String Quartets


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This research guide is an annotated bibliography of sources dealing with the string quartet. This second edition is organized as in the original publication (chapters for general references, histories, individual composers, aspects of performance, facsimiles and critical editions, and miscellaneous topics) and has been updated to cover research since publication of the first edition. Listings in the previous volume have been updated to reflect the burgeoning interest in this genre (social aspects, newly issued critical editions, doctoral dissertations). It also offers commentary on online links, databases, and references.




The Art of Musical Phrasing in the Eighteenth Century


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This book is the collection of papers that came out of an interdisciplinary symposium held in the spring of 1991 in the Republic of San Marino. The conference "Effects of War on Society" was planned as the first in a series aimed ultimately at placing in perspective the sociocultural variables that make outbreaks of war probable, and delineating for researchers and policy makers alike some important steps that can be taken to control these variables. This is Volume 1 of a series entitled "Studies on the Nature of War", which the University of Rochester Press has been publishing from Volume 2 (War and Ethnicity: Global Connections and Local Violence (1997)). after much demand, we are now distributing this book on behalf of the conference organizers, The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Social Stress, in San Marino.




Ad Parnassum


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Celestial Music?


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Articles on masterpieces of European religious music, from the middle ages to Stravinsky and Tavener. The late Wilfrid Mellers, who occupies a special place among music critics, described himself as a non-believer; but his preference for music that "displays a sense of the numinous" (in his words) will strike a chord with many wholisten to religious music nowadays, and who share his view that music that confronts first and last things is likely to offer more than music that evades them. The essays form five groups, which together offer a survey of religious music from around the first millennium to the beginning of the second, in the context of the difficult issues of what religious music is, and, for good measure, what is religion? The parts are: The Ages of Christian Faith; The Re-birth of a Re-birth: From Renaissance to High Baroque; From Enlightenment to Doubt; From "the Death of God" to "the Unanswered Question"; and The Ancient Law and the Modern Mind. Musical discussion, with copious examples, is conducted throughout the book in a context that is also religious - and indeed philosophical, social, and political, with the open-endedness that such an approach demands in the presentation of ideas aboutmusic's most fundamental nature and purposes. COMPOSERS: Hildegard of Bingen; Perotin; Machaut; Dunstable, Dufay; William Corniyshes father and son; Tallis; Byrd; Monteverdi; Schutz; J.S. Bach; Couperin; Handel; Haydn;Mozart; Beethoven; Schubert; Bruckner; Berlioz, Faure; Verdi, Brahms; Elgar, Delius; Holst, Vaughan Williams, Howells; Britten; Janacek; Messiaen, Poulenc; Rachmaninov; Stravinsky; Part, Tavener, Gorecki, Macmillan, Finnissy; Copland.




Music Semiotics: A Network of Significations


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United in their indebtedness to the scholarship of Raymond Monelle, an international group of contributors, including leading authorities on music and culture, come together in this state of the art volume to investigate different ways in which music signifies. Music semiotics asks what music signifies as well as how the signification process takes place. Looking at the nature of musical texts and music's narrativity, a number of the essays in this collection delve into the relationship between music and philosophy, literature, poetry, folk traditions and the theatre, with opera a genre that particularly lends itself to this mode of investigation. Other contributions look at theories of musical markedness, metaphor and irony, using examples and specific musical texts to serve as case studies to validate their theoretical approaches. Musical works discussed include those by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner, Stravinsky, Bart Xenakis, Kutavicius and John Adams, offering stimulating discussions of music that attest to its beauty as much as to its intellectual challenge. Taking Monelle's writing as a model, the contributions adhere to a method of logical argumentation presented in a civilized and respectful way, even - and particularly - when controversial issues are at stake, keeping in mind that contemplating the significance of music is a way to contemplate life itself.




