My favourite romantic period composers

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  • French Piano Music, An Anthology (Anthology, Forty-Four Piece by Twenty-Eight Composers)

    • UPC: 800759233816
    • ASIN: 0486233812
    • ISBN: 0486233812
    • Brand: Dover Publications
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Piano music is as essential to France as the opera is to Italy or lieder to Germany. This anthology, a broad cross-section of French piano music, selects and presents 44 short piano works ranging from 1670 to 1906. Twenty-eight composers, all French or active in France, are featured: Jacques Champion de Chambonnières , Jean-Baptiste Lully, André ... [Read More]

  • Masterwork Duets for Women: 8 Standards from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic Periods

    • UPC: 038081490335
    • ASIN: 1470626640
    • ISBN: 1470626640
    • Brand: Alfred
    • Manufacturer: Alfred Music

    Eight of the world's best-loved duets for women are brought together for the first time in one publication. Representing a wide range of styles and composers, these selections from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods are presented with historical information, IPA pronunciation guides, and suggestions for performance. Edited and arranged by... [Read More]

  • Bruckner Studies (Cambridge Composer Studies)

    • ASIN: 052157014X
    • ISBN: 052157014X
    • Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

    This volume contains historical and analytical essays on Anton Bruckner and his music. For the past century the principal concerns of scholars of Bruckner's music have been his personal and musical relationship with Wagner, editorial problems in his scores, his enigmatic personality, and the assessment of his monumental late-nineteenth-century styl... [Read More]

  • Chopin In Paris: The Life And Times Of The Romantic Composer

    • ASIN: 0306809338
    • ISBN: 0306809338
    • Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

  • The Lives of the Great Composers

    • ASIN: 0393038572
    • ISBN: 0393038572
    • Brand: W W Norton Company
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    An updated and expanded edition of this perennial favorite, tracing the line of composers from Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s. In this new edition, Harold Schonberg offers music lovers a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music, the author contends, is a continually evolving art, and all geniuses, unique as they are, were influe... [Read More]

  • Romantic Music: A Concise History (World of Art)

    • ASIN: 050020215X
    • ISBN: 9780500202159
    • Manufacturer: Thames and Hudson

    A concise history of Romantic music and composers from Schubert to Sibelius

  • Chopin Studies 2 (Cambridge Composer Studies) (Vol 2)

    • ASIN: 0521416477
    • ISBN: 0521416477
    • Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

    Following the success of Chopin Studies, this second volume of essays contains the most recent Chopin research of twelve leading scholars. Three main themes are addressed: reception history, aesthetics and criticism, and performance studies. The essays explore Chopin as classical composer, as salon composer, as modernist, as "otherworldly," as andr... [Read More]

  • Dvorák and His World (The Bard Music Festival)

    • ASIN: 0691000972
    • ISBN: 0691000972
    • Brand: Brand: Princeton University Press
    • Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

    Antonin Dvorák made his famous trip to the United States one hundred years ago, but despite an enormous amount of attention from scholars and critics since that time, he remains an elusive figure. Comprising both interpretive essays and a selection of fascinating documents that bear on Dvorák's career and music, this volume addresses fundamental ... [Read More]

  • Seeing the Real You at Last: Life and Love on the Road with Bob Dylan

    • ASIN: 190827994X
    • ISBN: 190827994X
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Jawbone Press

    Britta Lee Shain was a friend of Bob Dylan's until he asked her to join him on the road in the mid 1980s, at which point she became more than a friend. In this intimate and elliptical memoir of their time together, at home in Los Angeles and on tour with Tom Petty and the Grateful Dead, she offers a unique portrait of the romantic, earthbound, and ... [Read More]

  • Dvorak: Romantic Music's Most Versatile Genius (Unlocking the Masters)

    • UPC: 073999694833
    • ASIN: 1574671073
    • ISBN: 1574671073
    • Brand: Brand: Amadeus Press
    • Manufacturer: Amadeus

    The music of Antonin Dvorák defies fashion. He is one of the very few composers whose works entered the international mainstream during his own lifetime, and some of them have remained there ever since. The pieces that historically define his international reputation, however, represent only a small fraction of what he actually composed. They comp... [Read More]

