Download or read book Great Opera Arias and Themes for Solo Piano written by Carolinda Carlson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original transcription of popular opera melodies for solo piano features 50 pieces, comprising about half of the current performance repertoire and representing nearly all of the major composers.
Download or read book Twenty Three Opera Arias for Sopranos written by Henry Krehbiel and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich selection spans the dawn of Italian opera through the late 19th century. Featured composers include Caccini, Rameau, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Verdi, Bizet, and many others. Original lyrics with separate English translations.
Download or read book Twenty Three Opera Arias for Sopranos written by Henry Edward Krehbiel and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich selection spans the dawn of Italian opera through the late 19th century. Featured composers include Caccini, Rameau, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Verdi, Bizet, and many others.
Download or read book Italian Opera Arias written by Francesca Licciarda and published by Schott Music. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drama, passion, a good dose of humour and, first and foremost, immortal melodies are the ingredients of the great masterpieces of Italian opera history. This collection of arias contains the most beautiful and popular solo pieces of music theatre in one volume each. A cross-section of the art of singing over three centuries.
Download or read book An Interpretive Guide to Operatic Arias written by Martial Singher and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Verdi arias for soprano written by Giuseppe Verdi and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his first grand success in 1842 with "Nabucco" to his last Shakespearean operas, "Otello" (1887) and "Falstaff" (1893), Giuseppe Verdi dominated the world of Italian opera. This compilation features 26 classic arias from 16 of his greatest operas, in the composer's transcriptions for voice and piano. Reproduced from authoritative early editions, the arias include "Oh, patria mia" and "Ritorna vincitor!" from "Aida"; "Saper vorreste" from "Un Ballo in Mascera"; "Ah fors'e lui," from "La Traviata"; "Pace, pace, mio Dio" from "La Forza del Destino"; "Caro nome" from "Rigoletto"; as well as rarely compiled gems from "Simon Boccanegra, Don Carlos, Il Trovatore, Luisa Miller, Stiffelio, "and other legendary operas. Singers, pianists, and opera lovers will treasure this generous collection of unforgettable arias by one of the supreme masters of the form. "
Download or read book Changing the Score written by Hilary Poriss and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study seeks to explore the role and significance of aria insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music of their own choice into productions of Italian operas. Each chapter investigates the art of aria insertion during the nineteenth century from varying perspectives, beginning with an overview of the changing fortunes of the practice, followed by explorations of individual prima donnas and their relationship with particular insertion arias: Carolina Ungher's difficulties in finding a "perfect" aria to introduce into Donizetti's Marino Faliero; Guiditta Pasta's performance of an aria from Pacini's Niobe in a variety of operas, and the subsequent fortunes of that particular aria; Maria Malibran's interpolation of Vaccai's final scene from Giulietta e Romeo in place of Bellini's original setting in his I Capuleti e i Montecchi; and Adelina Patti's "mini-concerts" in the lesson scene of Il barbiere di Siviglia. The final chapter provides a treatment of a short story, "Memoir of a Song," narrated by none other than an insertion aria itself, and the volume concludes with an appendix containing the first modern edition of this short story, a narrative that has lain utterly forgotten since its publication in 1849. This book covers a wide variety of material that will be of interest to opera scholars and opera lovers alike, touching on the fluidity of the operatic work, on the reception of the singers, and on the shifting and hardening aesthetics of music criticism through the period.
Download or read book The Supervisors Service Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ricercare and Toccata written by Gian Carlo Menotti and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian-American composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti composed his first opera in English, The Old Maid and the Thief, in 1939. It was commissioned by NBC as a radio opera (to be performed on air) and was premiered by the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Years later, Menotti adapted a theme from the opera's third scene, transforming and expanding it into an advanced two-movement work for solo piano. The first movement is a lyrical and emotive ricercare, which contains contrapuntal writing, elaborate flourishes, and flamboyant improvisatory gestures. By contrast, the second-movement toccata unfolds in steady, 16th-note perpetual motion with moments of musical humor combined with brilliant pianistic display. The concise work, approximately seven minutes in length, is often used in competitions and recitals. This edition contains helpful fingering and pedaling suggestions, as well as a discussion of form and a brief synopsis of the original opera.
Download or read book Music for the Piano written by James Friskin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1954.
Download or read book Arias for Soprano Volume 2 written by Robert L. Larsen and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Vocal Collection). The G. Schirmer Opera Anthology series revolutionized opera aria study after its release in 1991. There are so many wonderful soprano arias that a second volume was warranted. The music is predominantly for lyric soprano. As in the original volumes, these are new, clean editions, with historical and plot information about each of the 32 arias included.
