A Dictionary of Musical Themes: The Music of More Than 10,000 Themes
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (699 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0517524465 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 642 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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not a luxury for music-lovers--a necessity Do you want to identify the main themes of a well-known composition? Look it up here! Do you have a composition running through your mind which you can't identify? Look it up here! Did you tune in late on a classical radio station and wish to identify the composition which is being played? Look it up here!I had to pay [$$'s] for this book because there were only 2 copies left. The other copy was [$$$'s]. Any music book publishers reading this review, will you please, please, PLEASE do. "pioneering reference work - but now available as an Internet search engine" according to John Abbott. In the past it wasn’t easy to identify an unknown piece of music heard by chance, with no other evidence to hand than the melody itself. In fact just about the only hope was to go to a specialist library and consult A Dictionary of Musical Themes by Sam Morgenstern and Harold Barlow. This reference book, first published in 1950, collects together 10,000 musical themes (mostly classical works) and indexes them using a notation index based on transposing the pitches to C major or . Cures "what's-that-tune-itis" David A. Beamer If you can transpose a melody you hear into C major (or C minor, as the case may be), and you are any kind of semi-serious classical musician, GET THIS BOOK. My copy is almost 30 years old, and the binding is coming apart from frequent use. When you get a tune in your head, or hear one on the radio, and you can't quite place it ("let's see, that sounds like Mozart, but it could be Haydn"), just brush off your music dictation skills, write down the theme in C, go to the back of the boo
Readers can quickly and easily find the exact music and lyrics of important vocal works, identifying them with just a few bars of the melody. The musical equivalent of Roget's International Thesaurus and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, this unique resource contains more than 10,000 themes from outstanding compositions in the Western tradition. This is an essential reference for all music students, especially those studying music theory, music style, composition, and history.. Contents include music from symphonies, concertos, and other orchestral works; chamber music and sonatas; and basic melodies from noteworthy operas, operettas, oratorios, and cantatas as well as lieder, art songs, and other vocal compositions.Themes are printed alphabetically by composer and coordinated with a convenient index that lists the themes by notation