Music-Genres & Styles-Classical

Beethoven's quartets show a technical mastery, depth of thought, and intensity of musical inspiration unsurpassed by any other composer. This brilliant survey, by one of America's leading musical scholars, has already achieved classic status.Author: Joseph KermanISBN-10: 0393009092ISBN-13: 9780393009095Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 1423400461ISBN-13: 9781423400462Publisher: Editio Musica BudapestLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2005Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 11.80h x 9.00w x 0.50d

(PWM). The most famous and popular edition of Chopin's works prepared by I. J. Paderewski, L. Bronarski and J. Turczynski. The edition has been based primarily on Chopin's autograph manuscripts, copies approved by him and first editions. The principal aim of the Editorial Committee...

Celebrate Ludwig van Beethoven's 250th birthday with an anthology of comics inspired by the maestro's life and music. Fantasy and History. Fables and Ghost Stories. Adventure and Romance. This tome of tales is written by Brandon Montclare and Frank Marraffino and features a dozen...

Sounds Beyond charts the origins of Arvo P舐t's most famous music, which was created in dialogue with underground creative circles in the USSR. In Sounds Beyond, Kevin C. Karnes studies the interconnected alternative music and art scenes in the USSR during the second half...

(Music Sales America). The vocal score for this classic work, with Latin and English text, edited and arranged for SSA and piano by Desmond Ratcliffe.Author: Gabriel FaureISBN-10: 0853603006ISBN-13: 9780853603009Publisher: Novello & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2004Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.50h x 6.40w x 0.20d

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...

(Faber Piano Adventures ). Includes the easier sonatas of Beethoven, Mozart, and Haydn. Contents include: Sonatina Op. 36, Nos. 4 & 6 (Clementi) * Sonatina Op. 54 No. 1 (Gurlitt) * Sonatina (Keller) * Sonatina Op. 88 Nos. 1 & 3 (Kuhlau) * Sonata...

The piano music of Maurice Ravel is among the most thrilling, the most colorful, and, for pianists, the most challenging of the repertoire. This book is about how performers and listeners can discover it and relate to it - how it sounds and feels...

(E-Z Play Today). A unique collection of classical melodies, movie themes and enduring popular songs are featured in this collection, all in our famous E-Z Play Today notation. Includes 75 songs: And So It Goes * Be My Love * Clair de Lune *...

(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). "Appalachian Spring" was composed in 1943-44 as a ballet for Miss Martha Graham on a commission from the Elisabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation. It was first performed by Miss Graham and her company at the Coolidge Festival in the Library of...

(Piano Solo Songbook). 15 Disney favorites arranged for classical piano: Beauty and the Beast * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Chim Chim Cher-ee * Colors of the Wind * A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes * God Help the Outcasts...

In Leningrad: Siege and Symphony, Brian Moynahan sets the composition of Shostakovich's most famous work-his seventh symphony- against the tragic canvas of the siege itself and the years of repression and terror that preceded it. Using a wealth of new material, Moynahan tells the...

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...

Author: Niccolo PaganiniISBN-10: 0793559308ISBN-13: 9780793559305Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 10.30h x 8.80w x 0.30d

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...

(Piano Collection). Contents: 3 Nocturnes, Op. 9 * 3 Nocturnes, Op. 15 * 2 Nocturnes, Op. 27 * 2 Nocturnes, Op. 32 * 2 Nocturnes Op. 37 * 2 Nocturnes, Op. 48 * 2 Nocturnes, Op. 55 * 2 Nocturnes, Op. 62 * Nocturne...

(String Method). For unaccompanied violin.Author: J. TrottISBN-10: 0793525993ISBN-13: 9780793525997Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.80w x 0.20d

(Piano Collection). Contents: The Adieu * Agitation * Boat-Song * The Brook * Confidence * Consolation (Still, Still With Thee) * Contemplation * Delirium * The Departure * Duet, Op. 38, No. 6 * Elegy * The Evening Star * Faith * The Fleecy...

(Guitar Method). The Hal Leonard Classical Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play classical guitar. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide by renowned classical guitarist and teacher Paul Henry uses the music of the master composers to teach you the basics...

(Vocal Collection). This series of 5 book/audio packs is an introduction to art song in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Each volume has a different song list, and includes 30 selections in appropriate keys. Beyond art song, each collection includes two carefully chosen...

(Vocal Collection). With 45 songs by 22 composers, this is the most comprehensive single volume of art songs composed by women ever published. It includes biographical information about the composers and historical information about each song, with songs in English, French, German and Italian....

Author: P. MascagniISBN-10: 0634071963ISBN-13: 9780634071966Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 316Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 10.80h x 7.90w x 0.80d

(Piano Collection). Contents: French Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV 812-817Author: Johann Sebastian BachISBN-10: 0634069993ISBN-13: 9780634069994Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 60Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.70w x 0.20d

According to Bach's first biography, the Goldbergs were written for one of the composer's most talented pupils, who used them to entertain and soothe his insomniac master during bouts of sleeplessness. Subsequent historians have had their doubts about the story's authenticity, but the composer...

This new gathering of the world's greatest classical themes follows Bergerac's highly successful My First Book of Classical Music. Here are ever-popular themes from the symphonies, concertos, and operas of such masters as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Mozart, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, and many others,...

Inspired by the richness of Eastern folk music, Mily Balakirev composed the oriental fantasy Islamey in 1869. Based on themes from Armenia and the Caucasus region, this scintillating work is known worldwide as a supreme example of virtuoso piano writing at its best.Other favorite...

