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  • Music for Life: 100 Classical Works to Carry You Through by Maddocks, Fiona
    Fiona Maddocks

    Music for Life: 100 Classical Works to Carry You Through

    "Fiona Maddocks's descriptions are dangerously moreish...a timely reminder of the importance of music." -- BBC Music How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort, or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg by Shaw, Jennifer
    Jennifer Shaw

    The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg

    Arnold Schoenberg - composer, theorist, teacher, painter, and one of the most important and controversial figures in twentieth-century music. This Companion presents engaging essays by leading scholars on Schoenberg's central works, writings, and ideas over his long life in Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles....
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky by Cross, Jonathan
    Jonathan Cross

    The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky

    Stravinsky's work spanned the major part of the twentieth-century and was engaged with nearly all its principal compositional developments. Reflecting the breadth of his phenomenal achievement, this Companion contains a wide range of essays in three broad sections covering the contexts within which Stravinsky...
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  • The Life of Mendelssohn by Mercer-Taylor, Peter
    Peter Mercer-Taylor

    The Life of Mendelssohn

    This biography of composer and pianist Felix Mendelssohn traces his development from musical child prodigy to a conductor whose influence as an advocate of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven is still felt to this day. A great deal of attention is paid to Mendelssohn's early...
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  • Stravinsky's Late Music by Straus, Joseph N.
    Joseph N. Straus

    Stravinsky's Late Music

    This book is the first to be devoted to the music of Stravinsky's last compositional period. In the early 1950s, Stravinsky's compositional style began to change and evolve with astonishing rapidity. He abandoned the musical neoclassicism to which he had been committed for the...
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  • Musorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition by Russ, Michael
    Michael Russ

    Musorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition

    This informative and wide-ranging guide places the original piano work in the context of Russian cultural life, considering in particular the work of the artist Victor Hartman, creator of the pictures that inspired Musorgsky's composition. A detailed synopsis takes the reader through each piece...
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  • Beethoven the Pianist by Skowroneck, Tilman
    Tilman Skowroneck

    Beethoven the Pianist

    The widely held belief that Beethoven was a rough pianist, impatient with his instruments, is not altogether accurate: it is influenced by anecdotes dating from when deafness had begun to impair his playing. Presenting a new, detailed biography of Beethoven's formative years, this book...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner by Williamson, John
    John Williamson

    The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner

    Sixteen essays by leading experts introduce the lay reader to issues that have concerned scholars over the past twenty years regarding Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). They provide an introduction to the composer's life and works, covering such problematic areas as his relationship to Vienna; the...
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  • In Search of a Concrete Music: Volume 15 by Schaeffer, Pierre
    Pierre Schaeffer

    In Search of a Concrete Music: Volume 15

    Pierre Schaeffer's In Search of a Concrete Music (ﾀ la recherche d'une musique concr鑼e) has long been considered a classic text in electroacoustic music and sound recording. Now Schaeffer's pioneering work--at once a journal of his experiments in sound composition and a treatise on...
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  • Medieval Music and the Art of Memory by Berger, Anna Maria Busse
    Anna Maria Busse Berger

    Medieval Music and the Art of Memory

    This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy and orality interacted. Asking such fundamental questions as how singers managed to memorize such an...
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  • Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music by Knighton, Tess
    Tess Knighton

    Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music

    With contributions from a range of internationally known early music scholars and performers, Tess Knighton and David Fallows provide a lively new survey of music and culture in Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to 1600. Fifty essays comment on the social,...
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  • A First Book of Ravel: For the Beginning Pianist with Downloadable Mp3s by Dutkanicz, David
    David Dutkanicz

    A First Book of Ravel: For the Beginning Pianist with Downloadable Mp3s

    Although he worked within the traditions of his day, Maurice Ravel forged a distinctive musical language of his own. This collection of 29 specially arranged pieces offers beginners the pleasure and satisfaction of playing the French composer's most popular works. Simplified arrangements include Musette,...
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  • Mozart's Requiem: For the Beginning Pianist with Downloadable Mp3s by Dutkanicz, David
    David Dutkanicz

    Mozart's Requiem: For the Beginning Pianist with Downloadable Mp3s

    According to legend, a mysterious stranger commissioned Mozart to create a requiem mass and the dying composer felt cursed by fate to write his own funeral hymn. Scholars, commentators, playwrights, and novelists have speculated for more than 200 years over the stranger-than-fiction reality behind...
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  • Tchaikovsky's the Nutcracker Suite: Music for the Beginning Pianist with Downloadable Mp3s by Dutkanicz, David
    David Dutkanicz

    Tchaikovsky's the Nutcracker Suite: Music for the Beginning Pianist with Downloadable Mp3s

    Novice pianists will take pride and pleasure in performing selections from The Nutcracker Suite with this simplified beginner's score. Tchaikovsky's ballet was an instant success upon its 1892 debut, and it remains a perennial holiday favorite with music lovers. The ballet score proved so...
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  • Danse Macabre and Other Piano Transcriptions by Liszt, Franz
    Franz Liszt

    Danse Macabre and Other Piano Transcriptions

    In addition to his skills as a composer and performer, Liszt is famed for his genius in transcribing orchestral works for piano. Thanks to his efforts, pianists in the era before sound recordings could learn from the vast repertoire of orchestral, operatic, and vocal...
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  • The Piano Concerti by Liszt, Franz
    Franz Liszt

    The Piano Concerti

    One of the greatest piano virtuosos of all time, Franz Liszt composed piano music marked by its technical brilliance, innovation, and imagination. This collection presents authoritative miniature score editions of two staples of the repertoire: Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major and...
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  • Domenico Scarlatti: Ninety Sonatas in Three Volumes, Volume III: Volume 3 by Scarlatti, Domenico
    Domenico Scarlatti

    Domenico Scarlatti: Ninety Sonatas in Three Volumes, Volume III: Volume 3

    Volume III of this critically acclaimed three-part collection features introductory text and performance notes to 30 Scarlatti sonatas, from Sonata LXI to Sonata XC. The works appear in chronological order and with Kirkpatrick numbers. This Urtext edition preserves the sonatas' original presentation, save for...
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  • Little Preludes and Fugues by Bach, Johann Sebastian
    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Little Preludes and Fugues

    Beginning and intermediate pianists will appreciate this inexpensive edition of a selection of Bach's small fugues and preludes. Specially arranged and edited by the esteemed musician Giuseppe Buonamici, it features a splendid variety of works--all in simple keys, and with helpful notes on fingering.Teachers...
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  • Complete Sonatinas by Kuhlau, Friedrich
    Friedrich Kuhlau

    Complete Sonatinas

    Best known for his piano works from the Classical and Romantic periods, German-born, Danish composer Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832) is universally recognized as a master of the sonatina form. His entire collection of nineteen highly accessible sonatinas are presented here in one complete volume. A...
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  • Harmonized Chorales for Keyboard by Bach, Johann Sebastian
    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Harmonized Chorales for Keyboard

    Long esteemed as counterpoint's greatest master, Johann Sebastian Bach created harmonizations of chorales that have served as voice-leading models for generations. This affordable volume features 371 of the composer's harmonized chorales, presented in closed score for easy study as well as play.These traditional liturgical...
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  • Rachmaninoff Masterpieces for Solo Piano: 17 Works by Rachmaninoff, Serge
    Serge Rachmaninoff

    Rachmaninoff Masterpieces for Solo Piano: 17 Works

    This generous compilation of Rachmaninoff's piano music reflects the "best of the best" -- selected shorter works that have been most often performed and most frequently recorded by such great keyboard artists as Horowitz, Richter, Gilels, Cliburn, and Rachmaninoff himself. Offered here for the...
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  • Organ Music for Manuals Only: 33 Works by Berlioz, Bizet, Franck, Saint-Saens and Others by Smith, Rollin
    Rollin Smith

    Organ Music for Manuals Only: 33 Works by Berlioz, Bizet, Franck, Saint-Saens and Others

    Unlike the vast majority of classical music for organ -- which requires both manual and pedal dexterity -- this unique collection of 33 works is devoted solely to organ music originally written on two staves and intended for manuals alone. Some was conceived for...
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  • The Magic Flute Vocal Score by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute Vocal Score

    One of Mozart's greatest operas, this work achieved immediate success upon its first performance in 1791 and has continued to enchant listeners ever since. A complex allegory glorifying Freemasonry and its emphasis on brotherhood, charity, and benevolence, the opera was particularly admired by Beethoven,...
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  • A German Requiem, Op. 45, in Full Score by Brahms, Johannes
    Johannes Brahms

    A German Requiem, Op. 45, in Full Score

    This edition of Brahms's greatest, most ambitious vocal work is reprinted from the definitive edition of the composer's works prepared by Breitkopf & H rtel of Leipzig. Inexpensive, yet sturdily constructed to provide years of pleasurable use, this full score combines all the musical...
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  • Five Great Piano Sonatas by Beethoven, Ludwig Van
    Ludwig Van Beethoven

