A score embodying the best available musical text Historical background--what is known of the circumstances surrounding the origin of the work, including (where relevant) original source material A detailed analysis of the music, by the editor of the volume or another well-known scholar Other significant analytic essays and critical comments, exposing the student to a variety of opinions about the music.
A score embodying the best available musical text Historical background--what is known of the circumstances surrounding the origin of the work, includ...
"Nothing could be more spontaneous and ebullient than Chopin's letters." -- Books "Perhaps no composer's letters are so kindred to his music, and reminiscent of the impression produced by it, as Chopin's are." -- The New York Times This superbly edited selection of nearly 300 of Chopin's letters, the first to be published in English, vividly reveals the composer as man and artist, and evokes the remarkable age -- Europe of the 1830s and 1840s -- he shared with an equally remarkable cast of characters, from Jenny Lind to Isabella II of Spain, from Queen Victoria to...
"Nothing could be more spontaneous and ebullient than Chopin's letters." -- Books "Perhaps no composer's letters are so kindred to his mu...
This new volume in Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics presents 26 preludes, 21 nocturnes and 19 waltzes - a large amount of music at a value price. There are new urtext editions of seven pieces included, not edited by Joseffy in his original Schirmer editions: Prelude in A-flat Major (1834), Nocturne in C-sharp minor (1830), Nocturne in C minor (1837), and Waltzes in A-flat Major (1830), E-flat Major (1830), E-flat Major (1840), and A minor (1843).
This new volume in Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics presents 26 preludes, 21 nocturnes and 19 waltzes - a large amount of music at a value price...
inch....this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken inch. (Oliver James, Contact Magazine) A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two parts), country dance tunes and excerpts from the standard treble repertoire ofBach, Barsanti, Corelli, Handel, Telemann, etc. An outstanding feature of the book has proved to be Brian Bonsor's brilliantly simple but highly effective practice circles and recognition...
inch....this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken inch....
Chill out with two collections of beautiful tranquil music. First listen to the best-selling CD from Naxos containing some of Chopin's most beautiful music, then play your favorite pieces for solo piano. Titles for Piano: Prelude in A major (Op. 28 No. 7) * Prelude in E minor (Op. 28 No. 4) * Mazurka in A minor (Op. 17 No. 4) * Nocturne in G minor (Op. 37 No. 1) * Mazurka in C (Op. 67 No. 3) * Prelude in D-flat major 'Raindrop' (Op. 28 No. 15) * Nocturne in E minor (Op. 72 No. 1) * Waltz in A-flat 'L'adieu' (Op. 69 No. 1) * Marche Funebre from Sonata in B-flat minor."
Chill out with two collections of beautiful tranquil music. First listen to the best-selling CD from Naxos containing some of Chopin's most beautiful ...
This volume offers pianists a unique opportunity to study and master Chopin's two piano concertos: The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11, and the Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21. Although the composer wrote both works to launch his career as a concert artist, he soon abandoned the concert hall for the more intimate atmosphere of the salon and turned his creative attentions to the brilliant shorter works on which his reputation rests today. The concerti remain among the composer's few ventures in longer and more comprehensive musical forms. Extended stretches of brilliant...
This volume offers pianists a unique opportunity to study and master Chopin's two piano concertos: The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11, and...