Classical 22

Following on the heels of his Conducting and Rehearsing the Instrumental Music Ensemble, John F. Colson takes students to the next level in conducting practice with Rehearsing: Critical Connections ……続きを見る

Although Johann Sebastian Bach did not write any music for the guitar, transcriptions of his unaccompanied string music and music for lute have long been a part of the guitar repertoire. Despite the……続きを見る

The studies of Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) stand alongside those of Fernando Sor, Matteo Carcassi, Dionisio Aguado and Ferinando Carulli as the staples of the didactic pieces by the ""first generatio……続きを見る

The product of decades of scholarly investigation, Volume 1 contains 67 musical works by the virtuoso Paraguayan guitarist Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944). This is the first edition of Barrios' ……続きを見る

This comprehensive, illustrated text offers an in-depth look at the mechanics and musical thought process of teaching the classical guitar the "why" rather than the "how" the classical guitarist doe……続きを見る

La biographie "complète" de Verdi – le compositeur comme l'homme privé et l'acteur politique – par un grand historien. Giuseppe Verdi n'est pas seulement l'un des maîtres de l'opéra mondial. Il fut ……続きを見る

Seine letzten Lebensjahre führten Antonio Vivaldi nach Böhmen, nach Venedig, schließlich nach Wien. Trotz hohem Ansehen und europaweitem Ruhm war eine Künstlerexistenz schon damals ein steter Kampf ……続きを見る

The first scale book to guide students of all levels in a step-by-step fashion through the most essential scale exercises. Rhythmic and bowing variations of gradually increasing difficulty take the ……続きを見る

Francisco Tárrega: The Story of Capricho Árabe, is a brief look into guitarist/composer Francisco Tárrega and a study of performance practice of the piece, "Capricho Árabe". This essay uses life of ……続きを見る

Ballet is a paradox: much loved but little studied. It is a beautiful fairy tale; detached from its origins and unrelated to the men and women who created it. Yet ballet has a history, little known ……続きを見る

French concert music and jazz often enjoyed a special creative exchange across the period 1900–65. French modernist composers were particularly receptive to early African-American jazz during the in……続きを見る

For centuries before the 1789 revolution, ballet was a source of great cultural pride for France, but by the twentieth century the art form had deteriorated along with France's international standin……続きを見る

This book traces the remarkable course of a creative career which spanned the drawing rooms of the Imperial Russia and the social ferment of 1960s America, and serve to establish Stravinsky not only……続きを見る

Rufus Hallmark's book explores Robert Schumann's beloved yet controversial song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben and the poems of Adelbert von Chamisso on which it is based, setting them in the context o……続きを見る

Since the late 1980s, the boundaries between the ‘musicologies’ have become increasingly blurred. Most notably, a growing number of musicologists have become interested in the ideas and methodologie……続きを見る

Das Tänzerpaar Shoko Nakamura und Wieslaw Dudek gehört zur Spitze der internationalen Ballettszene. Es bedient sich einer traditionellen Bewegungssprache, die, präzise und hoch stilisiert, absolute ……続きを見る

Through forty-five creative and concise essays by an international team of authors, this Cambridge History brings the fifteenth century to life for both specialists and general readers. Combining th……続きを見る

This new series of graded repertoire for guitar has been put together with the aim of providing students with the most attractive, stylistically comprehensive, and inspiring music available, while a……続きを見る

This comprehensive edition brings together all the standard pieces in the adopted Albeniz "guitar repertoire" along with additional pieces that complete many of the suites and other groupings as pub……続きを見る

Si Mozart m'était conté... Mozart , c'est plus de 600 œuvres, des dizaines de films, de pièces de théâtre, et une influence majeure sur toute la musique occidentale. Mozart, c'est aussi un enfant pr……続きを見る

La vie flamboyante de la femme de Verdi, la vraie Traviata. Séductrice et fantasque, la Strepponi a été l'une des plus grandes cantatrices de son temps et une diva adulée. Elle a joué à guichets fer……続きを見る

Titles in Dictionaries for the Modern Musician: A Scarecrow Press Music Series offer both the novice and the advanced artist key information designed to convey the field of study and performance for……続きを見る

The Everyday Dancer is a new and honest account of the business of dancing from a writer with first hand experience of the profession. Structured around the daily schedule, The Everyday Dancer goes ……続きを見る

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 sim……続きを見る

This book is a perceptive and critical account of the first 75 years of The Royal Ballet, tracing the company's growth, and its great cultural importance - an indispensable book for all lovers of ba……続きを見る

The last of a long line of distinguished Russian aristocrats, Yevgeny Mravinsky emerges from the 20th Century musical scene as a noble conductor and exceptional treasure of Soviet culture. His frien……続きを見る

'They are not for you but for a later age!' Ludwig van Beethoven, on the Opus 59 quartets. Tackling the Beethoven quartets is a rite of passage that has shaped the Takács Quartet's work together for……続きを見る

(Willis). This humorous and impressive solo piano arrangement of "Warm Kitty" will provide a light, entertaining touch to any recital, whether at home with friends or in a performance hall! Fans of ……続きを見る

The classical record business gained a new lease on life in the 1980s when period instrument performances of baroque and classical music began to assume a place on the stage. This return to the past……続きを見る

“A rapturous, witty, and passionate memoir ... Violin Dreams is not only the story of a man becoming an artist, it’s a history of twentieth-century music.” ー John Guare, Tony Award–winning playwrig……続きを見る