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  • 大師的刻意練習:20世紀傳奇鋼琴家訪談錄,教你比天賦更關鍵的學習心法

    Great Pianists on Piano Playing: Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos

    有什麼比受到拉赫曼尼諾夫親自提示更令人振奮的?大師,不藏私回歸音樂的本質,全面藝術性的思考大鋼琴家在舞台上精彩演出,魅力四射。下台後,有些人把這些藝術家想像成在巴黎某個陰暗酒館中啜飲著苦艾酒、醉生夢死的英雄。事實上,赫赫有名的鋼琴家過的是完全不同的人生:用功、用功、再用功的人生,不停研究、無止盡地練習、不斷設法提升其藝術聲望。在縱情恣飲之都數英里外,某個寧靜的鄉間別墅,大家會發現大師正孜孜不倦地準備下一季的演奏曲目……這些鋼琴大師是怎麼練琴的呢?彈鋼琴這項藝術,幾百年來發展至巔峰,是少數教學法、練習法都已經發展成熟的技藝。音樂教育家詹姆斯・法蘭西斯・庫克訪談了廿世紀初幾位最偉大的鋼琴家,他多次在不同場合請教各個鋼琴家練琴的心法,也為求精確,所有文字都經過藝術家本人的修正才付梓出版。就讓鋼琴大師帶你深入鋼琴藝術的核心概念,重拾學音樂的樂趣吧!庫克訪談的鋼琴家有:埃米爾・馮・紹爾、拉赫曼尼諾 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 給大家の古典音樂小史Ⅰ【古代─巴洛克篇】:山葉音樂出品,for大人&小孩的音樂素養課,漫畫幽默開場,建立你的音樂史框架&常識

    すぐわかる! 4コマ西洋音楽史1~2

    Translated by 陳娟 ...
    Series series In-art
    熱銷10年‧日本山葉音樂Yamaha出品神啊!音樂史從來沒這麼有趣過!四格漫畫,幽默開場,小小一本,先懂這些就夠!‧聽音樂會、去歐洲玩,都需要的音樂常識‧for****大人&小孩的音樂素養課7****大主軸,幫你內建音樂史框架&知識歷史發展、流派風格、經典曲目、名家大師、關鍵技術、專有名詞、年代大事記超有梗Q版漫畫,不無聊!不複雜!不枯燥!一跨頁一主題,3分鐘讀畢,輕鬆應戰古典音樂史考題從舊石器時代到巴洛克,連線世界史與音樂史<str... ... Read more

    $9.97 USD

  • Johannes Brahms

    A Biography

    by Jan Swafford ...
    An illuminating new biography of one of the most beloved of all composers, published on the hundredth anniversary of his death, brilliantly written by a finalist for the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award. Johannes Brahms has consistently eluded his biographers. Throughout his life, he attempted to erase traces of himself, wanting his music to be his sole legacy.Now, in this masterful book, ... Read more

    $11.29 USD

  • Rachmaninoff: The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers.

    In this biography, Robert Walker skilfully blends the fascinating story of Rachmaninoff's life with the historical background of his times. The author shows, too, how outside influences- the 1905 and 1917 revolutions, the Great War, the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression- very much affected Rachmaninoff as an artist. As well as the use of contemporary accounts, letters and reminiscences, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Lost Secrets of Master Musicians

    A Window Into Genius

    What were the “secret” techniques and musical insights that enabled performers such as Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz, and Glenn Gould to achieve such unsurpassed levels of musical expression and technical skill? And, if we could rediscover this knowledge, how might this impact musical education and our understanding, creation and performance of classical ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Closest Thing to Crazy

    My Life of Musical Adventures

    by Mike Batt ...
    'Fabulously readable' STEPHEN FRY'Wildly entertaining' DAILY EXPRESS'Rollicking ... ebullient ... Christmas present problems are instantly solved' MAIL ON SUNDAYNominated for the 2025 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound ResearchDescribed variously as a 'polymath', a 'renaissance man' and 'one of the most colourful characters in the mu... ... Read more

    $16.49 USD

  • D’Oyly Carte

    The Decline and Fall of an Opera Company

    by Paul Seeley ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book considers and discusses aspects of the management of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company in the twentieth century since the death of its founder Richard D’Oyly Carte, and concentrates on key events that contributed to its demise in 1982.In this book, Paul Seeley follows the analytical model that proposes no single factor triggered the collapse, but rather several, both external and internal. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • You Don't Have To Say You Love Me

    You probably know Simon Napier-Bell as the manager of the Yardbirds. Or you may know him as the man who managed Marc Bolan, or Japan. You should definitely know him as the man who managed Wham! And if none of these rings a bell, maybe you'll remember him as the man who co-wrote 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me' for Dusty Springfield.You Don't Have To Say You Love Me is one of the funniest books ... Read more

    $4.40 USD

  • Bartók's Mikrokosmos

    Genesis, Pedagogy, and Style

    Now available in paperback! BZla Bart-k's Mikrokosmos is a collection of 153 pieces for piano designed by the composer as a series graded according to difficulty. The pieces were written between 1926 and 1939, and have become by far the best-known series of teaching pieces by a major composer in the twentieth century. This in-depth study investigates Bart-k's Mikrokosmos from three main viewpoints ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Red Priest of Venice

    by Karl Heller ...
    Series series Amadeus
    Antonio Vivaldi's rediscovery after World War II quickly led him from obscurity to his present renown as one of the most popular 18th-century composers. Heller's biography presents the important facets of his life, his works, and his influence on music history. ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • John Dowland in Tablature

    Original John Dowland Lute Solos Transcribed for Solo Guitar in Notation and Tablature

