Musical scores, lyrics and libretti

Itzhak Perlman, Kennedy, Midori, and Sarah Chang were among Dorothy Delay's students during her five decades as a violin teacher at Juilliard.

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Roxy Music's iconic first album with this collection of Bryan Ferry's evocative lyrics of aspiration and romantic longing, introduced by the author.

This book discusses literary and dramatic aspects of musical works for voices and instruments performed in English theatres (c.

This is the only English translation of this important book by the world's most distinguished Bach scholar.

Redefines musical analysis for a period that marks the beginnings of composition as we know it now.

This guide to the piano literature for the one-handed pianist surveys over 2,100 individual piano pieces which include not only concert literature but pedagogical pieces as well.

This comprehensive study of musical notation from early medieval Europe provides a crucial new foundational model for understanding later Western notations.

Among the many fine examples of film scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), the score for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) stands out the most.

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 "e;Golden Age"e; of American popular music.

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This book explores the historical-cultural interactions between French concert music and American jazz across 1900–65, from both perspectives.

Dein Song möchte Kinder und Jugendliche darin ermuntern, sich aktiv mit Musik zu beschäftigen und bietet talentierten Nachwuchssongwritern Raum für die Entfaltung ihrer eigenen musikalischen Ideen.

Dieses Werk war seiner Zeit weit voraus: Mit dem Deutsch-Jüdischen Liederbuch schuf Abraham Zwi Idelsohn 1912 eine umfassende Sammlung der beliebtesten jüdischen und deutschen Lieder seiner Zeit, ein grundlegendes Werk für den Unterricht in Deutschland und der Diaspora, in dem sich jüdische und deutsche Musik gleichberechtigt gegenüberstanden.

A fresh perspective on two well-known personalities, Schoenberg's Correspondence with Alma Mahler documents a modern music friendship beginning in fin-de-sicle Vienna and ending in 1950s Los Angeles.

In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, swaggering, carefree carnival barker Billy Bigelow captivates and marries naive millworker Julie Jordan.

This book includes biographical information on Carlos Prieto, his contributions to music, as well as a detailed catalog of 72 pieces commissioned and/or dedicated to him.

Translating for Singing discusses the art and craft of translating singable lyrics, a topic of interest in a wide range of fields, including translation, music, creative writing, cultural studies, performance studies, and semiotics.

Music-Dance explores the identity of choreomusical work, its complex authorship and its modes of reception as well as the cognitive processes involved in the reception of dance performance.

Lyric diction is a portal to powerful and meaningful vocal performance because diction enables singers to communicate the vision of both the poet and the composer.

Inge van Rij''s book demonstrates how Berlioz used the sights and sounds of the orchestra to explore other worlds.

With style, wit, and expertise, Leonard Bernstein shares his love and appreciation for music in all its varied forms in The Infinite Variety of Music, illuminating the deep pleasure and sometimes subtle beauty it offers.

Originally published in 1997, Collins Opera & Operetta is an invaluable guide to this fascinating but sometimes misunderstood art form, presenting essential information on over 180 major operas and operettas in an accessible, yet scholarly, way.

Containing 64 songs designed to promote language, social and musical development, this book accompanies the Tuning In Cards so you can perform the songs and integrate the activities into your own practice.

There's a reason La Boheme has been staged at the Met more often than any other opera: Puccini's enticing music perfectly conveys the enchantment of new young love and the anguish that comes with loss and death.

In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, swaggering, carefree carnival barker Billy Bigelow captivates and marries naive millworker Julie Jordan.

A history of sound recording from the nineteenth to the twenty first century, first published in 2006.

This element examines the annotated scores of Mozart''s Symphony No.

Broadway's top orchestrators - Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker, Philip J.

Understanding Game Scoring explores the unique collaboration between gameplay and composition that defines musical scoring for video games.

Bringing together much-loved masterpieces with exciting new works, this accessible and inspiring guide is a celebration of classical music.

Opera's most enduring tragic double bill of verismo masterpieces, Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci share many common features, most noticeably their direct language, plot simplicity, common-folk characters, and themes of adultery, betrayal, revenge, and murder.

Scoring the Score is the first scholarly examination of the orchestrator's role in the contemporary film industry.

Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions.

This book explores the historical-cultural interactions between French concert music and American jazz across 1900–65, from both perspectives.

This book, the first of its kind to be published in English, introduces the reader to the rich heritage of Spanish song.

'This mix of genuine humility and hard-won hubris, of mysticism and technical mastery .

This book is a collection of essays written by and interviews with working composers for film and television, and video games, exploring the business side of composing, addressing the lack of understanding about career development and business responsibilities as they relate to composers.

The music of Django Reinhardt is as important today as it has ever been.

REVISED, UPDATED AND WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PAUL ABBOTTThis edition of Suburban 100 includes new lyrics from the critically acclaimed albums, 22 Dreams and Wake Up the Nation, which has been nominated for the Mercury Music Award.

Through a theoretical and practical exploration of Jungian and post-Jungian concepts surrounding image, this book moves beyond the visual scope of imagery to consider the presence and expression of music and sound, as well as how the psyche encounters expanded images - archetypal, personal or cultural - on both conscious and unconscious levels.

Drawing generously from four centuries of Italian, German and French art song, Exploring Art Song Lyrics embraces the finest of the literature and presents the repertoire with unprecedented clarity and detail.

National Identity and the British Musical: From Blood Brothers to Cinderella examines the myths associated with national identity which are reproduced by the British musical and asks why the genre continues to uphold, instead of challenging, outdated ideals.

Music has been an integral part of film exhibition from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century.

Truly powerful vocal performance in musical theater is more than just the sum of good vocal tone and correct notes.

Carl Loewe, oft als "Schubert des Nordens" bezeichnet, hat die Kunst der Ballade im 19.

Carl Czerny, eine zentrale Figur der Musikgeschichte des 19.