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Vendor: Bela Bartok
Bartok for Flute: The Boosey & Hawkes Bartok Edition
(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). The Boosey & Hawkes Bartok Edition showcases brand new stylish arrangements of highlights from the leading twentieth century composer for developing musicians to learn and enjoy. Bartok for Flute features selected highlights from Bartok's most popular pedagogical repertoire including...- $18.99
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Vendor: K. Robert Schwartz
Minimalists
This accessible yet informative book, the first in its area aimed at a general readership, offers a unique overview of the controversial musical style of Minimalism - a name originally attributed to the movement as a derogatory term, in the same way as Impressionism...- $14.95
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Vendor: E. Harrison Gordon
Black Classical Musicians of the 20th Century, Volume 1
Black Classical Musicians of the Twentieth Century pays homage to the overwhelming number of black musicians who have graced the stages of world-renowned opera houses and other musical landmarks. Not only are we educated about their many contributions to classical music; we are also...- $10.00
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Vendor: Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein: Complete Anniversaries for Piano
(BH Piano). All of Bernstein's "anniversaries" in one complete package for the first time, includes: Four Anniversaries, Five Anniversaries, Seven Anniversaries, and Thirteen Anniversaries. Contents: FOUR ANNIVERSARIES: For Felicia Montealegre * For Johnny Mehegan * For David Diamond * For Helen Coates * FIVE...- $16.99
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Vendor: Daniel K. L. Chua
The Galitzin Quartets of Beethoven: Opp. 127, 132, 130
This study is an analysis of the first three of Beethoven's late quartets, Opp. 127, 132, and 130, commissioned by Prince Nikolai Galitzin. The five late quartets, usually considered as a group, were written in the same period as the Missa solemnis and the...- $120.00
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Vendor: Yaokun Yang
An Analytical Study on Performance Practices
In this collection of academic essays, award-winning pianist and music professor Yaokun Yang shares her carefully compiled analyses of classical music and aesthetics during several different periods, focusing particularly on the aspect of piano performance practice. Yang, who devoted six years to her research,...- $13.99
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Vendor: Thomas S. Grey
Richard Wagner and His World
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual arts, even religion and philosophy. Equally celebrated and vilified in...- $37.00
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Vendor: Wolfgang Marx
Music and Death: Funeral Music, Memory and Re-Evaluating Life
Music gives specific meanings to our lives, but also to how we experience death; it forms a central part of death rituals, consoles survivors, and celebrates the deceased. Music & Death investigates different musical engagements with death. Its eleven essays examine a broad range...- $115.00
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Vendor: Jon W. Finson
Robert Schumann: The Book of Songs
Arguably no other nineteenth-century German composer was as literate or as finely attuned to setting verse as Robert Schumann. Jon W. Finson challenges long-standing assumptions about Schumann's Lieder, engaging traditionally held interpretations. He argues against the belief that the "Year of Song" simply reflects...- $78.00
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Vendor: Allen Shawn
Arnold Schoenberg's Journey
Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award in Concert Music Books Proposing that Arnold Schoenberg has been more discussed than heard, more tolerated than loved, Allen Shawn puts aside ultimate judgments about Schoenberg's place in music history to explore the composer's fascinating world in...- $33.00
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Vendor: John Glenn Paton
26 Italian Songs and Arias: Medium Low Voice
This authoritative edition of the world's most loved songs and arias draws on original manuscripts, historical first editions, and recent research by prominent musicologists to meet a high standard of accuracy and authenticity. Includes fascinating background information about the arias and their composers, as...- $12.99
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Vendor: H. Voxman
From the Baroque: Duets for Clarinet
(Ensemble Collection). This new Rubank edition is the first new book from the incomparable Himie Voxman in decades It includes 38 duets for clarinet from the works of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Jean-Marie Leclair and Georg Phillip Telemann.Author: H. VoxmanISBN-10: 0634094173ISBN-13: 9780634094170Publisher: Rubank PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished:...- $12.99
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Vendor: Girolamo Frescobaldi
First Book of Toccatas and Partitas for Organ or Cembalo, Vol 1: For Organ or Cembalo, Comb Bound Book
