Piano accompaniment, or collaborative piano, is an invizibilized force driving classical music. This hybrid study, combining text and multimedia, explores its history, evolution, and transformation into a recognized academic discipline through archi...Loe edasi...
Performer and researcher Peter OHagan studies the musical style of Pierre Boulez during his final creative period, by means of a detailed consideration of the ensemble work sur Incises, which stands at the heart of Boulezs later output....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1924, and authored by a renowned pianist and musicologist, this book is a comprehensive study of the history and evolution of pianoforte music from its origins in the early 18th century to modern times. The book begins with a...Loe edasi...
Edward MacDowells European Piano Music is a critical study of the piano music that MacDowell composed during his European sojourn (1876-1888), steeped in reception history and with a special emphasis of programmaticism....Loe edasi...
Harmonic Development and Contrapuntal Techniques for the Jazz Pianist serves as a guide for harmonic expansion and development for jazz piano, offering pianists both a rationale and methods to improve contrapuntal hand techniques....Loe edasi...
Harmony at the Piano adapts the traditional study of keyboard harmony to the practical needs of modern piano students, using innovative exercises to help students practice their repertoire more deliberately, consciously, and creatively....Loe edasi...
Authorship is a pertinent issue for historical musicology and musicians more widely.The discovery of new sources and methodologies has also opened up opportunities for reassessing specific authorship problems. This book aims to build on what has alr...Loe edasi...
By the early twentieth century the machine aesthetic was a well-established and dominant interest that fundamentally transformed musical performance and listening practices.This book explores that shift, examining the rise and fall of the player pia...Loe edasi...
Keyboard Skills for the Practical Musician provides undergraduate music majors in class piano courses with the techniques and fundamentals they need to flourish into independent, versatile musicians who play with confidence and sensitivity....Loe edasi...
English keyboard music reached an unsurpassed level of sophistication in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as organists treated it as seriously as vocal music. This book draws together important research on the music, its sources an...Loe edasi...
Critical Perspectives on Michael Finnissy covers a wide range of topics pertinent to the critical reception and analysis of Finnissys practices, including: the connection between his works and cinema; performance practices; political contexts and pr...Loe edasi...
Studies in English Organ Music is a collection of essays by expert authors that examines key areas of the repertoire in the history of organ music in England. The essays on repertoire are placed alongside supporting studies in organ building and lit...Loe edasi...
Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) achieved notable success in a diversity of activities that centred mainly on the piano. This book explores Clementis multivalent contribution to piano performance, pedagogy, composition and manufacture in relation to Briti...Loe edasi...
The twentieth-century revival of early music unfolded in two successive movements. The present volume is a collection reflecting the principal concerns of the second of those revivals, focusing on early keyboards, and beginning in the 1950s. The vol...Loe edasi...
This book examines microtonality through the tuning theories of Erv Wilson. It addresses the breadth and complexity of his work by using microtonal keyboard designs to investigate his tuning concepts and their practical applications. It considers ma...Loe edasi...
This volume considers the influences and development of the English organ sonata tradition that began in the 1850s with compositions by W. T. Best and William Spark. Begins by examining the legacy of the keyboard sonata in Britain, Quinn explores th...Loe edasi...
Notes Become Music: A Guidebook from the Viennese Piano Tradition addresses the many unwritten nuances of dynamics, articulation, and agogics as an expression of fundamental principles of a common European musical language....Loe edasi...
A technical volume on the construction of organs. Comprises an alphabetically arranged detailing of the various components of organs, their characteristics and uses. Also includes a study of organ building....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jan-2014, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199892679)
Dreams of Love pursues a wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach to understanding the concert pianist as a Romantic and seductive-even erotic-figure in the popular imagination, focusing on the role of technology in perpetuating this mythology over...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jan-2013, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199917235)
In J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument, author Russell Stinson delves into various unexplored aspects of the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Drawing on previous research and new archival sources, he sheds light on many of the most mysterious as...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Aug-2012, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195386912)
In Off the Record, author and pianist Neal Peres Da Costa explores Romantic-era performance practices through a range of early sound recordings--acoustic, piano roll and electric--that capture a generation of highly-esteemed pianists trained as far...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jan-2009, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195337068)
The Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture examines the powerful presence of the organ in synagogue music and in the general musical life of German-speaking Jewish communities in the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores the development of a ne...Loe edasi...
