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The first edition of Albert R. Rice's The Baroque Clarinet is widely considered the authoritative text on the European clarinet during the first half of the eighteenth century. Since its publication……続きを見る

(Meredith Music Resource). With this superb text, Dr. Rapp gives the wind band community both a historical and musical insight into three of its most revered composers. His study of their band works……続きを見る

Les Grotesques de la musique est un ouvrage d'Hector Berlioz publié en 1859, composé d'articles précédemment parus dans le Journal des débats et la Revue et gazette musicale. Faisant suite aux Soiré……続きを見る

Many scholars and music lovers hold that J.S. Bach is a modern figure, as his music seems to speak directly to the aesthetic, spiritual, or emotional concerns of today's listeners. But, by eighteent……続きを見る

THE TWENTY ETUDES FOR PIANO were composed during the years from 1991 to 2012. Their final configuration into Book 1 and Book 2 was determined by the music itself in the course of its composition. Bo……続きを見る

Franz Schubert's Winterreise is at the same time one of the most powerful and one of the most enigmatic masterpieces in Western culture. In his new book, Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obs……続きを見る

Matthew Head explores the cultural meanings of Mozart's Turkish music in the composer's 18th-century context, in subsequent discourses of Mozart's significance for 'Western' culture, and in today's ……続きを見る

This book and audio are made for all aficionados of flamenco guitar and for guitarists of any other style who enjoy variety in their musical sources. They present ten pieces composed and recorded in……続きを見る

Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004) was the greatest conductor of his generation. His reputation is legendary, and yet astonishingly, in his five decades on the podium, he conducted only 89 concerts, some 60……続きを見る

This book will appeal to any guitarist intrigued by the soulful and magical sound of the flamenco guitar. Presents 10 engaging, intermediate to advanced flamenco guitar solos in traditional forms in……続きを見る

These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialoguesーwhich grew out of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talksーare an exchange between two of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: Daniel Bare……続きを見る

The following composers are treated: Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek, Jan August Vitásek, Josef Seger, Karel Blažej Kopřiva, Šimon Brixi, František Xaver Brixi, Bohuslav Matĕj Černohorský, Felix Benda, J……続きを見る

Intended as a sequel to 20 Flamenco Guitar Etudes, the longer, more developed exercises in 16 Studies for Flamenco Guitar further explore characteristic flamenco guitar techniques including: picado,……続きを見る

La Nijinska is the first biography of twentieth-century ballet's premier female choreographer. Overshadowed in life and legend by her brother Vaslav Nijinsky, Bronislava Nijinska had a far longer an……続きを見る

**WINNER of Presto Books' Best Composer Biography** NINE WORKS OF BEETHOVEN, NINE WINDOWS INTO THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A MUSICAL GENIUS. 'We are doubly blessed that Beethoven should have led such an ……続きを見る

An illuminating investigation into the interdisciplinary impact of the beloved modern classical composer. Few composers have enjoyed such critical acclaimーor longevityーas Jean Sibelius, who died i……続きを見る

Dorothea Link examines singers’ voices and casting practices in late eighteenth-century Italian opera as exemplified in Vienna’s court opera from 1783 to 1791. The investigation into the singers’ vo……続きを見る

Although the stars of Russian ballet Anna Pavlova and Tamara Karsavina possessed a national manner of dancing, there was no truly Russian school of dancing until the 1930s. The development of this s……続きを見る

(Piano Method). Since the first release of this classic Schirmer edition over 100 years ago, almost anyone who has taken piano lessons for more than two years has played from The Virtuoso Pianist . ……続きを見る

Building on ideas first advanced by Arnold Schoenberg and later developed by Erwin Ratz, this book introduces a new theory of form for instrumental music in the classical style. The theory provides ……続きを見る

Drawn from the well-known musicologist's celebrated Essays in Musical Analysis, this volume contains nearly all of the concertos in the standard repertoire, from Bach's concerto for two violins to W……続きを見る

The "Beethoven Syndrome" is the inclination of listeners to hear music as the projection of a composer's inner self. This was a radically new way of listening that emerged only after Beethoven's dea……続きを見る

Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestur……続きを見る

This book contains the first three of J.S. Bach's solo violin Sonatas and Partitas arranged for mandolin. The goal of the material is to make learning these challenging pieces easier. Mandolin tabla……続きを見る

Witold Lutosławski is widely regarded as one of the foremost composers of the post-war era and one of the truly great musicians of the 20th century. Charles Bodman Rae's examination of Lutosławski '……続きを見る

The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC. Held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, it is one of t……続きを見る

“The Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24” is Johannes Brahms' 1861 solo piano composition comprising twenty-five variations and a single concluding fugue. It is based on a theme from G……続きを見る

A selection of songs from Einaudi's 2007 album, specially transcribed for solo Piano. The composer writes, In this folio you will find most of the music from the Divenire album. There are a number o……続きを見る

This single volume contains all the string quartets of Mozart: the little-known early quartets in an Italianate manner composed between 1770 and 1773: the six quartets dedicated to Franz Josef Haydn……続きを見る

Written during Tchaikovsky’s years as professor at the renowned Moscow Conservatory, this volume presents a clear and thorough introduction to the study of harmony. The great Russian composer expoun……続きを見る