Download or read book Die vier Jahreszeiten written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' are amongst the most beautiful and widely-known Baroque master pieces. Each of the four violin concertos is preceded by a sonnet which characterises the season depicted in the concerto. The poems are thought to be by Vivaldi himself. Easy version for piano.

Download or read book The Soldier Tir d written by Thomas Augustine Arne and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alfred s premier piano course written by Dennis Alexander and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appealing repertoire with charming lyrics further reinforces and enhances the learning of new musical concepts introduced in the Lesson Book. Includes attractive music created by internationally acclaimed composers in a variety of styles, plus tips on how to perform more musically. Each piece on the CD was recorded at a performance tempo and a slower practice tempo The audio for this book is also available for download here The music from this book is available in the Piano Maestro app that's downloadable here. Learn more About JoyTunes, the maker of Piano Maestro here.

Download or read book The Organ in Western Culture 750 1250 written by Peter Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the organ become a church instrument? In this fascinating investigation Peter Williams speculates on this question and suggests some likely answers. Central to the story he uncovers is the liveliness of European monasticism around 1000 and the ability and imagination of the Benedictine reformers.

Download or read book The Clavichord written by Bernard Brauchli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a richly illustrated history of the clavichord, the forerunner of the modern piano.

Download or read book Tunes You ve Always Wanted To Play Easy Piano written by Chester Music and published by Chester Music. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outstanding album containing over 155 pages of favourite classical and traditional melodies, arranged for easy piano by Carol Barratt. Song List: - A Happy And Harmonious Blacksmith (Air - Suite No.5 In E Hwv 430) [Handel] - All Through The Night [Traditional Welsh] - Arioso [J. S. Bach] - Auld Lang Syne - Ave Maria [J. S. Bach] [Gounod] - Ave Maria Op.52 No.6 [Schubert] - Berceuse [Fauré] - Bourree And Air [Handel] - Bridal March [Lohengrin] [Wagner] - Can-can [Offenbach] - Chanson De Matin Op.15 No.2 [Elgar] - Charlie Is My Darling [Traditional Scottish] - Clair De Lune [Debussy] - Cockles And Mussels [Traditional Irish] - David Of The White Rock [Owen] - Drink To Me Only [Traditional English] - Elvira Madigan [Mozart] - English Country Garden [Traditional English] - For He Is An Englishman [Sullivan] - Für Elise [Beethoven] - Grand March (Aida) [Verdi] - Greensleeves - I Vow To Thee My Country [Holst] - Jerusalem [Parry] - Land Of Hope And Glory [Elgar] - Largo (Symphony No.9 In E Minor 'From The New World' Op.95) [Dvořák] - Largo [Handel] - Londonderry Air [Traditional Irish] - Meditation (Thais) [Massenet] - Minuet [Blavet] - Nimrod (Enigma Variations Op.36) [Elgar] - Nocturne [Borodin] - For The Wings Of A Dove [Mendelssohn] - Mio Babbino Caro (Gianni Schicchi) [Puccini] - Ode To Joy [Beethoven] - On Wings Of Song Op.34 No.2 [Mendelssohn] - Pavane Op.50 [Fauré] - Pilgrims' Chorus (Tannhauser) [Wagner] - Polovetsian Dances (Prince Igor) [Borodin] - Radetzky March [Strauss I] - Serenade [Schubert] - Sheep May Safely Graze (Cantata No.208) [J. S. Bach] - Solfeggietto [C. P. E. Bach] - The Ash Grove [Traditional Welsh] - The Blue Danube Waltz Op.314 [Strauss II] - The Bluebells Of Scotland [Traditional Scottish] - The British Grenadiers [Traditional English] - The Cuckoo [Daquin] - The Minstrel Boy [Traditional Irish] - The Swan (Carnival Of The Animals) [Saint-Saëns] - Theme (Romeo And Juliet) [Tchaikovsky] - Theme (Vltava) [Smetana] - Theme From Piano Concerto No 1 [Tchaikovsky] - Themes From Carmen [Bizet] - Themes From La Calinda [Delius] - Third Sonata In C Minor [Guilmant] - To A Wild Rose (Woodland Sketches Op.51) [Macdowell] - Trumpet Voluntary (The Prince Of Denmark's March) [Clarke] - Two Songs [Schubert] - Two Themes From Rosamunde [Schubert] - Two Tunes (The Pirates Of Penzance) [Sullivan] - Waltz (Swan Lake) [Tchaikovsky] - Wedding March (A Midsummer Night's Dream) [Mendelssohn] - Wellington's Victory Op.91 (Battle Symphony) [Beethoven] - What A Little Moonlight Can Do [Woods] - Where E'er You Walk [Handel]