  • Haydn and His World

    • ASIN: 0691057990
    • ISBN: 0691057990
    • Brand: Brand: Princeton University Press
    • Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

    Joseph Haydn's symphonies and string quartets are staples of the concert repertory, yet many aspects of this founding genius of the Viennese Classical style are only beginning to be explored. From local Kapellmeister to international icon, Haydn achieved success by developing a musical language aimed at both the connoisseurs and amateurs of the eme... [Read More]

  • Revolution and Religion Music Liszt

    • ASIN: 0521083516
    • ISBN: 0521083516
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

    This study of a hitherto neglected aspect of Liszt and his music aims to restore a balanced view of both man and artist. In contrast to the familiar portrayal of the virtuoso pianist, Liszt is considered here as a serious man of ideas: in tracing the composer's relationships and attitudes to the twin themes of revolution and religion, Paul Merrick ... [Read More]

  • The Social and Religious Designs of J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos

    • ASIN: 0691006865
    • ISBN: 0691006865
    • Brand: Brand: Princeton University Press
    • Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

    This new investigation of the Brandenburg Concertos explores musical, social, and religious implications of Bach's treatment of eighteenth-century musical hierarchies. By reference to contemporary music theory, to alternate notions of the meaning of "concerto," and to various eighteenth-century conventions of form and instrumentation, the book argu... [Read More]

  • Elgar: Enigma Variations (Cambridge Music Handbooks)

    • ASIN: 0521631750
    • ISBN: 0521631750
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

  • Six Great Piano Trios in Full Score (Dover Chamber Music Scores)

    • UPC: 800759253982
    • ASIN: 0486253988
    • ISBN: 0486253988
    • Brand: Dover Publication
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Here are six of the most studied, performed, and recorded trios for piano, violin, and cello. They include the popular trio in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1, which was named the "Ghost" trio by Beethoven's student, Carl Czerny, who thought the eerie second movement suggested the specter of Hamlet's father.Additional works include the trio in E-flat Major,... [Read More]

  • Béla Bartók and Turn-of-the-Century Budapest

    • ASIN: 0520222547
    • ISBN: 0520222547
    • Manufacturer: University of California Press

    Bartók's music is greatly prized by concertgoers, yet we know little about the intellectual milieu that gave rise to his artistry. Bartók is often seen as a lonely genius emerging from a gray background of an "underdeveloped country." Now Judit Frigyesi offers a broader perspective on Bartók's art by grounding it in the social and cultural life ... [Read More]

  • Musorgsky

    • ASIN: 0691016232
    • ISBN: 0691016232
    • Brand: Brand: Princeton University Press
    • Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

    "It is [a] fully illuminated story that Richard Taruskin, in the path-breaking essays collected here, unfolds around Modest Musorgsky, Russia's greatest national composer.... [Taruskin's] tour de force comes with a frontal attack on all the Soviet-bred truisms that for a century have refashioned Musorgsky from what the evidence suggests he was--an ... [Read More]

  • Chopin: The Piano Concertos (Cambridge Music Handbooks)

    • ASIN: 0521441099
    • ISBN: 0521441099
    • Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

    Chopin's E minor and F minor Piano Concertos played a vital role in his career as a composer-pianist. This Handbook reevaluates them so that their many outstanding qualities can be fully appreciated. It describes their genesis, Chopin's own performances and his use of them as a teacher. A survey of their critical, editorial and performance historie... [Read More]

  • Analyzing Classical Form: An Approach for the Classroom

    • ASIN: 0199987297
    • ISBN: 0199987297
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    Analyzing Classical Form builds upon the foundations of the author's critically acclaimed Classical Form by offering an approach to the analysis of musical form that is especially suited for classroom use. Providing ample material for study in both undergraduate and graduate courses, Analyzing Classical Form presents the most up-to-date version of ... [Read More]

  • Beethoven: The Ninth Symphony (Revised Edition)

    • ASIN: 0300099649
    • ISBN: 0300099649
    • Manufacturer: Yale University Press

    Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, a masterpiece that has influenced virtually every Western composer since its premiere, has become associated with the marking of momentous public occasions. In 1989, Chinese students played its finale through loudspeakers in Tiananmen Square, and Leonard Bernstein led a performance in Berlin to celebrate the razing of ... [Read More]

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