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Schwanengesang; Facsimilies of the Autograph Score and Sketches, and Reprint of the First Edition

Franz Schubert's last fourteen songs, collected as a cycle entitled Schwanengesang, include some of his greatest and most popular lieder -- among them 'Der Atlas', 'Standchen', 'Die Stadt', and 'Doppelganger'. This valuable volume makes available for...

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Complete Idiot's Guide to Classical Music

Explains how to recognize musical pieces and distinguish composers, with tips on how to listen to classical music and identify instruments, and recommendations for building a compact disc collection

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Arcangelo Corelli: New Orpheus of Our Times

The first full-length study of Corelli in forty years, Allsop's book offers a much reassessment of the seminal composer's life and works. He draws on extensive archival research to provide a more balanced evaluation of Corelli's true status in the development...

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Classical Cd Library: A Music Lover's Guide to Great Recorded Performances

In this, the companion to the highly acclaimed Classical Music for Everybody, Dhun H. Sethna and William C. Stivelman share the fruits of their lifetime odyssey in music. Complete with essays about the finest composers and their greatest works, listening...

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Ulysses Kay: A Bio-Bibliography

One of the most prominent American composers living today, Kay has produced more than 135 compositions, representing a tremendous outpouring of divergent forms from opera to compositions for film and television. This highly acclaimed composer is probably...

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Library of Easy Piano Classics

True to the spirit of the composers represented here, this volume is a tribute to their genius. It answers the vital needs of the student, teacher, and today's audience, all of whom were willed this precious legacy by those in the past who first thrilled...

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Parallels and Paradoxes

Presents an intimate conversation about music and politics between the Israeli director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and a Palestinian-American critic and scholar--two long-time friends--discussing such topics as Beethoven, education, the differences...

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Classical Music Top 40; Learn How To Listen To And Appreciate The 40 Most Popular And Important Pieces I

In this informal and informative guide, Rudel leads listeners through the 40 most essential and popular compositions from the Four Seasons to Rhapsody in Blue, explaining the musical structure of each passage and highlighting special themes or elements...

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Schubert's Vienna

The Vienna in which Franz Schubert lived for the thirty-one years of his life was not just a city of music, dance, and coffee-houses -- a center of important achievements in the arts. It was also the capital of an empire that was constantly at war in...

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Classical Music 101

An accessible guide to classical music explains how readers can become expert listeners, explores more than one thousand years of music by master composers, and considers the contributions of top classic performers. Original. 30,000 first printing.

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How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony: And Why You Should Care

The author of Shakespeare's Songbook offers an engaging study of musical temperament and its influence on the ways in which we experience music, tracing the practice of dividing an octave into twelve equally proportioned half-steps and proposing a radical...

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The Symphony 1800 1900: A Norton Music Anthology

The selection of the works in this anthology was made not to suit the editor's personal preferences but to permit the student, even within a necessarily limited space, to become acquainted with the mainstream of the symphonic literature of the nineteenth...

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The New Grove Handel

Portrays the life of the composer, depicts his musical career in Germany and England, and examines the development of his music

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Liszt: Sonata in B Minor

Liszt's B minor Sonata is now regarded as his finest work for piano, and one of the pinnacles of Romantic piano music. This book, written by a pianist who has performed the Sonata extensively, includes a survey of Liszt's early attempts at sonata composition...

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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 and 21

This guide to Mozart's two most popular piano concertos--the D minor, K. 466, and the C major, K. 467 (the so-called 'Elvira Madigan')--presents the historical background of the works, placing them within the context of Mozart's compositional and performance...

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