Books About Music
Scores
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The Fugues on the Magnificat for Organ or Keyboard. Johann Pachelbel. Dover Publications. 1986. ISBN 0486250377 (paperback).
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Ninety-five short preludial fugues on the Magnificat. They do not require pedal & can be played on the piano or harpsichord as well as the organ.
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Organ Works. Johann Pachelbel, with Max Seiffert (editor). Dover Publications. 1994. ISBN 0486278581 (paperback).
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Contains 72 chorale settings composed for the Lutheran ritual & 48 nonliturgical works, among them toccatas, fugues, preludes, ricercars & fantasias. Many of these works do not require pedal & can be played on any keyboard instrument.
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Caprices & Études for Solo Violin. Nicolò Paganini with Wieniawski. Dover Publications. 1994. ISBN 0486278832 (paperback).
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Contains Paganini's Caprices Op. 1 & Wieniawski's L'École Moderne Op. 10 & Études-Caprices Op.18.
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Ten Four-Part Motets for the Church's Year, Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina, Alec Harman. Oxford University Press. 1964. ISBN 0193533324 (paperback)
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Masses & Motets, Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina. Dover Publications. 1993. ISBN 0486276317 (paperback).
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Pope Marcellus Mass, Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina. W.W. Norton & Company. 1993. ISBN 0393092429 (paperback).
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Stabat Mater in Full Score. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, with Alfred Einstein (editor). Dover Publications. 1997. ISBN 0486296334 (paperback).
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Scored for soprano, alto & strings. Text & English translation with original setting of medieval Latin poem.
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Complete Piano Sonatas. Sergei Prokofieff. Dover Publications. 1990. ISBN 0486256898 (paperback).
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Reprinted from Russian Edition.
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Shorter Piano Works. Sergei Prokofieff. Dover Publications. 1992. ISBN 0486271668 (paperback).
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Comprehensive collection of 79 works, from 1906 to 1935, including Children's Music, Op. 62, Four Études, Op. 2; Fugitive Visions, Op. 22, Sarcasms, Op. 17, much more.
Introduction by Dmitry Feofanov.
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Classical Symphony, Roméo & Juliet & Other Works in Original Transcription for Solo Piano. Sergei Prokofieff, with Dmitry Feofanov (editor). Dover Publications. 1995. ISBN 0486285510 (paperback).
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Musical highlights from eight of Prokofieff's best-known orchestral scores. Included are selections from the Classical Symphony, Love for Three Oranges, War & Peace, Roméo & Juliet, Cinderella, Prodigal Son, Lermontov & incidental music from Hamlet.
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La Bohème in Full Score. Giacomo Puccini. Dover Publications. 1987. ISBN 0486254771 (paperback).
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Opera score. Authoritative Italian edition.
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Madama Butterfly in Full Score. Giacomo Puccini. Dover Publications. 1990. ISBN 0486263452 (paperback).
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Opera Score, reprinted from complete G. Ricordi edition.
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Tosca in Full Score. Giacomo Puccini. Dover Publications. 1992. ISBN 048626937X (paperback).
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Opera score reprinted from G. Ricordi edition.
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Manon Lescaut in Full Score. Giacomo Puccini. Dover Publications. 1995. ISBN 0486285901 (paperback).
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Opera Score. Reprinted from an authoritative Italian edition.
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La Faniciulla Del West. Giacomo Puccini. Dover Publications. 1997. ISBN 0486297128 (paperback).
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Full Score.
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Il Trittico in Full Score: "Il Tabarro"/"Suor Angelica"/"Gianni Schicci". Giacomo Puccini. Dover Publications. 1997. ISBN 0486293297 (paperback).
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Opera scores. Three one-act operas.
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Keyboard Works. Henry Purcell, with William Barclay Squire (editor). Dover Publications. ISBN 0486263630 (paperback).
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Almost-complete collection of Purcell's keyboard compositions, including the eight suites, miscellaneous one-movement pieces, airs, trumpet tunes for harpsichord solo, grounds, preludes, dances, etc. Preface by William Barclay Squire.
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Dido & Aeneas Opera in Full Score. Henry Purcell, with Nat. Tate (libretto). Dover Publications. 1995. ISBN 0486287467 (paperback).
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Dido & Aeneas: An Opera (Norton Critical Score), Henry Purcell, Curtis Price. W.W. Norton & Company. 1986. ISBN 0393955281 (paperback)