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Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955. An outstanding biography of this unique but underrated French composer. CONTENTS: Introduction; His Life; His Works; Conclusion; Bib… More...

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955. An outstanding biography of this unique but underrated French composer. CONTENTS: Introduction; His Life; His Works; Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix (list of compositions); Index. 242 pages, illustrated with photographs and musical examples. CONDITION: a solid, square NEAR VERY GOOD copy, lacking the original dust-jacket. Its covers are a bit worn and bumped, specifically at the spine ends and lower right corners - those corners also color-faded (possible water incursion - see accompanying scan images). The interior is bright and clean - unmarked but for a previous owner's signature on the front free endpaper. This quite respectable copy is now enclosed in a clear, protective polypropylene bag.. First Edition. Clothbound Hardcover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., University of Oklahoma Press, 1955, Pangbourne: Corryann Ltd, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5.5" X 8.5. A story set in ireland in the 19th century and a woman's struggle to bring up her children when her husband is transported. The basis for a musical. Comes complete with CD insider the front cover. An immaculate copy, only a bookshop's barcode label on the back of the dust jacket detracts. All orders processed and shipped promptly from the UK, usually within 24 hours. Please call or email with your questions., Corryann Ltd, 2006, arranged by the Oahu StaffPublisher: Oahu Publishing (1948)#: 13PGwith lyrics & octave notation8 1/2 x 11 inches, 5 pages"The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze", originally published under the title "The Flying Trapeze" and also known as "The Man on the Flying Trapeze", is a 19th-century popular song about a flying trapeze circus performer, Jules Léotard. The refrain states:He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease,That daring young man on the flying trapeze.The song was first published in 1867, with words written by the British lyricist and singer, George Leybourne, with music by Gaston Lyle, and arranged by Alfred Lee. The lyrics were based on the phenomenal success of trapeze artist Jules Léotard.The following century, the song inspired the 1934 short story The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by William Saroyan. The film Man on the Flying Trapeze came out in 1935, starring W. C. Fields and Mary Brian.This song is sometimes associated with Emmett Kelly, who performed as a trapeze artist before becoming famous as a clown., Oahu Publishing, 1948, Schaum Publications, 1970. Pages white and clean. Binding secure. Moderate cover wear.. Saddle-stitched Softcover. Very Good., Schaum Publications, 1970, Native Ground Music. Very Good+. 2008. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 1883206340 . Light shelfwear on covers and spine. ; 8.2 X 5.3 X 0.3 inches; 72 pages ., Native Ground Music, 2008, A Song of India (Chanson Indoue) Solo (or Duet) for Eflat Saxophone & Pianocomposed by Nikolai (Nikolas) Rimsky-Korsakovarranged by Calvin GroomsPublished by Century Music Publishing Co., New York (1934)#: 2904Sheet music9 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches, 5 pagesNikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (18 March 1844 21 June 1908) was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. He was a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositionsCapriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazadeare staples of the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his 15 operas. Scheherazade is an example of his frequent use of fairy tale and folk subjects.Rimsky-Korsakov believed, as did fellow composer Mily Balakirev and critic Vladimir Stasov, in developing a nationalistic style of classical music. This style employed Russian folk song and lore along with exotic harmonic, melodic and rhythmic elements in a practice known as musical orientalism, and eschewed traditional Western compositional methods. Rimsky-Korsakov appreciated Western musical techniques after he became a professor of musical composition, harmony and orchestration at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1871. He undertook a rigorous three-year program of self-education and became a master of Western methods, incorporating them alongside the influences of Mikhail Glinka and fellow members of The Five. His techniques of composition and orchestration were further enriched by his exposure to the works of Richard Wagner.For much of his life, Rimsky-Korsakov combined his composition and teaching with a career in the Russian militaryat first as an officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, then as the civilian Inspector of Naval Bands. He wrote that he developed a passion for the ocean in childhood from reading books and hearing of his older brother's exploits in the navy. This love of the sea may have influenced him to write two of his best-known orchestral works, the musical tableau Sadko (not to be confused with his later opera of the same name) and Scheherazade. Through his service as Inspector of Naval Bands, Rimsky-Korsakov expanded his knowledge of woodwind and brass playing, which enhanced his abilities in orchestration. He passed this knowledge to his students, and also posthumously through a textbook on orchestration that was completed by his son-in-law, Maximilian Steinberg.Rimsky-Korsakov left a considerable body of original Russian nationalist compositions. He prepared works by The Five for performance, which brought them into the active classical repertoire (although there is controversy over his editing of the works of Modest Mussorgsky), and shaped a generation of younger composers and musicians during his decades as an educator. Rimsky-Korsakov is therefore considered "the main architect" of what the classical music public considers the Russian style of composition. His influence on younger composers was especially important, as he served as a transitional figure between the autodidactism which exemplified Glinka and The Five and professionally trained composers which would become the norm in Russia by the closing years of the 19th century. While Rimsky-Korsakov's style was based on those of Glinka, Balakirev, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt and, for a brief period, Richard Wagner, he "transmitted this style directly to two generations of Russian composers" and influenced non-Russian composers including Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Paul Dukas and Ottorino Respighi.While Rimsky-Korsakov is best known in the West for his orchestral works, his operas are more complex, offering a wider variety of orchestral effects than in his instrumental works and fine vocal writing. Excerpts and suites from them have proved as popular in the West as the purely orchestral works. The best-known of these excerpts is probably "Flight of the Bumblebee" from The Tale of Tsar Saltan, which has often been heard by itself in orchestral programs, and in countless arrangements and transcriptions, most famously in a piano version made by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. Other selections familiar to listeners in the West are "Dance of the Tumblers" from The Snow Maiden, "Procession of the Nobles" from Mlada, and "Song of the Indian Guest" (or, less accurately, "Song of India") from Sadko, as well as suites from The Golden Cockerel and The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya.The Operas fall into three categories:Historical drama: The Maid of Pskov, and its prologue The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga, Mozart and Salieri, The Tsar's Bride, Pan Voyevoda, ServilyaFolk operas: May Night, Christmas EveFairy tales and legends: The Snow Maiden, Mlada, Sadko, Kashchey the Deathless, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, The Golden CockerelOf this range Rimsky-Korsakov wrote in 1902, "In every new work of mine I am trying to do something that is new for me. On the one hand, I am pushed on by the thought that in this way, my music will retain freshness and interest, but at the same time I am prompted by my pride to think that many facets, devices, moods and styles, if not all, should be within my reach."American music critic and journalist Harold C. Schonberg wrote that the operas "open up a delightful new world, the world of the Russian East, the world of supernaturalism and the exotic, the world of Slavic pantheism and vanished races. Genuine poetry suffuses them, and they are scored with brilliance and resource." According to some critics Rimsky-Korsakov's music in these works lacks dramatic power, a seemingly fatal flaw in an operatic composer. This may have been conscious, as he repeatedly stated in his writing that he felt operas were first and foremost musical works rather than mainly dramatic ones. Ironically, the operas succeed dramatically in most cases by being deliberately non-theatrical., Century Music Publishing Co., 1934, Alfred Music. Used - Very Good. Light to moderate shelf wear. Complete. Clean pages., Alfred Music<

