Classical category: 3244 books

This collection provides flute and guitar duos with an effective repertoire for wedding ceremonies, and gives prospective brides and grooms a happy musical alternative to the venerable church organ. Arranged in four sections: Prelude Music, Processionals, Meditations, and Recessionals. Many of the...

This edition contains 10 of J.S. Bach's finest compositions scored in notation and tablature. Works include: Two Part Invention in C Major; Gavotte, from the 3rd Lute Suite; Prelude in D Minor; Bouree in E Minor, from the 1st Lute Suite; and others. The audio is available for download online, and...

A smaller version of the harpsichord, the virginal enjoyed wide popularity during the 16th and 17th centuries. Based upon a 1591 manuscript of keyboard works, this collection features 42 pieces in modern notation — a vast amount of neglected concert material for modern pianists and harpsichordists — plus historic and analytic notes.

Herbert Howells: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Collegium Regale) for SATB and Organ accompaniment is a vibrant sacred work with beautiful voicings and a wonderful effervescence. This faithful transcription is brought to you by Novello. Herbert Howells has successfully brought together Tudor...

Two series of piano duets that are among Dvorák's most famous compositions, and among the most performed works in the piano four hands repertoire. The composer intended them as artistic stylizations of typical Slavonic dances such as the furiant, the dumka, the polka, the skocna, the odzemek and the kolo. Reprinted from authoritative Czech editions.

The greatest story never told, this formidable and gorgeously written biography documents the amazing and controversial short life of Calixa Lavallée--the composer of "O Canada"--and the tumult of 19th-century North America. The story of "O Canada" is one of the great unknowns of our collective...

All 10 of Scriabin's sonatas, reprinted from an authoritative early Russian edition, abundantly displaying his technical virtuosity and dazzling emotional range.

This unique volume of Alexander Scriabin's piano music combines all of the Russian composer's widely admired Poèmes, which exude the richness and complexity of his later style, with all of the earlier, more Chopinesque Mazurkas and Impromptus. Nearly 100 piano works of varying length and difficulty, reprinted from authoritative Russian editions, represent the full span of Scriabin's musical life.

This innovative and comprehensive arpeggio studies book takes the guitarist past the studies of Sor, Coste, Aguado, Giuliani, and Carcassi. These studies explore the entire fingerboard within the harmonic evolution of the 20th century with the key of E as the basic guide. The book deals with harmonies...

Virtually all of the composer's works for piano solo: 4 piano sonatas, "Invitation to the Dance" (a waltz later orchestrated by Berlioz), 8 sets of variations, "Momento capriccioso," "Grande Polonaise," "Rondo brillante" and "Polacca brillante." Reprinted from the authoritative C. F. Peters edition.

First published in 1939, On Russian Music was conceived by Gerald Abraham as a sequel to his earlier Studies in Russian Music (1935, also in Faber Finds), and complements the previous work in many useful respects. Glinka moves to the forefront via close study of both of his operas. A historical account...

Best known for his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, composer Hanns Eisler also set nineteenth-century German poetry to music that both absorbs and disturbs the Lieder tradition. This book traces Eisler's art songs (German: Kunstlieder) through twentieth-century political crises from World War I...

Le Crépuscule des dieux est un opéra du compositeur allemand de la période romantique Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883). Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale et comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mise en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique.

Béatrice et Bénédict est un opéra comique en 2 actes du compositeur et critique musical français Hector Berlioz (1803 – 1869). Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale et comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mise en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique.