Descriptive Analyses of Piano Works

About this eBook

Author

Perry, Edward Baxter, 1855-1924

Title

Descriptive Analyses of Piano Works For the Use of Teachers, Players, and Music Clubs

Credits

Produced by Sean (scribe_for_hire@yahoo.com), based on page images generously made available by the Internet Archive ( archive.org/details/descriptiveanaly00perriala).

Language

English

LoC Class

MT: Music: Musical instruction and study, Composition

Subject

Piano music -- Analysis, appreciation

Category

Text

eBook-No.

44910

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44910

Release Date

February 14, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Contents — Introduction — Esthetic versus Structural Analysis — Sources of Information Concerning Musical Compositions — Traditional Beethoven Playing — Beethoven: The Moonlight Sonata, Op. 27, No. 2 (C Sharp Minor) — Beethoven: Sonata Pathétique, Op. 13 — Beethoven: Sonata in A Flat Major, Op. 26 — Beethoven: Sonata in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2 — Beethoven: Sonata, C Major, Op. 53 — Beethoven: Sonata, E Minor, Op. 90 — Beethoven: Music to “The Ruins of Athens”
2. 2.Turkish Grand March
3. 3.The Dance of the Dervishes — Weber: Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65 — Weber: Rondo in E Flat, Op. 62 — Weber: Concertstück in F Minor Op. 79 — Weber-Kullak: Lützow’s Wilde Jagd, Op. 111, No. 4 — Schubert: (Impromptu B Flat) Theme and Variations, Op. 142, No. 3 — Emotion in Music — Chopin: Sonata, B Flat Minor, Op. 35 — The Chopin Ballades
4. 4.Ballade in G Minor, Op. 23
5. 5.Ballade in F Major, Op. 38
6. 6.Ballade No. 3, in A Flat, Op. 47 — Chopin: Polonaise, A Flat Major, Op. 53 — Chopin: Impromptu in A Flat, Op. 29 — Chopin: Fantasie Impromptu, Op. 66 — Chopin: Tarantelle, A Flat, Op. 43 — Chopin: Berceuse, Op. 57 — Chopin: Scherzo in B Flat Minor, Op. 31 — Chopin: Prelude (D Flat Major), Op. 28, No. 15 — Chopin: Waltz, A Flat, Op. 42 — Chopin’s Nocturnes — Chopin: Nocturne in E Flat, Op. 9, No. 2 — Chopin: Nocturne, Op. 27, No. 2 — Chopin: Nocturne, Op. 32, No. 1 — Chopin: Nocturne, Op. 37, No. 1 — Chopin: Nocturne, Op. 37, No. 2 — Chopin’s Polish Songs, Transcribed for Piano by Liszt
7. 7.The Maiden’s Wish
8. 8.The Ring — The Poetic and Religious Harmonies by Franz Liszt — Liszt’s Ballades
9. 9.First Ballade
10. 10.Second Ballade — Transcriptions for the Piano by Franz Liszt
11. 11.Wagner-Liszt: Spinning Song, from the “Flying Dutchman”
12. 12.Wagner-Liszt: Tannhäuser March
13. 13.Wagner-Liszt: Abendstern
14. 14.Wagner-Liszt: Isolde’s Love Death — Schubert-Liszt: Transcriptions
15. 15.Der Erlkönig
16. 16.Hark! Hark! the Lark
17. 17.Gretchen am Spinnrad — Liszt: La Gondoliera — The Music of the Gipsies and Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies — Rubinstein: Barcarolle, in G Major — Rubinstein: Kamennoi-Ostrow, No. 22 — Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite, Op. 46
18. 18.1. Peer Gynt and Ingrid
19. 19.2. Troll Dance
20. 20.3. Death of Ase
21. 21.4. Arabian Dance
22. 22.5. Anitra’s Dance
23. 23.6. Solveig’s Song
24. 24.7. Morning
25. 25.8. Storm
26. 26.9. Solveig’s Cradle Song — Grieg: An den Frühling (Spring Song), Op. 43, No. 6 — Grieg: Vöglein (Little Birds), Op. 43, No. 4 — Grieg: Berceuse, Op. 38, No. 1 — Grieg: The Bridal Procession, from “Aus dem Volksleben.” Op. 19, No. 2 — Saint-Saëns: Le Rouet d’Omphale — Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre — Counterparts among Poets and Musicians

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