Music-Genres & Styles-Classical

The exhilarating mix of humor, philosophy, fact and whimsy that marks these essays derives from more than 200 lectures Bruce Adolphe has given over most of the past decade, at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and at music festivals around the country....

The theoretical and musical background to the relationship between the piano and orchestra in Mozart's concertos. The interactive relationship between the piano and the orchestra in Mozart's concertos is an issue central to the appreciation of these great works, but one that has not...

(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. Includes a note from the composer and performance notes.Author: Steve ReichISBN-10: 1617807249ISBN-13: 9781617807244Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2011Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 10.57h x 6.82w x 0.56d

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...

Throughout her long and illustrious career, Lillian Fuchs was lauded as one of the first great American violists. This penetrating study of Ms. Fuchs's professional life as a performer, teacher, composer, arranger, and chamber music coach offers a fascinating view of this remarkable personality....

(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). HPS 1152Author: Steve ReichISBN-10: 1617803944ISBN-13: 9781617803949Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2004Pages: 160Format: Paperback

Like Shakespeare, J.S. Bach is known largely by his works. Peter Williams asks many questions in this examination of the man as well as the composer. What was Bach like as a youth, father, and, eventually, church elder? What music did he know and...

(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). The two sets of Old American Songs are beloved, standard vocal literature. This edition combines them in one publication, and also transposes them from the original Medium Voice keys both up for High Voice, and down for Low Voice. The...

In his monumental Ninth Symphony, one of Mahler's greatest and most popular works, the composer experimented with the four-movement symphonic form, producing a masterpiece of musical innovation, satiric writing, and poetic drama, expressed in purely instrumental terms. Alban Berg described the first movement as...

(Music Minus One). This collection of modern-day classics hails from the pen of America's most popular flute composer, Gary Schocker. Each of these works is written for solo flute with piano accompaniment and occupies a range of difficulty levels. Performed by Mr. Schocker himself...

(Music Minus One). Performed by Anton Hollich, clarinet Accompaniment: Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Emil Kahn This album of magnificent concert-pieces hails from the greatest works in musical history. Includes the finest concert pieces, beautifully arranged for clarinet and orchestra, ranging from Bach's masterful 'Air...

Fantasy Pieces examines from several vantage points a vital life-force of Robert Schumann's music, namely metrical conflict. Harald Krebs's imaginative yet rigorous study makes use of Schumann's fascinating projections of his own personality--the characters Florestan and Eusebius--as one means of addressing the biographical and...

(LKM Music). Second Violin Part and Edition by Jascha Heifetz Score with pullout violin I and II partsAuthor: George Frederick HandelISBN-10: 1581061757ISBN-13: 9781581061758Publisher: Lauren Keiser Music PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2014Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 11.40h x 0.30w x 0.70d

Songbook with 48 Themes from Classical Music - notated for the Chromatic Harmonica.The tones of the melodies were prepared with simple symbols, the rhythm of the tones is given by the classical music notation.The sounds of the songs (melody with accompanying band as well...

Beethoven Symphonies Revisited guides the reader -- music student, concert goer, or general music lover -- through the movements in a way that renews the novelty and excitement that listeners must have felt at the first performances. Stylistic discussion concentrates on the unusual features...

Derived from a popular series of lecture-recitals presented by Carol Montparker over the past several years, The Composer's Landscape features eight insightful essays on the piano repertoire. Each chapter focuses on a single composer: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, and Mendelssohn. Montparker...

This heartbreaking tale uncovers a mystery in the life of one of the most important personalities of the twentieth century, guitarist Andr駸 Segovia (1893-1987). He married the widowed Paquita Madriguera (1900-1965), famous child prodigy pianist and prized student of Enrique Granados, in 1935 as...

John Bell Young explores some of the richest and most memorable instrumental music ever written. How did this prolific musician compose more than a thousand masterpieces in a career that spanned less than two decades? Young's colorful analysis of a Schubert's greatest orchestral, piano...

Ludwig van Beethoven had a life beyond music. He considered it his duty to spend leisure-time improving his Bildung (sophistication). To this end he familiarised himself with tangible manifestations of Greco-Roman antiquity, for he perceived these cultures and their representatives as examples of intellectual,...

Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Classical Music - 2020 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence The Other Toscanini is the only book in English about the Argentine conductor and composer H ctor Panizza (1875-1967). Known all over the...

This anthology of arias for countertenors and female altos and mezzo-sopranos 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,...

Foreword Reviews 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Winner in Performing Arts & Music Anshel Brusilow started playing violin in 1933 at age five, in a Russian Jewish neighborhood of Philadelphia where practicing your instrument was as ordinary as hanging out the laundry....

With more than three hundred recordings to his name and multiple GRAMMY nominations, José Serebrier is one of the busiest and most successful conductors around. Admired across the globe, he has proven for several decades that he is not only one of the most...

(Guitar). Concentrating on the melody or harmony of a piece is a great exercise for when you have to do both. For this book, author James Douglas Esmond has chosen a dozen pieces out of the classical domain which are not found in the...

Everyday Musical Life among the Indigenous Bunun, Taiwan contributes to multidisciplinary research on music in everyday human life by pushing beyond the urbanized Western populations routinely featured in such writing. Based on ethnographic study in Buklavu, a village in southern Taiwan mostly inhabited by...

Analyzes two groups of "musical novels" -- novels that take music as a model for their construction -- including jazz novels by Toni Morrison and Michael Ondaatje, and novels based on Bach's Goldberg Variations. What is a "musical novel"? This book defines the genre...

