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  • Hearing Bach's Passions by Melamed, Daniel R.
    Daniel R. Melamed

    Hearing Bach's Passions

    Johann Sebastian Bach's two surviving passions--St. John and St. Matthew--are an essential part of the modern repertory, performed regularly both by professional ensembles and amateur groups. These large, complex pieces are well loved, but due to our distance from the original context in which...
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  • Notes for Clarinetists: A Guide to the Repertoire by Rice, Albert R.
    Albert R. Rice

    Notes for Clarinetists: A Guide to the Repertoire

    Notes for Clarinetists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers important historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces written for the instrument. Numerous contextual and theoretical insights make it an essential resource for professional, amateur, and student clarinetists. With engaging prose supported...
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  • Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Secular & Sacred Music to 1900 by Parsons, Laurel
    Laurel Parsons

    Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Secular & Sacred Music to 1900

    Through musical analysis of compositions written between the mid-twelfth to late nineteenth centuries, this volume celebrates the achievements of eight composers, all women: Hildegard of Bingen, Maddalena Casulana, Barbara Strozzi, ﾉlisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Marianne Martines, Josephine Lang, Fanny Hensel, Clara Schumann, and...
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  • George Gershwin: A New Biography by Hyland, William G.
    William G. Hyland

    George Gershwin: A New Biography

    Hyland reveals both the man and his creations, revealing how Gershwin became the first composer to apply popular music to classical forms, how his work reflected the turmoil of America in the Jazz Age, and how, despite his fame, he never achieved the happiness...
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  • Yo-Yo Ma: A Biography by Whiting, Jim
    Jim Whiting

    Yo-Yo Ma: A Biography

    A musician of rare artistry, the self-effacing yet charismatic Yo-Yo Ma connects with his audiences with startling effectiveness. He remains devoted to the classical repertoire yet has long roved far beyond the Western classical music canon. Despite his real superstar status and thriving solo...
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  • A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Volume One, Composers Born Before 1900 by Dees, Pamela Y.
    Pamela Y. Dees

    A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Volume One, Composers Born Before 1900

    Designed as a practical reference guide for professional pianists and piano teachers, A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers, Volume I, is an annotated catalogue of the available piano music in print composed by 144 women born before the 20th century. The work...
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  • Sing Sorrow: Classics, History, and Heroines in Opera by McDonald, Marianne
    Marianne McDonald

    Sing Sorrow: Classics, History, and Heroines in Opera

    Opera has often used classical literature as a means of expressing the most vital concerns of the period in which the operas were written. Sing Sorrow explores the classical roots of many noted operas, illustrating the ways in which the operas reflected the political...
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  • Vladimir Ussachevsky: A Bio-Bibliography by Hartsock, Ralph M.
    Ralph M. Hartsock

    Vladimir Ussachevsky: A Bio-Bibliography

    Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990), a pioneer in electronic music, was also a composer, teacher and administrator of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. His more than 44 works involving electroacoustics reflect the importance of his contribution to electronic music. Ussachevsky studied with Howard Hanson, Bernard Rogers...
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  • The London Philharmonic Discography by Stuart, Philip
    Philip Stuart

    The London Philharmonic Discography

    This great London orchestra made its debut in a recording session shortly before its first public concert in 1932 and now has well over a thousand recordings to its credit. All are dated and detailed for the first time in this meticulous study researched...
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  • William Thomas McKinley: A Bio-Bibliography by Sposato, Jeffrey
    Jeffrey Sposato

    William Thomas McKinley: A Bio-Bibliography

    The first full-length volume on the life work of one of the most well-known and prolific masters of our time, William Thomas McKinley: A Bio-Bibliography provides both musicologists and performers with a guide toward further exploration of the composer and his music. Included within...
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  • The Ernest Bloch Companion by Kushner, David Z.
    David Z. Kushner

    The Ernest Bloch Companion

    The evolution of Ernest Bloch's music is traced throughout his travels in Europe and America. A complete picture of Bloch emerges from this integrated study of his life and his music. The opening biographical chapter provides a brief, personal history from which Bloch's career...
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  • William Mathias: A Bio-Bibliography by Craggs, Stewart R.
    Stewart R. Craggs

    William Mathias: A Bio-Bibliography

    Taking piano lessons at three years of age and composing by five, William Mathias became one of Britain's leading 20th-century composers. (He was invited to compose the wedding anthem for the marriage of the Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer.) This work provides,...
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  • Hans Rosbaud: A Bio-Bibliography by Evans, Joan
    Joan Evans

