Adult Piano Adventures - Classics, Book 1
Adult Piano Adventures - Classics, Book 1

Author: Nancy Faber

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2016-03-01

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 1616779152

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(Faber Piano Adventures ). Adult Piano Adventures Classics Book 1 celebrates great masterworks of Western music, including symphony themes, opera gems, and classical favorites. The melodies of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and other master composers are arranged at just the right level for adult beginners and for those who are returning to the keyboard. Section 1 features piano arrangements with minimal hand position changes, and many selections include an optional duet part. Section 2 introduces the I, IV, and V7 chords in the key of C major, harmonizing themes such as Sibelius's Finlandia, Schubert's The Trout, and Mendelssohn's Spring Song. Section 3 presents the primary chords in the key of G major, with arrangements of Vivaldi's Autumn (from The Four Seasons), Mozart's theme from The Magic Flute, Lizst's Liebestraum, and more.

Mozart's The Magic Flute
Mozart's The Magic Flute

Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 0977145506

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A comprehensive guide to Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with German/English translation side-by side, and over 30 music highlight examples.

Die Zauberflöte (the Magic Flute)
Die Zauberflöte (the Magic Flute)

Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Publisher: Overture Opera Guides

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781847498052

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Die Zauberflöte had its premiere at the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna on 30th September 1791, less than ten weeks before Mozart's death. It has proved to be one of the most enduringly popular of all his works and has enchanted generations of opera-goers of all ages. In a fairy-tale allegory imbued with serious philosophical concerns, the opera combines ethereal music with earthy comedy to convey a message of hope for a better world.In this guide, Nicholas Till writes about the background and genesis of the opera, locating it on the cusp of the Enlightenment and the beginnings of German Romanticism. Julian Rushton provides a detailed analysis of the score with numerous musical examples highlighting its many delights, and Hugo Shirley surveys the different and often bizarre permutations that the opera has undergone on stage since some of its very earliest performances through to the present day.The guide contains the complete German libretto with a new English translation by Kenneth Chalmers and incorporates all the dialogue so frequently cut in performances. There are sixteen pages of illustrations, a musical thematic guide, a discography, a bibliography and DVD and website guides. The guide provides a perfect companion to opera-goers wishing to extend their understanding and increase their enjoyment of this much beloved work.

Le nozze di Figaro
Le nozze di Figaro

Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Publisher: Alma Books

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 0714545333

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John Wells introduces the opera with a high-spirited account of the action-packed career of the author, in many respects the prototype of Figaro himself. Basil Deane explores the score: he shows that Mozart's characters are illuminated here not so much in soliloquies but in their reactions to each other. Composer Stephen Oliver discusses how the comedy exists not just in the words but, essentially, in the music. The full Italian text is given, with a note on the order of scenes in Act Three and the alternative passages Mozart wrote for the 1789 revival. The classic translation of E.J. Dent is an excellent way to get to know the twists and turns of the plot and the stylish wit of da Ponte's innuendos.Contents: A Society Marriage, John Wells; A Musical Commentary, Basil Deane; Music and Comedy in 'The Marriage of Figaro, Stephen Oliver; Beaumarchais's Characters; Le nozze di Figaro: Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte; The Marriage of Figaro: English version by Edward J. Dent

Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart
Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart

Author: Wye Jamison Allanbrook

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-05-06

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 022643771X

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Wye Jamison Allanbrook’s widely influential Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart challenges the view that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music was a “pure play” of key and theme, more abstract than that of his predecessors. Allanbrook’s innovative work shows that Mozart used a vocabulary of symbolic gestures and musical rhythms to reveal the nature of his characters and their interrelations. The dance rhythms and meters that pervade his operas conveyed very specific meanings to the audiences of the day.

Pet of the Met
Pet of the Met

Author: Lydia Freeman

Publisher: Puffin

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780140508925

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A mouse who works as a page turner at the Metropolitan Opera House has only one enemy, a cat; but, during a performance of "The Magic Flute," something magical happens to change their lives.

The Magic Flute Unveiled
The Magic Flute Unveiled

Author: Jacques Chailley

Publisher: Inner Traditions

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780892813582

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Chailley, a professor of music history at the Sorbonne, reveals the coherence of the opera and the hidden significance of its characters and situations. The author relates each of these elements to the esoteric tradition from which they emanate and to Mozart's own involvement with the Masonic brotherhood.

Magic Flute Jun Kaneko 2nd Edition
Magic Flute Jun Kaneko 2nd Edition

Author: Jun Kaneko

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780983962427

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This edition is the same as the first edition but with many additional photos from the San Francisco Opera's production as well as additional essays.

Le Nozze Di Figaro: The Marriage Of Figaro
Le Nozze Di Figaro: The Marriage Of Figaro

Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781017235395

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