Free Composition

Free Composition
Author: Heinrich Schenker
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2001
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781576470749

The first two volumes of Heinrich Schenker's masterwork Neue musikalische Theorien und Phantasien, Harmonielehren (1906), and Kontrapunkt (1910 and 1922), laid the foundations for the harmonic aspect of his theory. The specific voice-leading component was a later development, progressing with brilliance over the last 15 years of his life. It is in Free Composition (Freie Satz, 1935) that the idea of voice-leading receives its most detailed and precise formulation. Pendragon Press is honored to make this distinguished reprint available once again, with a new preface by Carl Schacter.

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.

Sviatoslav Richter

Sviatoslav Richter
Author: Bruno Monsaingeon
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2002-09-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0691095493

"Sviatoslav Richter was a dazzling performer but an intensely private man. Though world famous and revered by classical music lovers everywhere, he guarded himself and his thoughts as carefully as his talent. Fascinated, author and filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon tried vainly for years to interview the enigmatic pianist. Richter eventually yielded, granting Monsaingeon hours of taped conversation, unlimited access to his diaries and notebooks, and, ultimately his friendship. This book is the product of that friendship. It offers readers the sizable pleasure of lingering in the thoughts and words of one of the most important pianists of the twentieth century. Sviatoslav Richter belongs on the shelves of everyone with a classical music collection and will also appeal to lovers of autobiography and admirers of Russian musical culture." -- Back cover

The Essential Canon of Classical Music

The Essential Canon of Classical Music
Author: David Dubal
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 796
Release: 2003-10-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780865476646

Identifies almost two hundred forty composers whose works are most important to an understanding of classical music, with essays on sixty of the most significant. Presented in chronological order for the Medieval, Renaissance, and Elizabethan ages, the age of the Baroque, the age of Classicism, the Romantic age, and the age of Modernism.

Chamber Music

Chamber Music
Author: Mark A. Radice
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2012-01-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0472051652

A thorough overview and history of chamber music

Beethoven as I Knew Him

Beethoven as I Knew Him
Author: Anton Schindler
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 562
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780486292328

Intimate biography by Beethoven's pupil and secretary recalls composer's personality, contemporaries, deafness, irascible behavior, etc. Extensively annotated by Beethoven scholar Donald MacArdle. Revised 3rd edition. Editor's Notes. Introduction. Includes 7 illustrations.

Unity in Variety

Unity in Variety
Author: Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2024-11-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 3990942328

This Festschrift celebrates the great Mendelssohn scholar R. Larry Todd, Arts & Sciences Professor at Duke University, whose dedication to, study of, and mentorship in 19th-century music has shaped two generations of musicological study. Encompassing former/current students and colleagues, the contributing authors to this book investigate the life and work of the Mendelssohns, their circle, and issues of reception history; Beethoven and piano-related studies; and special musical relationships. The book's title references a famous quote by Felix Mendelssohn: "The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety." It also acknowledges the thematic diversity of this volume and the unifying effect that Todd's outstanding monographs on Felix and Fanny have had on a variety of musicians and scholars.

Brahms Studies

Brahms Studies
Author: David Brodbeck
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780803212435

Examines the broad range of current Brahms research, including documentary studies, historical and critical essays, and case studies of individuals works