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Beethoven for a Later Age

Living with the String Quartets

by Edward Dusinberre ...

"A richly detailed portrayal of the intimate workings of a great string quartet . . . as revealed to us through the recollections of its first violinist."—Philip RothEdward Dusinberre, first violinist of the renowned Takács Quartet, offers a rare peek inside the workings of his ensemble, while providing an insightful history of Beethoven's sixteen string quartets and their performance.Founded in ... Read more

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"A richly detailed portrayal of the intimate workings of a great string quartet . . . as revealed to us through the recollections of its first violinist."—Philip RothEdward Dusinberre, first violinist of the renowned Takács Quartet, offers a rare peek inside the workings of his ensemble, while providing an insightful history of Beethoven's sixteen string quartets and their performance.Founded in
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Rossini

by Andrea Chegai ...

Rossini aveva 37 anni e 39 opere alle spalle quando si ritirò dalle scene teatrali dopo avervi esercitato un'egemonia incontrastata. Eclettico, altalenante tra comico e tragico, e prolifico sperimentatore di generi, raggiunse e impose uno stile sovraregionale, nella fedeltà a un ideale di bellezza ineffabile che la sua musica sempre inseguì: una musica che diede voce ai suoi personaggi esprimendo, ... Read more

$16.99 USD

Rossini aveva 37 anni e 39 opere alle spalle quando si ritirò dalle scene teatrali dopo avervi esercitato un'egemonia incontrastata. Eclettico, altalenante tra comico e tragico, e prolifico sperimentatore di generi, raggiunse e impose uno stile sovraregionale, nella fedeltà a un ideale di bellezza ineffabile che la sua musica sempre inseguì: una musica che diede voce ai suoi personaggi esprimendo,
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Con Brio

Four Russians Called the Budapest String Quartet

by Nat Brandt ...

A 1959 New Yorker profile captured the inspired risk-taking and raw creative spark of a Budapest String Quartet rehearsal: "Sasha leaped from his chair and with violin held aloft, played the passage with exaggerated schmalz, like a street fiddler in Naples. Kroyt...stopped playing and started singing a Russian song....Mischa Schneider thereupon performed a number of stupendous triads on his cello. ... Read more

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A 1959 New Yorker profile captured the inspired risk-taking and raw creative spark of a Budapest String Quartet rehearsal: "Sasha leaped from his chair and with violin held aloft, played the passage with exaggerated schmalz, like a street fiddler in Naples. Kroyt...stopped playing and started singing a Russian song....Mischa Schneider thereupon performed a number of stupendous triads on his cello.
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A Notebook for Viola Players

by Ivo-Jan van der Werff ...

In A Notebook for Viola Players, Ivo-Jan van der Werff offers a guide to playing the viola with the greatest freedom, dexterity, and ease. It includes right and left hand exercises to build a sound technique, sections on how to practice them, how to hold the viola and bow, how to think about good posture, how to create a good sound, how to play with the least amount of tension, how to deal with ... Read more

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In A Notebook for Viola Players, Ivo-Jan van der Werff offers a guide to playing the viola with the greatest freedom, dexterity, and ease. It includes right and left hand exercises to build a sound technique, sections on how to practice them, how to hold the viola and bow, how to think about good posture, how to create a good sound, how to play with the least amount of tension, how to deal with
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Mozart Studies 2

Edited by Simon P. Keefe ...

Series series Cambridge Composer Studies
Cultural, historical and reception-related contexts are central to understanding Mozart, one of the greatest and most famous musicians of all time. Widening and refining the lens through which the composer is viewed, the essays in Mozart Studies 2 focus on themes, issues, works and repertories perennially popular among Mozart scholars of all kinds, pointing to areas primed for future study and ... Read more

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Cultural, historical and reception-related contexts are central to understanding Mozart, one of the greatest and most famous musicians of all time. Widening and refining the lens through which the composer is viewed, the essays in Mozart Studies 2 focus on themes, issues, works and repertories perennially popular among Mozart scholars of all kinds, pointing to areas primed for future study and
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靜默之聲：蕭士塔高維契與他的十五首弦樂四重奏

Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His FifteenQuartets

by 溫蒂・蕾瑟 ...

