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Книга «Хождение по звукам» – это печатная версия одноименной радиопрограммы, уже более пяти лет еженедельно выходящей на радиостанции «Серебряный дождь». В программе – и в книге – её автор, журналист и критик Лев Ганкин популярно рассказывает о популярной музыке (включая в это множество фактически все неакадемические и неджазовые записи), причём героями выпусков становятся как суперзвёзды, так и несправедливо недооцененные артисты: последним предоставляется редкое эфирное время, а для первых по...
| Автор | Лев Ганкин |
| Жанр | Культурология, Публицистика, Музыка |
| Год | 2019 |
«Это самая подробная и авторитетная книга о «безгримовой» эре, и она часто несправедливо замалчивается в пользу эпохи «масок». TAKE IT OFF обязательна к прочтению для каждого члена Kiss Army». Metal-Rules.com Книга, написанная музыкальным журналистом Грэгом Прато, расскажет вам об одной из ярчайших вех в истории KISS, времени, когда, по мнению многих фанатов, были созданы лучшие песни группы: Heaven’s On Fire, Lick It Up, Tears Are Falling, Crazy Crazy Nights и другие. Это эра, когда...
| Автор | Грэг Прато |
| Жанр | Публицистика, Биографии и Мемуары, Музыка |
| Год | 2021 |
A smaller version of the harpsichord, the virginal enjoyed wide popularity during the 16th and 17th centuries. Based upon a 1591 manuscript of keyboard works, this collection features 42 pieces in modern notation — a vast amount of neglected concert material for modern pianists and harpsichordists — plus historic and analytic notes.
| Автор | William Byrd |
Of the many piano transcriptions Franz Liszt made of the works of other composers, those he made of the songs of Franz Schubert are among his most inspired. This volume contains the legendary pianist's twelve transcriptions from Schubert's great song cycle Winterreise, along with the four songs of Geistliche Lieder and the beloved single songs «La Rose,» «Lob der Thränen» and «Die Forelle.»These rare transcriptions offer a unique blending of Classical inspiration with Romantic...
| Автор | Ференц Лист |
In the course of his long career as the outstanding pianist-composer of his time, Franz Liszt was a tireless champion of music by other composers, especially those whose works he felt deserved greater recognition. Beethoven's symphonies, Wagner's operas, and Schubert's songs were among the compositions Liszt chose to promote by transforming them from their original scoring into new conceptions for solo piano.This volume contains twelve great Schubert lieder in Liszt's...
| Автор | Ференц Лист |
This new gathering of the world's greatest classical themes follows Bergerac's highly successful My First Book of Classical Music. Here are ever-popular themes from the symphonies, concertos, and operas of such masters as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Mozart, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, and many others, presented in easy-to-play formats for children and beginners of any age. This collection includes a free MP3 download for every piece, which will help beginning pianists develop an...
| Автор | Bergerac |
This compilation of easy-to-play ragtime favorites features 24 rollicking melodies by «The Big Three» of ragtime — Scott Joplin, James Scott, and Joseph Lamb — plus pieces by Eubie Blake, Tom Turpin, and other artists. Popular tunes include «Maple Leaf Rag,» «The Entertainer,» and «Tiger Rag.» Novices of all ages will delight in these simplified arrangements of carefully selected pieces. The editor provides suggested fingerings and comments on each piece that include...
| Автор | David Dutkanicz |
This beginner's piano book spotlights the music of one of the Romantic movement's most influential composers, Robert Schumann. Its easy-to-play renditions of Schumann's beloved works progressively increase in difficulty and are accessible to novices of all ages. Contents include selections from Forest Scenes, Scenes from Childhood, Album for the Young, and Carnaval, a collection of short pieces representing revelers at a masked ball. Selections include «Traumerei,» «Happy Farmer,»...
| Автор | David Dutkanicz |
This beautifully engraved collection of 26 all-time holiday favorites is arranged with tablature for players on all levels. A wonderful addition to gatherings of friends and family, it includes:"The Boar's Head Carol," «The First Nowell,» «Good King Wenceslas,» «O Christmas Tree,» «Patapan,» «What Child Is This?» and 20 other classic songs.Practical, sturdily bound, and inexpensive, this treasury of Yuletide cheer features original arrangements by guitarist and music scholar David Nadal....
| Автор | Группа авторов |
<P>This is the first account of the evolution of music at Wesleyan University, a campus known since the mid-nineteenth century for its musical life—first as the «Singing College of New England» and then, after 1960, as the home of a renowned undergraduate and graduate department that integrates world music studies with more traditional Western and experimental musical forms. Through excerpts from accounts in the campus newspaper over the earlier decades and eyewitness accounts by...
| Автор | Mark Slobin |
"La Bohème is perhaps Puccini's most nearly perfect opera." — Hughes, Famous Puccini Operas.It has long been one of the world's most beloved musical works — an instantly enchanting blend of charm, warmth, gaiety, and pathos, brought to vibrant life by Puccini's sparkling, lighthearted score. La Bohème, based on Henri Murger's novel Scènes de la Vie de Bohème, was first performed at the Teatro Regio, Turin, in 1896....
