The Complete Chopin Mazurkas

The Complete Chopin Mazurkas
Author: Stephen Aron
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2010-10-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1609742893

This collection presents, for the first time, the complete Mazurkas of Frederic Chopin arranged for solo classical guitar. the Mazurka is the only form the composer embraced throughout his lifetime. the distinctive and personal pieces are unimaginably varied and colorful, ranging from brief and vigorous dances to deep and complex extended works. Always achingly melodic and featuring surprising harmonies not evident in his other compositions, the Mazurkas are a true monument to Chopin's genius. These new arrangements were prepared with rigorous fidelity to the originals, while never sacrificing true playability. Careful attention to every detail of execution combined with thorough notes on each piece and the folk dance tradition that inspired them to make this unique offering truly user-friendly. Musically beautiful, idiomatic and accessible, this monumental collection is a breathtaking addition to the guitar repertoire. Written in standard notation only.

The Complete Chopin Mazurkas

The Complete Chopin Mazurkas
Author: Stephen Aron
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2010-10-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1609742893

This collection presents, for the first time, the complete Mazurkas of Frederic Chopin arranged for solo classical guitar. the Mazurka is the only form the composer embraced throughout his lifetime. the distinctive and personal pieces are unimaginably varied and colorful, ranging from brief and vigorous dances to deep and complex extended works. Always achingly melodic and featuring surprising harmonies not evident in his other compositions, the Mazurkas are a true monument to Chopin's genius. These new arrangements were prepared with rigorous fidelity to the originals, while never sacrificing true playability. Careful attention to every detail of execution combined with thorough notes on each piece and the folk dance tradition that inspired them to make this unique offering truly user-friendly. Musically beautiful, idiomatic and accessible, this monumental collection is a breathtaking addition to the guitar repertoire. Written in standard notation only.

Chopin -- Mazurkas (Complete)

Chopin -- Mazurkas (Complete)
Author: Frédéric Chopin
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1997-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780739019504

A painstakingly researched edition of all of the mazurkas presently known to be authentic works of Chopin; 57 in all. The mazurka, a Polish national dance in triple meter, was first introduced to the realm of art music by Chopin. The works in this collection have been carefully edited from the original manuscripts and from the first German, French and English editions. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance.

The Complete Chopin Mazurkas

The Complete Chopin Mazurkas
Author: Professor of History and Vice Chair for Academic Personnel Stephen Aron
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ISBN: 9789780786656

This collection presents, for the first time, the complete Mazurkas of Frederic Chopin arranged for solo classical guitar. The Mazurka is the only form thecomposer embraced throughout his lifetime. The distinctive and personal pieces are unimaginably varied and colorful, ranging from brief and vigorous dances to deep and complex extended works. Always achingly melodic and featuringsurprising harmonies not evident in his other compositions, the Mazurkas are a true monument to Chopin's genius. These new arrangements were prepared withrigorous fidelity to the originals, while never sacrificing true playability. Carefulattention to every detail of execution combined with thorough notes on eachpiece and the folk dance tradition that inspired them to make this unique offering truly user-friendly. Musically beautiful, idiomatic and accessible, this monumental collection is a breathtaking addition to the guitar repertoire. Written in standard notation only.

All Music Guide to Classical Music

All Music Guide to Classical Music
Author: Chris Woodstra
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 1620
Release: 2005
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780879308650

Offering comprehensive coverage of classical music, this guide surveys more than eleven thousand albums and presents biographies of five hundred composers and eight hundred performers, as well as twenty-three essays on forms, eras, and genres of classical music. Original.

Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire, third edition

Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire, third edition
Author: Maurice Hinson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 986
Release: 2001-05-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780253109088

"The Hinson" has been indispensable for performers, teachers, and students. Now updated and expanded, it's better than ever, with 120 more composers, expertly guiding pianists to solo literature and answering the vital questions: What's available? How difficult is it? What are its special features? How does one reach the publisher? The "new Hinson" includes solo compositions of nearly 2,000 composers, with biographical sketches of major composers. Every entry offers description, publisher, number of pages, performance time, style and characteristics, and level of difficulty. Extensively revised, this new edition is destined to become a trusted guide for years to come.

A Sound Mind

A Sound Mind
Author: Paul Morley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 625
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1635570255

For readers of Mozart in the Jungle and Year of Wonder, a new history of and guide to classical music. Paul Morley made his name as a journalist covering the rock and pop of the 1970s and 1980s. But as his career progressed, he found himself drawn toward developing technologies, streaming platforms, and, increasingly, the music from the past that streaming services now made available. Suddenly able to access every piece Mozart or Bach had ever written and to curate playlists that worked with these musicians' themes across different performers, composers, and eras, he began to understand classical music in a whole new way and to believe that it was music at its most dramatic and revealing. In A Sound Mind, Morley takes readers along on his journey into the history and future of classical music. His descriptions, explanations, and guidance make this seemingly arcane genre more friendly to listeners and show the music's power, depth, and timeless beauty. In Morley's capable hands, the history of the classical genre is shown to be the history of all music, with these long-ago pieces influencing everyone from jazz greats to punk rockers and the pop musicians of today.

Chopin at the Boundaries

Chopin at the Boundaries
Author: Jeffrey Kallberg
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674127913

The complex cultural status of Chopin--he was a native Pole and adopted Frenchman, a male composer writing in "feminine" genres--is the subject of Kallberg's absorbing book. Combining social history, literary theory, musicology, and feminist thought, this book situates Chopin's music within the construct of his somewhat marginal sexual identity.

Beyond the Score

Beyond the Score
Author: Nicholas Cook
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2013
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199357404

In Beyond the Score: Music as Performance, author Nicholas Cook supplants the traditional musicological notion of music as writing, asserting instead that it is as performance that music is loved, understood, and consumed. This book reconceives music as an activity through which meaning is generated in real time, as Cook rethinks familiar assumptions and develops new approaches. Focusing primarily but not exclusively on the Western 'art' tradition, Cook explores perspectives that range from close listening to computational analysis, from ethnography to the study of recordings, and from the social relations constructed through performance to the performing (and listening) body. In doing so, he reveals not only that the notion of music as text has hampered academic understanding of music, but also that it has inhibited performance practices, placing them in a textualist straightjacket. Beyond the Score has a strong historical emphasis, touching on broad developments in twentieth-century performance style and setting them into their larger cultural context. Cook also investigates the relationship between recordings and performance, arguing that we do not experience recordings as mere reproductions of a performance but as performances in their own right. Beyond the Score is a comprehensive exploration of new approaches and methods for the study of music as performance, and will be an invaluable addition to the libraries of music scholars-including musicologists, music theorists, and music cognition scholars-everywhere.