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Beethoven for a Later Age

Living with the String Quartets

by Edward Dusinberre ...

"A richly detailed portrayal of the intimate workings of a great string quartet . . . as revealed to us through the recollections of its first violinist."—Philip RothEdward Dusinberre, first violinist of the renowned Takács Quartet, offers a rare peek inside the workings of his ensemble, while providing an insightful history of Beethoven's sixteen string quartets and their performance.Founded in ... Read more

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"A richly detailed portrayal of the intimate workings of a great string quartet . . . as revealed to us through the recollections of its first violinist."—Philip RothEdward Dusinberre, first violinist of the renowned Takács Quartet, offers a rare peek inside the workings of his ensemble, while providing an insightful history of Beethoven's sixteen string quartets and their performance.Founded in
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A Notebook for Viola Players

by Ivo-Jan van der Werff ...

In A Notebook for Viola Players, Ivo-Jan van der Werff offers a guide to playing the viola with the greatest freedom, dexterity, and ease. It includes right and left hand exercises to build a sound technique, sections on how to practice them, how to hold the viola and bow, how to think about good posture, how to create a good sound, how to play with the least amount of tension, how to deal with ... Read more

$27.89 USD

In A Notebook for Viola Players, Ivo-Jan van der Werff offers a guide to playing the viola with the greatest freedom, dexterity, and ease. It includes right and left hand exercises to build a sound technique, sections on how to practice them, how to hold the viola and bow, how to think about good posture, how to create a good sound, how to play with the least amount of tension, how to deal with
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靜默之聲：蕭士塔高維契與他的十五首弦樂四重奏

Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His FifteenQuartets

by 溫蒂・蕾瑟 ...

Translated by 朱得嘉 ...

溫蒂．蕾瑟，一位評論界寧靜的巨人，最近將她廣袤無垠的好奇心轉向一位被上了枷鎖的天才。《靜默之聲》是她以十五首弦樂四重奏為框架寫成的傳記。蕾瑟的出發點是，弦樂四重奏是蕭士塔高維契最發自內心的音樂——正如如他的遺孀所說，它們記錄著「他靈魂故事的日記」——也是我們通往作曲家內心世界的最佳途徑。——《句號網》，卡萊爾（Alli Carlisle）在此之前，絕大部份關於蕭士塔高維契的書不是聚焦在他的交響曲和歌劇，就是他和他所身處的政權之間的關係，或者兩者兼有，因為這些大型作品正是他最備受關注，有時則是遭到蘇聯政權譴責的作品。本書帶我們從後門——他的十五首弦樂四重奏——一窺蕭士塔高維契。他的遺孀認為這些作品是「他靈魂故事的日記」。靜默和聲音有很多種，包括史達林時期大膽的作家、藝術家和音樂家的政治性噤聲；蕭士塔高維契的歌劇的失聲（他轉向弦樂四重奏前被迫放棄的形式）；還有他死去的摯友的死寂之聲 ... Read more

$9.99 USD

溫蒂．蕾瑟，一位評論界寧靜的巨人，最近將她廣袤無垠的好奇心轉向一位被上了枷鎖的天才。《靜默之聲》是她以十五首弦樂四重奏為框架寫成的傳記。蕾瑟的出發點是，弦樂四重奏是蕭士塔高維契最發自內心的音樂——正如如他的遺孀所說，它們記錄著「他靈魂故事的日記」——也是我們通往作曲家內心世界的最佳途徑。——《句號網》，卡萊爾（Alli Carlisle）在此之前，絕大部份關於蕭士塔高維契的書不是聚焦在他的交響曲和歌劇，就是他和他所身處的政權之間的關係，或者兩者兼有，因為這些大型作品正是他最備受關注，有時則是遭到蘇聯政權譴責的作品。本書帶我們從後門——他的十五首弦樂四重奏——一窺蕭士塔高維契。他的遺孀認為這些作品是「他靈魂故事的日記」。靜默和聲音有很多種，包括史達林時期大膽的作家、藝術家和音樂家的政治性噤聲；蕭士塔高維契的歌劇的失聲（他轉向弦樂四重奏前被迫放棄的形式）；還有他死去的摯友的死寂之聲
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Rossini

by Andrea Chegai ...