| Автор | Джакомо Пуччини |
The 24 preludes and 17 etudes-tableaux of Serge Rachmaninoff include what are possibly his finest compositions for solo piano. Each of these masterly works is included in this complete collection, reproduced from recent, authoritative Russian editions. They include: Prelude, Op. 3, No. 2; Ten Preludes, Op. 23; Thirteen Preludes, Op. 32; Eight Etudes-tableaux, Op. 33; Nine Etudes-tableaux, Op. 39. Among these are the enormously popular C-sharp minor prelude, Op. 3, No. 2; the G-minor prelude, Op....
| Автор | Serge Rachmaninoff |
In 1910, following his successful orchestration of selections for the ballet Les Sylphides, the innovative young composer Igor Stravinsky was commissioned by the director of the Ballets Russes, Serge Diaghilev, to create a completely new score. The dazzling result was The Firebird, a work which brought overnight success to its creator and distinguished him as the most gifted of the younger generation of Russian composers. Based on Russian fairy tales, the piece, according to Grove's...
| Автор | Igor Stravinsky |
One of the most performed and recorded of Bach's major works, the St. Matthew Passion has been a focal point of concert seasons and festivals around the world for over 150 years. First performed in the late 1720s, it is a drama of epic grandeur, long considered the noblest, most inspired musical treatment of the story of the crucifixion of Christ. Bach set the text, based on two chapters from the Gospel of St. Matthew, using a large ensemble of two choruses, soloists, and two orchestras....
| Автор | Johann Sebastian Bach |
Renowned for the originality of his music and his gifts as a melodist, Henry Purcell (1659–1695) was the preeminent English composer of the seventeenth century and one of the greatest that nation has ever produced. His gifts are apparent not only in the vocal and orchestral works on which his fame rests, but in his delightful keyboard music, much of which is relatively simple and easy to perform. This volume is a near-complete collection of Purcell's keyboard compositions,...
| Автор | Henry Purcell |
A prolific composer and virtuoso pianist, Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was the most lionized musical personality of his time. His compositions for solo piano continue to be loved and admired by pianists and their audiences for their lush Romanticism and technical fireworks. They remain among the most frequently performed works in the repertoire. This choice selection of Liszt piano works reveals the powers at this extraordinary composer's command: Mephisto Waltz No.1; Nuages Gris;...
| Автор | Ференц Лист |
While better known for his great orchestral works, Tchaikovsky composed a large number of solo pieces that are loved and played by pianists the world over. This new collection, bringing together the best and most popular of these compositions, is the finest single-volume edition of Tchaikovsky's solo piano music now available.Featured in this volume are two particularly well-known works: The Seasons, Op. 37bis, a suite of 12 pieces, each bearing the name — and capturing the spirit...
| Автор | Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky |
Among the best-loved and most performed of Chopin's piano compositions are his mazurkas. This volume includes 51 works — remarkable for their wide emotional appeal, advanced choromatic techniques and pianistic devices, and ranging in difficulty from relatively easy, for advanced beginnings, to quite challenging, for the accomplished pianist.Edited by Carl Mikuli, a pupil of Chopin, the works in this inexpensive and attractive volume extend from the radiant joyfulness of the...
| Автор | Frederic Chopin |
Born in the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach, Domenico Scarlatti strongly influenced subsequent trends in keyboard music through his uniquely elegant, embellished, fleet virtuoso style. This new compilation of popular selections by the great master presents favorites drawn from his more than 500 miniature sonatas.All of Scarlatti's familiar and best-loved masterpieces — well-known worldwide from piano recitals and CDs — appear here: tarantellas, Siciliennes, pastorals,...
| Автор | Domenico Scarlatti |
Among musicologists and serious lovers of music, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde is generally considered the high point of orchestration in the musical tradition of nineteenth-century Europe. It shows in most successful form Wagner's unsurpassed gift for using the instruments of the orchestra, and generations of students have worked with it to learn its technique.Tristan und Isolde also has a remarkable historical position. It was the opera that most of the post-Wagnerians used to build...
| Автор | Рихард Вагнер |
Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909) began his musical life as a piano prodigy in Barcelona at the age of four, and it is as a prolific composer of solo works for the pianoforte that we celebrate him most. This inexpensive Dover edition, designed to give you a lifetime of musical enjoyment, presents two of Albéniz's best-known works in authoritative editions: the piano suite Iberia, generally considered to be his masterpiece; and España, which contains the «Tango,»...
| Автор | Исаак Альбенис |
"He [Wagner] has been much criticized for this strongly personal statement of a religious subject, which mingles the concepts of sacred and profane love; but in the light of modern knowledge, his insight into the relationship between religious and sexual experience can only seem much in advance of his time." — Encylopaedia BritannicaCompleted in 1882, Parsifal is Wagner's last opera and one of his finest, renowned for its splendid music and glowing orchestration. With its...
| Автор | Рихард Вагнер |
This volume offers pianists a unique opportunity to study and master Chopin's two piano concertos: The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11, and the Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21. Although the composer wrote both works to launch his career as a concert artist, he soon abandoned the concert hall for the more intimate atmosphere of the salon and turned his creative attentions to the brilliant shorter works on which his reputation rests today. The concerti remain among the...
| Автор | Frederic Chopin |
Among Franz Liszt's many brilliant compositions for piano, few have been so admired and performed as the Sonata in B Minor, long considered one of the greatest piano compositions of the 19th century. A work of consummate structural ingenuity, it combines and transforms four distinctive themes in one long movement, in the free, rhapsodic development characteristic of the symphonic poem.A great favorite of pianists and their audiences, this piano masterpiece is reprinted here from the...
| Автор | Ференц Лист |