Best Modern & 20th Century
Beginning with Deux Arabesques (1888), it offers the Suite bergamasque (1890–1905), Réverie (1890), Danse (1890), Ballade (1890), Pour le piano (1896–1901), D'un cahier d'esquisses (1903), Extampes (1903), Mazurka (1891), Valse romantique (1890), Masques (1904), L'Isle joyeuse (1904), and the first series of Images (1905): Reflets dans l'eau, Hommage a Rameau, and Mouvement.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Since I don't know Debussy's works well, my student and I have found a great companion to this music book to be the following little book which gives information on each of Debussy's piano pieces and stylistic advice, written by someone who knew Debussy well: The Piano Works of Claude Debussy (Dover Books on Music)."
"Good price, good print, well bound, easy to turn pages, super selections including Clare de Lune and Arabesque in E Major, as well as a number of others of Debussy's best compositions for piano."
"Debussy is definitely one of the most genius composers ever."
"The print quality could be better but I'm still glad I bought it."
"This and the Beethoven sonatas."
"The same Dover editions we love, but easier to carry around!"
"This is a great collection of Debussy, and the productiion is top notch, and quality is great and also the print is easy to read and well spaced."
"Beautiful music now being played."
Many of Debussy's best-known pieces are assembled in this convenient, affordable collection.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"She teaches piano but had no Debussy in her pile of sheet music."
"This provides a great collection of Debussy piano works."
"My son loves playing out of this book!"
"This is a fabulous book with many selections."
"Great deal on a huge selection of music."
"Title, in original language, at the end of a piece is a cool choice!"
"This is all original compositions - lovely!"
"Book is missing about 30 pages in the middle."
Contains nearly every piece of piano music Debussy wrote in this giant, 488-page, comb-bound book.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"A fabulous collection and incredible deal for the price."
"It is the "Ultimate" collection for Deb U Say."
"I bought this because it's the best deal going on Debussy's works, how can you beat the number of pieces in this thing for around $30?"
"LOVE the ring binding (why can't all large volumes have ring binding?)."
"An absolutely amazing book."
"Very nice music book."
"The music is easy to read and includes fingerings."
"So many Debussy favorites here, and the spiral binding is especially appreciated."
Best Schoenberg
A new critical foreword by Walter Frisch, H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University, expands this centennial edition. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), renowned Austrian and American composer, musical theorist, painter, and teacher of composition, pioneered compositional and critical approaches to atonality that were landmarks in twentieth century musical thought.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"A classic text by one of the true masters of the musical craft."
"This book is absolutely amazing, a must have for any music library."
"This is the best music theory book ever written....It is a little dry but it contains everything you will ever need to know about harmony."
"If you take the time to study it properly and reread any sections that seem a bit hazy, it will take you a while to get through it, but your understanding of music and harmony will be incredibly profound. If you want a hardcore study, and want to come to understand things about sound and harmony you would never even guess at; if you want to learn to write music (and not just throw chords together because they sound great) with purpose; if you yearn to understand WHY that one song sounds so incredible, and to learn how to evoke emotions through similar progressions and melody, this is the book for you, and it is worth many times the amount of money requested here."
"I have been writing 4 part harmony exercises as directed by ASchoenberg in this book. Writing out one's own harmony exercises according to Arnold's instructions is KEY, I believe, to getting the real value out of the book. I play jazz piano, in addition to sight read through Bach (currently pieces from his French Suites)."
"The fact that he never read a book on the subject of harmony or even music history might mark him as an ignoramus, but he does admit to looking through several textbooks. He defends the issue of the possibility of a 7th that resolves by rising upwards but fails to show the classic example of it in the opening allegro of the Op. The chapter on rhythm is incorrect because bar lines are necessary to understanding that weak progressions are not to be written over them especially in chorales unless his majesty would like to quibble about that."
Best Poulenc
This Sonata For Flute and Piano is a virtuosic flute solo by renowned influential French composer Francis Poulenc.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"A history of the piece, extensive critical notes, and bibliographic accounts of the source material used for the edits within are all provided in the scores first few pages (in English, French, and German)."
"It is a paperback, but the outside front and back cover is a thick, shiny, coated paper."
"Exactly what we needed for my daughters audition and less expensive than the sites the school recommended."
"Very nice music, great for teaching."
"Best sonata ever written."
"Written for and with Rampal."
"have no complaints."
Best Prokofiev
"Above all," notes Grove's , "his music shows a professional care for the performer, never reaching beyond the practicable limits of execution." Pianists will welcome this excellent new compilation of pieces composed between 1907 and 1922 — the great formative years of Prokofiev's unique approach to keyboard writing — from his highly original Diabolical suggestion and the dramatic, capricious Sarcasms to the very popular March and Scherzo transcribed by the composer from his opera The love for three organs . Prokofiev was a prolific composer, his works include numerous operas, ballets, and symphonies.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The print is easy on the eyes (and I have 64 year old eyes)."
"Love the music but the print is a little small."
"Excellent value for money."
"i n t e r e s t i n g t e x t u r e s a n d m e l o di e s."
Best Stravinsky
Now music lovers can enjoy every note of this brilliant and stirring landmark of twentieth-century music, faithfully reproduced in this inexpensive, high-quality edition — ideal for study and for following both live and recorded performances. The leading composer of his day, Igor Stravinsky experimented with virtually every technique of 20th century music.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is one of the greatest masterpieces ever written."
"As a composition student, studying this score in particular has given me a lot of inspiration."
"Study score is clean and accurate."
"What a beautiful piece of music."
"Its so nice to see how my timpani part fits in with everything else."
Best Ravel
Often described as Ravel's orchestral masterpiece, Daphnis and Chloe is a 20th-century classic, a rich musical setting of the Greek novel by Langus.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This work of Ravel's is one of the greatest gems of 20th Century music of the world."
"The pages could be a little bit whiter for a clearer reading."
"I just kinda sits there and lets you look at it."
"It serves my needs as a study score."
"Great score and easy to read."
"This is a great score of this piece, it is easy to read, and obviously is a print for the original copy."
Best Mussorgsky
(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books).
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This arrangement of his most famous piece, a collection of piano sketches based on an art exhibition of a recently deceased friend, honors the source, but colors the music with strong textures, often brilliantly applied."
"Notation is just perfect, don't hesitate to buy."
"Congratulations to Boosey and Hawkes for here republishing a staple of the orchestral repertoire (Maurice Ravel did an outstanding job of arranging Musórgskiy's piano original, though I wish he had included the "Promenade" immediately prior to "The Market-Place at Limoges"), with beautiful layout and a scholarly quality in terms of editing out mistakes in the previous edition."
"Moussorgsky's most famous work, "Pictures at an Exhibition" (orch."
Best Shostakovich
The eleven essays lay a foundation for a proper understanding of Shostakovich's musical language as well as providing new insights into the issues surrounding his composition.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"_Shostakovich_Studies_ is valuable first and foremost for Richard Taruskin's essay "Public Lies and Unspeakable Truth: Interpreting Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony.""
"This book is indispensable if you are really interested in Shostakovich."