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  • Sonata for a Scoundrel

    by Anthea Lawson ...
    Series Book 1 - Music of the Heart Historical Romance
    Secrets and passion will bring them to their knees... ~ RITA Finalist, Best Historical Romance ~Clara Becker is a supremely gifted composer--a talent of little to use to a woman in 1830s Europe. Her compositions only have worth when they are published under her brother's name, yet this deception barely enables them to scrape out a living in the poorest quarter of London.Darien Reynard, the most ... Read more

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  • Absolutely on Music

    Conversations

    by Haruki Murakami, Seiji Ozawa ...
    Translated by Jay Rubin ...
    A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.In Absolutely on Music, internationally Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the revered former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for a series of conversations on their shared passion: music ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Introduction to Classical Guitar

    by Elias Barreiro ...
    The result of decades of experience in teaching the classical guitar, this method introduces the student to the earliest stages of learning how to play the classical guitar, from learning how to read music to becoming an accomplished player. This gradually progressing approach covers scales, including scales in thirds, sixths and octaves in all major and minor keys, arpeggios, chords, slurs, ... Read more

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  • For the Love of Music

    A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening

    by John Mauceri ...
    With a lifetime of experience, profound knowledge and understanding, and heartwarming appreciation, an internationally celebrated conductor and teacher answers the questions: Why should I listen to classical music? How can I get the most from the listening experience?A protégé of Leonard Bernstein--his colleague for eighteen years--and an eminent conductor who has toured and recorded all over the ... Read more

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  • The Schumanns and Johannes Brahms

    The Memoirs of Eugenie Schumann

    by Eugenie Schumann ...
    Eugenie Schumann, youngest daughter of the famed composer Robert Schumann and his wife Clara discusses her memories of her life, and her studies with Johannes Brahms. Drawing upon correspondences between members of the Schumann family, Eugenie relates her memories of childhood and education, and her experiences learning music under the tutorship of Johannes Brahms. The ongoing fame of her mother ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Louis Aubert (1877-1968) : un compositeur entre trois époques

    Edited by Ludovic Florin, Stéphanie Moraly ...
    Series Book 10 - Études de Musicologie/Musicological Studies
    Il y a cinquante-cinq ans disparaissait Louis Aubert. Or, il n’existe à ce jour que deux ouvrages biographiques (dont le dernier de 1967), et très peu d’articles, universitaires ou non, qui traitent de sa musique ou de ses multiples activités. Pourtant, le compositeur a été un acteur et un témoin du monde musical français une grande partie du XXe siècle. Ainsi, ses toutes premières oeuvres portent ... Read more

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  • Le Petite Negre the Little Negro Easy Piano Sheet Music LIST PRICE

    by Claude Debussy ...
    The Little Negro and/or Le petit nègre for Easy PianoA SilverTonalities Arrangement!Easy Note Style Sheet MusicLetter Names of Notes embedded in each Notehead! ... Read more

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  • The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers: Ravel

    by James Burnett ...
    Ir has been said that no music amplifies the french ideals of precision and good taste better than the work of Maurice Ravel, yet his background could scarecly have been more cosmopolitan. The son of a Swiss father and a Basque mother, he was born near St. Jean de Luz in 1875; he died in Paris at the age of sixty-two. His primary inspiration, and in consequence the character of his best music, ... Read more

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  • Constant Lambert

    Beyond <I>The Rio Grande</I>

    by Stephen Lloyd ...
    To the economist and ballet enthusiast John Maynard Keynes he was potentially the most brilliant man he'd ever met; to Dame Ninette de Valois he was the greatest ballet conductor and advisor this country has ever had; to the composer Denis ApIvor he was the greatest, most lovable, and most entertaining personality of the musical world; whilst to the dance critic Clement Crisp he was quite simply a ... Read more

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  • Experiencing Leonard Bernstein

    A Listener's Companion

    by Kenneth LaFave ...
    Series series Listener's Companion
    Leonard Bernstein is a household name. Most know him for his classic musical reworking of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as Broadway’s West Side Story. But Bernstein accomplished so much more as a composer, and his body of work is both broad and varied. He composed ballets (Fancy Free, Facsimile, Dybbuk), operas (Trouble in Tahiti, Candide, A Quiet Place), musicals (On the Town, Wonderful Town), ... Read more

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  • O'Carolan Favorites for Classical Guitar

    by Guido Boger ...
    In this edition, Guido Böger provides 72 further compositions by the legendary Irish harpist Turlough O’Carolan, arranged for classical guitar. These solo pieces are generally of intermediate difficulty, and convey the beautiful, lyrical qualities of the original tunes. This expanded selection of the melodies has not been organized into any set of themes or forms; however, along with his Turlough ... Read more

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  • Some Forerunners of Italian Opera

    by W. J. Henderson ...
    Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by the American musical critic and scholar,W. J. Henderson.He graduated from Princeton in 1876 and immediately began work as a journalist, later as a reporter, then as the musical critic of The New York Times, and in 1902 of The New York Sun. He wrote perceptive press reviews of the performances of the Metropolitan Opera's star singers which remain valuable for ... Read more

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  • Chopin for Acoustic Guitar

    by Richard Yates ...
    Frederic Chopin was one of the most original and influential composers in history. Although he only lived 39 years, he wrote music that has thoroughly embedded itself in our culture. His melodies are often instantly familiar to us and show a profound lyric sense. Many qualities of Chopin's music are ideal for guitar transcription. He wrote pieces that are short with a manageable range. The ... Read more

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