Music-Genres & Styles-Classical

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

In 1921, insurance executive Charles Ives sent out copies of a piano sonata to two hundred strangers. Laden with dissonant chords, complex rhythm, and a seemingly chaotic structure, the so-called Concord Sonata confounded the recipients, as did the accompanying book, Essays before a Sonata....

Composers like Charles Ives, Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich created works that indelibly commemorated American places. Denise Von Glahn analyzes the soundscapes of fourteen figures whose "place pieces" tell us much about the nation's search for its own voice and about...

These previously unpublished lectures by Elliott Carter date to the summer of 1967, when the acclaimed composer taught at the Contemporary Music Workshop held by the University of Minnesota. Leading an introductory course on orchestra repertoire, Carter gave nine hours of lectures covering principal...

(Music Sales America). The Maccabaean Revolt in the second century B.C. provided the background to the story that unfolds in Judas Maccabaeus . It is part of the history of the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires. This oratorio follows the story from the death of...

(Music Sales America). Most of the English-speaking choral singers who make up their country's thriving choirs and choral societies will have sung Bach's great Passions in English at some time or other. This edition is in both English and German, giving the individual choir...

(Music Sales America). The Music Makers is a delightful ode set for Alto solo, SATB chorus and orchestra accompaniment, using words by Arthur O'Shaughnessy. This edition is the Vocal Score with a Piano reduction of the Orchestra score.Author: Edward ElgarISBN-10: 0853605130ISBN-13: 9780853605133Publisher: Novello &...

(Music Sales America). For SAATBB soli, SSAATB chorus and instruments. Edited by Peter Dennison. This vocal score includes a piano reduction of the instrumental score.Author: Henry PurcellISBN-10: 0853604843ISBN-13: 9780853604846Publisher: Novello & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2003Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.53h x 6.46w x 0.32d

(Music Sales America). A sacred oratorio, written in 1738 arranged for SSATBB, edited, and the piano accompaniment arranged by Mendelssohn.Author: George Frideric HandelISBN-10: 0853604835ISBN-13: 9780853604839Publisher: Novello & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2003Pages: 175Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.70h x 6.60w x 0.40d

(Music Sales America). Psalm 48. Anthem for SATB and organ or orchestra. First performed in Westminster Abbey, 16 July 1912. Full score and orchestral material on hire.Author: Edward ElgarISBN-10: 0853604134ISBN-13: 9780853604136Publisher: Novello & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2003Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 10.10h x 0.20w x 0.40d

Drawing on newly available archival material, key works, and correspondence of the era, Australian Music and Modernism defines "Australian Music" as an idea that emerged through the lens of the modernist discourse of the 1960s and 70s. At the same time that the new...

(BH Piano). The great Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera (1916-83) is considered one of foremost talents of the twentieth century. Among his many compositions for piano, Danzas argentinas is probably the most performed by students and professionals around the world. The suite was composed in...

This long-awaited study of the life and music of Anglo-Irish composer Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950) finally provides a full biography of the last senior figure in early twentieth-century British Music to have been without one. This long-awaited study of the life and music of...

A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...

A great collection of 30 popular traditional Vietnamese songs that piano and guitar players will enjoy.Do you want to play the best Vietnamese traditional songs for piano or guitar? In this book you will find easy piano sheet music to learn the best Vietnamese...

This book examines Delius's individual approaches to genre, form, harmony, orchestration and literary texts which gave the composer's musical style such a unique voice. Frederick Delius' (1862-1934) music has proved impervious to analytical definition. Delius's approaches to genre, form, harmony, orchestration and literary texts...

Irish National Opera Director Fergus Sheil writes: It was bittersweet to read this book and write this foreword in the summer of 2020. At the time of writing, opera houses around the world are closed due to the catastrophic effect of the Covid-19 pandemic....

Ranging widely over classical music, jazz, popular music, and film and television music, Musical Meaning uncovers the historical importance of asking about meaning in the lived experience of musical works, styles, and performances. Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of...

The first modern English edition of Richard Wagner's essays on conducting, extensively annotated, with a critical essay on Wagner as conductor: his aesthetic, practices, vocabulary, and impact. Richard Wagner was one of the leading conductors of his time. Through his disciples Hans von B?ow,...

