Prokofievs Piano Sonatas

Author : Boris Berman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300145004
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas written by Boris Berman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boris Berman draws on his intimate knowledge of Prokofiev's work to guide music lovers and pianists through the composer's nine piano sonatas.

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Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Piano Solos written by and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1985-03 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Op. 1 - Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor * Op. 14 - Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor * Op. 28 - Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor

Author : Boris Berman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300221525
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes from the Pianist's Bench written by Boris Berman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berman addresses virtually every aspect of musical artistry and pedagogy. Ranging from such practical matters as sound, touch, and pedaling to the psychology of performing and teaching, this volume provides a master class for the performer, instructor, and student alike.

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Download or read book Prokofiev,piano Sonatas written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rebecca Gena Martin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nine Piano Sonatas of Sergei Prokofiev written by Rebecca Gena Martin and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Rosen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030019613X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beethoven's Piano Sonatas written by Charles Rosen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beethoven’s piano sonatas form one of the most important collections of works in the whole history of music. Spanning several decades of his life as a composer, the sonatas soon came to be seen as the first body of substantial serious works for piano suited to performance in large concert halls seating hundreds of people. In this comprehensive and authoritative guide, Charles Rosen places the works in context and provides an understanding of the formal principles involved in interpreting and performing this unique repertoire, covering such aspects as sonata form, phrasing, and tempo, as well as the use of pedal and trills. In the second part of his book, he looks at the sonatas individually, from the earliest works of the 1790s through the sonatas of Beethoven’s youthful popularity of the early 1800s, the subsequent years of mastery, the years of stress (1812†“1817), and the last three sonatas of the 1820s. Composed as much for private music-making as public recital, Beethoven’s sonatas have long formed a bridge between the worlds of the salon and the concert hall. For today’s audience, Rosen has written a guide that brings out the gravity, passion, and humor of these works and will enrich the appreciation of a wide range of readers, whether listeners, amateur musicians, or professional pianists. The book includes a CD of Rosen performing extracts from several of the sonatas, illustrating points made in the text.

Author : Rita McAllister
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190670797
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Prokofiev written by Rita McAllister and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among major 20th-century composers whose music is poorly understood, Sergei Prokofiev stands out conspicuously. The turbulent times in which Prokofiev lived and the chronology of his travels-he left Russia in the wake of Revolution, and returned at the height of the Stalinist purges-have caused unusually polarized appraisals of his music. While individual, distinctive, and instantly recognizable, Prokofiev's music was also idiosyncratically tonal in an age when tonality was largely passé. Prokofiev's output therefore has been largely elusive and difficult to assess against contemporary trends. More than sixty years after the composer's death, editors Rita McAllister and Christina Guillaumier offer Rethinking Prokofiev as an assessment that redresses this enigmatic composer's legacy. Often more political than artistic, these appraisals have depended not only upon the date of publication but also the geographical location of the writer. Commissioned from some of the most distinguished and rising scholars in the field, this collection highlights the background and context of Prokofiev's work. Contributors delve into the composer's relationship to nineteenth-century Russian traditions, Silver-Age and Symbolist composers and poets, the culture of Paris in the 1920s and '30s, and to his later Soviet colleagues and younger contemporaries. They also investigate his reception in the West, his return to Russia, and the effect of his music on contemporary popular culture. Still, the main focus of the book is on the music itself: his early, experimental piano and vocal works, as well as his piano concertos, operas, film scores, early ballets, and late symphonies. Through an empirical examination of his characteristic harmonies, melodies, cadences, and musical gestures-and through an analysis of the newly uncovered contents of his sketch-books-contributors reveal much of what makes Prokofiev an idiosyncratic genius and his music intriguing, often dramatic, and almost always beguiling.

Author : Simon Morrison
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547844131
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lina & Serge written by Simon Morrison and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the renowned composer’s neglected wife—including her years in a Soviet prison—is “a story both riveting and wrenching” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Serge Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant composers yet is an enigma to historians and his fans. Why did he leave the West and move to the Soviet Union despite Stalin’s crimes? Why did his astonishing creativity in the 1930s soon dissolve into a far less inspiring output in his later years? The answers can finally be revealed, thanks to Simon Morrison’s unique and unfettered access to the family’s voluminous papers and his ability to reconstruct the tragic, riveting life of the composer’s wife, Lina. Morrison’s portrait of the marriage of Lina and Serge Prokofiev is the story of a remarkable woman who fought for survival in the face of unbearable betrayal and despair and of the irresistibly talented but heartlessly self-absorbed musician she married. Born to a Spanish father and Russian mother in Madrid at the end of the nineteenth century and raised in Brooklyn, Lina fell in love with a rising-star composer—and defied convention to be with him, courting public censure. She devoted her life to Serge and art, training to be an operatic soprano and following her brilliant husband to Stalin’s Russia. Just as Serge found initial acclaim—before becoming constricted by the harsh doctrine of socialist-realist music—Lina was at first accepted and later scorned, ending her singing career. Serge abandoned her and took up with another woman. Finally, Lina was arrested and shipped off to the gulag in 1948. She would be held in captivity for eight awful years. Meanwhile, Serge found himself the tool of an evil regime to which he was forced to accommodate himself. The contrast between Lina and Serge is one of strength and perseverance versus utter self-absorption, a remarkable human drama that draws on the forces of art, sacrifice, and the struggle against oppression. Readers will never forget the tragic drama of Lina’s life, and never listen to Serge’s music in quite the same way again.

Author : Sergey Prokofiev
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486421287
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Piano sonatas nos. 1-4, opp. 1, 14, 28, 29 written by Sergey Prokofiev and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the dramatic Sonata No. 1 in F minor; Sonata No. 2 in D minor; Sonata No. 3 in A minor; and Sonata No. 4 in C minor, a 3-movement sonata considered vintage Prokofiev.

Author : Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781540097170
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies: Chopin Complete Works Vol. II written by Ignacy Jan Paderewski and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PWM