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Hayley's first performance as 'Little Star' in a Christmas play was perfectly pitched, beautifully sung and enthusiastically received. She was six years old. Now, at the tender age of twenty, she is……続きを見る

How are conductors' silent gestures magicked into sound by a group of more than a hundred brilliant but belligerent musicians? The mute choreography of great conductors has fascinated and frustrated……続きを見る

This superbly authoratitive new work provides a comprehensive A-Z guide to some 1000 years of Western music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a vast range of composers, as well as……続きを見る

If you thought this holiday classic was all about Marie saving her Nutcracker prince, think again– it’s all about desserts! Award-winning author Linda Hymes presents a decadent tribute to America’s……続きを見る

This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS Wagner Strauss Moussorgsky Liszt Berlioz Franck Debussy Ravel Borodin Rimsky-Korsakoff Rachmaninoff Scriabine Strawinsky Mahler Reger Schoen……続きを見る

Derek Gunderson is a pianist in the last year of a degree at a conservatorium of music. He is a fine pianist, coasting toward a career in music. Emotionally complacent, he supplements his crushes of……続きを見る

This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘The Rest is Noise’. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southba……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS (abridged list)) CHAPTER I The Bachs of ThuringiaーVeit Bach, the ancestor of John SebastianーHis so……続きを見る

In Listen to This, the award-winning music critic and author of The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross looks forward and backward in musical culture: capturing essential figures in classical music history, as……続きを見る

Recognized as the primary American symphonist of the 20th century, Roger Sessions (1896-1985) is one of the leading representatives of high modernism. His stature among American composers rivals Cha……続きを見る

Frédéric Chopin’s reputation as one of the Great Romantics endures, but as Benita Eisler reveals in her elegant and elegiac biography, the man was more complicated than his iconic image. A classicis……続きを見る

This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘The Rest is Noise’. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southba……続きを見る

Miss DeLay: portrait of beloved violin teacher Dorothy DeLay by Helen Epstein (12,200 words) Dorothy DeLay (1917-2002) was the first woman to become an internationally-acclaimed master teacher of th……続きを見る

Have you ever been carried away by a piece of classical music? In this funny, evocative, personal eBook, previously published as ‘Music for the People: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Classical Music’……続きを見る

First published in 1939, On Russian Music was conceived by Gerald Abraham as a sequel to his earlier Studies in Russian Music (1935, also in Faber Finds), and complements the previous work in many u……続きを見る

Sentimental Opera is a study of the relationship between opera and two major phenomena of eighteenth-century European culture - the cult of sensibility and the emergence of bourgeois drama. A thorou……続きを見る

This is a chapter taken from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, The Rest is Noise. With some of Europe’s greatest composers fleeing persecution under Stalin and……続きを見る

An authoritative work offering a fresh look at Beethoven’s life, career, and milieu. “Magisterial” ーNew York Review of Books. This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical st……続きを見る

Richard Wagner remains, almost 130 years after his death, the most controversial composer in the history of music. Creator of huge and hugely ambitious operas, which have an immense immediate impact……続きを見る

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 a……続きを見る

This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS Chronology Chapter I Birth and parentage ー studies under Zachow at Halle ー Hamburg ー friendship and duel with Mattheson ー Almira ー depa……続きを見る

The 'The Ultimate Classical Music Quiz Book' is a fun selection of original questions (and answers!), comprehensively covering all facets of classical music between 1730 and 1820! As a quiz game it ……続きを見る

This wonderful collection of sonatas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart contains scores for the solo piano. It is a fine example of the composer's work and a fantastic addition to any classical musician's r……続きを見る

For the beginner or the devoteeーit's everything the classical music buff needs to know. The major composers from Bach and Bartok to Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky Significant performers from Maurice……続きを見る

Perhaps the greatest pianist who has ever lived, Liszt was one of the titanic musical figures of the Romantic age. Abandoning his spectacular career as a travelling virtuoso in his mid-thirties, thi……続きを見る

Anyone who has ever wondered exactly what a conductor is doing will find the answers in this book. Covering a multitude of issues including technique, player psychology, shirt colours, anecdotes, pe……続きを見る

Sound Advice is a valuable resource for college students, beginning teachers, and experienced conductors of children's choirs. It covers the vast array of skills needed by today's conductor and will……続きを見る

German Lieder in the Nineteenth-Century provides a detailed introduction to the German lied. Beginning with its origin in the literary and musical culture of Germany in the nineteenth-century, the b……続きを見る

This is a chapter taken from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, The Rest is Noise. Ross shows how the flowering of avant-garde music in early twentieth-century ……続きを見る

Few genres of the last 250 years have proved so crucial to the course of music history, or so vital to public musical experience, as the symphony. This Companion offers an accessible guide to the hi……続きを見る