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Welcome to the Bärenreiter publishers Foreign Rights pages.

You can find below an extract of our backlist including a lot of our bestsellers which we can offer as licence editions. To give you an idea of each work you can find together with the cover a short English text describing the content of the book.
If you have any questions or are interested in receiving a reading copy of any of our publications please feel free to contact us.

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Music Theory

Music Theory
Figured Bass
Choral Voice Training
Musical Instruments
Music History
Music Handbooks
Mozart
Bärenreiter Study Books
Picture Books
Cover: Allgemeine Musiklehre  Grabner, Hermann
General Music Theory


  • established yet modern music compendium
  • imparts all the essential knowledge in every musical field
  • suitable for musicologists, musicians and enthusiasts

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  • Cover: Gehörbildung im Selbststudium Kühn, Clemens
    Self-instruction in ear training


  • methodically cogent guidelines, exercises, and tips
  • step by step from isolated pitches and intervals to homophonic textures
  • makes complete compositions and sections of works aurally perceivable

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  • Cover: Formenlehre der Musik  Kühn, Clemens
    Theory of Musical Form


  • discussion of musical forms of the individual periods
  • tight connections of formal structure and harmonic progression are
  • numerous conceivable examples

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  • Cover: Musiktheorie unterrichten  Kühn, Clemens
    Teaching Theory - Communicating Music. Experiences, Ideas, Methods


  • first guidebook to cover every facet of teaching music theory
  • deals with analysis, harmony, form, counterpoint, basic musicianship, and ear training,
  • discusses our approach to music itself, using many examples

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  • Cover: Harmonielehre  de la Motte, Diether
    Harmonic Theorie


  • operates with historically orientated style models
  • combines sophistication with exercise, farsightedness and unbiasedness
  • embodies a history of harmony and a textbook

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  • Cover:  de la Motte, Diether
    Counterpoint


  • Each chapter of exercises preceded by a chapter of text
  • deepens the reader’s historical awareness
  • succeeds in turning the dry material of counterpoint virtually into a gripping read

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  • Cover: Musikalische Analyse de la Motte, Diether
    Musical analysis


  • Two volumes, one of music, one of text, totaling 237 pp.
  • introduces readers to the craft of musical analysis
  • contains eleven analyses of works

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  • Cover: Wege zum Komponieren De la Motthe, Dieter
    Paths to composition: encouragement and tips


  • composition made easy, without stress or rigid rules
  • proceeding step-by-step from the initial ideas to their final realization
  • teaches the traditional musical language as well as the musical language of today

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  • Figured Bass

      Cover: Schule des Generalbassspiels Keller, Hermann
    Figured-bass realization


  • a guide to performance
  • stylistic overview of continuo playing
  • many instructive examples and rules from writings on the subject

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  • Choral Voice Training

    Cover: Chorische Stimmbildung Ehmann, Wilhelm
    Haasemann, Frauke
    A Guide to Choral Voice Training


  • enables choral conductors to promote their singers in a meaningful way
  • introduction to posture, breathing, and voice training
  • warmingup exercises developed from particular songs, motets, and oratorios

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  • Musical Instruments

    Cover: Die Klarinette Kroll, Oskar
    The Clarinet


  • collection of all significant accounts about the clarinet
  • provokes an interest in the history of the instrument
  • pays attention to the precious solo and chamber music

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  • Cover:  Das Buch von der Orgel Klotz, Hans
    The Book about the Organ


  • essential tool of all who have to deal with the organ
  • informs about the structure of the departments (great, swell or choir etc), problems and tasks of organ building
  • for church musicians, organ builders, architects or pastors

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  • Cover: Lexikon Orgelbau Michael Bosch, Klaus Döhring and Wolf Kalipp
    Dictionary of Organ Building


  • explains the most important terms in organ building
  • Many illustrations and detailed drawings
  • enclosed audio CD presents characteristic examples

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  • Cover: Handbuch der Instrumentationspraxis Sevsay, Ertugrul
    Handbook of Orchestration


