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Book Piano Works

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Banowetz
  • Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
  • Release : 2002-06
  • ISBN : 9780757992773
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Piano Works written by Joseph Banowetz and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included are selected works from a number of Schumann's collections such as Albumblätter (Opus 124), Album for the Young (Opus 68), Forest Scenes (Opus 82), Fantasy Pieces (Opus 12), and the complete Scenes from Childhood (Opus 15). Also included is a complete biography of Schumann, a useful preface including performance notes on each piece, and a full performance CD by the editor, Joseph Banowetz. Joseph Banowetz graduated with a First Prize from the Vienna Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst. Banowetz has been a piano recitalist and orchestral soloist on five continents. He was awarded the Liszt Medal by the Hungarian Liszt Society in recognition of his outstanding performances of Liszt and the Romantic literature.

Book Album for the young

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Schumann
  • Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780739036921
  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book Album for the young written by Robert Schumann and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous selections from Schumann's Album for the Young have long been favorites of intermediate students, and few collections fail to include the "Soldier's March," the "Happy Farmer" or the "Wild Horseman." This historically informed edition of the entire collection clearly differentiates the markings of the first edition from Clara Schumann's later-edited version. Discussions of ornamentation and the collection's origin are also included. The Alfred Masterwork Library CD Editions conveniently combine each exceptional volume with a professionally recorded CD that is sure to inspire artistic performances. Pianist Kim O'Reilly Newman holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Illinois. She has performed throughout North America and Europe with the Hambro Quartet of Pianos and was an editor and recording pianist for Alfred Publishing. Kim is a brain tumor survivor and now specializes in performing music for the left hand.

Book The Monthly Musical Record

Download or read book The Monthly Musical Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes music.

Book Melodramatic Voices  Understanding Music Drama

Download or read book Melodramatic Voices Understanding Music Drama written by Sarah Hibberd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genre of mélodrame à grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions. Physical gesture, mise en scène and music were as important in communicating meaning and passion as spoken dialogue. The premise of this volume is the idea that the melodramatic aesthetic is central to our understanding of nineteenth-century music drama, broadly defined as spoken plays with music, operas and other hybrid genres that combine music with text and/or image. This relationship is examined closely, and its evolution in the twentieth century in selected operas, musicals and films is understood as an extension of this nineteenth-century aesthetic. The book therefore develops our understanding of opera in the context of melodrama's broader influence on musical culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book will appeal to those interested in film studies, drama, theatre and modern languages as well as music and opera.

Book The Book of Lieder

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian Bostridge
  • Publisher : Faber & Faber
  • Release : 2011-03-03
  • ISBN : 0571260918
  • Pages : 1247 pages

Download or read book The Book of Lieder written by Ian Bostridge and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 1247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume contains, in parallel translation, a thousand of the most frequently performed Lieder, both piano-accompanied and orchestral. Composers are arranged alphabetically, with their songs appearing under poet in chronological order of composition - thus allowing the reader to engage in depth with a particular poet and at the same time to follow the composer's development. Richard Stokes, whose work in this field is already widely acclaimed, provides illuminating short essays on each of the fifty composers' approach to Lieder composition, as well as well as notes on all the poets who inspired the songs.The volume is notable for the accuracy and elegance of its translations, and for its fidelity to the German verse: every care has been taken to print the words of the sung text, while adhering to the versification and punctuation of the original poem.Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, Goethe, Heine and Schiller are among the highlights of a book which illuminates one of the great musical traditions and will be an indispensable handbook for every music lover.

Book Singing Schumann

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Miller
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2005-04-28
  • ISBN : 0195181972
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Singing Schumann written by Richard Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering practical suggestions for the interpretation of all Schumann's solo and duet songs, this text provides for singers and pianists perspectives which can be used to bring to life the work of the German composer.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library Bulletin

Download or read book Library Bulletin written by Somerville Public Library (Mass.). and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paradigm War

