Classical

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495002557Author Maurice RavelPage Count 270Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

______________ 'A beautifully poised series of dialogues about literature, music and politics, and they're a testimony to the enormous gifts and courage of both men' - Tom Paulin, Guardian 'A marvellous eavesdrop on the discourse of exchange...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783937406305Author Lori MunzFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint edel classics GmbHPublisher edel classics GmbH

This indispensable manual for present-day players of the one-keyed flute is the first complete method written in modern times. Janice Dockendorff Boland has compiled a manual that can serve as a self-guiding tutor or as a text for a student working with...

'Brilliant and epoch-making.' Times Literary SupplementThe Classical Style is an established classic which has remained in print since its first publication in 1971. With his experience as a world-class pianist as well as as teacher at Harvard and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385524575Author Lang LangFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Michael Nyman's book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing which developed alongside, and partly in opposition to,...

The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes,...

The Classical Music Encylopedia, now fully updated, traces the development of Western music from medieval times through to the twenty-first century. Each chapter begins with an Introduction to the era, followed by an A to Z of the key composers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793543847Author Lee HoibyPage Count 72Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Following methods known to have been adopted by Bach himself, the exercises provided in chorale harmonization are graded in such a way as to encourage the student to develop both technique and imagination within a closely-defined framework. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634069147Page Count 40Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

There is more to sound recording than just recording sound. Far from being simply a tool for the preservation of music, the technology is a catalyst. In this award-winning text, Mark Katz provides a wide-ranging, deeply informative, consistently...

Vladimir Jankelevitch left behind a remarkable ?uvre steeped as much in philosophy as in music. His writings on moral quandaries reflect a lifelong devotion to music and performance, and, as a counterpoint, he wrote on music aesthetics and on modernist...

'Clemency Burton-Hill makes classical music absolutely accessible, magical and medicinal. Another Year of Wonder is, indeed, another wonder.' Dolly Alderton, broadcaster, writer and bestselling author'Clemmie's recommendations have broadened my mind,...

Why do so many of us listen to classical music, and how can you get the most from listening to it?In this unpretentious and instructive book, internationally celebrated conductor and teacher John Mauceri brings to bear his lifetime of experience and...

Between the world wars, Chicago Race women nurtured a local yet widely resonant Black classical music community entwined with Black civic life. Samantha Ege tells the stories of the Black women whose acumen and energy transformed Chicago's South Side...

This edition of Walton's Violin Concerto has been off-printed from the William Walton Edition full score, and combines the scholarship of the Edition (including an introduction by the editor) with the practical benefits of a study score format...

'How refreshing, to read a book about music written for a music lover and not a musicologist. In clear, lucid, entertaining prose, Jane Glover makes those of us who lack musical literacy better understand and appreciate Handel's divinity.' - Donna Leon,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540041562Author Ettore PozzoliPage Count 154Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

A memoir by the 2019 Wellcome Prize winner Will Eaves that looks at the creation of eight piano pieces. 'A wonderfully sensitive and probing meditation on the writing of words and music' Rolf Hind, composer and pianist ...

The UK's biggest-selling classical artist reveals how her angelic voice has shot her to superstardom...Katherine Jenkins is an international singing superstar who has redefined a music genre: she has brought classical music to the masses and inspired...

Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world. But how did it come to be so adored? In this book, author Alexandra Wilson traces La Bohème's rise to fame and demonstrates that its success grew steadily through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783795763565Author Robert SchumannPage Count 82Imprint Ernst Eulenburg & CoPublisher Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG

Johann Joachim Quantz's On Playing the Flute has long been recognized as one of the primary sources of information about eighteenth-century performance practice. In spite of its title, it is not simply a tutor for the flute, but a fully-fledged programme...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781974899678Author Wolfgang Amadeus MozartFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Allegro EditionsPublisher Allegro EditionsWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm)...

__________________________ 'Fascinating ... Haste paints a portrait of a woman who was born to triumph, not surrender' - Harper's Bazaar 'Written in elegant, lucid prose ... a treasure trove of European cultural riches and scandalous intrigue .....

Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes? Contemporary associations between classical music and social class remain underexplored, with classical music primarily studied as a text rather than as a practice until...

Discover the enchanting world of Yiruma with the official easy piano sheet music from his best-selling recorded album, SOLO. Released in 2021 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Yiruma's debut as a composer, SOLO features best-loved works including Kiss...

Over three decades, Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The...

'To Richter (no first name necessary), warm greetings to the best pianist in the Soviet Union - indeed in the whole world.' ProkofievThroughout a life dedicated to music, Richter maintained a stubborn silence about his own ideals and aspirations. Here at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486435794Author Camille Saint-SaensPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

for high voice and piano This beautiful collection of 14 songs for high voice offers Christmas settings 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 piano is the best loved of musical instruments, thanks in part to the elegant symmetrical design of its ivory and ebony keyboard that ensures each pitch is reliably equidistant from the next. But this 'equal temperament' tuning was once a hugely...

How does music heard and played over many years inform one's sense of home? In Distant Melodies, Edward Dusinberre, the English first violinist of the Takacs Quartet, explores changing ideas of home, exile and return in the lives and particular chamber...

The musical achievements of the so-called `Franco-Flemish School' have attracted many writers, yet Bruges itself has still to be put back on the map of European music history. This book describes how the people of Bruges shaped their acoustic environment...

Leos Janacek (1854-1928) occupied a pre-eminent position in Moravian (and wider Czech) culture, not only as a composer but also as a folksong collector, journalist, educator and nationalist. One of the greatest and most original composers of the early...

Published in the run-up to the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth in 2013, and written by one of the most distinguished Wagner scholars in the world, this will be the Wagner book of the bicentenary. Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is one of the most...

'Anyone with the smallest interest in composition - not just concertos but novels, buildings, lives, you name it, should read this absorbing, spiky, dazzling book.' Adam Thirwell, TLS Books of the Year Harrison Birtwistle is recognised worldwide as one...

Menahem Pressler is a world-renowned piano soloist, master class teacher, and member of the acclaimed Beaux Arts Trio. In this companion to his first book, Menahem Pressler: Artistry in Piano Teaching, Pressler's former student William Brown brings...