Translated by 朱得嘉 ...

溫蒂．蕾瑟，一位評論界寧靜的巨人，最近將她廣袤無垠的好奇心轉向一位被上了枷鎖的天才。《靜默之聲》是她以十五首弦樂四重奏為框架寫成的傳記。蕾瑟的出發點是，弦樂四重奏是蕭士塔高維契最發自內心的音樂——正如如他的遺孀所說，它們記錄著「他靈魂故事的日記」——也是我們通往作曲家內心世界的最佳途徑。——《句號網》，卡萊爾（Alli Carlisle）在此之前，絕大部份關於蕭士塔高維契的書不是聚焦在他的交響曲和歌劇，就是他和他所身處的政權之間的關係，或者兩者兼有，因為這些大型作品正是他最備受關注，有時則是遭到蘇聯政權譴責的作品。本書帶我們從後門——他的十五首弦樂四重奏——一窺蕭士塔高維契。他的遺孀認為這些作品是「他靈魂故事的日記」。靜默和聲音有很多種，包括史達林時期大膽的作家、藝術家和音樂家的政治性噤聲；蕭士塔高維契的歌劇的失聲（他轉向弦樂四重奏前被迫放棄的形式）；還有他死去的摯友的死寂之聲 ... Read more

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溫蒂．蕾瑟，一位評論界寧靜的巨人，最近將她廣袤無垠的好奇心轉向一位被上了枷鎖的天才。《靜默之聲》是她以十五首弦樂四重奏為框架寫成的傳記。蕾瑟的出發點是，弦樂四重奏是蕭士塔高維契最發自內心的音樂——正如如他的遺孀所說，它們記錄著「他靈魂故事的日記」——也是我們通往作曲家內心世界的最佳途徑。——《句號網》，卡萊爾（Alli Carlisle）在此之前，絕大部份關於蕭士塔高維契的書不是聚焦在他的交響曲和歌劇，就是他和他所身處的政權之間的關係，或者兩者兼有，因為這些大型作品正是他最備受關注，有時則是遭到蘇聯政權譴責的作品。本書帶我們從後門——他的十五首弦樂四重奏——一窺蕭士塔高維契。他的遺孀認為這些作品是「他靈魂故事的日記」。靜默和聲音有很多種，包括史達林時期大膽的作家、藝術家和音樂家的政治性噤聲；蕭士塔高維契的歌劇的失聲（他轉向弦樂四重奏前被迫放棄的形式）；還有他死去的摯友的死寂之聲
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Kalimba Easy Arrangements - Classical Music Themes - 1

Play by Symbols + MP3-Sound Downloads

by Reynhard Boegl ...

Series Book 14 - Kalimba Songbooks
Songbook with 10 Classical Music Themes, easy arranged (melody with ornaments) for the Kalimba with 17 tines.No knowledge of music notes is required - play by numbers / symbols!The MP3 sounds are available online in a player with adjustable playback speed (web address in the book).The sounds and other links are accessible with the iOS and Android app and your interne... ... Read more

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Songbook with 10 Classical Music Themes, easy arranged (melody with ornaments) for the Kalimba with 17 tines.No knowledge of music notes is required - play by numbers / symbols!The MP3 sounds are available online in a player with adjustable playback speed (web address in the book).The sounds and other links are accessible with the iOS and Android app and your interne...
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Beethoven's Early Chamber Music: A Listening Guide

by Terence O'Grady ...

Beethoven's early chamber music is, for many listeners, largely an unexplored treasure trove of fresh, often highly creative, sometimes surprising music. This listening guide will help the interested listener experience this music more fully, by providing detailed examples of what to expect and what to listen for among Beethoven's chamber works up to and including the famous string quartets of Op. ... Read more

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Beethoven's early chamber music is, for many listeners, largely an unexplored treasure trove of fresh, often highly creative, sometimes surprising music. This listening guide will help the interested listener experience this music more fully, by providing detailed examples of what to expect and what to listen for among Beethoven's chamber works up to and including the famous string quartets of Op.
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Bulgarian Harmony

In Village, Wedding, and Choral Music of the Last Century

by Kalin S. Kirilov ...

