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The Audition Process: Anxiety Management and Coping Strategies (Juilliard Performance Guides) (Juilliard ...2 reviews
Stuart Edward Dunkel

Pendragon Pr, 1991

Great Advises for Auditioning Musicians
I am so glad that I discovered this book. It is very comprehensive. Just to note that it is more about the mental preparation before the audition. 		  
  







  
  
Bach and the Baroque: European Source Materials from the Baroque and Early Classical Periods With Special ...2 reviews
Anthony Newman

Pendragon Pr, 1995

Without Equal!
Newman's command of the primary source materials and his rank as an unsurpassed keyboard virtuoso make this book absolutely indispensible for every serious keyboard player. Each page engages the reader with his infectuous enthusiasm, answering essential questions concerning tempo, metre and note groupings with a comfortable and direct writing style which is never dull or pedantic. Newman ... 		  
  







  
  
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow5 reviews
Gabriel Banat

Pendragon Pr, 2006

Chevalier extraordinaire
This book is far more than a biography of the 18th-century fabled composer/violinist/swordsman Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, born in 1745 in Guadaloupe, son of a plantation owner and one of his slaves. Based on rigorous scholarly research, the author presents a vivid picture of the social and historical background of the period in France, and the picaresque life of an ... 		  
  







  
  
The Art of Noises (Monographs in Musicology)2 reviews
Luigi Russolo, Barclay Brown

Pendragon Pr, 1987

Their Future is Now
Ambient, noise, environmental, industrial and experimental musics ALL owe a debt to Luigi Russolo. This book captures so much of what these modern musics are trying to convey. Thank you, Luigi. 		  
  







  
  
Allesandro And Domenico Scarlatti: Two Lives in One (Lives in Music) (Lives in Music)2 reviews
Roberto Pagano

Pendragon Pr, 2006

A wonderful look at their lives, their times, and the scholarship about these composers
Telling the lives of Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti in one biography makes a great deal of sense. Rarely do a father and son of similar genius appear in history. Roberto Pagano does a very fine job of telling us about the context of their lives, what the documentary evidence tells us, what the conjectures are, and a great deal about their royal patrons. We also get into some of the intimate ... 		  
  







  
  
Adriano in Siria: Dramma Per Musica (Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista//Complete Works: Opere Complete)2 reviews
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Pendragon Pr, 1986

A beautiful work of scholarship and printing that makes this important musical work more accessible
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi died of tuberculosis at the age of 26 in 1736. He had been composing for about six years and was gaining in reputation. This growing reputation left a public that was curious to have more of his music, but not sure exactly what it should sound like. Into this void stepped unscrupulous people willing to place his name on minor works of other people and forgers who ... 		  
  







  
  
Valved Brass: The History of an Invention (Bucina: the Historic Brass Society Series No. 7)2 reviews
Christian Ahrens

Pendragon Pr, 2008

Entertaining, informative, and challenging to our preconceptions about the development of brass instruments.
I grew up playing the trombone from 5th grade through my freshman year of college. By the end of high school I was playing in the orchestra, the symphony band, marching band, wind ensemble, and dance band. What a lot of fun! Many of my friends were fellow musicians and I enjoyed becoming familiar with all the other instruments. Of course, I learned more about how they worked and transposed ... 		  
  







  
  
Nijinsky's Crime Against Grace: Reconstruction Score of the Original Choreography for Le Sacre Du Printemps ...4 reviews
Millicent Hodson

Pendragon Pr, 1996

Magnificent and Critical Reconstruction
Hodson brings back one of History's most controversial ballets after a 20 year research, which included several interviews with Marie Romberg (who danced in the premiere of The Rite), Stravinsky's own annotated score and various sketches from artists who attended rehearsals. The plotless nature of The Rite provided an opportunity to create a unique musical form for Stravinsky, one which still ... 		  
  







  
  
Carmen: A Performance Guide (Vox Music Ae Series, 4)2 reviews
Mary Dibbern, Georges Bizet

Pendragon Pr, 2001

An excellent resource
Having perused this book during a coaching, it looks like the real deal, and a big help when dealing with the language. Also included, but not mentioned specifically in the first review, is the original short novella by Prosper Merimee, quite essential to understanding the complexities of the title character. It also fleshes out some information concerning the origins of some of the supporting ... 		  
  







  
  
Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder (Thematic Catalogues)1 review
Richard Charteris

Pendragon Pr, 1989

Every large group of people needs a leader
Every large group of people needs a leader, and in the creation of beautiful orchestral music, the conductor is that leader. "A History of Orchestral Conducting: In Theory and Practice" is a complete and comprehensive examination of the art of conducting and its centuries-long history. With nearly nine hundred pages on the subject, it leaves little untouched. Enhanced with indexes, bibliographies ... 		  
  







  
  
Music Theory from Boethius to Zarlino: A Bibliography and Guide (Harmonologia) (Harmonologia)1 review
David Russell Williams, C. Matthew Balenseula

Pendragon Pr, 2007

A wonderful resource for finding ancient materials about music and the study of music
This wonderful volume complements the earlier (and just as wonderful) "Music Theory from Zarlino to Schenker and follows the same format. Both are wonderful introductions to materials on music theory, their subject matter, and a couple of paragraphs about what we know about the people who wrote them. What I have quite enjoyed about both volumes is the way the authors have made the material ... 		  
  







