Tone Poems in Full Score, Series I: Don Juan, Tod Und Verklarung, & Don Quixote Review

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(More customer reviews)No music truly exists in a book.The composer puts his directions on paper, and the musician tries his best to do what the composer has directed to do.Play this note high, this note low, this note long, this note short, etc.Music is an art that really doesn't exist until it comes to life through the time it takes to perform it.Like a seed, the score of an orchestral work lies dormant until the musician(s) plant it, nurture it through performance.
For the few that can read a score like the rest of us read a newspaper, the music can come alive in the imagination of their inner ear.For the rest of us mortals, following the score while the music plays can help us 'see' the tree come to life with our ears and revel in all of the life and vitality it contains.
The tone poems of Richard Strauss are like vast, sprawling trees.There is no need to follow a score to admire the beauty of the trees.If that were so, symphony orchestras would pass out copies of the score to the audience and keep the lights on.But following the score is like climbing right up into the tree.You can see the diversity, the details, and even look down at the ground and realize where you are.
So to be able to appreciate these masterpieces on a different level, following the score can be a revelation.Dover's edition of these tone poems is inexpensive, of good quality, and I especially like the large format.If you try to follow a miniature score of these works, you best have really great eyes or a magnifying glass.These are vast, romantic works, and Strauss uses a very large orchestra. So the large format is much easier to read and follow.
So if you ever have the urge to get closer to these masterpieces, then by all means let the Dover edition of the scores be your guide.Your efforts to climb the tree will be well rewarded!

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Three of the most often performed and recorded works in entire orchestral repertoire, reproduced in full score from original editions. Study score.

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The Firebird in Full Score (Original 1910 Version) Review

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(More customer reviews)The score is wonderful to follow along with.As easy as it is to follow it is as easy to read.Outlining the entire Ballet, each section of music has a title on the page where it begins, in both Russian and English.Theonly reason why I think it deserves one star short is the lack of a summaryof the story and description of the characters and their part in the story. Other than that, I would highly reccomend this work of art to anyone withan imagination andalove of music.

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Handsome, unabridged, inexpensive edition of modern masterpiece renowned for brilliant orchestration, glowing color, evocative power. Reprinted from authoritative Russian edition. Includes list of characters and instruments, plus new English translation of Table of Contents.

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Score Reading: A Key to the Music Experience (Amadeus) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book belongs in the hands of every aspiring orchestral musician, conductor, and avocational music-lover. Ambitious high-school students and conservatory undergraduates will especially appreciate the clarity and concision with which Dickreiter (through Pauly's fine translation) illuminates the labyrinth of abbreviations, symbols and page layout details for deciphering orchestral scores.Best of all, the book answers most basic questions about instrumentation (including foreign terminology, clefs and transpositions), performance practice and history, without forcing the reader to hunt down the information in several other sources.
Musicians searching for practice material in reducing scores at the piano will not find it in this book, but they will find a handy reference with a sound review of orchestral history and instrumentation. Aspiring conductors will find a valuable introduction to their craft and all readers will appreciate the clarity of the text which conveys information without the baggage of elitist condescension or that chatty hand-holding which bloats many mass market "how to" or "dummies" books.Several of the score examples employ a format (found in the Norton Scores) that highlights prominent melodic lines with gray shading. This illustrates the dynamics of score reading very clearly for novices.
The chapters are as follows: 1) Introduction, 2) Types of Scores, 3) The Look of a Score, 4) Scores and Their History, 5) Reading a Score - Hearing a Score, 6) Examples for Practicing Score Reading, 7) Orchestras and Conductors, 8) Instrumentation and Score Reading: Suggestions for Further Reading.

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Score reading provides insights into the musical structure of a work that are difficult to obtain from merely listening. It can enable one to determine the accuracy of a performance, or comprehend the use of specific instruments. Score reading is a practical skill for musicians of all types; it is essential for a conductor who has to direct a performance, and is routinely covered in musical studies. In addition, many listeners and amateurs derive great pleasure from following a performance with score in hand. Following the score helps them to better understand the intricacies of what they are hearing and thus appreciate it all the more.
Using a warm, yet no-nonsense approach, Score Reading: A Key to the Music Experience demystifies and explains the subject. It informs about the various types of scores and their uses, about their historical development, about the visual appearances of various kinds of notation, about the techniques of following a score, and about orchestras and their conductors. There are practice examples of increasing difficulty taken from scores of well-known works from various periods. The reader may have recordings of these popular pieces, or can easily obtain them. All in all, this is a useful book to all interested in playing music or listening to it.

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