Author: Ignace Jan PaderewskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Modern music and musicians: Compositions for the piano
Author: Ignace Jan PaderewskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Modern Music and Musicians
Author: Modern Music and Musicians: Compositions for the piano
Author: Ignace Jan PaderewskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Modern music and musicians: Compositions for the piano; general and graded indexes
Author: Ignace Jan PaderewskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A Natural History of the Piano
Author: Stuart IsacoffPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307701425
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own. With honed sensitivity and unquestioned expertise, Stuart Isacoff—pianist, critic, teacher, and author of Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization—unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad wonders: how its very sound provides the basis for emotional expression and individual style, and why it has so powerfully entertained generation upon generation of listeners. He illuminates the groundbreaking music of Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Schumann, and Debussy. He analyzes the breathtaking techniques of Glenn Gould, Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Arthur Rubinstein, and Van Cliburn, and he gives musicians including Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, and Vladimir Horowitz the opportunity to discuss their approaches. Isacoff delineates how classical music and jazz influenced each other as the uniquely American art form progressed from ragtime, novelty, stride, boogie, bebop, and beyond, through Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Cecil Taylor, and Bill Charlap. A Natural History of the Piano distills a lifetime of research and passion into one brilliant narrative. We witness Mozart unveiling his monumental concertos in Vienna’s coffeehouses, using a special piano with one keyboard for the hands and another for the feet; European virtuoso Henri Herz entertaining rowdy miners during the California gold rush; Beethoven at his piano, conjuring healing angels to console a grieving mother who had lost her child; Liszt fainting in the arms of a page turner to spark an entire hall into hysterics. Here is the instrument in all its complexity and beauty. We learn of the incredible craftsmanship of a modern Steinway, the peculiarity of specialty pianos built for the Victorian household, the continuing innovation in keyboards including electronic ones. And most of all, we hear the music of the masters, from centuries ago and in our own age, brilliantly evoked and as marvelous as its most recent performance. With this wide-ranging volume, Isacoff gives us a must-have for music lovers, pianists, and the armchair musician.
Compositions for piano: general and graded index
Author: Louis Charles ElsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Compositions for the piano ; general and graded indexes
Author: Modern Music And Musicians
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022313989
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From Mozart to Beethoven, this book offers a survey of the most famous compositions for the piano. It delves into the genius of musical masters and explores the evolution of music through the ages. Whether you're a music lover or a pianist in training, this book is sure to inspire and delight. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Modern Music and Musicians: The pianist's guide
Author: The Library of Modern Piano Music
Author: Amsco PublicationsPublisher: Wise Publications
ISBN: 178323055X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Library Of Modern Piano Music strives to illustrate the vigour and variety of modern piano music. These original compositions span standalone pieces, albums, suites and arrangements from talents as diverse as Igor Stravinsky, Francis Poulenc, Lennox Berkeley, Witold Lutosławski , Hans Werner Henze, Peter Maxwell Davies, Philip Glass and Ludovico Einaudi. As well as these concert pieces, a number of works have been written specially for screen. From Michael Nyman’s celebrated music for ‘The Piano’ to Richard Rodney Bennett’s score for the now rarely seen but superb 1980s miniseries of ‘Tender Is The Night’, there is ample proof of the richness added to international screen dramas by first-rate composers. These and over 100 more piano pieces make The Library Of Modern Piano Music a true classic.