Classical Opera category: 1804 books

What Makes Music So Powerful and Healing? Why Does Everyone Love Music? Is Music the Universal Language? You will discover: How great music, carefully selected, changes your mood, energizes you, calms you, improves your mental focus, lifts you up spiritually, and helps you to become healthier. Fascinating...

Choral Conducting: Philosophy and Practice, Second Edition is an updated resource for conductors and singers alike, a college-level text for students of choral conducting that considers conducting and singing from a holistic perspective. This singer-friendly and voice-healthy approach examines the...

Noël Akchoté's Gesualdo Madrigals For 5 Guitars (Complete Scores & Tabs) Noël Akchoté Downloads & Books (002)   Complete Scores as Played on the Album (BC 26, Blue Chopsticks, Drag City) Adaptated and Anotated by Noël Akchoté 25 Pieces x 5 Guitar Parts,...

This is the first of two volumes of brass music by Richard von Fuchs.

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Josef Hofmann (1876–1957) was a master of piano technique and an artist who had few equals at the keyboard. A student of Anton Rubinstein and a leading exponent of the works of Chopin, Liszt, and Schumann, he always balanced his virtuoso playing with a firm adherence to the piece as written. It...

Often regarded as the father of piano technique, Clementi was the first composer to achieve the fully matured piano sonata of the late Classic period. This edition includes all 12 of the splendid miniature sonatas — so-called sonatinas — that comprise Clementi's Opp. 36, 37, and 38. Musicians...

Vivaldi's Four Seasons is one of the most famous pieces of music ever written. This book shows you how to play the main theme on the guitar. What? A book with only one tune in it? Yes, that's right. But by the time you have worked through this book, you will really know that tune. This book...

According to Wikipedia: "Henry Purcell 10 September 1659 (?)[2] 21 November 1695, was an English Baroque composer. Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements but devised a peculiarly English style of Baroque music."

The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. Vienna has long been associated with many of the most significant composers in Western music - from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, through the Strauss family, Brahms, Bruckner and Wolf, to Mahler, Lehár, Schoenberg and Webern. Today,...

Howard Gray. A series of biographies of great composers which present the subjects against the social background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and - where they exist - photographs, to build up a complete picture of the composer’s life.

This indispensable manual for present-day players of the one-keyed flute is the first complete method written in modern times. Janice Dockendorff Boland has compiled a manual that can serve as a self-guiding tutor or as a text for a student working with a teacher. Referencing important eighteenth-century...

Russian composer and pianist Scriabin is best known for his perfectly spun miniatures. This volume collects his finest pieces, the complete etudes and preludes for the solo piano. Chopinesque works include the 12 etudes from Op. 8 and the 24 Preludes, Op. 11; Preludes, Opp. 33 and 48; and the Etudes, Op. 42.

The very best of Bach for harpsichord, piano, and other keyboard instruments. This affordable edition includes English Suites, French Suites, 6 Partitas, Goldberg Variations, 2-Part Inventions, and 3-Part Sinfonias. Faithfully reprinted from the authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition.