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Title: Tone Poems in Full Score, Series 1 : Don Juan, Tod Und Verklarung, & Don Quixote by Richard Strauss ISBN: 0-486-23754-0 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1979 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Tone Poems Of Richard Strauss
Comment: 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!
Rating: 5
Summary: I love this score
Comment: A great score, with no errors and very large, readable print. Great companion for listeners, music students, and conductors alike.
The score is very large (9 3/8 x 12 1/4) and lays flat on a stand or table. Highly reccommended!
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb is the word!
Comment: Richard Strauss knew how to make symphonic music with great drama as well as humour. The three grand symphonic masterpieces of this edition just has it all. Dare I say that some of the music in Tod Und Verklarung is some of the most beautiful and heartbreaking music ever written? And how about the great humor revealed in Don Quixote? Richard Strauss truly is a master of the orchestra. If you don't believe me, have a look yourself. It just hardly get any better than this. Thank you Dover for this excellent book!
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Title: Tone Poems in Full Score, Series 2 : Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche, also Sprach Zarathustra and Ein Heldenleben by Richard Strauss ISBN: 0486237559 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 August, 1979 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Complete Symphonies by Johannes Brahms ISBN: 0486230538 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1974 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Symphonies in Full Score by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky ISBN: 048623861X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 October, 1979 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Symphonies Nos. 5, 6 and 7 in Full Score by Ludwig van Beethoven ISBN: 0486260348 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Eine Alpensinfonie and Symphonia Domestica in Full Score by Richard Strauss ISBN: 0486277259 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 11 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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