Par RAVEL MAURICE. In 1920 Maurice Ravel was asked by his publisher Durand to contribute to an issue of La Revue Musicale dedicated to Claude Debussy. A supplement included the first movement of Ravel’s Sonata as well as works contributed by Debussy’s friends Stravinsky, Satie, Dukas, Bartok and de Falla to name only a few. This 1st movement of Ravel’s Sonata, of which the autograph is lost, then …

fa mineur. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. Beethoven's Sonata in F minor op. 57, the so-called Appassionata, was long considered by its creator to be the greatest of his piano sonatas. Even today, it is considered one of the milestones of the entire piano literature. Although its epithet did not appear until more than ten years after Beethoven's death, its tonal language is dominated by an incomparable …

Opus 11. Par SCHOENBERG ARNOLD. Arnold Schönberg?s Piano Pieces op. 11 are a milestone in the development of piano music. Schönberg had also already composed other atonal works, but always for voice with sung text. By contrast the Piano Pieces op. 11 are the first instrumental compositions to be written in so-called ?free atonality?. For all its revolutionary explosive power, the cycle is classica…

Jazzing Up the Ukulele by Fred Sokolow is a method book/CD for uke players who want to add jazz chord substitution principles to their arrangements. Using 7 classic jazz tunes, Fred teaches this by: comparing a simple chord arrangement to a jazzed-up version- explaining how all the variations work- and then presenting a chord/melody solo to learn for each song. Everything is written out in uke tab…

Hardcover, Cloth-Bound. Par LISZT FRANZ. This volume contains Liszt's earliest pieces written in a Hungarian style. The complete set of Magyar dallok / Ungarische National-Melodien [Hungarian songs] consisting of 11 items is published here for the first time in a scholarly edition. The composer began to write them resulting from his first return visit to Pest in 1839. The music of these pieces was…

D 944. Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. The series of symphonies in the New Schubert Edition is a milestone of modern scholarly-critical editing, lending these works a transparency lacking in earlier editions of a more romantic bent. The eight symphonies trace Schubert 's artistic evolution from the First Symphony, which develops a theme from Beethoven's Eroica, to the Mozartean Fifth and the romanticism of th…

Par KOWALCHYK GAYLE / ALEXANDER DENNIS. The music is fresh! The lyrics are current and in-tune with today's students! The subject matter is appealing! These accolades have been used to describe the all-new music in Premier Piano Course The music in Performance Book 2B includes a variety of styles including boogie, ragtime, jazz, flamenco, contemporary and more--sure to bring smiles to the faces of…

The Books of 1726-7 and 1741. Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. This is the first complete edition of the keyboard works of Jean-Philippe Rameau to incorporate all the printed collections of harpsichord music published under his supervision as well as his clavier arrangement of Les Indes Galantes. It also includes many new insights into performance practice (e. g. the handling of repeat signs in the origi…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Geistliche Musik. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Throughout his entire career Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart concerned himself with church music. To no musical genre did he contribute more works than to musica sacra. This Postcard Series includes twelve portraits, illustrations and facsimiles related to Mozart's sacred music./ Répertoire / Livre

Par ZEMLINSKY ALEXANDER. If, as the editor states, Zemlinsky's A Florentine Tragedy is one of the milestones of 20th century music theatre, its path to acceptance was rather arduous. Beginning with the troubled text by Oscar Wilde, Zemlinsky dove into the work as if in a fever. A problem arose in requesting the rights to Wilde's text, not helped by timing (and World War I), and this was but one im…

'Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour' a été réalisée le 15 Mars 1747 à l'occasion du deuxième mariage du Dauphin LouisFerdinand de Bourbon et Maria Josepha de Saxe dans le Manège de la Grande Ecurie de Versailles. Cette deuxième collaboration entre Rameau et Cahusac fait usage de la 'héroïque ballet' genre, généralement connu aujourd'hui comme 'opéraballet' basé sur plusieurs scénarios qui fonction…

Viktor Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis based on a libretto by Peter Kien, ambiguously termed in the prologue as 'a kind of opera', was composed in the ghetto Terezín in 1943/44 and is considered one of the 'milestones of intellectual resistance' in Terezín and far beyond. The libretto takes a firm stand on the political situation in life by using the means of a mystery play. In the tradition of …

Par BARTOK BELA. Béla Bartók?s six string quartets, composed between 1908 and 1940, are 20th-century milestones of the genre. His First String Quartet is closely linked to his unhappy love for the violinist Stefi Geyer, to whom he sent the initial measures of its first movement in early 1908 with the remark: ?My song of death?. When he completed all three movements of the work a year later, he had…

Der Supplementband zu Lulu enthält im A-Band ein farbiges Faksimile der vollständigen Handschrift von Bergs Particell des III. Akts, der beeindruckenden Hauptquelle für die Musik des unvollendeten Schlußakts der Oper. Im zugehörigen Kommentarband folgen auf Einleitung, Chronologie und Quellenbeschreibung mehrere Kapitel, die bestimmten Aspekten der Handschrift gewidmet sind: Anlage des Manuskripts…