Download or read book The Art of Fugue written by Joseph Kerman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Fugue for J. S. Bach was a natural language; he wrote fugues in organ toccatas and voluntaries, in masses and motets, in orchestral and chamber music, and even in his sonatas for violin solo. The more intimate fugues he wrote for keyboard are among the greatest, most influential, and best-loved works in all of Western music. They have long been the foundation of the keyboard repertory, played by beginning students and world-famous virtuosi alike. In a series of elegantly written essays, eminent musicologist Joseph Kerman discusses his favorite Bach keyboard fugues—some of them among the best-known fugues and others much less familiar. Kerman skillfully, at times playfully, reveals the inner workings of these pieces, linking the form of the fugues with their many different characters and expressive qualities, and illuminating what makes them particularly beautiful, powerful, and moving. These witty, insightful pieces, addressed to musical amateurs as well as to specialists and students, are beautifully augmented by performances made specially for this volume: Karen Rosenak, piano, playing two preludes and fugues fromTheWell-Tempered Clavier—C Major, book 1; and B Major, book 2--and Davitt Moroney playing the Fughetta in C Major, BWV 952, on clavichord; the Fugue on "Jesus Christus unser Heiland," BWV 689, on organ; and the Fantasy and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 904, on harpsichord.

Download or read book Music of the Twentieth Century written by Ton de Leeuw and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ton de Leeuw was a truly groundbreaking composer. As evidenced by his pioneering study of compositional methods that melded Eastern traditional music with Western musical theory, he had a profound understanding of the complex and often divisive history of twentieth-century music. Now his renowned chronicle Music of the Twentieth Century is offered here in a newly revised English-language edition. Music of the Twentieth Century goes beyond a historical survey with its lucid and impassioned discussion of the elements, structures, compositional principles, and terminologies of twentieth-century music. De Leeuw draws on his experience as a composer, teacher, and music scholar of non-European music traditions, including Indian, Indonesian, and Japanese music, to examine how musical innovations that developed during the twentieth century transformed musical theory, composition, and scholarly thought around the globe.

Download or read book Complete Jazz Keyboard Method written by Noah Baerman and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone with basic keyboard skills (equivalent to Alfred's Basic Piano, Lesson Book 2) can dig right in and begin learning jazz right away. Spanning from the major scale and basic triad theory all the way through 7th chords, pentatonic scales and modulating chord progressions, this book features a full etude or tune demonstrating every new concept introduced. Beginning Jazz Keyboard breaks the age-old tradition of dry, intimidating and confusing jazz books, and provides an actual step-by-step and enjoyable method for learning to play in this style. The DVD demonstrates examples and offers opportunity to play along.

Download or read book Arkansas Suite written by Martha Mier and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the sights and sounds of Arkansas through movements written in four different styles in this suite. Students will travel to majestic Sugarloaf Mountain, experience a little ragtime in Little Rock, float gently down the Red River and celebrate at a Maumelle hoedown. Ranging from flowing, romantic melodies to energetic ragtime, the music teaches rhythmic control and precision, and allows for tasteful rubato and pedalling. Intermediate.

Download or read book Alternative Strings written by Julie Lyonn Lieberman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Amadeus). Let's keep our string programs vital, contemporary, and thriving! Alternative Strings: The New Curriculum is the first resource book in the world to offer a comprehensive guide to string educators wishing to step into twenty-first-century inclusive string pedagogy. The "Dear Abby" for string players, Julie Lyonn Lieberman, offers detailed descriptions of over two dozen fiddle, blues, jazz, pop, and world styles; bountiful support materials; a massive discography; musical examples; photographs; and audio from master players and clinicians, far exceeding the scope of other books in the field. ABOUT THE AUDIO CD: Some of today's top alternative string players and clinicians demonstrate rock, jazz, and fiddle styles; present innovative ideas for teaching new generations of string players; and more. Tracks include: 1. Howard Armstrong: My first fiddle 2. Geoffrey Fitzhugh Perry: Zydeco Rock 3. Daryl Silberman: Through Contemporary to Classical and Back 4. Ed Caner: Rock Basics 5. Anthony Barnett: Stuff Smith plays "Body and Soul" 6. Mark Wood: Evolution, Rock, and Musicianship 7. Jesus Florido: Latin and Beyond 8. Randy Sabien: Jazz Stirngs: A Life Inspiration 9. Leanne Darling: Arabic Strings 10. Bob Phillips: Fiddling in the Schools 11. Julianna Waller: Developing Diversity 12: Martin Norgaard: Jazz String Pedagogy 13. Richard Greene: Moving Forward 14. Martha Mooke: Breaking the Sound Barrier 15. Claude Williams: Reminiscences 16. Julie Lyonn Lieberman: "Fiddle, Sing," excerpt from Mixing America

