Music-Genres & Styles-Classical

- The Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw is the world's largest collection of documents, works of art and other objects linked to Fryderyk Chopin - The musical manuscripts, letters, instruments, and historical and contemporary portraits in the Chopin Museum collection shed light on the...

(Music Minus One). Performed by Janet Grice, bassoon Accompaniment: Harriet Wingreen, piano This collection of classic pieces, scored for solo bassoon with piano accompaniment, covers a huge span of time and musical styles, from Bach (Bourree I and II) to Dukas's Sorcerer's Apprentice. Includes...

(Method). For Baritone B.C. see HL04470730 This staple of all-state auditions is available for the first time for Baritone T.C. These excellent studies are the next step for students who have completed the advanced level method for their instrument. The full-page etudes in this...

(Piano Collection). Contents: Six Preludes (Nos. V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X) * Variations sur un theme de Chopin * Suburdis (El carrer el guitarrista i el vell cavall, Gitanes, La cegueta, L'home de l'aristo) * Scenes d'Enfants * Paisajes (La fuente y la...

This collection includes some of the most beloved songs ever written, from standards made famous by Doris Day and Louis Armstrong to contemporary hits by Bruno Mars and Josh Groban. Arranged for intermediate to late intermediate students, these pieces include phrasing, fingering, dynamics, and...

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) was a German musician and composer during the Baroque period. He based his work on existing German styles but often adopted and adapted textures, rhythms, and forms from other countries, especially from Italy and France. Although his music...

Indulge in the exquisite world of classical music with "Master Classical Music Composers" coloring book! Immerse yourself in the art of coloring as you bring to life the iconic figures who shaped the history of music. From Bach to Beethoven, Mozart to Tchaikovsky, this...

Drawing on a range of sources and fields, the rich life story of this polymathic composer. This groundbreaking biography offers fresh perspectives on the life, ideas, and music of French twentieth-century composer, organist, and ornithologist Olivier Messiaen. Drawing from previously unexplored sketches and archival...

This book is a comprehensive study of Bach's monumental work, The Well-Tempered Clavier. Through analysis of each of the forty-eight preludes and fugues, Gray provides insight into Bach's compositional techniques and the historical context in which the work was created. Musicians of all levels...

Linguistics for Singers: An Introduction is a textbook and manual that provides singers with a foundation in linguistic features of four major singing languages: English, Italian, French, and German, and shows how these features can be used to inform vocal performance and interpretation.Author: Gregory...

(String). This classic method is combined into one convenient and value-priced edition.Author: Friedrich DotzauerISBN-10: 0793591481ISBN-13: 9780793591480Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1987Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.70w x 0.20d

Quest'opera (edizione rilegata) fa parte della collana di libri TREDITION CLASSICS. La casa editrice tredition di Amburgo pubblica nell'ambito della collana TREDITION CLASSICS opere datate piu di 2000 anni. Queste opere erano in gran parte esaurite o reperibili solo come pezzi d'antiquariato. La serie...

(Schirmer Performance Editions). While giving the player a superb example of musical construction, these pieces also teach the basics of articulation, rhythm, phrasing, fingering, ornamentation, and the development of a singing tone.Author: Johann Sebastian BachISBN-10: 0634073591ISBN-13: 9780634073595Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2005Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight:...

This is a guide to both the music and the poetry of Schubert's much-loved song cycle, set to poems by the Prussian poet Wilhelm Mﾜller. Composed in 1823, this work is one of the greatest masterpieces of the song repertoire. The genesis of both...

The greatest musical prodigy since Mozart (some would say he was even greater), Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) excelled in everything he did, musical or otherwise, and during his brief life became Europe's most respected and beloved composer. Yet no musician suffered more drastic swings in...

(Vocal Collection). A collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type. The selections are presented in their authentic settings, excerpted from the original vocal scores. Contents: THE ADDAMS FAMILY: Happy/Sad * BABY: At Night She Comes Home to Me * BIG...

From the timpanist's first triplet to the last sforzando G-sharp, Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is a percussionist's dream. Dueling timpani parts, scraped tam-tam, antique cymbals, and unique bass drum rhythms distinguish the score that changed classical music and percussion writing forever. In this...

Author: Edward J. Hopkins, Edward F. RimbaultISBN-10: 1906857482ISBN-13: 9781906857486Publisher: Travis and Emery Music BookshopLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/31/2009Pages: 828Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.07lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.64d

(Misc). An approach based on self-learning and recognition of rhythmic and melodic patterns. Original tunes rather than abstract sight-reading exercises. 195 carefully graded pieces in a range of musical styles. Eight sections related to the technical development of the oboist, with tunes using three...

(Easy Guitar). 36 pieces arranged in standard notation and tab including: Blue Danube Waltz (Strauss) * Can Can (Offenbach) * Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Tchaikovsky) * Fur Elise (Beethoven) * Humoresque (Dvorak) * In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) *...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Composer, pianist, editor, writer,...

Offering a concise introduction to one of the most important and influential piano concertos in the history of Western music, this handbook provides an example of the productive interaction of music history, music theory and music analysis. It combines an account of the work's...

(Vocal Collection). Revised and expanded collection of wedding duets for singers. Including Classical/Traditional, Broadway, Standards, Pop/Rock Classics, and Contemporary Christian. This Duets edition features 32 songs, including: Classical/Traditional: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring * Laudamus Te * The Lord's Prayer (Malotte) * Panis Angelicus...

Beethoven wrote 32 sonatas for piano. The final installment, Volume 4, edited by Stewart Gordon, contains Sonatas 25-32, written between 1809 and 1822 and published shortly thereafter. Of the eight sonatas in this volume, autographs exist in whole or in part for all but...