    Five Great Piano Sonatas

    The most intimate form of chamber music in Beethoven's day, the piano sonata became the composer's vehicle for his boldest and most private thoughts. The five compositions in this collection, the most famous of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas, are among the most frequently recorded...
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  • St. Matthew Passion, Bwv 244, in Full Score by Bach, Johann Sebastian
    Johann Sebastian Bach

    St. Matthew Passion, Bwv 244, in Full Score

    Long considered the noblest, most inspired musical treatment of the crucifixion of Christ, Bach's St. Matthew Passion remains an immensely popular, oft-recorded work. First performed in the late 1720s, the great choral masterpiece was scored for a vast ensemble of double chorus, soloists, double...
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  • The Carnival of the Animals in Full Score by Saint-Saëns, Camille
    Camille Saint-Sa?s

    The Carnival of the Animals in Full Score

    Written in 1886 for a Mardi Gras celebration, Saint-Sa ns' best-known work consists of 14 pieces scored for flute/piccolo, clarinet, glass harmonica (tuned glass bowls), xylophone, two pianos, and strings. Playfully borrowing themes from other works -- including his own -- the composer paints...
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  • Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55: Eroica by Beethoven, Ludwig Van
    Ludwig Van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55: Eroica

    Completed in 1804, the "Eroica" Symphony marked a profound turning point in Beethoven's personal and professional life. Confronted by severe and progressive hearing loss, the composer drew upon immense inner reserves to create one of his most dynamic and expressive works.Original in structure and...
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  • Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2 by Grieg, Edvard
    Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2

    In 1874 Henrik Ibsen invited Edvard Grieg to compose incidental music for a staged version of his Norwegian verse drama Peer Gynt. The result of this collaboration between Norway's greatest dramatist and its greatest composer was a set of pieces that have become among...
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  • Works for Piano by Chabrier, Emmanuel
    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Works for Piano

    More than anyone else of his century, Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-94) restored to French music the essential French traits of clarity, emotional vitality, wit, and tenderness, at the time when the music of the 1900s was struggling under a Wagnerian hangover on the one hand...
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  • Symphony No. 3 by Saint-Saëns, Camille
    Camille Saint-Sa?s

    Symphony No. 3

    Considered throughout much of his career as the preeminent French composer, Camille Saint-Sa?s wrote music that embodies a characteristic French concern for clarity and order, together with his own assured mastery of the composer's craft. These qualities are evident in Saint-Sa?s' Symphony No. 3,...
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  • St. John Passion in Full Score by Bach, Johann Sebastian
    Johann Sebastian Bach

    St. John Passion in Full Score

    One of the most moving of all the musical settings of the Passion of Christ, and one of the most frequently performed of all religious choral works. In its solos and choruses, Bach's choral masterpiece follows the biblical text that relates the events leading...
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  • Johann Sebastian Bach, Volume I: Volume 1 by Spitta, Philipp
    Philipp Spitta

    Johann Sebastian Bach, Volume I: Volume 1

    This monumental study of Johann Sebastian Bach ranks among the great classics of musicology. Since its first publication in 1873-80, it has remained the basic work on Bach and the foundation of later research and study. The three-part treatment describes in chronological sequence practically...
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  • Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 3 in Full Score by Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyitch
    Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky

    Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 3 in Full Score

    In the course of his musical career, Tchaikovsky attained a thorough mastery of orchestration as he strove to intensify the expressiveness of his musical language. This volume, combining authoritative full-score editions of his first three symphonies -- popularly known as "Winter Daydreams," the "Little...
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  • Complete Organ Symphonies, Series II by Widor, Charles-Marie
    Charles-Marie Widor

    Complete Organ Symphonies, Series II

    Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937), the greatest French organist of his day, called the ten solo compositions in this two-volume edition organ symphonies to reflect both their secular spirit and the orchestral wealth of the timbres of the new French organs. Cast in the distinctive new...
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  • Complete Lyric Pieces for Piano by Grieg, Edvard
    Edvard Grieg

    Complete Lyric Pieces for Piano

    Between 1867 and 1901, Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) wrote ten sets of little mood pictures for piano that display his great musical gifts at their lyrical best. Charming works of elegant simplicity and warmth, they have become cornerstones of the piano repertoire, favorites of both...
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  • Complete Keyboard Works, Series Two: Ordres XIV-XXVII and Miscellaneous Pieces by Couperin, Francois
    Francois Couperin

    Complete Keyboard Works, Series Two: Ordres XIV-XXVII and Miscellaneous Pieces

    "His melodic imagination displays admirable freshness. He possesses a delicate harmonic sense. His themes show the inspirations of an impassioned musician: perfectly created, firm in line, vivid, and enduring in color. His art never wavers; it consistently exhibits a magnificent technique." -- John Gillespie,...
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  • Années de Pèlerinage, Complete by Liszt, Franz
    Franz Liszt

