Music-Genres & Styles-Classical

Vocal ScoreComplete vocal score.Author: William S. GilbertISBN-10: 0881887250ISBN-13: 9780881887259Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 10.60h x 7.40w x 0.30d

This book presents a selection of favorite Christmas tunes arranged for the classical guitar in two forms---solos and duets. The general level throughout is intermediate. Anyone who can play pieces such as the Milan Pavans or the lower-numbered Sor Studies should find these arrangements...

Not a method" in the traditional sense, this book explains what happens in the finest classical guitar playing and what in turn the student can do to mold his or her playing to that ideal."Author: Charles DuncanISBN-10: 0874870798ISBN-13: 9780874870794Publisher: Suzuki Method InternationalLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1995Pages:...

Listeners, performers, students and teachers will find here the analytical tools they need to understand and interpret musical evidence from the baroque era. Scores for eleven works, many reproduced in facsimile to illustrate the conventions of 17th and 18th century notation, are included for...

(Music Sales America). The famous Nimrod movement from the Enigma Variations. Arranged by the composer for piano solo.Author: Edward ElgarISBN-10: 0853602743ISBN-13: 9780853602743Publisher: Novello & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2003Pages: 4Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 12.00h x 9.00w x 0.20d

(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). 22 fiddle tunes from the golden age of sail featuring dance tunes, shanties and more. The complete edition includes a violin part, keyboard accompaniment with optional violin accompaniment, easy violin part and guitar chords. The violin edition includes violin...

Author: Sergei RachmaninoffISBN-10: 0851629156ISBN-13: 9780851629155Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2004Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 11.90h x 8.90w x 0.40d

Title: Piano Concerto No. 2 Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff Original Publisher: Gutheil Rachmaninoff's arrangement of his Piano Concerto No. 2 for 2 Pianos, in the first edition as originally published by Gutheil in 1901. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score...

(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). Includes practice tips and performance notes on each piece.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 0851627080ISBN-13: 9780851627083Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2012Pages: 78Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.70w x 0.60d

(BH Piano). Well-known relaxing classics arranged for the intermediate pianist. Includes music by J.S. Bach, Bernstein, Britten, Copland, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, and others. Contents: ALBINONI: Adagio * JS BACH: Air on the G String * Goldberg Variations (aria) * BERNSTEIN: Somewhere (West Side...

(BH Piano). The definitive edition (1987) of the piano teaching classic. Includes an introduction by the composer's son Peter Bartok. (English/French/German/Hungarian text). In 1945 Bela Bartok described Mikrokosmos as a cycle of 153 pieces for piano written for "didactic" purposes, seeing them as a...

(BH Piano). The music of Karl Jenkins is known the world over, from the theme from Palladio used in the "Diamonds Are Forever" commercials, to The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace for chorus and orchestra. These themes and more are collected here for...

(BH Piano). This innovative approach to improvisation uses popular pieces from Norton's Microjazz series as a starting point. Each of the 15 pieces in the book starts with left hand chords, then continues with right hand melody, then puts the hands together. The companion...

(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). This popular series from Boosey & Hawkes features favorite orchestral works in full-score format. Combining high-quality production with affordable prices, each volume of the Masterworks Series features: full-size format; full-color fine art covers; newly published introductory notes, commentaries and illustrations;...

A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period. Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one crucial year, 1936. They worked hard...

Author: Jean Pierre Barricelli, Leo Weinstein, UnknownISBN-10: 0837169151ISBN-13: 9780837169156Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/1973Pages: 274Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

(Yorktown). Baroque music, folk tunes and dances. Composers include Bach, Handel, Telemann, Rameau, Purcell, Scarlatti, and many more. Contents: D'ANGLEBERT: Air Ancien Gavotte * CPE BACH: Capriccio in D min * Sonata in D Maj * JS BACH: Fantasia in C min * French...

(Yorktown). This volume contains some of Chopin's most popular and technically most accessible works, ranging from intermediate to advanced grades. The selections based on authentic texts, are presented in an approximate order of difficulty.Author: Frederick ChopinISBN-10: 0825680271ISBN-13: 9780825680274Publisher: Yorktown PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1992Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight:...

(World's Favorite (Ashley)). 87 etudes for trumpet, plus complete 1st Trumpet parts for two Tchaikovsky symphonies and two works by Rimsky-Korsakov.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 0825651026ISBN-13: 9780825651021Publisher: Ashley PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1996Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 11.98h x 8.88w x 0.30d

(World's Favorite (Ashley)). 38 easy favorites: Barcarolle * Serenata * Poeme * Fascination * Traumerei * Valse Triste * Carnival Of Venice * Humoresque.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 082565078XISBN-13: 9780825650789Publisher: Ashley PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1996Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 12.22h x 8.50w x 0.53d

(Music Sales America). Experience the thrill of playing with FULL orchestral backing tracks with these unique book/CD packs Each book includes ten play-along arrangements of classic symphonic themes, and the accompanying CD contains demo tracks and professional orchestral accompaniments to each piece to help...

(Music Sales America). A superb collection of easy and rewarding classical guitar solos, each one carefully selected and arranged in modern notation and tablature for the beginning guitarist. Turn these pages to enjoy the greatest guitar music of the Renaissance, Baroque, classical, and Romantic...

(Music Sales America). The Concert Performer Series brings you 18 well-known piano pieces, beautifully presented on strong, high-sheen card, complete with a special online media which contains audio to help you practise for a truly great performance. Audio is accessed online using the unique...

(Piano). The Concert Performer Series brings you 12 well-known piano pieces, beautifully presented on strong, high-sheen card, complete with online audio to help you practice for a truly great performance. About the online audio: Track 1 contains an audio concert performance. Track 2 is...

(Music Sales America). Learn to play Beethoven's "Fur Elise" with The Concert Performer Series, complete with a special CD-ROM which contains both audio and MIDI to help you practise for a truly great performance. Track 1 contains an audio concert performance, Track 2 is...

In Soundtracks of Asian America, Grace Wang explores how Asian Americans use music to construct narratives of self, race, class, and belonging in national and transnational spaces. She highlights how they navigate racialization in different genres by considering the experiences of Asians and Asian...

In this first in-depth look at the series, Alicia Kopfstein-Penk illustrates how the cultural, social, political, and musical upheavals of the long sixties impacted Bernstein's life and his Young People's Concerts.Author: Alicia Kopfstein-PenkISBN-10: 0810888491ISBN-13: 9780810888494Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/22/2015Pages: 354Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize:...

In Bach's Testament: On the Philosophical and Theological Background of The Art of Fugue, Gcz probes the philosophic-theological background of The Art of Fugue, revealing the special structures that supported the 1993 reconstruction. Bach's Testament investigates the reconstruction's metaphysical dimensions, focusing on the quadruple...

In Experiencing Stravinsky, music historian Robin Maconie takes a completely fresh approach to understanding the great composer's works, explaining what makes Stravinsky's "sound" unique and what we, as listeners, need to know in order to appreciate the variety and brilliance of his compositions. In...

In this new edition of Orchestral "Pops" Music: A Handbook, Lucy Manning brings to the present her remarkable compendium, which has proven so critical to the success of "pops" concert programming. This revised handbook alleviates this time-consuming task by offering a list of works...

During his early years, Franz Liszt worked as a traveling piano virtuoso, his adventures highlighted by his entrée into the literary world as a correspondent for the most popular French journals of his time. In this second volume of Janita Hall-Swadley's The Collected Writings...

Lutoslawski on Music is the first collection of writings by the Polish twentieth-century composer Witold Lutoslawski. It includes texts about his own compositions and techniques as well as writings on various aspects of twentieth-century musical culture.Author: Zbigniew SkowronISBN-10: 0810860139ISBN-13: 9780810860131Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/29/2007Pages:...

Counterpoint helps music theory and music composition students improve their musicianship by examining the voice leading that underlies Western tonal music. It proceeds by developing species counterpoint in the tradition of Johann Joseph Fux and his famous Gradus ad Parnassum (1725), but with attention...