The brevity of Lili Boulanger's life (1893-1918) does not obscure its substantial achievements. With the cantata Faust et Helene (1913) she became the first woman to win the Prix De Rome, and several large projects, including D'un Matin De Printemps and its companion piece...

This biography of composer and pianist Felix Mendelssohn traces his development from musical child prodigy to a conductor whose influence as an advocate of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven is still felt to this day. A great deal of attention is paid to Mendelssohn's early...

The initial volume in a series of American Bach Society Guides, Bach's Art of Fugue and Musical Offering is a comprehensive study of two closely related masterworks of the late Baroque fugal style. This compact guide, intended for practitioners, music scholars, and a general...

Beautiful Classical Songs for TRUMPET and Piano Accompaniment12 Popular Wedding Pieces I Easy and Intermediate Level Arrangements I Sheet Music for Kids Students Adults I Video TutorialEdited - 2 new songs added!★ This book includes the most beautiful songs for intermediate trumpet players! This...

(Misc). A selection of 20 Christmas carols in easy arrangements for guitar with an optional second part. The accompanying CD contains all the carols arranged for two guitars with attractive accompaniments. The accompaniments are also given as play-along tracks. Contents: Away in a Manger...

(Music Sales America). Easy Concertos and Concertinos for Violin and Piano by Oskar Rieding. Available here is the Violin Concerto in D Op. 36, as written for the 1st position.Author: Oscar RiedingISBN-10: 1844496775ISBN-13: 9781844496778Publisher: Bosworth & Co. Ltd.Language: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2003Pages: 16Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 11.50h...

(Easy Instrumental Play-Along). 10 pieces carefully selected and arranged for first-year instrumentalists. Even novices will sound great! Audio demonstration tracks featuring real instruments are available for download to help you hear how the song should sound. Once you've mastered the notes, download the backing...

(LKM Music). Transcribed for solo violin by Stuart Carlson "In this impressive transcription Carlson captures much of the sound and power of the organ and offers it to solo violin. This arrangement requires double stops, accents, jumping across strings, high left-hand work, and dramatic...

(John Williams Signature Edition - Strings). I. Sayuri's Theme II. A Dream Discarded III. Going to SchoolAuthor: John WilliamsISBN-10: 1423429710ISBN-13: 9781423429715Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2008Pages: 12Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 12.00h x 9.00w x 0.20d

Music education today requires an approach rooted in care and kindness that coexists alongside the dismantling of systems that fail to serve our communities in higher education. But, as the essayists in Sound Pedagogy show, the structural aspects of music study in higher education...

The subjects of the monographs in this series are selected works of Beethoven relating to their creation origins and reception history.They incorporate contextual accounts of Beethoven and his contemporaries and estimations of his music as expressed by musicians and musicologist in the nineteenth century...

This book is a musical score of Henry Purcell's famous opera Dido and Aeneas. It includes the full score, as well as detailed notes on the music and lyrics. This edition is an essential resource for musicians and scholars studying Purcell's work.This work has...

The world of classical music is a complex landscape, much like a jungle. Both the music and the jungle stimulate the senses with an array of sounds, rhythms, and colors. Both evoke moments of drama, solitude, and surprise. Both can inspire moments of joy,...

This diversified collection guides students to develop stylistic performances of Bach's keyboard works. Among the 27 selections are numerous menuets, short" preludes and suite movements. The introductory material contains an excellent discussion of ornamentation, rhythm, articulation, tempo and dynamics in the keyboard music of...

(Easy Piano Songbook). 7 easy piano arrangements from Tchaikovsky's beloved ballet. Includes "Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy."Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 079352122XISBN-13: 9780793521227Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1993Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.70w x 0.30d

The Variations on a Theme of Paganini are a set of theme and variations for solo piano, written by Johannes Brahms (Op. 35). The theme that is the basis for the work is that of the Caprice No. 24 in A minor by Niccol...

Anton Bruckner's Eighth Symphony (1890), one of the last of the great Romantic symphonies, is a grandly complex masterpiece. This book explores this many-faceted work from several angles. It documents the complicated and often misunderstood history of the symphony's composition and revision and provides...

Most people know that Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a German composer, a musical prodigy whose Symphony No. 5 is recognizable the world over from its opening four notes. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he was almost completely deaf for nearly half...

Stendhal's Life of Rossini is a captivating biography of the famous Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. Through extensive research and firsthand accounts, Stendhal paints a vivid picture of Rossini's life, career, and artistic output. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in music history...

(Instrumental Folio). This huge collection offers instrumentalists the chance to play 101 classical themes, including: Ave Maria * Bist du bei mir (You Are with Me) * Canon in D * Clair de Lune * Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy * 1812 Overture...

(Vocal Collection). 12 songs: Chanson d'Avril (Bizet) * Le charme (Chausson) * Chanson d'amour (Faure) * Le secret (Faure) * Au bord de l'eau (Faure) * Clair de lune (Faure) * L'absent (Gounod) * A Chloris (Hahn) * Plaisir d'amour (Martini) * Tout gai...

The Mysticism of Music is a book written by R. Heber Newton that explores the spiritual and mystical aspects of music. The book delves into the idea that music has the power to connect us to a higher realm, and that it can be...

Stendhal's Life of Rossini is a captivating biography of the famous Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. Through extensive research and firsthand accounts, Stendhal paints a vivid picture of Rossini's life, career, and artistic output. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in music history...

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: D. Hilarion EslavaISBN-10: 0634069942ISBN-13: 9780634069949Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.90w x 0.40d

(Harp). This book contains a variety of songs and dances, originally written in the 12th through 16th centuries, arranged for the harp. The majority of the pieces are drawn from the medieval period and often existed in their original form as melody line only....