  
  
Masked Mysteries Unmasked: Early Modern Music Theater and Its Pyphagorian Subtext (Interplay (Hillsdale, ...1 review
Kristin Rygg

Pendragon Pr, 1999

Enhanced for the student with a bibliography
Masked Mysteries Unmasked: Early Modern Music Theater And Its Pyphagorian Subtext is a painstakingly researched and superbly written benchmark treatise that is a highly recommended and scholarly addition to any academic library collection. Kristin Rygg's informative introduction defines the Masque and provides its historical identity. She goes on to cover English Court Masques in historical ... 		  
  







  
  
Busoni and the Piano: The Works, the Writings, and the Recordings (Distinguished Reprints) (Distinguished ...1 review
Larry Sitsky

Pendragon Pr, 2008

Busoni according to Sitsky
"Busoni and the piano" is the sort of title a Busoni fan would fall for, especially if he or she is a pianist. So I did. But aside from the hunger of specific Busoni-piano related subjects and details, I found that the author of this book is an interpreter of Busoni's personality, writing as if Busoni had been an old friend or relative of his. I must say that a lot of what Sitsky says is very ... 		  
  







  
  
Messiaen's Contemplations of Covenant and Incarnation (Dimension and Diversity: Studies in 20th-century Music)1 review
Siglind Bruhn

Pendragon Pr, 2007

A perfect melding of theology and musical criticism
German-born Musicologist and concert pianist Siglind Bruhn presents Messiaen's Contemplations of Covenant and Incarnation: Musical Symbols of Faith in the Two Great Piano Cycles of the 1940s, a scholarly, hermeneutic analysis of two spiritually motivated instrumental compositions by renowned composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992): "Visions de l'Amen" for two pianos (1943) and "Vingt Regards sur ... 		  
  







  
  
Music Architecture1 review
Iannis Xenakis

Pendragon Pr, 1998

science, of primordial music densities,arborescences
At long last this is in English,(although unavailable mostly)also translated (at various editions)into Japanese, Italian,the original French, and Spanish. Originally in French this was published in 1971 later revise in 1976 with about 60 more pages, (238 pages final) this is/are materials gleaned-borrowed from other habitations within the Xenakis oeuvre. There are eight out of the original nine ... 		  
  







  
  
Liszt in Germany 1840-1845: A Study in Sources, Documents, and the History of Reception1 review
Michael Saffle

Pendragon Pr, 2003

Must read for concert pianists.
This book completely examines the Lizstomania period in Germany. It documents 300 performances, in chronological order, with repertoire performed. Very user-friendly, it is indispensable to all concert performers interested in Liszt's early music. Much more than a reference book, it offers valuable insight into the performer and the musical climate he encouraged 		  
  







  
  
Music in Terezin, 1941-19451 review
Joza Karas

Pendragon Pr, 1990

A DEFINITVE SOURCE FOR ITS TOPIC
QUITE RECENTLY I DISCOVERED THAT THE VERY DAY I WAS BORN, THOUSANDS OF ARTISTS OF ALL KINDS WERE BEING TRANSPORTED OUT OF TEREZIN, A CZECH CONCENTRATION CAMP, TO BE GASSED UPON THEIR ARRIVAL TO AUSWITCHZ THE NEXT DAY. THIS VOLUME TELLS THEIR STORIES, PRESERVES THEIR NAMES FOR POSTERITY, AND LISTS WHAT THEY WROTE SO YOU CAN FIND ANY AVAILABLE RECORDINGS. IT IS ENGROSSING, PAINFUL AND DIFFICULT, ... 		  
  







  
  
Arts-Sciences: Alloys (Aesthetics in Music Series; No. 2) (Aesthetics in Music Series; No. 2)1 review
Iannis Xenakis; Olivier Messiaen

Pendragon Pr, 1994

Deeply profound discussion with intellectual equals
The "Doctorat d'Etat" in France is awarded based on a body of work both theoretical and creative submitted prior to a lengthy set of interviews with distinguished representatives of French culture and science. French culture exhibiting a self-referential and reflexive state involved interviewers Olivier Messiaen, the teacher of Xenakis who when he came to him in the early Fifties perhaps gave ... 		  
  







  
  
The Musical Order of the World: Kepler, Hesse, Hindemith (Interplay) (Interplay)1 review
Siglind Bruhn

Pendragon Pr, 2005

A contemplative discussion of the connections between music study, world cultures, and cosmology
Musicologist, concert pianist, and interdisciplinary scholar Siglind Bruhn presents The Musical Order Of The World: Kepler, Hesse, Hindemith, a contemplative discussion of the connections between music study, world cultures, and cosmology, particularly as researched by great scientific minds. Covering topics from "Music's Moral Power in Ancient China and Hesse's Castalia" to "The Eternal Realm of ... 		  
  







  
  
Dance and Its Music in America, 1528-17891 review
Kate Van Winkle Keller

Pendragon Pr, 2007

A studious and thorough chronicle
Written by music and dance expert Kate Van Winkle Keller, whose many accomplishments include service as choreographer for the film "The Last of the Mohicans", Dance and Its Music in America, 1528-1789 is an in-depth history and analysis of dances and dance music in America during the era of Spanish, French, and English exploration and settlement. Timelines, a scattering of black-and-white ... 		  
  







  




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