Intended as a supplement to The Mechanical Muse: the Piano, Piano Music and Pianism c 1760-1850, this companion is laid out alphabetically and biographical entries are provided for musical figures mentioned, including composers, performers, theore...Loe edasi...
Charts the pianos accession from musical curiosity to cultural icon, examining the instrument itself in its various guises as well as the music for which it was written. This work surveys the important pianistic genres of the period, showing how th...Loe edasi...
Isolde Ahlgrimm (1914-1995), was a pioneer in the revival of Baroque and Classical keyboard instruments in her native city, Vienna, and later, throughout Europe and United States. This title provides a study of this pioneer. It argues that Isolde Ah...Loe edasi...
Explores major issues surrounding the piano. This work includes topics such as: piano trade and how piano manufacturing affected a major provincial town; the pianist as advocate for contemporary composers as well as for historical repertory; and the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Jun-2007, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195311075)
Barbara Owen provides performers, students, and scholars of the organ with the first in-depth study of the organ works of Johannes Brahms, contextualized against other church and concert organists repertoire of the time....Loe edasi...
One of the most remarkable tales in the field of early keyboard music concerns the music of Heinrich Scheidemann. This book shows how Scheidemann was a central personality in the rich musical life of Hamburg and stood on friendly terms with colleagu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Dec-2006, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195100679)
Concise and authoritative, this penetrating and lucid guide looks at every important aspect of Mozarts works for piano, including the sonatas, concertos, duets, two-piano works, and variations. It examines their historical background and their aest...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Apr-2006, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195171099)
In this penetrating study, Russell Stinson considers how four of the greatest composers of the nineteeth-century - Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, and Johannes Brahms - responded to the model of Bachs organ music. His book represen...Loe edasi...
Provides an investigation of continuo realization styles appropriate to Restoration sacred music. The author undertakes detailed analysis of a group of organ books closely associated with the major Restoration composers Purcell, Blow and Humfrey, an...Loe edasi...
The concept of stylus phantasticus as it was expressed in free keyboard music of the north German Baroque is the focus of this book. Exploring the theoretical background to the style and its application by composers and performers, the author survey...Loe edasi...
Evaluating the significance of the relationship between Karl Straube and Max Reger, this book uses primary source materials such as autograph performing manuscripts, reviews, programmes, letters and archival sources from contemporary organ building....Loe edasi...
Revised, updated and expanded to include new technological advances, scholarship and bibliographic information, this resource features over 440 entries including information on everything from builders, composers, and important events to technical d...Loe edasi...
In this study, John Irving brings together the various strands of scholarship surrounding Mozarts concertos including analytical approaches, aspects of performance practice and issues of compositional genesis based on investigation of manuscript an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jan-2003, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195148831)
This is a chronicle of the American visits of five pianists: Leopold de Meyer, Henri Herz, Sigismund Thalberg, Anton Rubenstein and Hans von Bulow. Allen Lott describes the clash between the elegant European pianists and American audiences more accu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2002, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195144154)
This collection of essays follows the history of six organs in Scandinavia and Northern Germany, telling the story of the cultural history of northern Europe during the past four centuries. A CD with appropriate repertoire played on each of the six...Loe edasi...
Heinrich Schenker, Heribert Esser, Irene Schreier Scott
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Feb-2002, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195151510)
A re-evaluation of how musical compositions are realized in performance, this title argues that much of contemporary performance is rooted in the 19th-century cult of the virtuoso, which has resulted in an overemphasis on technical display. It sugge...Loe edasi...
The first edition of The English Chamber Organ was published in 1968. This new, revised edition takes into account the considerable research into chamber organs that has taken place over the last thirty years....Loe edasi...
