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Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets by Wendy Lesser Review “…..It is hard not to be swept up in the stories behind the Shostakovich cycle and by the zeal of Wendy Lessers advocacy. The cumulative impact of Music for Silenced Voices is considerable.”—John Greening, Times Literary... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Orchestration (82 Edition) by Cecil Forsyth Publisher Comments "For its time the most comprehensive treatment of the subject." — New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. In what is probably the best general book on the subject, a noted English composer describes 57 orchestral instruments, tracing... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Robin Stowell Publisher Comments This survey of the string quartet by ten chamber music specialists focuses on four main areas: social and musical background to the genre's development; celebrated ensembles and their significance; and string quartet playing. It reviews aspects of... (read more) List Price $45.75 Your price: $27.00 Used - Trade Paper
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40 Etudes for Solo Cello, Opus 73 by Dmitry Yablonsky Publisher Comments Popper (1843–1913) was among the greatest cellists of all time, and this set of etudes is universally acknowledged as being among the finest — and most challenging — ever composed. This edition, newly engraved by Dmitry Yablonsky, will... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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Beethoven's Chamber Music in Context by Angus Watson Publisher Comments Watson provides professional and amateur musicians, and music lovers generally, with a complete survey of Beethoven's chamber music and the background to each individual work - the loyalty of patrons, musicians and friends on the one hand; increasing... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 50 (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by W. Dean Sutcliffe Publisher Comments The Op. 50 string quartets contain some of the purest writing Haydn ever accomplished. In this first full account of the six quartets, Dean Sutcliffe evaluates the Op. 50 in relation to Haydn's more frequently performed quartets and considers their... (read more) Your price: $42.50 New - Trade Paper
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American Piano Trios by Arno Drucker Publisher Comments Provides information about works by American composers, including biographical sketches, occasional comments by the composers, and in particular, information that might lead to a further exploration of his or her work and possible performance.... (read more) Your price: $92.50 New - Hardcover
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Zigeunerweisen, Carmen Fantasy, Introduction & Tarantella: With Separate Violin Part (Dover Chamber Music Scores) by Pablo De Sarasate Publisher Comments Sarasate was renowned as both a violinist and a composer of works based on Spanish airs and dances. This volume contains three of his best and most difficult pieces for violin and piano, in addition to a separate, removable violin part. Reproduced... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Chamber Music by Mark A. Radice Publisher Comments Intended for the music student, the professional musician, and the music lover, Chamber Music: An Essential History covers repertoire from the Renaissance to the present, crossing genres to include string quartets, piano trios, clarinet quintets, and... (read more) Your price: $40.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Two Great Clarinet Quintets: Mozart's Quintet in a Major, K.581 & Brahms's Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Publisher Comments Mozart's friendship with Anton Stadler, the clarinetist in Vienna's Royal-Imperial Court Orchestra, led to the composition of this beloved quintet. The four-movement piece is arranged for clarinet, two violins, viola, and cello. Brahms's Clarinet Quintet... (read more) Your price: $8.95 New - Trade Paper
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Mozart's Clarinet Concerto: The Clarinetist's View by David Etheridge Publisher Comments Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, written in 1791 during the last month of the famous composer's life, is the most frequently performed and highly revered concerto in clarinet literature. This insightful book examines the concerto in detail and analyzes the... (read more) Your price: $30.95 New - Trade Paper
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Favorite Opera Overtures Arranged for String Quartet: Score and Parts by David Winkler Publisher Comments This original collection features ten comic and light opera overtures arranged for string quartet, with separate parts for each instrument. Includes overtures for The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte, Gazza Ladra, William Tell, Barber... (read more) Available February 2013 Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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Guide To Chamber Music (2ND 01 Edition) by Melvin Berger Publisher Comments Authoritative, beautifully written guide presents 231 of the most frequently performed pieces of chamber music by 55 composers. For each, the author gives a brief biography, followed by discussions of the individual compositions — both their... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Beyond the Notes: Journeys with Chamber Music by Susan Tomes Publisher Comments We knew from her recordings that Susan Tomes is a superb chamber player; now we know that she's a superb writer too. Michael Church, INDEPENDENT She is as sensitive an observer and as subtle a writer as she is one of our finest chamber musicians...This... (read more) Your price: $32.95 New - Trade Paper
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Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance #0001: Music and Musket: Bands and Bandsmen of the American Civil War by Kenneth E. Olson Review Kenneth Olson has written a thoroughly documented study of the role of bandsmen and field musicians in the Civil War. The strength of the book lies in its extensive quotations from diaries, letters, regimental histories and other unpublished documents....... (read more) Your price: $120.50 New - Hardcover
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Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets by Wendy Lesser Publisher Comments Most previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have focused on either his symphonies and operas, or his relationship to the regime under which he lived, or both, since these large-scale works were the ones that attracted the interest and sometimes the... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Mozart's Clarinet Concerto: The Clarinetist's View by David Etheridge Publisher Comments Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, written in 1791 during the last month of the famous composer's life, is the most frequently performed and highly revered concerto in clarinet literature. This insightful book examines the concerto in detail and analyzes the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Verklarte Nacht by Arnold Schoenberg Publisher Comments Inspired by Richard Dehmel's poem "Verklärte Nacht" ("Transfigured Night"), this 1899 work for string sextet is very much in the late-Romantic tradition. Schoenberg deftly translates the poem's pathos into a monumental work of chamber music. The... (read more) Your price: $6.95 New - Trade Paper
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Wind bands and brass bands in school and music centre by Kevin Thompson Publisher Comments Responding to the upsurge of interest in wind and brass bands, Dr Kevin Thompson has written a practical manual for all who are involved with them whether in school or music centres, or in an adult community band. This essentially pragmatic book - the... (read more) Your price: $33.25 New - Trade Paper
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Goin' To Kansas City (87 Edition) by Nathan W. Jr. Pearson Publisher Comments The great bands of the Kansas City era drew on many styles to create a distinctive music that was among the finest expressions of swing and laid groundwork for modern jazz. Interviews and narrative combine in this intimate view of the development of an... (read more) List Price $39.75 Your price: $16.00 Used - Trade Paper
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