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  • Author : Lia Laor
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2017-05-11
  • ISBN : 1443892742
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book Paradigm War written by Lia Laor and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of piano pedagogy in 19th century Europe has yet to be fully told, although it is of immediate relevance for current music education. Europe at that time was the hub of unparalleled critical scholarly discourse, which deliberated on theories of piano pedagogy and the merits of pedagogical music. Impressively, this discourse was shaped by a wide diversity of contributors who included that period’s leading composers like Clementi, Czerny, Beethoven, and Schumann, as well as performers, pedagogues, and music critics, while even addressing parents and young piano students. Offering a unique glimpse into the rich primary sources of such interdisciplinary historical dialogue and musical works, Paradigm War: Lessons Learned from 19th Century Piano Pedagogy presents this story from a synoptic multidimensional viewpoint, integrating developmental-musical, as well as psychological-educational and aesthetic, perspectives. Thus, this book provides an intellectual map for critically evaluating these authentic early contributions to the field in terms of the two conflicting methodological paradigms that governed piano pedagogy of the time – mechanism and holism – which had emerged, respectively, from Enlightenment and Romantic philosophies. The paradigm war reached its climax and resolution in Robert Schumann’s works that, following Jean Paul Richter’s ideas on aesthetics and education, offered a methodological modification transcending both paradigms. Schumann’s innovative music for the young and his revolutionary pedagogical ideas—mostly ignored in the literature—are proposed here as the foundation for liberal and artistic piano pedagogy for our time, inspiring music teachers and piano pedagogues to partake in research that combines music, pedagogy, aesthetics, and education.

Book Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music written by John Michael Cooper and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library Journal praises the book as "an excellent one-volume ready reference resource for students, researchers, and others interested in music history." Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music, Second Edition covers the persons, ideas, practices, and works that made up the worlds of Western music during the long 19th century (ca. 1780–1918). It’s the first book to recognize that Romantic music was very nearly a global phenomenon. It includes more women, more Black musicians and other musicians of color, and more exponents of musical Romanticism from Central and South America as well as Central and Eastern Europe than any other single-volume study of Romantic music—thus challenging the conventional hegemony of musical Romanticisms by men and by Western European nations. This book includes entries on topics including anti-Semitism, sexism, and racism that were pervasive and defining to the worlds of musical Romanticism but are rarely addressed in general studies of that subject. It includes Romantic musicians who were not primarily composers, as well as topics such as the Haitian Revolution, spirituals, and ragtime that were more important for music in the long 19th century than is generally acknowledged. The result is an expansive, inclusive, diverse, and more richly textured portrayal of Romantic music than is elsewhere available. Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, an extensive bibliography, and a dictionary section with more than 600 cross-referenced entries on traditions, famous pieces, persons, places, technical terms, and institutions of Romantic music. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Romantic music.

Book Accenting the Classics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deborah Mawer
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 2023-03-14
  • ISBN : 1837650322
  • Pages : 383 pages

Download or read book Accenting the Classics written by Deborah Mawer and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings new insights to the music of well-known European composers by telling a fascinating, little-known story about French music publishing, specifically through the lens of Jacques Durand's Édition Classique. French composers, performers and musicologists acted as editors of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European 'classics', primarily for piano. Among these editors were Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Ravel and Dukas; the objects of their enquiries included core works by Rameau, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Chopin. Presenting six composer-editor case studies, the volume shows that the French 'accent', both musical and cultural, upon this predominantly Austro-German music was highly varied. Editorial responses range from scholarly approaches to those directed by performance or compositional agendas, and from pan-European to strongly patriotic stances. Intriguing intersections are revealed between old and new, and between French and cross-European canons. Beyond editing, the book explores the Édition's role in pedagogy and performance, including by pianists Robert Casadesus and Yvonne Loriod, and in the reassertion of contemporary French composition, especially regarding innovation around neoclassicism. It will interest a wide readership, including musicologists, performers and concert-goers, cultural historians and other humanities scholars.

Book Letters of Franz Liszt  From Paris to Rome  Years of Travel as a Virtuoso and from Rome to the End

Download or read book Letters of Franz Liszt From Paris to Rome Years of Travel as a Virtuoso and from Rome to the End written by Franz Liszt and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 1311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ROMANCE  Compositions from the 19th Century Romantic Movement in Tablature and Musical NotationTranscribed for the Baritone Ukulele

Download or read book ROMANCE Compositions from the 19th Century Romantic Movement in Tablature and Musical NotationTranscribed for the Baritone Ukulele written by Michael Walker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These sixty-one compositions were transcribed for baritone ukulele but most are also playable on the soprano and tenor ukulele. They are also certainly playable on a standard guitar and, in fact, are much easier as only the highest four strings are used - low E and A are ignored. The music encompasses pieces ranging from fairly easy to intermediate to more advanced.

