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“robert adelson”

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  • In the Music Museum

    Seeing, Hearing, and Understanding Historical Instruments

    by Robert Adelson ...
    In the Music Museum presents an alternative view of Western classical music, as heard through historical instruments rather than musical works. It provides a fascinating guide to one hundred and fifty instruments preserved in eighty collections around the world. The instruments include the earliest or most representative examples of specific models or shed light on musical practice in a unique way ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The History of the Erard Piano and Harp in Letters and Documents, 1785–1959

    Edited by Robert Adelson, Alain Roudier, Jenny Nex, Laure Barthel, Michel Foussard ...
    Sébastien Erard and the firm that carried his name are seminal in the history of musical instruments. Erard's inventions - especially the double escapement for the piano and the double-action for the harp - have had an enormous impact on instruments and musical life and are still at the foundation of piano and harp building today. The recently discovered archives of the Erard piano and harp ... Read more

    $255.89 USD

  • Erard

    A Passion for the Piano

    by Robert Adelson ...
    Sébastien Erard's (1752-1831) inventions have had an enormous impact on instruments and musical life and are still at the foundation of piano building today. Drawing on an unusually rich set of archives from both the Erard firm and the Erard family, author Robert Adelson shows how the Erard piano played an important and often leading role in the history of the instrument, beginning in the late ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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  • The Clarinet in the Classical Period

    by Albert R. Rice ...
    A comprehensive study of the clarinet in use through the classical period, 1760 to 1830, a period of intensive musical experimentation. The book provides a detailed review and analysis of construction, design, materials, and makers of clarinets. Rice also explores how clarinet construction and performance practice developed in tandem with the musical styles of the period. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Complete Preludes, Nocturnes & Waltzes

    26 Preludes, 21 Nocturnes, 19 Waltzes for Piano

    by Frederic Chopin ...
    (Piano Collection). This new volume in Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics presents 26 preludes, 21 nocturnes and 19 waltzes a large amount of music at a value price. There are new urtext editions of seven pieces included, not edited by Joseffy in his original Schirmer editions: Prelude in A-flat Major (1834), Nocturne in C-sharp minor (1830), Nocturne in C minor (1837), and Waltzes in A-flat ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Classical Music Book

    Big Ideas Simply Explained

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Big Ideas
    Learn about the world's greatest classical compositions and musical traditions in The Classical Music Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Classic Music in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Chopin: Pianist and Teacher

    As Seen by his Pupils

    Edited by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger ...
    The first English paperback edition of the unique collection of documents which reveal Chopin as teacher and interpreter of his own music. From the accounts of his pupils, acquaintances and contemporaries, together with his own writing, we gain valuable insight into Chopin's pianistic and stylistic practice, his teaching methods and his aesthetic beliefs. The documents are divided into two ... Read more

    Was $43.99 USD Now $36.89 USD

  • How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)

    by Ross W. Duffin ...
    "A fascinating and genuinely accessible guide....Educating, enjoyable, and delightfully unscary."—Classical MusicWhat if Bach and Mozart heard richer, more dramatic chords than we hear in music today? What sonorities and moods have we lost in playing music in "equal temperament"—the equal division of the octave into twelve notes that has become our standard tuning method? Thanks to How Equal ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mozart

    A Life

    by Paul Johnson ...
    Eminent historian Paul Johnson dazzles with a rich, succinct portrait of Mozart and his musicAs he’s done in Napoleon, Churchill, Jesus, and Darwin, acclaimed historian and author Paul Johnson here offers a concise, illuminating biography of Mozart. Johnson’s focus is on the music—Mozart’s wondrous output of composition and his uncanny gift for instrumentation.Liszt once said that Mozart composed ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Erik Satie

    by Mary E. Davis ...
    Series Book 14 - Critical Lives
    A musical composer who dabbled in the Dada movement, a Bohemian ‘gymnopédiste’ of fin-de-siècle Montmartre, and a legendary dresser known as ‘The Velvet Gentleman’ for his sartorial choices, Erik Satie was nearly unprecedented in technique, style and philosophy among European composers in the early twentieth century. Yet his legacy has largely languished in the shadows of Stravinsky, Debussy and ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Oxford History of Western Music: 5-vol. set: 5-vol. set

    5-vol. set

    by Richard Taruskin ...
    The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin. Now in hardcover, the set has been reconstructed to be available for the first time as individual books, each one taking on a critical time period in the history of western music. All five books are also being offered in a shrink ... Read more

    Was $755.99 USD Now $593.99 USD

  • Debussy

    by Eric Frederick Jensen ...
    Series series Composers Across Cultures
    Nearly one hundred years after the death of its composer, the music of Claude Debussy has lost none of its breadth of appeal. With the rare ability to entice listeners on many levels, at its heart lies an engaging simplicity-one which defies traditional analysis and lends mystery to what ultimately is an extremely refined and highly personal approach to composition. Equally fascinating is Debussy ... Read more

    $56.69 USD