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  • Fryderyk Chopin

    A Life and Times

    by Dr. Alan Walker ...
    **A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. The Sunday Times (UK) Classical Music Book of 2018 and one of The Economist’s Best Books of 2018.**“A magisterial portrait.” —**Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York Times Book ReviewA landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his timeBased on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources ... ... Read more

    RM 65.29

  • Beethoven: The Music and the Life

    The Music and the Life

    by Lewis Lockwood ...
    An authoritative work offering a fresh look at Beethoven’s life, career, and milieu. “Magisterial” —New York Review of Books.This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural frameworks in which Beethoven worked and examines their effects on ... Read more

    RM 66.99

  • The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory

    Edited by Thomas Christensen ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Music
    The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Recognizing the variety and complexity of music theory as an historical ... Read more

    RM 135.09

  • Clair de Lune Easy Elementary Piano Sheet Music

    by Claude Debussy ...
    From Debussy's famous "Suite Bergamasque for Easy / Novice PianoEasy Note Style Sheet MusicLetter Names of Notes embedded in each Notehead!Quality Custom Made Original Sheet Music Arrangements ... Read more

    RM 11.53

  • Disaster Songs as Intangible Memorials in Atlantic Canada

    by Heather Sparling ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    Disaster Songs as Intangible Memorials in Atlantic Canada draws on a collection of over 600 songs relating to Atlantic Canadian disasters from 1891 up until the present and describes the characteristics that define them as intangible memorials. The book demonstrates the relationship between vernacular memorials – informal memorials collectively and spontaneously created from a variety of objects ... Read more

    RM 227.36

  • Classical Guitar Tunes - Parlor Gems

    A Treasury of 19th Century Music for Classical Guitar

    by Jospeh Mayes ...
    In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the parlor was a room set aside for particular functions. Before the advent of the radio, it was the place where formal presentations were staged, including amateur and semi-professional concerts.This classical guitar solo collection for the intermediate to advanced player offers nine engaging and lyrical European and North American favorites of ... Read more

    RM 50.93

  • The Malmariée in the Thirteenth-Century Motet

    by Dolores Pesce ...
    Series series Royal Musical Association Monographs
    This monograph offers a comprehensive study of the topos of the malmariée or the unhappily married woman within the thirteenth-century motet repertory, a vocal genre characterized by several different texts sounding simultaneously over a foundational Latin chant. Part I examines the malmariée motets from three vantage points: (1) in light of contemporaneous canonist views on marriage; (2) to what ... Read more

    RM 113.66

  • Ascoltando Beethoven

    Guida all'ascolto - Le Sonate "centrali" per pianoforte dall'op.27 all'op.79

    by Diego Minoia ...
    Un percorso guidato, organizzato in modo originale e chiaro, verso la comprensione dell'itinerario creativo compositivo ed emotivo beethoveniano, nella parte centrale della sua produzione sonatistica per pianoforte. Un aiuto al musicofilo che, grazie alle indicazioni chiare e divulgative, potrà "seguire" il pensiero del compositore durante l'ascolto delle Sonate. Un supporto per lo studente che, ... Read more

    RM 37.22 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Classical Recordings

    Classic FM Handy Guides

    by Sam Jackson ...
    Recordings of classical music abound, so how do you know which one to choose? Which ones will stand the test of time and best showcase the composer's vision; who are the conductors, orchestras and soloists that shine? This handy reference guide from Classic FM looks at the 100 most popular pieces of classical music, and explains which particular recording to choose for each and why, to help any ... Read more

    RM 43.09 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Come Day, Go Day, God Send Sunday

    The songs and life story, told in his own words, of John Maguire, traditional singer and farmer from Co. Fermanagh.

    by Robin Morton ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Folk Music
    Originally published in 1973. Folk-life and folk-culture, usually the preserve of the scholar, have been brought vividly and entertainingly to life in these recollections and stories of one man’s life in the Irish countryside. This book tells the life story of John Maguire, who died in 1975, including over 50 of the songs he sang, with full musical transcriptions. He was a fine singer, firmly ... Read more

    RM 235.20

  • Guitar Music from Tres Libros de Musica

    by Eric Waters ...
    "In 1546, forty-four years after the final voyage of Christopher Columbus and while the Spanish Conquistadors swept through the Americas, Alonso Mudarra published his Tres libros de musica (Three Books of Music). These books, devoted primarily to music for the vihuela, voice and harp also contain six pieces that are described by The New Harvard Dictionary of Music as ""the earliest printed music"" ... Read more

    RM 39.17

  • Anton Bruckner - 11 pieces for the chromatic Harmonica

    + Online Sounds

    by Reynhard Boegl ...
    This songbook contains 11 pieces by the composer Anton Bruckner for the chromatic Harmonica.Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) was an Austrian Romantic composer and organist. He was one of the most important and innovative composers of his time and influenced music history to this day. His most important works are large-scale symphonies and sacred music, including three major masses and the Te Deum. As an ... Read more

    RM 32.56

  • Debussy - Children's Corner (Songbook)

    by Claude Debussy ...
    (Schirmer Performance Editions). Claude Debussy dedicated "Children's Corner" to his daughter, Chou-Chou, when she was three years old. Some of the movements were inspired by her toys. The six lovely pieces expertly presented here by Christopher Harding are an excellent starting point for introducing late-intermediate to early-advanced piano students to impressionism. Includes a special appendix ... Read more