    For years, classical guitarists have enjoyed playing the lute music of the English composer, John Dowland (1563-1626). Forty of his beautiful compositions are included in this volume. The book is intended for the guitarist with intermediate to advanced fingerstyle technique, and can be played on both nylon and steel string instruments. In order to help capture the unique character of Dowland's ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Symphony: From Mannheim to Mahler

    The full eBook version of The Symphony: From Mannheim to Mahler in fixed-layout format.The Symphony: From Mannheim to Mahler is a fascinating and accessible guide that considers the development of the symphony from a number of different perspectives: analytical, historical, and critical. Exploring important milestones, touchpoints, events, key works, and the composers that surround the genre, it ... Read more

    $17.69 USD

  • Retracing a Winter's Journey

    Franz Schubert's "Winterreise"

    by Susan Youens ...
    "I like these songs better than all the rest, and someday you will too," Franz Schubert told the friends who were the first to hear his song cycle Winterreise. These lieder have always found admiring audiences, but the poetry he chose to set them to has been widely regarded as weak and trivial. Susan Youens looks not only at Schubert's music but at the poetry, drawn from the works of Wilhelm ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • A Sonata Theory Handbook

    Sonata form is the most commonly encountered organizational plan in the works of the classical-music masters, from Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven to Schubert, Brahms, and beyond. Sonata Theory, an analytic approach developed by James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy in their award-winning Elements of Sonata Theory (2006), has emerged as one of the most influential frameworks for understanding this musical ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Speaking the Piano

    Reflections on Learning and Teaching

    by Susan Tomes ...
    In Speaking the Piano, renowned pianist Susan Tomes turns her attention to teaching and learning. Teaching music encompasses everything from putting a drum in a child's hands to helping an accomplished musician unlock the meaning and spirit of the classics. At every stage, some fundamental issues keep surfacing. In this wide-ranging book, Susan Tomes reflects on how her own experience as a learner ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Delphi Masterworks of Johann Sebastian Bach (Illustrated)

    by Peter Russell ...
    Series Book 3 - Delphi Great Composers
    A German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist of the Baroque era, Johann Sebastian Bach is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. Celebrated as the creator of the ‘Brandenburg Concertos’, ‘The Well-Tempered Clavier’, the ‘Mass in B Minor’ and countless other masterpieces of church and instrumental music, Bach’s sublime skill was his ability to ... Read more

    $3.44 USD

  • Evening in the Palace of Reason

    Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment

    by James Gaines ...
    In one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire’s heralded ‘philosopher-king’, the It Boy of the Enlightenment. In the other, a devout if bad-tempered old composer of ‘outdated’ music, a scorned genius in his last years. The sparks from their brief conflict illuminate a turbulent age.Behind the pomp and flash, Prussia's Frederick the Great was a tormented man, son of an abusive king who forced ... Read more

    $4.62 USD

  • Beyond the Aria: Artistic Self-Empowerment for the Classical Singer

    Why You Want It, Why You’ve Been Denied It, and How to Achieve It

    by Neal Goren ...
    It is no secret that the opera industry is contracting and that there are fewer professional opportunities. But what causes one singer to be in demand over another is not exclusively a special instrument or exceptional vocal technique—rather, the ability to interpret the music and portray character convincingly plays an increasingly vital role in today’s opera industry.Beyond the Aria: Artistic ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Daria Klimentova - The Agony and the Ecstasy

    Daria Klimentová's sizzling chemistry with Russian dancer Vadim Muntagirov, who is nearly 20 years her junior, has reignited the prima ballerina's career - and marks a metamorphosis after her Black Swan-style torments depicted in BBC Four's Agony and Ecstasy, the gripping documentary series aired last year. There has been a metamorphosis since the 'old ballerina' allowed herself to be browbeaten ... Read more

    $5.19 USD

  • Ode to Joy Beginner Piano Sheet Music with Colored Notation

    From Beethoven's Fifth Symphony for Beginner PianoA SilverTonalities Arrangement!With Colored Notation to enable Beginner Pianists to read Music quickly and accurately! ... Read more

    $2.18 USD

  • Béla Bartók – For Children, Book 1 & 2 (Piano Solo Edition)

    Easy Folk-Inspired Pieces for Beginner and Early Intermediate Pianists

    by Béla Bartók ...
    Discover the timeless charm of Béla Bartók’s folk-inspired piano miniatures.Composed between 1908 and 1909, For Children brings together 85 short piano pieces based on authentic Hungarian and Slovak folk tunes. This edition includes Books 1 & 2, which feature the beloved Hungarian melodies.Perfect for beginner and early intermediate pianists, the pieces develop rhythm, phrasing, and expressive ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Sun Forest Lake

    The Symphonies & Tone Poems of Jean Sibelius

    by David Vernon ...
    'David Vernon's book helps everyone, no matter how previously informed, to find their own way into Sibelius's extraordinary world.' - Sakari Oramo, chief conductor, BBC Symphony Orchestra'Sibelius's music is as synthetic as a skyscraper but as natural and spontaneous as a dividing cell'Developing a style and logic all his own, outside the trends of modernism, Jean Sibelius wrote some of most ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The First Four Notes

    Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination

    A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New Yorker Best Book of the YearLos Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the YearA unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which has fascinated musicians, historians, and philosophers for the last two hundred years.Music ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

  • Perfect Pitch

    An Autobiography

    Series series Excelsior Editions
    The autobiography of one of the 20th century's most innovative and wittiest composers/performers/authors who witnessed the birth of modern music.Perfect Pitch tells the compelling story of Nicolas Slonimsky. A boy prodigy as a pianist, Slonimsky fled pre-Communist Russia, reaching Paris at the height of another revolution-one in music and the arts. His early association with conductor Serge ... Read more

    $31.49 USD