Symphony number five in B♭ major
Author : Franz Schubert
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 11,47 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Symphonies (Piano), Arranged
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Author : Franz Schubert
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 11,47 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Symphonies (Piano), Arranged
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Author : Antonín Dvořák
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,84 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Piano music, Arranged
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Author : Anton Bruckner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486416917
Featuring strikingly original harmonies and an extended structure and tonal range, this staple of the orchestral repertoire is a landmark of the Austro-Germanic symphonic tradition. Authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel edition.
Author : Antonín Dvořák
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Symphonies
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Author : Antonín Dvořák
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Piano music, Arranged
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Author : Charles Rosen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393040203
Presents a detailed analysis of the musical styles and forms developed by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven.
Author : Nate Sloan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190056657
Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what's playing? Switched on Pop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been hailed by NPR, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Entertainment Weekly for its witty and accessible analysis of Top 40 hits. Through close studies of sixteen modern classics, musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding shift pop from the background to the foreground, illuminating the essential musical concepts behind two decades of chart-topping songs. In 1939, Aaron Copland published What to Listen for in Music, the bestseller that made classical music approachable for generations of listeners. Eighty years later, Nate and Charlie update Copland's idea for a new audience and repertoire: 21st century pop, from Britney to Beyoncé, Outkast to Kendrick Lamar. Despite the importance of pop music in contemporary culture, most discourse only revolves around lyrics and celebrity. Switched on Pop gives readers the tools they need to interpret our modern soundtrack. Each chapter investigates a different song and artist, revealing musical insights such as how a single melodic motif follows Taylor Swift through every genre that she samples, André 3000 uses metric manipulation to get listeners to "shake it like a Polaroid picture," or Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee create harmonic ambiguity in "Despacito" that mirrors the patterns of global migration. Replete with engaging discussions and eye-catching illustrations, Switched on Pop brings to life the musical qualities that catapult songs into the pop pantheon. Readers will find themselves listening to familiar tracks in new waysand not just those from the Top 40. The timeless concepts that Nate and Charlie define can be applied to any musical style. From fanatics to skeptics, teenagers to octogenarians, non-musicians to professional composers, every music lover will discover something ear-opening in Switched on Pop.
Author : Simon Morrison
Publisher : HMH
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0547844131
This account of the renowned composer’s neglected wife—including her years in a Soviet prison—is “a story both riveting and wrenching” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Serge Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant composers yet is an enigma to historians and his fans. Why did he leave the West and move to the Soviet Union despite Stalin’s crimes? Why did his astonishing creativity in the 1930s soon dissolve into a far less inspiring output in his later years? The answers can finally be revealed, thanks to Simon Morrison’s unique and unfettered access to the family’s voluminous papers and his ability to reconstruct the tragic, riveting life of the composer’s wife, Lina. Morrison’s portrait of the marriage of Lina and Serge Prokofiev is the story of a remarkable woman who fought for survival in the face of unbearable betrayal and despair and of the irresistibly talented but heartlessly self-absorbed musician she married. Born to a Spanish father and Russian mother in Madrid at the end of the nineteenth century and raised in Brooklyn, Lina fell in love with a rising-star composer—and defied convention to be with him, courting public censure. She devoted her life to Serge and art, training to be an operatic soprano and following her brilliant husband to Stalin’s Russia. Just as Serge found initial acclaim—before becoming constricted by the harsh doctrine of socialist-realist music—Lina was at first accepted and later scorned, ending her singing career. Serge abandoned her and took up with another woman. Finally, Lina was arrested and shipped off to the gulag in 1948. She would be held in captivity for eight awful years. Meanwhile, Serge found himself the tool of an evil regime to which he was forced to accommodate himself. The contrast between Lina and Serge is one of strength and perseverance versus utter self-absorption, a remarkable human drama that draws on the forces of art, sacrifice, and the struggle against oppression. Readers will never forget the tragic drama of Lina’s life, and never listen to Serge’s music in quite the same way again.
Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 10,28 MB
Release : 1956
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Author : Matthew Guerrieri
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 0804170193
A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012 A New Yorker Best Book of the Year Los Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the Year This revelatory book of music history examines what is perhaps the best known and most-popular symphony ever written—and its famous four-note opening. Reaching back before Beethoven’s time, Matthew Guerrieri uncovers premonitions of the opening notes in the rhythms of ancient Greek poetry and the music of the French Revolution. He discusses the Fifth’s impact when it premiered, tracing the artistic, philosophical, and political reverberations across Europe to China, Russia, and the United States, from Romanticism to ring tones, from propaganda to pop. This fascinating piece of musical detective work is a treat for music lovers of every stripe.