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Handsome, unabridged, inexpensive edition of modern masterpiece renowned for brilliant orchestration, glowing color, evocative power. Reprinted from authoritative Russian edition. Includes list of characters and instruments, plus new English translation of Table of Contents.

Romantic Anatomies of Performance is concerned with the very matter of musical expression: the hands and voices of virtuosic musicians. Rubini, Chopin, Nourrit, Liszt, Donzelli, Thalberg, Velluti, Sontag, and Malibran were prominent celebrity pianists and singers who plied their trade between London...

This landmark of 20th-century symphonic writing, one of Mahler's most popular and admired works, is notable for innovation, poetic drama and the fresh and formidable thinking Mahler brought to its composition. The full orchestral score is reprinted here from authoritative Universal-Edition, Vienna, 1912. New glossary of German terms.

Splendid compilation features a variety of the composer's best piano works, including "Danse Macabre" (presented here in the brilliant arrangement by Liszt), "Allegro appassionato," "Album" (consisting of 6 pieces), "Rhapsodie d'Auvergne," "Theme and Variations," plus 6 etudes, 3 waltzes, and 6 etudes for left hand alone. Introduction. Reproduced from authoritative sources

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"Ave Maria" ( Bach / Gounod ), Sheet Music for Violin & Piano. And also suitable for: Trumpet in C, Oboe and Flute, Recorder Type of Score: Full Score, Solo Part Arranged and produced by Viktor Dick

The product of decades of scholarly investigation, Volume 1 contains 67 musical works by the virtuoso Paraguayan guitarist Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944). This is the first edition of Barrios' music based on all available sources: manuscripts, phonograph recordings and published editions (pre-1970s)....

(Schirmer Performance Editions). The Seasons is a set of twelve pieces, one for each month. Dossin's edition is based on the composer's manuscript, with several surprising changes when compared to previously available standard editions. Late Intermediate to Early Advanced Level.

The early seventeenth century, when the first operas were written and technical advances with far-reaching consequences—such as tonal music—began to develop, is also notable for another shift: the displacement of aristocratic music-makers by a new professional class of performers. In this book,...

The Joy of Baroque is a tremendous collection with some of the richest, most beautiful and enjoyable pieces from history. Here are forty-four easy to intermediate works by Bach, Purcell, Scarlatti and other 17th and 18th century composers, all selected and edited by Denes Agay for Piano solo. A...

Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Henry Theophilus Finck,an American music critic, a leading promoter in the United States of Richard Wagner and his musical theories.He attended the Bayreuth Festival in 1876, of which he wrote accounts for newspapers and magazines. The Harris fellowship from Harvard...

In this penetrating study, Russell Stinson explores how four of the greatest composers of the nineteenth century--Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, and Johannes Brahms--responded to the model of Bach's organ music. The author shows that this quadrumvirate not only borrowed from Bach's...

Chopin's Polish Ballade examines the Second Ballade, Op. 38, and how that work gave voice to the Polish cultural preoccupations of the 1830s, using musical conventions from French opera and amateur piano music. This approach provides answers to several persistent questions about the work's form, programmatic content, and poetic inspiration.

Notes for Clarinetists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers important historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces written for the instrument. Numerous contextual and theoretical insights make it an essential resource for professional, amateur, and student clarinetists....