Download or read book The Musical Offering and the Goldberg Variations Miniature Score Miniature Score written by and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1985-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Musical Offering dates from a visit of Bach to the court of Frederick II in Berlin, where his son Carl Philip Emmanuel was Court-Kapellmeister. The King (himself a composer maily for flute) gave Bach a theme suitable for a fugue. This was at once elaborated by him into a 3 part fugue. Later on Bach developed this with his own themes and fugues and dedicated the work to the King(Opfer---Offering). The instruments are mostly not indicated and left to players to decide upon. The Goldberg Variations date from 1742 and were named after Bach's pupil Johann Gottlieb Goldberg who was a chamber musician to one Count Keyserling. The count suffered from insomnia and had Goldber relax him with music to fall asleep. Goldberb commissioned the Aria with 30 Variations from Bach. Thus we owe this most magnificant of variation-works to an aristocrat's physical failing.
Download or read book The Musical Offering and The Goldberg Variations written by Johann Sebastian Bach and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Musical Offering dates from a visit of Bach to the court of Frederick II in Berlin, where his son Carl Philip Emmanuel was Court-Kapellmeister. The King (himself a composer maily for flute) gave Bach a theme suitable for a fugue. This was at once elaborated by him into a 3 part fugue. Later on Bach developed this with his own themes and fugues and dedicated the work to the King(Opfer — Offering). The instruments are mostly not indicated and left to players to decide upon. The Goldberg Variations date from 1742 and were named after Bach's pupil Johann Gottlieb Goldberg who was a chamber musician to one Count Keyserling. The count suffered from insomnia and had Goldber relax him with music to fall asleep. Goldberb commissioned the Aria with 30 Variations from Bach. Thus we owe this most magnificant of variation-works to an arisotract's physical failing.
Download or read book Music Library Association Catalog of Cards for Printed Music 1953 1972 written by Music Library Association and published by Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield. This book was released on 1974 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A small guide to great music written by Rodolfo Venditti and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English version for the first volume of the book series: "Piccola guida alla grande musica", edited in Italy by Edizioni Sonda. An easy and peculiar way to getting to know great composers and their works, understanding their specific historical context, their life and human events. A delicate and progressive path for getting acquainted with great classical music and its masters.
Download or read book The Faber Pocket Guide to Bach written by Sir Nicholas Kenyon and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The music of J.S.Bach has a unique power and attraction some 300 years after it was written. From annual performances of the great Passions and BBC Radio 3's hugely successful Bach Christmas, to its use in adverts, films and popular arrangements, the imaginative strength of Bach's music continues to draw listeners to explore its mysteries. This new Pocket Guide looks at all Bach's music, sacred and secular, and explores why he speaks so profoundly to our age about both the spiritual and the sensual in life. Among the features of this easy-to-use book: The Bach Top Ten Bach: The music work by work Performing Bach today Bach: The life year by year What people said about Bach Accessible and easy to use, Nicholas Kenyon provides for the first time an up-to-date survey of all Bach's major works in the light of the latest research, from Masses to Cantatas, Concertos to Suites, and recommends the best CDs and further reading.
Download or read book Goldberg Variations and Other Bach Transcriptions for Solo Piano written by Ferruccio Busoni and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic 1919 arrangements of four keyboard masterpieces — Goldberg Variations, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, The Art of the Fugue, and Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra in D Minor. Breitkopf & Härtel edition.
Download or read book First piano trio op 63 in D minor written by Robert Schumann and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First piano trio in D minor written by Robert Schumann and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Melody Harmony Tonality written by E. Eugene Helm and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where did the major scale come from? Why does most traditional non-Western music not share Western principles of harmony? What does the inner structure of a canon have to do with religious belief? Why, in historical terms, is J.S. Bach’s music regarded as a perfect combination of melody and harmony? Why do clocks in church towers strike dominant-tonic-dominant-tonic? What do cathedrals have to do with monochords? How can the harmonic series be demonstrated with a rope tied to a doorknob, and how can it be heard by standing next to an electric fan? Why are the free ocean waves in Debussy’s La Mer, the turbulent river waves in Smetana’s Moldau, and the fountain ripples in Ravel’s Jeux d’Eau pushed at times into four-bar phrases? Why is the metric system inherently unsuitable for organizing music and poetry? In what way does Plato’s Timaeus resemble the prelude to Wagner’s Das Rheingold? Just how does Beethoven’s work perfectly illustrate fully functional tonality, and why were long-range works based on this type of tonality impossible before the introduction of equal temperament? In this new century, what promising materials are available to composers in the wake of harmonic experimentation and, some would argue, exhaustion? The answers to these seemingly complicated questions are not the sole province of music professors or orchestra conductors. In fact, as E. Eugene Helm demonstrates, they can just as easily be explained to amateurs, and their answers are important if we are to understand how Western music works. The full range of Western music is explored through 21 concise chapters on such topics as melody, harmony, counterpoint, texture, melody types, improvisation, music notation, free imitation, canon and fugue, vibration and its relation to harmony, tonality, and the place of music in architecture and astronomy. Intended for amateurs and professionals, concert-goers and conductors, Helm offers in down-to-earth language an explanation of the foundations of our Western music heritage, deepening our understanding and the listening experience of it for all.
Download or read book Index of Miniature Scores written by Raymond Upton and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 8 smaller symphonic works written by Hector Berlioz and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Le chasseur maudit written by César Franck and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hungarian dances written by Johannes Brahms and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Overture to King Lear written by Hector Berlioz and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Various piano works written by Johannes Brahms and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Quartets for 2 Violins Viola and Cello written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Third quartet for piano violin viola and cello op 3 written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
