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: 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: 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.