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  • Tchaikovsky: The Early Years 1840-1874 by Brown, David
    David Brown

    Tchaikovsky: The Early Years 1840-1874

    Author: David BrownISBN-10: 0393336050ISBN-13: 9780393336054Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1979Pages: 360Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
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  • Tchaikovsky: The Years of Wandering 1878-1885 by Brown, David
    David Brown

    Tchaikovsky: The Years of Wandering 1878-1885

    Yet Dr. Brown observes, it is during this period that Tchaikovsky is perhaps at his most exposed: in his responses to ordinary situations we can most clearly see his idiosyncrasies and rapidly changing moods, his likes and dislikes, his kindness and compassion, his openhanded...
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  • The Study of Fugue by Mann, Alfred
    Alfred Mann

    The Study of Fugue

    Author: Alfred MannISBN-10: 0393096750ISBN-13: 9780393096750Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1966Pages: 356Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.79d
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  • The Compleat Brahms: A Guide to the Musical Works of Johannes Brahms by Botstein, Leon
    Leon Botstein

    The Compleat Brahms: A Guide to the Musical Works of Johannes Brahms

    For all those eager to delve more deeply into Brahms's music, The Compleat Brahms is an indispensable companion. In a single volume that covers every work written by Brahms, leading scholars from across the country provide details of each work's composition and discuss its...
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  • Guide to Sonatas: Music for One or Two Instruments by Berger, Melvin
    Melvin Berger

    Guide to Sonatas: Music for One or Two Instruments

    With the same authority, insight, and unique ability to bring music to life on the printed page that he brought to his Guide to Chamber Music, Melvin Berger gives us an indispensable guide to the sonata form. Comprehensive, analytical, and historical, including descriptions in...
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  • Chopin's Funeral by Eisler, Benita
    Benita Eisler

    Chopin's Funeral

    Fr d ric Chopin's reputation as one of the Great Romantics endures, but as Benita Eisler reveals in her elegant and elegiac biography, the man was more complicated than his iconic image. A classicist, conservative, and dandy who relished his conquest of Parisian society,...
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  • The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz: Introduced by David Cairns by Berlioz, Hector
    Hector Berlioz

    The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz: Introduced by David Cairns

    Hector Berlioz' (1803-69) autobiography is both an account of his important place in the rise of the Romantic movement and a personal testament. He tells the story of his liaison with Harriet Smithson, and his even more passionate affairs of the mind with Shakespeare,...
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  • Howard Hanson: A Bio-Bibliography by Perone, James E.
    James E. Perone

    Howard Hanson: A Bio-Bibliography

    Howard Hanson details the career and works of a composer called by several critics the most important figure in American music in the second quarter of the 20th century. Hanson's compositions elicited the broadest possible range of critical reaction. While early works from the...
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  • Music of the Great Composers: A Listener's Guide to the Best of Classical Music by Kavanaugh, Patrick
    Patrick Kavanaugh

    Music of the Great Composers: A Listener's Guide to the Best of Classical Music

    Patrick Kavanaugh shows that great music was written to be enjoyed, not merely admired. In Music of the Great Composers, he displays his gift for making the classics easy to understand and a delight to listen to. This practical book lets you select a...
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  • Russian Music and Nationalism: From Glinka to Stalin by Frolova-Walker, Marina
    Marina Frolova-Walker

    Russian Music and Nationalism: From Glinka to Stalin

    Challenging what is widely regarded as the distinguishing feature of Russian music - its ineffable 'Russianness' - Marina Frolova-Walker examines the history of Russian music from the premiere of Glinka's opera 'A Life for the Tsar' in 1836 to the death of Stalin in...
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  • Bach: The Mass in B Minor: The Great Catholic Mass by Stauffer, George B.
    George B. Stauffer

    Bach: The Mass in B Minor: The Great Catholic Mass

    In this book George B. Stauffer explores the music and complex history of Bach's last and possibly greatest masterpiece. Stauffer examines the B-Minor Mass in greater detail than ever before, demonstrating for the first time Bach's reliance on contemporary models from the Dresden Mass...
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  • Musical Elaborations by Said, Edward
    Edward Said

    Musical Elaborations

    Filling a significant gap in contemporary cultural studies, Musical Elaborations examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of music. Incorporating the music criticism of Adorno, musical ideas from literary works by Proust, and criticism by Benjamin and de Man into his work,...
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  • Robert Schumann: The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer by Geck, Martin
    Martin Geck

    Robert Schumann: The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer

    Robert Schumann (1810-56) is one of the most important and representative composers of the Romantic era. Born in Zwickau, Germany, Schumann began piano instruction at age seven and immediately developed a passion for music. When a permanent injury to his hand prevented him from...
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  • Modern Music and After by Griffiths, Paul
    Paul Griffiths

    Modern Music and After

    Over three decades, Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The disruptions of the war,...
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  • Schumann by Jensen, Eric Frederick
    Eric Frederick Jensen

    Schumann

    Robert Schumann is one of the most intriguing-and enigmatic-composers of the nineteenth century. Extraordinarily gifted in both music and literature, many of his compositions were inspired by poetry and novels. For much of his life he was better known as a music critic than...
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  • Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music by Kivy, Peter
    Peter Kivy

    Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music

    Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon. In Part I, the historical origins of both the literary interpretation of absolute music and musical formalism are laid out. In Part II, specific...
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  • Vivaldi by Talbot, Michael
    Michael Talbot

    Vivaldi

    Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series explores the personal history of each composer...
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  • Brahms by MacDonald, Malcolm
    Malcolm MacDonald

    Brahms

    Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series explores the personal history of each composer...
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  • Mozart-Da Ponte Operas: The Cultural and Musical Background to Le Nozze Di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosi Fan Tutte by Steptoe, Andrew
    Andrew Steptoe

    Mozart-Da Ponte Operas: The Cultural and Musical Background to Le Nozze Di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosi Fan Tutte

    Mozart's collaborations with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte led to the composition of three of the great masterpieces of opera. This book, designed to guide the reader to a deeper understanding and appreciation of these enigmatic works, charts the musical, cultural, and social context...
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  • For the Love of Music: Invitations to Listening by Steinberg, Michael
    Michael Steinberg

    For the Love of Music: Invitations to Listening

    The power of music, the way it works on the mind and heart, remains an enticing mystery. Now two noted writers on classical music, Michael Steinberg and Larry Rothe, explore the allure of this melodious art--not in the clinical terms of social scientists--but through...
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  • Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide by Steinberg, Michael
    Michael Steinberg

    Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide

    Michael Steinberg's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony and The Concerto--have been universally praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now Steinberg follows these two greatly admired volumes with Choral Masterworks, the only such guide available to this...
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  • The New Grove Guide to Mozart and His Operas by Rushton, Julian
    Julian Rushton

    The New Grove Guide to Mozart and His Operas

    Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information on the lives of individual composers, their works, their librettists and interpreters, and the places where they performed....
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  • Bach's Works for Solo Violin: Style, Structure, Performance by Lester, Joel
    Joel Lester

    Bach's Works for Solo Violin: Style, Structure, Performance

    J. S. Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin have been central to the violin repertoire since the mid-eighteenth century. This engaging volume is the first comprehensive exploration of the place of these works within Bach's music: it focuses on their structural and stylistic...
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  • The Reception of Bach's Organ Works from Mendelssohn to Brahms by Stinson, Russell
    Russell Stinson

    The Reception of Bach's Organ Works from Mendelssohn to Brahms

    In this penetrating study, Russell Stinson explores how four of the greatest composers of the nineteenth century--Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, and Johannes Brahms--responded to the model of Bach's organ music. The author shows that this quadrumvirate not only borrowed from Bach's organ...
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  • Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers by Sherman, Bernard D.
    Bernard D. Sherman

    Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers

    The attempt to play music with the styles and instruments of its era--commonly referred to as the early music movement--has become immensely popular in recent years. For instance, Billboard's "Top Classical Albums" of 1993 and 1994 featured Anonymous 4, who sing medieval music, and...
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  • Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900 by Brown, Clive
    Clive Brown

    Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900

    The past ten years have seen a rapidly growing interest in performing and recording Classical and Romantic music with period instruments; yet the relationship of composers' notation to performing practices during that period has received only sporadic attention from scholars, and many aspects of...
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  • The Compleat Conductor by Schuller, Gunther
    Gunther Schuller

    The Compleat Conductor

    A world-renowned conductor and composer who has lead most of the major orchestras in North America and Europe, a talented musician who has played under the batons of such luminaries as Toscanini and Walter, and an esteemed arranger, scholar, author, and educator, Gunther Schuller...
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  • Basic Techniques of Conducting by Phillips, Kenneth H.
    Kenneth H. Phillips

