Dover Publications

The concepts of theorist Heinrich Schenker offer a unique method of structural analysis that differentiates between harmonic and contrapuntal functions of chords, emphasizing the relative significance...

This classic of music criticism provides detailed studies of 23 of Mozart's piano concertos. In addition to establishing the lines along which the genre developed, the concertos also shed light upon t...

Felix Salzer. Explores tonal organisation in Western music using 500 examples from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Two volumes bound as one.

Written during the composer's years as a professor at the renowned Moscow Conservatory, this volume presents a clear and thorough introduction to the study of harmony - a complete course in writing mu...

A masterful and original classical composer as well as a renowned composer of film scores, Ernst Toch (1887-1964) made a permanent contribution to music in this important and widely praised book. Base...

Cecil Forsyth describes 57 instruments, tracing their origins, development and status at the beginning of World War I. He discusses the evolution of each instrument and players' impressions of what th...

Modulation - the change from one key to another - is a subject of critical importance to performers and composers in their study of harmony. This concise guide by a progressive early modernist offers...

Only about a tenth of Mozarts works were printed during his lifetime, the rest having been published without the benefit of his supervision. This long-awaited edition of the autograph score offers a r...

This volume consists of unaccompanied choral works composed or otherwise arranged by Johannes Brahms for mixed choruses as well as individual men's and women's choruses.

Even if you've never so much as touched a musical instrument before, this tried-and-true guide will have you strumming away in no time. Professor J. Kalani Peterson, an expert instructor, shares his s...

Arbie Orenstein. I successi musicali di Ravel, la sua vita e i suoi tempi sono brillantemente ricreati in questa magistrale biografia, pubblicata originariamente nel 1975.

Name an iconic Sixties rock moment and Ellen Sander was probably there. A beautifully written, sweeping yet intimate account of America's cultural awakening in that decade. Massively entertaining - Ro...

Praised by the New York Times as gently imbued with ragtime, but aspiring 'to genuine operatic richness, ' Scott Joplin's energetic opera tells of a confident young woman whose life, in many respects,...

This exemplary new edition of the vocal score was prepared by Carl Simpson and Ephraim Hammett Jones, who returned to original manuscripts and early sources to produce results closest to Gilbert and S...

An enduringly popular romantic spoof that has charmed countless listeners since its 1885 debut. The Mikado's appealing Japanese setting lends fresh novelty to Sullivan's winsome melodies and Gilbert's...

An unabridged republication of the work originally published by G. Schirmer, New York in 1900. Italian and English text provided.

Intermediate and advanced pianists will savor these 42 carefully chosen works. Features include Beethoven's 8 Variations on a Theme by Count Waldstein, and the Sonata in D, Op. 6; Debussy's Prelude to...

Mozart's friendship with Anton Stadler, the clarinetist in Vienna's Royal-Imperial Court Orchestra, led to the composition of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet In A Major. The four-movement piece is arranged...

Few composers are so richly represented in concerts and recordings of chamber music as Mozart. This volume contains all eight piano trios, the two piano quartets and the piano quintet in full score, r...

Includes Six Pieces For Solo Piano, Ancient Airs and Dances and Three Preludes on Gregorian Melodies.

In addition to his genius as a composer, Schumann was a gifted critic who wrote perceptive essays, articles, and reviews for his influential musical journal, Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik. Written from 1...

With this great early opera, Wagner achieved the first true representation of his mature style as a German Romantic composer. Reproduced directly from the limited 1896 Weingartner edition that correc...

Reproduced directly from the famous Breitkopf and Härtel series, this volume includes the famous 'Trout' quintet (1819), the Quartet in F Major (1816), and three delightful trios for pianoforte, violi...

Two of the most popular Baroque orchestral works in the repertoire appear here in one inexpensive, convenient volume. Full of charm and tremendous variety, Water Music features a colourful blend of co...