Johann Sebastian Bach Volume I. This monumental study of Johann Sebastian Bach ranks among the great classics of musicology. Since its first publication in 1873-80, it has remained the basic work on Bach and the foundation of later research and study. The three-part treatment describes in chronological sequence practically everything that is known of the composer's life: his ancestry, his immediate family, his associations, his employers, and the countless occasions on which his musical genius emerged. Author Philipp Spitta accompanies this biographical material with quotations from primary sources: correspondence, family records, diaries, official documents, and more. In addition to biographical data, Spitta reviews Bach's musical production, with analyses of more than 500 pieces, covering all the important works. More than 450 musical excerpts are included in the main text, and a 43-page musical supplement illustrates longer passages. Despite the scholarly nature of this work, it also has the rare distinction of being a study that can be read with considerable enjoyment and great profit by every serious music lover, with or without a substantial background in the history of music or musical theory.

Johann Sebastian Bach Volume II. This monumental study of Johann Sebastian Bach ranks among the great classics of musicology. Since its first publication in 1873-80, it has remained the basic work on Bach and the foundation of later research and study. The three-part treatment describes in chronological sequence practically everything that is known of the composer's life: his ancestry, his immediate family, his associations, his employers, and the countless occasions on which his musical genius emerged. Author Philipp Spitta accompanies this biographical material with quotations from primary sources: correspondence, family records, diaries, official documents, and more. In addition to biographical data, Spitta reviews Bach's musical production, with analyses of more than 500 pieces, covering all the important works. More than 450 musical excerpts are included in the main text, and a 43-page musical supplement illustrates longer passages. Despite the scholarly nature of this work, it also has the rare distinction of being a study that can be read with considerable enjoyment and great profit by every serious music lover, with or without a substantial background in the history of music or musical theory.

The three volumes of The Masterwork in Music present complete English translations of major works by Austrian music theorist Heinrich Schenker, one of the twentieth century's leading figures in the field. First published in German between 1925 and 1930, these essays represent Schenker's greatest writings in analysis prior to the 1935 definitive formulation of his theory of music in Der freie Satz (Free Composition). This new publication of the long-awaited English translation, which first appeared in the distinguished Cambridge University Press edition, provides a valuable resource for scholars. Editorial annotations and elucidations by Dr. William Drabkin and his translators offer additional insights. This volume comprises the eminent Austrian theorist's main writings from the mid-1920s to 1930. In addition to essays on music theory in cultural context, the book is dominated by one of Schenker's most celebrated studies of a single work: the analysis of Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony, which discusses all four movements in painstaking detail. Volume One includes analyses of keyboard works by Bach, Scarlatti, Chopin, Beethoven, and Handel and solo violin music by Bach, along with studies of other works. Volume Two contains a major essay on Mozart's Symphony #40 in G minor and shorter studies of works by Bach, Haydn, and Reger.Reprint of The Masterwork in Music, A Yearbook, Volume III, Cambridge University Press, 1997, with a new Introduction by William Drabkin.- See more at: http://store.doverpublications.com/048678004x.html#sthash.eWy8wFW3.dpuf / Divers

Ce jeu de pratique et de l'édition étude marque la première en un seul volume la publication de cinq agrafes grands du répertoire orchestral: Jubilé Overture, Overture à l'Preciosa jeu, et des ouvertures à des opéras Der Freischütz, Euryanthe, et Obéron.L'un des premiers compositeurs de l'école romantique de la note de Carl Maria von Weber conçu conceptions nouvelles de la matière d'orchestration et sous réserve qui ont contribué à jeter les bases d'opéra du XIXe siècle. Marschner, Meyerbeer et Wagner ont été influencés par les travaux de Weber, ainsi que des derniers jours compositeurs tels que Paul Hindemith, Mahler, Stravinsky et Debussy, qui a remarqué que le son de l'orchestre de Weber dérivé de l'examen par le compositeur de l'âme de chaque instrument .Réimpression de 'Preciosa' à partir d'un Breitkopf et Härtel, Leipzig, sd édition. Tous les autres de Overtüren für Orchester von CM von Weber, C. F. Peters, Leipzig, n.d. / Orchestre

The three volumes of The Masterwork in Music present complete English translations of major works by Austrian music theorist Heinrich Schenker, one of the twentieth century's leading figures in the field. First published in German between 1925 and 1930, these essays represent Schenker's greatest writings in analysis prior to the 1935 definitive formulation of his theory of music in Der freie Satz (Free Composition). This new publication of the long-awaited English translation, which first appeared in the distinguished Cambridge University Press edition, provides a valuable resource for scholars. Editorial annotations and elucidations by Dr. William Drabkin and his translators offer additional insights. This volume features a major essay on Mozart's Symphony #40 in G minor- studies of Bach keyboard and solo cello pieces- works by Haydn and Reger- theoretical writings on sonata form and fugue- and many examples of Schenkerian theory. Volume One includes analyses of keyboard works by Bach, Scarlatti, Chopin, Beethoven, and Handel and solo violin music by Bach, along with studies of other works. Volume Three's contents include Schenker's celebrated analysis of Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony and other works.Reprint of The Masterwork in Music, A Yearbook, Volume II, Cambridge University Press, 1996, with a new Introduction by William Drabkin.- See more at: http://store.doverpublications.com/0486780031.html#sthash.Wzwx6KIG.dpuf / Divers

