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JEAN-HENRI D'ANGLEBERT
Recording of the Tombeau de Monsieur Chambonnieres,
for harpsichord.
Video: Prelude non mesure (en sol)
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MILTON BABBIT
NewMusicBox: Milton Babbitt in conversation with Frank J. Oteri, 2001
Milton Babbitt talks about "Philomel"
by OHM -The Early Gurus of Electronic Music.
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH
Free recordings of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
(Classic Cat, the free classical catalogue)
Free Public Domain Scores by C.P.E. at IMSLP
Recording of the Double concert, for piano and harpsichord in Es, Wq 47
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Keyboard Tuning of Johann Sebastian Bach
The Canons and Fugues of J. S. Bach
Internet site
J.S. Bach's Ornament Table
(Internet Adaptation © 1997, 2001, 2005 by T.L. Hubeart Jr.)
Johann Sebastian Bach, une aventure interactive au cœur de son univers musical
(web site)
Video: Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No.1 BWV1046:
I movement: Allegro.
II movement: Adagio.
III movement: Allegro.
IV Movement: Menuet - Trio I - Menuet da capo -
Polacca - Menuet da capo - Trio II - Menuet da capo.
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Video: Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No.2 BWV1047:
I movement: Allegro.
II movement: Andante.
III movement: Allegro assai.
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Video: Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No.3 BWV1048:
I movement: Allegro Moderato.
II movement: Adagio.
III movement: Allegro.
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Video: Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No.4 BWV1049:
I movement: Allegro.
II movement: Andante.
III movement: Presto.
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Video: Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No.5 BWV1050:
I movement: Allegro.
II movement: Affettuoso.
III movement: Presto.
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Video: Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No.6 BWV1051:
I movement: Allegro.
II movement: Adagio ma non troppo.
III movement: Allegro.
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Bach's Notation of Tempo and Early-Music Performance: Some Reconsiderations.
Revisitation of the ongoing debate among factions of early music artists attempts to ascertain the more "historically correct" time signature for the composer's works. Includes endnotes, chart, and links.
RICHARD BARRET
Richard Barret in Conversation with Derek Bermel and Joshua Cody
BELA BARTOK
Symmetry as a Compositional Determinant
by Larry J. Solomon, 1973, revised 2002
Formal Considerations in Bela Bartok's Fourth String Quartet
by Michael Ladd. Analytical Techniques Musth 621 April 30, 1999
Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
by Larry J. Solomon, 1973, revised 2002
Béla Bartók at the piano Rumanian Folk Dances
Béla Bartók at the piano Sonatina
Béla Bartók at the piano: Allegro Barbaro
Recording (Bela Bartok at the piano):
The Heartless Wife A rossz feleseg
Recording (Bela Bartok at the piano):
Hungarian Folk Music - No. 18 Katie Kadar
Guide to the Bartok Virtual Exhibition
Video: String Quartet IV, first movement,
Hugo Wolf Quartet, film by Jasmina Hajdany
Video: String Quartet IV, Fourth movement (Allegro pizzicato),
Amadeus String Quartet.
Video: Solo Violin Sonata, III movement, Ivry Gitlis: violin.
Viedeo: Piano Sonata, First movement. Zoltán Kocsis, piano.
Béla Bartók Memorial House
Budapest museum reconstructed from his home.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Project Gutenberg: Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1
Project Gutenberg: Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2
Beethoven Piano Sheet Music (out of copyright)
IMSLP - International Music Score Library Project's Beethoven page.
A critical study of the symphonies of Beethoven
by Hector Berlioz
Concerto in D Major, Op. 61: Some 20th Century Viewpoints
by Connie Sunday © 2006. Graphics by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
The Sublime Beethoven.
Did the composer share an aesthetic principle with Immanuel Kant?
Contemporary reviews of Beethoven's works
Video: Arthur Rubinstein playing Beethoven piano concerto no. 4,
3rd. movement, 1967.
Free recordings of Beethoven (Classic Cat, the free classical catalogue)
GEORGE BENJAMIN
Gavin Thomas introduces the work of George Benjamin
LUCIANO BERIO
Gavin Thomas introduces the work of Luciano Berio
Gli anni di Berio
by Lorenzo Ferrero (in Italian)
Berio/Dubuffet, a conversation
Text compiled by John Fowler, line drawings by Sara Fowler.
A brief analysis of Berio's "Sinfonia"
Interview with Luciano Berio
by Gillian Moore and Shân MacLennan
Grock and the Berio Sequenza V
Luciano Berio
by Meirion Bowen
Il nuovo finale di Turandot: note sul rifacimento di Berio
by Marco Uvietta (in italiano) -Centro studi G. Puccini-
Video: Berio: Sinfonia - 3rd Mvmt (Part I) - Rattle/CBSO.
Video: Berio: Sinfonia - 3rd Mvmt (Part II) - Rattle/CBSO.
Free recordings of Luciano Berio (Classic Cat, the free classical catalogue)
ALBAN BERG
A Guide to Alban Berg’s Opera Wozzeck
(1932) by Dr. Willi Reich (pdf link)
Alban Berg's filmic music: intentions and extensions of the film music interlude in the opera Lulu,
by Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith (pdf link)
Schönberg’s Voice Recordings: Alban Berg
"When Alban Berg, 1904, came to me..."
Arnold Schönberg Center
Free recordings of Alban Berg (Classic Cat, the free classical catalogue)
My Space page of Alban Berg
Video: Wozzeck's Act 3, Sc. 2 + 3.
Vienna Production (1987). Hildegard Behrens (Marie), Franz Grundheber (Wozzeck),
Anna Gonda (Margret). Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Video: excerpt of the I movement of the violin concerto, performed by Nicolas Koeckert.
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Free recordings of Hector Berlioz (Classic Cat, the free classical catalogue)
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
'The Mask of Orpheus'
by Harrison Birtwistle
Harrison Birtwistle.
Interview by Dan Warburton, July 8th 1995
Gavin Thomas introduces the work of Harrison Birtwistle
PIERRE BOULEZ
Pierre Boulez in conversation with Joshua Cody
Gavin Thomas introduces the work of Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez on Répons, by Josef Häusler
A conversation with the composer about his electro-acoustic masterpiece.
Analysis of Memoriale ( ...explosante-fixe...originel )
by Francesco Buscemi (in italian, pdf link)
Dérive
by Fraser Trainer
Video: Pierre Boulez talks about discovering the music of the 20th Century.
Viedo: Pierre Boulez talks about audiences in the United States' reception of Olivier Messiaen.
Video: Boulez on Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps part 1.
Video: Boulez on Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps part 2.
Video: Pierre Boulez - Livre pour cordes - Wiener Philharmoniker
JOHANNES BRAHMS
The spirit of folk song in the lieder of Johannes Brahms
by Sally Horgan
Brahms’s Choral Music and His Journey to Contrapuntal Transcendence
by Joseph Schubert
Brahms: Aspectos generales de su música de cámara y estética composicional
por Rafael Zayas
WILLIAM BYRD
The Keyboard Music of William Byrd
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JOHN CAGE
John Cage. An Autobiographical Statement.
Six views of the Sonatas and interludes
by James Pritchett
"The Ten Thousand Things" (1953-1956)
by James Pritchett
Notes on John Cage's Winter music/Atlas eclipticalis and 103
by James Pritchett
John Cage: Choral music (a timeline)
by James Pritchett
Video: John Cage performing "Water Walk" in
January, 1960 on the popular TV show I've Got A Secret.
Video: Noise with John Cage (1966), from documantary "Sound??".
VIdeo: Opus 20 Modern Masterworks: John Cage - Part 1.
Opus 20 Modern Masterworks: John Cage - Part 2.
JULIAN CARRILLO
Julian Carrillo and the 13th Sound: a microtonal musical system.
ELLIOT CARTER
An interview with Elliot Carter
by Alan Baker
American Gothic, An Interview with Elliot Carter
by Andy Carvin
The String Quartets of Elliott Carter
by David Harvey
Carter the Empiricist
David Harvey
FRIEDRICH CERHA
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Life of Chopin
by Franz Liszt
JOHN CHOWNING
Audio interview with composer and electronic music pioneer
April 13, 2006, (5518KB, MIME type: application/ogg)
John Chowning, Alison Chaiken and
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John Chowning on Composition: interview to the composer
by Curtis Roads.
John Chowining. Music synthesis approaches sound quality of real instruments
by the Stanford University News Service.
Includes: Yamaha interested, New technique and Another patent.
Video. Tulane: The Founders of Computer Music.
ARCANGELO CORELLI
Arcangelo Corelli
web site dedicated to the composer
Free scores by Arcangelo Corelli in the Werner Icking Music Archive
FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Couperin, François (1668-1733). L'art de toucher le clavecin. 1716.
Un très rare exemplaire de L'art de toucher le clavecin par François Couperin, le Grand, en 1716
Free download from the site Gallica,
Free scores of Couperin from the site Werner Icking Music Archive
HENRY COWELL
Subversive Prophet: Henry Cowell as Theorist and Critic
by Kyle Gann
A short history of the rhythmicon
by John Came
Free recordings of Henry Cowell (Classic Cat, the free classical catalogue)
GEORGE CRUMB
George Crumb's Vox Balanae (1971) for three masked players. Petic aspects and constructive logic.
by Maria Gabriella Cerchiara.
