Classical
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South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene
$24.95 Add to cartBetween the world wars, Chicago Race women nurtured a local yet widely resonant Black classical music community entwined with Black civic life. Samantha Ege tells the stories of the Black women whose … [more below]
- Series: Music in American Life
- Author: Ege, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0252088336
- Language: English
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For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet
$25.95 Add to cartThe clarinetist Rebecca Rischin has written a captivating book…. Her research dispels several long-cherished myths about the 1941 premiere…. Rischin lovingly brings to life the other musicians–?t
- Author: Rischin, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 13 2006
- ISBN10: 0801472970
- Language: English
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Complete Preludes, Books 1 and 2
$19.95 Read moreHere, in one volume, are two bodies of work that, perhaps more than any others, reveal the essence of Claude Debussy’s extraordinary expressiveness and his innovative gifts for musical imagery. Each b
- Series: Dover Music for Piano
- Author: Debussy, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0486259706
- Language: English
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The American Vignola: A Guide to the Making of Classical Architecture
$21.95 Read more“Vignola codified the rules of classical architecture for the Italian Renaissance . . . Ware codified Vignola for the American Renaissance.” — John Barrington Bayley, from the Introductory Notes to T… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Ware, William R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14 1994
- ISBN10: 0486283100
- Language: English
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The Golden Ass
$14.00 Add to cartAn enchanting story that has inspired generations of writers, including Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats
Written towards the end of the second century AD, The Golden Ass tells the story of- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Apuleius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140435905
- Language: English
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The Music Inside Us: Yo-Yo Ma and His Gifts to the World (a Picture Book Biography)
$19.99 Add to cartFrom a bestselling and award-winning team comes a moving, gorgeously illustrated picture-book biography of one of the greatest cellists of all time, Yo-Yo Ma, and his lifelong passion for using music … [more below]
- Author: Howe, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1419755218
- Language: English
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Spirto Gentil: An Invitation to Listen to Great Music with Luigi Giussani
$32.00 Add to cartWhen he was a young seminarian, the teacher in Luigi Giussani’s singing class played a recording of an aria from a Donizetti opera, “Spirto gentil” (“Gentle spirit, you once shone in my dreams, but af
- Author: Giussani, Luigi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1639821880
- Language: English
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Spirto Gentil: An Invitation to Listen to Great Music with Luigi Giussani
$19.00 Add to cartWhen he was a young seminarian, the teacher in Luigi Giussani’s singing class played a recording of an aria from a Donizetti opera, “Spirto gentil” (“Gentle spirit, you once shone in my dreams, but af
- Author: Giussani, Luigi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1639821872
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses
$38.00 Read moreWinner of the 2023 HAROLD MORTON LANDON TRANSLATION AWARD
The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its represe- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 525505997
- Language: English
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101 Classical Themes for Violin
$16.99 Add to cart(Instrumental Folio). This huge collection offers instrumentalists the chance to play 101 classical themes, including: Ave Maria * Bist du bei mir (You Are with Me) * Canon in D * Clair de Lune * Danc… [more below]
- Author: Hal Leonard Corp
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1495056317
- Language: English
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
$25.00 Read moreDrawing extensively on Russian-language sources, a concise yet comprehensive survey of the life and work of one of classical music’s great composers.
Unquestionably one of the most popular composers- Series: Critical Lives
- Author: Mitchell, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1789145767
- Language: English
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Complete Preludes and Etudes
$19.95 Read moreChopin’s piano works are of such uniformly high quality that they are all absolutely essential in the repertoire of any aspiring pianist. The Preludes and Etudes are exquisitely beautiful examples of … [more below]
- Series: Dover Music for Piano
- Author: Chopin, Frédéric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01 1980
- ISBN10: 0486240525
- Language: English
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Nocturnes and Barcarolles for Solo Piano
$24.95 Read moreThe music of Gabriel Faur (1845-1924) is an important link between the innovations of late Romanticism and the experimentation of the early 20th century. A student of Saint-Sa ns, he, in turn, taught… [more below]
- Series: Dover Music for Piano
- Author: Fauré, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 14 1994
- ISBN10: 0486279553
- Language: English
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Rubrics: A Liturgical Suite for Organ: Organ Solo
$19.99 Read moreA group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the ki… [more below]
- Author: Locklair, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0793513995
- Language: English
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The Craft of Musical Composition, Book I: Theory
$27.95 Read more(Schott). Originally published in the 1940s, Paul Hindemith’s remakable textbooks are still the outstanding works of their kind. In contrast to many musical textbooks written by academic musicians, th… [more below]
- Author: Hindemith, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: October 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0901938300
- Language: English
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Wendy Carlos’s Switched-On Bach
$14.95 Read moreSo much, popular and scholarly, has been written about the synthesizer, Bob Moog and his brand-name instrument, and even Wendy Carlos, the musician who made this instrument famous. No one, however, ha
- Series: 33 1/3 #141
- Author: Kheshti, Roshanak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: October 31 2019
- ISBN10: 1501320289
- Language: English
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Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (Episode in the Life of an Artist)
$12.95 Read moreIn this masterpiece of “program” music, an obsessed musician is overcome by increasingly bizarre visions of his lover. This miniature score version is handy and inexpensive.
- Series: Dover Miniature Music Scores
- Author: Berlioz, Hector
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 10 1997
- ISBN10: 0486298906
- Language: English
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A First Book of Mozart: For the Beginning Pianist with Downloadable Mp3s
$9.95 Read moreBeginning pianists can experience the pleasure and satisfaction of playing Mozart with this collection of special arrangements. It offers students of all ages the opportunity to charm listeners with f… [more below]
- Series: Dover Music for Piano
- Author: Dutkanicz, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0486446247
- Language: English
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The Encyclopedia of Music: A Guide to the Greatest Composers and the Instruments of the Orchestra
$35.00 Add to cartA comprehensively illustrated reference to musical instruments and the history of the orchestra, and a guide to 100 classical composers from Bach to Xenakis, in a newly updated large-format edition.
Au… [more below]
- Author: Wade-Matthews, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0754835022
- Language: English
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Easy Pieces: Schirmer Library of Classics Volume 2037 Piano Solo
$18.99 Read more(Piano Collection). A delightful collection of 59 pieces for the beginning pianist by a 20th-century Russian master. Includes 24 Easy Pieces for Children, Op. 39 and 35 Easy Pieces, Op. 89.
- Author: Kabalevsky, Dmitri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0793589304
- Language: English
