This book is of 36 beautiful compositions adapted for ukulele. In addition, it works accessible to listeners, so the concerts will have success with them. These were composed by the Czech composer Franti ek Max Kni e (1784-1840) and the guitar virtuoso. Musically, compositions come from the turn of classicism and romanticism. Check out samples from books: http: //osos.sweb.cz/preview-ukulele.pd

Listeners have enjoyed classical music recordings for more than a century, yet important issues about recorded performances have been little explored. What is the relationship between performance and recording? How are modern audiences affected by the trends set in motion by the recording era? What is the impact of recordings on the lives of musicians? In this wide-ranging book, Robert Philip extends the scope of his earlier pioneering book, Early Recordings and Musical Style: Changing Tastes in Instrumental Performance 1900-1950. Philip here considers the interaction between music-making and recording throughout the entire twentieth century. The author compares the lives of musicians and audiences in the years before recordings with those of today. He examines such diverse and sometimes contentious topics as changing attitudes toward freedom of expression, the authority of recordings made by or approved by composers, the globalization of performing styles, and the rise of the period instrument movement. Philip concludes with a thought-provoking discussion of the future of classical music performance.

Title: 24 Preludes for Piano Composer: Felix Blumenfeld Original Publisher: Belaieff 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.

Title: Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 15 Composer: Johannes Brahms Original Publisher: Breitkopf & Hartel As arranged for 2 Pianos by Otto Singer and originally published by Breitkopf & Hartel. Piano 1 is the original solo part, with a Piano 2 reduction of the orchestral accompaniment. 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.

Title: Enigma Variations, Op. 36 Composer: Edward Elgar Original Publisher: Novello The complete orchestral score to Elgar's Enigma Variations, as originally published by Novello in 1899. 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.

Adam Vaclav Michna z Otradovic (1600 - 1676) Czech poet and composer. He belongs among most important early Czech Baroque composers, who influenced subsequent artist generation. Michna wrote and composed Czech Lute in 1653. It is the collection of 13 pieces. I cannot forgive and quote recommendations where and how to play songs from the first issue of notes. CZECH LUTE in the holiday, on Friday, at church, at table, as it likes, at any moment, joyfully, sadly, sounding saving. The book contains 13 tunes for standard guitalele tuning or requinto (A2-D3-G3-C4-E4-A4). The are in the book songs without text. Check out samples from book: http: //osos.sweb.cz/Sarek-Guitar-and-Guitalele-preview.pdf

"Pure gold." thus the New York Times described the playing of Leonard Rose, the most successful American-born cellist of his generation. Rose's knowledge of the instrument was unsurpassed. Every phrase of every piece he recorded-his legacy-continues to sparkle with meaning. His Beethoven and Brahms were noble in style, favoring huge dynamic contrasts and rhythmic freedom. His Schumann and Schubert each had a semblance of epic beauty. His Bach could be transcendently romantic and powerful. His signature concerti had a consistency, accuracy, and no-nonsense approach. And, notably, he performed works by living American composers, a tendency many of his peers shunned. This book examines the multifaceted American cellist and the classical music context that dominated Rose's twentieth century. Professionally, the era during which he achieved greatness and the direction he chose to pursue could not have been musically richer. While Leonard Rose is a more than worthy solo biographical subject, he felt that the story of his inordinate contact and collaboration with his era's most renowned musicians was especially valuable for posterity. So my aim in this volume was to showcase Rose among the countless musical figures he affected and those who affected him.

Antonin Dvorak: Biblical Songs for Ukulele (C tuning with low G). Czech romantic composer Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) wrote a brilliant song cycle Biblical Songs. This cycle belongs to the best what he composed and we are able to play on the ukulele. Moreover, you could listen to the song "God is my shepherd" in "Kolja" movie that was awarded by Oscar prize in 1997 (the best foreign language film). Check out samples from books: http: //osos.sweb.cz/preview-ukulele.pdf

Food writer Judy Jackson has a blog going out to over 25,000 young people. This is the audience for her second novel, Sextet. After the award-winning Camel Trail, she has come up with a story of music, adultery and a child's life in jeopardy. Does food come into it? Only in brief scenes where the two main characters are cooking and struggling to rebuild their lives. Joseph is a concert pianist; Tom is an art dealer. Both are coming to terms with tragedy. Sextet is a story for our time, written by an author (with twelve grandchildren) who has got into the lives and minds of young people today.

In this collection of academic essays, award-winning pianist and music professor Yaokun Yang shares her carefully compiled analyses of classical music and aesthetics during several different periods, focusing particularly on the aspect of piano performance practice.

Yang, who devoted six years to her research, offers extensive commentary, historical background, and comparisons of varied composers and their music. The pieces she studies include Beethoven's piano sonatas, an advanced piano teaching series, the development of opera in different areas, Bach's Brandenburg concertos, Haydn's piano sonatas, the Bach-Busoni Chaconne, Brahms's Intermezzo, Olivier Messiaen's Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jesus, Prokofiev's piano sonatas, Webern's Six Pieces for Large Orchestra, and Schumann's Piano Concerto.

With this collection of analyses, Yang hopes to provide information and commentary to help contemporary pianists recognize the beauty and the challenges of performing different musical styles in appropriate ways. "

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