Classical Opera category: 1804 books
by Lawrence Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Interpreting Music is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully—"interpreting music" in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and advancing two decades of highly influential work, Lawrence Kramer fundamentally rethinks the concepts of work,...
by Ludovico Einaudi
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Islands contains the best of composer Ludovico Einaudi's works, such as I Giorni, Nuvole Bianche and Primavera, compiled for the first time into a single collection for solo Piano. Also included here are two brand new tracks, The Earth Prelude and High Heels, as well as two remixed versions of Lady...
Music, Performance, and the Realities of Film
Shared Concert Experiences in Screen Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This book examines the relationship between narrative film and reality, as seen through the lens of on-screen classical concert performance. By investigating these scenes, wherein the performance of music is foregrounded in the narrative, Winters uncovers how concert performance reflexively articulates...
A History of the Oratorio
Vol. 4: The Oratorio in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio. Volumes 1 and 2, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1977, treated the oratorio in the Baroque era, while Volume 3, published in 1987, explored the genre in the Classical era. Here, Smither surveys...
Jesús María Sanromá
An American Twentieth-Century Pianist
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Puerto Rican born Jesús María Sanromá (1902-1984) was one of the leading pianists in the United States. After graduating from the New England Conservatory, he embarked on an enviable concert career as official pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as well as soloist with other leading American...
by Andrew Driscoll
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
This book and accompanying audio make one of J.S. Bach's most enduring and fascinating instrumental works accessible to mandolin players: the Prelude in E Major from his solo sonata in E major for violin. The book and audio include fingerings, tablature and a slow performance of the piece. These materials...
Chamber Music
An Extensive Guide for Listeners
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
In Chamber Music: An Extensive Guide for Listeners,Lucy Miller Murray transforms her decades of program notes for some of the world’s most distinguished artists and presenters into the go-to guide for the chamber music novice and enthusiast. Offering practical information on the broad array of chamber...
The Music of William Schuman, Vincent Persichetti, and Peter Mennin
Voices of Stone and Steel
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
William Schuman, Vincent Persichetti, and Peter Mennin were three of the most significant American composers of the 20th century, yet their music has largely disappeared from view since their respective deaths. Because they each spent the majority of their careers working at the Juilliard School and...
Beethoven and the Grosse Fuge
Music, Meaning, and Beethoven's Most Difficult Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The Grosse Fuge, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in his late period, has an involved and complicated history. Written for a string quartet but published as an independent work, the piece raises interesting questions about whether music without words can have meaning, and invokes speculation about...
Joseph Holbrooke
Composer, Critic, and Musical Patriot
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
This is the first scholarly work to document the musical life of Joseph Holbrooke, one of Britain’s most prolific and controversial composers during the first half of the twentieth century. Holbrooke was outspoken on many issues, including the maligned fortunes of British composers, which he believed...
Sonatina Album (Songbook)
Clementi, Kuhlau, Dussek, and Beethoven
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
(Schirmer Performance Editions). This excellent collection of classical-period sonatinas for the intermediate pianist will be a welcome addition to the libraries of teachers and students alike. Clean, concise engravings, careful editing, and just the right amount of editorial fingering make this volume...
Reworking the Ballet
Counter Narratives and Alternative Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Challenging and unsettling their predecessors, modern choreographers such as Matthew Bourne, Mark Morris and Masaki Iwana have courted controversy and notoriety by reimagining the most canonical of Classical and Romantic ballets.
In this book, Vida L. Midgelow illustrates the ways in which...
by Peter Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
UPDATED 10th August, 2012: now engraved using LilyPond; *and* all parts now downloadable separately (see book for hyperlinks).----Sheet music. Classical ensemble: piccolo, flute, Bb clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano. Written in 1994 as music to accompany a short film about St. George the Martyr, Wolverton church. Free for non-commercial purposes.
by Ondrej Sarek
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Classics for Ukulele features 20 well-known classical pieces arranged for fingerpicking solo ukulele. Tunes include: Moonlight Sonata, Ave Maria, Ride of the Valkyries, Hungarian Dance No.4 and many more. Music in standard notation and tab.