Two early intermediate level pianists will enjoy teaming up on this collection of 23 short duets of well-known songs. Contains: Abide With Me *Amaryllis *America *American Patrol *Arkansas Traveler *Clementine *Country Gardens *Dark Eyes *Lullaby *Merry Farmer *Minuet (Don Juan) *Narcissus * Old Joe *Old MacDonald *Polly Wolly Doodle *Sailor's Hornpipe *Shepherd's Hey *Shortnin' Bread *Silent Night *Skip to My Lou *Volga Boat Song *William Tell *Yankee Doodle.
The best music of the 20th century "developed our capacity for feeling, deepened our compassion, and furthered our quest for and understanding of what Aristotle called 'the perfect end of life' ". — from the Foreword by NPR music critic Ted Libbey The single greatest crisis of the 20th century was the loss of faith. Noise—and its acceptance as music—was the product of the resulting spiritual confusion and, in its turn, became the further cause of its spread. Likewise, the recovery of modern music, the theme to which this book is dedicated, stems from a spiritual recovery. This is made explicitly clear by the composers whose interviews with the author are collected in this book. Robert Reilly spells out the nature of the crisis and its solution in sections that serve as bookends to the chapters on individual composers. He does not contend that all of these composers underwent and recovered from the central crisis he describes, but they all lived and worked within its broader context, and soldiered on, writing beautiful music. For this, they suffered ridicule and neglect, and he believes their rehabilitation will change the reputation of modern music. It is the spirit of music that this book is most about, and in his efforts to discern it, Reilly has discovered many treasures. The purpose of this book is to share them, to entice you to listen—because beauty is contagious. English conductor John Eliot Gardiner writes that experiencing Bach's masterpieces "is a way of fully realizing the scale and scope of what it is to be human". The reader may be surprised by how many works of the 20th and 21st centuries of which this is also true.
Titles: Dance of the Hours * Valse Lente * Scheherazade * The Swan * Valse * Hopak * Petrouchka * Les Sylphides * Ballet Music from Faust * Ballet Music from Aida * Dance of the Russian Sailors * Farandole * Dance of the Reed Pipes * Waltz of the Flowers * Afternoon of a Faun * Swan Lake Ballet * Triumphal March.
How many composers, songwriters and lyricists wrote music in the twentieth century?? Who were they?? This first edition identifies more than 14,000 people who did so, and all are listed in this eBook alphabetically along with a hyperlink to their Wikipedia biographical data. Performers of blues, folk, jazz, rock & roll and R&B are included by default. PLEASE NOTE: THE HYPERLINKS IN THIS BOOK ONLY FUNCTION ON GOOGLE PLAY aka THE 'FLOWING' VERSION. The hyperlinks in this book DO NOT CURRENTLY FUNCTION on the GOOGLE BOOKS ' FIXED' version.
This unique volume contains, in parallel translation, a thousand of the most frequently performed Lieder, both piano-accompanied and orchestral. Composers are arranged alphabetically, with their songs appearing under poet in chronological order of composition - thus allowing the reader to engage in depth with a particular poet and at the same time to follow the composer's development. Richard Stokes, whose work in this field is already widely acclaimed, provides illuminating short essays on each of the fifty composers' approach to Lieder composition, as well as well as notes on all the poets who inspired the songs.The volume is notable for the accuracy and elegance of its translations, and for its fidelity to the German verse: every care has been taken to print the words of the sung text, while adhering to the versification and punctuation of the original poem.Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, Goethe, Heine and Schiller are among the highlights of a book which illuminates one of the great musical traditions and will be an indispensable handbook for every music lover.
A concise, step-by-step approach to the study of the piano in either private or class lessons. The materials are fresh and new and presented to insure steady progress toward a musical goal. Supplementary materials should be used to balance the study material. Additional piano studies will promote good music reading.
Titles: * Acrobatics (R. Grove) * A La Sonatina (L. Curcio) * Allegro Moderato (J. George) * Banjo Strummer (M. Nevin) * Banjo Tune (M. Aaron) * Brown Bear Boogie (A. Kent) * A Butterfly Flutters (J. George) * Chromatic Hey-Day (M. Nevin) * Circus Clowns (E. Steiner) * Dance of the Mountain Dwarfs (F. Mittler) * Dancing in My Dreams (M. Nagy) * The Daring Cossack (W. Noona) * Daydreams (R. Schultz) * Desert Dance (W. Scher) * Dream of the Tin Soldier (W. Scher) * Dulcimer Tune (J. George) * Gentle Goodby (R. Grove) * I Found a Star (W. Noona) * The Knight's Tale (J.R. Poe) * Mambo Boogie (J.W. Schaum) * May I Have This Waltz With You? (L. Sugarman) * Melody for a Monday Morning (R. Steiner) * The Merry-Go-Round (D.C Glover) * Mexican Cha-Cha-Cha (D.C. Glover) * Picnic Time (M. Brodsky) * Reflections (R. Schultz) * Sailors Shindig (B. Wermel) * Space Hero (J. Last) * Spooky Games (D.C. Glover) * Stroll on a Warm Day (L.F. Olson) * Sunset (C. Kraft) * Tango Bongo (M. Nevin) * Teresita (H. Cobb) * Toy Soldier Blues (M. Kahn) * The Village Band (R. Donahue) * The Viking (W. Noona)
Karl Kraus and the Critics, the first study devoted entirely to a century of critical reactions to this controversial satirist, who was both deified and vilified in his lifetime and in the six decades since his death, attempts to reduce an enormous amount of criticism to manageable dimensions and to give a typology of this commentary. By means of copious quotation from both major and minor studies as well as reliable translation it provides some access to criticism that has been published only in German. A chronology of Kraus's life and works and an extensive bibliography of both primary and secondary writings are intended to enhance the reference value of this book and to stimulate further reading and research.
