Complete fairy tales for solo piano

Author: Nikolay Karlovich Medtner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486416830
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Complex, surprising pieces by a brilliant, underrated Russian 20th-century Romantic whose music, though similar to that of his friend Rachmaninoff, is more cerebral and harmonically adventurous. These 34 "fairy tales" for piano highlight the composer's gift for musical storytelling, with their intense polyrhythms, intricate textures, and complex harmonic development.

Complete preludes, books 1 and 2

Author: Claude Debussy
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486259706
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 127

Book Description
These 24 works reveal the extraordinary expressiveness of Debussy's genius: "La Cathédrale engloutie," "Ondine," "La fille aux cheveux de lin," "Feuilles mortes," "Ce qu'a vu le Vent d'Ouest," "Feux d'artifice," "Danseuses de Delphes," "La fille aux cheveux de lin," and many more. Includes a helpful glossary of French terms.

The Schubert Song Transcriptions for Solo Piano/Series III

Author: Franz Liszt
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048631264X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
All 14 songs in the series, including such masterpieces as "Das Fischermädchen," "Am Meer," "Abschied," "Ständchen," "Frühlings-Sehnsucht," "Der Doppelgänger," and other famed lieder. All meticulously reproduced from rare early editions overseen by Liszt himself.

The Suites from the Fairy Tale Operas and Dubinushka

Author: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486779882
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 417

Book Description
Original compilation includes the famous orchestral interlude "The Flight of the Bumblebee "as well as the suite from" The Tale of Tsar Saltan." Additional selections include suites from "The Golden Cockerel" and "Christmas Eve" as well as "Dubinushka, " Op. 62, suite; all are reproduced from authoritative sources.

Complete concerti grossi

Author: Arcangelo Corelli
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486256065
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
These masterful works by the baroque composer Arcangelo Corelli (1653 1713) are among the earliest created in the concerto grosso form. They radiate a vibrant lyricism and crisp dignity of style that set them clearly apart from works by most earlier composers, who strove primarily for virtuoso brilliance and whimsy. This finely produced yet inexpensive paperback edition meticulously reproduces the scores of all twelve of Corelli's concerti grossi from a famous edition prepared by violinist Joseph Joachim and musicologist Friedrich Chrysander at the end of the nineteenth century. Corelli's concerti grossi for strings and continuo, most of them written in the last three decades of his life, were not published until 1714, the year following his death. Together with his other works four sets of trio sonatas and one set of violin sonatas they won him celebrity in his lifetime, great influence on other composers in the decades after his death, and a fervent admiration from musicians, critics, and audiences that has never declined through the centuries."

Complete piano rags

Author: Scott Joplin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486258076
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Reprinted from the publishers' original editions, offers all thirty-eight piano rags by the respected master of the form, along with the original sheet music covers.

Complete Preludes and Etudes-Tableaux

Author: Serge Rachmaninoff
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486171779
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Forty-one of the Russian master's greatest works for solo piano, including the immensely popular C-sharp minor, G-minor, and B-minor Preludes, in authoritative editions.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Author: Philipp Spitta
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486274136
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 740

Book Description
This monumental study of Johann Sebastian Bach ranks among the great classics of musicology. Since its first publication in 1873–80, it has remained the basic work on Bach and the foundation of later research and study. The three-part treatment describes in chronological sequence practically everything that is known of the composer's life: his ancestry, his immediate family, his associations, his employers, and the countless occasions on which his musical genius emerged. Author Philipp Spitta accompanies this biographical material with quotations from primary sources: correspondence, family records, diaries, official documents, and more. In addition to biographical data, Spitta reviews Bach's musical production, with analyses of more than 500 pieces, covering all the important works. More than 450 musical excerpts are included in the main text, and a 43-page musical supplement illustrates longer passages. Despite the scholarly nature of this work, it also has the rare distinction of being a study that can be read with considerable enjoyment and great profit by every serious music lover, with or without a substantial background in the history of music or musical theory.

Complete preludes and études-tableaux

Author: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486256960
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
These 24 preludes and 17 etudes-tableaux include what are possibly Rachmaninoff's finest compositions for solo piano. Reproduced from authoritative Russian editions, they include the popular C-sharp minor prelude, Op. 3, No. 2; the G-minor prelude, Op. 23, No. 5; and the B-minor prelude, Op. 32, No. 10.

Sonatas, Fantasies and Rondos Urtext Edition

Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486499960
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Newly and painstakingly engraved by Ephraim Hammett Jones, the second part of this two-volume Urtext edition completes the sonata cycle with Nos. 10–18 and also features the Adagio in B Minor, K.540.