Rossini aveva 37 anni e 39 opere alle spalle quando si ritirò dalle scene teatrali dopo avervi esercitato un'egemonia incontrastata. Eclettico, altalenante tra comico e tragico, e prolifico sperimentatore di generi, raggiunse e impose uno stile sovraregionale, nella fedeltà a un ideale di bellezza ineffabile che la sua musica sempre inseguì: una musica che diede voce ai suoi personaggi esprimendo, ... Read more

$16.99 USD

Rossini aveva 37 anni e 39 opere alle spalle quando si ritirò dalle scene teatrali dopo avervi esercitato un'egemonia incontrastata. Eclettico, altalenante tra comico e tragico, e prolifico sperimentatore di generi, raggiunse e impose uno stile sovraregionale, nella fedeltà a un ideale di bellezza ineffabile che la sua musica sempre inseguì: una musica che diede voce ai suoi personaggi esprimendo,
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Bulgarian Harmony

In Village, Wedding, and Choral Music of the Last Century

by Kalin S. Kirilov ...

Series series SOAS Studies in Music
An in-depth study of the Bulgarian harmonic system is long overdue. More than two decades since the Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares choir was awarded a Grammy (1990), there is no scholarly study of the captivating sounds of Bulgarian vertical sonorities. Kalin Kirilov traces the gradual formation of a unique harmonic system that developed in three styles of Bulgarian music: village music from the ... Read more

$64.99 USD

An in-depth study of the Bulgarian harmonic system is long overdue. More than two decades since the Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares choir was awarded a Grammy (1990), there is no scholarly study of the captivating sounds of Bulgarian vertical sonorities. Kalin Kirilov traces the gradual formation of a unique harmonic system that developed in three styles of Bulgarian music: village music from the
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Beethoven's Early Chamber Music: A Listening Guide

by Terence O'Grady ...

Beethoven's early chamber music is, for many listeners, largely an unexplored treasure trove of fresh, often highly creative, sometimes surprising music. This listening guide will help the interested listener experience this music more fully, by providing detailed examples of what to expect and what to listen for among Beethoven's chamber works up to and including the famous string quartets of Op. ... Read more

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Beethoven's early chamber music is, for many listeners, largely an unexplored treasure trove of fresh, often highly creative, sometimes surprising music. This listening guide will help the interested listener experience this music more fully, by providing detailed examples of what to expect and what to listen for among Beethoven's chamber works up to and including the famous string quartets of Op.
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Beethoven: Variations on a Life

by Mark Evan Bonds ...

Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career-even in the face of deafness-Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency, the music historian Mark Evan Bonds argues, provides the key to understanding the composer's life and works. Beethoven approached music as he approached life, weighing whatever occupied him ... Read more

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Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career-even in the face of deafness-Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency, the music historian Mark Evan Bonds argues, provides the key to understanding the composer's life and works. Beethoven approached music as he approached life, weighing whatever occupied him
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Con Brio

Four Russians Called the Budapest String Quartet

by Nat Brandt ...

A 1959 New Yorker profile captured the inspired risk-taking and raw creative spark of a Budapest String Quartet rehearsal: "Sasha leaped from his chair and with violin held aloft, played the passage with exaggerated schmalz, like a street fiddler in Naples. Kroyt...stopped playing and started singing a Russian song....Mischa Schneider thereupon performed a number of stupendous triads on his cello. ... Read more

$3.99 USD

A 1959 New Yorker profile captured the inspired risk-taking and raw creative spark of a Budapest String Quartet rehearsal: "Sasha leaped from his chair and with violin held aloft, played the passage with exaggerated schmalz, like a street fiddler in Naples. Kroyt...stopped playing and started singing a Russian song....Mischa Schneider thereupon performed a number of stupendous triads on his cello.
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Mozart Studies 2

Edited by Simon P. Keefe ...

