Violin and orchestra (piano reduction).Author: Ludwig Van BeethovenISBN-10: 1617804231ISBN-13: 9781617804236Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 76Format: Paperback

(Instrumental Folio). This fun and educational set has everything the developing player needs for a great solo experience: * 15 medium easy classical melodies, beautifully arranged by Philip Sparke * CD-ROM with Full Performance recordings and Accompaniment Only recordings for each piece * Tempo...

(Artist Books). Must-have flute transcriptions of the brilliant playing of Sir James Galway. Features 30 selections from throughout his prolific career, including: Annie's Song * Ashokan Farewell * Beauty and the Beast * Berceuse * Can You Feel the Love Tonight? * Clair De...

(String Solo). A collection of three concertos for the violin. Includes the A Minor Concerto, BWV 1041; E Major Concerto, BWV 1042; Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043.Author: Johann Sebastian BachISBN-10: 1423441826ISBN-13: 9781423441823Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2009Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize:...

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...

Poetry. Music. Women's Studies. Music by Lori Goldston. Unsettling the stories of thirty-two historic Marys, the poems in MARY'S DUST startlingly reconfigure what we thought we knew about confinement and loss, liberation and love. With their variety of inventive and traditional forms, these poems...

Brahms was a musician's musician, in some respects an "academic" composer, and so it's practically impossible for professional scholars and musicians to approach his music without wanting to demonstrate at some point that they are as smart as Brahms, and uniquely able to unravel...

Author: Richard WagnerISBN-10: 0793583624ISBN-13: 9780793583621Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.80w x 0.20d

Author: Richard WagnerISBN-10: 0793556104ISBN-13: 9780793556106Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 10.20h x 6.50w x 0.30d

Author: Richard WagnerISBN-10: 0793547156ISBN-13: 9780793547159Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1989Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 10.20h x 6.50w x 0.30d

This excellent 1949 Artur Schnabel edition of the famous Pathetique" sonata features footnotes in English, Spanish, Italian, German and French. There are also fingering, dynamic, and performance suggestions by the editor."Author: Ludwig Van BeethovenISBN-10: 0769254462ISBN-13: 9780769254463Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1985Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.60h...

Expertly arranged piano solo from our Kalmus Edition.Author: Gabriel FauréISBN-10: 0769241492ISBN-13: 9780769241494Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1985Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.70w x 0.20d

Piano duet teams will thrill at this new collection of Liszt's own duet transcriptions of five of his most popular orchestral works. Titles include: Le Preludes * Orpheus * Prometheus * Ce qu' on entend sur la Montagne * Mazeppa.Author: Franz LisztISBN-10: 0757982441ISBN-13: 9780757982446Publisher:...

Two beautiful pieces for flute and piano in the French-Romantic style.Author: Georges H?ISBN-10: 0757980392ISBN-13: 9780757980398Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2001Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.80w x 0.30d

A Flute solo with Piano Accompaniment composed by Paul Taffanel.Author: Paul TaffanelISBN-10: 0757919588ISBN-13: 9780757919589Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1985Pages: 16Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.60w x 0.20d

Author: Gabriel FauréISBN-10: 0757913296ISBN-13: 9780757913297Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1985Pages: 16Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.70w x 0.20d

Cornelius Gurlitt was one of the later nineteenth century's most prodigious providers of well-graded piano music. The pieces in Opus 82 are important for development of technic, independence of the hands, and the playing of passagework for the young pianist. The pieces are all...

Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe are perhaps the most thrilling young duo performing today, offering adrenalized classical concerts that are revolutionizing the piano duo experience for the 21st century. Described as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers transposed from the dance floor to the...

These two fascinating works are combined into one volume that includes an interesting biography, background information on the writing of the music, indispensable performance suggestions and a listing of recommended readings and recordings. Also included is an outstanding CD recording from the Naxos label,...

(Music Sales America). The first performance of the Trilogy Sonata was given by the arranger and pianist Paul Barnes on 19 April 2001. The Sonata consists of transcriptions from the trilogy of 'portrait' operas by Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach (1976), Satyagraha (1980),...

With over 100 compositions in his catalog, Ross Lee Finney is a highly regarded composer whose career spans more than 50 years. This work offers contemporary music scholars, students, and enthusiasts an in-depth survey of the life, works, and writings of this important composer,...

In his short, tumultuous life, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) produced an astonishing amount of music. Symphonies, chamber music, opera, church music, and songs (more than 600 of them) poured forth in profusion. His "Trout" Quintet, his "Unfinished" Symphony, the last three piano sonatas, and above...

Although there are many accounts of Mozart's life, and countless descriptions and analyses of his music, this is the first attempt to portray Mozart's creative life as a composer. K?ter selects forty works or groups of works covering virtually every important stage in Mozart's...

Sonata form is the most commonly encountered organizational plan in the works of the classical-music masters, from Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven to Schubert, Brahms, and beyond. Sonata Theory, an analytic approach developed by James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy in their award-winning Elements of Sonata...

How did Ludwig van Beethoven help overthrow a tsarist regime? With the establishment of the Russian Musical Society and its affiliated branches throughout the empire, Beethoven's music reached substantially larger audiences at a time of increasing political instability. In addition, leading music critics of...

How did Ludwig van Beethoven help overthrow a tsarist regime? With the establishment of the Russian Musical Society and its affiliated branches throughout the empire, Beethoven's music reached substantially larger audiences at a time of increasing political instability. In addition, leading music critics of...

An authority on eighteenth-century music explores the background and composition of Messiah and gives the complex subsequent history of the work. Paintings, engravings, caricatures, and facsimiles of Handel's autograph score illustrate the text. A Helen and Kurt Wolff BookAuthor: Richard LuckettISBN-10: 0156001381ISBN-13: 9780156001380Publisher: Mariner...

Includes: HAYDN (Serenade) * HAYDN (God Save Francis, the Emperor) * MOZART (Minuet from Quartet in E-Flat Major) * BEETHOVEN (Cavatine from Quartet, op. 130) * MENDELSSOHN (Canzonetta from Quartet, op.12) * CHERUBINI (Scherzo from Quartet in E-Flat Major) * BACH (Aria, My Faithful...

This scholarly edition by Maurice Hinson of Mozart's famous theme and variations on the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" includes historic material, performance suggestions, and other helpful information."Author: Wolfgang Amadeus MozartISBN-10: 0739020323ISBN-13: 9780739020326Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1987Pages: 16Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 11.50h x 8.50w...

Bach's spectacular Goldberg Variations represent a high point in the repertory of keyboard music, particularly for the harpsichord. This book takes a detailed look at how these variations originated, especially in relation to all Bach's Clavier bung volumes and late keyboard works, what their...

Haydn's Symphonies Nos. 82-7 are seminal works in Haydn's output and mark a new level of compositional attainment, launching the important cycle of mature Haydn symphonies written for an international audience. This book considers both stylistic aspects of the symphonies and their broader cultural...

This is the first individual study of Beethoven's Violin Concerto. It explores the work's background and the influences that combined in its creation, and describes its indifferent initial reception. It considers the numerous textual problems that confront the performer, including discussion of Beethoven's adaptation...

Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex is widely acknowledged as one of the most original musical theater works of the twentieth century. This clear and concise guide, the first ever written on the work, describes the plot, the music and the staging in close detail and provides...

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is acknowledged as one of the supreme masterpieces of the Western tradition. More than any other musical work it has become an international symbol of unity and affirmation. Yet early critics rejected it as cryptic and eccentric, the product of a...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Fugue for J. S. Bach was a natural language; he wrote fugues in organ toccatas and voluntaries,...

The tonadilla, a type of satiric musical skit popular on the public stages of Madrid during the late Enlightenment, has played a significant role in the history of music in Spain. This book, the first major study of the tonadilla in English, examines the...

Over the past four decades, Richard Taruskin's publications have redefined the field of Russian-music study. This volume gathers thirty-six essays on composers ranging from Bortnyansky in the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky in the twenty-first, as well as all of the famous names in between....

Stephen Walsh's magisterial, engagingly written two-volume Stravinsky is the most detailed and extensive work available on the life of the man widely regarded as the greatest composer of the twentieth century. This second volume takes up the composer's story in 1934, in a Europe...

Music Divided explores how political pressures affected musical life on both sides of the iron curtain during the early years of the cold war. In this groundbreaking study, Danielle Fosler-Lussier illuminates the pervasive political anxieties of the day through particular attention to artistic, music-theoretical,...

Recognized as the primary American symphonist of the 20th century, Roger Sessions (1896-1985) is one of the leading representatives of high modernism. His stature among American composers rivals Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, and Elliott Carter. Sessions was awarded two Pulitzer prizes, election to the...

In October, 1975, the International Haydn Conference was held in Washington, D.C., during the last eight days of the Haydn Festival at Kennedy Center. Scholars and musicians from all over the world were brought together for the conference, participating in panel discussions, round tables,...

This book provides a practical introduction to researching and performing early Anglo-American secular music and dance with attention to their place in society. Supporting growing interest among scholars and performers spanning numerous disciplines, this book contributes quality new scholarship to spur further research on...

(Berklee Guide). Learn the essential techniques for playing classical guitar. These exercises and demonstrations will help you to develop ease of motion, efficiency, coordination, tone, control over dynamics and color, melodic connection and harmonic balance while preventing injury. Techniques for each hand are discussed...

(World's Greatest Classical Music). This excellent collection in our acclaimed classical series features easy to intermediate arrangements of 57 selections from symphonies, concertos, operas and piano works. Contents: The Abduction from the Seraglio: Turkish Finale * Air, K. 109b * Allegro, K. 3 *...

Author: Carl VineISBN-10: 0571515460ISBN-13: 9780571515462Publisher: Faber & FaberLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1998Pages: 999Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.80w x 0.20d

In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance. A genre that sought to produce simulations in sound of complex interiorities, the madrigal introduced into music...

The Metropolitan has stood among the grandest of opera companies since its birth in 1883. Tracing the offstage/onstage workings of this famed New York institution, Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron tell how the Met became and remains a powerful actor on the global...

"Year of Wonder is an absolute treat--the most enlightening way to be guided through the year." -- Eddie RedmayneA unique celebration of classical music that showcases one inspirational piece each day of the year, written by an award-winning violinist and BBC Radio personalityClassical music...

Second Edition Includes: * All of the original content * Three new performance pieces * Giuliani's Left-Hand Etudes, Op. 1 * New lessons and exercises * Improved music engravings Upon its first publication in 1995, Pumping Nylon became an instant classic and must-have technique...

These studies constitute an irreplaceable part of the standard study material for classical guitar. They are designed to aid in maximum development of right-hand technique.Author: Mauro GiulianiISBN-10: 0898981905ISBN-13: 9780898981902Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1983Pages: 20Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 11.98h x 8.98w x 0.14d