Music-Genres & Styles-Classical

The nine symphonies composed by Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) constitute landmarks of the Austro-Germanic symphonic tradition. These staples of the orchestral literature possess a grandeur, nobility of vision, and originality that have survived despite extensive revision and unauthorized editing by other musicians. Moreover, the original...

Ambitious in scale, highly original in both content and design, these popular works exhibit Brahms's mastery of the concerto and his role as heir to the classical tradition of Mozart and Beethoven. Both works are marked by drama, elegance, rich orchestral textures, and virtuoso...

The late 19th and early 20th centuries have been called the golden age of Spanish piano music -- a rebirth of fervent nationalism that ushered in a true keyboard renaissance. Brought to national awareness by the four most important composers of their generation --...

Mozart was commissioned to write La Clemenza di Tito for the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II as King of Bohemia. Working with libretto by Metastasio, he based the plot on incidents in the life of the Roman emperor Titus and composed...

From his earliest years. Mozart played piano duets with his sister, and as his musical career progressed he created a small repertoire of masterly four-hand piano compositions that are among the most admired and performed in this distinctive genre.This Dover edition presents six of...

The concepts of theorist Heinrich Schenker offer a unique method of structural analysis that differentiates between harmonic and contrapuntal functions of chords, emphasizing the relative significance of all tones in terms of motion and direction in the achievement of organic tonal unity.These sketches study...

What if Bach and Mozart heard richer, more dramatic chords than we hear in music today? What sonorities and moods have we lost in playing music in "equal temperament"--the equal division of the octave into twelve notes that has become our standard tuning method?...

If everybody were to play first violin, we could not have an orchestra. Therefore respect each musician in his own place. There is no end to learning. Originally published in1850, Advice to Young Musicians: Musical Rules for Home and in Life offered composer Robert...

(Editions Durand). For Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Piano.Author: Olivier MessiaenISBN-10: 1423438841ISBN-13: 9781423438847Publisher: Durand PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2001Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 10.40h x 6.80w x 0.30d

(Piano). The two volumes of Kirkpatrick's classic edition in Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics have been combined in one convenient and affordable volume. Contents: SONATAS BY K. NUMBER: 3, 7, 16, 18, 28, 29, 44, 46, 54, 57, 84, 52, 96, 105, 115, 116,...

(Piano). Mozart's 'Variations for Piano' are like a diary of his entire creative life. From K.24 of the nine-year old to K.613 composed only a few months prior to his death, these variations reveal ideas and traits that have come to be known as...

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...

(Music Sales America). Featuring works from 19 of the world's leading composers, Easy Contemporary Pieces reflects the tremendous variety of styles prevalent in contemporary music. These enjoyable pieces have been selected to be accessible to both the performer and the listener. The 29 contemporary...

(Faber Piano Adventures ). This collection of 21 authentic keyboard works represents the major periods of music - from Baroque to Contemporary - and serves as an excellent introduction to classical keyboard literature. Demo audio tracks are accessed online. Contents: VON DER HOFE: Canario...

Johann Joachim Quantz's On Playing Flute has long been recognized as one of the most significant and in-depth treatises on eighteenth-century musical thought, performance practice, and style. This classic text of Baroque music instruction goes far beyond an introduction to flute methods by offering...

(Piano). Study edition with commentary in English by Alfred Cortot.Author: Frederic ChopinISBN-10: 1495000737ISBN-13: 9781495000737Publisher: Editions SalabertLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2014Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 11.90h x 9.10w x 0.60d

(Schirmer Performance Editions). Kabalevsky's pedagogical works develop real musical culture in children. This volume contains both the easier pieces from opus 39 and the intermediate pieces from opus 27 into one convenient and value-priced edition.Author: Dmitri KabalevskyISBN-10: 1480340677ISBN-13: 9781480340671Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2013Pages:...

