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  • Beethoven for a Later Age

    Living with the String Quartets

    “A richly detailed portrayal of the intimate workings of a great string quartet . . . as revealed to us through the recollections of its first violinist.”—Philip RothEdward Dusinberre, first violinist of the renowned Takács Quartet, offers a rare peek inside the workings of his ensemble, while providing an insightful history of Beethoven’s sixteen string quartets and their performance.Founded in ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Play It! Christmas Songs

    A Superfast Way to Learn Awesome Songs on Your Piano or Keyboard

    Series series Play It!
    A fun and easy way to learn to play the piano or keyboard, with helpful instruction on classic and favorite songs.Written by the author of the best-selling Build It! series in collaboration with an experienced piano teacher, the Play It! books teaches how to play the piano or keyboard in a simple, effective way. Using color-coded notes and character icons, the books include piano sheets of popular ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beethoven: Variations on a Life

    Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career-even in the face of deafness-Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency, the music historian Mark Evan Bonds argues, provides the key to understanding the composer's life and works. Beethoven approached music as he approached life, weighing whatever occupied him ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Bulgarian Harmony

    In Village, Wedding, and Choral Music of the Last Century

    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    An in-depth study of the Bulgarian harmonic system is long overdue. More than two decades since the Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares choir was awarded a Grammy (1990), there is no scholarly study of the captivating sounds of Bulgarian vertical sonorities. Kalin Kirilov traces the gradual formation of a unique harmonic system that developed in three styles of Bulgarian music: village music from the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Music for String Quartet, 2 Violins, Viola, and Cello Volume 6

    Seven original string quartets, with individual parts, by Dr. Richard von Fuchs and 2 arrangements of music by John Denver and Edvard Grieg.They are for students and intermediate level players. ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Handbook of the Barefoot Composer

    A chat about music between the serious (little) and the facetious (much more) in search of the perfect form in the expression of feeling "In this book I talk about my vision of music and musical aesthetic, starting with the explanation of my main compositions, and going through the story of my personal experience, my education and how I grew up in music and beyond. A book in which I tell my ... Read more

    $3.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • French Music in Britain 1830–1914

    by Paul Rodmell ...
    Series series Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
    French Music in Britain 1830–1914 investigates the presence, reception and influence of French art music in Britain between 1830 (roughly the arrival of ‘grand opera’ and opéra comique in London) and the outbreak of the First World War. Five chronologically ordered chapters investigate key questions such as:* Where and to whom was French music performed in Britain in the nineteenth century?* How ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Urban Politics and Cultural Capital

    The Case of Chinese Opera

    by Ma Haili ...
    This book tells the story of how a regional Chinese theatrical form, Shanghai Yue Opera, evolved from the all-male ’beggar’s song’ of the early twentieth century to become the largest all-female opera form in the nation, only to face increasing pressure to survive under Chinese political and economic reforms in the new millennium. Previous publications have focused mainly on the historical ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Modern Brass Ensemble in Twentieth-Century Britain

    by John Miller ...
    The first study of the performance practice, repertoire and context of the modern 'brass ensemble' in the musical world.Whereas the British 'brass band' originated in the nineteenth century and rapidly developed into a nationwide working-class movement, the perceived modern 'brass ensemble' has a less clear foundation and identity. This book is the first to focus exclusively on the performance, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Vivaldi secondo Vivaldi

    Dentro i suoi manoscritti

    Antonio Vivaldi è stato forse il compositore più oggetto di equivoci di lettura e deliberati fraintendimenti tra quelli del suo tempo. Riscoperto relativamente di recente rispetto a Bach o Händel, la sua musica ha infatti subito per decenni ricostruzioni estremizzate e approcci superficiali. Ancora oggi ci si inganna credendo che sia un autore facile o leggero, e le sue partiture poco più di ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Mozart's Music of Friends

    Social Interplay in the Chamber Works

    In 1829 Goethe famously described the string quartet as 'a conversation among four intelligent people'. Inspired by this metaphor, Edward Klorman's study draws on a wide variety of documentary and iconographic sources to explore Mozart's chamber works as 'the music of friends'. Illuminating the meanings and historical foundations of comparisons between chamber music and social interplay, Klorman ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Schubert's Lieder and the Philosophy of Early German Romanticism

    by Lisa Feurzeig ...
    This study of Franz Schubert's settings of poetry by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis introduces the fascinating world of early German Romanticism in the 1790s, when an energetic group of bold young thinkers radically changed the landscape of European thought. Schubert's encounters with early Romantic poetry some twenty years later reanimated some of the movement's central ideas. Schubert set eleven ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt

    Dramaturgical Leaves: Essays about Musical Works for the Stage and Queries about the Stage, Its Composers, and Performers Part 1