Masterpieces of Piano Music


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A true treasure trove of sheet music for piano! The largest and most comprehensive collection of standard piano compositions ever published, covering completely all fields of classic, modern, light, and operatic piano music. Over 500 pages of sheet music! The compositions include: Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven, Adeste Fideles (Transcription) by Vilbac, Aida (Celeste Aida) by Verdi, Aids (Grand March) by Verdi, Air de Ballet by Chaminade, A is Bien Aimee by Schrift, Au Matin by Godard, Ave Maria by Bath-Gounod, Ave Maria by Schubert, BARCAROLLE (Tales of Hoffman), Berceuse by Delbrick, Berceuse (Jocelyn) by Godard, Bercense by Gannod, Berctuse by Schytti, Blacksmith in the Woods by Michaelis, But the Lord is Mindful (St. Paul), CABALETTA by Lack, Calumets by Cui, Canzonetta (Violin 'Concerto) by Godard, Canzonetts by Hollaender, Caprice Alceste by Gluck, Carmen (Habanero) by Mast, Cavalier* Rusticana (Intermezzo) Masragni, Celeste Aida (Aida) by Verdi, Chanson Triste by Tschaikowsky, Bourret, Bridal March (Lohengrin), Gavotte by Lully, Gavotte (Mignon) by Thomas, Gioconda, La (Dance of the Hours) .Ponchielli, Glory of God by Beethoven, Golden Wedding (La Cinquantaine), Grand March (Aida) by Verdi, Grand March (Norma) by Bellini, Grand March (Tannhiuser) by Wagner, HABANERA (Canmen) by Bizet, Hallelujah Chorus by Handel, Hansel and Gretel (Prayer) by Hunsperdinck, Happy Farmer by Schumann, Heavens Are Telling by Haydn, Humoreake Op., No. 7 by Dvorak, Humoreske Op. 10, No. 2 by Tschaikowsky, Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Brahms, Intermezzo (Cavelleria Rusticana).Mascagtoi, JOCELYN (Berceuse) by Godard, Joyous Life by Spindler, KOLNIDREI by Jewish Melody, L'ARGO by Handel, Last Dream of the Virgin by Massenet, Last Hope by Gottschalk, Last Thought by Weber, Iiisonjera, La (The Flaterer) by Chasseinacle, Lohengrin (Bridal March) by Wagner, Loin du Bal by Gillet, Longing for Home by Jusgmann, Lost Chord by Sullivan, Loure by Bach 10, Love Dream, A by Liszt, Love's Dream After the Ball by Czibulka, Love Song by Henselt, Lucia (Sextette) by Donisetti, Marche Militaire by Schubert, Mazurka Op. 7, No. 1 by Chopin, Mazurka Op. 54, No. 2 by Godard, by Mazurka Op. 40, No. 2 by Meyer-Helmund, Mazurka Op. 21 by Saint-Saint, Meditation (Ave Maria) by Bach-Gounod, Melodic by Massenet, Melody in F by Rubinstein, Messiah (Hallelujah Chorus) by Handel, Mignon (Gavotte) by Thomas, Minuet in G by Beetkoves, Minuet (Divertimento) by Mozart, Minuet (Don Juan) by Mozart, Minuet l'Antique by Paderewski, Minute Waltz by Chopin, Miserere (Trovatore) by Verdi, Moment Musical by P Scharwenka, Moment Musical Op. 94, No. 3 by Schubert, Monastery Bells by Lefebure-Wely, Moonlight Sonata (Adagio) by Beethoven, Murmuring Brook by Poldini, Murmuring Zephyrs by Jensen, My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice (Samson and Delilah) by Sala-Saint, NOCTURNE (Pttite Suite) by Borodin, Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2 by Chopin, Nocturne Op. 55, No. 1 by Chopin, Nocturne in B Flat by Field, Nocturne No. 3 (A Love Dream) by Lint, Norma (Grand March) by Bellini, Norwegian Dance by Grieg, ONE HEART, ONE MIND by Strauss, Orfeo (Andante) by Gluck, Overture (Poet and Peasant) by Suppe, PALMS by Faure, Paloina, La by Yradier, Papillon by Grieg, Pas d'Amphores by Chaminade, Peer Gynt (Anftra's Dance) by Grieg, Peer Gynt (Ase's Death) by Grieg, Petite Valse Op. 10, No. 2 by Karganoff, Pilgrim's Song of Hope by Batiste, Pizzicato (Sylvia) by Delibes, Pleyel's Hymn by Westbrook, Poet and Peasant (Overture) by Suppi, Polish Dance Op. 3, No. 1 by X. Scharwenka, Poupee Valsante by PAW, Prayer by Beethoven, Prayer from Wreischiite by Weber, Prelude in C by Bach 12, Prelude Op. 28, No. 4 by Chopin, Prelude Op. 28, No. 6 by Chopin, Prelude Op. 28, No. 20 by Chopin, Prelude in C Sharp Minor by Rackmanisoff, Pres de l'Eau by Blumenfeld, Prophtte, Le (Coronation March) by Meyerbeer, Pure as Snow by Lange, Quartet (Rigoletto) by Verdi, Remembrance by Schunusitn, Reverie by Debussy... ...And many more!