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Commissioned in 1786 by the Paris-based orchestra Le Concert de la Loge Olympique, these six symphonies were created for an extraordinarily large ensemble of both professional and amateur players, including reinforced woodwind parts and a large string section. The symphonies are: Symphony No. 82...

Brahms wrote only two concerti in his lifetime, each one an important staple of the concert repertoire. Noted for their grand classical concepts and thrilling technical challenges, these masterpieces -- Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 -- are featured here in full score in...

This volume contains authoritative Russian editions of three of Tchaikovsky's most popular orchestral works. The 1812 Overture, Op. 49, is among the best known and most beloved of all classical music compositions, thrilling audiences with its stirring martial themes and spectacular climax of roaring...

This authoritative edition presents full-score reproductions of three of Liszt's best-known symphonic poems. Les Pr駘udes (Symphonic Poem No. 3) grew out of the composer's unpublished choral setting of Joseph Autran's poem "The Four Elements," blending stirring martial music and lovely pastoral themes to make...

Mahler's third and fourth symphonies mark a turning point in his development as a composer. Symphony No. 3 (1896) predominantly follows the musical style of the earlier two symphonies, which tended to emphasize a single melodic line with subordinate harmonies. Symphony No. 4 (1900)...

"His melodic imagination displays admirable freshness. He possesses a delicate harmonic sense. His themes show the inspirations of an impassioned musician: perfectly created, firm in line, vivid, and enduring in color. His art never wavers; it consistently exhibits a magnificent technique." -- John Gillespie,...

(String). This collection presents 31 pieces by fifteen composers for the intermediate- to advanced-level player. Includes piano accompaniment part. Includes: JEAN-BAPTISTE ACCOLAY: Concerto No. 1 in A minor JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041 * Concerto No. 2 in...

(Willis). 11 easy and appealing arrangements of favorite classical tunes for 1 piano, 4 hands Titles: Barcarolle (Offenbach) * Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart) * In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) * Minuet in G Major (Petzold) * New World Symphony (Dvorak) *...

(Guitar Solo). If you're looking for a comprehensive collection of the best Baroque guitar repertoire, this is it This one-of-a-kind collection includes selections by Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert de Visee, Ernst Gottlieb Baron, Santiago de Murcia, Antonio Vivaldi, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, and more. Each...

Author: Heitor Villa-LobosISBN-10: 1705104150ISBN-13: 9781705104156Publisher: Max EschigLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2020Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.30lbsSize: 11.90h x 9.00w x 0.90d

(Guitar). Maria Linnemann was born in Amsterdam in 1947 and grew up in England. She attended the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying conducting, piano and violin. Later, inspired by the guitarist, viola player and painter, Martin Nicolai, she turned to the guitar....

(Schott). Elemantaria is a fundamental and practical handbook to Orff-Schulwerk . The author gives suggestions and examples without insisting dogmatically on one exclusive method. She offers well-tried solutions without excluding other possibilities and individual variations. It is not only a valuable personal document, but...

(BH Piano). The definitive edition (1987) of the piano teaching classic. Includes an introduction by the composer's son Peter Bartok. (English/French/German/Hungarian text). In 1945 Bela Bartok described Mikrokosmos as a cycle of 153 pieces for piano written for "didactic" purposes, seeing them as a...

(Music Sales America). Easy Baroque Pieces for Classical Guitar is an outstanding introduction for the beginner to intermediate guitarist to the music of the Baroque. The Baroque period of music flourished in Europe from 1600 to 1750, and is represented by a singleness of...

(Guitar). The solos, duets and songs in this anthology are taken from the original sources and are graded and carefully fingered for the modern player. It is as faithful as possible to the originals while offering a practical performing score suitable for the concert...

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...

(Piano Collection). A fascinating anthology of the great solo piano versions of J.S. Bach's most beloved works. 26 transcriptions by celebrated pianist/composers including Brahms, Liszt, Busoni, Rachmaninoff and others.Author: Johann Sebastian BachISBN-10: 0793568102ISBN-13: 9780793568109Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1999Pages: 228Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.67lbsSize: 11.94h x...

