Music-Genres & Styles-Classical

Composed in 1935-36 and intended to be his artistic 'credo', Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony was not performed publicly until 1961. Here, Dr Pauline Fairclough tackles head-on one of the most significant and least understood of Shostakovich's major works. She argues that the Fourth Symphony was...

The life, times, and music of Franz Schubert During his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, from intimate songs and dances to ambitious chamber pieces, symphonies, and operas. The essays and translated documents in Franz Schubert and...

(Vocal). 7 great duets from La boheme, Tosca and Madama Butterfly, as interpreted by soprano Mirella Freni and tenor Luciano Pavarotti. All details of the artists' performances are notated: note variations, breaths, fermatas and other nuances of style. Includes singer bios and interpretation notes...

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...

The early seventeenth century, when the first operas were written and technical advances with far-reaching consequences-such as tonal music-began to develop, is also notable for another shift: the displacement of aristocratic music-makers by a new professional class of performers. In this book, Andrew Dell'Antonio...

Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions...

Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: "If the Met's screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions ensnare...

Interpreting Music is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully-"interpreting music" in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and advancing two decades of highly influential work, Lawrence Kramer fundamentally rethinks the concepts of work, score, performance, performativity, interpretation, and meaning-even...

In this engrossing collection of essays, distinguished composer, theorist, journalist, and educator Arthur Berger invites us into the vibrant and ever-changing American music scene that has been his home for most of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane, and always entertaining, Berger describes the music...

Opera developed during a time when the position of women--their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality--was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological women whose...

This research guide is an annotated bibliography of sources dealing with the string quartet. This second edition is organized as in the original publication (chapters for general references, histories, individual composers, aspects of performance, facsimiles and critical editions, and miscellaneous topics) and has been...

This book examines the relationship between narrative film and reality, as seen through the lens of on-screen classical concert performance. By investigating these scenes, wherein the performance of music is foregrounded in the narrative, Winters uncovers how concert performance reflexively articulates music's importance to...

"I now stand at the gateway to my fortune," Mozart wrote in a letter of 1790. He had entered into the service of Emperor Joseph II of Austria two years earlier as Imperial-Royal Chamber Composer--a salaried appointment with a distinguished title and few obligations....

Classical Concert Studies: A Companion to Contemporary Research and Performance is a landmark publication that maps out a new interdisciplinary field of Concert Studies, offering fresh ways of understanding the classical music concert in the twenty-first century. It brings together essays, research articles, and...

Johann Sebastian Bach was a Lutheran and much of his music was for Lutheran liturgical worship. As these insightful essays in the twelfth volume of Bach Perspectives demonstrate, he was also influenced by--and in turn influenced--different expressions of religious belief. The vocal music, especially...

Among his numerous children, Johann Sebastian Bach sired five musically gifted sons. The eleventh volume of Bach Perspectives presents essays that explore these men's lives and careers via distinctive and, in several cases, alternative and interdisciplinary methodologies. Robert L. Marshall traces how each of...

This provocative addition to the Bach Perspectives series offers a counternarrative to the isolated genius status that J. S. Bach and his music currently enjoy. Contributors contextualize Bach by examining the output, reputation, and compositional practices of his contemporaries in Germany whose work was...

As the official publication of the American Bach Society, Bach Perspectives has pioneered new areas of research in the life, times, and music of Bach since its first appearance in 1995. Volume 8 of Bach Perspectives emphasizes the place of Bach's oratorios in their...

Sacred Innovation: Orazio Vecchi and Music in the Shadow of the Reformation provides a profound exploration into the life and work of Orazio Vecchi (1550-1605), a renowned composer who shaped the soundscape of Renaissance Italy. The book goes beyond Vecchi's musical legacy, revealing the...

This book is an important contribution to the study of women in classical music, specifically focusing on the life and works of Maria Hester Park. It fills a significant gap in the literature surrounding women composers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.Author:...

Dialogue 1: Solo Classical Guitar and Orchestra: ScoreAuthor: Joseph R. LiloreISBN-10: 1938513002ISBN-13: 9781938513008Publisher: Lionhead PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2012Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.17d

Here, for the first time, a singer has created a true, line by line, translation of all the song cycles of Schubert and Schumann, along with Beethoven's An Die Ferne Geliebte (To The Distant Beloved), Mahler's Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen (Songs Of A Wayfarer)...

In the seventeenth century, like today, the guitar was often used for chord strumming ("battuto" in Italian) in songs and popular dance genres, such as the ciaccona or sarabanda. In the golden age of the baroque guitar, Italy gave rise to a unique solo...

(Essential Elements Band Folios). Includes: And I Love Her * Eleanor Rigby * Get Back * A Hard Day's Night * Here, There and Everywhere * Hey Jude * I Want to Hold Your Hand * Lady Madonna * Ticket to Ride * Twist...

Bedrich Smetana (1900) is a book written by F. V. Krejei that provides a comprehensive biography of the Czech composer Bedrich Smetana. The book explores Smetana's life and career, from his early years as a pianist and composer to his later years as a...

