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CELLO NOTES

Music and the Urgency of Time

by Mavis Himes, Daniel Crack ...

When Mavis Himes, a psychoanalyst with an established practice of over forty years, began to contemplate retirement, she decided to learn to play the cello.From meeting her teacher in an overcrowded café, through the demanding task of cello practice with its persistent strains and stresses on the body, Himes found a growing appreciation of music's power on her own well-being. An unfortunate ... Read more

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When Mavis Himes, a psychoanalyst with an established practice of over forty years, began to contemplate retirement, she decided to learn to play the cello.From meeting her teacher in an overcrowded café, through the demanding task of cello practice with its persistent strains and stresses on the body, Himes found a growing appreciation of music's power on her own well-being. An unfortunate
... Read more
Chamber Music

An Essential History

by Mark A. Radice ...

Intended for the music student, the professional musician, and the music lover, Chamber Music: An Essential History covers repertoire from the Renaissance to the present, crossing genres to include string quartets, piano trios, clarinet quintets, and other groupings. Mark A. Radice gives a thorough overview and history of this long-established and beloved genre, typically performed by groups of a ... Read more

$31.99 CAD

Intended for the music student, the professional musician, and the music lover, Chamber Music: An Essential History covers repertoire from the Renaissance to the present, crossing genres to include string quartets, piano trios, clarinet quintets, and other groupings. Mark A. Radice gives a thorough overview and history of this long-established and beloved genre, typically performed by groups of a
... Read more
La créativité à l'oeuvre chez Bach

Entretien avec Gilles Cantagrel, musicologue

by Anne-Laure Saives, Annie Camus, Gilles Cantagrel ...

Si la créativité n’est pas (qu’une) technique, mais plutôt un rapport au monde, une forme d’être, que peuvent nous apprendre sur ce sujet de grands créateurs comme Jean-Sébastien Bach, compositeur prolifique – plus d’un millier d’œu vres répertoriées – dont la musique fait vibrer encore, plus de 300 ans après sa création, les murs des salles de concert et le cœur des auditeurs? C’est à cet examen ... Read more

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Si la créativité n’est pas (qu’une) technique, mais plutôt un rapport au monde, une forme d’être, que peuvent nous apprendre sur ce sujet de grands créateurs comme Jean-Sébastien Bach, compositeur prolifique – plus d’un millier d’œu vres répertoriées – dont la musique fait vibrer encore, plus de 300 ans après sa création, les murs des salles de concert et le cœur des auditeurs? C’est à cet examen
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Chamber Music (Illustrated Edition)

by James Joyce ...

James Joyce (1882 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet who is widely considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark novel which perfected his stream of consciousness technique and combined nearly every literary device available in a modern re-telling of The Odyssey. Other major works ... Read more

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James Joyce (1882 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet who is widely considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark novel which perfected his stream of consciousness technique and combined nearly every literary device available in a modern re-telling of The Odyssey. Other major works
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Bulgarian Harmony

In Village, Wedding, and Choral Music of the Last Century

by Kalin S. Kirilov ...

Series series SOAS Studies in Music
An in-depth study of the Bulgarian harmonic system is long overdue. More than two decades since the Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares choir was awarded a Grammy (1990), there is no scholarly study of the captivating sounds of Bulgarian vertical sonorities. Kalin Kirilov traces the gradual formation of a unique harmonic system that developed in three styles of Bulgarian music: village music from the ... Read more

$89.99 CAD

An in-depth study of the Bulgarian harmonic system is long overdue. More than two decades since the Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares choir was awarded a Grammy (1990), there is no scholarly study of the captivating sounds of Bulgarian vertical sonorities. Kalin Kirilov traces the gradual formation of a unique harmonic system that developed in three styles of Bulgarian music: village music from the
... Read more
A Notebook for Viola Players

by Ivo-Jan van der Werff ...

In A Notebook for Viola Players, Ivo-Jan van der Werff offers a guide to playing the viola with the greatest freedom, dexterity, and ease. It includes right and left hand exercises to build a sound technique, sections on how to practice them, how to hold the viola and bow, how to think about good posture, how to create a good sound, how to play with the least amount of tension, how to deal with ... Read more

$37.99 CAD

In A Notebook for Viola Players, Ivo-Jan van der Werff offers a guide to playing the viola with the greatest freedom, dexterity, and ease. It includes right and left hand exercises to build a sound technique, sections on how to practice them, how to hold the viola and bow, how to think about good posture, how to create a good sound, how to play with the least amount of tension, how to deal with
... Read more
Life of Chopin

by Franz Liszt ...