The Radical Compositional Approach of George Crumb in Madrigals, Book I
by Rachaele Lamanna (pdf link)
Free recordings of George Crumb (Classic Cat, the free classical catalogue)
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Harmonic Analysis of Debussy's Prelude La fille aux cheveux de lin (Book I, VIII)
by José Rodríguez Alvira
Claude Debussy and Impressionism
by Charles K. Moss, M.M.Ed., M.Mus.
Claude Debussy: original manuscript of the Rapsody for clarinet
PDF link proposed by the site www.clariperu.org
Rapsody for clarinet mp3
Historic recording of Benny Goodman. New York Symphony Orchestra, John Barbirolli, conductor,1940.
Debussy free scores / International Music Score Library Project's Debussy page
Claude Debussy free scores / Werner Icking Music Archive
Free recordings online of Claude Debussy at MusicBrainz
Claude Debussy's free recordings (Classic Cat, the free classical catalogue)
Claude Debussy and Impressionism
by Charles K. Moss, M.M.Ed., M.Mus.
Recording: Debussy plays Debussy Golliwogg's Cakewalk (1913.)
JOSQUIN DES PREZ
Autobiographical Constructions in Josquin's Motet Illibata Dei virgo nutrix: Evidence for a Later Dating
Josquin des Pres
a web site dedicated to the composer
Free scores of Josquin des Pres at the Werner Icking Music Archive
FRANCO DONATONI
Franco Donatoni - (1927 - 2000)
by David Wright
My Space page dedicated to Donatoni
Spiri
an analysis by Luca Vago (in italian; pdf link proposed by the internet site "musical time")
Spiri de Franco Donatoni, ou le développement organique d'un matériau historique
by Sebastien Beranger
GUILLAUME DUFAY
Dufay's free recordings (Classic Cat, the free classical catalogue)
Free scores by Guillaume Dufay in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
JOHN DOWLAND
Les 3 Livres d'airs et les Lachrymae
arrangement SATB, PDF link proposed by the site www.musebaroque.fr
Recording: "Lachrimae Antiquae". J. SAVALL, Hesperion XX.
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PETER EOTVOS
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MANUEL DE FALLA
The Manuel de Falla Foundation
Free recordings of Manuel de Falla (Classic Cat, the free classical catalogue)
GABRIEL FAURE'
IMSLP - International Music Score Library Project's Fauré page.
Free recordings (Classic Cat, the free classical catalogue)
MORTON FELDMAN
Why patterns? An analysis of Morton Feldman's "Piano and string quartet"
by Frank Sani
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH
My Space page of Brian Ferneyhough
CESAR FRANCK
International César Franck Society
Free Public Domain Sheet Music of César Franck at IMSLP
free scores online
Free recordings (Classic Cat, the free classical catalogue)
GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI
Free recordings (Classic Cat, the free classical catalogue)
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GIOVANNI GABRIELI
Free recordings (Classic Cat, the free classical catalogue)
CARLO GESUALDO
Free recordings (Classic Cat, the free classical catalogue)
GERARD GRISEY
Vortex Temporum
by Gerard Grisey
Interview with Gérard Grisey
by David Bündler
Acoustic notions from Grisey's Partiels
by Laurent Fichet (in French)
Partiels (1975), de Gérard GRISEY
par Thierry ALLA (in French)
Musica spettrale e anatomia del tempo
Intervista con Gerard Grisey di Andrea Verrengia
(Spectral music and the anatomy of time : Interwiew with Gerard Grisey by Andrea Verrengia )
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GEORGE FRIEDERIC HANDEL
Free recordings of Handel (Classic Cat, the free classical catalogue)
Score of the Cantata « Clori delgi occhi miei », per contralto e basso continuo
PDF link proposed by the site www.musebaroque.fr
Cantata « Udite il mio consiglio » per [mezzo] soprano e basso continuo, HWV 172
PDF link proposed by the site www.musebaroque.fr
JONATHAN HARVEY
Precarious Rapture: The Recent Music of Jonathan Harvey
excerpt from "Precarious Rapture", an article by Julian Johnson. British Music of the 1990s," ed. Peter O'Hagan, forthcoming October 2001, Ashgate Publishing.
Jonathan Harvey
The composer talks to Daniel Jaffé about his multi-faceted work
Music & the Metaphysical
by Jonathan Harvey
My Space page of Jonathan Harvey.
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Free recordings of Haydn (Classic Cat, the free classical catalogue)
PIERRE HENRY
Interview to Pierre Henry (in english)
by Lara Lee