(Vocal Collection). Each package includes over 90 songs, all at the same level of difficulty, conveniently and affordably priced for teacher reference. "Complete" pack would retail for $44.97 if components were purchased separately.Author: Joan Frey BoytimISBN-10: 1480333212ISBN-13: 9781480333215Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2013Pages: 406Format:...

(Piano Collection). Combines English Suites Book 1 and 2 with the French Suites in a convenient, value-priced edition. Contents: English Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV 806-811 * French Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV 812-817Author: Johann Sebastian BachISBN-10: 1458421252ISBN-13: 9781458421258Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2012Pages: 174Format: PaperbackWeight:...

(String Method). New complete edition combines books 1 and 2 into one value-priced edition.Author: Jean-Louis DuportISBN-10: 1458421074ISBN-13: 9781458421074Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2012Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.60w x 0.60d

(Piano Collection). This affordable and convenient collection features sonatas, variations, sonatinas, bagatelles, and more from one of the most revered composers of all time. Contents: Sonata in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1 * Sonata in C minor, Op. 10, No. 1 * Sonata...

(BH Piano). Available for the first time in one volume, this collection features 14 piano pieces by Igor Stravinsky. It includes easier works for the intermediate pianist and concert works for the seasoned performer. Contents: Chant du Rossignol * Chorus from the Prologue to...

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...

(Vocal Score). Italian Only Cloth Score.Author: Gaetano DonizettiISBN-10: 0634072056ISBN-13: 9780634072055Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1987Pages: 280Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 10.60h x 8.20w x 0.90d

Inspired by Richard Dehmel's poem Verkl舐te Nacht (Transfigured Night), this 1899 work for string sextet is very much in the late-Romantic tradition. Schoenberg deftly translates the poem's pathos into a monumental work of chamber music.The work is reproduced here from an authoritative edition, complete...

The music of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) continues to enjoy great popularity around the world. Indeed, the title piece of this collection is one of the most widely performed and recorded compositions in the modern era. Now the complete score of the...

A contemporary of Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, and Telemann, Jean-Phillipe Rameau (1683-1764) was a notable theorist and innovator and the preeminent French composer of his day. The depth and power that characterize his music are in ample evidence in this volume of all 63 of...

Josef Hofmann (1876-1957) was a master of piano technique and an artist who had few equals at the keyboard. A student of Anton Rubinstein and a leading exponent of the works of Chopin, Liszt, and Schumann, he always balanced his virtuoso playing with a...

September 12, 1910: The world premiere of Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony and the artistic breakthrough for which the composer had yearned all his life. Munich's new Musik Festhalle was filled to capacity on two successive evenings for the performances, which were received with rapturous...

Composed in 1906-1908 to a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Elektra scandalized audiences of the day with its horrific retelling of the Greek story and its startling level of dissonance. Today, with the shock of the new worn off and the once-fearful dissonance now...

Throughout history, few musical crazes have hit with such impact, had such a heyday and lingered so hauntingly as ragtime. Ragtime arrived on the upswing of Tin Pan Alley, when the popularity of pianos in the home was reaching its peak and an endless...

(Instrumental Folio). This huge collection offers instrumentalists the chance to play 101 classical themes, including: Ave Maria * Bist du bei mir (You Are with Me) * Canon in D * Clair de Lune * Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy * 1812 Overture...

(Guitar Solo). Bring the world of classical music to guitarists of all levels This collection features classical guitar technical studies from Sor, Tarrega, Guiliani, Carcassi, and Aguado, as well as presenting fresh guitar arrangements of well-known classical masterpieces. Repertoire compositions are included from the...

(Instrumental Folio). This huge collection offers instrumentalists the chance to play 101 classical themes, including: Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod & Schubert) * Bist du bei mir (You Are with Me) (Stozel) * Canon in D (Pachelbel) * Clair de Lune (Debussy) * Dance of the...

