Classical category: 3244 books
Mozart's Così Fan Tutte
A Short Guide to a Great Opera
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
A couple of smooth army officers in metropolitan Naples become increasingly horrified as they find that they are losing their bet with a misogynist philosopher. The wager? That their fiancées will be faithful. Their disguise as Albanians in an attempt to entrap their fiancées, and the complicity...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an international roster of music specialists, several writing on Puccini for the first time, offers a variety...
Alte Musik
Reclam Sachbuch
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Thomas Forrest Kelly, Professor für Musik in Harvard und ehemaliger Präsident der "Early Music America", bietet in dieser Einführung einen kompakten Überblick über die Alte Musik, die primär die Musik des Mittelalters, der Renaissance und des Barock umfasst - vom Gregorianischen Gesang...
Vie de Rossini – suivi d'annexes
Nouvelle édition 2019
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de Vie de Rossini de Stendhal augmentée d'annexes (Sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. Beyle par Colomb).
ERGONOMIE AMÉLIORÉE :
L'ouvrage a été spécifiquement mis en forme pour votre liseuse.
- Naviguez par simple clic de chapitre à chapitre ou de livre à...
Vies de Haydn, de Mozart et de Métastase – suivi d'annexes
Nouvelle édition 2019
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de Vies de Haydn, de Mozart et de Métastase de Stendhal augmentée d'annexes (Sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. Beyle par Colomb).
ERGONOMIE AMÉLIORÉE :
L'ouvrage a été spécifiquement mis en forme pour votre liseuse.
- Naviguez par simple clic de chapitre...
Rachmaninoff's Complete Songs
A Companion with Texts and Translations
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Sergei Rachmaninoff—the last great Russian romantic and arguably the finest pianist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries—wrote 83 songs, which are performed and beloved throughout the world. Like German Lieder and French mélodies, the songs were composed for one singer, accompanied by a...
Alla Osipenko
Beauty and Resistance in Soviet Ballet
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Alla Osipenko is the gripping story of one of history's greatest ballerinas, a courageous rebel who paid the price for speaking truth to the Soviet State. She studied with Agrippina Vaganova, the most revered and influential of all Russian ballet instructors, and in 1950, she joined the Mariinsky...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
This new collection presents a rich selection of innovative scholarship on the Etruscans, a vibrant, independent people whose distinct civilization flourished in central Italy for most of the first millennium BCE and whose artistic, social and cultural traditions helped shape the ancient Mediterranean,...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
An icon of British national identity and one of the most widely performed twentieth-century composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams has been as much misunderstood as revered; his international impact and enduring influence on areas as diverse as church music, film scores and popular music has been insufficiently...
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2005
Edward Elgar occupies a pivotal place in the British cultural imagination. His music has been heard as emblematic of Empire and the English landscape. The recent success of Anthony Payne's elaboration of the sketches for Elgar's Third Symphony has prompted a critical revaluation of his music. This...
Rebel on Pointe
A Memoir of Ballet and Broadway
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Short, plump, pigeon-toed, and never good enough for mom, Lee Wilson dared to dream she could grow up to be a star. In this uplifting memoir, Wilson describes how she grand jetéd from the stifling suburbia of the 1950s, a world of rigid gender roles, to the only domain where women and men were equally...
The Musical Novel
Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
What is a "musical novel"? This book defines the genre as musical not primarily in terms of its content, but in its form. The musical novel crosses medial boundaries, aspiring to techniques, structures, and impressions similar to those of music. It takes music as a model for its own construction,...
Other Planets
The Complete Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen 1950–2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was arguably the most influential figure of the European postwar avant-garde and unquestionably the most elusive and enigmatic musical thinker of a generation that includes Pierre Boulez, John Cage, and Luciano Berio. His radically new electronic and instrumental...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conducting Music
The Fundamentals and More for Conducting Bands, Orchestras, Choirs, and Ensembles
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The complex art of conducting may look effortless to the casual onlooker; however, it requires a great deal of knowledge and skill. The success of a performance hinges on the director's ability to keep the group playing together and interpreting the music as the composer intended. The Complete Idiot's...