Dover Publications

Expert advice from a distinguished performer, teacher and composer makes this lively study of clarinet playing essential reading for students and instructors as well as other music lovers. One of the...

Polish-born prodigy Theodor Leschetizky achieved an international career as a pianist and conductor, and became the most celebrated Piano instructor of his era. Marie Prentner, a prize student of the...

Walter Gieseking and Karl Leimer. A radical approach towards developing finger and expression technique, emphasising listening to one's self and proper understanding as the basis of technique for the...

Two of the greatest pianists of the last century - Anton Rubenstein and Teresa Carreno - left behind them works detailing the role of good pedaling in Piano performance, respectively - 'Guide to the u...

A celebrated instructor explains his philosophy of teaching and practice methods, including the appropriate combination of technique and interpretation. Ivan Galamian, a longtime Juilliard professor,...

A student of the world-renowned violinist Leopold Auer, Maia Bang acted as the maestro's teaching assistant and preserved his acclaimed methods of instruction in a series of manuals. The seven-volume...

A classic text on Organ technique. Sir John's book, first published in 1877, quickly became the classic for beginners- so popular that publishers Schirmer, Ditson, and Presser each issued its own 'Ame...

This volume contains all 53 songs set to the work of the German poet Eduard Morike. Reproduced from the 2nd revised Heckel edition. Includes a new literal prose translation of the lyrics, and glossary...

This compilation of songs for High Voice presents 40 of Brahms' most popular vocal works Ruhe, Sussliebchen, Wiegenlied, and Meine Liebe ist grun. Lyrics in both German and English.

This sequel to the Lomaxes' widely acclaimed American Ballads and Folk Songs includes melodies and words for tunes from all parts of the country. Songs include spirituals, hollers, game songs, lullabi...

Among Mozart's most popular works, The Magic Flute has enchanted listeners since it was first performed in 1791. Originally intended to be a singspiel, filled with traditional comic, exotic, and fairy...

With his fairy-tale fantasy Hansel And Gretel, Humperdinck combined the simplicity of German folksong with the sophistication of Wagnerian operatic technique to create a work that has been a favourite...

Safe within their cocoons, butterflies only become vulnerable when they emerge to enchant the world with their beauty. Madame Butterfly has been breaking hearts for over a century with its tragic tale...

All 54 songs from 'Die Schone Mullerin', 'Die Winterreise' and 'Schwanengesang'. Breitkopf & Hortel edition.

Inspired by the verse of the German romantic poets, Franz Schubert achieved glittering fame as a creator of the 19th-century lied long before public recognition of his symphonies assured his place in...

A rich selection of Thirty-six of Debussy's best songs, including 'Beau Soir', 'Mandoline', 'Les Angelus' and 'Dans Le Jardin'.

For solo voices and piano accompaniment. A master of the art song, Brahms extended his exceptional artistry to the delightful solo vocal quartets contained in this volume.

One of the most expressive and versatile of the great nineteenth-century Romantic composers, Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky brought a sense of intimacy and emotional power to all of his music whether for o...

These songs are a source of endless delight.' - Grove's Dictionary. Sixty-four songs, published from 1877 to 1886, including such favourites as Geheimnis, Alte Liebe, and Vergebliches Standchen. Opp....

Opera's greatest love story, set to music of incomparable beauty, Tristan und Isolde represents one of the nineteenth century's most revolutionary scores. Wagner's 1865 adaptation of a popular mediev...

Reprint of the Breitkopf and Hartel edition. With Mozart's Cadenzas for No. s 23 and 27 and the Concert Rondo in D.

Academic Festival Overture', 'Tragic Overture' and 'Variations On A Theme By Joseph Haydn'. Breitkopf & Hartel editions.

Symphony No 4 'The Tragic'', 'No. 5', 'No. 8 'The Unfinished'' and 'No. 9 'The Great''. Breitkopf & Hortel edition.

Bach's mastery of rhythm and harmony, inventiveness, and genius for composition produced some of the richest and most beautiful music of all time. Those qualities are strikingly evident in his early c...