Download or read book The Classic Piano Course Book 2 written by Carol Barratt and published by Chester Music. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 Building Your Skills covers choosing and owning a piano, the major scale, tied quavers, metronome marks, triplets, plus over twenty pieces including The Entertainer and The Blue Danube. Also includes fascinating items of musical history and biography, an easy-to-follow introduction to the theory of music, and suggested listening to enhance your musical appreciation.
Download or read book Dance of the Hours written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annals of the Metropolitan Opera written by Gerald Fitzgerald and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-11 with total page 1343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Gioconda written by Amilcare Ponchielli and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wind Band and Its Repertoire Two Decades of Research As Published in the CBDNA Journal written by Michael Votta, Jr. and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For slightly over two decades, the College Band Directors National Association published the CBDNA Journal, a research outlet for all types of subjects of interest to the membership. Following cessation of activities in 2002, Michael Votta, Jr., the Journal's most recent editor, assembled representative articles on composers and their works, historical research and composition analysis investigations, and produced this fine collection of writings. As a source of well-constructed research by some of the country's leading musicians, it fills a much needed place in everyone's library.
Download or read book Lelia written by Harold George Scott and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold George Scott captures the most memorable moments of Lelia Haller�s career with lavish illustrations and photographs. A pictorial biography of one of the twentieth century�s most notable ballerinas, Lelia documents the career of the only American honored as premi�re danseuse of the Paris Op�ra. Lelia�s experience in the world of dance takes her from beginnings in New Orleans to Germany, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, England, and back to New Orleans, where she opened Studio de Danse. On these travels, she danced alongside other great dancers--such as Italian ballerina, Carlotta Zambelli--and trained under Russian ballet master, Nicolas Legat.
Download or read book The Kid of Coney Island written by Woody Register and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the pioneering entrepreneur who designed and built Luna Park - which in 1903 transformed Coney Island into a respectable venue for middle-class recreation - and created the Hippodrome, the world's largest theater when it opened in 1905, filling it with lavish spectacles at affordable ticket prices. The author also explores the development of the idea of adult amusements in America during Thompson's day, and ours.
Download or read book The Toscanini Mystique written by Kenneth A. Christensen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenneth A. Christensens THE TOSCANINI MYSTIQUE, is the first full length biography about the legendary Italian conductors life and career in almost thirty-five years. Maestro Toscanini had a frigid and extremely unhappy childhood, along with a severe musical education at the Parma Conservatory. This unglamorized account of a gifted teenagers professional conducting debut at Rio de Janerios Teatro Imperial, is told as it really happened. Toscanini was married to a ballerina, Carla De Martini, who bore him four children, but also had an illegitimate son with a gifted soprano, who was born retarded. Toscaninis vulgar mistreatment of nearly all the singers and musicians who performed under his direction was legendary, and is examined with unusual insight about his uncanny memory and talent for musical recreation. The recollection of many famous artists including Caruso, Debussy, Kreisler, Puccini, Stravinsky, Verdi, and Wagners descendants are quoted alongside his confrontations with Hitler, Mussolini and the Sicilian mafia. But the Maestro also was the most generous of all musicians, donating both his time and talents to many worthwhile charities, for which he received no financial compensation. The life of this great conductor is presented as the struggles of a musical and theatrical reformer, who was a major historical figure that just happened to be one of the greatest musicians who ever lived. Mr. Christensen has painstakingly wrote his narrative, using all the previous biographies and magazine articles on his life, the scripts of two video documentaries and the liner notes for the most widely available re-releases of his recordings. He rewrote and clarified the awkward original Italian translations for non-specialist readers and has supplied new English translations for the numerous operatic titles and other musical works as well as all the foreign language newspapers, magazines and theatres mentioned in the text. In addition, he has provided professional critiques on the most widely available Toscanini recordings from RCA Victors Arturo Toscanini Collection, and historic reissues of Toscaninis NBC radio broadcast concerts. Here was a man, who had the nerve to stand up to world dictators and fought hard to prevent the Western worlds supreme musical masterpieces from being abused and mistreated, but without taking any credit for laboriously recreating all these composers inspiration. He enjoyed to play practical jokes on his family and friends, but this humorous side is known only through letters, because Toscanini never published any autobiography or memoirs about his art. Toscanini gave the world premieres of 14 operas, including Leoncavallos Pagliacci, and three by Puccini, including La Boheme, La Fanciulla del West and Turandot. Toscanini served as musical director: the Teatro Regio in Turino (1895-98), La Scala in Milano (1898-1908), New Yorks Metropolitan Opera (1908-1915), barely missed dying upon the Lusitania, becoming musical director of La Scala again (1920-1929), the New York Philharmonic (1926-1936), and the NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937-1954). In between, he also guest conducted at the Bayreuth, Salzburg and Lucerne Festivals and conducted the inaugural concerts of the Palestine Symphony. Toscanini then recorded his most important repertory with the BBC Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and NBC Symphony Orchestras, alongside the Robert Shaw Chorale and such esteemed soloists as Jascha Heifetz, Rudolf Serkin, plus, his own son-in-law Vladimir Horowitz. His seven operatic recordings featured Jan Peerce, Helen Traubel, Richard Tucker, Giuseppe di Stefano, Rose Bampton, Cesare Siepi, Herva Nelli, Licia Albanese, Robert Merrill, Jussi Bjoerling, Lauritz Melchior, and many other gifted singers and musicians of the past, whose names alone are too much to mention.
