8/13/2015

Beethoven: The Music and the Life - Lewis Lockwood - 2002

ISBN: 0393050815, 0393326381 | 2002 | EPUB | 624 pages | 19 MB
A fresh look at Beethoven's life, career, and milieu highlighting his development as a composer.

8/11/2015

Beethoven: The Composer as Hero" - Philippe A. Autexier - 1992

PDF | 1992 | 143 pages | ISBN: 0810928329 | English | 16 MB
A biography of the great composer retraces Beethoven's extraordinary life, from his early years as a child prodigy, through his sudden deafness at age twenty-six and initial contemplation of suicide, to his creative accomplishments beyond.

Mozart, Haydn and Early Beethoven: 1781-1802 - Daniel Heartz - 2008

2008 | ISBN: 0393066347 | English | 846 pages | EPUB | 23 MB
A vivid portrait of Mozart and Haydn's greatest achievements and young Beethoven's works under their influence.

8/04/2015

After the Rite: Stravinsky's Path to Neoclassicism (1914-1925) - Maureen A. Carr - 2014

2014 | ISBN-10: 0199742936 | 328 pages | PDF | 42 MB
The riot that erupted during the 1913 debut of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris has long been one of the most infamous and intriguing events of modern musical history.

The Mystery of Chopin's Préludes - Anatole Leikin - 2015

English | ISBN: 1409452247 | 2015 | 190 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Chopin's Twenty-Four Preludes remain as mysterious today as when they were newly published.

7/30/2015

Words Without Music: A Memoir [Audiobook] by Philip Glass

English | April 6, 2015 | ASIN: B00V3O12HM, ISBN: 1481529161 | MP3@64 kbps | 15 hrs 6 mins | 427 MB Narrator: Lloyd James | Genre: Nonfiction/Memoir
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The long-awaited memoir by "the most prolific and popular of all contemporary composers." (New York Times)

7/28/2015

Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits - Michael H. Kater - 1999

English | Dec 23, 1999 | ISBN: 0195099249 | 416 Pages | PDF | 1,9 MB
How does creativity thrive in the face of fascism? How can a highly artistic individual function professionally in so threatening a climate? 

Maicheaal Houlahan and Micheal Houlahan, "Kodaly in the First and Second Grade Classroom: Developing the Creative Brain in the 21st Century"

English | ISBN: 0190235780, 0190248483 | 2015 | 264 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Since the mid-twentieth century, Zoltán Kodály's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music education around the world, and is now at the core of music teaching in the United States and other English speaking countries.

7/22/2015

Collaborative Creative Thought and Practice in Music - Margaret S. Barrett - 2014

English | ISBN: 1472415841 | 2014 | 304 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The notion of the individual creator, a product in part of the Western romantic ideal, is now troubled by accounts and explanations of creativity as a social construct.

Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience - K.Burland and S.Pitts - 2014

English | ISBN: 1409469816 | 2014 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience explores the processes and experiences of attending live music events from the initial decision to attend through to audience responses and memories of a performance after it has happened.

Tchaikovsky's Pathétique and Russian Culture - Marina Ritzarev - 2014

English | ISBN: 1472424115 | 2014 | 169 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Tchaikovsky?s Sixth Symphony (1893), widely recognized as one of the world?s most deeply tragic compositions, is also known for the mystery surrounding its hidden programme and for Tchaikovsky?s unexpected death nine days after its premiere.

Interpreting Chopin: Analysis and Performance - Alison Hood - 2014

English | ISBN: 1409452093 | 2014 | 217 pages | PDF | 15 MB
Music theory is often seen as independent from - even antithetical to - performance.

Schubert's Lieder and the Philosophy of Early German Romanticism - L.Feurzeig - 2014

English | ISBN: 140944788X | 2014 | 198 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This study of Franz Schubert's settings of poetry by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis introduces the fascinating world of early German Romanticism in the 1790s, when an energetic group of bold young thinkers radically changed the landscape of European thought.

Francis Poulenc, Articles and Interviews: Notes from the Heart - N.Southon, R.Nichols - 2013

English | ISBN: 1409466221 | 2013 | 313 pages | PDF | 4 MB
'He plays the piano well,' wrote the society hostess Mme de Saint-Marceaux in her diary on 18 March 1927.

Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music - S.McCarrey, L.A.Wright - 2014

English | ISBN: 1409400646 | 2014 | 228 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music offers a range of approaches central to the performance of French piano music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

7/19/2015

Messiaen Perspectives 1 & 2: Sources and Influences - C.Dingle and R.Fallon - 2013


English | 2013 | ISBN: 1409426955 | 368 pages | PDF | 4,4 MB

English | 2013 | ISBN: 1409426963 | 441 pages | PDF | 4,6 MB
Focusing on Messiaen's relation to history - both his own and the history he engendered - the Messiaen Perspectives volumes convey the growing understanding of his deep and varied interconnections with his cultural milieux.

7/18/2015

Delius and his Music - Martin Lee-Browne and Paul Guinery - 2014

English | 2014 | ISBN: 1843839598 | 560 pages | PDF | 15 MB
There are many biographies and articles about Frederick Delius's life (1862-1934), but there has never been a comprehensive book about his music until now.