This classic text represents the definitive account of the life of the great Polish pianist/composer, Frederic Chopin. The story is told by his friend and colleague, the legendary Hungarian pianist, Franz Liszt-the ideal man to relate the brief, but brilliant life of Chopin.Liszt's proximity to the subject and insightful accounts make this biography resonate as few can. ... Read more

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This classic text represents the definitive account of the life of the great Polish pianist/composer, Frederic Chopin. The story is told by his friend and colleague, the legendary Hungarian pianist, Franz Liszt-the ideal man to relate the brief, but brilliant life of Chopin.Liszt's proximity to the subject and insightful accounts make this biography resonate as few can.
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Beethoven's Early Chamber Music: A Listening Guide

by Terence O'Grady ...

Beethoven's early chamber music is, for many listeners, largely an unexplored treasure trove of fresh, often highly creative, sometimes surprising music. This listening guide will help the interested listener experience this music more fully, by providing detailed examples of what to expect and what to listen for among Beethoven's chamber works up to and including the famous string quartets of Op. ... Read more

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Beethoven's early chamber music is, for many listeners, largely an unexplored treasure trove of fresh, often highly creative, sometimes surprising music. This listening guide will help the interested listener experience this music more fully, by providing detailed examples of what to expect and what to listen for among Beethoven's chamber works up to and including the famous string quartets of Op.
... Read more
Kalimba Songbook - 40 Classical Music Themes

Play by numbers + MP3 Sound downloads

by Reynhard Boegl ...

Series Book 18 - Kalimba Songbooks
Songbook with 40 Classical Music Themes for the Kalimba with 10 or 17 tines.The melodies were simply prepared with the symbols that can be found on the most common instruments.The MP3 sounds (melody and ensemble and ensemble alone - "playlong") are available online in a player with adjustable playback speed.No knowledge of music notes is required - suitable for beginners - play... ... Read more

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Songbook with 40 Classical Music Themes for the Kalimba with 10 or 17 tines.The melodies were simply prepared with the symbols that can be found on the most common instruments.The MP3 sounds (melody and ensemble and ensemble alone - "playlong") are available online in a player with adjustable playback speed.No knowledge of music notes is required - suitable for beginners - play...
... Read more
The Baroque Violin & Viola, vol. II

A Fifty-Lesson Course

by Walter S. Reiter ...

In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe--this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the power to express emotions in a way only before achieved with the human voice. With this new guide to the Baroque violin, and its close cousin, the Baroque viola, distinguished performer and pedagogue Walter Reiter puts this power into the hands of today ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe--this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the power to express emotions in a way only before achieved with the human voice. With this new guide to the Baroque violin, and its close cousin, the Baroque viola, distinguished performer and pedagogue Walter Reiter puts this power into the hands of today
... Read more
Kalimba Easy Arrangements - Classical Music Themes - 2

Play by Symbols + MP3-Sound Downloads

by Reynhard Boegl ...

Series Book 15 - Kalimba Songbooks
Songbook with 10 Classical Music Themes - book 2, easy arranged (melody with ornaments) for the Kalimba with 17 tines.No knowledge of music notes is required - play by numbers / symbols!The MP3 sounds are available online in a player with adjustable playback speed (web address in the book).The sounds and other links are accessible with the iOS and Android app and your interne... ... Read more

$10.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Songbook with 10 Classical Music Themes - book 2, easy arranged (melody with ornaments) for the Kalimba with 17 tines.No knowledge of music notes is required - play by numbers / symbols!The MP3 sounds are available online in a player with adjustable playback speed (web address in the book).The sounds and other links are accessible with the iOS and Android app and your interne...
... Read more
Korean Musical Drama: P'ansori and the Making of Tradition in Modernity

by Haekyung Um ...

Series series SOAS Studies in Music
P’ansori is the quintessential traditional Korean musical drama, in which epic tales are sung and narrated by a solo singer accompanied by a drummer. Drawing on her extensive research in Korea and its diasporas, Haekyung Um describes and analyses the creative processes of p’ansori, weaving into her discussion musical, social and cultural aspects that include the evolution of p’ansori performance, ... Read more

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P’ansori is the quintessential traditional Korean musical drama, in which epic tales are sung and narrated by a solo singer accompanied by a drummer. Drawing on her extensive research in Korea and its diasporas, Haekyung Um describes and analyses the creative processes of p’ansori, weaving into her discussion musical, social and cultural aspects that include the evolution of p’ansori performance,
... Read more
Kalimba Easy Arrangements - Classical Music Themes - 1

Play by Symbols + MP3-Sound Downloads

by Reynhard Boegl ...

Series Book 14 - Kalimba Songbooks
Songbook with 10 Classical Music Themes, easy arranged (melody with ornaments) for the Kalimba with 17 tines.No knowledge of music notes is required - play by numbers / symbols!The MP3 sounds are available online in a player with adjustable playback speed (web address in the book).The sounds and other links are accessible with the iOS and Android app and your interne... ... Read more

$10.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Songbook with 10 Classical Music Themes, easy arranged (melody with ornaments) for the Kalimba with 17 tines.No knowledge of music notes is required - play by numbers / symbols!The MP3 sounds are available online in a player with adjustable playback speed (web address in the book).The sounds and other links are accessible with the iOS and Android app and your interne...
... Read more
India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective

by Margaret E. Walker ...

Series series SOAS Studies in Music
Kathak, the classical dance of North India, combines virtuosic footwork and dazzling spins with subtle pantomime and soft gestures. As a global practice and one of India's cultural markers, kathak dance is often presented as heir to an ancient Hindu devotional tradition in which men called Kathakas danced and told stories in temples. The dance's repertoire and movement vocabulary, however, tell a ... Read more

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Kathak, the classical dance of North India, combines virtuosic footwork and dazzling spins with subtle pantomime and soft gestures. As a global practice and one of India's cultural markers, kathak dance is often presented as heir to an ancient Hindu devotional tradition in which men called Kathakas danced and told stories in temples. The dance's repertoire and movement vocabulary, however, tell a
... Read more
Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel for Solo Piano (1917) M.68

by Maurice Ravel ...

This wonderful work by Maurice Ravel contains a score for the solo piano. It is a fine example of the composer's work and a fantastic addition to any classical musician's repertoire. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original ... Read more

$8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This wonderful work by Maurice Ravel contains a score for the solo piano. It is a fine example of the composer's work and a fantastic addition to any classical musician's repertoire. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original
... Read more
Becoming an Orchestral Musician

A Guide for Aspiring Professionals

by Richard Davis ...

Becoming an Orchestral Musician takes you on a journey into the musical profession. It is the first comprehensive guide for professional musicians on how to succeed in joining an orchestra or ensemble, and how to survive as an orchestral musician. Such crucial topics as how to obtain the right tuition, music college versus university, auditioning, nerves, the secrets of ensemble playing and ... Read more

$14.99 CAD

Becoming an Orchestral Musician takes you on a journey into the musical profession. It is the first comprehensive guide for professional musicians on how to succeed in joining an orchestra or ensemble, and how to survive as an orchestral musician. Such crucial topics as how to obtain the right tuition, music college versus university, auditioning, nerves, the secrets of ensemble playing and
... Read more
The Baroque Violin & Viola

A Fifty-Lesson Course Volume I

by Walter S. Reiter ...

In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe--this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the power to express emotions in a way only before achieved with the human voice. With this new guide to the Baroque violin, and its close cousin, the Baroque viola, distinguished performer and pedagogue Walter Reiter puts this power into the hands of today ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

In the early seventeenth century, enthusiasm for the violin swept across Europe--this was an instrument capable of bewitching virtuosity, with the power to express emotions in a way only before achieved with the human voice. With this new guide to the Baroque violin, and its close cousin, the Baroque viola, distinguished performer and pedagogue Walter Reiter puts this power into the hands of today
... Read more
Monsieur Croche

Tutti gli scritti

by Claude Debussy ...

Acuti e irriverenti, severi fino alla stroncatura o talmente ironici da risultare dissacranti, gli scritti critici di Claude Debussy costituiscono una delle testimonianze più sfrontate mai offerte dalla critica musicale e una fucina sorprendente ed eclettica di riflessioni sulla scena contemporanea e sulle indimenticabili opere del passato. Presentati talvolta in forma di conversazione con un ... Read more

$21.99 CAD

Acuti e irriverenti, severi fino alla stroncatura o talmente ironici da risultare dissacranti, gli scritti critici di Claude Debussy costituiscono una delle testimonianze più sfrontate mai offerte dalla critica musicale e una fucina sorprendente ed eclettica di riflessioni sulla scena contemporanea e sulle indimenticabili opere del passato. Presentati talvolta in forma di conversazione con un
... Read more
Dr. Richard von Fuchs Music for Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, Clarinet Woodwinds Vol. 1.

by Richard von Fuchs ...