    Hans Rosbaud: A Bio-Bibliography

    Austrian conductor Hans Rosbaud was a leading figure in European musical life from the late 1920s until his death in 1962. Internationally respected as a conductor of Mozart and Haydn, Bruckner and Mahler, his posthumous reputation rests primarily on his standard-setting performances of modern...
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  • Percussion Discography: An International Compilation of Solo and Chamber Percussion Music by Meza, Fernando A.
    Fernando Meza

    Percussion Discography: An International Compilation of Solo and Chamber Percussion Music

    With its depth of coverage and international scope this first-of-its-kind volume contains a comprehensive collection of information on recordings (LPs, CDs, or Cassettes) in which percussion instruments are featured as solo instruments or as part of chamber ensembles, with the best of the literature...
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  • The Wind Ensemble Catalog by Clark, David L.
    David L. Clark

    The Wind Ensemble Catalog

    As a companion to The Wind Ensemble Sourcebook and Biographical Guide, this catalog provides a comprehensive listing of wind ensemble works from 1650 to the present. These two volumes will be completed with a third, The Wind Ensemble Thematic Catalog 1700-1900. Representing more than...
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  • Paul Creston: A Bio-Bibliography by Slomski, Monica J.
    Monica J. Slomski

    Paul Creston: A Bio-Bibliography

    Although born Giuseppe Guttovergi to a poor, immigrant Italian family, it was as Paul Creston that Giuseppe rose to prominence, becoming one of the most widely performed American composers. Rhythm was a continued subject of research for this composer, and by 1945 he had...
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  • Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart by Bach, Steven
    Steven Bach

    Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart

    From the Algonquin Round Table to the Gershwins and the Hollywood moguls, Moss Hart knew and delighted everybody. Vanity Fair has called him "one of American theater's greatest geniuses," the man responsible for such indelible successes as A Star Is Born, Camelot, and My...
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  • Performing Music in the Age of Recording by Philip, Robert
    Robert Philip

    Performing Music in the Age of Recording

    Listeners have enjoyed classical music recordings for more than a century, yet important issues about recorded performances have been little explored. What is the relationship between performance and recording? How are modern audiences affected by the trends set in motion by the recording era?...
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  • Beethoven: The Ninth Symphony: Revised Edition by Levy, David Benjamin
    David Benjamin Levy

    Beethoven: The Ninth Symphony: Revised Edition

    Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, a masterpiece that has influenced virutally every Western composer since its premiere, has become associated with the marking of momentous public occasions. In 1989, Chinese students played its finale through loudspeakers in Tiananmen Square, and Leonard Bernstein led a performance in...
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  • Classical Seattle: Maestros, Impresarios, Virtuosi, and Other Music Makers by Bargreen, Melinda
    Melinda Bargreen

    Classical Seattle: Maestros, Impresarios, Virtuosi, and Other Music Makers

    The past 50 years have seen a tremendous arts boom in Seattle, which has given the city not only internationally recognized classical music institutions but also great performance halls to showcase their work and that of visiting artists. From Igor Stravinsky's presence as guest...
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  • George Szell's Reign: Behind the Scenes with the Cleveland Orchestra by Kraus, Marcia Hansen
    Marcia Hansen Kraus

    George Szell's Reign: Behind the Scenes with the Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell was the Cleveland Orchestra's towering presence for over a quarter of a century. From the boardroom to the stage, Szell's powerful personality affected every aspect of a musical institution he reshaped in his own perfectionist image. Marcia Hansen Kraus's participation in Cleveland's...
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  • Richard Wagner: A Life in Music by Geck, Martin
    Martin Geck

    Richard Wagner: A Life in Music

    Best known for the challenging four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813-83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history, such as The Flying Dutchman,...
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  • Sex, Death, and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks by Yearsley, David
    David Yearsley

    Sex, Death, and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks

    At one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena (1701-60) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older Johann Sebastian Bach, history's most famous musical wife and mother. The two musical notebooks belonging to her continue...
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  • A Portrait in Four Movements: The Chicago Symphony Under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti by Patner, Andrew
    Andrew Patner

    A Portrait in Four Movements: The Chicago Symphony Under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti

    "Playing in an orchestra in an intelligent way is the best school for democracy."--Daniel Barenboim The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has been led by a storied group of conductors. And from 1994 to 2015, through the best work of Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Bernard Haitink,...
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  • Conversations with Glenn Gould by Cott, Jonathan
    Jonathan Cott

    Conversations with Glenn Gould

    One of the most idiosyncratic and charismatic musicians of the twentieth century, pianist Glenn Gould (1932-82) slouched at the piano from a sawed-down wooden stool, interpreting Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart at hastened tempos with pristine clarity. A strange genius and true eccentric, Gould was...
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  • From the Score to the Stage: An Illustrated History of Continental Opera Production and Staging by Baker, Evan
    Evan Baker

    From the Score to the Stage: An Illustrated History of Continental Opera Production and Staging

    Without scenery, costumes, and stage action, an opera would be little more than a concert. But in the audience, we know little (and think less) about the enormous efforts of those involved in bringing an opera to life--by the stagehands who shift scenery, the...
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  • Four-Handed Monsters: Four-Hand Piano Playing and Nineteenth-Century Culture by Daub, Adrian
    Adrian Daub

    Four-Handed Monsters: Four-Hand Piano Playing and Nineteenth-Century Culture

    In the course of the nineteenth century, four-hand piano playing emerged across Europe as a popular pastime of the well-heeled classes and of those looking to join them. Nary a canonic work of classical music that was not set for piano duo, nary a...
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  • The Greatest Music Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy by Beyer, Rick
    Rick Beyer

    The Greatest Music Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy

    "Full of tasty morsels. A delightful book to arm one for the next dull cocktail party." --Chicago TribuneRick Beyer, author of the highly successful History Channel series The Greatest Stories Never Told returns with new historic tales from the world of music--ennobling, entrancing and...
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  • The Joy of Second-Year Piano by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Joy of Second-Year Piano

    (Music Sales America). This method and repertory for late beginner to early intermediate pianists was developed from the best-selling series by Denes Agay. Following on from the immensely popular First-Year book, the numerous pieces have been carefully selected, and are further supported by an...
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  • Villa-Lobos and Modernism: The Apotheosis of Cannibal Music by Averbach, Ricardo
    Ricardo Averbach

    Villa-Lobos and Modernism: The Apotheosis of Cannibal Music

    Villa-Lobos and Modernism: The Apotheosis of Cannibal Music provides a new assessment of the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos in terms of his contributions to the Modernist Movement of the twentieth century. In this profound study, Ricardo Averbach elevates Cultural Cannibalism as a major manifestation...
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  • The Beatles for Easy Classical Piano: The Phillip Keveren Series by Beatles
    Beatles

    The Beatles for Easy Classical Piano: The Phillip Keveren Series

    (Easy Piano Personality). 15 favorite songs of the Fab Four are masterfully presented in a classical style for easy piano by Phillip Keveren. Includes: All My Loving * Can't Buy Me Love * Eleanor Rigby * A Hard Day's Night * I Want to...
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  • The Baroque Cello Collection: Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics Vol. 2122 by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Baroque Cello Collection: Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics Vol. 2122

    (String Solo). Includes: J.S. BACH: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 * J.S. BACH: Sonata in G minor, BWV 1029 * BOCCHERINI: Sonata in A Major * CORELLI: Sonata in D minor * LOCATELLI: Sonata in D Major * MARCELLO: Sonata...
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  • Anthology of Easier Classical Piano: 174 Favorite Piano Pieces by 44 Composers, Lower Intermediate to Intermediate Level by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    Anthology of Easier Classical Piano: 174 Favorite Piano Pieces by 44 Composers, Lower Intermediate to Intermediate Level

    (Misc). Contents: ANONYMOUS: BWV App. 116 * BWV App. 121 * BWV App. 126 * BWV App. 132 * C.P.E. BACH: BWV App. 122 * BWV App. 124 * Solfeggietto, H. 220 * BACH: Prelude, BWV 846 * Prelude, BWV 924 * Prelude, BWV...
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  • Peter Pan: First Edition by Bernstein, Leonard
    Leonard Bernstein

    Peter Pan: First Edition

    (Vocal Selections). Eight songs from the 1950 Broadway play with music, including: Who Am I? * My House * Captain Hook's Soliloquy * Dream with Me * and more. With detailed notes on the show and songs. Contents: Who Am I? * Pirate Song...
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  • First Repertoire Pieces for Trumpet [With CD (Audio)] by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    First Repertoire Pieces for Trumpet [With CD (Audio)]

    (Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). Includes practice tips and performance notes on each piece.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 0851627102ISBN-13: 9780851627106Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2012Pages: 77Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.90w x 0.40d
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  • Carmen: Libretto by Bizet, Georges
    Georges Bizet

    Carmen: Libretto

    (Opera). French/English. Standard Version with sung recitatives.Author: Georges BizetISBN-10: 0793526205ISBN-13: 9780793526208Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 10.52h x 6.76w x 0.15d
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  • Mazurkas by Adès, Thomas
    Thomas Ad鑚

    Mazurkas

    This set of three Mazurkas was a co-commisson by the Barbican Centre, Carnegie Hall, Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, San Francisco Symphony and Het Concertgebouw NV. The first performance was given by Emanuel Ax, at Carnegie Hall, New York on the 10th February 2010.Author: Thomas...
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  • Reflection: Score & Part by Britten, Benjamin
    Benjamin Britten

