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Author : Stephen Costanza
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 2004-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0805066276
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Author : Peter Sís
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0061121819
A simplified biography of Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Author : Jeanette Winter
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 11,86 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780152006297
Describes how Johann Sebastian Bach survived the sorrows of his childhood and composed the music the world has come to love.
Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 1984-02
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ISBN : 9780935474107
Author : Stuart Isacoff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0307701425
A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own. With honed sensitivity and unquestioned expertise, Stuart Isacoff—pianist, critic, teacher, and author of Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization—unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad wonders: how its very sound provides the basis for emotional expression and individual style, and why it has so powerfully entertained generation upon generation of listeners. He illuminates the groundbreaking music of Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Schumann, and Debussy. He analyzes the breathtaking techniques of Glenn Gould, Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Arthur Rubinstein, and Van Cliburn, and he gives musicians including Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, and Vladimir Horowitz the opportunity to discuss their approaches. Isacoff delineates how classical music and jazz influenced each other as the uniquely American art form progressed from ragtime, novelty, stride, boogie, bebop, and beyond, through Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Cecil Taylor, and Bill Charlap. A Natural History of the Piano distills a lifetime of research and passion into one brilliant narrative. We witness Mozart unveiling his monumental concertos in Vienna’s coffeehouses, using a special piano with one keyboard for the hands and another for the feet; European virtuoso Henri Herz entertaining rowdy miners during the California gold rush; Beethoven at his piano, conjuring healing angels to console a grieving mother who had lost her child; Liszt fainting in the arms of a page turner to spark an entire hall into hysterics. Here is the instrument in all its complexity and beauty. We learn of the incredible craftsmanship of a modern Steinway, the peculiarity of specialty pianos built for the Victorian household, the continuing innovation in keyboards including electronic ones. And most of all, we hear the music of the masters, from centuries ago and in our own age, brilliantly evoked and as marvelous as its most recent performance. With this wide-ranging volume, Isacoff gives us a must-have for music lovers, pianists, and the armchair musician.
Author : Christine H. Barden
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 2005-05-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457409134
The unique Music Discovery Book contains songs that allow the students to experience music through singing, movement and rhythm activities. Music appreciation is fostered through carefully chosen music; Mozart, Beethoven and Sousa are introduced. Melodies to sing, using either solfege or letter names, help students learn to match pitch and discover tonal elements of music. Correlates to the Music Lesson Book 1. Familiar songs include If You're Happy and You Know It, Mexican Hat Dance and Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.
Author : Neal Zaslaw
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 1990-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393028867
Collection of essays in a single volume for nonspecialists with information about each of Mozart's compositions, where, when, and why it was written, what it is like, and what special significance it may have within the composer's oeuvre.
Author : Daniel Heartz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 43,96 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393066340
A vivid portrait of Mozart and Haydn's greatest achievements and young Beethoven's works under their influence.
Author : Barbara Allman
Publisher : LernerClassroom
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1575056372
Describes the life of the eighteenth-century Austrian composer, a musical prodigy who learned to write music before he could write letters and grew up to become Imperial Court Composer to Emperor Joseph.
Author : Christine H. Barden
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2005-05-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457409127
Lesson Book 1 is geared for pre-reading students. Concepts taught are: * How to sit at the piano * Correct hand position * High and low * Loud and soft (forte and piano) * Keyboard topography * Bar line and measure, Quarter, half, whole notes and rests * Repeat signs The first pieces in the book are played on the black keys. Later in the book, C D E for the RH and C B A for the LH (Middle C position) are taught with letter notes (the name of the note is written inside the note head).