Chamber 2

The musical genre of taarab is played for entertainment at weddings and other festive occasions all along the Swahili Coast in East Africa. Taarab contains all the features of a typical 'Indian Ocea……続きを見る

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 per……続きを見る

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 t……続きを見る

’He plays the piano well,’ wrote the society hostess Mme de Saint-Marceaux in her diary on 18 March 1927. ’His compositions are not devoid of talent but he’s not a genius, and I’m afraid he thinks h……続きを見る

P’ansori is the quintessential traditional Korean musical drama, in which epic tales are sung and narrated by a solo singer accompanied by a drummer. Drawing on her extensive research in Korea and i……続きを見る

Japanese folk performing arts incorporate a body of entertainments that range from the ritual to the secular. They may be the ritual dances at Shinto shrines performed to summon and entertain deitie……続きを見る

For over three decades Michael Nyman's music has succeeded in reaching beyond the small community of contemporary music aficionados to a much wider range of listeners. An important element in unlock……続きを見る

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 Ka……続きを見る

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 i……続きを見る

Kathak, the classical dance of North India, combines virtuosic footwork and dazzling spins with subtle pantomime and soft gestures. As a global practice and one of India's cultural markers, kathak d……続きを見る

What does it mean to talk about musical coherence at the end of a century characterised by fragmentation and discontinuity? How can the diverse influences which stand behind the works of many late t……続きを見る

Christopher Fox (1955) has emerged as one of the most fascinating composers of the post-war generation. His spirit of experimentalism pervades an oeuvre in which he has blithely created his own vers……続きを見る

The zheng zither is one of the most popular instruments in contemporary China. It is commonly regarded as a solo instrument with a continuous tradition dating back to ancient times. But in fact, muc……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

This rare collection features violin parts with separate piano reductions of works by Brahms, Dvorak, Handel, Herbert, Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Massenet, Elgar, and others. Cont……続きを見る

A 1959 New Yorker profile captured the inspired risk-taking and raw creative spark of a Budapest String Quartet rehearsal: "Sasha leaped from his chair and with violin held aloft, played the passage……続きを見る

The original intention was that this book should be entirely biographical. If it be true, however, that out main interest is (or ought to be) in what a composer did rather than in what he was, the t……続きを見る

Si la créativité n’est pas (qu’une) technique, mais plutôt un rapport au monde, une forme d’être, que peuvent nous apprendre sur ce sujet de grands créateurs comme Jean-Sébastien Bach, compositeur p……続きを見る

Il libro approfondisce la figura del compositore giapponese Takashi Yoshimatsu con particolare attenzione alla sua "Fuzzy Bird" Sonata per Sassofono e Pianoforte. 続きを見る

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 aes……続きを見る

Ho voluto analizzare gli aspetti che hanno caratterizzato la musica del '900 con un riferimento particolare ad uno dei suoi più importanti compositori qual'è Prokofiev e analizzando alcune delle sue……続きを見る

One of Irelands most famous writers was James Joyce, a novelist and poet whos best known for his avant garde classic Ulysses, which was inspired by The Odyssey but written in a completely modern, st……続きを見る

Acuti e irriverenti, severi fino alla stroncatura o talmente ironici da risultare dissacranti, gli scritti critici di Claude Debussy costituiscono una delle testimonianze più sfrontate mai offerte d……続きを見る

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 s……続きを見る

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, partic……続きを見る

Compositional Process in Elliott Carter’s String Quartets is an interdisciplinary study examining the evolution and compositional process in Elliott Carter’s five string quartets. Offering a systema……続きを見る

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 n……続きを見る

Six original woodwind arrangments of spiritual jazz popular and soft rock music with parts for individual players. Suitable for schools and hobby players at the intermediate level. 続きを見る

This is for woodwind instrument players and has trios, quartets, and quintets. About half of the music is original (by a living Canadian-Hungarian composer) and half is arrangements of classic and p……続きを見る

Here are 9 original strings quartets and 5 based on piano works of classic composers, including J.S. Bach, E. Grieg, F. Mendelsohn and J.J. Froberger. Single parts for individual players are include……続きを見る