    Reflection: Score & Part

    Author: Benjamin BrittenISBN-10: 0571517528ISBN-13: 9780571517527Publisher: Faber & FaberLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1998Pages: 999Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 11.26h x 8.86w x 0.04d
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  • The World You're Coming Into and Save the Child from Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio by McCartney, Paul
    Paul McCartney

    The World You're Coming Into and Save the Child from Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio

    Paul McCartney was commissioned by The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra to compose a work to mark its 150th anniversary and collaborated with composer/conductor Carl Davis on this 90-minute classical piece, which features soloists Kiri Te Kanawa and Jerry Hadley in a vaguely autobiographical story...
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  • Twelve Variations: 1931 by Britten, Benjamin
    Benjamin Britten

    Twelve Variations: 1931

    Author: Benjamin BrittenISBN-10: 0571509460ISBN-13: 9780571509461Publisher: Faber & FaberLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1998Pages: 16Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbs
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  • Elegy: For Solo Viola, Parts by Britten, Benjamin
    Benjamin Britten

    Elegy: For Solo Viola, Parts

    Britten's Elegy was first performed at The Maltings in Snape, Suffolk, by Nobuko Imai in 1984 as part of the 37th Aldburgh festival. This beautiful piece was originally sketched by Britten in 1930 upon leaving school at the age of sixteen.Author: Benjamin BrittenISBN-10: 0571508839ISBN-13:...
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  • 6 Easy Pieces for Violin and Piano by Elgar, Edward
    Edward Elgar

    6 Easy Pieces for Violin and Piano

    Elgar's Six Easy Pieces were first published in 1892. In this 1985 version, there are now 6 exercises and the opportunity has been taken to revise the original fingering and bowing indications and to remove a number of discrepancies of phrasing and dynamics.Author: Edward...
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  • Faber Early Organ, Vol 16: Italy 1517-1599 by Dalton, James
    James Dalton

    Faber Early Organ, Vol 16: Italy 1517-1599

    The Faber Early Organ Series is among the most comprehensive anthologies of early organ music ever published. In 18 volumes it spans two centuries and six geographical regions, presenting a broad and balanced view of the main forms, styles and composers. Within each geographical...
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  • Faber Early Organ, Vol 7: France 1531-1660 by Dalton, James
    James Dalton

    Faber Early Organ, Vol 7: France 1531-1660

    The Faber Early Organ Series is among the most comprehensive anthologies of early organ music ever published. In 18 volumes it spans two centuries and six geographical regions, presenting a broad and balanced view of the main forms, styles and composers. Within each geographical...
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  • Pieces de Clavecin by Daquin, Louis-Claude
    Louis-Claude Daquin

    Pieces de Clavecin

    Author: Louis-Claude DaquinISBN-10: 0571506526ISBN-13: 9780571506521Publisher: Faber & FaberLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2003Pages: 999Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.80w x 0.40d
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  • Temporal Variations: Part(s) by Britten, Benjamin
    Benjamin Britten

    Temporal Variations: Part(s)

    Author: Benjamin BrittenISBN-10: 0571505910ISBN-13: 9780571505913Publisher: Faber & FaberLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1998Pages: 999Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbs
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  • Phaedra: Score by Britten, Benjamin
    Benjamin Britten

    Phaedra: Score

    Dramatic cantata for mezzo-soprano and small orchestra.Author: Benjamin BrittenISBN-10: 057150521XISBN-13: 9780571505210Publisher: Faber & FaberLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1998Pages: 999Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbs
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  • Fantasy for Trumpet: Part(s) by Arnold, Malcolm
    Malcolm Arnold

    Fantasy for Trumpet: Part(s)

    Author: Malcolm ArnoldISBN-10: 0571503225ISBN-13: 9780571503223Publisher: Faber & FaberLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1998Pages: 999Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.08lbs
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  • Fantasy for Horn: Part(s) by Arnold, Malcolm
    Malcolm Arnold

    Fantasy for Horn: Part(s)

    Malcolm Arnold's famous Fantasy for Horn.Author: Malcolm ArnoldISBN-10: 0571500307ISBN-13: 9780571500307Publisher: Faber & FaberLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1998Pages: 999Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.80w x 0.30d
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  • Curlew River -- A Parable for Church Performance, Op. 71: Vocal Score by Britten, Benjamin
    Benjamin Britten

    Curlew River -- A Parable for Church Performance, Op. 71: Vocal Score

    Curlew River---A Parable for Church Performance (Op. 71) is the first of three Church Parables by Benjamin Britten. The work is based on the Japanese Noh play Sumidagawa (Sumida River) of Juro Motomasa (1395--1431), which Britten saw during a visit to Japan and the...
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