DOVER Publications

Volume / Series : Full Score
Language: English
Pages: 320
Publisher: Dover Publications
Composer / Author: Joseph Haydn
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It was in his monumental 12 “London” symphonies, composed between 1791 and 1795, that Haydn shaped the early form of the symphony and set the standard for later composers. According to the New Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the appeal of these works stems from their stature as “grand” symphonies, embodying a “broader presentation of musical ideas” and “themes and motifs of a basic simplicity and immediate appeal.”
The present volume contains the first six symphonies in the series, including the famous “Surprise” Symphony (No. 94), the exceptional No. 95 (in C Minor), and the innovative “Miracle” Symphony (No. 96).
Scores included in this volume are Symphony No. 93 in D Major; Symphony No. 94 in G Major (“The Surprise); Symphony No. 95 in C Major; Symphony No. 96 in D Major (“The Miracle”); Symphony No. 97 in C Major; and Symphony No. 98 in B-flat Major.
The attractive qualities of the London Symphonies have made them perennial favorites with musicians and concertgoers for over two hundred years. Now music lovers can study and enjoy the elegant structure and polished orchestration of the first six of these enduring masterpieces in this new, authoritative full-score edition.
Reprint of an authoritative early edition.

Volume / Series : Full Score
Language: English/German
Pages: 400
Publisher: Dover Publications
Composer / Author: Richard Wagner
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Perhaps the most accessible of all Wagnerian operas, Lohengrin has delighted generations of listeners since its premiere at Weimar in 1850. A remarkable composite of intense drama and elaborate choral writing, the magical tale of the Swan-Knight is suffused with an ethereal purity of tone. Moreover, the opera is replete with memorable music: the enduringly popular preludes to Acts I and III, the “Swan music,” and the immortal Bridal March, among other favorite themes.
Now this glorious masterpiece of instrumental and vocal writing is available in this complete, inexpensive, sturdily bound Dover edition. Reproduced directly from the first engraved edition (1887), it includes new translations of the dedication (a letter from Wagner to Liszt) and other German-language frontmatter.
Music lovers, opera buffs, admirers of Wagner, students, teachers — all will rejoice to find this beloved opera available in its entirety — in the authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel edition — at a refreshingly reasonable cost.
Reproduced from the 1887 Breitkopf & Härtel edition.

Volume / Series : Full Score
Language: English
Pages: 240
Publisher: Dover Publications
Composer / Author: Alexander Scriabin
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In the early years of the twentieth century, when vital new forces were revolutionizing the arts, Russian-born Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915) was among the visionary pioneers who sought a new musical language. Scriabin began the process of a complete break with all musical conventions at least a decade before the advances of Stravinsky and Schoenberg. By 1905 he was immersed in a search for a way to express, in sound, his obsession with mystical and theosophical ideals.
Scriabin’s last two orchestral works were the products of a virtual delirium of composing. Simultaneously refining his collection of verses called “Poem of Ecstasy” and the related symphony, Scriabin never forgot the rapture of composing this work about creation and self-fulfillment: “I gasp for breath, but oh, what bliss! The very meter kindles the meaning…”
“Prometheus: Poem of Fire,” Scriabin’s last and most revolutionary symphony, portrays humanity’s epic journey from the beginning of time to the wondrous self-realization that followed the gift of fire and light, which made creative vision possible. Massively scored, “Prometheus” incorporates a “color organ” to bathe the performance space in a vast interplay of colored lights.
For the music professional and every student of composition, orchestration, and conducting, both scores are strikingly original and instructive. Equally fascinating are Scriabin’s approach to composition, the extraordinary sonorities of his orchestra, and his fanciful, often supercharged performance instructions that replace conventional words for tempo, mood, and expression.
Reprint of Le Poème de l’Extase, Op. 54, M. P. Belaieff, Leipzig, 1908, and Prométhée, Le Poème du Feu, Op. 60, Edition Russe de Musique, Berlin and Moscow, 1911.

Volume / Series : Full Score
Language: English
Pages: 192
Publisher: Dover Publications
Composer / Author: Antonin Dvorák, Robert Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns
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Lovers of the rich burnished tones of the cello will appreciate the keynote of this volume: complete scores of three great romantic cello concertos brought together in one convenient source. Spanning the last half of the nineteenth century, the compositions reveal extraordinary lyricism, imagination, and individual interpretation of the concerto form.
The works in this volume are Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129; Camille Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 33; and Antonín Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104.
Generations of cellists and music lovers have savored these works for their unique qualities: the Schumann concerto for its ravishing interweaving of cello and orchestra; that of Saint-Saëns for solid musical craftsmanship; the Dvořák work for enchanting melodies and exceptionally rich invention. Now musicians can enjoy the felicities of each work, complete and unabridged, in this sturdy, attractive Dover volume.
Reprinted directly from authoritative editions, this volume offers not only great music but also the quality features that musicians have come to expect from Dover: clear reproduction of musical notation; ample space for analysis, notes, fingerings, etc.; glossaries of musical terms; and more. For playing or study, this inexpensive edition is a must for every serious cellist.
Dover Original.

