Music-Genres & Styles-Classical

In this new biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, Klaus Eidam brings the icon of Baroque music into focus as never before.Author: Klaus Eidam, Hoyt RogersISBN-10: 0465018610ISBN-13: 9780465018611Publisher: Basic BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/05/2001Pages: 432Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.71lbsSize: 9.49h x 6.44w x 1.30dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 07/09/2001 pg....

A major new biography published for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, offering a fresh, human portrayal "Illuminating. . . . Tunbridge's pithy A Life in Nine Pieces is different and welcome: a biography presented through the focus of nine different compositions."--Fiona Maddocks, The...

Veteran music critic David Hurwitz provides an accessible, comprehensive, and fresh survey of Beethoven's symphonies, overtures, concertos, theatrical music, his single ballet and other music for the dance, and several short pieces worth getting to know.Beethoven's orchestral works include some of the most iconic...

(Singer's Jazz Anthology). The Singer's Jazz Anthology is an exciting new series providing aspiring jazz vocalists and pianists with staples of the jazz repertoire. The singer's portion, matching the original sheet music, is paired with fresh, unique accompaniments arranged in an authentic jazz style...

(Schott). This volume builds on the progress achieved by following the outlines and good practice established in Book 1. Exercises are progressive and structured to increase the pupil's awareness of new rhythms, keys and range of notes. Changes of hand position are introduced gradually,...

(Guitar). Written in both standard notation and tablature, this book contains 50 classics from the Irish folk repertoire, arranged and compiled by Jerry Willard. The enclosed download card gives you instant online access to full demonstration performances by the author. Songs include: Saint Patrick's...

(Piano Solo Songbook). By popular demand, here are more Disney songs expertly arranged by Phillip Keveren within a classical context. Includes: Be Our Guest * Bella Notte * Feed the Birds * Heigh-Ho * Love Is a Song * Part of Your World *...

(Faber Piano Adventures ). An ideal introduction to the easiest keyboard sonatinas. Contents include: Sonatina in C 1st mvt (Gurlitt) * Sonatina in C (Duncombe) * Sonatina Op. 57 No. 1 (Biehl) * Sonatina in D (Saliutrinskaya) * Sonatina in C (Biehl) * Sonatina...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) has to be the most rewarding, expressive, and entertaining of all the composers whose work fell into obscurity in the years following his death. He was overshadowed both by the rediscovery of his father, Johann Sebastian, and by the...

(Guitar Solo). Featuring some of the world's most beautiful classical pieces by Bach, Beethoven, Bizet, Dvorak, Greig, Mozart, Puccini, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, and more, this 32-piece collection also includes traditional guitar repertoire by Albeniz and Tarrega. Like the highly acclaimed Classical Guitar Compendium (HL...

(Schirmer Performance Editions). The more advanced of Czerny's best-known exercises, this set emphasizes the development of rapid passage work for both hands. Includes historical and performance notes, as well as easy-to-read new music engraving. Schirmer Performance Editions are designed for piano students and their...

(PWM). Chopin wrote works for piano and orchestra between 1827 and 1832. These include Variations on "La ci darem la mano" from Don Giovanni in B-flat Major, Op. 2; Fantasia on Polish Airs in A Major, Op. 13; and Krakowiak in F Major, Op....

(Bass). All six of J.S. Bach's essential suites for unaccompanied cello are arranged here for bass guitar in standard notation and tablature. Includes: Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 * Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008 * Suite No. 3...

(Vocal Collection). We proudly present these convenient new value packages! Each package includes over 90 songs, all at the same level of difficulty, conveniently and affordably priced for teacher reference. Each "complete" pack would retail for $44.97 if components were purchased separately.Author: Joan Frey...

(Vocal Score). Italian only, with an introductory plot synopsis in English.Author: Gaetano DonizettiISBN-10: 1480304719ISBN-13: 9781480304710Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2006Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 10.50h x 7.90w x 0.70d

(Ukulele). 15 solo ukulele arrangements in standard notes and tab of J.S. Bach works: Arioso * Be Thou with Me * Bourree * Chorale in C Major, BWV 514 * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring * Little Prelude No. 2 in C Major *...

(Piano Solo). Contents: Adagio * Barrel Organ Polka * Barrel Organ Waltz * Country Dance * Dance * Festival Waltz * Gavotte * A Little Piece * Lullaby * Lyrical Waltz * Melancholy Ditty * Nocturne * Polka * Polka (Pno Duet) * Romance...

(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). Revised edition based on manuscript sources. Newly engraved and edited. Includes a Bernstein biography as well as historical and performance notes. "Every so often a new edition of a classical work is released that because of a special feature...

(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). HPS 1178Author: Leonard BernsteinISBN-10: 1423440668ISBN-13: 9781423440666Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2004Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 11.66h x 9.06w x 0.38d

(BH Piano). A broad selection of piano works by Aaron Copland, conveniently published in a single volume. Contents: The Cat and the Mouse * Down a Country Lane * Four Piano Blues * In Evening Air * Midsummer Nocturne * Night Thoughts * Passacaglia...

(Piano Collection). This volume collects 19 sonatinas at an intermediate level similar to Clementi sonatinas. Contents: Sonatina in C Major, Op. 20, No. 1 * Sonatina in G Major, Op. 20, No. 2 * Sonatina in F Major, Op. 20, No. 3 * Sonatina...

(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). This unique compilation is a wonderful, substantial sampling of art song in the English language, with composers from both sides of the Atlantic. The publication includes many first-time transpositions, as the song list is the same for the High Voice...

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...

