The Mystery of Chopin's Préludes

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317023404
Total Pages : 220 pages
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Download or read book The Mystery of Chopin's Préludes written by Anatole Leikin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chopin's twenty-four Préludes remain as mysterious today as when they were newly published. What prompted Franz Liszt and others to consider Chopin's Préludes to be compositions in their own right rather than introductions to other works? What did set Chopin's Préludes so drastically apart from their forerunners? What exactly was 'the morbid, the feverish, the repellent' that Schumann heard in Opus 28, in that 'wild motley' of 'strange sketches' and 'ruins'? Why did Liszt and another, anonymous, reviewer publicly suggest that Lamartine's poem Les Préludes served as an inspiration for Chopin's Opus 28? And, if that is indeed the case, how did the poem affect the structure and the thematic contents of Chopin's Préludes? And, lastly, is Opus 28 a random assortment of short pieces or a cohesive cycle? In this monograph, richly illustrated with musical examples, Anatole Leikin combines historical perspectives, hermeneutic and thematic analyses, and a range of practical implications for performers to explore these questions and illuminate the music of one of the best loved collections of music for the piano.

Twenty-four Preludes for Pianoforte, Op. 81

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Total Pages : 56 pages
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Preludes Complete

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Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780739043172
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book Preludes Complete written by and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally conceived to commemorate the 300th anniversary of J. S. Bach, the Preludes of Robert D. Vandall have become a staple in the repertoire of progressing piano students. The set of 24 preludes, one in each of the major and minor keys, was recently completed with the addition of the final three preludes. Now, all the preludes have been combined into a complete edition with CD, recorded by Dr. Scott Price, Chair of the Piano Department at the University of South Carolina.

Creative Music in the Home

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Total Pages : 424 pages
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A Description and History of the Pianoforte and of the Older Keyboard Stringed Instruments

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Publisher : London ; New York : Novello, Ewer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
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Complete Encyclopaedia of Music

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1020 pages
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Complete Encyclopaedia of Music, Elementary, Technical, Historical, Biographical, Vocal and Instrumental

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Total Pages : 1064 pages
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Book Synopsis Complete Encyclopaedia of Music, Elementary, Technical, Historical, Biographical, Vocal and Instrumental by : John William Moore

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An Incomplete Education

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Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 030756777X
Total Pages : 722 pages
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Book Synopsis An Incomplete Education by : Judy Jones

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The Piano-teacher's Guide

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
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The Piano

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300253923
Total Pages : 399 pages
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Download or read book The Piano written by Susan Tomes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of the piano explored through 100 pieces chosen by one of the UK's most renowned concert pianists "Tomes . . . casts her net widely, taking in chamber music and concertos, knotty avant-garde masterworks and (most welcome) jazz."--Richard Fairman, Financial Times, "Best Books of 2021: Classical Music" "[One of] the most beautiful books I got my hands on this year. . . . About the shaping of this maddening, glorious, unconquerable instrument."--Jenny Colgan, Spectator, "Books of the Year" An astonishingly versatile instrument, the piano allows just two hands to play music of great complexity and subtlety. For more than two hundred years, it has brought solo and collaborative music into homes and concert halls and has inspired composers in every musical genre--from classical to jazz and light music. Charting the development of the piano from the late eighteenth century to the present day, pianist and writer Susan Tomes takes the reader with her on a personal journey through 100 pieces including solo works, chamber music, concertos, and jazz. Her choices include composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Gershwin, and Philip Glass. Looking at this history from a modern performer's perspective, she acknowledges neglected women composers and players including Fanny Mendelssohn, Maria Szymanowska, Clara Schumann, and Amy Beach.

Shostakovich

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199881154
Total Pages : 490 pages
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Download or read book Shostakovich written by Laurel Fay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-25 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this authoritative post-cold-war biography of Shostakovich's illustrious but turbulent career under Soviet rule, Laurel E. Fay has gone back to primary documents: Shostakovich's many letters, concert programs and reviews, newspaper articles, and diaries of his contemporaries. An indefatigable worker, he wrote his arresting music despite deprivations during the Nazi invasion and constant surveillance under Stalin's regime. Shostakovich's life is a fascinating example of the paradoxes of living as an artist under totalitarian rule. In August 1942, his Seventh Symphony, written as a protest against fascism, was performed in Nazi-besieged Leningrad by the city's surviving musicians, and was triumphantly broadcast to the German troops, who had been bombarded beforehand to silence them. Alone among his artistic peers, he survived successive Stalinist cultural purges and won the Stalin Prize five times, yet in 1948 he was dismissed from his conservatory teaching positions, and many of his works were banned from performance. He prudently censored himself, in one case putting aside a work based on Jewish folk poems. Under later regimes he balanced a career as a model Soviet, holding government positions and acting as an international ambassador with his unflagging artistic ambitions. In the years since his death in 1975, many have embraced a view of Shostakovich as a lifelong dissident who encoded anti-Communist messages in his music. This lucid and fascinating biography demonstrates that the reality was much more complex. Laurel Fay's book includes a detailed list of works, a glossary of names, and an extensive bibliography, making it an indispensable resource for future studies of Shostakovich.

Five Centuries of Keyboard Music

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Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486318796
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Five Centuries of Keyboard Music written by John Gillespie and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gillespie discusses 350 composers and their works for harpsichord and piano, including Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and Debussy. Includes 116 musical examples, illustrations, and a glossary of musical terms.

The Do-it-yourself handbook for keyboard playing

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Publisher : Shacor, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780943748009
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Sonic Transformations of Literary Texts

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Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781576471401
Total Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book Sonic Transformations of Literary Texts written by Siglind Bruhn and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Among the possible relationships between art forms that express themselves in different sign systems, the pairing of words and images is the one that is most thoroughly explored. And in fact, the most securely established terminology is found in a field that has experienced a significant revival in recent years: ekphrasis. The literary topos through which a poem (or any other text) addresses itself to the visual arts has received much attention in recent years and been subjected to intense scrutiny."--BOOK JACKET.

The English Bach Awakening

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351544861
Total Pages : 531 pages
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Download or read book The English Bach Awakening written by Michael Kassler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Bach Awakening concerns the introduction into England of J.S. Bach's music and information about him. Hitherto this subject has been called 'the English Bach revival', but that is a misnomer. 'Revival' implies prior life, yet no reference to Bach or to his music is known to have been made in England during his lifetime (1685-1750). The book begins with a comprehensive chronology of the English Bach Awakening. Eight chapters follow, written by Dr Philip Olleson, Dr Yo Tomita and the editor, Michael Kassler, which treat particular parts of the Awakening and show how they developed. A focus of the book is the history of the manuscripts and the printed editions of Bach's '48' - The Well-tempered Clavier - in England at this time, and its culmination in the 'analysed' edition that Samuel Wesley and Charles Frederick Horn published in 1810-1813 and later revised. Wesley's multifaceted role in the Bach Awakening is detailed, as are the several efforts that were made to translate Forkel's biography of Bach into English. A chapter is devoted to A.F.C. Kollmann's endeavour to prove the regularity of Bach's Chromatic Fantasy, and the book concludes with a discussion of portraits of Bach in England before 1830.

Musical Improvisation

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252076540
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Musical Improvisation by : Gabriel Solis

Download or read book Musical Improvisation written by Gabriel Solis and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A musical practice used for centuries the world over, improvisation too often has been neglected by scholars who dismiss it as either technically undissectible or inexplicably mysterious. At different times and in different cultures, performing music that is not "precomposed" has constituted an artful expression of the performer's individuality (the Baroque); a wild, unthinking form of expression (jazz antagonists); and the best method to train inexperienced musicians to use their instruments (the Middle East). This wide-ranging collection of essays considers musical improvisation from a variety of approaches, including ethnomusicology, education, performance, historical musicology, and music theory. Laying the groundwork for even further research into improvisation, the contributors of this volume delve into topics as diverse as the creative minds of Mozart and Beethoven, the place of improvised musics in Western and non-Western societies, and the development of jazz as a musical and cultural phenomenon.

Fryderyk Chopin

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374714371
Total Pages : 534 pages
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Download or read book Fryderyk Chopin written by Dr. Alan Walker and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. The Sunday Times (U.K.) 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 Review A landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his time Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker’s monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English in more than a century. Walker’s work is a corrective biography, intended to dispel the many myths and legends that continue to surround Chopin. Fryderyk Chopin is an intimate look into a dramatic life; of particular focus are Chopin’s childhood and youth in Poland, which are brought into line with the latest scholarly findings, and Chopin’s romantic life with George Sand, with whom he lived for nine years. Comprehensive and engaging, and written in highly readable prose, the biography wears its scholarship lightly: this is a book suited as much for the professional pianist as it is for the casual music lover. Just as he did in his definitive biography of Liszt, Walker illuminates Chopin and his music with unprecedented clarity in this magisterial biography, bringing to life one of the nineteenth century’s most confounding, beloved, and legendary artists.