    Ann馥s de P鑞erinage, Complete

    The present volume reproduces -- directly from an authoritative Russian edition -- the famous cycle of solo piano works that comprises a summa of Liszt's pianistic achievement, representing the maturation of his style over a period of decades. The Ann馥s de P鑞erinage (Years of...
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  • Goyescas, Spanish Dances and Other Works for Solo Piano by Granados, Enrique
    Enrique Granados

    Goyescas, Spanish Dances and Other Works for Solo Piano

    This remarkable book brings together in one sturdy, yet inexpensive volume four of the most memorable and frequently played sets of works for the piano by Enrique Granados (1867-1916), one of Spain's greatest modern composers. They are reprinted here from early editions.The piano suite...
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  • Iberia and España: Two Complete Works for Solo Piano by Albéniz, Isaac
    Isaac Alb駭iz

    Iberia and Espa: Two Complete Works for Solo Piano

    Isaac Alb駭iz (1860-1909) began his musical life as a piano prodigy in Barcelona at the age of four, and it is as a prolific composer of solo works for the pianoforte that we celebrate him most. This inexpensive Dover edition, designed to give you...
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  • Fifty-Nine Favorite Songs by Schubert, Franz
    Franz Schubert

    Fifty-Nine Favorite Songs

    The last word has not been said about the Schubert song when its melody, accompaniment, atmosphere -- all the lovely externals of his music -- have been surveyed. There yet remains the ineffable quality of textual illumination to which all of these factors are...
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  • Six Great Overtures in Full Score by Beethoven, Ludwig Van
    Ludwig Van Beethoven

    Six Great Overtures in Full Score

    The six overtures gathered together in this handy volume are among the most recorded, performed, and studied compositions in the orchestral repertoire. They offer musicians and music lovers the opportunity to study the genius of Beethoven in compositions written as preludes to other works,...
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  • The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote) in Full Score by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote) in Full Score

    "...it is the evident quiet approbation which best pleases me! It is apparent that this opera is rising rapidly and steadily in estimation." -- Mozart, letter to his wife, October 7-8, 1791.Unfortunately, his tragic death a scant two months later prevented Mozart from ever...
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  • Selected Songs for Solo Voice and Piano by Schumann, Robert
    Robert Schumann

    Selected Songs for Solo Voice and Piano

    The year 1840 proved a momentous one for Robert Schumann: after an interval of twelve years, he resumed writing songs, producing some 150 vocal compositions within the year; and in September, after a long and stormy courtship, he married his beloved Clara Wieck. During...
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  • Songs, 1880-1904 by Debussy, Claude
    Claude Debussy

    Songs, 1880-1904

    The essence of Debussy's musical personality is in the songs and they exhibit virtually every aspect of his art. -- Oscar Thompson, Debussy: Man and Artist.Had Claude Debussy (1862-1918) been exclusively a composer of songs, his musical reputation would have been assured. Although his...
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  • Die Walküre by Wagner, Richard
    Richard Wagner

    Die Walk?e

    A landmark in the history of opera, Die Walk re is the most popular and most frequently performed opera among those that make up the Ring Cycle. It contains some of Wagner's best-known and most memorable music and stands alone as a complete work.This...
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  • French Piano Music, an Anthology by Philipp, Isidor
    Isidor Philipp

    French Piano Music, an Anthology

    Piano music is as essential to France as the opera is to Italy or lieder to Germany. This anthology, a broad cross-section of French piano music, selects and presents 44 short piano works ranging from 1670 to 1906. Twenty-eight composers, all French or active...
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  • Complete Sonatas and Variations for Solo Piano by Brahms, Johannes
    Johannes Brahms

    Complete Sonatas and Variations for Solo Piano

    The most ambitious in scale of Brahms's pieces for piano solo, the sonatas and variations, are contained complete within this volume: the three beautifully lyrical Sonatas in C Major, F-sharp Minor and F Minor, and the five sets of Variations: on a theme by...
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  • Piano Music by Gottschalk, Louis M.
    Louis M. Gottschalk

    Piano Music

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-69) is still remembered as one of the most interesting early American composers, a composer whose work is still performed and enjoyed. This collection of Gottschalk's major piano music shows the wide range of his talent from the "wild, languishing" derivations...
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  • Variations on a Theme of Haydn: Norton Critical Score by Brahms, Johannes
    Johannes Brahms

    Variations on a Theme of Haydn: Norton Critical Score

    Author: Johannes BrahmsISBN-10: 0393933628ISBN-13: 9780393933628Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/1975Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d
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