Download or read book Play Puccini written by Giacomo Puccini and published by Ricordi - Bmg Ricordi. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Instrumental Play-Along). Who needs a singer? With Play Puccini flutists can bathe themselves in luxurious Italian melody! These ten opera arias are among the composer's most famous and distinctive achievements, here transcribed for intermediate level solo flute and piano. The book includes a biography of Puccini, notes about the plot of each opera, and the dramatic context of the selected aria. The companion CD features excellent performances, as well as piano accompaniments for practice. Includes arias from: La Boheme , La Fanciulla Del West , Gianni Schicchi , Madama Butterfly , Manon Lescaut , Suor Angelica , Tosca and Turandot .
Download or read book Songs and Arias Ornamented by Giovanni Battista Velluti the Last Operatic Castrato written by Robert Crowe and published by A-R Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition consists of twenty-nine songs and arias from the early nineteenth-century solo vocal music repertoire to which Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Velluti (1780–1861) composed (and frequently, though not always, published) ornamentation. The last great operatic castrato, Velluti, over the course of his career, became increasingly well known not only for his singing, but also for his creative, adventuresome ornaments. His publications of ornamented songs and arias were frequent throughout the last decade of his career, when his singing style became less purely virtuosic and more concerned with affect. The edition includes only ornamented solo songs and arias with a secure attribution to Velluti. Those with doubtful or spurious attribution are excluded, as are Velluti’s ornamented duets and trios, as well as arias in full orchestral score.
Download or read book Mozart s Piano Music written by William Kinderman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mozart's emergence as a mature artist coincides with the rise to prominence of the piano, an instrument that came alive under his fingers and served as medium for many of his finest compositions. In Mozart's Piano Music, William Kinderman reconsiders common assumptions about Mozart's life and art while offering comprehensive and incisive commentary on the solo music and concertos. After placing Mozart's pianistic legacy in its larger biographical and cultural context, Kinderman addresses the lively gestural and structural aspects of Mozart's musical language and explores the nature of his creative process. Incorporating the most recent research throughout this encompassing study, Kinderman expertly surveys each of the major genres of the keyboard music, including the four-hand and two-piano works. Beyond examining issues such as Mozart's earliest childhood compositions, his musical rhetoric and expression, the social context of his Viennese concertos, and affinities between his piano works and operas, Kinderman's main emphasis falls on detailed discussion of selected individual compositions.
Download or read book Strong on Music written by Vera Brodsky Lawrence and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Strong on Music Vera Brodsky Lawrence uses the diaries of lawyer and music lover George Templeton Strong as a jumping-off point from which to explore every aspect of New York City's musical life in the mid-nineteenth century. This third and final volume ranges across opera, orchestral and chamber music, blackface minstrels, military bands, church choirs, and even concert saloons. Among the many striking scenes vividly portrayed in Repercussions are the rapturous reception of Verdi's Ballo in maschera in 1861; the impact of the Civil War on New York's music scene, from theaters closing as their musicians enlisted to the performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at every possible occasion; and open-air concerts in the developing Central Park. Throughout, Lawrence mines a treasure trove of primary source materials including daily newspapers, memoirs, city directories, and architectural drawings. Indispensable for scholars, Repercussions will also fascinate music fans with its witty writing and detailed descriptions of the cultural life of America's first metropolis. Formerly a concert pianist, Vera Brodsky Lawrence spent the last third of her life as a historian of American music (she died in 1996). She was editor of The Piano Works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and The Complete Works of Scott Joplin. On Volume 1: "A marvelous book. There is nothing like it in the literature of American music."—Harold C. Schonberg, New York Times Book Review On Volume 2: "A monumental achievement."—Victor Fell Yellin, Opera Quarterly
Download or read book 55 Of The Most Beautiful Classical Piano Solos written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This great classical piano book includes 55 of the most beautiful Piano Solos of all times. Piano Masterpieces from the following great composers: Bach, Beethoven, Burgmuller, Chopin, Clementi, Debussy, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Kuhlau, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Mozart, Pachelbel, Petzold, Satie, Schumann, Telemann, Tchaikovsky.
Download or read book Beethoven s Orchestral Music written by David Hurwitz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran music critic David Hurwitz provides an accessible, comprehensive, and fresh survey of Beethoven’s symphonies, overtures, concertos, theatrical music, his single ballet and other music for the dance, and several short pieces worth getting to know. Beethoven’s orchestral works include some of the most iconic and popular pieces of classical music ever written. This book offers chapters on Beethoven’s handling of the symphony orchestra and his contributions to its evolution, as well as his approach to musical form in creating large, multi-movement works. The musical descriptions provide helpful strategies for listening that invite both beginners and experienced enthusiasts to treat even the best known pieces as something fresh, new and relevant. In addition, Hurwitz provides extensive lists of recommended recordings of all of the music surveyed, highlighting the wide range of issues in Beethoven interpretation and performance, as well as the history of his music. He encourages readers to listen actively and critically, as they build their own Beethoven discographies according to their personal tastes and preferences. The book is accompanied by online audio tracks of Beethoven works selected by Hurwitz.