He lived in the shadow of death painfully aware of the tuberculosis that would kill him prematurely. But Frédéric Chopin attained immortality with his Piano works which endure as pinnacles of the instrument's repertoire. This biography by one of the nineteenth century's foremost pianists--Chopin's friend and fellow artist Franz Liszt--offers a highly informed assessment of the Polish composer's musical legacy. It is further enlivened by the author's personal acquaintance with Chopin's other friends who constituted the very cream of Parisian intellectual and artistic society.Born a year apart Chopin andLiszt came of age in an era favorable to musical change when audiences as well as performers were receptive to Romanticism's innovations. Liszt surveys the technical brilliance as well as the poetry of Chopin's masterpieces including the 'Adagio' from Piano Concerto No. 2 and Polonaise in F-sharp Minor. He also chronicles Chopin's progress from child prodigy to the darling of Parisian salons. A source of rare and unparalleled insights into Chopin's world of private anguish and public triumph this memoir recounts the composer's loneliness as a Polish emigré his tempestuous romance with George Sand and his life among a glittering social set that included Balzac Hugo Berlioz Delacroix and Schumann.Reprint of the Oliver Ditson Company Boston 1880 edition.

The three volumes of The Masterwork In Music present complete English translations of major works by Austrian music theorist Heinrich Schenker one of the twentieth century's leading figures in the field.First published in German between 1925 and 1930 these essays represent Schenker's greatest writings in analysis prior to the 1935 definitive formulation of his theory of music in Der freie Satz (Free Composition). This new publication of the long-awaited English translation which first appeared in the distinguished Cambridge University Press edition provides a valuable resource for scholars. Editorial annotations and elucidations byDr.William Drabkin and his translators offer additional insights.Volume One includes analyses of keyboard pieces by Bach Scarlatti Chopin and Beethoven along with studies of solo violin music by Bach. Volume Two contains a major essay on Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor and shorter studies of works by Bach Haydn and Reger. Volume Three's contents include Schenker's celebrated analysis of Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony and other works.

The three volumes of The Masterwork In Music present complete English translations of major works by Austrian music theorist Heinrich Schenker one of the twentieth century's leading figures in the field.First published in German between 1925 and 1930 these essays represent Schenker's greatest writings in analysis prior to the 1935 definitive formulation of his theory of music in Der freie Satz (Free Composition). This new publication of the long-awaited English translation which first appeared in the distinguished Cambridge University Press edition provides a valuable resource for scholars. Editorial annotations and elucidations byDr.William Drabkin and his translators offer additional insights.Volume One includes analyses of keyboard pieces by Bach Scarlatti Chopin and Beethoven along with studies of solo violin music by Bach. Volume Two contains a major essay on Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor and shorter studies of works by Bach Haydn and Reger. Volume Three's contents include Schenker's celebrated analysis of Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony and other works.

With Selected Songs-This collection includes over 25 Piano pieces and songs by the Tin Pan Alley pianist Dana Suesse. Nicknamed 'the Girl Gershwin' Suesse was a renowned jazz musician and composer of film scores and Broadway show tunes. She achieved national prominence with her first publication Syncopated Love Song in 1928 and went on to collaborate with some of the most prominent songwriters of the 1930s.Suesse's Piano works include Blue Moonlight Jazz Nocturne The Cocktail Suite Three Compositions For The Piano 110th Street Rhumba and Serenade To A Skyscraper. Her film scores include that of The Seven-Year Itch.Thiscollection is the first published folio of Suesse's music. Edited by her friend and executor the pianist Peter Mintun this volume and offers a profile of the composer's life and work that will be treasured by cabaret pianists jazz Piano enthusiasts and performers of the Great American Songbook.

Although best known as the sister of Felix Mendelssohn Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-47) was a virtuoso pianist and a composer of considerable merit in her own right.Her oeuvre of more than 400 compositions remained largely unknown for more than a century after her untimely death and her newly rediscovered reputation as a composer rests chiefly with her Piano music.This volume is the first American publication of her important early works. Reproduced directly from rare first editions its contents include Vier Lieder für das Pianoforte Op. 2 Op. 6 and Op. 8 in addition to two selections from Six Mélodies pour lePiano Op. 4 and Op. 5.

in Full Score-The Piano Concerto In A Minor (Op. 16) is one of the most popular concertos ever written and one of the most recognisable of all musical works in the repertoire.Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) was born in Bergen Norway and studied Piano at the Leipzig Conservatory. He became interested in Norwegian folksong and began to employ it as a source of musical material and inspiration in his compositions. He was soon established as a major composer. Despite his success Grieg was of a retiring disposition and spent most of his time at his house in Troldhaugen near Bergen avoiding visitors and shunning public acclaim.

This convenient playing and study edition marks the first single-volume publication of five great staples of the orchestral repertoire: Jubilee Overture overture to the play Preciosa and overtures to the operas Der Freischütz Euryanthe and Oberon.One of the Romantic school's first composers of note Carl Maria von Weber devised novel conceptions of orchestration and subject matter that helped to lay the foundations for nineteenth-century opera. Marschner Meyerbeer and Wagner were influenced by Weber's works as well as latter-day composers such as Hindemith Mahler Stravinsky and Debussy who remarked that the sound of the Weber orchestra derived from thecomposer's scrutiny of the soul of each instrument.Reprint of 'Preciosa' from a Breitkopf and Härtel Leipzig n.d. edition. All others from Overtüren für Orchester von C.M. von Weber C. F. Peters Leipzig n.d.