An Equal Music

An Equal Music
Author: Vikram Seth
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2000-05-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 037570924X

The author of the international bestseller A Suitable Boy returns with a powerful and deeply romantic tale of two gifted musicians. Michael Holme is a violinist, a member of the successful Maggiore Quartet. He has long been haunted, though, by memories of the pianist he loved and left ten years earlier, Julia McNicholl. Now Julia, married and the mother of a small child, unexpectedly reenters his life and the romance flares up once more. Against the magical backdrop of Venice and Vienna, the two lovers confront the truth about themselves and their love, about the music that both unites and divides them, and about a devastating secret that Julia must finally reveal. With poetic, evocative writing and a brilliant portrait of the international music scene, An Equal Music confirms Vikram Seth as one of the world's finest and most enticing writers.

Complete string quartets

Complete string quartets
Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1970-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486223728

This single volume study score contains all of Mozart's string quartets: the little-known early quartets in an Italianate manner; the six quartets dedicated to Haydn; the D Major Quartet; and the last three quartets written for the King of Prussia. In addition to the 23 string quartets, the alternate slow movement to the G Major Quartet, K.156, is included.

Adagio and rondo in C minor, K. 617, for piano, flute, oboe, viola and cello

Adagio and rondo in C minor, K. 617, for piano, flute, oboe, viola and cello
Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1985-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780769281889

Mozart's Adagio and Rondo (K. 617) was written for the armonica, or musical glasses (a set of tuned glass bowls) and a quartet consisting of flute, oboe, viola, and cello. The music is effective played as an organ solo. The Adagio may be registered "forte," in the style of Mozart's Fantasia (K. 608). The Rondo should be played on the flute stops. Arranged for organ by E. Power Briggs.

Con Brio

Con Brio
Author: Nat Brandt
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2000-07-26
Genre:
ISBN: 0595010113

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The Piano Quartet and Quintet

The Piano Quartet and Quintet
Author: Basil Smallman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1996
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780198166405

Within his broad historical narrative Professor Smallman provides descriptive analyses of key works, many with music examples, and also comments perceptively on local trends and developments.

Harmony in Haydn and Mozart

Harmony in Haydn and Mozart
Author: David Damschroder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2012-08-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107025346

Innovative analytical techniques provide a penetrating view of how Haydn and Mozart employ harmony in their compositions.

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.