(Vocal Collection). The world's most trusted source for authentic editions of theatre music for singers has expanded with yet another volume. Many of the songs are found in no other collections. The 40 songs in each volume are in the original keys, excerpted from...

These special arrangements offer beginning pianists the pleasure and satisfaction of playing Bach. Students of all ages will delight in these easy, pedagogical piano arrangements of familiar melodies such as "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," "Sheep May Safely Graze," and the haunting opening from...

Faced with decades of shifting styles and music trends that characterized the early decades of the twentieth centuries, Nikolai Medtner remained faithful to the classical masters' roots. This two-volume series of Medtner's complete sonatas includes a Preface by Eugene Istomin, Performance Notes by Geoffrey...

One of the most delightful facets of his particular talent is seen in the Fantasies. . . . These Rococo miniatures have a lively opening section with light and clear-textured writing, a brief slow section in homophonic style, and then a return to the...

The tone poems of Richard Strauss rank with the finest orchestral compositions ever created. This volume conveniently brings together for the first time three of these major works, reproduced from complete and authentic first editions. Never before have these important works been available in...

(Piano Collection). The most Bach for your buck available This gigantic 648 page comb-bound volume from the prestigious Schirmer Library of Musical Classics includes the complete Inventions, Sinfonias, English Suites, French Suites, Goldberg Variations, Partitas 1-3, The Well-Tempered Clavier Books 1 and 2, Chromatic...

(Piano). Inspired by a visit to the pavilion of exotic music at the 1889 Universal Exhibition, these seven piano pieces are simple, pretty ruminations. The seventh gnossienne is little-known, and published here with the other six for the first time.Author: Erik SatieISBN-10: 1476899975ISBN-13: 9781476899978Publisher:...

(Vocal Collection). The world's most trusted source for authentic editions of theatre music for singers has expanded with yet another volume. Many of the songs are found in no other collections. The 40 songs in each volume are in the original keys, excerpted from...

(String). The Wohlfahrt Op. 45 Studies are a mainstay of violin study. Book 1 (50256580) and Book 2 (50256590) are bestsellers in the Schirmer Library. The entire set, Books 1 and 2 combined, is available in this new complete publication.Author: Franz WohlfahrtISBN-10: 0634074032ISBN-13: 9780634074035Publisher:...

Despite his vast output (105 masses, over 250 motets), Giovanni de Palestrina (c. 1525-1594) maintained an extraordinary level of quality in his music. With Byrd and Lassus, he ranks among the greatest composers of the last sixteenth century and a study of his work...

(Schott). Carl Orff devoted much of his life to music for children. His pioneering work continues under the guidance of teachers and educators in many countries. The five basic German volumes of "Music for Children" by Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman were published between...

(Piano Collection). 12 well-known pieces, including the most often played Sonatas, Rondo in D Major K. 485, Sonatina in C Major, and Twelve Variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman." Contents: Rondo in D Major, K. 485 * Piano Sonata in F Major, K. 332...

(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). Finzi's Five Bagatelles are a staple of the clarinet literature, appearing on several contest solo lists in the United States. This edition features newly engraved music, a Finzi biography, and notes on his music. Includes access to online audio...

(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). 25 tangos by the revolutionary tango musician and composer Astor Piazzolla, arranged for cello and piano. These crowd-pleasing tangos borrow from classical, jazz, and Latin traditions. Includes Piazzolla's most famous tangos "Libertango" and "Oblivion." Appropriate for the intermediate to...

(Piano Collection). 78 pieces of great Russian piano music by Kabalevsky, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, and Tchaikovsky. Contents: KABALEVSKY: Clowns, Op. 39, No. 20 * Sonata No. 3, Op. 46 * MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition * PROKOFIEV: Prelude, Op. 12, No. 7 *...

(String Solo). Contains the Complete Sonatas and Partitas (BWV 1001-1006) * Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 * Concerto in E Major, BWV 1042 * Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 (second violin part included) * Concerto in G minor, BWV...