Music Online: Classical Scores Libraryis a reliable and authoritative source for scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of lesser-known contemporary works.Score study is an essential part of music education. From conducting and performance to theory, composition, and music history—music students and faculty need access to a score library that addresses their diverse needs.
Music Online: Classical Scores Libraryis a reliable and authoritative resource of in-copyright scores to support teaching and research in classical music. This multivolume series contains more than 53,000 titles and 1.3 million printable pages of the most important scores in classical music, ranging from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. More than 4,600 composers are included, from traditionally studied composers such as Mozart and Tchaikovsky to contemporary artists including Kaija Saariaho, Peter Maxwell-Davies, and John Tavener.
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The first volume ofMusic Online:Classical Scores Libraryincludes more than400,000 pagesof the most important classical music scores and manuscripts ever written. Students, faculty, and scholars will find countless works from classical music’s most studied composers, including Bach, Schubert, Mozart, Handel, Beethoven, Liszt, Brahms, Chopin, plus thousands more.
Additional material inVolume Iincludes 100 scores from the Barry S. Brook Center’s collection of French Opera in the 17th and 18th centuries, providing access to the music and libretti of the early operas during an important period in the development of the genre.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Volume IIprovides online access to200,000 pagesof scores. In addition to new works from contemporary composers,Volume IIincludes a range of important composers not represented in the first volume and alternative editions of many of music’s most studied compositions.
Featured composers include Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Andrew Schultz, Moya Henderson, Nicholas Vines, Giovanni Sammartini, Michael Haydn, and many others. This volume also includesThe Symphony 1720-1840-- the largest source of 18th century symphonies comprising 550 symphonic works.
The third volume of Alexander Street’sMusic Online:Classical Scores Librarybrings together400,000 pagesof in-copyright editions from composers worldwide. The collection provides editions from major publishers like Chester Music, Novello & Company, Faber Music, Wilhelm Hansen, Donemus, and others. It provides expanded coverage of great choral works and instrumental scores for brass, woodwind, and other instrument groups.
Volume IIIfeatures modern editions of works by Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Byrd, Gibbons, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Monteverdi, Mozart, and Purcell, as well as classic works by Elgar, De Falla, Franck, Holst, Joubert, Maxwell-Davies, Musgrave, Saariaho, Sallinen, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, and many more.
This comprehensive collection of scores places particular focus on canonical contemporary composers from the 20th and 21st centuries, and will provide300,000 pagesof scores upon completion. With many scores newly digitized for the academic market, or licensed directly from the composers themselves, music scholars and faculty will findMusic Online:Classical Scores Library: Volume IV是一个可靠的来源uthoritative scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery and dissemination of lesser-known contemporary works.