Series series SOAS Studies in Music
An in-depth study of the Bulgarian harmonic system is long overdue. More than two decades since the Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares choir was awarded a Grammy (1990), there is no scholarly study of the captivating sounds of Bulgarian vertical sonorities. Kalin Kirilov traces the gradual formation of a unique harmonic system that developed in three styles of Bulgarian music: village music from the ... Read more

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An in-depth study of the Bulgarian harmonic system is long overdue. More than two decades since the Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares choir was awarded a Grammy (1990), there is no scholarly study of the captivating sounds of Bulgarian vertical sonorities. Kalin Kirilov traces the gradual formation of a unique harmonic system that developed in three styles of Bulgarian music: village music from the
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Inherit the Truth 1939-1945

The Documented Experiences of a Survivor of Auschwitz and Belsen

by Anita Lasker-Wallfisch ...

This is the story of the destruction of a talented Jewish family, and of the survival against all the odds of two young sisters. It is one of the most moving stories to emerge from the Second World War. Anita and her elder sister Renate defied death at the hands of the Gestapo and the SS over a period of two and a half years when they were sucked into the whirlpool of Nazi mass extermination, ... Read more

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This is the story of the destruction of a talented Jewish family, and of the survival against all the odds of two young sisters. It is one of the most moving stories to emerge from the Second World War. Anita and her elder sister Renate defied death at the hands of the Gestapo and the SS over a period of two and a half years when they were sucked into the whirlpool of Nazi mass extermination,
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Beethoven: Variations on a Life

by Mark Evan Bonds ...

Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career-even in the face of deafness-Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency, the music historian Mark Evan Bonds argues, provides the key to understanding the composer's life and works. Beethoven approached music as he approached life, weighing whatever occupied him ... Read more

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Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career-even in the face of deafness-Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency, the music historian Mark Evan Bonds argues, provides the key to understanding the composer's life and works. Beethoven approached music as he approached life, weighing whatever occupied him
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Der Schwan

Sanfte Elegie für Alt-Saxophon

by Camille Saint-Saëns ...

Spiel eines der elegantesten und bekanntesten Stücke von Camille Saint-Saëns auf deinem Alt-Saxophon. In dieser speziell für Saxophon arrangierten Fassung erklingt „Der Schwan“ in der saxophongerechten Tonart As-Dur. Die sanfte, fließende Melodie im ruhigen 6/8-Takt schafft eine schwerelose, fast träumerische Atmosphäre und lädt zu viel Ausdruck und Klangschönheit ein. Das Leadsheet ist bewusst ... Read more

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Spiel eines der elegantesten und bekanntesten Stücke von Camille Saint-Saëns auf deinem Alt-Saxophon. In dieser speziell für Saxophon arrangierten Fassung erklingt „Der Schwan“ in der saxophongerechten Tonart As-Dur. Die sanfte, fließende Melodie im ruhigen 6/8-Takt schafft eine schwerelose, fast träumerische Atmosphäre und lädt zu viel Ausdruck und Klangschönheit ein. Das Leadsheet ist bewusst
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Duets for Chromatic Harmonica - 20 pieces from the "Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach"

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by Reynhard Boegl ...

Songbook with 20 pieces from the "Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach", notated as duets for the Chromatic Harmonica.After the death of his first wife, the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach married Anna Magdalena Wilcken in 1721. In 1725 he gave her a valuable music book with a precious cover and gold initials. Presumably in connection with the domestic music-making in the large Bach family, a ... Read more

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Songbook with 20 pieces from the "Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach", notated as duets for the Chromatic Harmonica.After the death of his first wife, the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach married Anna Magdalena Wilcken in 1721. In 1725 he gave her a valuable music book with a precious cover and gold initials. Presumably in connection with the domestic music-making in the large Bach family, a
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Tin Whistle Songbook - 48 Themes From Classical Music

notes & fingering diagrams plus Online Sounds

by Reynhard Boegl ...

