First Sonata

Author : Thomas Wolf
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643131621
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nightingale's Sonata written by Thomas Wolf and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal* A moving and uplifting history set to music that reveals the rich life of one of the first internationally renowned female violinists. Spanning generations, from the shores of the Black Sea to the glittering concert halls of New York, The Nightingale's Sonata is a richly woven tapestry centered around violin virtuoso Lea Luboshutz. Like many poor Jews, music offered an escape from the predjudices that dominated society in the last years of the Russian Empire. But Lea’s dramatic rise as an artist was further accentuated by her scandalous relationship with the revolutionary Onissim Goldovsky. As the world around them descends in to chaos, between revolution and war, we follow Lea and her family from Russia to Europe and eventually, America. We cross paths with Pablo Casals, Isadora Duncan, Emile Zola and even Leo Tolstoy. The little girl from Odessa will eventually end up as one of the founding faculty of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, but along the way she will lose her true love, her father, and watch a son die young. The Iron Curtain would rise, but through it all, she plays on. Woven throughout this luminous odyssey is the story is Cesar Franck’s “Sonata for Violin and Piano.” As Lea was one of the first-ever internationally recognized female violinists, it is fitting that this pioneer was one of the strongest advocates for this young boundary-pushing composer and his masterwork.

Author : Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457421082
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sonata Album, Volume 1 written by Ludwig van Beethoven and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully graded, pedagogical performance edition contains 12 outstanding classical sonatas by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Each sonata appears in its original form and comes complete with performance notes and clearly presented editorial markings.

Author : Wesley Schaum
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457459856
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schaum Pop Favorites, B: The Blue Book written by Wesley Schaum and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pieces in this series are long-time favorites that have appeal for pianists of all ages. Very carefully correlated to standard piano method levels, each book contains arrangements that are musically appropriate to that level. The arrangements are teacher friendly, even for the teacher who is reluctant to add pop music to the curriculum. And the series is student friendly -- there will be willing practice! Titles: * Begin the Beguine * Evergreen * I Only Have Eyes for You * Stairway to Heaven * 'S Wonderful * Star Wars (Main Title) * Tea for Two * Theme from A Summer Place * The Thorn Birds (Main Theme) * The Wind Beneath My Wings * Your Smiling Face.

Author : William S. Newman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469643723
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Sonata Idea written by William S. Newman and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a full and careful history of what sonata meant and how the word was used from its first appearance as an instrumental title in the sixteenth century to the near end of the thorough-bass practice around 1750. The revised edition includes nearly three hundred new studies, editions, and other pertinent information. Originally published in 1966. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Charles Ives
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486488632
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Piano sonata no. 2 written by Charles Ives and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ives' famous work features four movements inspired by Concord, Massachusetts–based literary figures. This edition includes essays on Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, and Thoreau from the 1920 Knickerbocker edition plus an informative Introduction.

Author : Iain Quinn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315470632
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Genesis and Development of an English Organ Sonata written by Iain Quinn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers the influences and development of the English organ sonata tradition that began in the 1850s with compositions by W. T. Best and William Spark. With the expansion of the instrument’s capabilities came an opportunity for organist-composers to consider the repertoire anew with many factors reinforcing a desire to elevate the literature to new heights. This study begins by examining the legacy of the keyboard sonata in Britain and especially the pedagogical lineage that was to be seen through Mendelssohn and ultimately the early organ sonatas. The abiding influence of William Crotch’s lectures are studied to illuminate how a culture of conservatism emboldened the organist-composers towards compositions that were seen to represent the ideals of the Classical era but in a contemporary vein. The veneration of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven is then examined as composers wrote "portfolio" sonatas, each with a movement in a contrasting style to exhibit their compositional prowess while providing repertoire for the novice and connoisseur alike. Finally the volume considers how the British organist-composers who studied at the Leipzig Conservatorium had a direct bearing on the furtherance of an organ culture at home that in turn set the ground for the seminal work in the genre, Elgar’s Sonata of 1895.

Author : Steven Vande Moortele
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9058677516
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two-dimensional Sonata Form written by Steven Vande Moortele and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two-Dimensional Sonata Form is the first book dedicated to the combination of the movements of a multimovement sonata cycle with an overarching single-movement form that is itself organized as a sonata form. Drawing on a variety of historical and recent approaches to musical form (e.g., Marxian and Schoenbergian Formenlehre, Caplin's theory of formal functions, and Hepokoski and Darcy's Sonata Theory), it begins by developing an original theoretical framework for the analysis of this type of form that is so characteristic of the later nineteenth and early twentieth century. It then offers an in-depth examination of nine exemplary works by four Central European composers: the Piano Sonata in B minor and the symphonic poems Tasso and Die Ideale by Franz Liszt; Richard Strauss's tone poems Don Juan and Ein Heldenleben; the symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande, the First String Quartet and the First Chamber Symphony by Arnold Schoenberg, and Alexander Zemlinsky's Second String Quartet.

Author : Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457421099
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sonata Album, Volume 2 written by Ludwig van Beethoven and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonata Album Volume 2 contains 10 sonatas by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Like Volume 1, each sonata appears in its original form and comes complete with performance notes and clearly presented editorial markings.

Author : Arthur Elson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Musical Knowledge written by Arthur Elson and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Hepokoski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199890234
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elements of Sonata Theory written by James Hepokoski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elements of Sonata Theory is a comprehensive, richly detailed rethinking of the basic principles of sonata form in the decades around 1800. This foundational study draws upon the joint strengths of current music history and music theory to outline a new, up-to-date paradigm for understanding the compositional choices found in the instrumental works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their contemporaries: sonatas, chamber music, symphonies, overtures, and concertos. In so doing, it also lays out the indispensable groundwork for anyone wishing to confront the later adaptations and deformations of these basic structures in the nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries. Combining insightful music analysis, contemporary genre theory, and provocative hermeneutic turns, the book brims over with original ideas, bold and fresh ways of awakening the potential meanings within a familiar musical repertory. Sonata Theory grasps individual compositions-and each of the individual moments within them-as creative dialogues with an implicit conceptual background of flexible, ever-changing historical norms and patterns. These norms may be recreated as constellations "compositional defaults," any of which, however, may be stretched, strained, or overridden altogether for individualized structural or expressive purposes. This book maps out the terrain of that conceptual background, against which what actually happens-or does not happen-in any given piece may be assessed and measured. The Elements guides the reader through the standard (and less-than-standard) formatting possibilities within each compositional space in sonata form, while also emphasizing the fundamental role played by processes of large-scale circularity, or "rotation," in the crucially important ordering of musical modules over an entire movement. The book also illuminates new ways of understanding codas and introductions, of confronting the generating processes of minor-mode sonatas, and of grasping the arcs of multimovement cycles as wholes. Its final chapters provide individual studies of alternative sonata types, including "binary" sonata structures, sonata-rondos, and the "first-movement form" of Mozart's concertos.