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Frederic Chopin (Revised Edition) (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) (Library Edition)Meet ComposerFrederic Chopin Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers series combines a delightful mix of full-color historical reproductions, photos, and hilarious cartoon-style illustrations that bring to life the works of renowned composers, combining poignant anecdotes with important factual information for readers (Ages 8-9).Author:...
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The Cambridge Companion to Arvo PärtArvo P rt is one of the most influential and widely performed contemporary composers. Around 1976 he developed an innovative new compositional technique called 'tintinnabuli' (Latin for 'sounding bells'), which has had an extraordinary degree of success. It is frequently performed around the world,...
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Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis JoplinElectrifying, highly acclaimed, and intensely personal, this new and updated version of Myra Friedman's classic biography of Janis Joplin teems with dramatic insights into Joplin's genius and into the chaotic times that catapulted her to fame as the legendary queen of rock. It is...
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Supreme GlamourAs Motown's leading act in the 1960s, The Supremes became synonymous with glamorous, elegant, coordinated ensembles. Supreme Glamour presents founding member Mary Wilson's unparalleled collection, showcasing thirty-two of the group's most eye-catching gowns, meticulously reassembled and photographed on the Grammy Museum stage. Detailed captions...
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Mozart & His Piano ConcertosThis classic of music criticism provides detailed studies of 23 of Mozart's piano concertos. In addition to establishing the lines along which the genre developed, the concertos also shed light upon the technical and inspirational growth of their creator. The first full-length survey devoted...
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Complete Bagatelles for PianoBeethoven's bagatelles are short compositions written over the span of the composer's lifetime, from the early to the late periods. Ranging from easy to intermediate level, these popular pieces display a wide variety of moods and musical ideas and are favorites with students and...
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Harmonized Chorales for KeyboardLong esteemed as counterpoint's greatest master, Johann Sebastian Bach created harmonizations of chorales that have served as voice-leading models for generations. This affordable volume features 371 of the composer's harmonized chorales, presented in closed score for easy study as well as play.These traditional liturgical...
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The Rite of Spring for Piano Four HandsComposed for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, The Rite of Spring premiered in 1913 at the Th tre des Champs-Elys es in Paris. Igor Stravinsky's harmonically adventurous score--along with a scenario of pagan sacrifice and Vaslav Nijinsky's unconventional choreography--excited both opposition and support, and the...
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Best-Loved Negro Spirituals: Complete Lyrics to 178 Songs of FaithNegro spirituals were profoundly influenced both by the African origins of the singers and by the nature of slavery itself. Music permeated every part of African culture from birth to death, and continued to have a powerful, healing role among the people brought to...
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The Four Seasons and Other Violin Concertos in Full Score: Opus 8, CompleteVivaldi's violin concertos called The Four Seasons are one of the best known and loved collections of string music in our time. Their programmatic nature, based on the lines of sonnets printed along with the music, brings seasonal sights and sounds readily and delightfully...
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Symphony No. 9 in Full ScoreMahler inherited the romantic conception of music as an expression of a quest for spiritual reality ... he expressed a four-sided conflict between a devouring love of life, a spiritual need, a skeptical intellect, and an existential dread of ultimate meaninglessness. -- Encyclopaedia Britannica.In...
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Piano Concerto in a Minor and Other Works for Piano and OrchestraThis original compilation features three superb pieces for piano and orchestra by one of the key composers and pianists of the Romantic era. Composers from Brahms to Grieg have been influenced by Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54. The composer's wife...
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Piano Music of Béla Bartók, Series IIIt is of great importance, Bartók wrote, that anyone who is involved with music should be able to obtain [composers'] works in editions which interpret the author's intentions, not of such kind that may have been arbitrarily modified or forged by some adapter. Bartók's...
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Five Centuries of Keyboard MusicGillespie discusses 350 composers and their works for harpsichord and piano, including Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and Debussy. Includes 116 musical examples, illustrations, and a glossary of musical terms.Author: John GillespiePublisher: Dover PublicationsPublished: 06/01/1972Pages: 512Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 9.19h x 6.49w x 0.98dISBN: 9780486228556This...
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Bel Canto: A Theoretical and Practical Vocal MethodMathilde Marchesi (1821-1913) was probably the most renowned singing teacher of the late nineteenth century. Herself the pupil of the great Manuel Garcia the Second and the associate of the unsurpassable divas of the middle nineteenth century, she also linked the traditional bel canto...
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The True Life of Johann Sebastian BachIn this new biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, Klaus Eidam brings the icon of Baroque music into focus as never before.Author: Klaus EidamPublisher: Basic BooksPublished: 06/14/2001Pages: 432Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.71lbsSize: 9.49h x 6.44w x 1.30dISBN: 9780465018611Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 07/09/2001 pg. 60Library Journal 08/01/2001...
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Stand Up Straight and Sing!"Norman offers a broad and global perspective on life, the arts, and spirituality . . . Inspiring." - Booklist In Stand Up Straight and Sing!, Jessye Norman recalls in rich detail the strong women who were her role models, from her ancestors to family...
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Blood BrothersA Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable...
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The Basic Guide to How to Read MusicThe Basic Guide to How to Read Music will teach you the principles of reading music in staff notation quickly and painlessly. If you could once read music but have forgotten how, it will refresh your memory. It contains all the terms and symbols...
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Variations on a Theme of Haydn: Norton Critical ScoreAuthor: Johannes BrahmsPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 12/31/1975Pages: 236Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54dISBN: 9780393933628
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