Classical list 30

Easy Classics for Cello

by Peter Spitzer, Jannette Spitzer, Laura Spitzer
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019

Easy Classics for Cello is part of the Easy Classics Series, written to provide beginning to intermediate students with an enjoyable introduction to classical music. This book features 16 solos and duets in cello-friendly keys, with piano accompaniment. All of the pieces may be played as solos or...

Barrios for Flute and Guitar

by Rico Stover
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018

Agustín Pío Barrios (1885-1944), known as Mangoré, was a virtuoso classical guitarist who rarely appeared in public alongside other musicians. The body of work he produced was exclusively for solo guitar with no chamber music whatsoever. This book, Barrios for Flute and Guitar, is the first publication...

Songs of the Second Viennese School

A Performer's Guide to Selected Solo Vocal Works

by Loralee Songer
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016

In Songs of the Second Viennese School: A Performer’s Guide to Selected Solo Vocal Works, scholar Loralee Songer outlines for singers and voice teachers critical information on selected solo vocal works by three major classical composers active during the first half of the twentieth century: Arnold...

Four-Handed Monsters

Four-Hand Piano Playing and Nineteenth-Century Culture

by Adrian Daub
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

In the course of the nineteenth century, four-hand piano playing emerged across Europe as a popular pastime of the well-heeled classes and of those looking to join them. Nary a canonic work of classical music that was not set for piano duo, nary a house that could afford not to invest in them. Duets...

The Complete Chopin Mazurkas

by Stephen Aron
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018

This collection presents, for the first time, the complete Mazurkas of Frederic Chopin arranged for solo classical guitar. The Mazurka is the only form the composer embraced throughout his lifetime. The distinctive and personal pieces are unimaginably varied and colorful, ranging from brief and vigorous...

Three Orchestral Works in Full Score

Academic Festival Overture, Tragic Overture and Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn

by Johannes Brahms
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013

Johannes Brahms was one of music's greatest masters of classical forms, a composer whose individuality expanded and enriched those forms, giving them new variety of mood and a freshness of melodic invention. In writing for the orchestra, Brahms's independent approach brought unusual dramatic power and...

Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds

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Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010

Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means of challenging colonialism and then a rich field for creating cultural identities that blend the old and the new. Nobel prize-winners such as Derek Walcott...

A Companion to the Ancient Novel

by Edmund P. Cueva, Shannon N. Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014

This companion addresses a topic of continuing contemporary relevance, both cultural and literary. Offers both a wide-ranging exploration of the classical novel of antiquity and a wealth of close literary analysis Brings together the most up-to-date international scholarship on the ancient novel,...

Becoming Female

The Male Body in Greek Tragedy

by Katrina Cawthorn
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

"Becoming Female", the first book-length examination of the body in classical Athenian tragedy, reconsiders the figure of the male tragic hero, making use of both feminist and body theory. The male hero becomes female in the space of tragedy through the experience of suffering, and seems...

The Classics and South African Identities

by Michael Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013

The teaching and research of the Classics in South Africa are deeply rooted in the racial, political and educational inequalities which have characterised its turbulent history. In this original study, Michael Lambert opens three windows on to this history, using the creation of identities as his...

Haydn

by J. Cuthbert Hadden
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017

Biography from the Master Musicians Series. According to Wikipedia: "(Franz) Joseph Haydn (March 31, 1732 May 31, 1809) was an Austrian composer. He was one of the most prominent composers of the classical period, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet".

Adonis

The Myth of the Dying God in the Italian Renaissance

by Carlo Caruso
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013

In this detailed treatment of the myth of Adonis in post-Classical times, Carlo Caruso provides an overview of the main texts, both literary and scholarly, in Latin and in the vernacular, which secured for the Adonis myth a unique place in the Early Modern revival of Classical mythology. While aiming...

Bodily Arts

Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece

by Debra Hawhee
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013

The role of athletics in ancient Greece extended well beyond the realms of kinesiology, competition, and entertainment. In teaching and philosophy, athletic practices overlapped with rhetorical ones and formed a shared mode of knowledge production. Bodily Arts examines this intriguing intersection, offering...

From Homer to Tragedy

The Art of Allusion in Greek Poetry

by Richard Garner
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015

The role of poetic allusion in classical Greek poetry, to Homer especially, has often largely been neglected or even almost totally ignored. This book, first published in 1990, clarifies the place of Homer in Greek education, as well as adding to the interpretation of many important tragedies. Focussing...