Classical

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423476795Author Richard WaltersPage Count 8Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 305mm * 229mm...

Meyer makes a valuable statement on aesthetics, criteria for assessing great works of music, compositional practices and theories of the present day, and predictions of the future of Western culture. His postlude, written for the book's twenty-fifth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495071607Author Ludwig van BeethovenPage Count 96Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski is one of the most fascinating musical figures of the early twentieth century. His works included four symphonies, two violin concertos, the operas Hagith and King Roger, the ballet-pantomime Harnasie, the oratorio...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616770563Author Randall FaberPage Count 88Imprint Faber Piano AdventuresPublisher Faber Piano Adventures

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143111085Author Anthony TommasiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060883447Author Author Maynard SolomonFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 708g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774640289Author Paul DevilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Without scenery, costumes, and stage action, an opera would be little more than a concert. But in the audience, we know little (and think less) about the enormous efforts of those involved in bringing an opera to life - by the stagehands who shift...

-- Stanley Persky, City University of New YorkAbout the AuthorThe late Felix Salzer was a Professor at Queens College, City University of New York, and the author of Structural Hearing. Carl Schachter is a Professor at Queens College and at the Mannes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423445333Author Himie VoxmanPage Count 72Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

In Beyond Exoticism, Timothy D. Taylor considers how western cultures' understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorporated into music from early operas to contemporary television advertisements, arguing that the commonly...

This is the first book to offer a full account of Byrne's sprawling artistic portfolio. The account of Byrne's career, while told in roughly chronological order, is ordered by choosing a specific abstract approach, or a combination of two approaches, for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783058792Page Count 80Imprint Chester MusicPublisher Chester Music

The Classical Film Collection brings together famous classic pieces from the movies, such as Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (from Black Swan), Mozart's Clarinet Concerto (Out of Africa), Allegri's Miserere (Chariots of Fire) and, for the first time in print,...

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...

Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and Grace Williams (1906-1977) were contemporaries at the Royal College of Music. The three composers' careers were launched with performances in the Macnaghten-Lemare Concerts in the 1930s -...

for soprano and baritone soloists, SATB chorus, and orchestra This significant seven-movement work from Cecilia McDowall presents an imaginative pairing of extracts from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci with texts from the Latin Missa pro defunctis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793560974Author Franz LisztPage Count 72Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

In this wide-ranging book, Arnold Whittall considers a group of important composers of the twentieth century, including Debussy, Webern, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, Janacek, Britten, Carter, Birtwistle, Andriessen and Adams. He moves skilfully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783795749002Author Rainer MohrsPage Count 98Imprint Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KGPublisher Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG

What does classical music mean to the Western World? How has it transformed over the centuries? With such a rich tradition, what relevance does it have today? Julian Johnson inspires readers to explore the field, and examines how music is related to some...

The Intermediate Piano Sonata Collection gathers together 9 complete sonatas that are all intermediate to early advanced (Grades 4 to 6) in standard. Featuring works by Beethoven, Anna Bon, Haydn, Mozart and Robert Schumann, it provides the highest...

This Companion presents a new understanding of the relationship between music and culture in and around the nineteenth century, and encourages readers to explore what Romanticism in music might mean today. Challenging the view that musical 'romanticism'...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) took the symphony, one of the most abstract and tradition-bound genres in Western music, and opened it to the widest (and wildest) span of human experience. He opened it to themes of love, nature, the world's chasmic depth at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847615510Author Vicki SwanPage Count 76Imprint Schott Music LtdPublisher Schott Music Ltd

for high voice and piano This beautiful collection of 14 songs for high voice offers secular pieces by some of Oxford's best-loved composers. Suitable for solo singers and unison choirs alike, each song is presented with piano accompaniment, and...

The "Beethoven Syndrome" is the inclination of listeners to hear music as the projection of a composer's inner self. This was a radically new way of listening that emerged only after Beethoven's death. Beethoven's music was a catalyst for this change,...

Celebrated during his lifetime, Monteverdi disappeared from the repertory for centuries until interest in him gradually revived over the last hundred years. Denis Arnold's contribution to this revival was considerable. Here he pays tribute to...

Olivier Messiaen stands as one of the most influential composers of the twentieth century and among the foremost religious artists of any era. When he died in 1992, the prevailing image was of a deeply religious man whose only sources of inspiration were...

The New Bruckner provides a valuable study of Bruckner's music, focusing on the interaction of biography, textual scholarship, reception history and analysis. Dr Dermot Gault conveys a broad chronological narrative of Bruckner's compositional...

Pioneers in their fields and two of the best-known women in music in the twentieth century, Nadia and Lili Boulanger have previously been considered in isolation from one another. Yet, as Caroline Potter's new book demonstrates, their careers were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540097187Author Frederic ChopinFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint PwmPublisher PwmWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 226mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916302419Author James AkersFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Gmi - Guitar & Music InstitutePublisher Gmi - Guitar & Music InstituteWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847614254Author Hans-Gunter HeumannPage Count 79Imprint Schott Music LtdPublisher Schott Music Ltd

Symphony No. 9 in E minor was the last symphony written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and was premiered by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent on 2nd April 1958. It is described in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581060676Author David HitePage Count 64Imprint Lauren Keiser Music PublishingPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847614193Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 86Imprint Schott Music LtdPublisher Schott Music Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626545908Author C L HanonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

First published in 1948, Structural Functions of Harmony is Schoenberg's last theoretical work and contains his ultimate thoughts on classical and romantic harmony. The opening chapters are a resume of the basic principles of the early Theory of Harmony;...