Six Sonatas


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Six Sonatas by George Frideric Handel for Violin and Piano now in one volume: A major, E major, G minor, D major, F major, A major.







Scoring for Voice


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Scoring for Voice is a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide covering all aspects of vocal arranging. It includes a compact disc containing 50 examples of arranging techniques found in the text and covers such topics as scoring for 2-, 3-, and 4-part voices, scoring behind a soloist, vocal ranges, rehearsal techniques and voice-leading concepts.




Simple Daylight


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(Vocal Solo). Cycle of 6 songs. Simple Daylight was commissioned by Lincoln Center and dedicated to its first singer, Dawn Upshaw. The music is set to poems in Michael Fried's To the Center of the Earth , creating a song cycle that requires a motet-like partnership between singer and pianist. Recorded on Elektra Nonesuch.




Maurice Duruflé


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Drawing on the accounts of those who knew Duruflé personally as well as on Frazier's own detailed research, this new biography offers a broad sketch of this modest and elusive man, widely recognized today for having created some of the greatest works in the organ repertory - and the masterful Requiem. Frazier also examines the career and contributions of Duruflé's wife, the formidable organist Marie-Madeleine Duruflé-Chevalier.




Words from Paterson


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The six Brandenburg concertos


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Great masterpieces of intense, appealing originality, complex textures and development, and unprecedented instrumentation. Scores include No. 1 in F Major, No. 2 in F Major, No. 3 in G Major, No. 4 in G Major, No. 5 in D Major, and No. 6 in B-flat Major. Reprinted from definitive Bach-Gesellschaft edition.




The Viola Da Gamba


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The viola da gamba was a central instrument in European music from the late fifteenth century well into the late eighteenth. Bettina Hoffmann offers an introduction to the instrument-its construction, technique and history-for the non-specialist with a wealth of original archival scholarship that experts will relish.