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Symphony No. 9
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Franz Liszt; Edited by Jose Vianna De Motta; Ludwig Van Beethoven
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Title: Symphony No. 9, Op. 125 Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Original Publisher: Peters Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, the Choral
Symphony, as arranged for 2 Pianos by Otto Singer II and originally
published by Peters in 1905. Performer's Reprints are produced in
conjunction with the International Music Score Library Project.
These are out of print or historical editions, which we clean,
straighten, touch up, and digitally reprint. Due to the age of
original documents, you may find occasional blemishes, damage, or
skewing of print. While we do extensive cleaning and editing to
improve the image quality, some items are not able to be repaired.
A portion of each book sold is donated to small performing arts
organizations to create jobs for performers and to encourage
audience growth.
This is a new release of the original 1942 edition.
Title: Symphony No. 2, Op. 27 Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Original Publisher: Gutheil Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony as
arranged for Piano 4 Hands by Wladimir Wilschau and originally
published by Gutheil in 1910. Performer's Reprints are produced in
conjunction with the International Music Score Library Project.
These are out of print or historical editions, which we clean,
straighten, touch up, and digitally reprint. Due to the age of
original documents, you may find occasional blemishes, damage, or
skewing of print. While we do extensive cleaning and editing to
improve the image quality, some items are not able to be repaired.
A portion of each book sold is donated to small performing arts
organizations to create jobs for performers and to encourage
audience growth.
Set against the vivid background of 1920s Sydney, A Distant
Prospect is an intimate, hilarious and ultimately deeply moving
coming-of-age adventure told with a touch of poetry by a
quintessentially Irish narrator.
Internationally renowned scholars and performers present a wide
range of new analytical, historical and critical perspectives on
some of Mozart's most popular chamber music: his sonatas with
violin, keyboard trios and quartets and the quintet with wind
instruments. The chapters trace a broad chronology, from the
childhood works, to the Mannheim and Paris sonatas with keyboard
and violin, and the mature compositions from his Vienna years.
Drawing upon the most recent research, this study serves the
reader, be they a performer, listener or scholar, with a collection
of writings that demonstrate the composer's innovative developments
to generic archetypes and which explore and assess Mozart's
creative response to the opportunities afforded by new and diverse
instrumental combinations. Manners of performance of this music far
removed from our own are revealed, with concluding chapters
considering historically informed practice and the challenges for
modern performers and audiences.
Antony Hopkins was most instrumental in opening up classical music
to a wider audience. To celebrate his 90th birthday in 2011 (21st
March, same date as Bach but different year) we are republishing
Volumes I and II of 'The Concertgoer's Companion'. Composers in
Volume I are Bach, Bartok, Beethoven, Berg, Berlioz, Brahms,
Britten, Chopin, Debussy, Dvorak, Elgar, Franck, Grieg and Haydn.
We hope the title is self explanatory.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Walter Willson Cobbett (1847-1937), Businessman, Violinist and
Author. This is volume two of a two-volume encyclopaedia of chamber
music which was first published in 1929/1930 and is a comprehensive
work on the subject.
Walter Willson Cobbett (1847-1937), Businessman, Violinist and
Author. This is volume one of a two-volume encyclopaedia of chamber
music which was first published in 1929/1930 and is a comprehensive
work on the subject.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
A monumental accomplishment from the age of Enlightenment, the
string quartets of Joseph Haydn hold a central place not only in
the composer's oeuvre, but also in our modern conception of form,
style, and expression in the instrumental music of his day. Here,
renowned music historians Floyd and Margaret Grave present a fresh
perspective on a comprehensive survey of the works. This thorough
and unique analysis offers new insights into the creation of the
quartets, the wealth of musical customs and conventions on which
they draw, the scope of their innovations, and their significance
as reflections of Haydn's artistic personality. Each set of
quartets is characterized in terms of its particular mix of
structural conventions and novelties, stylistic allusions, and its
special points of connection with other opus groups in the series.
Throughout the book, the authors draw attention to the boundless
supply of compositional strategies by which Haydn appears to be
continually rethinking, reevaluating, and refining the quartet's
potentials. They also lucidly describe Haydn's famous penchant for
wit, humor, and compositional artifice, illuminating the unexpected
connections he draws between seemingly unrelated ideas, his irony,
and his lightning bolts of surprise and thwarted expectation.
Approaching the quartets from a variety of vantage points, the
authors correct many prevailing assumptions about convention,
innovation, and developing compositional technique in the music of
Haydn and his contemporaries.
