Music-Genres & Styles-Classical

(Piano Collection). This collection brings together Tchaikovsky's most popular piano cycles and suites ine one convenient and affordable collection. Includes Album for the Young, The Seasons, The Nutcracker and other works. Intermediate and early advanced players alike will enjoy these well known tunes that...

(Ensemble Collection). This classic series of duets for like instruments is recognizable to nearly everyone who has ever studied an instrument. The wealth of material supplements musical development and provides a rich experience for growing musicians. Duet playing is often a student's first form...

(Guitar Method). This premier method for the beginning classical guitarist, by one of the world's pre-eminent virtuosos and the recognized heir to the legacy of Andres Segovia, is now available with online audio Guitarists will learn basic classical technique by playing over 50 beautiful...

(Easy Piano Personality). 22 classical melodies performed by Richard Clayderman. Songs include: Ave Maria * Brahm's Lullaby * Fur Elise * Ode To Joy * and more.Author: Richard ClaydermanISBN-10: 1423422457ISBN-13: 9781423422457Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1989Pages: 64Format: OtherWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 11.90h x 8.96w x...

(String Solo). Corrected, revised edition, incorporating newly discovered details from Barber's personal conducting copy. Includes extensive historical preface.Author: Samuel BarberISBN-10: 0793554586ISBN-13: 9780793554584Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.80w x 0.30d

(Vocal Collection). Contents: Purcell: When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas) Gluck: Che faro senza Euridice? (Orfeo ed Euridice) Mozart: Non so piu (Le Nozze di Figaro) * Voi, che sapete (Le Nozze di Figaro) * Smanie implacabili (Cosi fan tutte) Rossini:...

Author: N. VaccaiISBN-10: 079355120XISBN-13: 9780793551200Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 11.44h x 7.92w x 0.18d

(Piano Collection). Contains Piano Sonatas 1-18Author: Ludwig Van BeethovenISBN-10: 0793525934ISBN-13: 9780793525935Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.49lbsSize: 11.94h x 8.94w x 0.84d

(Vocal Collection). The G. Schirmer Opera Anthology series revolutionized opera aria study after its release in 1991. There are so many wonderful soprano arias that a second volume was warranted. The music is predominantly for lyric soprano. As in the original volumes, these are...

Author: Giacomo PucciniISBN-10: 0634072129ISBN-13: 9780634072123Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 363Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.45lbsSize: 10.60h x 8.10w x 1.10d

(Piano Large Works). Contents: BACH: Preludes and Fugues, BWV 870-893Author: Johann Sebastian BachISBN-10: 0634069926ISBN-13: 9780634069925Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 11.90h x 8.90w x 0.35d

(Piano Solo Personality). Fantasies & Delusions is the next chapter in Billy Joel's life-long love affair with the piano. Before the world-renowned "Piano Man" ever discovered pop, he grew up studying classical piano, already feeling the influences of Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann and...

Like his predecessor Chopin, Debussy discovered new possibilities and refinements in the art of playing and composing for the piano. His compositions and transcriptions for piano four hands are among his most inventive and interesting works. This volume contains Marche Ecossaise, written specifically for...

One of the most respected and referenced books of its kind, this authoritative volume covers not only violins but other bowed instruments. It ranges from the earliest makers of stringed instruments -- Greek, Roman, and Egyptian -- to the latter-day masters of French, Italian,...

Versatile and prolific, Camille Saint-Sa ns (1835-1921) was a brilliant craftsman who contributed to every genre of French music. Two of his enduringly popular works for violin and orchestra appear in this affordable volume, which will be welcomed by performers, conductors, and students alike.Danse...

Widely regarded as the crowning achievement of his career, Mahler's Symphony No. 8 received overwhelming recognition at its first performance, conducted by the composer in Munich on September 12, 1910.A massive, complex work that integrates on a truly grand scale the musical ideas, forms,...

