This concise edition contains four expressive and lively impromptus that will challenge advanced pianists. To clarify the composer's original notations on tempo, dynamics, fingering, pedaling and ornamentation, Dr. Baylor has included notes on performing each piece and provided footnotes for difficu[...]
This three-volume boxed set is the definitive work on Franz Schubert's vocal music with piano. A richly illustrated encyclopedia, these substantial volumes contain more than seven hundred song commentaries with parallel text and translations (by Richard Wigmore), detailed annotations on the songs' [...]
This is the first book to examine Schubert?s songs as active shaping forces in the culture of their era rather than as mere reflections of it. Responding to rising new forms of social organisation, Schubert discovered that songs could serve as a medium for shuffling and reshuffling the basic buildin[...]
During his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, from intimate songs and dances to ambitious chamber pieces, symphonies, and operas. The essays and translated documents in Franz Schubert and His World examine his compositions and ties to the Vien[...]
One of the most familiar and popular marches ever written is Franz Schubert's Military March No. 1. This march was originally written for piano duet, so this expanded arrangement delivers even more excitement and musical texture for 4 intermediate level pianists at 2 pianos. Two copies are needed fo[...]
Vocal CollectionA major new edition, newly researched, with new music engravings, historical notes on each song, a poet index and line by line translations for study. Unlike other Schubert editions, the complete cycles Die Winterreise and Die schone Mullerin are not included, since in their entirety[...]
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.[...]
In Franz Schubert's Music in Performance David Montgomery challenges many operative myths about the music of this great, but often misunderstood, Viennese master. Chief among them is the lingering notion that Schubert was poorly-trained but still managed to turn out brilliant, if often flawed, score[...]
Franz Schubert gilt vielen Menschen als Inbegriff einer biedermeierlichen, beschaulichen Musikkultur. Seine berühmtesten Werke werden gern als Paradestücke für die Hausmusik des gehobenen Bürgertums angesehen. Doch das tradierte Bild des liebenswerten "Liederfürsten" verdient längst eine kriti[...]