Author: Gerald Shea
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306821931
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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At age 34, Shea discovered that he had been deaf since childhood despite somehow maintaining a prestigious legal career.
Author: Felix Mendelssohn
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457440243
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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These 48 pieces were composed over a period of two decades, beginning in 1832, and published in eight groups of six each. Many of these songs were dedicated to the women in Mendelssohn's life and reflect the sunniest qualities of his melodiousness, spontaneity and invention. Maurice Hinson has skillfully researched and edited these works back to their original form and provides a very informative introduction, which includes many detailed suggestions for a stylistic interpretation and performance, as well as biographical information on the composer's life.
Author: Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426201738
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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In a first-ever publishing event, the remarkable photography and writings of Countess Sophia Tolstoy reveal the unfolding of her life with her famous husband--and evocatively portray a glittering world that soon would fade away. 120 photographs.
Author: Felix Mendelssohn
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457462115
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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We proudly add this collection of Mendelssohn songs to our highly respected Piano Masters Series. From his fifty songs in the complete set we have selected twelve of the most often taught and performed pieces, spanning all opus numbers in the set. This new collection offers a wide variety of writing styles to help introduce this composer to your students.
Author: Paul Verlaine
Publisher: Omnidawn
ISBN: 9781890650872
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Songs without Words (Romances sans paroles) is the book in which, unabashedly, Paul Verlaine becomes himself and, in so doing, becomes the iconic poet of the French nineteenth century. A book of musical sequences, it seeks and finds exquisite purity of expression, best exemplified by Il pleure dans mon coeur, the most famous and most inimitable of all French lyric poems. And it is a book of intertwining narratives also, each of which entertains abasements and ecstasies, crises, crimes and expiations. These, in their separate ways, detail the shadowlands of artistic purity. Verlaine adores and defiles his child-bride, Mathilde. He takes to the road with Arthur Rimbaud, the love of his life, his muse, his captive and captor. Exhaustion is everywhere counterpoised with exaltation, squalor with splendor. And yet, in nearly every syllable, the dignity of Poetry and of human affections, proves inviolable.
Author: Osho
Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.
ISBN: 9788171827350
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Author: David Damschroder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108418031
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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A creative and accessible harmonic analysis of major works by key composers, demonstrating innovative methods in harmonic theory with sound examples.
Author: Yorktown Music Press
Publisher: Yorktown Music Press
ISBN: 1783231718
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Nothing can quite compare to the satisfaction, pleasure and joy of learning and playing the finest pieces of classical music and this terrific volume gives you the opportunity to do exactly that! Inside there are more than 60 easy pieces and Keyboard miniatures by master composers, selected and edited by Dennis Agay. All the pieces are printed in their original form though have had sensible expression marks and fingerings added. There is a wonderful range and diversity to these pieces with works by the likes of Bach, Haydn, Mozart and also lesser-known composers, set for Piano solo.
Author: Robbi McCoy
Publisher: Bella Books
ISBN: 9781594931666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Love stories. Please note this is a gay fiction title. This summer Harper Sheridan is looking for something new--love. As a librarian at Morrison College and a talented amateur musician, Harper has spent the last nineteen summers searching for her passionate, authentic self amongst the writers, painters and other artists in California's diverse and fascinating Bay Area. But personal fulfillment continues to elude her. During an intense summer romance with vibrant, young Chelsea Nichols, Harper thought she had finally found what was missing. At the end of that summer, however, Chelsea returned to her ex. Now, it's summer once again, with all the promise of new beginnings. It's looking like a summer of surprises when Harper's runaway teenaged niece shows up in the most unexpected of places. That's when Harper realizes that not all the surprises will be pleasant ones.
Author: Sandra Mangsen
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580465498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Keyboard arrangements of vocal music flourished in England between1560 and 1760. Songs without Words, by noted harpsichordist and early-music authority Sandra Mangsen, is the first in-depth study of this topic, uncovering a body of material that is remarkably varied, musically interesting, and indicative of major trends in musical and social life at the time. Mangsen's Songs without Words argues that the pieces upon which these keyboard arrangements were based constituted a shared repertoire, akin to the jazz standards of the twentieth century. In Restoration England, the ballad tradition saw tunes and texts move between oral, manuscript, and printed transmission and from street to playhouse and back again. During the eighteenth century, printed keyboard arrangements were aimed particularly at female amateur keyboardists and helped opera to become a widely popular genre. Songs without Words considers a wide range of model pieces, including songs of many kinds and arias and other numbers from operas and oratorios. The resulting keyboard versions range from simple and pedagogically oriented to highly virtuosic. Two central issues -- the relationship between an arrangement and its model and the reception and aesthetics of arrangements -- are explored in the framing chapters. The result is a study that will be of great interest to scholars, performers, and anyone who loves the music of the late Renaissance, Baroque, and early Classic eras. Sandra Mangsen is professor emerita of music at the University of Western Ontario.
