'Altogether a sensitive and tasteful document.' ??? Library JournalA series of themed essays rather than a traditional biography this profile of the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist is the work of a legendaryconductor and performer. Alfred Cortot taught at the Paris Conservatory of Music co-founded the ??cole Normale de Musique de Paris and produced printed versions of the complete works of Chopin Schumann and Debussy. In theserevealing chronicles Cortot focuses on Chopin's compositions as well as his performances and personal relationships.Beginning with an account of the composer's physical characteristics the book examines Chopin's role asa teacher; his works as reflected by his correspondence; his identity as a Polish nationalist and his attitude toward France; and his concert performances. It further explores his friendships with Liszt and Delacroix and hisromance with George Sand as well as the composer's chronic illness and the expression of his tormented sensitive nature in his music.Reprint of the Peter Nevill Limited London 1951 edition.

Unlocking the Masters Series No. 4. Mozart was the first composer whose operas have never left the international repertoire and for many he remains one of the finest vocal composers who ever lived. In a sense all of his music is vocal music depending as it does on arresting singable melodies but in his great operas single arias and sacred works Mozart put his melodic gift to work revealing the subtleties and expressive potential of a wide range of texts in languages ranging from Italian to Latin to German. In every case he created masterpieces from operas such as The Marriage of Figaro Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute to the sacred choral motet Ave Verum Corpus and of course the unfinished Requiem his final project. This second Getting the Most Out of Mozart volume in our Unlocking the Masters series focuses on Mozart's great operas and other vocal works but also discusses numerous lesser-known compositions from operas he wrote as a child to insertion arias for favorite singers or operas by other composers. In each case David Hurwitz describes how the musical setting and choice of instruments supports the text. He takes readers through the seven major operas aria by aria showing how Mozart uses vocal style and orchestration to create believable and moving characters that remain the standard for characterization in music to which all composers and dramatists aspire. The accompanying CD from Telarc Records includes 14 works.

La référence AL20551 de l'éditeur Leduc dont l'auteur célèbre est Chailley J./Challan, qui a pour titre Abrege De La Theorie De La Musique, a été écrite et composée pour Formation Musicale et plus particulièrement pour Divers. Cette partition musicale appartient à la catégorie Pédagogie. / Divers / Partition

Audio and Video Access Included-Create effective film scores! This book presents a framework for creative decision-making that will lead to producing the best music for a given scene. It supports artists working in film television video games or other media. The framework encourages clarity of concept and facilitates productive communication between the composer and director music supervisor and others involved with the project. Two case studies featuring audio and video illustrate how different creative choices can control the expressive effect of the scene. Practical worksheets are included which will help your team brainstorm articulate organize and communicate your collective ideas anddecisions. Whether you are creating music yourself or working with a composer this book will help you develop the music that is optimized for storytelling.

Par DUBOIS THEODORE. At just 34 years of age, Theodore Dubois became a professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatoire. Whilst much of his compositional works have disappeared from primary classical repertoire, his teaching has had a lasting influence. Having taught successful composers, including Paul Dukas, it is clear that Dubois' Traite D'Harmonie is well-informed. This music theory study guide covers a considerable range of theoretical aspects, from the varying musical clefs to the use of pedal notes, as well many other harmonic devices with expertise. In the preface, Dubois explains the need for his book, stating that it fills gaps in harmonic theory exercises which preceding guides had missed. With no harmonic elements left out, this Theodore Dubois theory guide is necessary to accompany all music studies./ Autre FM / Pédagogie Musicale

Rich in discussion-worthy arguments ? an important contribution to musical aesthetics. ? Die Tonkunst An excellent and expansive view of where we now are in the larger world of contemporary art music. - Academic Questions These essays by a prominent composer offer a thought-provoking exploration of a current trend in classical music. Author John Borstlap advocates a departure from the atonal characteristics typical of modern music and a return to more traditional forms. He notes that new classical composers are increasingly successful in the central performance culture because they offer a fresh approach to the problems that persist in contemporary music, where an establishment with outdated ideas still dominates the production, reception, and funding of new music. Borstlap's treatise introduces new composers, reveals instances of institutional biases, and examines issues of cultural identity, musical meaning, and the aesthetics of beauty. In order to offer readers the most up-to-date insights, this edition of TheClassical Revolution has been newly revised and expanded by the author.