(Piano Method). Use this especially with students who serve as vocal, choral and instrumental accompanists The three central sections are preceded by choral studies and chorales for practice in 4-part reading. The accompaniment section includes 9 popular vocal and instrumental solos; score-reading is practiced...

Author: Charles DanclaISBN-10: 0793554594ISBN-13: 9780793554591Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 20Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.70w x 0.20d

Author: Adolphe AdamISBN-10: 0793553385ISBN-13: 9780793553389Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 8Format: OtherWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.60w x 0.50d

(Piano Large Works). This favorite piano cycle was composed by Mussorgsky in about 3 weeks, and was inspired by the drawings and watercolors of a his friend, the painter Victor Hartmann. Many changes have been made to the score over the years but this...

(Piano). Two Pianos, Four Hands. 2 Copies needed to perform. To see other NFMC selections, click here.Author: Camille Saint-SaensISBN-10: 0793538874ISBN-13: 9780793538874Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.90w x 0.30d

(Piano Collection). Contents: Haydn Sonatas: C major, G major, D major, C minor, E minor * Mozart Sonatas: C major (K. 565), F major (K. 280), F major (K. 332), G major (K. 283), A major (K. 331) * Beethoven Sonatas: G minor, Op....

(Piano Collection). Contents: Sonatina in C Major, Op. 36, No. 1 * Sonatina in G Major, Op. 36, No. 2 * Sonatina in C Major, Op. 36, No. 3 * Sonatina in F Major, Op. 36, No. 4 * Sonatina in G Major, Op....

(Vocal Collection). This collection of carefully prepared recorded piano accompaniments (John Keene, pianist) will become a valuable tool for any student of singing. The book has long been a standard in teaching literature and is very likely to be the first publication a voice...

(Schott). 14 art songs dating from 1925 to 1944 as masterly performed by Teresa Stratas on the Nonesuch record. Includes: Berlin im Licht-Song * Buddy on the Nightshift * Es regnet * Je ne t'aime pas * Klops Lied * Nanna's Lied * Youkali...

(String). Includes these selections from Prokofiev's 1938 ballet: Minuet (Arrival of the Guests), Balcony Scene, Romeo and Juliet Meet Father Lorenzo, Dance of the Knights.Author: Sergei ProkofievISBN-10: 0634084976ISBN-13: 9780634084973Publisher: Warner (CA)Language: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2004Pages: 50Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 11.40h x 7.90w x 0.30d

(Vocal Collection). Most voice teachers and singers still prefer the pianistic, wonderfully gratifying arrangements of this early Italian material made by Alessandro Parisotti in the 1880s. This new edition, newly researched and engraved, includes the original Schirmer "24" plus four additional songs: Sento nel...

(Study Score). Psalm 111 for 2 Sopranos, Countertenor, SATB Chorus and Orchestra. Ricordi continues its commitment to the highest standards of musical research with these new Vivaldi editions, developed in cooperation with the Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi (Antonio Vivaldi Italian Institute). These titles have...

(Vocal Collection). Italian composer Franceso Paolo Tosti (1846-1916) wrote more than 350 songs, among which were favorites of famous singers, from Caruso and Tetrazzini in his day to Pavarotti and Carreras in ours. With a direct and simple grace and sensual Italianate vocal lines,...

(Vocal Collection). This series was designed to supplement traditional vocal instruction and works perfectly as preparatory literature for The First Book of Solos and The First Book of Solos Part II . Each piece is in English and has a limited vocal range as...

Composed for Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes, Daphnis and Chloé was drawn from an ancient Greek fable about a pair of abandoned infants who grow up together, fall in love, and are delivered from the treachery of pirates by the god Pan. Upon receipt...

This volume contains a pair of works originally written for piano by French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) and later orchestrated by him. Conceived as homage to eighteenth-century French music, Le Tombeau de Couperin (Couperin's Tomb) is a four-piece suite consisting of "Prelude," "Forlane," "Menuet,"...