Original compilation of the composer's most popular, most mature piano works, including Witches Dance, Op. 5, No. 1; Four Fleeting Pieces, Op. 15; Three Preludes and Fugues, Op. 16; Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 20; Romance, Op. 11, No. 2; and...

These two serenades reflect Brahms's interest, during the years 1858 and 1859, in the symphonies of Haydn and Mozart, as well as the latter's exquisite divertimenti, scored for small instrumental ensembles. Serenade No. 1 in D major was in fact originally composed for nine...

The crowning glory of Bach's achievements in sacred music, the Mass in B Minor represents a powerful statement of Christian faith. Composed over more than two decades, this unprecedented work pairs deliberately archaic polyphonic sections with far-sighted modern ones, creating a vast, symmetrical plan...

This treasury of 33 works features all eight of the Humoresques, Op. 101, including the immensely popular No. 7 in G-flat Major; all 12 of the Silhouettes, Op. 8; four Slavonic Dances arranged for solo piano; four Poetic Tone Pictures; and five lively concert...

Charles Gounod's interpretation is the best-known and most frequently performed of any stage or orchestral treatment of the Faust legend. Long a staple of the operatic repertoire, Faust was a major success upon its first fully realized performance at Milan's La Scala in 1862....

"Mahler inherited the romantic conception of music as an expression of a quest for spiritual reality ... he expressed a four-sided conflict between a devouring love of life, a spiritual need, a skeptical intellect, and an existential dread of ultimate meaninglessness." -- Encyclopaedia Britannica.In...

Beethoven's sixteen string quartets are some of the most extraordinary and challenging pieces of music ever written. Originally composed and performed between 1798 and 1826, they have inspired artists of all kinds--not only musicians--and have been subject to endless reinterpretation. But what is it...

A fascinating journey into global politics that made classical music a proxy for power, inadvertently creating the "sound of Hollywood," and excluding hundreds of composers "[Mauceri's] writing is more exhilarating than any helicopter ride we have been on."--Air Mail "Fluently written and often cogent."--Barton...

Specially arranged and simplified, this updated and expanded collection of Beethoven works for beginner pianists will delight students and teachers alike. They include such popular melodies as "F? Elise," "Ode to Joy," and the opening of the "Moonlight Sonata," along with excerpts from many...

(Music Sales America). The compositions in Easy Piano Pieces for Children have all been carefully selected for the beginner pianist. Over 100 selections in this songbook are progressively graded, with editorial markings and suggested fingering, allowing beginner children to learn with specially selected songs...

(Vocal Score). Opera in 5 acts, libretto in French by Eugene Scribe, premiered at the Paris Opera in 1843. Includes extensive historical articles and critical notes.Author: Gaetano DonizettiISBN-10: 8875927510ISBN-13: 9788875927516Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2006Pages: 448Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.80lbsSize: 10.60h x 7.90w x 1.20d

(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). 25 tangos by the revolutionary tango musician and composer Astor Piazzolla, arranged for violin 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). All major and minor scales (melodic and harmonic) along with selected elementary to intermediate exercises by Berens, Czerny, Hanon, Plaidy, Schmitt and Wieck. Contents: Berens: Training for the Left Hand, Op. 89, Book 1 * Czerny: Practical Finger Exercises, Op. 802, Book...

(EMB). Liszt Separate Editions are published with scholarly authenticity and are based on the New Liszt Edition. Their musical scores and presentation correspond to the complete edition, yet their extent is far smaller and they cost much less than the larger volumes of the...

(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). This landmark publication includes 61 songs, combining the contents of the seven published books of Britten folksong arrangements in High and Low Voice editions. Some of the songs have never before been transposed. The songs of Volume 6, for voice...

(Vocal Score). Text in Italian only. Preface in Italian, English, German, and French.Author: Giuseppe VerdiISBN-10: 0793584817ISBN-13: 9780793584819Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 356Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.15lbsSize: 10.50h x 7.80w x 0.90d

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:...