Series series Cambridge Composer Studies
Cultural, historical and reception-related contexts are central to understanding Mozart, one of the greatest and most famous musicians of all time. Widening and refining the lens through which the composer is viewed, the essays in Mozart Studies 2 focus on themes, issues, works and repertories perennially popular among Mozart scholars of all kinds, pointing to areas primed for future study and ... Read more

$38.59 USD

Cultural, historical and reception-related contexts are central to understanding Mozart, one of the greatest and most famous musicians of all time. Widening and refining the lens through which the composer is viewed, the essays in Mozart Studies 2 focus on themes, issues, works and repertories perennially popular among Mozart scholars of all kinds, pointing to areas primed for future study and
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Inherit the Truth 1939-1945

The Documented Experiences of a Survivor of Auschwitz and Belsen

by Anita Lasker-Wallfisch ...

This is the story of the destruction of a talented Jewish family, and of the survival against all the odds of two young sisters. It is one of the most moving stories to emerge from the Second World War. Anita and her elder sister Renate defied death at the hands of the Gestapo and the SS over a period of two and a half years when they were sucked into the whirlpool of Nazi mass extermination, ... Read more

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This is the story of the destruction of a talented Jewish family, and of the survival against all the odds of two young sisters. It is one of the most moving stories to emerge from the Second World War. Anita and her elder sister Renate defied death at the hands of the Gestapo and the SS over a period of two and a half years when they were sucked into the whirlpool of Nazi mass extermination,
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Kalimba Easy Arrangements - Classical Music Themes - 1

Play by Symbols + MP3-Sound Downloads

by Reynhard Boegl ...

Series Book 14 - Kalimba Songbooks
Songbook with 10 Classical Music Themes, easy arranged (melody with ornaments) for the Kalimba with 17 tines.No knowledge of music notes is required - play by numbers / symbols!The MP3 sounds are available online in a player with adjustable playback speed (web address in the book).The sounds and other links are accessible with the iOS and Android app and your interne... ... Read more

$6.99 USD

Songbook with 10 Classical Music Themes, easy arranged (melody with ornaments) for the Kalimba with 17 tines.No knowledge of music notes is required - play by numbers / symbols!The MP3 sounds are available online in a player with adjustable playback speed (web address in the book).The sounds and other links are accessible with the iOS and Android app and your interne...
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The Italian Cantata in Vienna

Entertainment in the Age of Absolutism

by Lawrence Bennett ...

A history of music for the imperial court "from a professor, choral director, and professional tenor who has studied Viennese cantatas for half a century" (Lowell Lindgren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology).Lawrence Bennett provides a comprehensive study of the rich repertoire of accompanied vocal chamber music that entertained the imperial family in Vienna and their guests throughout the ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A history of music for the imperial court "from a professor, choral director, and professional tenor who has studied Viennese cantatas for half a century" (Lowell Lindgren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology).Lawrence Bennett provides a comprehensive study of the rich repertoire of accompanied vocal chamber music that entertained the imperial family in Vienna and their guests throughout the
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Appunti di teoria musicale

by Stefano Cataldi ...

Ho imparato quanto scritto in questo volume dai miei allievi e dalle loro domande, mosso dall’esigenza, che da sempre Percepisco come urgenza, di ordinare e semplificare il materiale didattico. Mi sono sempre trovato nella splendida posizione di maneggiare con disinvoltura diversi linguaggi musicali, anche grazie all’approccio etnomusicologico derivante dalla mia formazione universitaria. Con ... Read more

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Ho imparato quanto scritto in questo volume dai miei allievi e dalle loro domande, mosso dall’esigenza, che da sempre Percepisco come urgenza, di ordinare e semplificare il materiale didattico. Mi sono sempre trovato nella splendida posizione di maneggiare con disinvoltura diversi linguaggi musicali, anche grazie all’approccio etnomusicologico derivante dalla mia formazione universitaria. Con
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The Piano in Chamber Ensemble, Third Edition

An Annotated Guide

by Maurice Hinson, Wesley Roberts ...

In this expanded and updated edition, The Piano in Chamber Ensemble: An Annotated Guide features over 3200 compositions, from duos to octets, by more than 1600 composers.Maurice Hinson and Wesley Roberts catalog published works for piano with two or more instruments with information on performance level, length, individual movements, overall style, and publisher. Divided into sections according to ... Read more

$76.49 USD

In this expanded and updated edition, The Piano in Chamber Ensemble: An Annotated Guide features over 3200 compositions, from duos to octets, by more than 1600 composers.Maurice Hinson and Wesley Roberts catalog published works for piano with two or more instruments with information on performance level, length, individual movements, overall style, and publisher. Divided into sections according to
... Read more
An Introduction to Japanese Folk Performing Arts

by Terence A. Lancashire ...

