Vade-Mecum of the Oboist

Vade-Mecum of the Oboist
Author: Albert J. Andraud
Publisher: Southern Music Company
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1958-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781581060584

(Southern Music). Eighty-seven daily and technical studies and repertoire include: 18 Studies (Ferling, Op. 12), Grandes Etudes and Second Cantilene (A.M. Barret), Sheperds of Provence duet in four movements for obe and English horn (Eugene Bozza, Op. 43), Sonata for Oboe in A minor (Johann Sebastian Bach), and a collection of orchestral studies from Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Dvorak, Gluck, Handel, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, Strouss, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, and many more composers. Spiral-bound.

Music for Piano and Orchestra

Music for Piano and Orchestra
Author: Maurice Hinson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1993
Genre: Concerto (Piano)
ISBN: 9780253339539

Suitable for all admirers of the piano, this work brings together more than 3,000 works for piano and orchestra. It comes with a supplement containing over 200 new entries.

A New Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers

A New Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers
Author: Margaret R. Simmons
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2004
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780809325238

Including thirty-nine pieces for voice and piano created since 1968 by eighteen artists, ANew Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers navigates a varied musical terrain from classical European tradi­tions to jazz and spirituals. With nearly half of the featured songs composed by women and with others by lesser-known and emerging composers, this im­portant collection offers a diverse, representative sampling of African American art songs and works to secure the places of these songs and artists in the canon of contemporary American music.

Source Book of Proposed Music Notation Reforms

Source Book of Proposed Music Notation Reforms
Author: Gardner Read
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 504
Release: 1987-04-03
Genre: Music
ISBN:

This is the first book to examine comprehensively the major systems of musical notation proposed during the past three centuries. Illustrating the many attempts to improve upon or replace the traditional system, this important work chronologically lists, describes, and critically analyzes the majority of the proposed reforms that have appeared over the years. No other book now available covers the subject in such depth or detail. It is not only a repository of suggested improvements in notation, but also a historical survey of the efforts made to simplify the standard practices.

Orchestral Combinations

Orchestral Combinations
Author: Gardner Read
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2004
Genre: Music
ISBN:

"Orchestral Combinations demonstrates specific instrumental combinations that have intrigued past and present composers and suggests other groupings that may prove to be of equal validity and tonal interest. This book is a thesaurus of orchestral combinations, a lexicon of the science and art of fusing timbre and sonority in symphonic scoring. Few standard manuals devote such attention to this fascinating subject as it directly relates to the imaginative deployment of orchestral instruments."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Brahms: Clarinet Quintet

Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
Author: Colin Lawson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1998-01-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521588317

On its first appearance in 1891, Brahms' Clarinet Quintet was immediately recognised as a remarkable achievement, and a century later it still has the power to claim the hearts and minds of players and audiences alike. Widely regarded as Brahms' supreme achievement in the field of chamber music, the Clarinet Quintet is here placed in the context of the history of the clarinet and its repertory, and of Brahms' own compositions before 1891. The influence of the Meiningen clarinet virtuoso Richard Mühlfeld unleashed a new vein of creativity in Brahms, and this forms a basis for discussion, together with questions of performance practice (in relation to both clarinet and string quartet) and the legacy of Brahms' clarinet music. These chapters are complemented by a comprehensive analysis of the music.

Modern Rhythmic Notation

Modern Rhythmic Notation
Author: Gardner Read
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1978-11-22
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Twentieth-century music has significantly advanced the role of rhythm. The many variants of rhythmic notation, standard and experimental alike, encountered in contemporary music frequently demand explanation and interpretation. This book catalogs and clarifies the numerous ways of notating syncopation and alternative standard rhythmic figures, new time signatures, irrational rhythmic groupings within regular and irregular meters, experimental metrical concepts and techniques, analogs, and, finally, polymeters. Read compares traditional and present-day methods of delineating the same musical expressions, from fairly simple combinations to extremely complicated patterns.