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A masterful and original classical composer as well as a renowned composer of film scores, Ernst Toch (1887-1964) made a permanent contribution to music in this important and widely praised book. Base...

Cecil Forsyth describes 57 instruments, tracing their origins, development and status at the beginning of World War I. He discusses the evolution of each instrument and players' impressions of what th...

Modulation - the change from one key to another - is a subject of critical importance to performers and composers in their study of harmony. This concise guide by a progressive early modernist offers...

Only about a tenth of Mozarts works were printed during his lifetime, the rest having been published without the benefit of his supervision. This long-awaited edition of the autograph score offers a r...

This volume consists of unaccompanied choral works composed or otherwise arranged by Johannes Brahms for mixed choruses as well as individual men's and women's choruses.

Even if you've never so much as touched a musical instrument before, this tried-and-true guide will have you strumming away in no time. Professor J. Kalani Peterson, an expert instructor, shares his s...

Arbie Orenstein. Los logros musicales de Ravel, así como su vida y su época, se recrean con brillantez en esta magistral biografía, publicada originalmente en 1975.

Name an iconic Sixties rock moment and Ellen Sander was probably there. A beautifully written, sweeping yet intimate account of America's cultural awakening in that decade. Massively entertaining - Ro...

Praised by the New York Times as gently imbued with ragtime, but aspiring 'to genuine operatic richness, ' Scott Joplin's energetic opera tells of a confident young woman whose life, in many respects,...

An unabridged republication of the work originally published by G. Schirmer, New York in 1900. Italian and English text provided.

Mozart's friendship with Anton Stadler, the clarinetist in Vienna's Royal-Imperial Court Orchestra, led to the composition of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet In A Major. The four-movement piece is arranged...

Few composers are so richly represented in concerts and recordings of chamber music as Mozart. This volume contains all eight piano trios, the two piano quartets and the piano quintet in full score, r...

Includes Six Pieces For Solo Piano, Ancient Airs and Dances and Three Preludes on Gregorian Melodies.

In addition to his genius as a composer, Schumann was a gifted critic who wrote perceptive essays, articles, and reviews for his influential musical journal, Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik. Written from 1...

Reproduced directly from the famous Breitkopf and Härtel series, this volume includes the famous 'Trout' quintet (1819), the Quartet in F Major (1816), and three delightful trios for pianoforte, violi...

Two of the most popular Baroque orchestral works in the repertoire appear here in one inexpensive, convenient volume. Full of charm and tremendous variety, Water Music features a colourful blend of co...

A monument in the history of Western music, The Well-Tempered Clavier represents not only the culmination of J. S. Bach's own maturation process but also the impetus for the emerging style and structu...

Originally published by the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music in the 1920s, this new edition of Bach 's The Well-Tempered Clavier offers illuminating perspectives on the work from a pair o...

Bach: The Art Of Fugue And A Companion To The Art Of Fugue features sheet music for the complete score of J. S. Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue) in this edition prepared by Donald Francis...

The three volumes of The Masterwork In Music present complete English translations of major works by Austrian music theorist Heinrich Schenker, one of the twentieth century's leading figures in thefie...

The three volumes of The Masterwork In Music present complete English translations of major works by Austrian music theorist Heinrich Schenker, one of the twentieth century's leading figures in thefie...

Based on the play by Beaumarchais, The Barber Of Seville is one of the greatest of all comic operas, delighting audiences with its keenly sketched characters, melodic elegance, rhythmic exhilaration,...

Eight works, including the celebrated 'Piano Quintet Op. 44', four 'Quartets' (Op. 41 Nos. 1-3 Op. 47), three 'Trios' (Opp. 63, 80, 110). Breitkopf & Hortel edition.

Edward MacDowell (1860 - 1908) was America's most prominent nineteenth-century composer. Championed by Franz Liszt, he was one of the first U. S. composers to gain international recognition. A leading...