Music-Genres & Styles-Classical

Providing a thorough introduction to both choral and instrumental conducting, this textbook offers a complete package of teaching, study, and assessment materials to support a single-semester foundational conducting course.Author: Selim Giray, Michael HanawaltISBN-10: 1032268794ISBN-13: 9781032268798Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2025Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w...

From Mozart to Beethoven, this book offers a survey of the most famous compositions for the piano. It delves into the genius of musical masters and explores the evolution of music through the ages. Whether you're a music lover or a pianist in training,...

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...

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...

Seattle is a music town with rich, deep roots that have influenced the culture and identity of its civic life for decades. In a society that appreciates music but is ambivalent toward the profession of making it, the importance and contribution of Seattle's musicians...

Of all the things we can know about J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio, the most profound come from things we can hear. Listening to Bach explores musical style as it was understood in the early eighteenth century. It encourages...

Eric Coates, Haydn Wood, Albert Ketèlbey, Alfred Reynolds, Hubert Bath, Billy Mayerl, Richard Addinsell and many more. British light music, immensely tuneful and always well crafted, was enormously popular in the early to mid-twentieth century. It has been largely ignored by music dictionaries and...

Explore the life and works of one of history's greatest composers, Johann Sebastian Bach, with this comprehensive guide to his organ music. With detailed explanations of his most famous works, alongside lesser-known compositions, this book is an absolute must-read for any Bach enthusiast or...

(String Solo). Adagio is a Samuel Barber piece arranged for violin and piano by Jerry Lanning. It contains both score and part. This is a solo work of Barbe r's popular Adagio for Strings.Author: Samuel BarberISBN-10: 0793558972ISBN-13: 9780793558971Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1996Pages: 8Format:...

Master the Timeless Music of Bach to Build Technique, Fretboard Fluency, and Musical ExpressionStruggling to find guitar music that challenges you musically and technically?J.S. Bach's Fifteen Two-Part Inventions For Guitar presents fifteen of Bach's most elegant contrapuntal studies, carefully arranged by renowned guitarist and...

Writing 'Master Class' is a biography of David Pownall's play, Master Class (1983), from conception to coming of age. Threaded through the account of the inception and development of the piece are twists of authorial life-story necessary for the telling. Whereas a novel or...

In the year 2000, after Alan's death, Hinako Fujihara-Hovhaness started writing poems, which was the only way she could cope with her great loss. They were written with her limited English, yet they were spontaneous and poignant, straight from her heart. After she had...

Philip Hale (1854-1934) helped put Boston on the Transatlantic map through his music writing. Mitchell reconstructs Hale's oeuvre to produce an authoritative account of the role the Boston Symphony played in the international world of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century music.Author: J. MitchellISBN-10: 1349497673ISBN-13: 9781349497676Publisher:...

(Piano). This superb revised collection features advanced piano solo arrangements of 55 pieces by Cuba's greatest composer, as well as a biography and photo. Includes: A La Antigua * Ahi Viene El Chino (Here Comes the Chinaman) * Al Fin Te Vi * Alhambra...

Felice Giardini and Professional Music Culture in mid-eighteenth-century London explores Giardini's influence on British musical life through his multifaceted career as performer, teacher, composer, concert promoter and opera impresario.Author: Cheryll DuncanISBN-10: 0367322056ISBN-13: 9780367322052Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2019Pages: 126Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.40w x 0.50d

(Schirmer Performance Editions). Concert pianist Robert Taub, author of Playing the Beethoven Sonatas, brings forth a major, newly researched edition, with insightful commentary about teaching and playing each sonata. Dr. Taub has performed all over the world, presenting an acclaimed series of the complete...

When you attend a live classical music concert, have you noticed that the players are both younger and older musicians? The younger members are clearly competent players having received their position in the orchestra after a series of auditions and a trial period, but...

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...

This book explores twelve themes that reflect Beethoven's compositional development and thought. The result is a fascinating new portrait of the composer and his music, and a panorama of the world of thought, norms, and values that he navigated.Author: Hans-Joachim HinrichsenISBN-10: 1666975982ISBN-13: 9781666975987Publisher: Lexington...

The Kaprálová Companion, edited by Karla Hartl and Erik Entwistle, is a collection of biographical and analytical essays on Czech composer Vítezslava Kaprálová [1915-1940]. Accompanied by an annotated catalog of works, annotated chronology of life events, bibliography, discography, and a list of published works,...

Edward MacDowell was born on the eve of the Civil War into a Quaker family in lower Manhattan, where music was a forbidden pleasure. With the help of Latin-American émigré teachers, he became a formidable pianist and composer, spending twelve years in France and...

Early Language Intervention for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers offers practical guidelines for promoting language development in young children at home and in school. It covers assessment and intervention of both verbal and nonverbal communication, including augmentative and alternative communication. Pearson eText is an easy-to-use...

(Rubank Solo Collection). 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....

(Vocal Collection). The world's most trusted source for great theatre literature for singing actors. The online audio includes piano accompaniments. The book features authentic editions of each song in the original keys. The songs have been carefully chosen for each voice type and are...

(Vocal Collection). Contents: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN: The Girl That I Marry, My Defenses Are Down * ANYTHING GOES: All Through the Night * BELLS ARE RINGING: Long Before I Knew You, Just in Time * THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE: This Can't Be Love...

