Classical

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789918956036Author Matthew EllulFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint School of CompositionPublisher School of CompositionWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423417842Author Scott JoplinPage Count 64Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Jonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a masterpiece on its publication in 1985. This fully revised and updated new edition - published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composers death - charts in detail Handel's life, from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793554560Author Franz WohlfahrtPage Count 20Imprint G Schirmer, IncorporatedPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn't exist. Who was this titan of world culture? 'You want to build a Beethoven library? There can be no better starting point... Brilliant.' John Suchet, Classic FM presenter Through 100 recordings,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581061451Author Jules DemerssemanPage Count 12Imprint Lauren Keiser Music PublishingPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) was the best-known Japanese composer of his generation, bringing aspects of Eastern and Western traditions together, yet he remained something of an elusive figure. The composer's own commentaries about his music, poetic and...

Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a life of...

for Solo organ This virtuosic transcription will make a thrilling voluntary or recital piece. After a characteristic opening fanfare, a broad Elgarian theme takes centre-stage; the central section is a bustling fugue with whose material that theme is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904331988Author Francesco GeminianiFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Travis and Emery Music BookshopPublisher Travis and Emery Music...

Why do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed style? Is this need related to wider cultural concerns? In this 2002 study, John Butt sums up debates on the nature of the early music movement and historically informed performance,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739659929Author David VernonFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Candle Row PressPublisher Candle Row PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

What was Mozart really like? Wild? Sublime? Responsible? Fun-loving? Bright? Foul-mouthed? Reading these sparkling new translations of Mozart's letters, we learn in his own words that he was all of these and much more. Here is the composer at his most...

What Charles Rosen's celebrated book The Classical Style did for music of the Classical period, this new, much-awaited volume brilliantly does for the Romantic era. An exhilarating exploration of the musical language, forms, and styles of the Romantic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495029769Page Count 48Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 181g

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

Writing 'Master Class' is a biography of David Pownall's play, Master Class (1983), from conception to coming of age.Threaded through the account of the inception and development of the piece are twists of authorial life-story necessary for the telling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647750190Author Masterpieces of MusicFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Masterpieces of MusicPublisher Masterpieces of MusicWeight(grams)...

______________ '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

A concise and beautifully evocative appreciation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's career and genius by the famed writer and poet Sacheverell Sitwell. From Mozart's first precocious attempts at composing at the age of four or five, through to his tragic death...

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 *...

Digital technology has changed the ways in which music is perceived, stored, distributed, mediated and created. The world of music is now a vast and complex jungle, teeming with CDs, MP3s, concerts, clubs, festivals, conferences, exhibitions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784546823Author Christopher NortonPage Count 48Imprint Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers LtdPublisher Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers LtdWeight(grams)...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608741144Author Edward ElgarFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Petrucci Library PressPublisher Petrucci Library PressWeight(grams) 136g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783795758042Author Reiner WehlePage Count 128Imprint Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KGPublisher Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG

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...

Some of classical music's most famous works are found in opera, and from film soundtracks to football stadiums, it reaches a vast worldwide audience. Packed full of essential information, this pocket-sized handbook explores the key styles in the genre,...

'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...