Vivaldi's violin concertos called The Four Seasons are among the best-known and most-loved collections of string music. Their programmatic nature, based on the lines of sonnets printed along with the music, brings seasonal sights and sounds readily and delightfully to the ear: the bird...

In his Fifth Symphony, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) moved on from the song-oriented works of his "Wunderhorn" period to take up the challenges of the purely instrumental symphony. It was a move that brought to the fore the Austrian composer's genius for discovering fresh and...

The Requiem was not only one of Mozart's most inspired works, it was one of his last. It was commissioned in the summer of 1791 to memorialize the deceased wife of Count Walsegg-Stuppach, an amateur musician who was in the habit of ordering works...

Style -- the distinctive manner of presentation, construction, and execution in any art -- is a topic of primary importance in music history. This highly regarded text by noted musicologist Richard Crocker (University of California, Berkeley) takes a much-needed fresh look at the subject...

Few composers have achieved the widespread and lasting popularity of Antonin Dvoř疚. He was a master of instrumentation and symphonic form, composing a total of nine symphonies. His most celebrated work, Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" (composed during Dvoř疚's three-year stay in...

It is of great importance, Bart k wrote, that anyone who is involved with music should be able to obtain composers'] works in editions which interpret precisely the author's intentions, not of such kind that may have been arbitrarily modified or forged by some...

The piano sonatas of Franz Schubert are characterized by the supremely lyrical greatness that distinguishes all of this composer's work. The unfailing melody, the fresh modulations, and the emotional range -- from blissful contentment to pensive melancholy -- of these works place them firmly...

A snakeful of critical venom aimed at the composers and the classics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. Who wrote advanced cat music? What commonplace theme is very much like Yankee Doodle? Which composer is a scoundrel and a giftless bastard? What opera would His...

Author: Gioachino RossiniISBN-10: 8875927812ISBN-13: 9788875927813Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2007Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.66lbsSize: 10.42h x 8.05w x 0.68d

(Piano Collection). 12 famous pieces Contents: Adieu to the Piano, Anh. 15 * Bagatelle in A minor "Fur Elise," WoO 59 * Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 13 "Pathetique" * Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Moonlight" * Piano Sonata...

(Easy Piano Songbook). Play 50 of your favorite songs in the easiest of arrangements Enjoy pop hits, Broadway showstoppers, movie themes, jazz standards, folk tunes, and classical melodies presented simply, with lyrics. You'll find something for everyone Songs include: Beyond the Sea * Castle...

(Schirmer Performance Editions). Kabalevsky's pedagogical works develop real musical culture in children. These unique and inventive works of piano literature for the early intermediate student have earned their place as perennial favorites among teachers.Author: Dmitri KabalevskyISBN-10: 1423458109ISBN-13: 9781423458104Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2012Pages: 88Format:...

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...

(Piano Collection). Contents: Kuhlau: Sonatinas Op. 20 (No. 1 in C, No. 2 in G, No. 3 in F), Sonatinas Op. 55 (No. 1 in C, No. 2 in G, No. 3 in C) * Clementi: Sonatinas Op. 36 (No. 1 in C, No....

(Vocal Collection). Contents: Handel: V'adoro pupille (Giulio Cesare) Mozart: Porgi, amor (Le Nozze di Figaro) * Dove sono (Le Nozze Figaro) * Deh vieni, non tardar (Le Nozze di Figaro) * Bester Jungling (Der Schauspieldirektor) * Batti, batti, bel Masetto (Don Giovanni) * Vedrai...

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional fixed form, observed Claude Debussy, adding, it is made up of colors and rhythms. Although the composer disliked the label of Impressionism, his...

Prokofiev's first symphony, which he mischievously dubbed Classical, is a sprightly piece based on the symphonic models of Haydn. I thought that if Haydn were alive today he would compose just as he did before, but at the same time would include something new...

Chopin's piano works are of such uniformly high quality that they are all absolutely essential in the repertoire of any aspiring pianist. The Preludes and Etudes are exquisitely beautiful examples of his genius. Numbering 52 pieces in all, they are reproduced here from the...

An illuminating investigation into the interdisciplinary impact of the beloved modern classical composer. Few composers have enjoyed such critical acclaim--or longevity--as Jean Sibelius, who died in 1957 aged ninety-one. Always more than simply a Finnish national figure, an "apparition from the woods" as he...

This virtuosic piece, commonly known as one of the most difficult in piano repertoire, was written by Franz Liszt in 1838. It is based on the last movement of Paganini's second violin concerto. Liszt was a great fan of Paganini and after hearing one...

Bizet's Carmen Uncovered exposes the myths and stereotypes that so often surround this much loved opera by exploring its first staging, and the particularly Spanish contexts in which the opera was conceived, written, and staged. What were the forces that brought Carmen to the...

Studying the exercises in Hanon's The Virtuoso Pianist is a rite of passage for serious piano players--and it has been for over 100 years. A staple of conservatory curricula around the world, the thorough technical training offered by this book is unmatched by any...

(Vocal Collection). Both published keys are combined, especially for teacher reference, in this convenient, value priced collection. Contents: Alma Del Core * Amarilli, Mia Bella * Caro mio ben * Che Fiero Costume * Comme Raggio di Sol * Danza, Danza, Fanciulla Gentile *...