(Ashley Publications). Includes an index profiling the 27 tempo variations as they are arranged in all three principal movements. Chord names included.Author: Sergei RachmaninoffISBN-10: 0825652065ISBN-13: 9780825652066Publisher: Ashley PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1996Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 11.86h x 8.82w x 0.22d

(Piano Collection). Contents: Reinecke: 2 Sonatinas, Op. 136 (Nos. 1 and 2) * Spindler: Sonatina, Op. 157, No. 4 * Lichner: Sonatina, Op. 49, No. 1 * Gurlitt: Sonatina, Op. 54, No. 4 * Kuhlau: Sonatina, Op. 88, No. 1 * Clementi: Sonatina, Op....

Enrique Granados (1867-1916) was one of the first modern Spanish composers to achieve international recognition. During a 1916 visit to the United States his opera Goyescas was premiered by the Metropolitan Opera and his symphonic poem, Dante, by the Chicago Symphony. Granados was also...

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 first biography of the composer Gérard Grisey shows how the artist's sensuality and rigor came together to form the musical genre known as spectralism. The French composer Gérard Grisey (1946-98) changed the course of music history with his small but potent output. Labeled...

(Piano Collection). Contents: Au Bord D'une Source * Au Lac de Wallenstadt * Chapelle de Guillaume Tell * Eglogue * Le Mal du Pays * Les Cloches de Geneve * Orage * Pastorale * Vallee D'obermann.Author: Franz LisztISBN-10: 1480338141ISBN-13: 9781480338142Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished:...

My Life Of Song is an autobiography written by the renowned Italian opera singer, Tetrazzini, Madame. The book was first published in 1922 and provides a fascinating insight into the life and career of one of the most celebrated sopranos of the early 20th...

A Companion not only to the historic, path-breaking ballet production by Diaghilev, Nijinsky, Roerich and Stravinsky that premiered in Paris in 1913, but also to its legacy across the centuries. The newly commissioned essays will guide students and ballet-goers as they encounter this fascinating...

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...

(Full Score). Corrected, revised edition. The full score, orchestral parts, piano score and solo violin part are finally in agreement with each other.Author: Samuel BarberISBN-10: 0793555620ISBN-13: 9780793555628Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1987Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 12.00h x 8.70w x 0.20d

(Piano Collection). Contents: Sonata No. 42 in G Major, Hob. XVI: 27 * Sonata No. 43 in E-flat Major, Hob. XVI: 28 * Sonata No. 44 in F Major, Hob. XVI: 29 * Sonata No. 16 in D Major, Hob. XVI: 14 * Sonata...

NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - From the bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel's Messiah. "A work of...

Romantic Anatomies of Performance is concerned with the very matter of musical expression: the hands and voices of virtuosic musicians. Rubini, Chopin, Nourrit, Liszt, Donzelli, Thalberg, Velluti, Sontag, and Malibran were prominent celebrity pianists and singers who plied their trade between London and Paris,...

(Schirmer Performance Editions). Composed as a sequel to the 25 Progressive Studies, Op. 100, the exquisite miniatures that comprise Opus 109 possess a timeless value for teachers, students, audiences alike.Author: Johann Friedrich BurgmullerISBN-10: 1423458133ISBN-13: 9781423458135Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2009Pages: 52Format: OtherWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 11.70h...

Author: Francis Knights, Pablo PadillaISBN-10: 1912271990ISBN-13: 9781912271993Publisher: Peacock PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/19/2025Pages: 238Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.65d

The first book in the English language to engage with Prokofiev's operatic output in its entirety. The operas of Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) mark a significant contribution to twentieth-century music and theatre. Opera was Prokofiev's preferred genre; not counting juvenile and unfinished works, he wrote...

(Guitar Solo). 15 Beethoven masterpieces arranged for solo guitar in standard notation & tab. Includes: Bagatelle, Op. 119, No. 1 * Fur Elise * Minuet in G Major * Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# Minor ("Moonlight") Op. 27 No. 2 First Movement Theme...

Originally written as the finale of Beethoven's 13th Quartet (Op. 130), the Grosse Fuge was later published as a separate work following the poor reception of that quartet by the public. In its current form, the Grosse Fuge (Op. 134), has become much loved...

Rhapsodie is a book written by William Henry Ireland and published in 1803. It is a collection of poems that are inspired by the author's travels and experiences in Europe. The book is divided into three parts, each focusing on a different theme. The...

This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.Author: Albert E. BrumleyISBN-10: 1258833654ISBN-13: 9781258833657Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 132Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

This collection of concerti grossi by the Baroque-era composer Arcangelo Corelli is widely regarded as a masterpiece of the genre. The pieces are arranged in six parts and feature virtuosic violin solos set against rich harmonies and lively rhythms. This edition includes commentary by...

(Piano Collection). Contents: JS BACH: Prelude In E Minor, BWV 938 * Prelude In C Major, BWV 939 * Prelude In D Minor, BWV 899 * Fughetta In D Minor, BWV 899 * Prelude In E Minor, BWV 900 * Fughetta In E Minor,...

(Schott). for Flute and Basso Continuo (Piano/Harpsichord), with Violoncello (Viola da gamba) ad lib.Author: Carl Philipp Emanuel BachISBN-10: 3795795168ISBN-13: 9783795795160Publisher: SchottLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/1985Pages: 12Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.70w x 0.50d

The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC. Held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London and across the UK, it is one of the strongest brand...

History's first named bagpiper is a man playing a pipe "with a bag tucked under his armpit" in the first century CE. He was the Roman Emperor Nero. Since then, this improbable conflation of bag and sticks has become the world's most beloved and...