Sheet music dealers in N.Y.

[schnabels_grandson]

   I am going to New York next week and I want to know what the best sheet music stores are.  I live in a city with only 4 music stores, only one of which has a decent selection.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Black_Key]

I don't know where exactly you will be in New York City, but the major music store chain is Sam Ash. They have a very good selection of books in Brooklyn (where I live), so I'm sure that there the Sam Ash stores in Manhattan (which is most likely where you will be), will have a huge selection. If you're staying at a hotel, look in the phone directory (Yellow Pages) and you will find a music store in there. You can't go wrong in Manhattan.

Have a great holiday in New York!

[Hmoll]

   I am going to New York next week and I want to know what the best sheet music stores are.  I live in a city with only 4 music stores, only one of which has a decent selection.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

For classical, Patelson's on W. 56th St. (just off 7th ave., behind Carnegie Hall).

[thracozaag]

   I am going to New York next week and I want to know what the best sheet music stores are.  I live in a city with only 4 music stores, only one of which has a decent selection.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

 Go to Pedelson's (right next to Carnegie Hall), or try the Juilliard Bookstore (Lincoln Center)

[schnabels_grandson]

Thanks for the help!  How are the publisher selections(C.F Peters etc.) at Sam Ash and Patelson's?  

[thracozaag]

Thanks for the help!  How are the publisher selections(C.F Peters etc.) at Sam Ash and Patelson's?  

 Patelson's has pretty much everything.  I even found some Sorabji and Liapunov there.

[Hmoll]

Thanks for the help!  How are the publisher selections(C.F Peters etc.) at Sam Ash and Patelson's?  

What Thoracozaag said is right. Only once in my decades of going to Patelson's did they not have what I wanted. This was back in the '80s, and I was looking for music by Ernesto Nazareth - who was not as popular back then.  However, they were able to order it.

[bernhard]

This was back in the '80s, and I was looking for music by Ernesto Nazareth - who was not as popular back then.  However, they were able to order it.

This is amazing! I would never imagine that anyone would know about Nazareth outside Brazil! How did you come accross him? I know that Joshua Rifkin recorded a CD with a few pieces by him, but even in Brazil it is difficult to come by his sheet music (although he is quite popular there - Brazilian pianists Artur Moreira Lima and  Marcelo Bratke also recorded him, but I doubt you would find these CDs outside Brazil).

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[Hmoll]

This is amazing! I would never imagine that anyone would know about Nazareth outside Brazil! How did you come accross him? I know that Joshua Rifkin recorded a CD with a few pieces by him, but even in Brazil it is difficult to come by his sheet music (although he is quite popular there - Brazilian pianists Artur Moreira Lima and  Marcelo Bratke also recorded him, but I doubt you would find these CDs outside Brazil).

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

Bernhard,

I absolutely love Nazareth's music. true, he is not very well known here.
I have a cassette tape of  about 30 minutes of his music somewhere, and a book of sheet music of his that I read through regularly.

The best cure for a freezing cold day in NY city, is to turn up the heat and listen to - or play - his music.

[bernhard]

I like Nazareth a lot as well, much better than Joplin (which he resembles on a superficial level). But while Joplin in much of a sameness, Nazareth can be incredibly varied not restricting himself to only one rhythm pattern. The 2 CDs by Artur Moreira Lima are the essential ones (Moreira Lima is a classical pianist, playing Nazareth as classical music – Nazareth would undoubtedly be very happy, since he always regarded himself as a classical composer and tried to avoid the label of popular music). This site has a brief biography and several CDs:

https://www.allbrazilianmusic.com/en/Artists/Artists.asp?Status=ARTISTA&Nu_Artista=214

You can also get a CD-Rom of Nazareth (biography, 18 music tracks and 11 scores) from: (the price, RS$ 35 should be around US$ 30).

https://www.ln.com.br/

Have you ever heard of Chiquinha Gonzaga (Nazareth’s comtemporary)? She also wrote many songs (not pieces!) on a similar, albeit more lyrical style. The allbrazilian site I mentioned above also has information on her.

And here is another interesting Brazilian composer of the same style (“Choro”): Zequinha de Abreu, whose most popular composition Tico-Tico no Fubá (“Little bird on the cornflour”) merited a special piano arrangement from no less a luminaire than Marc Andre Hamelin. You can listen to the midi and print the score from:

https://www.ne.jp/asahi/piano/natsui/title_score.htm

Don’t you love these obscure (yet wonderful) composers?

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[Hmoll]

I like Nazareth a lot as well, much better than Joplin (which he resembles on a superficial level). But while Joplin in much of a sameness, Nazareth can be incredibly varied not restricting himself to only one rhythm pattern. The 2 CDs by Artur Moreira Lima are the essential ones (Moreira Lima is a classical pianist, playing Nazareth as classical music – Nazareth would undoubtedly be very happy, since he always regarded himself as a classical composer and tried to avoid the label of popular music). This site has a brief biography and several CDs:

https://www.allbrazilianmusic.com/en/Artists/Artists.asp?Status=ARTISTA&Nu_Artista=214

You can also get a CD-Rom of Nazareth (biography, 18 music tracks and 11 scores) from: (the price, RS$ 35 should be around US$ 30).

https://www.ln.com.br/

Have you ever heard of Chiquinha Gonzaga (Nazareth’s comtemporary)? She also wrote many songs (not pieces!) on a similar, albeit more lyrical style. The allbrazilian site I mentioned above also has information on her.

And here is another interesting Brazilian composer of the same style (“Choro”): Zequinha de Abreu, whose most popular composition Tico-Tico no Fubá (“Little bird on the cornflour”) merited a special piano arrangement from no less a luminaire than Marc Andre Hamelin. You can listen to the midi and print the score from:

https://www.ne.jp/asahi/piano/natsui/title_score.htm

Don’t you love these obscure (yet wonderful) composers?

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

Thanks for listing the other names. I'll have to look them up.
You're right about Nazareth. His music is quite varied. Some is very lyrical, and some is more virtuosic. All of it has great rhythm.

[schnabels_grandson]

I got back from N.Y. yesterday, and Patelson's was awesome.  I didn't get to sam ash though.  I just want to tell everyone to NEVER go to Franks music company unless you wanna get screwed out of lots of $.  I went there to see if they had Rachmaninoff's cello sonata.  They did have the Boosey edition but they were selling it for $34.  I can get it off sheet music plus for $27.  I said to myself 'why pay so much when I could even get the international edition for $17'?  So I said I didn't want it anymore and asked for the Warner Brothers edition of Rachmaninoff's Symphonic dances op.45.  they were selling that for $26 dollars - Sheet music plus price: $14.95.  That was the last straw, I could have let the overcharging for an import slide, but them charging $10 dollars over cover price on a domestic book really pissed me off.  When I heard the price I said 'forget it,' then I walked out.  Worst experience of my N.Y. trip.