Schirmer Performance EditionsSchirmer Performance Editions are designed for piano students and their teachers as well as for professional pianists. Pedagogical in nature, these editions offer insightful interpretive suggestions, pertinent fingering, and historical and stylistic commentary. Prepared [...]
In this major new interpretation of the music of J. S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Bach's music "against the grain" of contemporaries such as Vivaldi and Telemann, Laurence Dreyfus explains how Bach's approach to musical invention in a v[...]
The extraordinary experience shared by over a million hardcover readers!
The mind and body cannot be separated-what affects one will affect the other. The Bach Flower Remedies contain the subtle vibrational essences of flowers and trees. These remedies correct imbalances in the mental, emotional and spiritual bodies, promoting healing in the physical body. Every day we a[...]
Edited by Baroque scholar Judith Schneider, with expert fingering suggestions by Stuttgart Professor Maria Sofianska, the long-awaited Volume II of Bach's essential masterpiece contains 30 pages of extensive research and insight into Baroque music. Painstakingly compared with the most important auto[...]
"Your edition of the Bach Inventions is an excellent, practical edition with a splendid foreword. Students should consider it a 'must' and I look forward to introducing it to mine."---Igor Kipnis.[...]
A wonderful edition aimed at helping the pianist perform Bach's music in a stylistically acceptable manner. It includes suggested articulation, dynamic, and fingering indications. Also included is history on Bach as a performer and a teacher to aid in bet[...]
Valery Lloyd-Watts' impeccable technique, appropriate musical feeling and interpretation of ornamentation will inspire students as they explore the Inventions and Sinfonias of Bach. Lloyd-Watts studied at the Conservatory of Music in Toronto and the Royal[...]
This diversified collection guides students to develop stylistic performances of Bach's keyboard works. Among the 27 selections are numerous menuets, "short" preludes and suite movements. The introductory material contains an excellent discussion of ornamentation, rhythm, articulation, tempo and dyn[...]
Features four classics arranged for orchestra bells, vibraphone, and marimba. These selections work splendidly as individual pieces or in a four-movement capacity, reflecting the popular sonata form commonly used in symphonic works of the 18th and 19th centuries. In addition to providing inside acce[...]