The Musical Dramas Of Claudio Monteverdi-Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first great opera composer and is often hailed as the creator of modern music. His genius was often likened to that of Mozart Wagner and Verdi but in many of the world's opera houses hisoperas often receive an almost chilly respect far removed from the nearly universal love aroused by those later masters. This book the first layperson's guide to Monteverdi seeks to stimulate appreciation for his operas byexamining them not as musicological relics but as the vital theatrical experiences they are. Ringer places Monteverdi's operatic works within the musical and theatrical framework of his era offering a brief sketch of thecomposer's early years and detailing the complex forces that led to the emergence of opera in late sixteenth-century Florence. Opera's First Master enables opera lovers to see and hear Monteverdi's masterpieces anew whileopening new channels of inquiry into how Monteverdean opera “works” in the theater.

The American Song Book contains beautiful reproductions of original sheet music of the Tin Pan Alley Era. This book places these songs in historical context and provides fascinating and amusing backgrounds to the songs. Based on original archival research. The American Song Book Volume I: The Tin Pan Alley Era is the first in a projected five-volume series of books that will reprint original sheet music including covers of songs that constitute the enduring standards of Irving Berlin Jerome Kern the Gershwins and other lyricists and composers of what has been called the 'Golden Age' of American popular music. These songs havedone what popular songs are not supposed to do-stayed popular. They have been reinterpreted year after year generation after generation by jazz artists such as Charlie Parker and Art Tatum Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. In the 1950s Frank Sinatra began recording albums of these standards and was soon followed by such singers as Tony Bennet Doris Day Willie Nelson and Linda Ronstadt. In more recent years these songs have been reinterpreted by Rod Stewart Harry Connick Jr. Carly Simon Lady GaGa K.D. Laing Paul McCartney and most recently Bob Dylan. As such these songs constitute the closest thing America has to a repertory of enduring classical music. In addition to reprinting the sheet music for these classic songs authors Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson place these songs in historical context with essays about the sheet-music publishing industry known as Tin Pan Alley the emergence of American musical comedy on Broadway and the 'talkie' revolution that made possible the Hollywood musical. The authors also provide biographical sketches of songwriters performers and impresarios such as Florenz Ziegfeld. In addition they analyze the lyrical and musical artistry of each song and relate anecdotes sometimes amusing sometimes poignant about how the songs were created. The American

Cet ouvrage cherche à continuer un travail de mémoire et de constitution d'un patrimoine écrit de la musique improvisée. Il s'attache aussi à lancer des passerelles entre les genres, offrant à deux univers assez étanches (la musique classique écrite et la musique jazz improvisée) un même support de travail.- Aux musiciens de jazz, ces transcriptions permettront de pénétrer dans l'univers d'un des pianistes de jazz les plus marquants de son époque à travers son premier album solo?:- grilles originales manuscrites de Brad Mehldau?-- mise en page facilitant l'analyse musicale, par un respect permanent des structures?-- pistes de travail ébauchées par des commentaires préliminaires à chaque morceau.- Aux musiciens de formation classique, ces transcriptions permettront de découvrir la musique improvisée de l'intérieur?:- album très écrit, permettant une entrée en douceur dans le monde de la musique improvisée?-- relevé intégral, note pour note, chorus compris, de l'ensemble de l'album?-- pièces de différents formats et de difficulté variable.- Pour tous enfin, et pour mieux entrer dans l'univers de ce musicien d'exception, ces transcriptions sont enrichies de textes offrant quelques clés de compréhension de tout ce qui fait la beauté et l'achèvement de cet album ' Elegiac Cycle '?:- entretien de Ludovic Florin avec Brad Mehldau, 10 ans plus tard, où le musicien revient sur cette aventure, s'ouvre sur sa démarche, et nous offre sa vision d'artiste?-- commentaires globaux lançant quelques pistes de réflexion sur les sources d'inspiration de l'artiste dans cet album, littéraires (poésie romantique allemande du XIXe siècle, mythologie grecque ou littérature Beatnik américaine) et musicales (de l'explosion contrapunctique de Bach au lyrisme exacerbé de Beethoven, Schubert ou Brahms)?-- édition bilingue, car la musique ne connaît pas de frontières.This work seeks above all to continue the work of memory that constitutes the written heritage of improvised music in general, and jazz in particular. It also tries to build bridges between genres, offering to two rather different universes (written classical music and improvised jazz music) the same foundation on which to work.- These transcriptions will allow jazz musicians to penetrate the heart of the work of one of the most remarkable jazz pianists of this epoch, through his first solo album.- These transcriptions will allow formally trained classical musicians to discover improvised music from within.- And finally, so that everyone can better enter into the universe of this musician, these transcriptions are complemented by an inter with the composer and texts proposing some keys to understanding everything that makes 'Elegiac Cycle? a beautiful achievement of this album 'Elegiac Cycle?. / Livre