Going beyond traditional modes of study, The String Quartets of
Joseph Haydn blends historical analysis and factual information
with critical appraisal in a way that will engage all Haydn
enthusiasts.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
(Amadeus). Performer and scholar Abram Loft wants every chamber
musician to be a strong, collaborative ensemble voice. Here's his
hard-headed advice on choosing colleagues, rehearsing and
performing effectively together, building repertoire, programming,
touring and other facets of the art and business of a chamber music
career. Ranging from hilarious to sobering, this is essential
reading for music lovers, amateur players, students, teachers and
today's many emerging professional ensembles. Recent events in the
field, including some strident litigation, highlight the usefulness
of this veteran's realistic counsel.
The Guarneri Quartet is fabled for its unique longevity and high-spirited virtuosity. Here is its story from the inside--a story filled with drama, humor, danger, compassion, and, of course, glorious music.
A player who studies and performs the exalted string-quartet repertoire has opted for a very special life. Arnold Steinhardt, tracing his own development as a student, orchestra player, and budding young soloist, gives a touching account of how he and his intrepid colleagues were converted to chamber music despite the daunting odds against success. And he reveals, as no one has before, the intensely difficult process by which--on the battlefield of daily three-hour rehearsals--four individualists master and then overcome the confining demands of ensemble playing.
As both composer and critic, Peggy Glanville-Hicks contributed to
the astonishing cultural ferment of the mid-twentieth century. Her
forceful voice as a writer and commentator helped shape
professional and public opinion on the state of American composing.
The seventy musical works she composed ranged from celebrated
operas like Nausicaa to intimate, jewel-like compositions created
for friends. Her circle included figures like Virgil Thomson, Paul
Bowles, John Cage, and Yehudi Menuhin. Drawing on interviews,
archival research, and fifty-four years of extraordinary pocket
diaries, Suzanne Robinson places Glanville-Hicks within the history
of American music and composers. "P.G.H." forged alliances with
power brokers and artists that gained her entrance to core American
cultural entities such as the League of Composers, New York Herald
Tribune, and the Harkness Ballet. Yet her impeccably cultivated
public image concealed a private life marked by unhappy love
affairs, stubborn poverty, and the painstaking creation of her
artistic works. Evocative and intricate, Peggy Glanville-Hicks
clears away decades of myth and storytelling to provide a portrait
of a remarkable figure and her times.
Oxford's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony, The
Concerto, and Choral Masterworks--have been widely praised for
their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical
analysis, and delightful humor. Now James Keller follows these
greatly admired volumes with Chamber Music. Approaching the
tradition of chamber music with knowledge and passion, Keller here
serves as the often-opinionated but always genial guide to 192
essential works by 56 composers, providing illuminating essays on
what makes each piece distinctive and admirable. Keller spans the
history of this intimate genre of music, from key works of the
Baroque through the emotionally stirring "golden age" of the
Classical and Romantic composers, to modern masterpieces rich in
political, psychological, and sometimes comical overtones. For each
piece, from Bach through to contemporary figures like George Crumb
and Steve Reich, the author includes an astute musical analysis
that casual music lovers can easily appreciate yet that more
experienced listeners will find enriching. Keller shares the
colorful, often surprising stories behind the compositions while
revealing the delights of an art form once described by Goethe as
the musical equivalent of "thoughtful people conversing."
As both composer and critic, Peggy Glanville-Hicks contributed to
the astonishing cultural ferment of the mid-twentieth century. Her
forceful voice as a writer and commentator helped shape
professional and public opinion on the state of American composing.
The seventy musical works she composed ranged from celebrated
operas like Nausicaa to intimate, jewel-like compositions created
for friends. Her circle included figures like Virgil Thomson, Paul
Bowles, John Cage, and Yehudi Menuhin. Drawing on interviews,
archival research, and fifty-four years of extraordinary pocket
diaries, Suzanne Robinson places Glanville-Hicks within the history
of American music and composers. "P.G.H." forged alliances with
power brokers and artists that gained her entrance to core American
cultural entities such as the League of Composers, New York Herald
Tribune, and the Harkness Ballet. Yet her impeccably cultivated
public image concealed a private life marked by unhappy love
affairs, stubborn poverty, and the painstaking creation of her
artistic works. Evocative and intricate, Peggy Glanville-Hicks
clears away decades of myth and storytelling to provide a portrait
of a remarkable figure and her times.
Schoenberg's quartets and trio, composed over a nearly
forty-year period, occupy a central position among
twentieth-century chamber music. This volume, based on papers
presented at a conference in honor of David Lewin, collects a wide
range of approaches to Schoenberg's pieces.
The first part of the book provides a historical context to
these works, examining Viennese quartet culture and traditions,
Webern's reception of Schoenberg's Second Quartet, Schoenberg's
view of the Beethoven quartets, and the early reception of
Schoenberg's First Quartet. The second part examines musical issues
of motive, text setting, meter, imitative counterpoint, and closure
within Schoenberg's quartets and trio.
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