At last amateur players can try original compositions to test their skills and expand their repertoire. ... Read more

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At last amateur players can try original compositions to test their skills and expand their repertoire.
... Read more
Mozart Studies 2

Edited by Simon P. Keefe ...

Series series Cambridge Composer Studies
Cultural, historical and reception-related contexts are central to understanding Mozart, one of the greatest and most famous musicians of all time. Widening and refining the lens through which the composer is viewed, the essays in Mozart Studies 2 focus on themes, issues, works and repertories perennially popular among Mozart scholars of all kinds, pointing to areas primed for future study and ... Read more

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Cultural, historical and reception-related contexts are central to understanding Mozart, one of the greatest and most famous musicians of all time. Widening and refining the lens through which the composer is viewed, the essays in Mozart Studies 2 focus on themes, issues, works and repertories perennially popular among Mozart scholars of all kinds, pointing to areas primed for future study and
... Read more
The Classic fM Musical Treasury

A Curious Collection of New Meanings for Old Words

by Tim Lihoreau ...

There are all sorts of people, events and sounds that exist in the musical world for which there are no words. We have been sadly bereft of a satisfactory way to describe the contortion of a singer's mouth when reaching for the high notes; the audience member who leaves a concert halfway through the grand finale; or that person who places one finger in their ear and raises their eyes heavenwards ... Read more

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There are all sorts of people, events and sounds that exist in the musical world for which there are no words. We have been sadly bereft of a satisfactory way to describe the contortion of a singer's mouth when reaching for the high notes; the audience member who leaves a concert halfway through the grand finale; or that person who places one finger in their ear and raises their eyes heavenwards
... Read more
Perspectives on the Music of Christopher Fox

Straight Lines in Broken Times

Edited by Rose Dodd ...

Christopher Fox (1955) has emerged as one of the most fascinating composers of the post-war generation. His spirit of experimentalism pervades an oeuvre in which he has blithely created his own version of a range of contemporary musical practices. In his work many of the major expressions of European cultural activity - Darmstadt, Fluxus, spectralism, postminimalism and more - are assimilated to ... Read more

$96.18 CAD

Christopher Fox (1955) has emerged as one of the most fascinating composers of the post-war generation. His spirit of experimentalism pervades an oeuvre in which he has blithely created his own version of a range of contemporary musical practices. In his work many of the major expressions of European cultural activity - Darmstadt, Fluxus, spectralism, postminimalism and more - are assimilated to
... Read more
Carl Maria von Weber

Die Entdeckung des Klangs

by Michael Heinemann ...

Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826) verdankt seine Popularität fraglos dem „Freischütz“. Mindestens ebenso wie die eingängigen Melodien fiel aber schon den Zeitgenossen seine Kunst auf, neue Klänge zu finden: für Wolfsschlucht, Wald und Wetter, zur Darstellung von Natur und Kultur auch anderer Länder, in denen seine Opern spielen. Auch für Klavier und Klarinette entdeckte er neue Gestaltungsmittel, ... Read more

$13.99 CAD

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Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826) verdankt seine Popularität fraglos dem „Freischütz“. Mindestens ebenso wie die eingängigen Melodien fiel aber schon den Zeitgenossen seine Kunst auf, neue Klänge zu finden: für Wolfsschlucht, Wald und Wetter, zur Darstellung von Natur und Kultur auch anderer Länder, in denen seine Opern spielen. Auch für Klavier und Klarinette entdeckte er neue Gestaltungsmittel,
... Read more
Chamber Music

An Extensive Guide for Listeners

by Lucy Miller Murray ...

In Chamber Music: An Extensive Guide for Listeners,Lucy Miller Murray transforms her decades of program notes for some of the world’s most distinguished artists and presenters into the go-to guide for the chamber music novice and enthusiast. Offering practical information on the broad array of chamber music works from the Classical, Romantic, and Modern periods—and an artful selection from the ... Read more

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In Chamber Music: An Extensive Guide for Listeners,Lucy Miller Murray transforms her decades of program notes for some of the world’s most distinguished artists and presenters into the go-to guide for the chamber music novice and enthusiast. Offering practical information on the broad array of chamber music works from the Classical, Romantic, and Modern periods—and an artful selection from the
... Read more

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