Western "classical" music books

This fascinating and well-constructed volume of essays builds understanding of the role and importance of music...  Read More >>

Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater is the first systematic exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories....  Read More >>

A new and groundbreaking historical narrative, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera explores...  Read More >>

Imagine Armida, Handel’s Saracen sorceress, performing her breakneck coloraturas in a black figure-hugging rubber...  Read More >>

As American classical music struggled for recognition in the mid-nineteenth century, George Frederick Bristow emerged...  Read More >>

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Die beiden thematischen Schwerpunkte des Jahrgangs präsentieren unterschiedlichste Aspekte zum Kosmos Lied sowie...  Read More >>

Este libro contiene la exquisita obra de J.S. Bach en una transcripcion...  Read More >>

This newly edited version of Vivaldi's 'Gloria' (RV 589) matches up this piano vocal score with a new set of orchestra...  Read More >>

This arrangement is written for beginning concert band students and includes an accompaniment track for practice...  Read More >>

(Piano Solo Personality). This book features easier but very fun piano arrangements for beginner/intermediate players...  Read More >>

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Brahms's Violin Sonatas explores key passages of the composer's sonata scores and reveals, in clear and accessible...  Read More >>

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This book offers a detailed examination of the literary influences behind the experimental music of five twentieth-century...  Read More >>

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Discussion concerning the ’musicality’ of Samuel Beckett’s writing now constitutes a familiar critical trope in...  Read More >>

While Chopin composed only a few works in variation form, he employed variations and variation technique in the...  Read More >>

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