This collection of ballades by Frédéric Chopin is a cornerstone of the classical piano repertoire. Featuring some of Chopin's most technically challenging and emotionally powerful works, this volume is a must-have for any serious pianist or lover of classical music.This work has been selected...

The song cycle was one of the most important musical genres of the nineteenth century. Famous examples by Schubert, Schumann and Mahler have received a great deal of attention. Yet many other cycles - by equally famous composers, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

This critical discography of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde opens with an introduction that illustrates the challenges the opera poses to performers. The discography lists all complete recordings, all major selections, and hundreds of individually recorded vocal and instrumental excerpts from 1901 to 1999. Information...

George Whitefield Chadwick was one of the most prolific composers that the United States ever produced. During a career that spanned over 50 years, he was considered the Dean of American Composers from the 1880s until after World War I. He composed in nearly...

Opera Mediagraphy lists operas released as motion pictures, both as theatrical feature films on 35mm film and educational films on 16mm film and videorecordings, including the VHS videotape format and optical video laser disc, though restricted to those that have been released in the...

Henri Sauguet's music remains little known outside his native France and portions of Belgium. Even there a younger generation of listeners and practitioners only vaguely associate his name with the ballet Les Forains, the popular song Le Chemin des forains, and a handful of...

This volume, part of Greenwood's continuing series of Bio-Bibliographies in Music, provides a concise bibliographic guide to the life and career of Otto Luening. While the music of this American composer, educator, conductor, and flutist has been performed throughout the northeastern United States, his...

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...

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...

Practising Carnatic NottuswaramDiscover the charm of Western melodies blended with the soul of Carnatic tradition."Practising Carnatic Nottuswaram" is an essential guide for students, teachers, and enthusiasts of Indian classical music who want to explore the unique genre of Nottuswaram-a rare and delightful fusion of...

In Back to Bach: From Mozart to Moog George Michell explores the story of Bach's impact on composers from Mozart and Beethoven to Stravinsky and Shostakovich, as well as on jazz pianists, rock guitarists and pop singers, all of whom set off on their...

This vintage book contains a collection of stories based upon Wagner's operas told by Gladys Davidson. Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly famous for his operas. These masterfully retold stories are highly...

French/English - Cloth Score. Translated by Martin.Author: Charles GounodISBN-10: 0634071742ISBN-13: 9780634071744Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 366Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.00lbsSize: 10.60h x 7.80w x 0.90d

Commemorating the centenary of Tchaikovsky's death, these essays reassess the life and work of the composer from a variety of perspectives, ranging from the musicological and biographical to broader ones addressing his place in the development of the arts in Europe and America. As...

Mercier examines the 107 songs Hans Pfitzner wrote for voice and piano. This work provides IPA pronunciation symbols, translations into English, and brief biographies of the poets associated with Pfitzner's songs. Although not as famous as his contemporaries Hugo Wolf, Gustav Mahler, and Richard...

A definitive study of Janáček's Sinfonietta, tracing its creation, reception, and rise to international prominence. This book provides a musical 'biography' of Leos Janáček's (1854-1928) most famous orchestral piece - his Sinfonietta - by analysing its sources, composition, reception history, recordings and musical component...

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...

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...

Sometimes it can be hard to find the perfect piece to teach your student about a specific concept...That's where Concept Collections come in.In this volume, we're delighted to feature five fabulous composers and their original compositions in Dorian mode.Author: Nicola CantanISBN-10: 1913000427ISBN-13: 9781913000424Publisher: Colourful...

Provides a thorough, impartial portrait of Alma Mahler as a multifaceted, intelligent, and passionate woman who challenged societal norms.Alma Mahler, one of the most fascinating and controversial women of the early 20th century, was far more than just the wife of composer Gustav Mahler....

(String). 19 pieces by 14 composers. Cello literature appropriate for the intermediate to advanced level player. For cello and piano. CONTENTS: BEETHOVEN: Rondo from the Sonata in F Major, Op. 5, No. 1 * BOCCHERINI: Sonata No. 1 in B-flat Major * BRAHMS: Allegro...

Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music is a book written by Italian composer and pianist, Ferruccio Busoni, in 1911. In this book, Busoni presents his ideas about the nature of music and its role in society. He argues that music should be seen...

This book explores the digital transformation of performing arts, taking readers on a journey through classical orchestras as illustrative examples.Author: Salvino A. SalvaggioISBN-10: 1032984546ISBN-13: 9781032984544Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/27/2025Pages: 170Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d

No business plan, focus group, or grant request preceded the birth of the Santa Fe Community Orchestra. A couple of amateur musicians, who didn't know that starting an orchestra might be difficult, found a willing conductor, recruited a few friends, and made it work....

(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). HPS 81Author: Bela BartokISBN-10: 0851628788ISBN-13: 9780851628783Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2004Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 12.00h x 9.10w x 0.40d