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At age 34, Shea discovered that he had been deaf since childhood despite somehow maintaining a prestigious legal career.
Author : Gerald Shea
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0306821931
At age 34, Shea discovered that he had been deaf since childhood despite somehow maintaining a prestigious legal career.
Author : Felix Mendelssohn
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release :
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457440243
These 48 pieces were composed over a period of two decades, beginning in 1832, and published in eight groups of six each. Many of these songs were dedicated to the women in Mendelssohn's life and reflect the sunniest qualities of his melodiousness, spontaneity and invention. Maurice Hinson has skillfully researched and edited these works back to their original form and provides a very informative introduction, which includes many detailed suggestions for a stylistic interpretation and performance, as well as biographical information on the composer's life.
Author : Sofʹi︠a︡ Andreevna Tolstai︠a︡
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,40 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426201738
In a first-ever publishing event, the remarkable photography and writings of Countess Sophia Tolstoy reveal the unfolding of her life with her famous husband--and evocatively portray a glittering world that soon would fade away. 120 photographs.
Author : Felix Mendelssohn
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
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Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457462115
We proudly add this collection of Mendelssohn songs to our highly respected Piano Masters Series. From his fifty songs in the complete set we have selected twelve of the most often taught and performed pieces, spanning all opus numbers in the set. This new collection offers a wide variety of writing styles to help introduce this composer to your students.
Author : Paul Verlaine
Publisher : Omnidawn
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781890650872
Songs without Words (Romances sans paroles) is the book in which, unabashedly, Paul Verlaine becomes himself and, in so doing, becomes the iconic poet of the French nineteenth century. A book of musical sequences, it seeks and finds exquisite purity of expression, best exemplified by Il pleure dans mon coeur, the most famous and most inimitable of all French lyric poems. And it is a book of intertwining narratives also, each of which entertains abasements and ecstasies, crises, crimes and expiations. These, in their separate ways, detail the shadowlands of artistic purity. Verlaine adores and defiles his child-bride, Mathilde. He takes to the road with Arthur Rimbaud, the love of his life, his muse, his captive and captor. Exhaustion is everywhere counterpoised with exaltation, squalor with splendor. And yet, in nearly every syllable, the dignity of Poetry and of human affections, proves inviolable.
Author : Osho
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
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ISBN : 9788171827350
Author : Philip Glass
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1631490818
New York Times Bestseller An NPR Best Book of the Year Winner of the Chicago Tribune Literary Award Finalist for the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing "Reads the way Mr. Glass's compositions sound at their best: propulsive, with a surreptitious emotional undertow." —Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet in Words Without Music, his critically acclaimed memoir, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice, that of a born storyteller and an acutely insightful chronicler, whose behind-the-scenes recollections allow readers to experience those moments of creative fusion when life so magically merged with art. From his childhood in Baltimore to his student days in Chicago and at Juilliard, to his first journey to Paris and a life-changing trip to India, Glass movingly recalls his early mentors, while reconstructing the places that helped shape his creative consciousness. Whether describing working as an unlicensed plumber in gritty 1970s New York or composing Satyagraha, Glass breaks across genres and re-creates, here in words, the thrill that results from artistic creation. Words Without Music ultimately affirms the power of music to change the world.
Author : Yorktown Music Press
Publisher : Yorktown Music Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 29,82 MB
Release : 2014-09-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 1783231718
Nothing can quite compare to the satisfaction, pleasure and joy of learning and playing the finest pieces of classical music and this terrific volume gives you the opportunity to do exactly that! Inside there are more than 60 easy pieces and Keyboard miniatures by master composers, selected and edited by Dennis Agay. All the pieces are printed in their original form though have had sensible expression marks and fingerings added. There is a wonderful range and diversity to these pieces with works by the likes of Bach, Haydn, Mozart and also lesser-known composers, set for Piano solo.
Author : Charles Rosen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 35,56 MB
Release : 1998-09-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780674779341
Accompanied by a sound disc (digital; 4 3/4 in.) by the same name which is available in Multimedia : CD 6.
Author : James Parakilas
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN :
In his four ballads for piano, Chopin stretched the capacity of instrumental music by asking it to convey, without words, the form and sense of a ballad, a challenge taken up by composers, who developed the orchestral ballad.