    Series Book 3 - The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt
    In Dramaturgical Leaves: Essays about Musical Works for the Stage and Queries about the Stage, Its Composers and Performers, the third volume in Janita R. Hall-Swadley’s The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt, Liszt heralds his admiration for early nineteenth-century opera and musical stage works. He honors Gluck, the musical prophet, as the cultivator of dramatic truth in the Romantic opera ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Oskar Rieding - Concertino alla maniera ungherese, op. 21 - Adattamento per violino e chitarra

    Oskar Rieding (1840 – 1918) è un autore molto frequentato dai violinisti dei primi corsi poiché ha scritto lavori tecnicamente accessibili, ma formalmente molto compiuti.Di queste sue opere, particolarmente piacevoli e significative, si propone qui l’adattamento per chitarra della parte pianistica del Concertino alla maniera ungherese per Violino e Pianoforte, Op. 21.Questi arrangiamenti, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dieses Verlangen nach Schönheit

    Gespräche über Musik

    Lange war Menahem Pressler vor allem als Pianist des Beaux Arts Trios bekannt - 53 Jahre hatte das Ensemble Bestand. Nach der Auflösung des weltberühmten Trios schloss Pressler eine faszinierende Karriere als Solist an: mit Konzerten und Aufnahmen, die Lektionen in Schönheit sind. Im Gespräch mit dem Musikjournalisten Holger Noltze entwickelt sich das Porträt des leidenschaftlichen Künstlers ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music

    Nineteenth Century Chamber Music proceeds chronologically by composer, beginning with the majestic works of Beethoven, and continuing through Schubert, Spohr and Weber, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, the French composers, Smetana and Dvorák, and the end-of-the-century pre-modernists. Each chapter is written by a noted authority in the field. The book serves as a general introduction to Romantic ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Music for Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, Clarinet, Woodwinds Volume 4

    this is the 4th volume in a series of original woodwind music. This has one trio. 2 duets, 8 quartets, and one quintet. Most are by the composer (author) but one is an arrangement of a traditional spiritual, one is an arrangement of Bach BMV 900, and one two are arrangements of a Chopin waltz. Single parts are available at the end to make the pieces easier to perform. There is an interesting ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Baroque Violin & Viola, vol. II

    A Fifty-Lesson Course

    In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe--this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the power to express emotions in a way only before achieved with the human voice. With this new guide to the Baroque violin, and its close cousin, the Baroque viola, distinguished performer and pedagogue Walter Reiter puts this power into the hands of today ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Beyond the Notes

    Journeys with Chamber Music

    by Susan Tomes ...
    We knew from her recordings that Susan Tomes is a superb chamber player; now we know that she's a superb writer too. Michael Church, INDEPENDENTShe is as sensitive an observer and as subtle a writer as she is one of our finest chamber musicians...This is a book that should be read by practising musicians and music-lovers alike: here's one performer who really can communicate in words as well as ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Rossini

    by Andrea Chegai ...
    Rossini aveva 37 anni e 39 opere alle spalle quando si ritirò dalle scene teatrali dopo avervi esercitato un’egemonia incontrastata. Eclettico, altalenante tra comico e tragico, e prolifico sperimentatore di generi, raggiunse e impose uno stile sovraregionale, nella fedeltà a un ideale di bellezza ineffabile che la sua musica sempre inseguì: una musica che diede voce ai suoi personaggi esprimendo, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Musique de chambre

    Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

    Partez à la découverte de la musique de chambre avec ce Grand Article Universalis !Au sens moderne, «musique de chambre» est une expression générique s'appliquant à des compositions pour un petit nombre d'instruments solistes. Jusqu'à la fin du xvii e siècle, avant l'apparition des concerts publics, le terme désigne une musique destinée à être jouée chez un particuli...Un ouvrage spécialement ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music-making in Yaeyama and Okinawa

    by Matt Gillan ...
    Since the early 1990s, Okinawan music has experienced an extraordinary boom in popularity throughout Japan. Musicians from this island prefecture in the very south of Japan have found success as performers and recording artists, and have been featured in a number of hit films and television dramas. In particular, the Yaeyama region in the south of Okinawa has long been known as a region rich in ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Fantasies from Opera for Violin and Piano

    Carmen, Faust, The Magic Flute and Otello

    Series series Dover Chamber Music Scores
    This single-volume compilation features four popular opera fantasies arranged for violin with piano accompaniment. Each of these frequently performed pieces was arranged by a world-class artist and offers the convenience of a separate violin part:Carmen Fantasy from the Opera by Georges Bizet,Op. 25, transcribed by Jenö HubayFantasia on Themes from Gounod's Faust,Op. 20, transcribed by Henri ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chamber Music

    A Research and Information Guide

    by John H Baron ...
    Series series Routledge Music Bibliographies
    Chamber Music: A Research and Information Guide is a reference tool for anyone interested in chamber music. It is not a history or an encyclopedia but a guide to where to find answers to questions about chamber music. The third edition adds nearly 600 new entries to cover new research since publication of the previous edition in 2002. Most of the literature is books, articles in journals and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD