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(Schirmer Performance Editions). Six short pieces for piano from Satie's early years, which capture the composer's graceful unconventionality. With historical and performance notes and audio recordings. Intermediate Level.

Musicians who work professionally with ballet and dance companies sometimes wonder if they haven’t entered a foreign country—a place where the language and customs seem so utterly familiar and so bafflingly strange at the same. To someone without a dance background, phrases and terms--boy’s...

Known internationally for his work as a teacher of conducting, Gustav Meier's influence in the field cannot be overstated. In The Score, the Orchestra and the Conductor, Meier demystifies the conductor's craft with explanations and illustrations of what the conductor must know to attain podium success....

(Schirmer Performance Editions). Czerny's popular piano exercises now available in an easy-to-read edition with performance and historical notes. Includes audio of performances demonstrating how the pieces may be thought of as real literature rather than mechanical etudes.

Béla Bartók’s six-book Mikrokosmos cycle is here presented for the first time in a superb single volume. Written between 1926 and 1939, this celebrated musical work spans simple études for beginners and complex technical tours de force aimed at skilled pianists. Bartók’s musical...

(Schirmer Performance Editions). Schirmer Performance Editions are designed for piano students and their teachers as well as for professional pianists. Pedagogical in nature, these editions offer insightful interpretive suggestions, pertinent fingering, and historical and stylistic commentary. Prepared...

(Schirmer Performance Editions). This edition combines the contents of both books of the timeless Bach/Carroll Schirmer Library volume. Includes audio recorded by the editor and performance notes on the individual pieces.

This authoritative version contains the complete Four Seasons plus the rest of Vivaldi's Opus 8, including "The Storm at Sea," "Pleasure," and "The Hunt." Printed from new plates, this crisp, pristine edition includes new English translations of the original sonnets and extensive editorial notes on the composer's life and work.

Titles in The Listener’s Companion: A Scarecrow Press Music Series provide readers with a deeper understanding of key musical genres and the work of major artists and composers. Aimed at nonspecialists, each volume explains in clear and accessible language how to listen to works from particular...

In these enlightening essays, the Austrian composer and music theorist presents his vision of how music speaks to us and what it is capable of saying. This book is full of essays which Arnold Schoenberg wrote on style and idea. He talks about the relationship to the text, new and outmoded music,...

Lyric diction is a portal to powerful and meaningful vocal performance because diction enables singers to communicate the vision of both the poet and the composer. The study of diction involves learning to perceive speech patterns in different languages, practicing their precise articulation, recognizing...

Drawing on twenty years of teaching experience, author Mark Rush systematically builds the fundamentals of violin playing from the ground up. The book focuses on proper setup from how to stand, to holding the violin, to the best way to move the bow. These are fundamental components necessary for success and the earlier these good habits are established the better.

A selection of original piano music exactly as written by the master composers of three centuries. The music provides the pianist with a repertoire which is enjoyable for player and listener alike. Compiled and edited by Denes Agay. Suitable for pianists from grade 2-3 standard.

These arrangements of many pieces by J. S. Bach make the great composer's works accessible to the mandolinist. The bulk of the music has been adapted from various suites, sonatas, and partitas. Includes: 'Bouree Angloise' from Partita in A Minor for Solo Flute, 'Marche' from The Anna Magdalena Bach...