Download or read book Yevgeny Mravinsky written by Gregor Tassie and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005-09-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last of a long line of distinguished Russian aristocrats, Yevgeny Mravinsky emerges from the 20th Century musical scene as a noble conductor and exceptional treasure of Soviet culture. His friendship of some forty years with Dmitri Shostakovich led to the opening of that composer's music to the Soviet public in spite of the State's condemnation of Shostakovich's work in the influential newspaper Pravda. His associations with many other prominent musicians were instrumental in bringing their works into the Soviet consciousness. In these pages, the family history, major formative life events, and the many musical accomplishments of Mravinsky are chronicled, revealing an introverted musician who put all his feelings into his interpretation of the scores he conducted. It was Mravinsky who was largely responsible for introducing the Soviet people in the 20th Century to the music of Debussy, Scriabin, and Stravinsky. Along with those of Feodor Chalyapin, George Balanchine, Nikolai Cherkasov, and Yuri Grigorovich, Mravinsky's life reveals much about the psychology and credo of the artist in the Soviet State. Enriched with rare photographs of Mravinsky in his various milieus, and a helpful chronology and bibliography, this study will be of great significance to students of Russian history, music history, and the creative process.

Download or read book Two Preludes written by Claude Debussy and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reflections on Liszt written by Alan Walker and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of lively essays that tell us much not only about the phenomenon that was Franz Liszt but also about the musical and cultural life of nineteenth-century Europe, Alan Walker muses on aspects of Liszt's life and work that he was unable to explore in his acclaimed three-volume biography of the great composer and pianist. Topics include Liszt's contributions to the Lied, the lifelong impact of his encounter with Beethoven, his influence on students who became famous in their own right, his accomplishments in transcribing and editing the works of other composers, and his innovative piano technique. One chapter is devoted to the Sonata in B Minor, perhaps Liszt's single most celebrated composition. Walker draws heavily on Liszt's astonishingly large personal correspondence with other composers, critics, pianists, and prominent public figures. All the essays reveal Walker's broad and deep knowledge of Liszt and Romantic music generally and, in some cases, his impatience with contemporary performance practice.

Download or read book The Virtuoso Conductors written by Raymond Holden and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert's guide to the skills of the greatest conductors

Download or read book Monarch of the Flute written by Nancy Toff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georges Barrère (1876-1944) holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing. Best known for two of the landmark works that were written for him--the Poem of Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Density 21.5 by Edgard Varèse--he was the most prominent early exemplar of the Paris Conservatoire tradition in the United States and set a new standard for American woodwind performance. Barrère's story is a musical tale of two cities, and this book uses his life as a window onto musical life in Belle Epoque Paris and twentieth-century New York. Recurrent themes are the interactions of composers and performers; the promotion of new music; the management, personnel, and repertoire of symphony orchestras; the economic and social status of the orchestral and solo musician, including the increasing power of musicians' unions; the role of patronage, particularly women patrons; and the growth of chamber music as a professional performance medium. A student of Paul Taffanel at the Paris Conservatoire, by age eighteen Barrère played in the premiere of Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. He went on to become solo flutist of the Concerts Colonne and to found the Sociètè Moderne d'Instruments á Vent, a pioneering woodwind ensemble that premiered sixty-one works by forty composers in its first ten years. Invited by Walter Damrosch to become principal flute of the New York Symphony in 1905, he founded the woodwind department at the Institute of Musical Art (later Juilliard). His many ensembles toured the United States, building new audiences for chamber music and promoting French repertoire as well as new American music. Toff narrates Barrère's relationships with the finest musicians and artists of his day, among them Isadora Duncan, Yvette Guilbert, André Caplet, Paul Hindemith, Albert Roussel, Wallingford Riegger, and Henry Brant. The appendices of the book, which list Barrère's 170 premieres and the 50 works dedicated to him, are a resource for a new generation of performers. Based on extensive archival research and oral histories in both France and the United States, this is the first biography of Barrère.

Download or read book An Introduction to His Piano Works written by Béla Bartók and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 31 pieces from The First Term at the Piano, For Children, 10 Easy Pieces and 7 Sketches. The informative foreword includes Bartók's specific instructions on wrist and finer action, articulations and syncopation. Each piece is prefaced by a brief introduction.