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The Baroque Piano
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 132

The Baroque Piano

Summarizes the influence of society, style, and musical trends on the great piano composers from of the Romantic era, 1790-1910. Includes historical paintings, famous quotations, information about thirteen great composers, full-length piano solos, and 2 CDs of motivating solo piano performances played by concert pianist Daniel Glover.

The Princess's Garden
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

The Princess's Garden

The untold story of how our national obsession with gardening came to be.

Five Centuries of Keyboard Music
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 514

Five Centuries of Keyboard Music

Gillespie discusses 350 composers and their works for harpsichord and piano, including Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and Debussy. Includes 116 musical examples, illustrations, and a glossary of musical terms.

Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1215

Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire

Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire continues to be the go-to source for piano performers, teachers, and students. Newly updated and expanded with more than 250 new composers, this incomparable resource expertly guides readers to solo piano literature and provides answers to common questions: What did a given composer write? What interesting work have I never heard of? How difficult is it? What are its special musical features? How can I reach the publisher? New to the fourth edition are enhanced indexes identifying black composers, women composers, and compositions for piano with live or recorded electronics; a thorough listing of anthologies and collections organized by time period and nationality, now including collections from Africa and Slovakia; and expanded entries to account for new material, works, and resources that have become available since the third edition, including websites and electronic resources. The "newest Hinson" will be an indispensible guide for many years to come.

Opera
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 477

Opera

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-05-07
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  • Publisher: McFarland

This encyclopedia includes entries for 1,153 world premiere (and other significant) performances of operas in Europe, the United States, Latin America and Russia. Entries offer details about key persons, arias, interesting facts, and date and location of each premiere. There is a biographical dictionary with 1,288 entries on historical and modern operatic singers, composers, librettists, and conductors. Fully indexed and with a bibliography.

The Dictionary of Biographical Reference
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1054

The Dictionary of Biographical Reference

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1871
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Theatre Career of Thomas Arne
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 645

The Theatre Career of Thomas Arne

This book concerns the life and theatrical career of the great native-born English composer and musician of the eighteenth century, Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778), best known today as the composer of "Rule, Britannia." It will appeal to those interested in the mid-to-late eighteenth-century London and Dublin theatre, opera, and music scenes.

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1048

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music

Biographaical dictionary emphisizes classicaland art music; also gives ample attention to the classics as well as Jazz, Blues, rock and pop, and hymns and showtunes across the ages.

Pianists Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 588

Pianists Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature

This reference book is an invaluable resource for teachers, students and performers for evaluating and selecting piano solo literature. Concise and thoroughly researched, thousands of works, from the Baroque through the Contemporary periods, have been graded and evaluated in detail. Includes an alphabetical list of composers, explanations of works and much more.

Con Che Soavità
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Con Che Soavità

This collection of essays by European, British, and American musicologists seeks to consolidate the recent growth of interest in seventeenth century studies. It includes discussions of leading composers, repertories, geographical issues, institutional contexts, and iconography.