Drawing on a wealth of unexplored sources, this biography offers the first comprehensive critical reappraisal of the life and works of Nikolay Myaskovsky. Zuk's account is far removed from Cold War clich駸 of the regimented Soviet artist or sentimental stereotypes of persecuted genius. 2022...

An innovative study of the ways in which theological themes related to earthly and heavenly 'treasures' and Bach's own apparent attentiveness to the spiritual values related to money intertwined in his sacred music. In Johann Sebastian Bach's Lutheran church setting, various biblical ideas were...

The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works. But a richer understanding of the music of the past may be obtained by also considering the afterlives of a composer's works. Genealogies of Music and Memory asks how...

Born in Bonn, Germany, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) showed musical talent from an early age and was first taught by his musician father, Johann, an alcoholic who often beat his son. At the age of 21, Beethoven moved to Vienna, where he studied with...

Explores how modernist films use classical music in ways that restore the music's original subversive energy.Author: Matthew LauISBN-10: 1438476302ISBN-13: 9781438476308Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/02/2020Pages: 186Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d

A timely attempt to re-map a critical appreciation of early twentieth-century modernism through a Nordic lens. Following the end of the Cold War, a former East-West binary model of European identity has been replaced with a series of more complex and variegated patterns. Northern...

The Complete Learning Experience of Professional Piano Lessons + Explainer Videos by A Trained Piano Teacher Have you always wanted to play the piano, but didn't know where to start?Maybe you never got the chance as a kid?Or maybe you haven't played the piano...

This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics during the Third Reich. Making extensive use of archival material, including some discussed here for the first time, Fritz Tr?pi offers new insight into the orchestras' place in the larger political constellation....

Marking the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, this volume presents twenty-one completely new essays on aspects of Beethoven's personal life, his composing process, his manuscripts, and his greatest works. Beethoven's music stands as a universal symbol of personal and artistic achievement. As we...

By common consent the leading British composer of the twentieth-century's middle decades, Britten continues to create significant contexts for the work of those who survived and succeeded him. This collection of revised reprints of essays, reviews and analyses first published between 1995 and 2018...

A new and wide-ranging collection of essays by leading international scholars, exploring the concept and practices of virtuosity in Franz Liszt and his contemporaries. In the annals of music history, few figures have dominated the discussion of virtuosity as much as Franz Liszt. A...

Covering Brahms's 32 song opuses published during four decades of song-writing, this book offers a way of understanding what Brahms believed to be the right poetic basis for his immortal music. Johannes Brahms's much-loved solo songs continue to be enjoyed in recordings and on...

Franz Liszt was preoccupied with a fundamental but difficult question: what is the content of music? His answer lay in his symphonic poems, a group of orchestral pieces intended to depict a variety of subjects drawn from literature, visual art and drama. Today, the...

Excerpt from I Capuleti E I Montecchi: Tragedia Lirica da Rappresentarsi Nel Gran Teatro la Fenice IL Carnovale dell'Anno 1830 C 1tam nte avrebbe ripugnato la modestia del giovine Compositore; Chi sa quanto costi camminare su traccie di gia segnate, esostituire-huow concetti ai gi...

(Vocal Collection). Volume 14 in the complete Tosti songs series, this collection presents miscellaneous songs from various texts, with extensive notes about the songs in English.Author: Francesco Paolo TostiISBN-10: 8875927197ISBN-13: 9788875927196Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2004Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 11.60h x 8.80w x 0.30d

(Music Sales America). Sibelius completed this work in February 1923 and conducted the premiere at Helsinki on February 19 of that same year. His first reference to the work, in 1918, described it as "wild and passionate in character. Dark with pastoral contrasts. Probably...

WE SANG BETTER consists of two volumes of very clear advice about singing from great singers of the past. Volume 1 (ISBN 978-84-940477-8-7) is entitled 'How we sang' and contains 250 tips on how to sing from singers 1800 to 1960. This volume is...

(PWM). Includes 11 Waltzes published posthumously: A minor, 3 Waltzes in A-flat Major, D-flat Major, E minor, 2 Waltzes in F minor, G-flat Major, and 2 Waltzes in B minor. See 00132358 for the Waltzes published during the composer's lifetime. The National Edition of...

A group of resourceful kids start "solution-seekers.com," a website where "cybervisitors" can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...

A group of resourceful kids start "solution-seekers.com," a website where "cybervisitors" can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...