A world-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet here in Words Without Music, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice, that of a born storyteller and an acutely...

String SoloFor unaccompanied cello.Author: Johann Sebastian BachISBN-10: 0793554489ISBN-13: 9780793554485Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 11.70h x 3.70w x 0.30d

(Piano Collection). New G. Schirmer Library editions of these well-known Rachmaninoff pieces for piano. Contents: Op. 33: Nos. 1-6 * Op. 39: Nos. 1-9Author: Sergei RachmaninoffISBN-10: 0793545188ISBN-13: 9780793545186Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1996Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.90w x 0.30d

(Music Sales America). Edited by Philip Jones & Elgar Howarth. The Just Brass series is regarded by brass players worldwide as the most important brass ensemble series available. There are more than 100 titles subdivided into Just Brass (mainstream), Junior Just Brass, Just Brass...

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: Sonata, Op. 49, No. 1 * Sonata, Op. 53 * Sonata, Op. 57 * Sonata, Op. 31, No. 3 * Sonata, Op. 49, No. 2 * Sonata, Op. 79 * Sonata in A Flat, Op. 110 * Sonata in C Minor,...

Created at the peak of the Enlightenment, Mozart's divine and enduring milestone of opera is both a lighthearted fairy tale and an epic story of the struggle between good and evil. The Magic Flute met instant acclaim at its 1791 premiere, and it remains...

Uniquely complex in both form and structure, this work by J. S. Bach is regarded as a pinnacle of Western music. No composer possessed a greater understanding of the workings of counterpoint than Bach. In The Art of the Fugue, he summarizes counterpoint's entire...

Ravel was known as a musical master craftsman, and some of his most exquisitely crafted music can be found in his chamber works, including the celebrated Piano Trio of 1914. It appears here with the remarkable Mallarm Poems (1913), which show Ravel at his...

One of the best-loved pianist-composers of our time, Serge Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) was the last great representative of Russian Romanticism. His music, like Tchaikovsky's, is often melancholy, with a particularly broad, rhapsodic sweep to its melodic line. With its memorable themes, lush harmonies, and captivating...

In Tchaikovsky's symphonic output, his Symphony No. 4 was a pivotal work. It announced the composer as a major symphonist of his time, overshadowing his previous, less-than-distinguished efforts in this form, and opened the way to his last, major, works: the haunting Fifth Symphony...

Widely regarded as the most memorable and musically concentrated of Beethoven's orchestral works, his Symphony No. 5 is also one of the most popular works in the literature. With its unforgettable four-note motive, lean textures, and superb orchestration, it is a classic example of...

In the course of his long career as the outstanding pianist-composer of his time, Franz Liszt was a tireless champion of music by other composers, especially those whose works he felt deserved greater recognition. Beethoven's symphonies, Wagner's operas, and Schubert's songs were among the...

This superb selection of 16 of Bach's best-known, most-performed and most recorded works for the keyboard, reproduced from the authoritative Bach Gesellschaft edition, offers an exhilarating introduction to the great composer's keyboard virtuosity and his genius for melodic invention.The works included are Italian Concerto...

Among musicologists and serious lovers of music, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde is generally considered the high point of orchestration in the musical tradition of nineteenth-century Europe. It shows in most successful form Wagner's unsurpassed gift for using the instruments of the orchestra, and generations...

The renowned Bach-Gesellschaft, founded in 1850 to collect, edit, and publish all the known works of J. S. Bach, devoted fifty years to its monumental task. It succeeded so well in tracking down Bach's heritage, establishing authenticity, and transcribing accurate texts that it still...

Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a life of Byronic intensity--passionate, risk-taking, and convention-breaking. In November 1989, just a...

Hamilton Harty (1879-1941) was a prolific art-song and orchestral composer as well as a world-renowned conductor. This volume includes some of his best-known and most critically acclaimed songs. It's an essential purchase for high and low voices. The book also includes some alternate keys...

Before the French Revolution, making music was an activity that required permission. After the Revolution, music was an object that could be possessed. Everyone seemingly hoped to gain something from owning music. Musicians claimed it as their unalienable personal expression while the French nation...

Brilliant, practical, and humorous conversations with one of the twentieth-century's greatest musicologists on art, culture, and the physical pain of playing a difficult passage until one attains its rewards. Throughout his life, Charles Rosen combined formidable intelligence with immense skill as a concert pianist....

(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...

(Banjo). The banjo shares many of the same sonic qualities as a harpsichord, so although it's so closely associated with more homespun genres, the instrument actually lends itself very well to classical music The pieces in Bach for Banjo are in tablature only with...

(Easy Guitar). In the early 1700s, Bach's chorales enchanted listeners with their inventive harmonies, chromaticism, contrapuntal motion, and changes of tonal center. Since that time, music students the world over have studied the chorales as a paragon of "common practice" harmony and voice leading....

It's hard to think of a solo female recording artist who has been as revered or as reviled over the course of her career as Tori Amos. Amy Gentry argues that these violent aesthetic responses to Amos's performance, both positive and negative, are organized...

(Willis). 15 easy arrangements of Beethoven's most well-known musical creations for the beginning pianist. Progresses from early to later elementary level. Pieces include: Chorus of Prisoners * Eroica Symphony * Fur Elise * Minuet in G Major * Moonlight Sonata * Ode to Joy...

(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...

(Easy Piano Songbook). 15 modern Disney favorite songs are masterfully presented in a classical style for easy piano by Phillip Keveren. Includes: Arabian Nights * Beauty and the Beast * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Chim Chim Cher-ee * A Dream Is...