The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance.Author: Girolamo FrescobaldiISBN-10: 0769242391ISBN-13: 9780769242392Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1985Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 12.06h x 9.00w x 0.25d- $17.95
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Vendor: Carl Czerny
Czerny - Selections from the Little Pianist, Opus 823: Technique Classics Series Hal Leonard Student Piano Library
(Educational Piano Library). The 29 etudes in this book are taken from Carl Czerny's The Little Pianist, Opus 823 . These engaging etudes are comparable to their famous "older brothers," the studies found in The Art of Finger Dexterity, but are written for students...- $8.99
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Vendor: Heinrich Schenker
The Art of Performance
Heinrich Schenker's The Art of Performance shows this great music theorist in a new light. While his theoretical writings helped transform music theory in the twentieth century, this book draws on his experience as a musician and teacher to propose a sharp reevaluation of...- $83.00
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Vendor: Julian Bream
The Classical Guitar Collection: 48 Great Classical Guitar Solos for Intermediate to Advanced Level Players
The Classical Guitar Collection contains 48 classical guitar solos from classical greats such as Mozart, Grieg, Purcell, and J. S. Bach. This collection features many of Julian Bream's classic arrangements of well-known guitar masterpieces for intermediate to advanced level guitar students.Author: Julian BreamISBN-10: 0571538797ISBN-13:...- $25.99
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Vendor: Edgard Varese
Density 21.5: For Solo Flute
(Woodwind Solo). Written in January 1936, at the request of Georges Barrere for the inauguration of his platinum flute. 21.5 is the density of platinum.Author: Edgard VareseISBN-10: 148030476XISBN-13: 9781480304765Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1989Pages: 4Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 11.60h x 8.60w x 0.40d- $8.95
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Vendor: Laura Tunbridge
The Song Cycle
The song cycle was one of the most important musical genres of the nineteenth century. Famous examples by Schubert, Schumann and Mahler have received a great deal of attention. Yet many other cycles - by equally famous composers, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...- $95.00
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Vendor: Terence M. Russell
Beethoven - The Piano Sonatas - An Anthology of Selected Writings
The subjects of the monographs in this series are selected works of Beethoven relating to their creation origins and reception history.They incorporate contextual accounts of Beethoven and his contemporaries and estimations of his music as expressed by musicians and musicologist in the nineteenth century...- $24.99
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Vendor: David Yearsley
Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint
This book offers new interpretations of many of Bach's late compositions which include complex musical techniques such as canon. These techniques held great significance for Bach and his contemporaries not only on account of the great skill they demanded but because of the meanings...- $120.00
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Vendor: Beate Perrey
The Cambridge Companion to Schumann
This Companion is an accessible introduction to Schumann: his time, his temperament, his style and his oeuvre. An international team of scholars explores the cultural context, musical and poetic fabric, sources of inspiration and interpretative reach of key works from the Schumann repertoire ranging...- $95.00
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Vendor: Richard Walters
The Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology - Volume 6: Tenor Book/Online Audio
(Vocal Collection). A collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type. The selections are presented in their authentic settings, excerpted from the original vocal scores. Contents: THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE: My Unfortunate Erection * ALADDIN: Proud of Your...- $42.99
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Vendor: Susan Youens
Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder
Schubert's choice of poets has traditionally come under fire for the preponderance of mediocre talent, and yet many of these writers were highly esteemed in their day. The author has chosen four such poets--Gabriele von Baumberg, Theodor K rner, Johann Mayrhofer, and Ernst Schulze--in...- $58.99
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Vendor: Faye López
An Impressionist-Style Service: 10 Hymn Arrangements Inspired by Impressionist Masterworks
An Impressionist-Style Service combines favorite hymns with excerpts from beloved masterworks by Impressionist period composers---Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, and others. These medleys range from prayerful to jubilant and can be used for various types of services. Titles: Break Thou the Bread of Life / Ravel's...- $12.99
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Vendor: Cliff Eisen
