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  • Tales from the Symphony

    Perspectives from African American Musicians

    by Robert Lee Watt ...
    This book contains conversations with nineteen African American classical musicians currently performing—or who have previously performed—in America’s major symphony orchestras. Each chapter focuses on the story of one musician and sheds light on the realities of African American musicians playing in a musical environment that absolutely forbade their membership over half a century ago.These ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Black Horn

    The Story of Classical French Hornist Robert Lee Watt

    by Robert Lee Watt ...
    Series series African American Cultural Theory and Heritage
    The Black Horn: The Story of Classical French Hornist Robert Lee Watt tells the story of the first African American French Hornist hired by a major symphony in the United States. Today, few African Americans hold chairs in major American symphony orchestras, and Watt is the first in many years to write about this uniquely exhilarating—and at times painful—experience.The Black Horn chronicles the ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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    by Haruki Murakami, Seiji Ozawa ...
    Translated by Jay Rubin ...
    A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.In Absolutely on Music, internationally Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the revered former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for a series of conversations on their shared passion: music ... Read more

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  • Beethoven

    by George Alexander Fischer ...
    Chronicling the landmark events in Beethoven's life, this book enhances understanding of the composer's character, inspiring a deeper appreciation for his work.George Alexander Fischer illuminates the composer’s difficult childhood, his struggle to maintain friendships and romances, his ungovernable temper, his obsessive efforts to control his nephew’s life, and the excruciating decline of his ... Read more

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  • The First Four Notes

    Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination

    by Matthew Guerrieri ...
    A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New Yorker Best Book of the YearLos Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the YearA unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which has fascinated musicians, historians, and philosophers for the last two hundred years.Music ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Mozart's Grace

    by Scott Burnham ...
    Aspects of beauty in the music of MozartIt is a common article of faith that Mozart composed the most beautiful music we can know. But few of us ask why. Why does the beautiful in Mozart stand apart, as though untouched by human hands? At the same time, why does it inspire intimacy rather than distant admiration, love rather than awe? And how does Mozart's music create and sustain its buoyant and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Beethoven

    by J.W.N. Sullivan ...
    From the Author's Preface:"I believe that in his greatest music Beethoven was primarily concerned to express his personal vision of life. This vision was, of course, the product of his character and his experience. Beethoven the man and Beethoven the composer are not two unconnected entities, and the known history of the man may be used to throw light upon the character of his music."Clifton ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers: Ravel

    by James Burnett ...
    Ir has been said that no music amplifies the french ideals of precision and good taste better than the work of Maurice Ravel, yet his background could scarecly have been more cosmopolitan. The son of a Swiss father and a Basque mother, he was born near St. Jean de Luz in 1875; he died in Paris at the age of sixty-two. His primary inspiration, and in consequence the character of his best music, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Bach & God

    by Michael Marissen ...
    Bach & God explores the religious character of Bach's vocal and instrumental music in seven interrelated essays. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging interpretive insights from careful biblical and theological scrutiny of the librettos. Yet he also shows how Bach's pitches, rhythms, and tone colors can make contributions to a work's plausible meanings that go beyond setting ... Read more

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  • Discovering Classical Music: Bruckner

    by Ian Christians ...
    Series series Discovering Classical Music
    "I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" Sir Charles Groves CBE Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of classical music can be highly intimidating and confusing. Ian Christians, for many years a passionate believer in ... Read more

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  • Sheet Music for Euphonium - Book 3 (Treble Clef)

    Brass And Piano Duets Sheet Music, #9

    by Michael Shaw ...
    Series Book 9 - Brass And Piano Duets Sheet Music
    Euphonium parts in this book are written in Treble Clef.10 Classical Pieces With Euphonium/Piano DuetsThis is a Euphonium sheet music book with 10 classical sheet music pieces. Each piece has two easy arrangements, one for solo Euphonium, the other for Euphonium and Piano when playing duets. The piano parts can be played on piano or electronic keyboard, they are very easy to play and are arranged ... Read more

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  • Reflections on Liszt

    by Alan Walker ...
    In a series of lively essays that tell us much not only about the phenomenon that was Franz Liszt but also about the musical and cultural life of nineteenth-century Europe, Alan Walker muses on aspects of Liszt's life and work that he was unable to explore in his acclaimed three-volume biography of the great composer and pianist. Topics include Liszt's contributions to the Lied, the lifelong ... Read more

    $11.39 USD