Among the most popular and important modern British composers, Gustav Holst (1874-1934) was a true eccentric, given to odd enthusiasms and mystical musings. His spectacular symphonic work The Planets, first performed in 1918, established his international reputation and remains a staple of the orchestral...

Renowned for their elegance, lively rhythms, and beautiful melodies, Rossini overtures are staples of concerts around the world -- with or without the operas they introduce. This attractive, modestly priced compilation features the overtures from Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), L'italiana...

Beethoven's last string quartets are universally regarded as supreme, transcendent works -- among the greatest and most intimate music in chamber literature. Composed in the last years of the master's life -- from 1823 to 1827 -- these quartets contain astonishing experiments in thematic...

Incredible as it seems today, Bizet's opera Carmen was coolly received at its 1875 premiere at the Paris Op ra-Comique; critics condemned its subject matter as lurid and its music as overly Wagnerian. Now hailed as the composer's supreme achievement, this colorful, passionate work...

In this masterpiece of "program" music, an obsessed musician is overcome by increasingly bizarre visions of his lover. This miniature score version is handy and inexpensive.Author: Hector BerliozISBN-10: 0486298906ISBN-13: 9780486298900Publisher: Dover PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/1997Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.50h x 6.28w x 0.42d

Vivaldi's violin concertos called "The Four Seasons" are one of the best known and loved collections of string music in our time. Their programmatic nature, based on the lines of sonnets printed along with the music, brings seasonal sights and sounds readily and delightfully...

A virtuoso of the piano and a pioneer of musical Romanticism, Carl Maria von Wolfe (1786-1926) wrote piano music of elegance and grandeur enhanced with bravura technical effects that profoundly influenced later 19th-century piano music. This volume presents virtually all Weber's works for piano...

Among Bach's last instrumental compositions are two splendid works that reflect his genius for working complex contrapuntal figures into an expressive, apparently seamless musical texture. The Art of the Fugue, composed ca. 1745-50, consists of nineteen canons and fugues that progressively illustrate the rich...

This edition of Brahms' greatest, most ambitious vocal work is reprinted from the definitive edition of the composer's works, prepared by Breitkopf & H rtel of Leipzig. Inexpensive but sturdily constructed to provide years of pleasurable use, this full score combines all the musical...

Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Julius Caesar in Egypt), to give the opera its rarely used full name, was composed by Handel in 1723-24 and first performed at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, London, in 1724. It remains one of the most popular of Handel's Italian-language...

"Perhaps the most remarkable feature of 'Otello' is not its great set pieces, wonderful as these are, but the fluid melodic and dramatic recitative that links them and binds the whole together. Many composers have dreamed of such a thing -- a flexible vocal...

Tannh舫ser is one of Wagner's richest and most elaborate musical achievements. Here the composer's inexhaustible genius for composition merges with brilliant orchestration to achieve a masterpiece of melodic invention. Since the opera's premiere at Dresden in 1845, generation of listeners have delighted in such...

Melding literary, philosophical, and political -- as well as musical -- influences in his works, Richard Wagner (1813-83) brought the expressive power of German romantic opera to new heights -- indeed, his music was its crowning glory. George Bernard Shaw, a critic not given...

The plays of Shakespeare inspired Verdi's deepest resources. Macbeth (1847) was one of the composer's earliest operatic-dramatic triumphs and Otello (1887) was among his latest. At the end of his life Verdi astonished a public accustomed to his tragic fervor with Falstaff, a gem...

"It was from Haydn that I first learned the true way to compose quartets." -- Mozart Eleven Late String Quartets marks the first volume in a projected monumental undertaking -- the complete Haydn string quartets. Players and students, music historians, and Haydn lovers will...

Jacques Offenbach (1819-80) ranks among the greatest composers of lighthearted operettas, and his famous songs continue to charm millions who know neither their names nor their composer. This volume features the sheet music for 38 popular songs from 14 operettas. All are reproduced from...

This single volume contains all the string quartets of Mozart: the little-known early quartets in an Italianate manner composed between 1770 and 1773: the six quartets dedicated to Franz Josef Haydn (1782-85); the D Major Quartet (K.499) composed in 1786; and the last three...