Hooked on Classics

Hooked on Classics
Author: Kenneth A. Christensen
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 1078
Release: 2024-08-21
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Drawing on his love and his own appreciation for classical music, Kenneth A. Christensen works to help educate and inspire fellow music lovers regarding numerous composers and their contributions to music throughout the years. Including composer biographies, suggested list of recordings, and music history, Hooked on Classics will surely help amateur music lovers to gain a better, firmer understanding of music. About the Author Kenneth A. Christensen is a private music teacher and church soloist from Crystal Lake, IL. He has won a Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who's Who in America in 2020. He is a graduate of Crystal Lake South High School and McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, IL, and Elmhurst University in Elmhurst, IL. He has served as cantor and assistant choir director to St. John's Lutheran Church in Algonquin, IL and Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church in McHenry, IL. He is a prolific composer as well as the author of sixteen books.

Early Broadway Sheet Music

Early Broadway Sheet Music
Author: Donald J. Stubblebine
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2015-06-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1476605602

This work, a companion to the author's Broadway Sheet Music: A Comprehensive Listing of Published Music from Broadway and Other Stage Shows, 1918 through 1993 (McFarland 1996), provides information about all sheet music published (1843-1918) from all Broadway productions--plus music from local shows, minstrel shows, night club acts, vaudeville acts, touring companies, and shows on the road that never made it to Broadway--and all the major musicals from Chicago.

Favorite waltzes, polkas, and other dances for solo piano

Favorite waltzes, polkas, and other dances for solo piano
Author: Johann Strauss
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 163
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486278514

Complete measure-for-measure piano transcriptions of the best-known Strauss waltzes, and many favorite polkas, galops, quadrilles, and polka-mazurkas, reprinted from authoritative G. Schirmer editions. Includes On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Emperor Waltz, highlights from Die Fledermaus, Pizzicato-Polka, One Heart, One Mind polka-mazurka, 23 more.

The Best of Johann Strauss, Jr. Waltzes

The Best of Johann Strauss, Jr. Waltzes
Author: Paul Paradise
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 32
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457458309

Paul Paradise has selected and edited 26 beautiful Strauss waltzes specifically for string quartet or string orchestra. The pieces were chosen to provide each player with a meaningful part, and have been assembled according to level of difficulty and edited with contemporary fingerings and bowings. Contents are: * Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op. 325 -- Waltz No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 * Artist's Life, Op. 316 -- Waltz No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 * Wine, Woman, and Song, Op. 333 -- Waltz No. 1, 2, 3, 4 * Viennese Blood, Op. 354 -- Waltz No. 1, 2, 3, 4, Coda * Emperor Waltz, Op. 437 -- Waltz No. 1, 2, 3, 4.

The Last Waltz

The Last Waltz
Author: John Suchet
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2016-05-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250094100

Captured in a beautiful package, including more than fifty color photographs, The Last Waltz tells the intriguing story of of the Viennese Strauss family known for producing some of the best known, best loved music of the nineteenth century. Johann and Josef Strauss, the Waltz Kings, composed hundreds of instantly recognizable and enduring melodies, including The Blue Danube Waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Voices of Spring and The Radetzky March. Their iconic music has been featured on the scores of nearly a thousand films. Yet despite their success, this was a family riven with tension, feuds and jealousy, living in a country that was undergoing seismic upheaval. Through the personal and political chaos, the Strauss family continued to compose music to which the Viennese – anxious to forget their troubles – could dance and drank champagne, even as their country hurtled towards oblivion at the hands of the First World War. Classical music expert and radio host John Suchet skillfully portrays this gripping story, capturing the family dramas, the tensions, triumphs and disasters against the turbulent backdrop of Austria in the nineteenth century, from revolution to regicide.

Ten Waltzes by Johann Strauss, Jr. for Solo Piano

Ten Waltzes by Johann Strauss, Jr. for Solo Piano
Author: GAIL SMITH
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2017-06-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1619117460

A wonderful book containing 10 of the most beautiful, charming waltzes selected from the nearly 400 waltzes composed by Johann Strauss, Jr. This truly unique book captures the grace of this popular dance form and will be enjoyed by students of all ages. Includes access to online audio that is useful for educational purposes to hear all ten lovely waltzes selected in this book as performed by the author. The piano solo album is over an hour in length.