Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486253872
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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A generous selection of Bach's best-known, most-performed, and most-recorded works for the keyboard, reproduced from the authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition. The 16 works — chiefly preludes, fugues, and fantasias — are reproduced in a format ideal for study and practice, with large noteheads, wide margins, and clear, bold printing.

Author: Charles-Valentin Alkan
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486400662
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Selected and with Introductory Notes by Marc-André Hamelin. Etudes in Minor Keys, Op. 39 (Symphony for Solo Piano, Op. 39, Nos. 4–7; Concerto for Solo Piano, Op. 39, Nos. 8–10; "Le Festin d'Ésope", Op. 39, No. 12); Saltarelle, Op. 23; Barcarolle, Op. 65, No. 6; Toccatina, Op. 75.

Author: Arnold Schoenberg
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486419002
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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This piece is unusual in concentrating all the elements of a symphony into a single movement; in being written for 15 solo instruments; in using chords built up of fourths; and in creating dissonances without immediate resolution. To its first audiences, the symphony seemed shocking. But today it is one of Schoenberg's most pleasing and accessible works. Scored for a chamber ensemble of flute, oboe, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, two horns, two violins, viola, cello, and bass. Instrumentation. Glossary.

Author: Claude Debussy
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486252310
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Superb one-volume edition of two influential compositions noted for individuality, unique interpretations, delicate and subtle beauty. This clearly printed volume is sturdily bound for long life on the music stand.

Author: Béla Bartók
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486401103
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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This treasury of piano works from one of the 20th century's most influential composers includes the dancelike Allegro Barbaro, a sonorous, boisterous piece of power and bravura; 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs; 6 Rumanian Folk Dances; 20 Rumanian Christmas Carols; and 8 Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs. Musical gems for pianists at intermediate and advanced skill levels.

Author: Charles Marie Widor
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486266915
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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The greatest French organist of his day, Widor (1844–1937) composed 10 organ "symphonies" — actually solo compositions usually consisting of 6 or 7 short movements, that treat the organ as a kind of self-contained orchestra. Series I includes Symphonies Nos. 1–4, Op. 13 and Symphonie No. 5, Op. 42. Frequently performed today. Glossary of French terms.

Author: Claude Debussy
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486319466
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Superb one-volume edition of two influential compositions noted for individuality, unique interpretations, delicate and subtle beauty. This clearly printed volume is sturdily bound for long life on the music stand.

Author: Frédéric Chopin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486245645
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Features 20 Nocturnes: Op. 9, 15, 27, 32, 37, 48, 55, 62, 72, and more. Also includes 11 Polonaises: Op. 26, 40, 44, 53, 61, 71, and posthumous Polonaise in G-sharp Minor. Mikuli Edition. Commentary.

Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486255298
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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Early in his career, Bach began to transcribe for the keyboard a number of concertos for violin, oboe, and other instruments by such baroque masters as Vivaldi and Telemann. His purpose: to study and explore the works of other composers as well as to supply good clavier music for his own performances. This collection of sixteen of these celebrated transcriptions is reprinted from the definitive Bach-Gesellschaft edition prepared by Ernst Naumann and presented in a study format designed to give amateur and professional pianists and harpsichordists a lifetime of pleasurable study and use. Six of these glorious keyboard works are known to be transcriptions of Vivaldi violin concertos. Three are based on concertos written by Duke Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, the son of Bach's employer at Weimar. One is based on a violin concerto by Telemann, another on an oboe concerto by Alessandro Marcello, and another on a concerto by Benedetto Marcello. The sources of the remaining works are unknown. Vivaldi, whose music Bach probably first heard in 1712, was to provide a strong influence on the young composer. Bach would eventually assimilate the Italian's style and use it with his own contrapuntal heritage and the Northern idiom in creating what we recognize today as the typical Bach style. These transcriptions, which represent his introduction to the new idiom, richly display a dynamic virtuosity that makes their performance an exhilarating experience.

Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486254038
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Over 20 of the composer's best-loved, most often performed compositions, including the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565; Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582; the Fugue in B minor on a theme of Corelli, BWV 579, and many more. Reproduced directly from the authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition.