Sviatoslav Richter


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"Sviatoslav Richter was a dazzling performer but an intensely private man. Though world famous and revered by classical music lovers everywhere, he guarded himself and his thoughts as carefully as his talent. Fascinated, author and filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon tried vainly for years to interview the enigmatic pianist. Richter eventually yielded, granting Monsaingeon hours of taped conversation, unlimited access to his diaries and notebooks, and, ultimately his friendship. This book is the product of that friendship. It offers readers the sizable pleasure of lingering in the thoughts and words of one of the most important pianists of the twentieth century. Sviatoslav Richter belongs on the shelves of everyone with a classical music collection and will also appeal to lovers of autobiography and admirers of Russian musical culture." -- Back cover




Beyond the Art of Finger Dexterity


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Carl Czerny was a highly successful composer of popular piano music, and his pedagogical works remain fundamental to the training of pianists. But Czerny's reputation in these areas has obscured the remarkable breadth of his activity, and especially his work as a composer of serious music. This collection aims to address this.




Graphic Music Analysis


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This book approaches Schenkerian analysis in a practical and accessible manner fit for the classroom, guiding readers through a step-by-step process. It is suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of musicology, music theory, composition, and performance, and it is replete with a wide variety of musical examples.




Complete violin sonatas


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Beethoven's ten violin sonatas, time-honored favorites of violinists, pianists, and their audiences, reflect the great composer's determination to make the interrelationship between the violin and the piano a more intimate one, and to create a more even and intricate balance between the two instruments than had previously existed in the genre. Ranging in mood and style from the brilliant and virtuosic "Kreutzer" Sonata to the pastoral, lyrical "Spring" Sonata, they include: Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12, No. 1; Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 12, No. 2; Sonata No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 12, No. 3; Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 23; Sonata No. 5 in F Major ("Spring"), Op. 24; Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 30, No. 1; Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30, No. 2; Sonata No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30, No. 3; Sonata No. 9 in A Minor ("Kreutzer"), Op. 47; Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96. All ten of these beautiful and challenging masterworks are reprinted here from the authoritative edition prepared by Breitkopf & Hartel. Beautifully printed and sturdily bound, this handsome volume offers violinists, pianists, and music lovers the opportunity to study and enjoy the scores in one convenient, inexpensive source. "




Beethoven


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Combining musical insight and the most recent research, Kinderman's biography of Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music. In analyses of individual pieces, Kinderman shows that the deepening of Beethoven's musical thought was a continuous process over decades of his life. 30 illustrations.




A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music


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In his third volume on musical expressive meaning, Robert S. Hatten examines virtual agency in music from the perspectives of movement, gesture, embodiment, topics, tropes, emotion, narrativity, and performance. Distinguished from the actual agency of composers and performers, whose intentional actions either create music as notated or manifest music as significant sound, virtual agency is inferred from the implied actions of those sounds, as they move and reveal tendencies within music-stylistic contexts. From our most basic attributions of sources for perceived energies in music, to the highest realm of our engagement with musical subjectivity, Hatten explains how virtual agents arose as distinct from actual ones, how unspecified actants can take on characteristics of (virtual) human agents, and how virtual agents assume various actorial roles. Along the way, Hatten demonstrates some of the musical means by which composers and performers from different historical eras have staged and projected various levels of virtual agency, engaging listeners imaginatively and interactively within the expressive realms of their virtual and fictional musical worlds.




The Giant Book of Classical Sheet Music


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With more than 60 essential solo piano masterworks in their original form, this book guarantees a lifetime of exploration and challenge at the keys. Titles: *The Avalance, Op. 45, No. 2 (Heller) *Bagatelle, Op. 5, No. 10 (Tcherepnin) *Ballade, Op. 100, No. 15 (Burgmí_ller) *Bear Dance (Bartí_k) *Clair de lune, from Suite bergamasque (Debussy) *Consolation, Op. 30, No. 3, from Song without Words (Mendelssohn) *The Easy Winners (Joplin) *Elfin Dance, Op. 12, No. 4 (Grieg) *The Entertainer (Joplin) *Fantasy in D Minor, K. 397 (Mozart) *First Arabesque (Debussy) *First Gymnopí©die (Satie) *Fughetta (Zipoli) *Fí_r Elise, WoO 59 (Beethoven) *A Giddy Girl, from Histoires (Ibert) *Golliwog's Cakewalk, from Children's Corner (Debussy) *Grillen, Op. 12, No. 4, from Fantasiestí_cke (Schumann) *Impromptu in A-flat Major, Op. 142, No. 2 (Schubert) *Invention No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779 (Bach) *Invention No. 13 in A Minor, BWV 714 (Bach) *Invention No. 14 in B-Flat Major, BWV 785 (Bach) *Knecht Ruprecht, Op. 68, No. 12, from Album for the Young (Schumann) *Le Coucou (The Cuckoo) (Dacquin) *Le fille aux cheveux de lin, from Preludes, Book 1 (Debussy) *Le petit níÂgre (Debussy) *The Little White Donkey, from Histoires (Ibert) *Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin) *Menuet in G Major, WoO 10, No. 2 (Beethoven) *Minuet in G Major, Op. 14, No. 1 (Paderewski) *Moments musicaux, Op. 94, No. 3 (Schubert) *Nocturne in B-flat Major (Field) *Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2 (Chopin) *Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72, No. 1 (Chopin) *Notturno, Op. 52, No. 4 (Grieg) *O Polichinelo, from The Babyäó»s Family, Book 1 (Villa-Lobos) *Prelude in A Major, Op. 28, No. 7 (Chopin) *Prelude in C Major, BWV 846, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (Bach) *Prelude in C Minor, Op. 28, No. 20 (Chopin) *Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2 (Rachmaninoff) *Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28, No. 4 (Chopin) *Puck, Op. 71, No. 3 (Grieg) *Remando (Nazareth) *Romance, Op. 24, No. 9 (Sibelius) *Rustles of Spring, Op. 32, No. 3 (Sinding) *Sarabande, from Suite No. 4 in D Minor (Handel) *Solfeggio in C Minor (C.P.E. Bach) *Sonata in A Major, K. 331, from Rondo Alla Turca (Movement 3) (Mozart) *Sonata in A Major, Op. 120 (Movement 1) (Schubert) *Sonata in C Major, Hob. XVI/35 (Movement 1) (Haydn) *Sonata in C Major, K. 545 (Movement 1) (Mozart) *Sonata in D Major, Hob. XVI/37 (Movement 1) (Haydn) *Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13, from Pathí©tique (Movement 2) (Beethoven) *Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 (Moonlight) (Beethoven) *Sonatina in C Major, Op. 36, No. 1 (Clementi) *Sonatina in C Major, Op. 55, No. 3 (Kuhlau) *Spanish Dance, Op. 12, No. 1 (Moszkowski) *Spanish Dance, Op. 5, No. 5 (Granados) *Spinning Song, Op. 14, No. 4 (Ellmenreich) *Tango in D Major, Op. 165, No. 2, from Suite Espaí±a (Albí©niz) *To a Wild Rose, Op. 51, No. 1, from Woodland Sketches (MacDowell) *Toccata in A Major (Paradisi) *Trí_umerei, Op. 15, No. 7, from Scenes from Childhood (Schumann) *Twelfth Street Rag (Bowman) *Venetian Boat Song, Op. 19, No. 6 (Mendelssohn) *Venetian Boat Song, Op. 30, No. 6 (Mendelssohn) *Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 39, No. 15 (Brahms) *Waltz in D-flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1 (Chopin) *Waltz in E Major, Op. 39, No. 2 (Brahms)




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Notes Become Music


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Notes Become Music: A Guidebook from the Viennese Piano Tradition addresses the many unwritten nuances of dynamics, articulation and agogics as an expression of fundamental principles of a common European musical language. It treats the score as an incomplete musical shorthand that outlines the compositional and interpretive imperatives implicit within it, drawing on historical records from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and detailed comparisons of works to underline the author’s presentation of Viennese tradition. This book is not primarily concerned with questions of style or interpretation. Rather, it explains the many facets of musical notation that were taken for granted by composers who assumed a knowledge of the piano tradition of their day. Notes Become Music informs not only those students in countries where the central European music tradition is still unfamiliar, but also a younger generation of Europeans who have grown up without a living connection to their musical past.




Music of the Great Composers


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A unique guide to enhance and enrich your enjoyment of classical music, this book is for music lovers who want to better understand the works of the masters.