  • comprehensive guide to musical instruments
  • contains practical exercises of progressive difficulty
  • with tables of instrument ranges and a glossary

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  • Music History

    Cover: Musikwelt Mittelalter Morbach, Bernhard
    The Musical World of the Middle Ages


  • illuminates the exciting development of music in twenty chapters
  • discusses innovations in France and Italy, in Spain and England
  • introduction to the ideas of medieval philosophers, theologians, and musicians

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  • Cover: Musikwelt Renaissance Morbach, Bernhard
    The Musical World of the Renaissance


  • outlines a manysided panorama of Renaissance musical world
  • covers social life and the role of music as well as ideas of theorists
  • selected pieces may be heard as sound sketches on the CD

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  • Cover: Musikwelt Barock Morbach, Bernhard
    The Musical World of the Baroque


  • describes the development of music from 1600 on
  • allows the reader to be guided through the world of forms and genres
  • including Baroque instruments, women composers, intellectual history of the age

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  • Cover: Pace Hanheide, Stefan
    Pace: Music between War and Peace


  • 40 brief portraits of works from the Renaissance to the 21st century
  • portrayals of the music as well as the historical background and political context
  • references to musical material for each work discussed

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  • Bärenreiter Music Handbooks

    Cover:  Dürr, Alfred
    St. John's Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach


  • presents a summary of the uptodate general knowledge about the St. John's Passion
  • outlines origin, tradition and historical and stylistic classification of the work
  • precise analysis of the individual numbers considering the rich symbolic subtexts

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  • Cover:  Dürr, Alfred
    The Cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach


  • offers the prehistory, development and interpretation of the Bach cantatas
  • introduction, analysis and interpretation of every single cantata
  • with numerous music examples.

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  • Cover: Christmas Oratorio Walter, Meinrad
    Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio


  • discusses its genesis, structure, musical forms, and the relation between music and words
  • examines its various divisions
  • for "dilettantes and connoisseurs," performers, listeners, teachers, university faculty, and college students.

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  • Cover: Wolff: Requiem Wolff, Christoph
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Requiem


  • covers questions relevant to the work’s history and sources
  • offers a critical treatment of the work and its musical design
  • provides a summary of the major documents from the work’s genesis and early reception

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  • Cover: Bach Orgelbüchlein Hiemke, Sven
    Johann Sebastian Bach: Orgelbüchlein


  • explains the genesis of the Orgelbüchlein and its compositional surroundings
  • presents various views on the work
  • illustrates the workmanship of the forty-five organ preludes in separate analyses

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  • Cover: Moosdorf: Beethoven Streichquartette Moosdorf, Matthias
    The String Quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven


  • follows Beethoven’s uncompromising path from the op. 18 quartets to the final five
  • elucidates each quartet, movement by movement, and depicts the genesis of the final quartets touches on performance practice and outlines a history of the complete recordings of the string quartets

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  • Cover: Glaeß: Carmina burana Glaeß, Susanne
    Carmina burana by Carl Orff


  • for anyone who wants to perform, study, or listen to Carmina Burana
  • gives each number a separate chapter
  • conveys an impression of the varied contexts in which Carmina Burana is situated

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  • Further books have been published in this series:
    Dürr, Alfred
    Johann Sebastian Bach: Das wohltemperierte Klavier

    Hofmann, Klaus
    Johann Sebastian Bach: The Motets

    Platen, Emil
    Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew' Passion

    Schleuning, Peter
    Johann Sebastian Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos

    Ulm, Renate
    Ludwig van Beethoven: Beethoven's Nine Symphonies

    Hiemke, Sven
    Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis

    Feder, Georg
    Joseph Haydn: The Creation

    Ulm, Renate
    Gustav Mahler: Symphonies

    Eichhorn, Andreas
    Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Elias

    Hansen, Mathias
    Richard Strauss: The Symphonic Poems






    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Cover:  Guten Morgen, liebes Weibchen Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
    Good morning, dear little wife. Mozart's letters to Constanze


  • Mozart’s letters to his wife Constanze are moving documents
  • provides a portrait of Mozart’s wife in a preface and commentary
  • sketches a picture of their marriage

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  • Cover: Mozart, der Spieler Prokop, Clemens
    Mozart the gambler. The story of a life in the fast lane


  • tells the story of a supremely gifted composer and his fasttrack life
  • discloses a gambler performing miracles and juggling with words

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  • Bärenreiter Study Books

    This series contains practical, elementary study books on basic questions and methods of musicology and the general study of music. Sample exercises are employed to test what the reader has learned and to suggest further areas of study. The books are designed for highschool and college students, as a guide or reader for teachers and university lecturers, or for selfinstruction.


    Cover: Analyse lernen  Kühn, Clemens
    Learning Analysis


  • first practical “apprenticeship” in analysis
  • ideal guide for classroom teaching or selfinstruction
  • teaches the reader how to reach sensitivity, skills, and mastery for future analytic work

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  • Cover:  Kühn, Clemens
    A History of composition in commented examples


  • discusses more than twohundred sample works from the Middle Ages to the present day
  • embeds the works in historical and analytic commentaries
  • motivates readers to continue their own study of the pieces

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  • Cover: Gehörbildung. Grundkurs  Kaiser, Ulrich
    Aural Training. basic course and advanced course
    Volume 10 + 11


  • offers an interdisciplinary, pedagogically varied course in ear training
  • contains more than 1,400 music examples of compositions from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries
  • each volume is accompanied by a CD

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  • Cover: Der vierstimmige Satz Kaiser, Ulrich
    The Four-Part Harmony


  • offers a completely new approach to a standard subject in musical education
  • makes it possible to acquire fundamental compositional abilities
  • numerous references

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  • Further books have been published in this series:
    SchwindtGross, Nicole
    Musikwissenschaftliches Arbeiten. Hilfsmittel – Techniken – Aufgaben. Band 1

    Leopold, Silke
    Musikalische Metamorphosen. Formen und Geschichte der Bearbeitung. Band 2

    Meier, Bernhard
    Alte Tonarten dargestellt an der Instrumentalmusik des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. Band 3

    SchmidtBeste,Thomas
    Die Sonate. Geschichte – Formen – Ästhetik. Band 5
    The Sonata. History, Forms, Aesthetic. Volume 5

    Küster, Konrad
    Das Konzert. Form und Forum der Virtuosität. Band 6
    The concert – Forms and Forums of Virtuosity. Volume 6

    Jost, Peter
    Instrumentation. Geschichte und Wandel des Orchesterklanges. Band 13
    Instrumentation. Volume 13

    Kaiser, Ulrich /Gerlitz, Carsten
    Arrangieren und Instrumentieren. Barock bis Pop. Band 14
    Arranging and orchestrating music from baroque to pop. Volume 14







    Picture Books

    Cover: Mein Instrument - Das Klavier My Instrument

  • designed for students who want to obtain further information on the instrument
  • offers facts and information about the history of an instrument, its functions, its technical aspects, and its theoretical basics
  • ideal as gifts for students who are beginning with an instrument

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  • Cover: Mozart Bilderbuch Griese, Dietmar / Ewert, Hansjörg
    Mozart. The Picture Book


  • aimed at six- to twelve-year-old readers interested in Mozart
  • structured chronologically
  • conveys an impression of what makes Mozart's music tick

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  • Cover: Bach Bilderbuch Griese, Dietmar / Heimbucher, Christoph
    Bach. The Picture Book


  • Bach’s life in large and in many details
  • a vivid and lively portrait of the Baroque master

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  • Cover: Schumann Bilderbuch Griese, Dietmar / Heimbucher, Christoph
    Schumann. The Picture Book


  • leads the reader to Clara and Robert Schumann and the world of musical romanticism
  • discusses the musical currents and living conditions of the day
  • makes the music of these two composerpianists clear and accessible

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