This collection of essays by scholars of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French music has been assembled in homage to the influential and inspirational French musicologist FranA§ois Lesure who
The lyric art song, in which the piano plays as large a part as the vocal melody, is one of the characteristic products of the 19th century. This collection of 39 songs from the romantic period spotli
Reproduced from authoritative sources, this modestly priced compilation presents favorite piano works of the Romantic era. Unlike many other anthologies of music from the period, which vary widely in
The articles in this collection offer an in-depth analysis of the Dialogus Miraculorum by the Cistercian Caesarius of Heisterbach (thirteenth century) and provide an insight into the theory and practi
The twelve essays in Listening Well illuminate aesthetic, educative, and evaluative strategies utilized by writers in Paris, Boston, and New York to guide listeners in confronting the challenges of m
This interdisciplinary study, situated at the cross-section of music, literature and gender, examines the woman singer and her song as a literary motif in French and German prose fiction from the 1790
(Percussion). This book features 27 orchestral works currently requested at timpani auditions. The CD-ROM contains the timpani parts in .pdf format, along with annotated forScore files for the iPad. E
From 1840a€“57, Heinrich Ernst was one of the most famous and significant European musicians, and performed on stage, often many times, with Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Wagner, Alkan, Clara S
Niccolo Paganini was widely recognized as the greatest violinist of all time and his compositions for violin, not surprisingly, are some of the most fantastic ever written. Hector Berlioz commented "?
A collection of five original solos based on the famous orchestral timpani parts of Mahler, Stravinsky, Bartok, Berlioz, and Beethoven. Musical and challenging, the solos are designed to develop the t
‘Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.’ Romantic composer Hector Berlioz Berlioz should know. He didn’t just hear the symphony when he fell in love with an Irish
