The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky's biggest work and one of the few great operas written since the 1920s, rare too for the unusual quality of its libretto, by Auden and Kallman. Its importance is undisputed, but so too are the problems it raises: problems of both performance and understanding, caused by the irony with which it is so thoroughly permeated. In aspects of style and operatic convention it looks back to the eighteenth century, and in particular to the operas of Mozart and da Ponte, while making references also to other periods, to operas from Monteverdi to Verdi. Yet at the same time it is wholly a work of the twentieth-century, and indeed it is centrally concerned with the impossibility of return, artistic, psychological or actual, as well as with the nature and limitation of human free will. The Rake's Progress is not one of unbridled dissipation but rather, more interestingly, one of attachment to naive notions of freedom and choice, and his tragedy is that he can never g
The only chord book which shows the guitarist exactly what chords are needed to both play and arrange songs! It contains the most often used chords in the principal guitar keys, plus photos and diagra
The actual daily practice routines used by professional symphonic and jazz drummers. The many variations of basic rudimental patterns make snare drum practicing a joy.
A bluegrass/country supplement to the Hal Leonard Banjo Method Book 2. 16 songs, including: Abilene * I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry * Jambalaya (On The Bayou) * and more.
One of the longest running shows on Broadway, A Chorus Line won nine Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Our updated songbook features vocal lines with piano accompaniment for ten songs: At
15 songs from the Broadway revival of this perennial '50s favorite! Songs include: Beauty School Dropout * Born to Hand Jive * Greased Lightnin' * Summer Nights * There Are Worse Things I Could Do *
8 vocal selections from the 1954 Broadway version of the beloved story starring Mary Martin. Includes: Captain Hook's Waltz * Distant Melody * I Won't Grow Up * I'm Flying * I've Gotta Crow * Never N
12 vocal selections from the Broadway staple, including: Adelaide's Lament * A Bushel and a Peck * Fugue for Tinhorns * Guys and Dolls * I've Never Been in Love Before * If I Were a Bell * Luck Be a
12 songs from the movie, including: Easy Street * I Think I'm Gonna like It Here * It's the Hard-Knock Life * Little Girls * Maybe * Tomorrow * You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile * and more.
These virtuoso transpositions of themes by Mozart, Verdi, Bellini, and other masters offer unforgettable music for piano. This affordable anthology was published in association with the American Liszt
This book is an introduction to the esthetics of music. Aesthetics, which were of prime importance in thinking about music in the nineteenth century, are today sometimes suspected of being idle speculation. Yet judgments about music and every sort of musical activity are based on aesthetic presuppositions. Carl Dahlhaus gives an account of developments in the aesthetics of music from the mid-eighteenth century onwards. He combines a historical and systematic approach. Central themes in music are grouped together to illustrate both the historical course of events and a systematic unity of the essential elements in the aesthetics of music. For this edition, the late Carl Dahlhaus provided an annotated bibliography. William Austin has added books for the English-speaking reader, and has also supplied notes to the text to help the student.
This is the only jazz history written by a musician that is not strictly autobiographical. Rex Stewart, who played trumpet and cornet with Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington, knew personally all th
A unique bluegrass/country supplement to the Hal Leonard Banjo Method Book 1 or any other beginning method. 16 songs, including: Before I Met You * Hey, Good Lookin' * I'll Fly Away * Rocky Top * Thi
Music Sales AmericaBeginners will be playing tunes in no time with this introductory guide to one of the world's easist instruments. It has all the instruction required to play this fascinating little
Of the four works in the Ring cycle, Gotterdammerung is perhaps the grandest and most sweeping of all. Wagner began composing the musical drafts of Gotterdammerung in 1869. Five years later, the work
