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Mozart Masterpieces
19 Works for Solo Piano
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
A superb assortment of the composer's best piano pieces includes sonatas, fantasies, variations, rondos, minuets, and more. Highlights include such engaging works as "Turkish Rondo," "Sonata in C," and a dozen variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman" (better known as...
A First Book of Tchaikovsky
for the Beginning Pianist with Downloadable MP3s
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
This collection of effortless arrangements allows beginning pianists to experience the pleasure of playing favorite Tchaikovsky compositions. Offering an inspiring mix of tempos and moods, the twenty-one simplified compositions include themes from The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, Sleeping...
The Choral Music of Twentieth-Century Women Composers
Elisabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy and Thea Musgrave
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
This book brings to light the choral works of three contemporary British women composers: Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994), and Thea Musgrave (1928- ). Earning solid reputations in Britain through their varying compositional styles, their music has revealed them to be...
by BálintAndrás Varga, Witold Lutosławski
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Many people will know something about the life of Lutosławski , but few know anything about Lutosławski the man. In this record of a unique series of conversations which took place in March 1973, Balint Andras Varga fills out the picture of the Polish composer - his life and career, his compositional...
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
(Schirmer Performance Editions). Schirmer Performance Editions are designed for piano students and their teachers as well as for professional pianists. Pedagogical in nature, these editions offer insightful interpretive suggestions, pertinent fingering, and historical and stylistic commentary. Prepared...
by John Holenko
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This collection includes over 70 compositions from the Renaissance presented as melodies with accompanying chord changes. This simple format makes the material suitable for any C melody instrument and/or any instrument that can play chord changes. The music includes some well known Renaissance melodies...
by David Grimes
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
The guitar studies of Fernando Sor (1778-1839) have long been valued highly among the indispensable elements of a guitarist's training. A number of prominent virtuosi attribute a large portion of their development to the diligent study of these works. Sor's studies address an impressive array of technical...
Anecdotes of Great Musicians
Three Hundred Anecdotes and Biographical Sketches of Famous Composers and Performers
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
This book, which was first published in 1895, is a wonderful collection of some 300 anecdotes and biographical sketches of famous composers and performers since time began.
In the author’s own words, “[I]n the search for what this volume comprises, much material has been examined. I have...
by Norma Lee Browning
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Music lessons, Joe Maddy has always felt, should not be painful. They are an exciting experience at the Interlochen Arts Academy or any of the other thousands of schools around the world to which Doctor, Professor and conductor Maddy’s influence has extended during the past forty-five years.
Joe...
Iberia and España
Two Complete Works for Solo Piano
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
The great Spanish composer's best-known piano compositions, in authoritative editions. The often-performed Iberia contains 12 musical scenes of Spanish life and reflects the rhythms and harmonies of Spanish popular music. España contains 6 works, among them the famous "Tango." Table of Contents.
by Stanley Yates
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Although Johann Sebastian Bach did not write any music for the guitar, transcriptions of his unaccompanied string music and music for lute have long been a part of the guitar repertoire. Despite the respect that this music commands among musicians and audiences debate still exists as to what constitutes...
English Pastoral Music
From Arcadia to Utopia, 1900-1955
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Covering works by popular figures like Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst as well as less familiar English composers, Eric Saylor's pioneering book examines pastoral music's critical, theoretical, and stylistic foundations alongside its creative manifestations in the contexts of Arcadia, war,...
Making Light
Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
In Making Light Raymond Knapp traces the musical legacy of German Idealism as it led to the declining prestige of composers such as Haydn while influencing the development of American popular music in the nineteenth century. Knapp identifies in Haydn and in early popular American musical cultures...
by Charles Francis Abdy Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS (abridged list))
CHAPTER I The Bachs of Thuringia—Veit Bach, the ancestor of John Sebastian—His sons and descendants—A breach of promise of marriage—J. Christoph Bach of Arnstadt—His...