More than 100 selections from the noted musicologist's Essays in Musical Analysis cover most of the standard works in the symphonic repertory. Subjects include Beethoven's overtures and symphonies, including the author's famous study of the Ninth Symphony: all Brahms's overtures and symphonies: 11 symphonies by Haydn: six by Mozart: three symphonies each by Schubert, Schumann, and Sibelius: four symphonies by Dvoràk: and many other works by composers from Bach to Vaughan Williams. Donald Francis Tovey's Essays in Musical Analysis ranks among the English language's most acclaimed works of musical criticism. Praised for their acuteness, common sense, clarity, and wit, they offer entertaining and instructive reading for anyone interested in the classical music repertoire.

1er Cycle-Théory Complète De La Musique by Jacques Chailley and Henri Challan is a really complete method for beginning musicians. This first volume of a series of two covers the nine first chapters of the method. It features: I. Different elements of music II. Music writing and symbols III. Rhythms IV. Intervals elements V. Intervals VI. Theory of Tonality [1/2] VII. Theory of Tonality [2/2] VIII. Tonality application IX. Additional music symbols Really focused on theory and including someexercises this book will be a better fit for mature music beginners.Henri Challan was a French composer and professor at the Paris Conservatoire who won the Grand Prix de Rome and who has wrote many music analysis. Jacques Chailley was a musician and Deputy Director of the Paris Conservatoire.

In this volume Father M. Owen Lee writes for the 21st-century operagoer briskly and stylishly telling the stories of 100 of the world's greatest music dramas – from Aïda to Die Zauberflöte. Thestories told in music by Mozart Wagner Verdi Puccini and Strauss are brought to life here with wit insight and boundless enthusiasm. When compiling and composing this pocket-sized handbook Fr. Lee considered the unique needsof the modern operagoer. Contemporary text-translating services have made pure synopses somewhat redundant. Fr. Lee therefore has focused his commentaries less on the comings and goings of plot than on subtext motivation andbackground information. He also suggests his single favorite recording for each of the 100 operas discussed. In all he has written a guide that will prove invaluable to the opera novice and useful even for the aficionado.

Jean Sibelius was not only Finland's greatest composer he was one of the most distinctive and appealing musical voices in the first half of the twentieth century especially renowned for his characterful handling of the romantic symphony orchestra. His example has led directly to an unprecedented cultural flowering in his homeland making this small country of five million people a powerhouse in the world of classical music composition and performance. Author David Hurwitz considers more than eighty of Sibelius's orchestral pieces from songs and choruses to symphonies tone poems overtures and theatrical music inviting readers to identify and enjoy the fascinating mix ofelements that make up Sibelius's colourful personal idiom. Hurwitz also features a representative selection of the best music of Sibelius's Finnish contemporaries and successors both in the text and in one of two accompanying full-length CDs. The other CD offers a rich selection of Sibelius's music including two complete symphonies and two of his most popular tone poems. Together the CDs and text allow readers to hear Sibelius in context and gain an understanding of what distinguishes him from his contemporaries how he influenced later generations and how he came to be viewed as the musical spokesperson of the Finnish nation.

Cyril Ornadel and Kelvin Reynolds. A new ecological musical in two acts set 30 years into the future. The rivers and land are polluted and the children of the village have never seen a flower bee or sheep. Twelve lively musicalnumbers plus reprises by Cyril Ornadel composer of such famous West End musicals as ‘Pickwick’. Songs include ‘The Factory’ ‘Live For Today’ ‘Rainbow Valley’ ‘Tree Spirits’ and ‘For Tomorrow’. Four principal parts and 12further speaking roles. Orchestral parts on hire.