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Author: Kenon D. Renfrow Publisher: Alfred Music ISBN: 9781457413834 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 36
Book Description
Most concertos are difficult, and opportunities to play these great works with orchestra are very rare. Intermediate pianists can now experience the excitement and beauty of performing themes from nine favorite piano concertos, at their own level, with orchestral accompaniments on the available General MIDI disk (Alfred item 18215). The varied styles of Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Schumann and Tchaikovsky are respectfully represented in arrangements that beautifully get to the "heart" of each concerto.
Author: Kenon D. Renfrow Publisher: Alfred Music ISBN: 9781457413834 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 36
Book Description
Most concertos are difficult, and opportunities to play these great works with orchestra are very rare. Intermediate pianists can now experience the excitement and beauty of performing themes from nine favorite piano concertos, at their own level, with orchestral accompaniments on the available General MIDI disk (Alfred item 18215). The varied styles of Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Schumann and Tchaikovsky are respectfully represented in arrangements that beautifully get to the "heart" of each concerto.
Author: Michael Steinberg Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019802634X Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 523
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Michael Steinberg's 1996 volume The Symphony: A Reader's Guide received glowing reviews across America. It was hailed as "wonderfully clear...recommended warmly to music lovers on all levels" (Washington Post), "informed and thoughtful" (Chicago Tribune), and "composed by a master stylist" (San Francisco Chronicle). Seiji Ozawa wrote that "his beautiful and effortless prose speaks from the heart." Michael Tilson Thomas called The Symphony "an essential book for any concertgoer." Now comes the companion volume--The Concerto: A Listener's Guide. In this marvelous book, Steinberg discusses over 120 works, ranging from Johann Sebastian Bach in the 1720s to John Adams in 1994. Readers will find here the heart of the standard repertory, among them Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, eighteen of Mozart's piano concertos, all the concertos of Beethoven and Brahms, and major works by Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, Bruch, Dvora'k, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Elgar, Sibelius, Strauss, and Rachmaninoff. The book also provides luminous introductions to the achievement of twentieth-century masters such as Arnold Schoenberg, Be'la Barto'k, Igor Stravinsky, Alban Berg, Paul Hindemith, Sergei Prokofiev, Aaron Copland, and Elliott Carter. Steinberg examines the work of these musical giants with unflagging enthusiasm and bright style. He is a master of capturing the expressive, dramatic, and emotional values of the music and of conveying the historical and personal context in which these wondrous works were composed. His writing blends impeccable scholarship, deeply felt love of music, and entertaining whimsy. Here then is a superb journey through one of music's richest and most diverse forms, with Michael Steinberg along as host, guide, and the best of companions.
Author: Rae Linda Brown Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252052110 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 466
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Book Prize Winner of the International Alliance for Women in Music of the 2022 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever biography of Florence B. Price, a composer whose career spanned both the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances, and the first African American woman to gain national recognition for her works. Price's twenty-five years in Chicago formed the core of a working life that saw her create three hundred works in diverse genres, including symphonies and orchestral suites, art songs, vocal and choral music, and arrangements of spirituals. Through interviews and a wealth of material from public and private archives, Rae Linda Brown illuminates Price's major works while exploring the considerable depth of her achievement. Brown also traces the life of the extremely private individual from her childhood in Little Rock through her time at the New England Conservatory, her extensive teaching, and her struggles with racism, poverty, and professional jealousies. In addition, Brown provides musicians and scholars with dozens of musical examples.
Author: Michael Thomas Roeder Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 0931340616 Category : Concerto Languages : en Pages : 487
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A History of the Concerto may be read from cover to cover, but readers may also use the extensive index to focus on specific concertos and their composers. Numerous musical examples illuminate critical points. While some readers may want to study the more detailed analyses with scores in hand, this is not essential for an understanding of the text.
Author: Abraham Veinus Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486211789 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 337
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The first thorough English-language exploration of the concerto as a musical form, this is an oft-quoted, authoritative survey. Examining the social, economic, and personal factors that influenced the concerto's growth, the work also summarizes the contributions of theorists, composers, and musicians and defines the genre's terms and the changing nature.
Author: Nancy Faber Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 1616779217 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 80
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(Faber Piano Adventures ). The appeal of popular music spans generations and genres. In this collection of 27 hits, enjoy folk tunes like "Ashokan Farewell" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water," movie themes from James Bond and Batman , Broadway numbers from Evita and A Little Night Music , and chart-toppers performed by Michael Jackson, Adele, Billy Joel, and more. Adult Piano Adventures Popular Book 2 provides this variety, yet with accessible arrangements for the progressing pianist. Students may advance through the book alongside method studies, or jump to all their favorites. Optional chord symbols above the staff guide understanding and personal expression.
Author: Kay Larson Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0143123475 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 497
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A “heroic” biography of John Cage and his “awakening through Zen Buddhism”—“a kind of love story” about a brilliant American pioneer of the creative arts who transformed himself and his culture (The New York Times) Composer John Cage sought the silence of a mind at peace with itself—and found it in Zen Buddhism, a spiritual path that changed both his music and his view of the universe. “Remarkably researched, exquisitely written,” Where the Heart Beats weaves together “a great many threads of cultural history” (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings) to illuminate Cage’s struggle to accept himself and his relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Freed to be his own man, Cage originated exciting experiments that set him at the epicenter of a new avant-garde forming in the 1950s. Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Allan Kaprow, Morton Feldman, and Leo Castelli were among those influenced by his ‘teaching’ and ‘preaching.’ Where the Heart Beats shows the blossoming of Zen in the very heart of American culture.
Author: Kenon D. Renfrow
Author: Kenon D. Renfrow
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