A score embodying the best available musical text Historical background--what is known of the circumstances surrounding the origin of the work, including (where relevant) original source material A detailed analysis of the music, by the editor of the volume or another well-known scholar Other significant analytic essays and critical comments, exposing the student to a variety of opinions about the music.

This new volume in Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics presents 26 preludes, 21 nocturnes and 19 waltzes - a large amount of music at a value price. There are new urtext editions of seven pieces included, not edited by Joseffy in his original Schirmer editions: Prelude in A-flat Major (1834), Nocturne in C-sharp minor (1830), Nocturne in C minor (1837), and Waltzes in A-flat Major (1830), E-flat Major (1830), E-flat Major (1840), and A minor (1843).

A group of resourceful kids start "solution-seekers.com," a website where "cybervisitors" can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the Old Testament. What they find is a series of "S" words that reveal a "spectacular story!" With creative characters, humorous dialogue and great music, The "S" Files is a children's Christmas musical your kids will love performing.

inch....this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken inch. (Oliver James, Contact Magazine) A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two parts), country dance tunes and excerpts from the standard treble repertoire ofBach, Barsanti, Corelli, Handel, Telemann, etc. An outstanding feature of the book has proved to be Brian Bonsor's brilliantly simple but highly effective practice circles and recognition...

piano. Ballade g minor op. 23 - Ballade F major op. 38 - Ballade A flat major op. 47 - Ballade f minor op. 52

Der gemeinsame Aufenthalt von Frdric Chopin und George Sand auf Mallorca im Winter 1838/39 stand unter keinem guten Stern. Dennoch gelang es Chopin, dort seine bereits in Paris begonnenen Prludes fertig zu stellen. Der heutige Interpret muss sich nicht nur mit zahlreichen Lesartenvarianten, sondern auch mit verflschenden Auffhrungstraditionen auseinandersetzen. Die Prludes bilden den Auftakt unserer geplanten umfassenden Chopin-Revisionen; der Herausgeber bercksichtigt den aktuellen Stand der Forschung und legt quellenbedingte und eingebrgerte Varianten im Textteil offen. Und noch ein Novum...