Oxford University Press

These delightful little classical sonatas – almost sonatinas – appeared in Lefévre’s Méthode de Clarinette (1802). They are technically undemanding, but they are winning in their unaffected lyric charm.
 
 
Pages: 42Language: EnglishPublisher: Oxford University Press

Gioachino Rossini was one of the most influential, as well as one of the most industrious and emotionally complex of the great nineteenth-century composers. Between 1810 and 1829, he wrote 39 operas, a body of work, comic and serious, which transformed Italian opera and radically altered the course of opera in France. His retirement from operatic composition in 1829, at the age of 37, was widely assumed to be the act of a talented but lazy man. In reality, politicalevents and a series of debilitating illnesses were the determining factors. After drafting the Stabat Mater in 1832, Rossini wrote no music of consequence for the best part of twenty-five years, before the clouds lifted and he began composing again in Paris in the late 1850s. During this gloriousIndian summer of his career, he wrote 150 songs and solo piano pieces his ‘Sins of Old Age’ and his final masterpiece, the Petite Messe solennelle. The image of Rossini as a gifted but feckless amateur-the witty, high-spirited bon vivant who dashed off The Barber of Seville in a mere thirteen days-persisted down the years, until the centenary of his death in 1968 inaugurated a process of re-evaluation by scholars, performers, and writers. The original 1985 edition ofRichard Osborne’s pioneering and widely acclaimed Rossini redefined the life and provided detailed analyses of the complete Rossini oeuvre. Twenty years on, all Rossini’s operas have been staged and recorded, a Critical Edition of his works is well advanced, and a scholarly edition of his correspondence, including 250previously unknown letters from Rossini to his parents, is in progress. Drawing on these past two decades of scholarship and performance, this new edition of Rossini provides the most detailed portrait we have yet had of one of the worlds best-loved and most enigmatic composers.
 
Pages: 432
Languages: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Contents
List of Illustrations Key to Sigla Preface to First Edition Preface to Second Edition 1. The formative years (1792-1810)2. Venice and Milan (1811-14)3. Arrival in Naples (1815)4. Rome and Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816)5. Naples, Rome and Milan (1816-17)6 Mosè in Egitto and Return to Pesaro (1818). 7. 1819-218. Vienna, Verona, Venice (1822-3)9. Paris and London (1823-4)10 Paris (1824-9)11. Retirement from operatic composition12. Bologna, Paris, Madrid (1829-34), Stabat mater, Olympe Pd’elissier, and Balzac13. Paris, the Rhineland, and return to Italy (1835-46)14. Times of Barricades and Assassinations, Bologna, Florence, and departure from Italy (1847-55)15. Return to Paris (1855)16. Saturday soirées and a New Mass17. Last Years (1865-8)18. Entr’acte: Some Problems of Approach to the Works19. The Early Operas (I): Farse for Venice’s Teatro San Moisd`e20. Overtures21. The Early Operas (ii): Demetrio e Polibio, L’equivoco stravagante,Ciro in Babilonia, La Pieta del Paragone22. Tancredi: Heroic Comedy and the Forming of a Method23. L’italiana in Algeri: Formal Mastery in the Comic Style24. Milan and Venice (1813-14), Aureliano in Palmira, Il turco in Italia, Sigismondo25. Arrival in Naples (1815-16), Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra, La gazzetta26. Il barbiere di Siviglia and the Transformation of a Tradition27. Otello and the Confrontation of Tragedy28. La Cenerentola: an Essay in Comic Pathos29. La Gazza Ladra and the Semiseria Style30. Armida and the New Romanticism31. Mosè in Egitto (1818-19) and Mo:ise et Pharaon (1827)32. A lost Masterpiece and a Forgotten Favorite: Ermione,and Ricciardo e Zoraide33. Rossini and Scott: La Donna del Lago34. Maometto II (1820) and Le Siège de Corinth (1826)35. Back from the Shadows: Matilde di Shabran and Zelmira36. Farewell to Italy: Semiramid37. Il viaggio a Reims (1825) and Le Comte Ory (1828)38. Guillaume Tell39. Sacred Music, Messa di Gloria, Stabat mater, Petite Messe Solennelle40. Vocal and Piano Music, Early Songs, Giovanna d’Arco, Les soirées Musicales, Péchés de VieillesseAppendices A: CalendarB: List of worksC: PersonaliaD: Select bibliographyIndex

Each entry in the New Grove Guides series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information on the lives of individual composers, their works, their librettists and interpreters, and the places where they performed. These unique books compile the meticulously researched articles into organized narratives, designed to make finding information as easy as possible without sacrificing readability.Each volume is completely up-to-date, and includes a suggested listening guide and an eight-page glossy insert containing relevant illustrations. Each volume is a must-own for lovers of opera and classical music.Giuseppe Verdi is the most famous Italian composer of opera. While he was sometimes criticized for writing music considered too “simple,” his works have endured, and are still performed throughout the world today. This concise volume is a handy guide to Verdi’s life and operas, revising the original New Grove articles and adding a new introduction, a new section on modern Verdi productions, and an updated bibliography.
 