Book Classical Guitarists

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim Tosone
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2015-11-18
  • ISBN : 0786482427
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Classical Guitarists written by Jim Tosone and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Guitarists fills a void in the special world of the classical guitar. Although this realm is inhabited by world-class musicians, much of what they think and feel has never been captured in print. The interviewees, including Julian Bream, John Williams, Sharon Isbin, Eliot Fisk, David Starobin and David Tanenbaum are a select group at the peak of their prowess who speak openly and thoughtfully about their opportunities, accomplishments, and lessons learned. Each has made important contributions from establishing significant academic programs to broadening the audience for the classical guitar. The author shares his reviews of their most important recordings and New York City concerts during the 1990s, as well as discographies of their recordings. There are also interviews with Harold Shaw, the most prominent artist manager in the history of the classical guitar and several of today's most important composers for the guitar, including Pulitzer Prize winners George Crumb and Aaron Jay Kernis. An introductory chapter provides an historical perspective on classical guitar and a postscript explains how to create a basic repertoire of recordings.

Book Computer aided Ear training

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susanna Király
  • Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
  • Release : 2016-07-14
  • ISBN : 9523307886
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Computer aided Ear training written by Susanna Király and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My doctoral thesis has involved two related tasks. The first was to analyse Zoltán Kodály’s philosophy of music education and, on this basis, to develop a computer-assisted instruction method (CAI) for teaching music theory and solfège (ear-training). The second task was to experiment with the effectiveness of this method and compare it with traditional approaches to teaching. Many student find music theory and ear training difficult. During the 1990s, in connection with my licentiate thesis “Solfège in the Computer Classroom” (2000), I initiated this research project, and developed a CAI method for teaching music theory and solfège. I wanted to see just how useful Kodály’s approach could be in computer-aided teaching and learning. The results show that the Kodály approach can be successfully applied to the development of a computer-aided solfège programme and the Kodály system is applicable to new learning environments and teaching practices. In music education CAI is an area with great potential for development. It offers multiple learning options and can enhance students’ motivation to study music theory and ear-training; some of the learning outcomes were even better than with the traditional ways of learning. The results also show, however, that the teacher-pupil interaction is essential in a computer-aided learning programme.

Book Schumann

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Frederick Jensen
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2012-02-13
  • ISBN : 0199830681
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book Schumann written by Eric Frederick Jensen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Schumann is one of the most intriguing-and enigmatic-composers of the nineteenth century. Extraordinarily gifted in both music and literature, many of his compositions were inspired by poetry and novels. For much of his life he was better known as a music critic than as a composer. But whether writing as critic or composer, what he produced was created by him as a reflection of his often turbulent life. Best known was the tempestuous courtship of his future wife, the pianist Clara Wieck. Though marriage and family life seemed to provide a sense of constancy, he increasingly experienced periods of depression and instability. Mounting criticism of his performance as music director at Dusseldorf led to his attempted suicide in 1854. Schumann was voluntarily committed to an insane asylum near Bonn where, despite indications of improvement and dissatisfaction with his treatment, he spent the final two years of his life. Drawing on original research and newly published letters and journals from the time, author Eric Frederick Jensen presents a balanced portrait of the composer with both scholarly authority and engaging clarity. Biographical chapters alternate with discussion of Schumann's piano, chamber, choral, symphonic, and operatic works, demonstrating how the circumstances of his life helped shape the music he wrote. Chronicling the romance of Robert and Clara, Jensen offers a nuanced look at the evolution of their relationship, one that changed dramatically after marriage. He also follows Schumann's creative musical criticism, which championed the burgeoning careers of Chopin, Liszt, and Brahms and challenged the musical tastes of Europe.

Book Anthology of Romantic Piano Music

Download or read book Anthology of Romantic Piano Music written by Maurice Hinson and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works by 36 composers are included in this comprehensive survey of piano music written between 1820 and 1910. The pieces in this collection range in difficulty from intermediate through early-advanced levels and cover the widest range of styles and idioms of the Romantic period. Historical and biographical background and performance notes are provided by Dr. Hinson.