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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Violin concerto in E minor, op. 64

Author: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486489078
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
Long one of the most beloved concertos in the violin repertoire, this work features important formal innovations. Edited by Leopold Auer, this authoritative practice and performance edition includes a separate, removable violin part.

Concerto in B Minor Op. 61

Author: Edward Elgar
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486316343
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 99

Book Description
This practice and performance edition of one of the most beloved pieces in the modern violin repertoire contains a piano reduction and a separate violin part.

Bach's the Art of Fugue & a Companion to the Art of Fugue

Author: Donald Francis Tovey
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048649764X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Complete score of The Art of Fugue plus extensive commentary features all 14 fugues plus the four canons. The commentary outlines the fugues' contrapuntal devices and offers keen observations on the composer's craftsmanship.

Symphonies nos. 8 and 9

Author: Antonín Dvo?ák
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048624749X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Few composers have achieved the widespread and lasting popularity of Antonin Dvo ak. He was a master of instrumentation and symphonic form, composing a total of nine symphonies. His most celebrated work, Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" (composed during Dvo ak's three-year stay in America), echoes the folk spirit of his native Czechoslovakia as well as American influences, and is filled with the spontaneous melodic invention, rhythmic variety, and intensity of harmony that characterize his orchestral works. The popular acclaim accorded the symphony "From the New World" tends to overshadow Dvo ak's other symphonies, but "Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians" notes the "interesting form folk-spirit virile serenity" of Symphony No. 8. The delightful freshness and uninhibited emotionalism of the composition have contributed to its lasting success. The Dover edition presents both symphonic masterpieces among the most popular works in the orchestral repertoire reprinted from authoritative editions in one inexpensive, practical volume. This full-size, easy-to-read score has been printed with generous margins to allow insertion of notes, analyses, etc. The sturdy binding, high quality of reproduction, and affordable price make this volume ideal for musicians, music students, and music lovers in general."

Twenty-Three Opera Arias for Sopranos

Author: Henry Edward Krehbiel
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486497496
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Rich selection spans the dawn of Italian opera through the late 19th century. Featured composers include Caccini, Rameau, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Verdi, Bizet, and many others.