Series series SOAS Studies in Music
Japanese folk performing arts incorporate a body of entertainments that range from the ritual to the secular. They may be the ritual dances at Shinto shrines performed to summon and entertain deities; group dances to drive away disease-bearing spirits; or theatrical mime to portray the tenets of Buddhist teachings. These ritual entertainments can have histories of a thousand years or more and, ... Read more

$84.99 USD

Japanese folk performing arts incorporate a body of entertainments that range from the ritual to the secular. They may be the ritual dances at Shinto shrines performed to summon and entertain deities; group dances to drive away disease-bearing spirits; or theatrical mime to portray the tenets of Buddhist teachings. These ritual entertainments can have histories of a thousand years or more and,
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Dr. Richard von Fuchs Music for Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, Clarinet Woodwinds Vol. 1.

by Richard von Fuchs ...

At last amateur players can try original compositions to test their skills and expand their repertoire. ... Read more

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At last amateur players can try original compositions to test their skills and expand their repertoire.
... Read more
Chamber Music

A Very Short Introduction

by Laura Tunbridge ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Playing together is the beating heart of chamber music. Despite great diversity, there are values common across centuries and instrumentation. First, a principle of one player per part, without a conductor. Second, that location is more a state of mind than an actual venue--thus, chamber music can exist in the home and on the concert platform. ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Playing together is the beating heart of chamber music. Despite great diversity, there are values common across centuries and instrumentation. First, a principle of one player per part, without a conductor. Second, that location is more a state of mind than an actual venue--thus, chamber music can exist in the home and on the concert platform.
... Read more
Tin Whistle Songbook - 48 Themes From Classical Music

notes & fingering diagrams plus Online Sounds

by Reynhard Boegl ...

Songbook with 48 themes from classical music - simply notated for the Tin Whistle / Penny Whistle / Low Whistle.The tones of the melodies were prepared with fingering images for the Tin Whistle, the rhythm of the tones is given by the classical music notation.The sounds of the songs (melody with accompanying band as well as accompanying band alone - "Playalong") are a... ... Read more

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Songbook with 48 themes from classical music - simply notated for the Tin Whistle / Penny Whistle / Low Whistle.The tones of the melodies were prepared with fingering images for the Tin Whistle, the rhythm of the tones is given by the classical music notation.The sounds of the songs (melody with accompanying band as well as accompanying band alone - "Playalong") are a...
... Read more
朱塞佩·威尔第、贾科莫·普契尼：室内乐声乐作品选集

by 周玲 ...

《朱塞佩·威尔第、贾科莫·普契尼室内乐声乐作品选集》教材分为两部分：第一部分是16首威尔第的室内乐声乐作品和两套浪漫曲，歌词均选用了伟大诗人的诗作，蕴含了很高的艺术价值，作品音域适中，旋律优美而流畅，富有英雄般的豪放气质，具有典型的威尔第风格和独特的艺术魅力；第二部分是11首普契尼的室内乐声乐作品，这些作品在国内编译出版尚属首次。周玲，西安音乐学院国家二级教授，旅意声乐教育家，硕士生导师，国家艺术基金评委，教育部学位与研究生教育评审专家。主要从事美声教学、意大利语语音教学以及意大利歌剧与表演研究。曾被意大利总统授予的“意大利共和国骑士勋章”，陕西省特殊人才支持计划教学名师领军人才。 ... Read more

$23.75 USD

《朱塞佩·威尔第、贾科莫·普契尼室内乐声乐作品选集》教材分为两部分：第一部分是16首威尔第的室内乐声乐作品和两套浪漫曲，歌词均选用了伟大诗人的诗作，蕴含了很高的艺术价值，作品音域适中，旋律优美而流畅，富有英雄般的豪放气质，具有典型的威尔第风格和独特的艺术魅力；第二部分是11首普契尼的室内乐声乐作品，这些作品在国内编译出版尚属首次。周玲，西安音乐学院国家二级教授，旅意声乐教育家，硕士生导师，国家艺术基金评委，教育部学位与研究生教育评审专家。主要从事美声教学、意大利语语音教学以及意大利歌剧与表演研究。曾被意大利总统授予的“意大利共和国骑士勋章”，陕西省特殊人才支持计划教学名师领军人才。
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India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective

by Margaret E. Walker ...

