Dover Publications

Selected Songs For Voice And Piano is a superb collection of 25 exquisite melodies spotlighting the work of Ernest Chausson (1855 - 1899). All reproduced from authoritative sources, these songs take t...

Lilli Lehmann. One of the most influential books on the art of singing ever written. Its author is one of the first great international superstars of opera. With over 50 diagrams, examples and illustr...

A great collection of biography and musical commentary with hundreds of pieces analyzed. Contains good reference material of Bach's contemporaries. 450 musical examples between the three volumes.

In the poem 'Music,' Ralph Waldo Emerson reminds us that music can be found in all things good and bad; this choral setting is an artful expression of that idea. Rich chords bring warmth, harmonic and...

He lived in the shadow of death, painfully aware of the tuberculosis that would kill him prematurely. But Frédéric Chopin attained immortality with his piano works, which endure as pinnacles of the in...

Renowned nineteenth-century musicologist François-Joseph Fétis assembled this authoritative survey with the assistance of noted violin maker and dealer Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume. Focusing on the work of...

The concepts of theorist Heinrich Schenker offer a unique method of structural analysis that differentiates between harmonic and contrapuntal functions of chords, emphasizing the relative significance...

This classic of music criticism provides detailed studies of 23 of Mozart's piano concertos. In addition to establishing the lines along which the genre developed, the concertos also shed light upon t...

Felix Salzer. Explores tonal organisation in Western music using 500 examples from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Two volumes bound as one.

Written during the composer's years as a professor at the renowned Moscow Conservatory, this volume presents a clear and thorough introduction to the study of harmony - a complete course in writing mu...

Modulation - the change from one key to another - is a subject of critical importance to performers and composers in their study of harmony. This concise guide by a progressive early modernist offers...

Only about a tenth of Mozarts works were printed during his lifetime, the rest having been published without the benefit of his supervision. This long-awaited edition of the autograph score offers a r...

This volume consists of unaccompanied choral works composed or otherwise arranged by Johannes Brahms for mixed choruses as well as individual men's and women's choruses.

Even if you've never so much as touched a musical instrument before, this tried-and-true guide will have you strumming away in no time. Professor J. Kalani Peterson, an expert instructor, shares his s...

Arbie Orenstein. Les réalisations musicales de Ravel ainsi que sa vie et son époque sont brillamment recréées dans cette biographie magistrale, publiée à l'origine en 1975.

Name an iconic Sixties rock moment and Ellen Sander was probably there. A beautifully written, sweeping yet intimate account of America's cultural awakening in that decade. Massively entertaining - Ro...

Praised by the New York Times as gently imbued with ragtime, but aspiring 'to genuine operatic richness, ' Scott Joplin's energetic opera tells of a confident young woman whose life, in many respects,...

An unabridged republication of the work originally published by G. Schirmer, New York in 1900. Italian and English text provided.

Mozart's friendship with Anton Stadler, the clarinetist in Vienna's Royal-Imperial Court Orchestra, led to the composition of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet In A Major. The four-movement piece is arranged...

Few composers are so richly represented in concerts and recordings of chamber music as Mozart. This volume contains all eight piano trios, the two piano quartets and the piano quintet in full score, r...

Includes Six Pieces For Solo Piano, Ancient Airs and Dances and Three Preludes on Gregorian Melodies.

In addition to his genius as a composer, Schumann was a gifted critic who wrote perceptive essays, articles, and reviews for his influential musical journal, Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik. Written from 1...