(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1970, c1953
Language
English
Description
Mr. Kirkpatrick traveled extensively to collect material that has tripled the known facts about Scarlatti's life, providing the first adequate biography of one of the greatest harpsichord composers of the eighteenth century and one of the most original composers of all time. The second half of his book is an illuminating study of Scarlatti's 555 sonatas, concluding with a chapter on their performance. The book contains extensive appendixes, including...
5) Handel
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
1985, c1984
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronological table by Anthony Hicks. With 100 illustrations, 10 in colour. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"All Emma Daley wants this holiday season is a white Christmas. But the young teacher and struggling musician sure can't find that in sunny Arizona. Luckily, there's someone living in a perfect mountain home in the Colorado Rockies looking to make a vacation trade this year.Tyler Prescott is an in-demand songwriter and talented musician who put his own singing career on hold to write songs for celebrity acts to perform. When his mother convinces him...
Author
Publisher
G. Howard Watt
Pub. Date
1931
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
One autumn night in the eighties a young Irishman of twenty-seven, who had passed most of his life in Germany, took his place in the orchestra pit of the Metropolitan Opera House to play the cello. His name was Victor Herbert. He had just arrived in New York, and from his obscure seat he looked around curiously at the mass of faces glowing weirdly in the vast, dim auditorium. He felt a symbolic force in the crowding immensity of the place, in the...
14) Tchaikovsky
Author
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
1973
Physical Desc
287 p.
Language
English
Description
Includes comprehensive list of works and select bibliography.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1977
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
141 p.
Language
English
Description
Follows the life and discusses the music of the insurance executive who composed in his spare time music of such originality and variety that he ranks today as one of this country's greatest and most thoroughly American composers.
19) Aaron Copland
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1953
Physical Desc
vii, 120 p. : port., music ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
1966
Physical Desc
731 p.
Language
English
Description
Noted musicologist's exceptionally full and detailed study of the man, his music and his times - widely considered the standard biography. Childhood, early music training, years in London; composition of Messiah, other oratorios and operas; analysis of Handel's musical style and individual works, much more. Includes 35 illustrations. Introduction. Bibliographical Note. Indexes.
