Classical category: 3244 books
Afternoon of a Faun
How Debussy Created a New Music for the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Claude Debussy was the father of the modern era in classical music. His innovations liberated Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Bartók to write their iconoclastic works, and his harmonic inventions are still heard in American jazz. Though he was among the most compelling figures of the Belle Époque, his...
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
(Schirmer Performance Editions). This collection of remarkable jewels by Mozart will be invaluable to teachers and students. The book features some of Mozart's earliest works, a few of which were composed when the young Wolfgang was only six years old. Already present are signs of remarkable taste and...
The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt
Essays and Letters of a Traveling Bachelor of Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
During his early years, Franz Liszt worked as a traveling piano virtuoso, his adventures highlighted by his entrée into the literary world as a correspondent for the most popular French journals of his time. In this second volume of Janita Hall-Swadley’s The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt, Liszt’s...
Fanfares and Finesse
A Performer's Guide to Trumpet History and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Unlike the violin, which has flourished largely unchanged for close to four centuries, the trumpet has endured numerous changes in design and social status from the battlefield to the bandstand and ultimately to the concert hall. This colorful past is reflected in the arsenal of instruments a classical...
Neoclassical Music in America
Voices of Clarity and Restraint
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
From the 1920s to the 1950s, neoclassicism was one of the dominant movements in American music. Today this music is largely in eclipse, mostly absent in performance and even from accounts of music history, in spite of—and initially because of—its adherence to an expanded tonality. No previous...
by Paul Tonks
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. Classical purists say it isn't...
I Sang the Unsingable
My Life in Twentieth-Century Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
American soprano Bethany Beardslee rose to prominence in the postwar years when the modernist sensibilities of European artists and thinkers were flooding American shores and challenging classical music audiences. With her light lyric voice, her musical intuition, and her fearless dedication to new...
The Castrato
Reflections on Natures and Kinds
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of...
by Alicia Kopfstein-Penk
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Leonard Bernstein touched millions of lives as composer, conductor, teacher, and activist. He frequently visited homes around the world through the medium of television, particularly through his fifty-three award-winning Young People’s Concerts (1958-1972), which at their height were seen by nearly...
Frontier Figures
American Music and the Mythology of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions...
The King and I
The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager, Friend and Sometime Adversary
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2004
Luciano Pavarotti’s longtime manager and friend tells all. All.
The King and I is the story of the thirty-six-year-old business relationship between Luciano Pavarotti and his manager, Herbert Breslin, during which Breslin guided what he calls, justifiably, “the greatest career in classical...
Leonard Bernstein
American Original
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
One of the most gifted, celebrated, scrutinized, and criticized musicians in the second half of the twentieth century, Leonard Bernstein made his legendary conducting debut at the New York Philharmonic in 1943, at age 25. A year later, he became a sensation on Broadway with the premiere of On the...
by Johann Sebastian Bach
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This volume presents the complete score for Johann Sebastian Bach's “Flute Sonata in B Minor”. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) was a German musician and composer during the Baroque period. He based his work on existing German styles but often adopted and adapted textures, rhythms, and forms...
Sovereign Feminine
Music and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. Female excellence, and related feminocentric values, were celebrated by forward-looking critics...