    RM 34.99

  • First Lessons Flamenco Guitar

    by Gohar Vardanyan ...
    Series series First Lessons
    This book of exercises and studies is designed to develop left-hand guitar technique. The book concentrates on eight different technical areas: chords and chord changing skills, playing barre chords, shifts, slurs, scales, intervals, extensions, and left-hand harmonics. The text is divided into two parts; a section of exercises and a selection of study pieces. The exercises are grouped according ... Read more

    RM 50.93

  • Jacob French (1754-1817): The Collected Works

    by Daniel C. Jones ...
    Series series Music of the New American Nation: Sacred Music from 1780 to 1820
    Jacob French, a student of William Billings, was one of the most talented postrevolutionary composers of Protestant sacred music in New England. He compiled most of his music in three printed tunebooks, comprising choral pieces of great rhythmic and contrapuntal variety. He felt many excellently crafted, expressive compositions that should find interest among today's choral directors and singers. ... Read more

    RM 243.04

  • J. S. Bach Cello Suites I-III for Mandola

    by Rob MacKillop ...
    Bach's solo cello suites are essential studies for many instruments, and the great advantage of playing them on the Mandola is that both instruments share the same tuning: CGDA. In this edition, the bass clef has been transposed to the alto clef, commonly used for the mandola part in mandolin orchestras and other ensembles. This edition provides great practice in reading the alto clef, and TAB ... Read more

    RM 70.53

  • MUSIK-KONZEPTE 184/185: Jürg Baur

    Edited by Ulrich Tadday ...
    Series Book 184 - MUSIK-KONZEPTE
    Der Komponist Jürg Baur (1918–2010) lehnte sich nie an eine Schule oder Richtung an. Immer ging er einen eigenen Weg und bezog dabei all das ein, was ihn interessierte. Sein Ziel war es, komplexe avantgardistische Techniken in eine ausdrucksvolle, moderne Sprache umzuwandeln. Ein Grund für die Popularität und Aktualität seiner Musik dürfte vor allem in der Eigenheit seiner Kompositionen liegen, ... Read more

    RM 102.89

  • Music Farther Outside

    Experimental Music During Brexit and the Pandemic

    by Bill Shoemaker ...
    Music Farther Outside: Experimental Music During Brexit and the Pandemic examines the work of select composers, improvisers, and interpreters from England, Scotland, and Wales during the upheaval of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic and places them in contemporary and historical contexts. Using extensive interviews and contemporary commentary, the book provides a snapshot of composers and ... Read more

    RM 324.49

  • An Outline of the History of Music

    by Karl Nef ...
    Translated by Carl F. Pfatteicher ...
    This series inaugurated by the Columbia University Press is intended to meet the needs of the English-speaking student for the crystallization of various phases of musical knowledge around which the rapidly expanding material may be oriented. The choice of the 1st volume of the series was dictated by the desire to provide an introductory manual which would be of interest to the beginner in musical ... Read more

    RM 19.56 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Representing Duchess Anna Amalia's Bildung

    A Visual Metamorphosis in Portraiture from Political to Personal in Eighteenth-Century Germany

    by Christina K. Lindeman ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and Art
    The cultural milieu in the “Age of Goethe” of eighteenth-century Germany is given fresh context in this art historical study of the noted writers’ patroness: Anna Amalia, Duchess of Weimar-Sachsen-Eisenach. An important noblewoman and patron of the arts, Anna Amalia transformed her court into one of the most intellectually and culturally brilliant in Europe; this book reveals the full scope of her ... Read more

    RM 227.36

  • Clouds

    by Alexander Peskanov ...
    Clouds, composed by Alexander Peskanov and published, by Classical Video Concepts, Inc. was inspired by the birth of the composer's first child, Rachael. Peskanov reflected on his own childhood growing up in the former Soviet Union, behind the "Iron Curtain." Often, he would sit by the window and watch clouds, intrigued by the way they could move anywhere they wished. In his imagination, clouds ... Read more

    RM 23.33 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Accompanied Voices

    Poets on Composers: From Thomas Tallis to Arvo Pärt

    Edited by John Greening ...
    Accompanied Voices is a unique book: not only is it a highly readable anthology of some of the most memorable and accessible international writing about classical music, and a moving commentary by one set of practising artists on the work of another. There have been several anthologies of "music poems", but never one which follows the story of western music through from the Renaissance to the ... Read more

    RM 70.59

  • Achieving Guitar Artistry - Lyrical Etudes

    by Keijo Pennanen ...
    This book contains 21 original, melodic, song-like solo-guitar etudes which will infuse your playing with lyricism. The compositions are very approachable, containing highly melodic song forms with emotional and narrative content. All the material is written for the plectrum guitar but can also be played fingerstyle.In addition to the solo arrangements, ten of the compositions include a lead-sheet ... Read more

    RM 58.77

  • The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt

    Dramaturgical Leaves: Richard Wagner

    Edited by Janita R. Hall-Swadley ...
    Series series The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt
    The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt: Dramaturgical Leaves: Richard Wagner completes the second half of Liszt’s writings about stage works, its composers, and music drama. In this volume, Liszt focuses on the works of his most controversial devotee and son-in-law, Richard Wagner, whose music dramas Liszt championed as conductor during his tenure in Weimar. Here, we see Liszt prove his skill and ... Read more

    RM 437.09