Download or read book 101 Violin Tips written by Angela Schmidt and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Instructional). Ready to take your violin playing to the next level? This book presents valuable how-to insight that violinists of all levels can benefit from, spanning classical to rock music, and everything in between. The text, photos, music, diagrams, and accompanying audio provide a terrific, easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics, including: bowing techniques, non-classical playing, electric violins, accessories, gig tips, practicing, recording, and much more!
Download or read book Classical Chillout The Easy Collection written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2007-03-26 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Chillout: The Easy Collection is here. Unwind with this charming compilation of some of the most soothing and tranquil classical pieces including Adagio For Strings and Panis Angelicus. Each piece is arranged for Easy Piano, removing the stress from learning and allowing even early grade pianists to perform this beautiful music, expand their repertoire and improve their playing in the most relaxing way possible. The songlist includes: - Adagio For Strings Op.11 [Barber] - Air (Water Music) [Handel] - Air On The G String [J. S. Bach] - Autumn (The Four Seasons) [Vivaldi] - Ave Maria [Schubert] - Barcarolle (Les Contes D'Hoffmann) [Offenbach] - Canon In D [Pachelbel] - Chanson De Matin [Elgar] - Clair De Lune (Suite Bergamasque) [Debussy] - Dreaming [Schumann] - Gymnopedie No.1 [Satie] - Largo (Symphony No.9 In E Minor 'From The New World' Op.95) [Dvořák] - On Wings Of Song [Mendelssohn] - Panis Angelicus [Franck] - Prelude In D Flat 'Raindrop' Op.28 No.15 [Chopin] - Rêverie (Dreaming) [Debussy] - Sarabande In D Minor [Handel] - Sleepers Awake [Bach] - The Flower Duet (Lakme) [Delibes] - The Swan (Carnival Of The Animals) [Saint - Saëns] - To A Water-lily [Macdowell] - To A Wild Rose (Woodland Sketches Op.51) [Macdowell] - Waltz (Sleeping Beauty) [Tchaikovsky] And many more!
Download or read book Great Ballet Music written by Franz Mitler and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2003-01-03 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titles: * Dance of the Hours * Valse Lente * Scheherazade * The Swan * Valse * Hopak * Petrouchka * Les Sylphides * Ballet Music from Faust * Ballet Music from Aida * Dance of the Russian Sailors * Farandole * Dance of the Reed Pipes * Waltz of the Flowers * Afternoon of a Faun * Swan Lake Ballet * Triumphal March
Download or read book The Opera Lover s Companion written by Charles Osborne and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a well-known authority, this book consists of 175 entries that set some of the most popular operas within the context of their composer's career, outline the plot, discuss the music, and more.
Download or read book Alfred s Basic Adult Piano Course All Time Favorites Book 2 written by Morton Manus and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All-Time Favorites is designed to supplement Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course, Level 2, and is coordinated page-by-page with the Lesson Book. This volume may also be used as supplementary enrichment with any piano course, and will serve to introduce new concepts in logical order as you progress through the book. This collection is also useful for those who know how to play and just want to enjoy a variety of wonderful pieces. Included in this volume are Sing-Along Favorites, Folk Songs, arrangements of well-known Classics and selections from Grand Opera, Light Opera and Ballets, as well as Songs for Special Occasions. The timeless appeal of these familiar pieces will provide hours of enjoyment for the pianist and listener, and will reinforce and broaden the skills of every piano student.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chance and Circumstance written by Carolyn Brown and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 997 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited memoir from one of the most celebrated modern dancers of the past fifty years: the story of her own remarkable career, of the formative years of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and of the two brilliant, iconoclastic, and forward-thinking artists at its center—Merce Cunningham and John Cage. From its inception in the l950s until her departure in the l970s, Carolyn Brown was a major dancer in the Cunningham company and part of the vibrant artistic community of downtown New York City out of which it grew. She writes about embarking on her career with Cunningham at a time when he was a celebrated performer but a virtually unknown choreographer. She describes the heady exhilaration—and dire financial straits—of the company’s early days, when composer Cage was musical director and Robert Rauschenberg designed lighting, sets and costumes; and of the struggle for acceptance of their controversial, avant-garde dance. With unique insight, she explores Cunningham’s technique, choreography, and experimentation with compositional procedures influenced by Cage. And she probes the personalities of these two men: the reticent, moody, often secretive Cunningham, and the effusive, fun-loving, enthusiastic Cage. Chance and Circumstance is an intimate chronicle of a crucial era in modern dance, and a revelation of the intersection of the worlds of art, music, dance, and theater that is Merce Cunningham’s extraordinary hallmark.
Download or read book History of the George Washington Bicentennial Celebration written by United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orchestral Pops Music written by Lucy Manning and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second edition of Orchestral “Pops” Music: A Handbook, Lucy Manning brings forward to the present her remarkable compendium of information about this form of orchestral music. Since the appearance of the first edition in 2008, this work has proven critical to successful “pops” concert programming. With changes in publishers and agents, the discontinuation of the publication of certain original material or, worst of all, presses going out of business, music directors, orchestra conductors, and professional instrumentalists face formidable challenges in tracking down accurate information about this vast repertoire. This revised handbook alleviates the time-consuming task of researching these changes by offering a list of works for orchestral “pops” concerts that is comprehensive, informative, and current. Manning’s emphasis on clarity and accuracy gives users an indispensable tool for gathering vital information on the style, instrumentation, and availability of the repertoire listed, as well as notes on its performance. The user-friendly appendices include expanded instrumentation choices, easy-to-find durations, and handy title cross-references. In addition to corrections and updates, this new edition of Orchestral “Pops” Music includes at least 1,000 new title listings. Orchestral “Pops” Music: A Handbook is the ideal tool for working conductors and orchestral librarians, as well as music program directors at colleges, conservatories, and orchestras.