Series series SOAS Studies in Music
Kathak, the classical dance of North India, combines virtuosic footwork and dazzling spins with subtle pantomime and soft gestures. As a global practice and one of India's cultural markers, kathak dance is often presented as heir to an ancient Hindu devotional tradition in which men called Kathakas danced and told stories in temples. The dance's repertoire and movement vocabulary, however, tell a ... Read more

$73.99 USD

Kathak, the classical dance of North India, combines virtuosic footwork and dazzling spins with subtle pantomime and soft gestures. As a global practice and one of India's cultural markers, kathak dance is often presented as heir to an ancient Hindu devotional tradition in which men called Kathakas danced and told stories in temples. The dance's repertoire and movement vocabulary, however, tell a
... Read more
Taarab Music in Zanzibar in the Twentieth Century

A Story of ‘Old is Gold’ and Flying Spirits

by Janet Topp Fargion ...

Series series SOAS Studies in Music
The musical genre of taarab is played for entertainment at weddings and other festive occasions all along the Swahili Coast in East Africa. Taarab contains all the features of a typical 'Indian Ocean' music, combining influences from Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, India and the West with local musical practices. In Taarab, Music in Zanzibar, Janet Topp Fargion traces the development of the genre in ... Read more

$77.99 USD

The musical genre of taarab is played for entertainment at weddings and other festive occasions all along the Swahili Coast in East Africa. Taarab contains all the features of a typical 'Indian Ocean' music, combining influences from Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, India and the West with local musical practices. In Taarab, Music in Zanzibar, Janet Topp Fargion traces the development of the genre in
... Read more
Music for Brass Quintet Volume 5

by Richard von Fuchs ...

There are eight compositions for brass quintet with parts for individual players. Three are originals by Richard von Fuchs and five are based on piano worksby Handel, Schubert, Grieg, Duke Ellington, and a well-known hymn. These are suitable for intermediate level players. ... Read more

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There are eight compositions for brass quintet with parts for individual players. Three are originals by Richard von Fuchs and five are based on piano worksby Handel, Schubert, Grieg, Duke Ellington, and a well-known hymn. These are suitable for intermediate level players.
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I concerti per mandolino nel '700 napoletano

L'importanza dello sviluppo artistico sviluppato a Napoli durante il periodo settecentesco.

by Jona Giuseppe Patitò ...

Il mandolino acquisisce una nuova vita grazie ai liutai, compositori e musicisti che hanno dedicato la propria vita a questo strumento, in particolare a Napoli si sottolinea un' intensa attività.Il mandolino napoletano è un perfetto esempio di rinascita, nulla da togliere alle altre tipologie di mandolino, tutti in grado di arrivare fino ai giorni nostri e mantenere attivo il repertorio ... Read more

$6.99 USD

Il mandolino acquisisce una nuova vita grazie ai liutai, compositori e musicisti che hanno dedicato la propria vita a questo strumento, in particolare a Napoli si sottolinea un' intensa attività.Il mandolino napoletano è un perfetto esempio di rinascita, nulla da togliere alle altre tipologie di mandolino, tutti in grado di arrivare fino ai giorni nostri e mantenere attivo il repertorio
... Read more
Mozart's Music of Friends

Social Interplay in the Chamber Works

by Edward Klorman ...

In 1829 Goethe famously described the string quartet as 'a conversation among four intelligent people'. Inspired by this metaphor, Edward Klorman's study draws on a wide variety of documentary and iconographic sources to explore Mozart's chamber works as 'the music of friends'. Illuminating the meanings and historical foundations of comparisons between chamber music and social interplay, Klorman ... Read more

$43.49 USD

In 1829 Goethe famously described the string quartet as 'a conversation among four intelligent people'. Inspired by this metaphor, Edward Klorman's study draws on a wide variety of documentary and iconographic sources to explore Mozart's chamber works as 'the music of friends'. Illuminating the meanings and historical foundations of comparisons between chamber music and social interplay, Klorman
... Read more

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