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Author: Joseph Haydn
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0486242625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComplete reproductions of Op. 42 in D Minor; Op. 50, Nos. 1-6 (the "Prussian Quartets"), and Op. 54, Nos. 1-3 (first set of "Tost Quartets"). Reproduced from the authoritative Eulenburg edition.
Author: Edward Elgar
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 0486316343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis practice and performance edition of one of the most beloved pieces in the modern violin repertoire contains a piano reduction and a separate violin part.
Author: Arnold Schoenberg
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 0486419002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis piece is unusual in concentrating all the elements of a symphony into a single movement; in being written for 15 solo instruments; in using chords built up of fourths; and in creating dissonances without immediate resolution. To its first audiences, the symphony seemed shocking. But today it is one of Schoenberg's most pleasing and accessible works. Scored for a chamber ensemble of flute, oboe, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, two horns, two violins, viola, cello, and bass. Instrumentation. Glossary.
Author: Béla Bartók
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 0486241092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecond in the Archive Edition incorporating composer's corrections, emphasizing Bartok's lifelong work both with East European folk music, and with music for children and student pianists. 85 short pieces: "For Children, " 2 Elegies, Sonatina, other folk-inspired keyboard work.
Author: Antonín Dvo?ák
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 048624749X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew composers have achieved the widespread and lasting popularity of Antonin Dvo ak. He was a master of instrumentation and symphonic form, composing a total of nine symphonies. His most celebrated work, Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" (composed during Dvo ak's three-year stay in America), echoes the folk spirit of his native Czechoslovakia as well as American influences, and is filled with the spontaneous melodic invention, rhythmic variety, and intensity of harmony that characterize his orchestral works. The popular acclaim accorded the symphony "From the New World" tends to overshadow Dvo ak's other symphonies, but "Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians" notes the "interesting form folk-spirit virile serenity" of Symphony No. 8. The delightful freshness and uninhibited emotionalism of the composition have contributed to its lasting success. The Dover edition presents both symphonic masterpieces among the most popular works in the orchestral repertoire reprinted from authoritative editions in one inexpensive, practical volume. This full-size, easy-to-read score has been printed with generous margins to allow insertion of notes, analyses, etc. The sturdy binding, high quality of reproduction, and affordable price make this volume ideal for musicians, music students, and music lovers in general."
Author: George Frideric Handel
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0486277445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe dramatic overture had its beginnings in Renaissance court entertainments, which often began with a flourish of trumpets. It reached a high point of inspiration in the overtures that George Frideric Handel (1685 1759) composed for his operas and oratorios. This volume presents 60 Handel overtures and sinfonias, originally scored for orchestra, superbly arranged for solo keyboard. They have been reprinted from an extremely rare edition originally printed, probably in the 1750s, by Handel's London publisher, John Walsh. Happily, these brilliant works have lost nothing in translation of their Handelian vitality and interest. Many of them, such as the overtures to "Messiah, Acis and Galatea, Alexander s Feast, Julius Caesar, "the second overture in "Solomon" (known as the "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba"), and the so-called Water Musick, are very familiar to music lovers. Some will be fresh discoveries for keyboard players. Together they demonstrate Handel s exciting theatrical sense, his technical virtuosity in composition, and his dazzling mastery of musical forms, which he often combined into his own unique creations. This edition preserves the original keyboard notation, amazingly precise in its elegant execution and, of course, entirely legible to present-day performers."
Author: Franz Liszt
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0486497313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginal collection features Liszt's interpretations of his own "Totentanz" plus Saint-Saens' "Danse Macabre, " Berlioz's "Dance of the Sylphes" from" The Damnation of Faust, "Weber's "Overtures to Die ""Freischutz" and "Oberon, "and several other pieces.
Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-02-21
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 0486312046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatures 16 of Bach's transcriptions for solo keyboard instruments (piano and harpsichord) of concertos for violin and other non-keyboard instruments by Vivaldi, Telemann, and others. Bach-Gesellschaft edition.
Author: Arcangelo Corelli
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0486256065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese masterful works by the baroque composer Arcangelo Corelli (1653 1713) are among the earliest created in the concerto grosso form. They radiate a vibrant lyricism and crisp dignity of style that set them clearly apart from works by most earlier composers, who strove primarily for virtuoso brilliance and whimsy. This finely produced yet inexpensive paperback edition meticulously reproduces the scores of all twelve of Corelli's concerti grossi from a famous edition prepared by violinist Joseph Joachim and musicologist Friedrich Chrysander at the end of the nineteenth century. Corelli's concerti grossi for strings and continuo, most of them written in the last three decades of his life, were not published until 1714, the year following his death. Together with his other works four sets of trio sonatas and one set of violin sonatas they won him celebrity in his lifetime, great influence on other composers in the decades after his death, and a fervent admiration from musicians, critics, and audiences that has never declined through the centuries."
Author: George Petrie
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 0486430804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe work of 100 years and three generations of archivists, this compilation, which originally appeared in 1905, encompasses the musical wealth of a nation.