ISBN: 9780874871258

This series surveys three centuries of keyboard music, including representative shorter works by: Bach * Handel * Scarlatti * C.P.E. Bach * Haydn * Clementi * Mozart * Beethoven * Schuber… More...

This series surveys three centuries of keyboard music, including representative shorter works by: Bach * Handel * Scarlatti * C.P.E. Bach * Haydn * Clementi * Mozart * Beethoven * Schubert * Mendelssohn * Chopin * Schumann * Tchaikovsky * Grieg * MacDowell. The student is helped to achieve stylistically correct performance through editing based on original sources, clear interpretation of ornaments, a glossary of musical terms and symbols for each book, and biographical material on composers, relating them to their period in music history. Media > Book<

ISBN: 9780874871258

This series surveys three centuries of keyboard music, including representative shorter works by: Bach * Handel * Scarlatti * C.P.E. Bach * Haydn * Clementi * Mozart * Beethoven * Schuber… More...

This series surveys three centuries of keyboard music, including representative shorter works by: Bach * Handel * Scarlatti * C.P.E. Bach * Haydn * Clementi * Mozart * Beethoven * Schubert * Mendelssohn * Chopin * Schumann * Tchaikovsky * Grieg * MacDowell. The student is helped to achieve stylistically correct performance through editing based on original sources, clear interpretation of ornaments, a glossary of musical terms and symbols for each book, and biographical material on composers, relating them to their period in music history. Media > Book<