The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia
Mozart's enduring popularity, among music lovers as a composer and among music historians as a subject for continued study, lies at the heart of The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia. This reference book functions both as a starting point for information on specific works, people, places...- $57.99
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Vendor: John Field
18 Nocturnes: Schirmer Library of Classics Volume 42 Piano Solo
(Piano Collection). Contents: Nocturne No. 1 In E-Flat Major, H. 24 * Nocturne No. 2 In C Minor, H. 25 * Nocturne No. 3 In A-Flat Major, H. 26 * Nocturne No. 4 In A Major, H. 36 * Nocturne No. 5 In B-Flat...- $15.99
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Vendor: Jan Smaczny
Dvor疚: Cello Concerto
Although Dvor k's cello concerto is enormously popular, no extended study of it has been undertaken hitherto. This book is a comprehensive study intended for concertgoers and students of this well-loved work. It considers aspects of historical background, form, virtuosity, performance and the concerto's...- $68.00
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Vendor: Deborah Mawer
The Cambridge Companion to Ravel
This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the life, music and compositional aesthetic of French composer Maurice Ravel (1875SH1937). Leading international scholars offer a powerful reassessment of this most private and elusive musician, examining his work in detail within its cultural context. Marking the...- $34.99
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Vendor: Meredith Monk
Piano Album: For Solo Piano and 2 Pianos
(BH Piano). This collection for solo piano and 2 pianos features seven of Meredith Monk's original piano works. Contents: Railroad (Travel Song) * Paris * Window in 7's * St. Petersburg Waltz * Ellis Island * Folkdance * Phantom Waltz. Includes performance notes by...- $19.95
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Vendor: Timothy L. Jackson
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (Path騁ique)
Tchaikovsky's final symphony has fascinated generations of music lovers since its first performance just over a century ago. Professor Jackson explores sensitively and without prejudice the question of the Path tique's program and its relation to Tchaikovsky's homosexuality and death. The book covers the...- $95.00
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Vendor: W. J. Henderson
The Orchestra and Orchestral Music
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $33.95
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Vendor: Timothy L. Jackson
Sibelius Studies
Sibelius Studies presents a new portrait of this popular and prolific composer. Sibelius's symphonies often have been mentioned in the same breath with Beethoven's; indeed, in the twentieth century, they have enjoyed a commensurate popularity. The book contextualizes Sibelius' symphonies and tone poems in...- $135.00
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Vendor: Lloyd Schwartz
Music in and on the Air
Music In and On the Air is a wonderful collection of radio pieces from Pulitzer Prize winning critic Lloyd Schwartz. The book explores contemporary classics, musical theatre and film, and includes almost all the reviews Schwartz has presented since becoming the classical music critic...- $22.00
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Vendor: Peter Hill
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
The Rite of Spring is Stravinsky's most revolutionary work. This comprehensive guide tells in vivid detail the story of its inception and composition, of the stormy rehearsals that led to the scandalous premiere in 1913, and of Stravinsky's later betrayal of the ballet's first...- $95.00
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Vendor: Kiene Brillenburg Wurth
Musically Sublime: Indeterminacy, Infinity, Irresolvability
Musically Sublime rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. Music enables us to reconsider the traditional course of sublime feeling on a track from pain to pleasure. Resisting the notion that there is a single format for sublime feeling, Wurth shows how,...- $33.00
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Vendor: David Schiff
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
The Rhapsody in Blue (1924) established Gershwin's reputation as a serious composer and has since become one of the most popular of all American concert works. In this richly informative guide David Schiff considers the piece as musical work, historical event and cultural document....- $63.00
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Vendor: Bruce Nelson
Simply Baroque: 27 Well Known Masterpieces
Simply Baroque is a collection of arias, choral works, concerto themes, dances, and keyboard and string masterpieces from the Baroque period of music history. These selections have been carefully arranged by Bruce Nelson for Easy Piano, making them accessible to pianists of all ages....- $12.95
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Vendor: Geoffrey Block
Ives: Concord Sonata