Songbook with 48 themes from classical music - simply notated for the Tin Whistle / Penny Whistle / Low Whistle.The tones of the melodies were prepared with fingering images for the Tin Whistle, the rhythm of the tones is given by the classical music notation.The sounds of the songs (melody with accompanying band as well as accompanying band alone - "Playalong") are a... ... Read more

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Songbook with 48 themes from classical music - simply notated for the Tin Whistle / Penny Whistle / Low Whistle.The tones of the melodies were prepared with fingering images for the Tin Whistle, the rhythm of the tones is given by the classical music notation.The sounds of the songs (melody with accompanying band as well as accompanying band alone - "Playalong") are a...
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The Paris Conservatoire Woodwind Solos de Concours of Eugène Bozza

Vernacular Exoticism

by Lacey Golaszewski ...

Series series Routledge Research in Music
This book demonstrates how Eugène Bozza utilized exoticism to meet pragmatic demands for French nationalism, lyrical and virtuosic assessment, and efficient composition in his Paris Conservatoire woodwind solos de concours, or exam solos.Along the way, the monograph supplies biographical information on Bozza gathered from interviews with his daughter and colleagues and discovered at his archives ... Read more

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This book demonstrates how Eugène Bozza utilized exoticism to meet pragmatic demands for French nationalism, lyrical and virtuosic assessment, and efficient composition in his Paris Conservatoire woodwind solos de concours, or exam solos.Along the way, the monograph supplies biographical information on Bozza gathered from interviews with his daughter and colleagues and discovered at his archives
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Popular Classics for Violin and Piano

by Bodewalt Lampe ...

Series series Dover Chamber Music Scores
This rare collection features violin part and separate piano reduction of 25 works by Brahms, Dvorak, Händel, Herbert, Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Massenet, Elgar, and others. Suitable for intermediate-level violinists, this is an ideal edition for students, teachers, hobbyists, and professionals to use for practice, instruction, and recitals.Contents include Dvorak's Humoresk, ... Read more

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This rare collection features violin part and separate piano reduction of 25 works by Brahms, Dvorak, Händel, Herbert, Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Massenet, Elgar, and others. Suitable for intermediate-level violinists, this is an ideal edition for students, teachers, hobbyists, and professionals to use for practice, instruction, and recitals.Contents include Dvorak's Humoresk,
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Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel for Solo Piano (1917) M.68

by Maurice Ravel ...

This wonderful work by Maurice Ravel contains a score for the solo piano. It is a fine example of the composer's work and a fantastic addition to any classical musician's repertoire. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original ... Read more

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This wonderful work by Maurice Ravel contains a score for the solo piano. It is a fine example of the composer's work and a fantastic addition to any classical musician's repertoire. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original
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Eine Welt auf sechzehn Saiten

Gespräche mit dem Vogler Quartett

by Frank Schneider ...

Es ist die Königsdisziplin der Kammermusik, und seit dreißig Jahren zählt das 1985 in Ost-Berlin gegründete Vogler Quartett zu den international renommiertesten Streichquartetten – in unveränderter Besetzung. Diese Gespräche mit Frank Schneider, dem langjährigen Intendanten des Berliner Konzerthauses, zeigen, wie ein gemeinsames Musikerleben über eine so lange Zeit die Spannung halten kann. Eine ... Read more

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Es ist die Königsdisziplin der Kammermusik, und seit dreißig Jahren zählt das 1985 in Ost-Berlin gegründete Vogler Quartett zu den international renommiertesten Streichquartetten – in unveränderter Besetzung. Diese Gespräche mit Frank Schneider, dem langjährigen Intendanten des Berliner Konzerthauses, zeigen, wie ein gemeinsames Musikerleben über eine so lange Zeit die Spannung halten kann. Eine
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Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music

by Stephen Hefling ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Musical Genres
Nineteenth Century Chamber Music proceeds chronologically by composer, beginning with the majestic works of Beethoven, and continuing through Schubert, Spohr and Weber, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, the French composers, Smetana and Dvorák, and the end-of-the-century pre-modernists. Each chapter is written by a noted authority in the field. The book serves as a general introduction to Romantic ... Read more

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Nineteenth Century Chamber Music proceeds chronologically by composer, beginning with the majestic works of Beethoven, and continuing through Schubert, Spohr and Weber, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, the French composers, Smetana and Dvorák, and the end-of-the-century pre-modernists. Each chapter is written by a noted authority in the field. The book serves as a general introduction to Romantic
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Longlisted for the 2026 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction

by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason ...