Volume / Series : Full Score
Language: English
Pages: 240
Publisher: Dover Publications
Composer / Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Some of Mozart’s most enduring and popular music was originally composed for relatively minor occasions — garden parties, weddings, birthdays, home concerts for his friends, and the like. Among these compositions were the multi-movement instrumental pieces he called “serenades.” Written in the 1770s and 1780s, they include such favorite compositions as Eine kleine Nachtmusik, the Serenata Notturna, A Musical Joke, the “Haffner” Serenade, and the “Posthorn” Serenade. This two-volume set contains all of Mozart’s notturnas as well as the complete serenades.
Series I includes: Serenade in D Major, K.185/167a (strings & winds); Serenade in D Major, K.204/213a (strings & winds); Serenata Notturna, K.239 (strings & timpani); “Haffner Serenade, K.250/248b (strings & winds); Serenade in C Minor, K.388/384a (8 winds); and A Musical Joke (Ein musikalischer Spass), K.255 (strings & horns).
Reprinted from the authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel edition, these effervescent works are now readily available in these two sturdy, attractive, inexpensive volumes, inviting musicians and music lovers to savor and study their characteristic Mozartean clarity, invention, and charm.
Reprint of selections from Series 9, 10, and 13 from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Werke, Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1880–1881.

Volume / Series : Full Score
Language: English
Pages: 240
Publisher: Dover Publications
Composer / Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
CONTENTS                                                            
Some of Mozart’s most enduring and popular music was originally composed for relatively minor occasions — garden parties, weddings, birthdays, home concerts for his friends, and the like. Among these compositions were the multi-movement instrumental pieces he called “serenades.” Written in the 1770s and 1780s. This is the second volume.
Reprinted from the authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel edition, these effervescent works are now readily available in these two sturdy, attractive, inexpensive volumes, inviting musicians and music lovers to savor and study their characteristic Mozartean clarity, invention, and charm.
Reprint of selections from Series 9, 10, and 13 from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Werke, Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1880–1881.

Volume / Series : Full Score
Language: English
Pages: 288
Publisher: Dover Publications
Composer / Author: Joseph Haydn
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“It was from Haydn that I first learned the true way to compose quartets.” — Mozart.
Twelve String Quartets marks the second volume in a projected monumental undertaking — the complete Haydn string quartets. Players and students, music historians, and Haydn lovers will have inexpensive access to a uniform, strongly bound, and clearly printed modern edition of Haydn’s finest pieces in complete score.
Musicians, music students, and music publishers have a difficult time keeping up with Haydn, whose ceaseless production of original, first-rate work was legendary. He essayed most of the recognized genres, conferring upon several a legacy of expanded possibilities and clearly defined, characteristic form. Among these may be mentioned the symphony, the sonata, and perhaps most notably, the quartet.
In a period of 50 years, Haydn (1732–1809) composed over 80 string quartets. Scholars are still debating questions of attribution and even completeness (unknown works by Haydn still turn up), and music lovers have had to make do with scattered, out-of-date, out-of- print editions of a few of the more familiar quartets.
Otto Jahn wrote: “It is not often that a composer hits so exactly upon the form suited to his compositions; the quartet was Haydn’s natural mode of expressing his feelings.” Haydn’s affinity to the quartet began with his earliest works, when he perhaps more than anyone established the four-movement structure of chamber music. In common with truly great and complete artists, who surpass early innovation to achieve their greatest work at the end, Haydn’s later quartets are his best.
This volume contains the full scores of:
Op. 55, Nos. 1–3 (including “Razor”) — dedicated to Joh. Tost, ca. 1788
Op. 65, Nos. 1–6 (including “The Lark” or “Hornpipe”) — dedicated to Joh. Tost, 1790 or 1792
Op. 71, Nos. 1–3 — dedicated to Count Appony, 1793
Large readable noteheads, ample margins for fingerings, etc., opaque paper, and permanent binding make this a fundamental addition to music libraries and musicians’ repertories: a book for all who pay tribute to Haydn and who agree with Grove’s Dictionary: “The quartet he … brought to perfection.”
Reprinted from definitive Eulenberg edition.

