Composing for Silent Film offers insight, information, and techniques for contemporary composition, arrangement, and live score performance for period silent film. A specialized music composition guide, this book complements existing film...Loe edasi...
This book is the first study of John Zorn’s ‘file card’ works, with special focus made on the pieces Godard (1985), Spillane (1986), Interzone (2010), and Liber Novus (2010). It explains the unique creative process behi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Sep-2025, Sheet music, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780193578517)
In this joyous and colourful piano concerto, John Rutter both reflects, and reflects upon, the many soundworlds and styles that have inspired him. The 40-minute work, in four movements, is virtuosic for the soloist, while displaying the composers ma...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jun-2025, Sheet music, Kirjastus: Faber Music Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780571541546)
Vaughan Williams Overture to his 1909 incidental music for Aristophanes comedy The Wasps buzzes noisily into life with stinging trills and scales. The musical swarm subsides to give way the characterful folk-inflected melodies that are a hallmark of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jun-2025, Sheet music, Kirjastus: Faber Music Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780571542529)
Vaughan Williams composed his incidental music for Aristophanes comedy The Wasps in 1909. This new edition of the 25-minute orchestral suite incorporates extensive notes on the score. Highlights from its five movements, which have folksong woven thr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Boydell Press, ISBN-13: 9781837652204)
Considers Boults interpretations of Elgars major works by drawing on Boults annotated scores, broadcast performances and commercial recordings, ranging from the composers last years to Boults final public appearances.Edward Elgar (18...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure, and Interpretation
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197765661)
Anton Bruckners Fourth Symphony is one of the most beloved and frequently performed works in the orchestral repertoire. Despite this, a great deal about the work and its genesis has been either unknown, poorly understood, or starkly misrepresented....Loe edasi...
Schubert’s Workshop offers a fresh study of the composer’s compositional technique and its development, rooted in the author’s experience of realising performing versions of Franz Schubert’s unfinished works. Through close examination of Schubert’...Loe edasi...
While interpretation of musical scores is amongst the most frequent of musical activities, it is also, strangely, one of the least researched. This collection of essays seeks to remedy this deficit by illuminating ways in which today’s curious mus...Loe edasi...
In this ground-breaking study, Paul Laird examines the process and effect of orchestration in West Side Story and Gypsy, two musicals that were among the most significant Broadway shows of the 1950s, and remain important in the moder...Loe edasi...
This book explores the role of musicians in the call for peace in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. As Russias unprecedented invasion of Ukraine progresses, musicians there, and around the world, join talents in concerts to voice their protest and show...Loe edasi...
Igor Stravinsky left behind a complex heritage of music and ideas. Per Dahl presents a model of communication that unveils a clear and logical understanding of Stravinskys heritage, based on the extant material available. Igor Stravinsky lef...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Apr-2023, Sheet music, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780193556867)
for SATB and orchestra Setting a well-loved medieval text, this effective piece paints the story of Jesus through lyrical melodies and beautiful harmonic surprises. The vocal lines offer both powerful intensity and skilful dialogue, and are supporte...Loe edasi...
A memoir that is also an immersive exploration of classical music its power, its meaning, and what it can teach us about ourselves from the MacArthur genius grant-winning pianist....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Feb-2023, Sheet music, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780193556874)
for SATB and orchestra Setting a well-loved medieval text, this effective piece paints the story of Jesus through lyrical melodies and beautiful harmonic surprises. The vocal lines offer both powerful intensity and skilful dialogue, and are suppo...Loe edasi...
Schuberts Workshop offers a fresh study of the composers compositional technique and its development, rooted in the authors experience of realizing performing versions of Franz Schuberts unfinished works. Through close examination of Schuberts...Loe edasi...
Schubert’s Workshop offers a fresh study of the composer’s compositional technique and its development, rooted in the author’s experience of realising performing versions of Franz Schubert’s unfinished works. Schubert’s Workshop of...Loe edasi...