Nava Varna Kritis are a great gift for us all. The structure of those songs and the ragas selected for each chakra are a beauty. Dikshitar systematically reaches from base to Bindu in each song and explains the greatness of the position of the...

Ever since the nineteenth century, descriptions of musical form have tended to rely heavily on architectonic analogies. In contrast, earlier discussions more often invoked the metaphor of a journey to describe the structure of a composition. In Journeys Through Galant Expositions, author L. Poundie...

From classical music to Jazz the journey is long and magical, as the chords are revised, transforming like the colors of a sky during sunset. Keep in mind that melody is the boat and harmony is its sail ... In this book you have...

(Willis). A collection of early intermediate piano solos compiled and edited by noted composer William Gillock.Author: William GillockISBN-10: 1540071537ISBN-13: 9781540071538Publisher: Willis Music CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2005Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.70w x 0.20d

(Schott). Contents: I. Zwischen Berg und tiefem Tal * II. Nun laube, Lindlein, laube * Fugato: Der Gutzgauch auf dem Zaune sass * III. Variationen: Seid ihr nicht der Schwanendreher.Author: Paul HindemithISBN-10: 3795795133ISBN-13: 9783795795139Publisher: SchottLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1984Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 11.73h x 8.90w x...

(Full Score). English Only Cloth Score.Author: Gian-Carlo MenottiISBN-10: 1540069257ISBN-13: 9781540069252Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 12.00h x 9.00w x 0.41d

Author: Anastassia IvanovaISBN-10: 3639088948ISBN-13: 9783639088946Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/05/2008Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d

(Vocal Collection). Songs especially good for auditions have been chosen from Volumes 1-5 of The Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology and edited to 30-40 second "16-Bar" excerpts. Each volume includes over 100 songs in original keys.Author: Richard WaltersISBN-10: 1540020282ISBN-13: 9781540020284Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Author: Charles Sandford Terry, Johann Sebastian BachISBN-10: 1906857202ISBN-13: 9781906857202Publisher: Travis and Emery Music BookshopLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2009Pages: 698Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.12lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.40d

For nearly a century, it has inspired composers, scholars, critics, performers, and visual artists. Severine Neff re-creates for her readers the quartet's historical, cultural, and musical background-its introduction of the human voice, its genesis during a personal crisis in the composer's life, the scandal...

John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College London, in German language and literature. He has worked in personnel administration, record retailing and bibliographic research for a government agency and is on the lecture panel of the National Federation of Music...

Johann Sebastian Bach's works are often classified as either sacred or secular. While this distinction is fraught, it seems to provide a useful way to distinguish between Bach's vocal works for the liturgy and those he wrote to honor courts and members of the...

John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College London, in German language and literature. He has worked in personnel administration, record retailing and bibliographic research for a government agency and is on the lecture panel of the National Federation of Music...

SchottVocal (German) and Guitar.Author: BreuerISBN-10: 3795740029ISBN-13: 9783795740023Publisher: SchottLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1979Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.40w x 0.60d

(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). Based on the Zoltan Szekely arrangement of Bartok's Roumanian Folk Dances for violin and piano. Kalman Berkes' transcription now makes this work available for clarinet and piano.Author: Bela BartokISBN-10: 3702420614ISBN-13: 9783702420611Publisher: Universal EditionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2009Pages: 10Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 11.70h...

Texts and translation of all Debussy's songs with valuable notes. This completely revised second edition of The Poetic Debussy contains the most recent discoveries in the composer's oeuvre, including a number of hitherto unknown songs. The texts of all Debussy's songs, both in the...

Antony Hopkins was most instrumental in opening up classical music to a wider audience. To celebrate his 90th birthday in 2011 (21st March, same date as Bach but different year) we are republishing some of his works.Author: Antony HopkinsISBN-10: 1849550336ISBN-13: 9781849550338Publisher: Travis and Emery...

Antony Hopkins was most instrumental in opening up classical music to a wider audience. To celebrate his 90th birthday in 2011 (21st March, same date as Bach but different year) we are republishing some of his works.Author: Antony HopkinsISBN-10: 1849550131ISBN-13: 9781849550130Publisher: Travis and Emery...

This book presents new information about Rachmaninoff accessed from unique sources previously unavailable in English. From the extraordinary women who inspired him, to his humanitarian work, to his religion, Nollan interweaves Rachmaninoff's personal struggles and triumphs into his concert career.Author: Valeria Z. NollanISBN-10: 1666917591ISBN-13:...

An essential book for scholars and students of renaissance music, as well as the history of music publishing and print. The Renaissance composer and organist Thomas Morley (c.1557-1602) is best known as a leading member of the English Madrigal School, but he also built...

In the baroque era most concertos were - in the modern sense of the term - chamber music, to be played by a small group of musicians each reading from an individual printed or manuscript part. Indeed, composers often expected the soloist to be...

(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). These delightful collections of carefully-selected pieces provide the perfect repertoire resource for aspiring Grade 1 and Grade 2 instrumentalists. Each piece included in these wide-ranging collections is complemented by useful practice and performance tips. A CD of demonstration and...

Classical Sheet Music For Euphonium With Euphonium & Piano Duets - Book 1Including Euphonium/Piano DuetsThe Euphonium parts in this book are written in treble clef, there is also a bass clef version of this book for players who prefer to read bass clef, you...

(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). Another volume in the Masterworks Library of full scores collected in one volume.Author: Sergei RachmaninoffISBN-10: 0851624642ISBN-13: 9780851624648Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2005Pages: 285Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.46lbsSize: 11.90h x 8.90w x 0.70d