Classical Opera category: 1804 books

Keyboard Music Before 1700 begins with an overview of the development of keyboard music in Europe.  Then, individual chapters by noted authorities in the field cover the key composers and repertory before 1700 in England, France, Germany and the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain and Portugal. The book...

This is the colourful account of swing trumpeter Max Kaminsky’s life on the road in the formative years of jazz. Originally published in 1963, Kaminsky reminisces about playing with many notables, including Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw, James P. Johnson,...

In an effort to create multiple cross-curricular connections in the classroom and increase student motivation, Indian Fields School has come up with a "novel" idea: an eBook entirely written and illustrated by children, for children. We feel that giving students a genuine, worldwide audience...

Vivaldi's Four Seasons is one of the most famous pieces of music ever written. It is performed and studied on a daily basis worldwide. The purpose of this book is to make this incredible and popular music part of the standard guitar repertoire.At any time there are scores of recordings...

The Gibbons Hymnal contains the 17 hymn tunes composed by Orlando Gibbons for George Withers The Hymnes and Songs of the Church (1623), many of which are still popular today. This is the first modern edition which incorporates Withers hymn texts beyond the first verses.Gibbons composed treble and bass...

Pierre Boulez is acknowledged as one of the most important composers in contemporary musical life. This collection explores his works, influence, reception and legacy, shedding new light on Boulez's music and its historical and cultural contexts. In two sections that focus firstly on the context of...

In this lyrical meditation on listening, Jean-Luc Nancy examines sound in relation to the human body. How is listening different from hearing? What does listening entail? How does what is heard differ from what is seen? Can philosophy even address listening, écouter, as opposed to entendre, which...

Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. What happens when one of the world’s most renowned musicians appears incognito outside of a Washington, D.C. metro station to play some of the most beautiful music ever composed? In the audacious social experiment, “Pearls Before Breakfast”,...

During his lifetime (1888-1970), Hall Johnson's concert arrangements of spirituals have been performed and recorded by stellar singers, such as Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price, Kathleen Battle, Jessye Norman, and Denyce Graves, and were sung by school and concert choirs all over the world. The Hall...

Of all the things we can know about J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio, the most profound come from things we can hear. Listening to Bach explores musical style as it was understood in the early eighteenth century. It encourages ways of listening that take eighteenth-century musical...

HINDUSTANI LYRICS RENDERED FROM THE URDU BY INAYAT KHAN AND JESSIE DUNCAN WESTBROOK Sufism is the Religious Philosophy of Love, Harmony, and Beauty [ZHINGOORA BOOKS] CONTENTS. PORTRAIT OF ZAFAR FOREWORD URDU LYRICS:— ABRU AMIR ASIF DAGH FIGHAN GHALIB HALI HASAN INSHA JURAT MIR MIR...

Luigi Dallapiccola is widely considered a defining figure in twentieth-century Italian musical modernism, whose compositions bear passionate witness to the historical period through which he lived. In this book, Ben Earle focuses on three major works by the composer: the one-act operas Volo di notte...

This autobiography of the famous Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf was dictated from his death-bed, completed only two days before the artist’s death on 24 October 1799. First published in 1896, it represents a valuable as the record of an artist’s every-day...

“Choosing ignorance might seem a terrible quality to exhibit in your workplace—a sure path down the stairs and out the corporate door. But stick with me here and see how it leads you upward. You’ll understand why great leaders embrace ignorance and use it to elevate their people to new heights...