Schubert: New Piano Transcriptions of Famous Masterworks [Paperback]

Lawrence Rosen (Author), Franz Schubert (Composer)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 22, 2000

This series features carefully selected masterworks from the orchestral, concerto, and concert piano repertoire of the great composers. The arrangements have been skillfully excerpted and edited for pianists of moderate technical ability and remain faithful to the composer's harmony, counterpoint, and melody - preserving the essence of the original work. The arrangements are done by Lawrence Rosen.

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Text: English, German, Italian --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Stephens Development (September 22, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0634026062
• ISBN-13: 978-0634026065
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,683,261 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Schubert resource - beware the "paperback" though, January 1, 2005

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Erik Andersen "Uncontested Genius" (Burnaby, B.C. Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Schubert: The Complete Song Texts (Hardcover)

Anyone who spends 5 minutes with this book can see that it is indispenseable. Every song is here, arranged alphabetically. Before borrowing the book from a library, I had the groundless fear that, while listening to, say, Winterreise, I would have to flip back and forth between the dispersed songs (and wear out the pause button on my player). But of course, the songs in each cycle are together, with simply the name of the cycle alphabetized.

Further on this stimulating subject, I will mention the one thing about this book that irks me. In contrast to the practice in English books, all of the songs beginning with "Der" ("The") are listed together, making a sort of subset of such songs. The same for "Die" and "Das". Since I don't know which of these three words should come before "Unterscheidung," for example, I would have to look up perhaps three places in order to find the song. Unless, of course, I had greater knowledge of German or could recall or check for the correct word (which happens to be "Die"). This is nitpicking, though, and the book sports an index of first lines. Lovely volume.

If it weren't so blasted difficult to purchase! The "beware" above has nothing to do with the book itself, but rather with this amazon page. If you click on "paperback" edition (the hardcover is currently not available), you are transported to a completely different book! I nearly purchased the other book (ISBN 0634026062) through the "staying up much too late" mists. This warning will become irrelevant soon, one hopes.

If you love Lieder, Schubert, or have a Godardian fascination with translation, grab this one (once you've found a way)!