    Basic Techniques of Conducting

    Systematic, practical, and thorough, Basic Techniques of Conducting offers a clear instructional strategy and a basic methodology for teaching the physical gestures and concepts essential for the development of a convincing conducting technique. Taking a competency-based approach, this text provides a clear, step-by-step system...
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  • Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music by Heyman, Barbara B.
    Barbara B. Heyman

    Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music

    Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is one of the most admired and honored American composers of the twentieth century. An unabashed Romantic, largely independent of worldwide trends and the avant-garde, he infused his works with poetic lyricism and gave tonal language and forms new vitality. His...
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  • Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas: A Handbook for Performers by Gordon, Stewart
    Stewart Gordon

    Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas: A Handbook for Performers

    The thirty-two Piano Sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven form one of the most important segments of piano literature. In this accessible, compact, and comprehensive guidebook, renowned performer and pedagogue Stewart Gordon presents the pianist with historical insights and practical instructional tools for interpreting the...
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  • Bach & God by Marissen, Michael
    Michael Marissen

    Bach & God

    Bach & God explores the religious character of Bach's vocal and instrumental music in seven interrelated essays. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging interpretive insights from careful biblical and theological scrutiny of the librettos. Yet he also shows how Bach's pitches, rhythms, and tone...
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  • The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography by Bonds, Mark Evan
    Mark Evan Bonds

    The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography

    The "Beethoven Syndrome" is the inclination of listeners to hear music as the projection of a composer's inner self. This was a radically new way of listening that emerged only after Beethoven's death. Beethoven's music was a catalyst for this change, but only in...
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  • Mozart: A Life by Gay, Peter
    Peter Gay

    Mozart: A Life

    A biography of the greatest musical mind in Western history Mozart's unshakable hold on the public's consciousness can only be strengthened by historian and biographer Peter Gay's concise and deft look at the genius's life. Mozart traces the development of the man whose life...
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  • Goethe: Musical Poet, Musical Catalyst by Byrne, Lorraine
    Lorraine Byrne

    Goethe: Musical Poet, Musical Catalyst

    It was a great pleasure both to host and to participate in an international conference that brought together musicologists, composers, performers, and literary artists in stimulating and thought-provoking discourse. The collaboration of our colleagues from Queen's University, Belfast, was particularly welcome and appreciated; they,...
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  • Music for the Soul: Experiencing Classical Music through Informed Listening by Kneier, Lorraine
    Lorraine Kneier

    Music for the Soul: Experiencing Classical Music through Informed Listening

    "Informed listening demands knowledge, context, and meditative practice. Even in ideal circumstances, imparting the musical knowledge required for engaged listening is a challenge not easily met. It is refreshing to encounter a well-reasoned and clearly written guide for all those who seek to experience,...
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  • Night and Dreams: 36 Original Pieces Schott Piano Classics by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    Night and Dreams: 36 Original Pieces Schott Piano Classics

    (Piano). Selected works from the 19th century to the present, around the subject of night and dreams. Includes: Reverie (Debussy) * Fantastic Duet of Two Trees at the Window, Op. 15 (Hindemith) * Lullaby, Op. 124 (Schumann) * Sweet Reverie, Op. 39 (Tchaikovsky) *...
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  • The Cello Collection - Intermediate Level: G. Schirmer Instrumental Library by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Cello Collection - Intermediate Level Book/Online Audio

    Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 1423406559ISBN-13: 9781423406556Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2009Pages: 56Format: OtherWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.70w x 0.40d
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  • Daniels' Orchestral Music by Daniels, David
    David Daniels

    Daniels' Orchestral Music

    Daniels' Orchestral Music is the gold standard for all orchestral professionals--from conductors, librarians, programmers, students, administrators, and publishers, to even instructors--seeking to research and plan an orchestral program, whether for a single concert or a full season.This sixth edition, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of...
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  • The Classical Music Book by DK
    DK

    The Classical Music Book

    Learn about the world's greatest classical compositions and musical traditions in The Classical Music Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Classic Music in this overview guide...
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  • The Northern Silence: Journeys in Nordic Music and Culture by Mellor, Andrew
    Andrew Mellor

    The Northern Silence: Journeys in Nordic Music and Culture

    An essential exploration of Nordic composers and musicians, and the distinctive culture that continues to shape them Once considered a musical backwater, the Nordic region is now a musical powerhouse. Conductors from Denmark and Finland dominate the British and American orchestral scene. Interest in...
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  • Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination by Porter, James
    James Porter

    Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination

    Demonstrates the profound impact of The Poems of Ossian on composers of the Romantic Era and later: Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Massenet, and many others. Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination is the first study in English of musical compositions inspired by...
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  • Conversations by Reich, Steve
    Steve Reich

    Conversations

    Steve Reich is a living legend in the world of contemporary classical music. He is one of the pioneers of the minimalist movement in the 1960s and his works have become central to the musical landscape worldwide, influencing generations of younger artists and musicians....
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  • Vincent Persichetti: Grazioso, Grit, and Gold by Olmstead, Andrea
    Andrea Olmstead

    Vincent Persichetti: Grazioso, Grit, and Gold

    Winner of the 2019 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Outstanding Musical Biography Vincent Persichetti: Grazioso, Grit, and Gold is the first critical biography of this esteemed American composer, bringing together thorough scholarship by Andrea Olmstead and contributions by prominent performers. Olmstead weaves a captivating narrative...
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  • Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire by Kirby, Sarah
    Sarah Kirby

    Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire

    Combining approaches from reception studies and historical musicology, this book demonstrates how the representation of music at exhibitions drew the press and public into debates about music's role in society. International exhibitions were among the most significant cultural phenomena of the late nineteenth century....
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  • The Brilliant Bassoon book of Moonlight and Roses for Mini-Bassoon: Romantic solos, duets (with bassoon) and pieces with easy piano arranged especiall by Oosthuizen, Jemima
    Jemima Oosthuizen

    The Brilliant Bassoon book of Moonlight and Roses for Mini-Bassoon: Romantic solos, duets (with bassoon) and pieces with easy piano arranged especiall

    The Brilliant Bassoon Book of Moonlight and Roses for Mini-Bassoon is a little bit different. Combining a brilliant collection of classical and traditional pieces arranged as solos, duets (with bassoon) and pieces with easy piano accompaniment especially for the fluent beginner player, it is...
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  • Gregorio Ballabene's Forty-eight-part Mass for Twelve Choirs (1772) by Bassani, Florian
    Florian Bassani

    Gregorio Ballabene's Forty-Eight-Part Mass for Twelve Choirs (1772)

    Neither Spem in alium, the widely acclaimed 'songe of fortie partes' by Thomas Tallis, nor Alessandro Striggio's forty-part Mass is the largest-scale counterpoint work in Western music. The actual winner is Gregorio Ballabene, a relatively unknown Roman maestro di cappella, a contemporary of Giovanni...
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  • Disinformation in Mass Media: Gluck, Piccinni and the Journal de Paris by Jerold, Beverly
    Beverly Jerold

    Disinformation in Mass Media: Gluck, Piccinni and the Journal de Paris

    The founding in 1777 of the Journal de Paris, France's first daily and distinctly commercial paper, represents an early use of disinformation as a tool for political gain, profit, and societal division. To attract a large readership and bar competition for C.W. Gluck's works...
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  • Easy Classic Oboe Duets: 27 great melodies from the world's greatest composers with one very easy part and the other more difficult. by Oosthuizen, Amanda
    Amanda Oosthuizen

    Easy Classic Oboe Duets: 27 great melodies from the world's greatest composers with one very easy part and the other more difficult.

    Easy Classic Oboe Duets includes 27 great classical melodies arranged for two oboes with one part very easy and the other more difficult. All are in easy keys. Ideal for the beginner and intermediate player or even for teacher and pupil. Brilliant for sight-reading...
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  • Felice Giardini and Professional Music Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London by Duncan, Cheryll
    Cheryll Duncan

    Felice Giardini and Professional Music Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London

    Felice Giardini and Professional Music Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London explores Giardini's influence on British musical life through his multifaceted career as performer, teacher, composer, concert promoter and opera impresario. The crux of the study is a detailed account of Giardini's partnership with the music...
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  • Oratorio Arias for Soprano: An anthology of 57 arias from oratorios for soprano by Goldsack, Christopher
    Christopher Goldsack

    Oratorio Arias for Soprano: An anthology of 57 arias from oratorios for soprano

    This anthology of arias drawn from Oratorios and Cantatas is beautifully presented and clear to read. Wherever an aria was composed with a preceding recitative this has also been included. An essential collection for students and teachers, and an invaluable resource for professional singers....
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