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Commissioned by "Sam" Falcetti for the Springfield Accordion Orchestra in 1983, Kynaston has been performed by virtuoso accordion ensembles in concerts and competitions around the world. Inspired by……続きを見る

This is the story of the destruction of a talented Jewish family, and of the survival against all the odds of two young sisters. It is one of the most moving stories to emerge from the Second World ……続きを見る

This book is an invitation for all who aspire to the highest level of ensemble artistry and wish to work more productively and joyfully within a musical ensemble. The concepts and techniques include……続きを見る

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 sperimen……続きを見る

By 1853 Brahms had emerged as a force in music and would afterward be acknowledged as the greatest master of the symphonic form of the last half of the century. In that generation of composers, only……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

«Io non vivo nel passato e neppure nell'avvenire. Sono nel presente.» Così, nel 1935, Stravinskij chiudeva la sua autobiografia, esprimendo il rifiuto di ogni spinta utopistica verso un futuro ideal……続きを見る

When Mavis Himes, a psychoanalyst with an established practice of over forty years, began to contemplate retirement, she decided to learn to play the cello. From meeting her teacher in an overcrowde……続きを見る

Es ist die Königsdisziplin der Kammermusik, und seit dreißig Jahren zählt das 1985 in Ost-Berlin gegründete Vogler Quartett zu den international renommiertesten Streichquartetten – in unveränderter ……続きを見る

Questo quarto contributo brahmsiano intende costituire un’integrazione, un’appendice, un post-scriptum (a seconda di come lo si riguarda) al secondo, incentrato sulla produzione di Lieder per voce e……続きを見る

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, INDEPENDENT She is as sensitive an observer and as subtle a write……続きを見る

The musical tradition of Ma'luf is believed to have come to North Africa with Muslim and Jewish refugees escaping the Christian reconquista of Spain between the tenth and seventeenth centuries. Alth……続きを見る

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

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

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

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

Unaccountably, Percy Grainger has remained on the margins of both American music history and twentieth-century modernism. This volume reveals the well-known composer of popular gems to be a self-des……続きを見る

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 c……続きを見る

For the past four decades, the concept of hypermeter has been routinely applied to eighteenth-century music. But was this concept familiar in the eighteenth century? If so, how is it reflected in wr……続きを見る

Ho imparato quanto scritto in questo volume dai miei allievi e dalle loro domande, mosso dall’esigenza, che da sempre Percepisco come urgenza, di ordinare e semplificare il materiale didattico. Mi s……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

A comprehensive and immersive survey of thirty-five Beethoven piano sonatas Beethoven’s piano sonatas are among the iconic cornerstones of the classical music repertoire. Jan Marisse Huizing offers ……続きを見る

This classic text represents the definitive account of the life of the great Polish pianist/composer, Frederic Chopin. The story is told by his friend and colleague, the legendary Hungarian pianist,……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

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

The Philadelphia Orchestra is the most-recorded orchestra in the United States, and its recordings have contributed much to its reputation as “The World’s Greatest Orchestra.” In The Philadelphia Or……続きを見る