Selected Compositions


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Chaminade, Selected Compositions


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Includes seventeen piano solos by the French female composer Cécile Chaminade. Her work is known for the beauty of the melodic lines and harmonic structure. Titles: * Sérénade, Op. 29 * Minuetto, Op. 23 * Air de Ballet, Op. 30 * Pas des Amphores, Op. 37, No. 2 * Callirhoë, Op. 37, No. 4 * Lolita, Op. 54 * Scarf Fance, Op. 37, No. 3 * Pièce Romantique, Op. 9, No. 1 * Gavotte, Op. 9, No. 2 * Pierrette, Op. 41 * La Lisonjera, Op. 50 * La Morena, Op. 67 * Les Sylvains, Op. 60 * Arabesque, Op. 61 * Valse-Caprice, Op. 33 * Danse Pastorale, Op. 37, No. 5 * Arlequine, Op. 53 Kalmus Editions are primarily reprints of Urtext Editions, reasonably priced and readily available. They are a must for students, teachers, and performers.




Selected Compositions, Volume I


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A collection of Intermediate and Advanced Piano Solos by Edvard Grieg.




Selected Compostions 1999-2008 of Vijay Iyer


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Vijay Iyer is one of the most significant contemporary composers and performers on the piano. This manuscript represents a compilation of small group compositions by Iyer during a period from 1999 through 2008. the bulk of the pieces were originally written for Vijay's quartet with altoist Rudresh Mahanthappa, bassist Stephan Crump, and drummers Marcus Gilmore, Tyshawn Sorey, and Derrek Phillips, and documented on the albums Panoptic Modes (2001), Blood Sutra (2003), Reimagining (2005), and Tragicomic (2008). the music features experimentation on rhythmic techniques, harmony, orchestration, soloing structures, and macro-form, with an overriding focus on sound and feel. This volume contains contrasting compositional approaches so as to give the reader insight into the broad spectrum of compositional language and devices employed by Iyer.




Selected Music for Solo Piano


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Original compilation spotlights works by an unjustly neglected composer: Sonata, "A Sea Idyll," Capriccio Nos. 1 and 2, three miniature Pastorals, "Three Poems," "Lament," "Three Sketches Suite," and many others.







Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment


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Can an abstract theory of Empfindsamkeit aesthetics have any value to a musician wishing to study composition in the classical style? The eighteenth-century German theorist and pedagogue Heinrich Koch showed how this question could be answered with a resounding yes. Starting with the systematic aesthetic theory of the Swiss encyclopedist Johann Sulzer, Koch was creatively able to adapt Sulzer's conservative ideas on ethical mimesis and rhetoric to concrete problems of music analysis and composition. In this collaborative study, Thomas Christensen and Nancy Baker have translated and analysed selected writings of Sulzer and Koch respectively, bringing to life a little-known confluence of philosophical and musical thought from the German Enlightenment. Koch's appropriation of Sulzer's ideas to the service of music represents an important development in the evolution of Western musical thought.




The Conservatory of Music


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Marionettes


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