Music-Genres & Styles-Classical

This book examines Delius's individual approaches to genre, form, harmony, orchestration and literary texts which gave the composer's musical style such a unique voice. Frederick Delius' (1862-1934) music has proved impervious to analytical definition. Delius's approaches to genre, form, harmony, orchestration and literary texts...

This major 20th-century Neoclassical work is Ravel's last work for piano solo. A tombeau is a lament, and each of the six movements is intended as a musical epitaph to friends lost in the war. The difficulty found here, especially in the Toccata," is...

Irish National Opera Director Fergus Sheil writes: It was bittersweet to read this book and write this foreword in the summer of 2020. At the time of writing, opera houses around the world are closed due to the catastrophic effect of the Covid-19 pandemic....

Ranging widely over classical music, jazz, popular music, and film and television music, Musical Meaning uncovers the historical importance of asking about meaning in the lived experience of musical works, styles, and performances. Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of...

The first modern English edition of Richard Wagner's essays on conducting, extensively annotated, with a critical essay on Wagner as conductor: his aesthetic, practices, vocabulary, and impact. Richard Wagner was one of the leading conductors of his time. Through his disciples Hans von B?ow,...

Drawing on a wealth of unexplored sources, this biography offers the first comprehensive critical reappraisal of the life and works of Nikolay Myaskovsky. Zuk's account is far removed from Cold War clich駸 of the regimented Soviet artist or sentimental stereotypes of persecuted genius. 2022...

An innovative study of the ways in which theological themes related to earthly and heavenly 'treasures' and Bach's own apparent attentiveness to the spiritual values related to money intertwined in his sacred music. In Johann Sebastian Bach's Lutheran church setting, various biblical ideas were...

The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works. But a richer understanding of the music of the past may be obtained by also considering the afterlives of a composer's works. Genealogies of Music and Memory asks how...

Author: Benjamin BrittenISBN-10: 0571509770ISBN-13: 9780571509775Publisher: Faber & FaberLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1998Pages: 999Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 12.05h x 8.90w x 0.24d

Sacred and Profane consists of eight settings for unaccompanied voices of lyrics from RT Davis' collection of Medieval English lyrics, composed early in 1975 for Peter Pears and the Wilbye Consort of Voices.Author: Benjamin BrittenISBN-10: 0571500862ISBN-13: 9780571500864Publisher: Faber & FaberLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1998Pages: 999Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Born in Bonn, Germany, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) showed musical talent from an early age and was first taught by his musician father, Johann, an alcoholic who often beat his son. At the age of 21, Beethoven moved to Vienna, where he studied with...

Explores how modernist films use classical music in ways that restore the music's original subversive energy.Author: Matthew LauISBN-10: 1438476302ISBN-13: 9781438476308Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/02/2020Pages: 186Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d

A timely attempt to re-map a critical appreciation of early twentieth-century modernism through a Nordic lens. Following the end of the Cold War, a former East-West binary model of European identity has been replaced with a series of more complex and variegated patterns. Northern...

The Complete Learning Experience of Professional Piano Lessons + Explainer Videos by A Trained Piano Teacher Have you always wanted to play the piano, but didn't know where to start?Maybe you never got the chance as a kid?Or maybe you haven't played the piano...

This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics during the Third Reich. Making extensive use of archival material, including some discussed here for the first time, Fritz Tr?pi offers new insight into the orchestras' place in the larger political constellation....

Murray Baylor's scholarly edition of Rachmaninoff's most famous and dramatic Prelude includes historical notes and performance suggestions, and an optional page with measures 1-13 for pianos without a sostenuto pedal.Author: Sergei RachmaninoffISBN-10: 0739018647ISBN-13: 9780739018644Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1987Pages: 8Format: OtherWeight: 0.01lbsSize: 12.00h x 8.40w...

(Music Sales America). Nos. 69-90 revision and transcriptions by P. Samuel Rubio.Author: Padre Antonio SolerISBN-10: 0711936838ISBN-13: 9780711936836Publisher: Music SalesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2004Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.90w x 0.30d

At first glance, this volume is a practical handbook for effective practicing. But readers will quickly find that Purpose In Practice: 26 Goals for the Practicing Musician goes beyond the merely practical, into the truly meaningful. Indeed, this handbook provides a reading experience that...

Marking the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, this volume presents twenty-one completely new essays on aspects of Beethoven's personal life, his composing process, his manuscripts, and his greatest works. Beethoven's music stands as a universal symbol of personal and artistic achievement. As we...

By common consent the leading British composer of the twentieth-century's middle decades, Britten continues to create significant contexts for the work of those who survived and succeeded him. This collection of revised reprints of essays, reviews and analyses first published between 1995 and 2018...

The books in this series present study guides for masterworks, beginning at the early intermediate level, that the editors believe developing pianists should study and perform. Each book contains 20 study guides to pieces selected from the four main style periods. Book 4 contains...

From the Mendelssohn archive in Berlin come these sixteen never-before-published Romantic lieder by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. These inspired compositions have the balanced legato of the classical composers and the sensitive feeling and colorful harmonies of the dawning Romantic era. Includes historical background, idiomatic and...

A new and wide-ranging collection of essays by leading international scholars, exploring the concept and practices of virtuosity in Franz Liszt and his contemporaries. In the annals of music history, few figures have dominated the discussion of virtuosity as much as Franz Liszt. A...

Split into two volumes (item 29 and 107), this edition concentrates on areas of performance practice such as dynamics, expressive character, fingering, ornamentation, phrasing, rhythmic treatment and tempo. This collection has been compiled for intermediate to moderately advanced students, and to assist the teacher...