Volume / Series : Full Score
Language: English
Pages: 240
Publisher: Dover Publications
Composer / Author: Joseph Haydn
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Over a 50-year period, Haydn composed more than 80 string quartets featuring a range and variety of structural invention exceeded only by Beethoven’s works. In this volume, the composer’s mastery of the form is strikingly evident, particularly in the six popular and much-recorded “Prussian Quartets.”
This volume contains the full scores of:
Op. 42, in D minor (composed in 1785)
Op. 50, Nos. 1–6 (“Prussian Quartets,” composed in 1787 and dedicated to the Prussian King Friederich Wilhelm II)
Op. 54, Nos. 1–3 (First set of “Tost Quartets” composed c.1788 and dedicated to the merchant Johann Tost)
Large, readable noteheads, ample margins for notations, opaque paper and permanent binding make this a fundamental addition to music libraries and musicians’ repertories.
Reprint of the Ernst Eulenburg Ltd., London, n.d. edition.

Volume / Series : Full Score
Language: English
Pages: 144
Publisher: Dover Publications
Composer / Author: Gabriel Fauré
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Among the most widely performed choral works in the repertoire, the Fauré Requiem is generally considered the greatest achievement of its highly influential French composer. Written in memory of Fauré’s father, the work was first performed at La Madeleine in 1888. Although it did not attain immediate popularity, the Requiem’s clarity, balance, serenity, and ethereal beauty eventually won it many admirers. Critics have been especially impressed by the way in which the score conveys great emotional power with scrupulous economy of means. Today, Fauré’s Requiem enjoys enormous popularity with concert-goers and lovers of sacred music all over the world.
Now you can enjoy the complete masterpiece in this attractive, inexpensive volume, reprinted from an authoritative French edition. It offers musicians and all music lovers an opportunity to study and appreciate Fauré’s uncommon mastery of the choral genre.
Reprint of the J. Hamelle edition.

Volume / Series : Full Score
Language: English
Pages: 288       
Publisher: Dover Publications
Composer / Author: Johannes Brahms
CONTENTS
Brahms’s twenty-four chamber works include a number of the most acclaimed masterpieces in the repertoire, and his piano trios — including the famous Horn and Clarinet Trios — are among the most admired, performed, and recorded of all. This edition, reprinted from the definitive one prepared by Hans Gál for Breitkopf & Härtel, presents all five of these brilliant works in an inexpensive yet fine-quality volume.
Included are the B Major, C Major, and C Minor Trios (Opp. 8, 87, and 101) for violin, cello, and piano; the E-flat Major Trio (Op. 40) for violin, horn (or cello or viola), and piano; and the A Minor Trio (Op. 114) for clarinet (or viola), cello, and piano.
Designed to afford both amateur and professional musicians a lifetime of pleasurable study, this fine, carefully made edition will also provide music lovers of every level of accomplishment the opportunity to follow a live or recorded performance, score in hand: an ideal way to savor the special riches of these superb musical masterworks.
Reprint of the Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1926 edition.

Volume / Series : Full Score
Language: English
Pages: 64
Publisher: Dover Publications
Composer / Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
CONTENTS
“There is nothing ‘historical’ or dated about the three concertos. They live completely in a timeless world of their own.” — Veinus, The Concerto.
Here are three of the best-loved, most performed, most recorded works in the violin repertoire, conveniently gathered in one inexpensive volume. Reproduced directly from the unsurpassed Bach-Gesellschaft edition, this sturdily bound volume presents the full scores for all three of Bach’s violin concerti:
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A Minor, BWV 1041
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Major, BWV 1042
Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra in D Minor, BWV 1043
Long recognized for their exquisite beauty and technical ingenuity, these works belong in the repertoire of any serious violinist. Now all three are readily available in this convenient, one-volume presentation — carefully produced with large noteheads, wide margins, and other clear engravings — a welcome addition to the libraries of violinists and Bach connoisseurs everywhere.
Reprint of the Bach-Gesellschaft, Leipzig, 1871 edition.

Volume / Series : Full Score
Language: English
Pages: 128       
Publisher: Dover Publications
Composer / Author: Alexander Borodin
CONTENTS
It was said of Russian composer Alexander Borodin (1833–87) that “no musician has ever claimed immortality with so slender an offering.” His lifelong work as a graduate research chemist and teacher preoccupied him, leaving little time for the music composing that he loved. But while the quantity of Borodin’s compositions was small, the quality of his music was extraordinarily high. Such works as his opera Prince Igor, his first two symphonies, two string quartets, and songs place him firmly in the front rank of nineteenth-century Russian composers. This volume brings together Borodin’s two most popular works: the melodious, vivacious “Polovtsian Dances” from Prince Igor and the richly evocative tone poem “In the Steppes of Central Asia.”
The enormous success of these works is evidenced by their frequent performance in concerts worldwide and their many recordings. This attractive, durable, authoritative edition brings the full score of each composition to students, musicians, conductors, and music lovers everywhere.
Dover Original.