Author: Antonín Dvo?ák
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 048624749X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Few composers have achieved the widespread and lasting popularity of Antonin Dvo ak. He was a master of instrumentation and symphonic form, composing a total of nine symphonies. His most celebrated work, Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" (composed during Dvo ak's three-year stay in America), echoes the folk spirit of his native Czechoslovakia as well as American influences, and is filled with the spontaneous melodic invention, rhythmic variety, and intensity of harmony that characterize his orchestral works. The popular acclaim accorded the symphony "From the New World" tends to overshadow Dvo ak's other symphonies, but "Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians" notes the "interesting form folk-spirit virile serenity" of Symphony No. 8. The delightful freshness and uninhibited emotionalism of the composition have contributed to its lasting success. The Dover edition presents both symphonic masterpieces among the most popular works in the orchestral repertoire reprinted from authoritative editions in one inexpensive, practical volume. This full-size, easy-to-read score has been printed with generous margins to allow insertion of notes, analyses, etc. The sturdy binding, high quality of reproduction, and affordable price make this volume ideal for musicians, music students, and music lovers in general."
Author: Carl Maria von Weber
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780486272627
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Virtually all of the composer's works for piano solo: 4 piano sonatas, "Invitation to the Dance," 8 sets of variations, "Grande Polonaise," others. Authoritative C. F. Peters edition.
Author: Anton Bruckner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0486262626
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Monumental and inspiring, the nine symphonies of Anton Bruckner (1824 1896) stand as late landmarks in the Austro-Germanic symphonic tradition. Their grandeur, originality, and nobility of vision have made them staples of the orchestral repertoire. Unfortunately, Bruckner's symphonies suffered in his own lifetime from revision and editing by other musicians, so that the first published editions of several of the works were quite foreign to the composer's intentions. The two symphonies in this volume have been reproduced from the authoritative Bruckner Society editions by Robert Haas, which represent most faithfully Bruckner's ideal versions. Included here are his most famous symphonies, the Symphony No. 4 in E-flat ("Romantic") and the Symphony No. 7 in E."
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780486260341
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offering unparalleled insight into Beethoven's creativity, here are superb, authoritative editions of three great orchestral masterworks filled with drama and great beauty. Includes Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67; Symphony No. 6 in F Major ("Pastoral"), Op. 68; Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92. Lists of instruments.
Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 048641390X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These 21 symphonies, composed by Mozart between 1764 and 1771 while he was still a boy, are astonishing displays of his precocious genius. Reproduced from the authoritative Breitkopf and Härtel Complete Works Edition, they abound in the qualities that characterize his finest works: melodic richness, musical invention, and a much-imitated but unsurpassed grace. A splendid way for musicians and music lovers alike to savor and study the composer's youthful development and growing mastery of symphonic form, this new and modestly priced volume completes Dover's three-part cycle of Mozart's symphonic compositions, which include Symphonies Nos. 22–34 and Nos. 35–41. All are among the most performed and recorded works in the orchestral repertoire.
Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0486266753
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Composed in Salzburg from 1773 to 1780, 13 masterworks include the much-admired Symphonies No. 25 in G Minor (the "Little G Minor") and No. 29 in A Major.
Author: Nicholas Cook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-06-24
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780521399241
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nicholas Cook's guide charts the dramatic transformation in the reception of Symphony No. 9.
Author: Gustav Mahler
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-06-10
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0486314685
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Popular, accessible work by great late-Romantic composer. A purely instrumental composition that is both hopeful and romantic in feeling. Reprinted from the authoritative German edition of 1909.
Author: Arnold Schoenberg
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 0486419002
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This piece is unusual in concentrating all the elements of a symphony into a single movement; in being written for 15 solo instruments; in using chords built up of fourths; and in creating dissonances without immediate resolution. To its first audiences, the symphony seemed shocking. But today it is one of Schoenberg's most pleasing and accessible works. Scored for a chamber ensemble of flute, oboe, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, two horns, two violins, viola, cello, and bass. Instrumentation. Glossary.