Pages: 252Language: EnglishPublisher: Oxford University Press

The book includes 29 pieces in a range of jazz and light-hearted styles, supported by witty illustrations. It begins with wonderfully simple repertoire that succeeds in being both truly jazzy and very easy.Piano Time Jazz Book 1 is around the level of Piano Time 2.
Contents

Brown jug boogie
Bus stop blues
Cheeky Charlie
City express
Coconut calypso
Come on and boogie
Cowboy blues
Creepy crawly
Driving force
Friday night rag
Got a new car!
Hey, Lawdy!
Homework blues
Hop, skip, and jump
Living it up
Lollipop rock
Marching in again
Mexican fiesta
Saturday stroll
Sherbert fizz
Somewhere that’s sunny
A story book romance
Street parade
Tango for starters
Tea for one cha-cha
Temper tantrum tango
The sloop ‘John B’
Tick tock boogie
Window shopping

 
 
Pages: 32Language: EnglishPublisher: Oxford University Press

This is the last and most advanced volume of the graduated series, which includes works by composers of African descent that are hard to find or have never been published. This volume is for advanced performers and is a wonderful source of new and unusual repertoire.
Contents

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: The Bamboula
Oswald Russell: Humoresque No. 1
H. Leslie Adams: Etude in C-sharp Minor
Ali Osman: Afro Arab Blues
Isak Roux: Township Guitar
Joshua Uzoigwe: Egwu Amala
Lettie Beckon Alston: Rhapsody No. 4
Martin Scherzinger: Tumbling Dance 

 
 
Pages: 72 Language: English Publisher: Oxford University Press

The third volume for early advanced pianists explores even more genres than the first two volumes, such as elements of Tango and Haitian Merengue music. ‘Cell Phone Blues’ is derived from pop music and Jazz. This volume also includes spirituals and African folksongs. Performance notes and composer biographies are provided as well.
Contents

John W. Work II: Take Me Back
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Deep River
Ludovic Lamothe: La Dangereuse
R. Nathaniel Dett: Juba Dance
Oswald Russell: Jamaican Dance No. 2
Wallace M. Cheatham: Prelude No. 3
Howard Swanson: The Cuckoo
Akin Euba: Scenes from Traditional Life No. 1
Andrés Wheatly: Scherzino
Florence B. Price: Nimble Feet
Howard Swanson: Cell Phone Blues
Oswald Russell: Papillons
Gamal Abdel-Rahim: Variations on an Egyptian Folksong 

 
 
Pages: 56 Language: English Publisher: Oxford University Press

 

suitable for the beginner through to Grade 2
first steps on the mouthpiece and simple rhythm games
carefully progressive with a wealth of attractive practice material
clear guidance on good posture and fingering
practical steps to composing and improvising
scales and arpeggios; concert pieces and studies
CD with performances and minus-one tracks

 

Covers the finger patterns used in Cello Time Joggers and Runners, and includes all the scales and arpeggios for ABRSM Grades 1 and 2
Sets out each form with a fingering chart, a telephone ‘helpline’ to reinforce the arpeggio fingering, and a rhythm game to practise the scale
Includes a variety of fun pieces for each key, and a range of puzzles and compositional games

Cello Time Scales is brimming over with creative ideas and packed with imaginative and amusing cartoons to make learning scales and arpeggios easy.

Contents
 
D major: Finger tipsD major: Low D, high D, A in betweenC major: Let’s jogC major: Step, skip, jump!G major: Follow meG major: Arpeggio fanfareC major: Fast foodC major: What’s in your sandwich?A natural minor: French carolA natural minor: Somerset folksongF major: AcceleratorF major: Double deckerA major: Sweet Betsy from PikeBb major: Two little angelsBb major: Knock, knock!G major: French folk songG major: Eiffel TowerD harmonic minor: Theme from Mahler’s First SymphonyD harmonic minor: Mission to MarsC harmonic minor: Old man of PeruG harmonic minor: Haunted houseG harmonic minor: Le tambourinD melodic minor: I gotta play those cello bluesD melodic minor: Shalom ChaverimC melodic minor: Yellow celloC melodic minor: Escalator cha-chaG melodic minor: A bit of BachG melodic minor: Bump in the nightG, D, C natural minorsG natural minor: Zum gali, gali