Charles Ives' massive Concord Sonata, his second sonata for piano, named after the town of Concord in Massachusetts, is central to his output and clearly reflects his aesthetic perspective. Geoffrey Block's wide-ranging account of the work thus provides an ideal introduction to this fascinating...- $95.00
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Vendor: Giuseppe Verdi
Otello: Vocal Score
(Vocal Score). Italian/English. Translated by Heuffer.Author: Giuseppe VerdiISBN-10: 0634072374ISBN-13: 9780634072376Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.07lbsSize: 10.60h x 7.90w x 0.90d- $34.95
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Vendor: David Cooper
Bart: Concerto for Orchestra
Bart k's Concerto for Orchestra has proven to be one of the most popularly successful concert works of the twentieth century. It is seen by its champions as an example of Bart k's seamless blend of Eastern European folk music and Western art music,...- $63.00
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
The G. Schirmer Collection of American Art Song: 50 Songs by 29 Composers: High Voice
(Vocal Collection). This comprehensive collection is the best one-volume source available on the topic, with a mix of familiar recital standards and intriguing material awaiting discovery. Includes composers from c. 1900 into the 21st century. Some songs make their first published appearance in American...- $29.99
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Vendor: Colin Lawson
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto is of supreme importance as his last instrumental work. Yet there are a number of special problems surrounding the piece, since the autograph is lost and the unique instrument for which it was written has not survived. This book presents a...- $40.99
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Vendor: Hal Leonard Corp
The Baroque Era - Easy to Intermediate Piano: 91 Selections from Keyboard Literature, Concertos, Oratorios and Operas
(World's Greatest Classical Music). The Baroque period (1600-1750) is represented by 67 piano pieces and 24 transcriptions for easy to intermediate piano. There are 25 composers in the collection, including J.S. Bach, Couperin, Handel, Pachelbel, Purcell, Telemann and Vivaldi. Contents: D'ANGLEBERT: Menuet * C.P.E....- $21.99
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Vendor: Colin Lawson
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto is of supreme importance as his last instrumental work. Yet there are a number of special problems surrounding the piece, since the autograph is lost and the unique instrument for which it was written has not survived. This book presents a...- $95.00
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Vendor: James Hepokoski
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
Sibelius's Fifth is one of the great late-Romantic symphonies. In this searching account, based on a wealth of new information, James Hepokoski takes a fresh look at the work and its composer. His findings have implications beyond Sibelius himself into the entire repertory of...- $95.00
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Vendor: Julian Rushton
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Elgar's Variations for Orchestra, commonly known as the 'Enigma' Variations, marked an epoch both in his career, and in the renaissance of English music at the turn of the century. The first extended study of the work, this Cambridge Music Handbook contains historical information...- $95.00
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Vendor: Joy H. Calico
Arnold Schoenberg's a Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe: Volume 17
Joy H. Calico examines the cultural history of postwar Europe through the lens of the performance and reception of Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw--a short but powerful work, she argues, capable of irritating every exposed nerve in postwar Europe. Schoenberg, a Jewish composer...- $60.00
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Vendor: Alan Blyth
Choral Music on Record
Following the successful volumes of Song on Record, this book surveys all the recordings of major choral works from the Monteverdi Vespers to Britten's War Requiem. Discussion of the various interpretations on record is preceded, in each chapter, by informed criticism of the work...- $41.99
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Vendor: Annette Richards
The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque
This book brings together music and visual arts, especially the art of landscape gardening, in the context of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century English and German culture. The aesthetic of the picturesque, derived from the controlled wilderness of the landscape garden, provided writers on...- $65.99
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Vendor: Robert A. Green
The Hurdy-Gurdy in Eighteenth-Century France, Second Edition
The hurdy-gurdy, or vielle, has been part of European musical life since the eleventh century. In eighteenth-century France, improvements in its sound and appearance led to its use in chamber ensembles. This new and expanded edition of The Hurdy-Gurdy in Eighteenth-Century France offers the...- $25.00
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