Covering Brahms's 32 song opuses published during four decades of song-writing, this book offers a way of understanding what Brahms believed to be the right poetic basis for his immortal music. Johannes Brahms's much-loved solo songs continue to be enjoyed in recordings and on...

Franz Liszt was preoccupied with a fundamental but difficult question: what is the content of music? His answer lay in his symphonic poems, a group of orchestral pieces intended to depict a variety of subjects drawn from literature, visual art and drama. Today, the...

Excerpt from I Capuleti E I Montecchi: Tragedia Lirica da Rappresentarsi Nel Gran Teatro la Fenice IL Carnovale dell'Anno 1830 C 1tam nte avrebbe ripugnato la modestia del giovine Compositore; Chi sa quanto costi camminare su traccie di gia segnate, esostituire-huow concetti ai gi...

(Vocal Collection). Volume 14 in the complete Tosti songs series, this collection presents miscellaneous songs from various texts, with extensive notes about the songs in English.Author: Francesco Paolo TostiISBN-10: 8875927197ISBN-13: 9788875927196Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2004Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 11.60h x 8.80w x 0.30d

(Music Sales America). Sibelius completed this work in February 1923 and conducted the premiere at Helsinki on February 19 of that same year. His first reference to the work, in 1918, described it as "wild and passionate in character. Dark with pastoral contrasts. Probably...

WE SANG BETTER consists of two volumes of very clear advice about singing from great singers of the past. Volume 1 (ISBN 978-84-940477-8-7) is entitled 'How we sang' and contains 250 tips on how to sing from singers 1800 to 1960. This volume is...

(PWM). Includes 11 Waltzes published posthumously: A minor, 3 Waltzes in A-flat Major, D-flat Major, E minor, 2 Waltzes in F minor, G-flat Major, and 2 Waltzes in B minor. See 00132358 for the Waltzes published during the composer's lifetime. The National Edition of...

A group of resourceful kids start "solution-seekers.com," a website where "cybervisitors" can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...

A group of resourceful kids start "solution-seekers.com," a website where "cybervisitors" can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...

(Study Score). This work is among today's most popular works by Saint-Saens who, at first, did not even want to publish it as he feared for his reputation. In this work, Saint-Saens parodies his colleagues Offenbach (turtle) and Berlioz (elephant), among others.Author: Camille Saint-SaensISBN-10:...

The first edition of Albert R. Rice's The Baroque Clarinet is widely considered the authoritative text on the European clarinet during the first half of the eighteenth century. Since its publication in 1992, its conclusions have influenced the approaches of musicologists, instrument historians, and...

(Jazz Piano Solos). This volume features 26 ragtime favorites in fresh new piano solo arrangements, including: Carolina Shout * Champagne Rag * The Charleston Rag * The Entertainer * King Porter Stomp * Kitten on the Keys * Maple Leaf Rag * Sweet Georgia...

The book will contain location and descriptive details of Bantock's manuscripts that are extant, which will assist those looking to construct editions of those works which have remained in manuscript and updated editions of those works which were initially published nearly 100 years ago....

I outline what my book is about in the form of a brief homily. My text: 'Music must, somehow or other, reflect the manners and fancies of its birth-time and birth-place, --and also the conditions of executive art ... I believe that thoughtful science,...

(Dowani Book/CD). Dowani 3 Tempi Play Along is an effective and time-tested method of practicing that offers more than conventional play-long editions. Dowani 3 Tempi Play Along enables you to learn a work systematically and with accompaniment at different tempi. The first thing you...

(Dowani Book/CD). Dowani 3 Tempi Play Along is an effective and time-tested method of practicing that offers more than conventional play-along editions. Dowani 3 Tempi Play Along enables you to learn a work systematically and with accompaniment at different tempi. The first thing you...

(Dowani Book/CD). Dowani 3 Tempi Play Along is an effective and time-tested method of practicing that offers more than conventional play-long editions. Dowani 3 Tempi Play Along enables you to learn a work systematically and with accompaniment at different tempi. The first thing you...

Author: Alfred UhlISBN-10: 3795795516ISBN-13: 9783795795511Publisher: SchottLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1984Pages: 31Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.80w x 0.20d

Author: Max BruchISBN-10: 3795795230ISBN-13: 9783795795238Publisher: SchottLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1984Pages: 12Format: Paperback

A group of resourceful kids start "solution-seekers.com," a website where "cybervisitors" can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...

A group of resourceful kids start "solution-seekers.com," a website where "cybervisitors" can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...

A group of resourceful kids start "solution-seekers.com," a website where "cybervisitors" can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...

Author: Franz LisztISBN-10: 3795763940ISBN-13: 9783795763947Publisher: Eulenburg London (Schott)Language: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1981Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 7.40h x 5.20w x 0.30d

(Schott). Carmina Burana, first performed in 1937, is based on an important collection of thirteenth-century poems found in the monastery of Benediktbeuren. Carl Orff made selections from this collection and in robust and delicate musical colors painted a manifold picture of life. "Everything I...

(Schott). Preface/Vorwort * Editorial Notes/Revisionsbericht * Preface to the second edition/Vorwort zur Neuauflage * I. Allegro affetuoso * II. Intermezzo. Andantino grazioso * III. Allegro vivaceAuthor: Robert SchumanISBN-10: 3795761891ISBN-13: 9783795761899Publisher: EulenburgLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1986Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.40h x 5.30w x 0.60d

(Schott). Tempo giusto * Allegretto * Con motoAuthor: Igor StravinskyISBN-10: 3795761573ISBN-13: 9783795761578Publisher: Eulenburg Germany (Schott)Language: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1983Pages: 55Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.90w x 0.30d