Books About Music
Scores
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Wesendonk Lieder & Other Songs for Voice & Piano. Richard Wagner, with Michael Balling (editor). Dover Publications. 1992. ISBN 048627070X (paperback).
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Twenty songs including seven early settings of texts from Goethe's Faust to five songs that were sketches for Tristan & Isold. English translations of texts & editor's commentary & glossary of German terms.
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Overtures & Preludes in Full Score. Richard Wagner. Dover Publications. 1996. ISBN 0486292010 (paperback).
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Includes Overtures to The Flying Dutchman, Rienzi, Preludes to Acts I & III of "Lohengrin"; Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan & Isolde, more.
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Das Rheingold in Full Score. Richard Wagner. Dover Publications. 1985. ISBN 0486249255 (paperback).
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Opera Score. The complete score of the first part of the Ring Cycle. In German.
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Die Walk&uumal;re in Full Score. Richard Wagner. Dover Publications. 1978. ISBN 0486235661 (paperback).
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Opera Score. This is the second opera in the Ring Cycle. In German.
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Siegfried in Full Score. Richard Wagner. Dover Publications. 1983. ISBN 0486244563 (paperback).
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Opera Score. This is the third opera in the Ring Cycle. In German.
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Götterdämmerung in Full Score. Richard Wagner. Dover Publications. 1982. ISBN 0486242501 (paperback).
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Opera Score. The fourth & final opera in the Ring Cycle.
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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Full Score. Richard Wagner. Dover Publications. 1976. ISBN 048623276X (paperback).
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Opera Score. In German.
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Tristan und Isolde in Full Score. Richard Wagner. Dover Publications. 1973. ISBN 0486229157 (paperback).
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Opera Score. In German.
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Tannhäuser in Full Score. Richard Wagner. Dover Publications. 1984. ISBN 0486246493 (paperback).
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Opera score. Reproduction of original 1845 full orchestral & vocal score, as slightly amended in 1847. Included is ballet music for Act One written for the 1861 Paris Production.
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Parsifal in Full Score. Richard Wagner. Dover Publications. 1986. ISBN 0486251756 (paperback).
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Opera Score. In German.
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Lohengrin in Full Score. Richard Wagner. Dover Publications. 1982. ISBN 0486243354 (paperback).
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Opera Score. In German.
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The Flying Dutchman. Richard Wagner. Dover Publications. 1988. ISBN 0486256294 (paperback).
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Der Fliegende Holländer Opera Score. Text, stage directions in English, German, Italian.
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"The Ride of the Valkyries" & Other Highlights from the Ring in Full Score. Richard Wagner. Dover Publications. 1997. ISBN 0486293750 (paperback).
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Contains these excerpts: "Entry of the Gods into Valhalla" from Das Rheingold; "The Ride of the Valkyries" from Die Walkü.re; plus music from Siegfried & Götterdämmerung.
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Complete Sonatas, Invitation to the Dance & Other Piano Works. Carl Maria von Weber. Dover Publications. 1992. ISBN 0486272621 (paperback).
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Virtually all the composer's works for piano solo: four piano sonatas, Invitation to the Dance, eight sets of variations, "Grande Polonaise," more. Reprinted from authoritative C. F. Peters edition.
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Great Overtures in Full Score. Carl Maria von Weber. Dover Publications. 1986. ISBN 0486252256 (paperback).
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Contains overtures to Oberon, Der Freishütz, Euryanthe, Preciosa & Jubilee.
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Der Freischütz. Carl Maria von Weber. Dover Publications. 1977. ISBN 04862 (paperback).
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Opera in full score form, reproduction of Peters edition with the complete German text including all spoken dialogue.
Charles-Marie Widor
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Complete Organ Symphonies, Volume 1. Charles-Marie Widor. Dover Publications. 1991. ISBN 0486266915 (paperback).
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Includes Symphonies #1-4, Op. 13 & Symphonie #5, Op. 42.
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Complete Organ Symphonies, Volume 2. Charles-Marie Widor. Dover Publications. 1991. ISBN 0486266923 (paperback).
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Contains Symphonies #6, 7, 8, Op. 42; plus Symphonie Gothique, Op. 70; Symphonie Romane, Op. 73.
Henryk Wieniawski
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Caprices & Études for Solo Violin. Henryk Wieniawski with Paganini. 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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45 Songs on Poems of Goethe & Eichendorff For Voice & Piano. Hugo Wolf. Dover Publications. 1996. ISBN 0486288579 (paperback).
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"Deeply affecting works include exquisite short love lyrics & works that explore the darker side of human experience" (from the Dover catalogue).
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The Complete Mörike Songs. Hugo Wolf. Dover Publications. 1982. ISBN 048624380X (paperback).
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Voice & Piano Score: Fifty-three song settings including "Der Tambour", "Elfenlied", "Vergorgenheit" & more. New literal prose translations in English of some of the lyrics. Glossary of German musical terms.
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Spanish & Italian Songbooks. Hugo Wolf. Dover Publications. 1990. ISBN 0486261565 (paperback).
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Two celebrated collections of lieder: The Spanisches Liederbuch contains 44 songs, mostly religious or erotic. The Italienisches Liederbuch comprises 46 songs, set to anonymous Italian poems dating to 16th century & earlier. New translations of German texts.
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Seven String Quartets. Hugo Wolf, with Giuseppe Verdi, Jean Sibelius, Edvard Grieg & Richard Strauss. Dover Publications. 1991. ISBN 0486268918 (paperback).
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Scores for Grieg's Quartet in G Minor, Op. 27; Grieg's Quartet in F Major (incomplete); Sibelius' Quartet in D Minor ("Voces Intimae"), Op. 56; Strauss's Quartet in A Major, Op. 2; Verdi's Quartet in E Major; & Wolf's Quartet in D Minor & Italienische Serenade (Italian Serenade).