What does it mean – and how does it feel – to grow up as a Black artist today?‘This exceptional book, written with a mother’s love for her seven creative children, sensitively offers profound and original insights and perspectives that enrich our culture. I feel so much wiser for reading it.’ Bernardine EvaristoWhen Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason’s eldest daughter, Isata, made her solo debut at the BBC ... Read more

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What does it mean – and how does it feel – to grow up as a Black artist today?‘This exceptional book, written with a mother’s love for her seven creative children, sensitively offers profound and original insights and perspectives that enrich our culture. I feel so much wiser for reading it.’ Bernardine EvaristoWhen Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason’s eldest daughter, Isata, made her solo debut at the BBC
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Tutti i duetti e i quartetti vocali con pianoforte di Johannes Brahms

by Francesco Bussi ...

Series series Biblioteca Musicale LIM – Saggi
Questo quarto contributo brahmsiano intende costituire un’integrazione, un’appendice, un post-scriptum (a seconda di come lo si riguarda) al secondo, incentrato sulla produzione di Lieder per voce e pianoforte. Per consenso generale, infatti, nel genere ‘Lied’ s’inscrivono pure i duetti e i quartetti con pianoforte – Lieder a più di una voce, ma Lieder a tutti gli effetti… ... Read more

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Questo quarto contributo brahmsiano intende costituire un’integrazione, un’appendice, un post-scriptum (a seconda di come lo si riguarda) al secondo, incentrato sulla produzione di Lieder per voce e pianoforte. Per consenso generale, infatti, nel genere ‘Lied’ s’inscrivono pure i duetti e i quartetti con pianoforte – Lieder a più di una voce, ma Lieder a tutti gli effetti…
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Becoming an Orchestral Musician

A Guide for Aspiring Professionals

by Richard Davis ...

Becoming an Orchestral Musician takes you on a journey into the musical profession. It is the first comprehensive guide for professional musicians on how to succeed in joining an orchestra or ensemble, and how to survive as an orchestral musician. Such crucial topics as how to obtain the right tuition, music college versus university, auditioning, nerves, the secrets of ensemble playing and ... Read more

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Becoming an Orchestral Musician takes you on a journey into the musical profession. It is the first comprehensive guide for professional musicians on how to succeed in joining an orchestra or ensemble, and how to survive as an orchestral musician. Such crucial topics as how to obtain the right tuition, music college versus university, auditioning, nerves, the secrets of ensemble playing and
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The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt

Dramaturgical Leaves: Essays about Musical Works for the Stage and Queries about the Stage, Its Composers, and Performers Part 1

Edited by Janita R. Hall-Swadley ...

Series Book 1 - The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt
In Dramaturgical Leaves: Essays about Musical Works for the Stage and Queries about the Stage, Its Composers and Performers, the third volume in Janita R. Hall-Swadley’s The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt, Liszt heralds his admiration for early nineteenth-century opera and musical stage works. He honors Gluck, the musical prophet, as the cultivator of dramatic truth in the Romantic opera ... Read more

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In Dramaturgical Leaves: Essays about Musical Works for the Stage and Queries about the Stage, Its Composers and Performers, the third volume in Janita R. Hall-Swadley’s The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt, Liszt heralds his admiration for early nineteenth-century opera and musical stage works. He honors Gluck, the musical prophet, as the cultivator of dramatic truth in the Romantic opera
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Grainger the Modernist

by Suzanne Robinson, Kay Dreyfus ...

Unaccountably, Percy Grainger has remained on the margins of both American music history and twentieth-century modernism. This volume reveals the well-known composer of popular gems to be a self-described ’hyper-modernist’ who composed works of uncompromising dissonance, challenged the conventions of folk song collection and adaptation, re-visioned the modern orchestra, experimented with ’ego-less ... Read more

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Unaccountably, Percy Grainger has remained on the margins of both American music history and twentieth-century modernism. This volume reveals the well-known composer of popular gems to be a self-described ’hyper-modernist’ who composed works of uncompromising dissonance, challenged the conventions of folk song collection and adaptation, re-visioned the modern orchestra, experimented with ’ego-less
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