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936): An Annotated Bibliography provides documentation and annotation of all of this great composer's articles, books, theses, and dissertations with references to Respighi and his music published during the last century throughout the world. Lee G. Barrow provides a comprehensive general index...

The classical music of Iraq, known as Iraqi Maqam, features classical and vernacular poetry sung by a virtuoso soloist and accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble. It is a remarkably cosmopolitan art, sharing many features with neighboring classical traditions, particularly Iranian. Its repertoire consists...

This book proposes a way of thinking about music that is faithful to the experience of playing or listening during a real performance. 'Narrative, ' in this context, refers to the rhythm of a piece and the way it shapes the succession of events,...

This definitive volume, the second, largest, and most central in Newman's History of the Sonata Idea, covers the period from the first sample Italian sonatas using the new techniques of the Alberti bass about 1735 to the succession of masterpieces by Haydn, Mozart, and...

Musica Poetica provides an unprecedented examination of the development of Baroque musical thought. The initial chapters, which serve as an introduction to the concept and teachings of musical-rhetorical figures, explore Martin Luther's theology of music, the development of the Baroque concept of musica poetica,...

Sergey Prokofiev, a compulsive diarist and gifted and idiosyncratic writer, possessed an incorrigibly sardonic curiosity about individuals and events. When he left Russia after the 1917 Revolution, his diaries were recovered from the family flat in Petrograd and later hidden at considerable personal risk...

(Vocal Score). Italian/English. Translated by Auden-Kallman.Author: Wolfgang Amadeus MozartISBN-10: 0793584809ISBN-13: 9780793584802Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.10lbsSize: 10.50h x 7.80w x 0.90d

(Piano Collection). A newly corrected and very affordable Schirmer Library edition of these 20th-century piano masterpieces. Contents: BOOK I: Danseuses de Delphes * Voiles * Le Vent dans la Plaine * "Les Sons et les Parfums Tournent dans l'Air du Soir" * Les Collines...

(String Solo). VAAP Edition. For unaccompanied violin.Author: Sergei ProkofievISBN-10: 0793574218ISBN-13: 9780793574216Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 12Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.70w x 0.20d

Excerpt from I Puritani: A Grand Opera in Three Acts The action of this Opera is supposed to have taken place during the civil wars of England. When the armies of Charles the Second and his parliament were arrayed against each other. The scene...

(Brass). Trumpet parts edited and recorded by Canadian Brass virtuosos Fred Mills and Ronald Romm, piano parts recorded by Bill Casey. Arrangements by Bill Boyd. The book includes access to online audio of full performances and accompaniments. Contents: Arietta * The Brook * Cleopatra's...

(Piano Method). Contents: Two-Part Inventions: Invention in C Major, BWV 772 * Invention in C minor, BWV 773 * Invention in D Major, BWV 774 * Invention in D minor, BWV 775 * Invention in E-flat Major, BWV 776 * Invention in E Major,...

(Vocal Collection). An eminently useful collection of essential sacred favorites for classical singers. Includes an online audio access code for streaming or downloading the tracks of both full performances and piano accompaniments only to be used for practice or performance. Contents: Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)...

(Piano Collection). Contents: Etude, Op. 2, No. 3 * Etude in C minor, Op. 2, No. 4 * Conte, Op. 3, No. 1 * Badinage, Op. 3, No. 2 * Marche, Op. 3, No. 3 * Fantome, Op. 3, No. 4 * Suggestion Diabolique,...

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...

(String Solo). Great Performer's Edition. Contents: Bethena, Ragtime Waltz * The Easy Winners * Elite Syncopations * The Entertainer * The Ragtime Dance * The Strenuous Life.Author: Scott JoplinISBN-10: 0793554675ISBN-13: 9780793554676Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.70w x 0.40d

(String Method). For unaccompanied violin.Author: J. TrottISBN-10: 0793554519ISBN-13: 9780793554515Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.70w x 0.20d