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Oxford University Press, USA Mendelssohn Composers Across Cultures
Book SynopsisOf crucial importance to scholars has been the re-emergence in Krakow of the large number of Mendelssohn manuscripts considered lost since their removal from Berlin for safekeeping during World War II. This title presents the composer's manuscripts.Trade Reviewuseful as a reference book ... thorough in its musical analysis. * Hi-Fi News *
£34.19
Oxford University Press Vivaldi
Book SynopsisVivaldi has emerged during the last decades as a truly major composer of the early eighteenth-century. Taking account of recent research, to which he himself has made important contributions-including the discovery in 1973 of an unknown set of violin sonatas-Michael Talbot examines the life and works of this remarkable musician in their Venetian, Italian, and international settings.Trade Reviewa very well balanced, closely researched "life and works" of Vivaldi. * The Literary Review *
£23.84
Clarendon Press Conducting Berlioz
Book SynopsisThe difficulties of interpreting Berlioz are interestingly explained by a conductor of legendary knowledge and understanding. For the students of conducting this book is nothing short of invaluable, being a guide to technique as well as to the confusions arising from Berlioz's imaginative orchestration.
£94.00
Clarendon Press Interpreting Bach at the Keyboard Clarendon Paperbacks
Book SynopsisA study of problems surrounding the interpretation of Bach's keyboard music, this work looks at rhythm, tempo, articulation and dynamics, as well as the instruments for which Bach's music was intended. It also includes a discussion of ornamentation.Trade ReviewBadura-Skoda's ability to sustain a propulsive melodic line amid wells of sound become a hallmark of his virtuosity * Benjamin Ivry, International Piano *it is a relief to turn to the passionate advocacy of Paul Badura-Skoda ... he points the way to useful conclusions, marrying musicology with performance * Gillian Weir *Table of ContentsPART 1. GENERAL PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION ; PART II. STUDIES IN ORNAMENTATION
£102.50
Oxford University Press, USA Musorgsky Master Musician Series
Book SynopsisThis is the largest life-and-works of Musorgsky ever to have appeared outside Russia. Musorgsky created stunning masterpieces in such creations as his opera Boris Godunov and piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition - yet his life was tragic. It is this pathetic tale, interlaced with critical discussion of music, that is this book's concern.Trade ReviewThe qualities of clarity and thoroughness familiar to readers of Professor Brown's earlier work are also in evidence here ... his style is straightforward and elegant without pretentiousness, apparently aimed at music lovers as much as those with a scholarly interest. * SEER *... excellent monograph ... David Brown has done an excellent job in treating Musorgsky in such a lively and yet learned manner ... His magisterial study deserves to be purchased by many music lovers who will find the narrative fluent and the musical analysis approachable. It should also attract musicians and musical scholars who will also discover some new ideas, approaches and materials in its pages. * SEER *... a no-holds barred biography ... Brown traces his entire output in a rich historical and social context. He ... gives us a new vision of the composer. * New York Times *... the general reader and specialist alike will value the breadth, clear exposition and enthusiasm in Brown's discussion. * Geoffrey Norris, BBC Music Magazine *Table of ContentsPREFACE ; ILLUSTRATIONS ; APPENDICES ; INDEX
£24.22
Oxford University Press, USA The Music of Berlioz
Book SynopsisThe Music of Berlioz offers an overall view of Berlioz's musical achievement as we approach the bicentary of his birth in 2003, and in doing so is the first such study to deal fully with the rediscovered Messe solennelle. It synthesizes previous scholarship, including the author's own, adding many new observations, together with information and insight into all the composer's works.Trade Review...magnificent study... * Andrew Thomson, Musical Times *Rushton shows his true vocation as pedagogue, for the musical detail contained within these sections forms a fine analytical study for Berlioz's major works which every university library should have on its shelves. * Clair Rowden, Nineteenth-Century Music Review *... carefully researched, often provocative ... interesting new views. * Music and Letters *Julian Rushton is well known and highly regarded as a leading Berlioz scholar ... whose detailed knowledge of Berlioz's oeuvre is astonishing. * Music and Letters *... carefully written. * Musical Times *Rushton's generous humanity and emotional maturity constantly shine through the constant stream of marvellous insights. * Musical Times *A most distinguished and penetrating study. * Musical Times *Fascinating ... Rushton has superbly perceptive pages on works he particularly admires. * BBC Music Magazine *Table of ContentsPreface ; List of Abbreviations ; I: A BIOGRAPHY OF BERLIOZ'S MUSIC ; 1. Provincial to Prize-Winner ; 2. The Romantic Decade ; 3. Damnation and After ; II: TECHNIQUES AND MEANINGS ; 4. Implications of a Musical Biography ; 5. Techniques of Composition ; 6. Signs and Evocations ; III: THE WORKS ; 7. The Lyric Berlioz ; 8. Architecture, Patriotism, and the End of the World ; 9. A Fantastic Symphonist ; 10. Berlioz Dramatist ; Bibliography ; Index of Berlioz's Works ; General Index
£160.00
Oxford University Press, USA Music Theory in SeventeenthCentury England Oxford Monographs on Music
Book SynopsisThe fundamental changes resulting in the development of the Baroque style around the turn of the 17th century had a profound effect on music theory. This work explores the metamorphosis in England where, because of a traditional emphasis on practicality, there was willingness to accept new ideas.Trade ReviewOn every page a complex network of filiations is traced among many English authors. It is this kind of meticulous research in which Herissone excels, and to which subsequent generations of scholars will gratefully refer ... Her meticulous account is unusually lucid ... There is no comparable account in the English language that offers such a comprehensive and detailed overview of English music theory from the seventeenth century, and her book will surely become the standard reference work on this subject. * Journal of the American Musicological Society *This welcome survey covers a great deal of ground ... Clarity of organization is only the most immediately obvious of the book's strengths. The author scrutinizes all her materials with a critical eye, and charts an astonishing number of disagreements, confusions and self-contradictions. * Early Music *A full and invaluable account of English theoretical writing over the period ... A particularly valuable contribution of the book to English music history is the four full appendices. * Musical Times *Table of ContentsPreface ; Acknowledgements ; List of Plates ; List of Tables ; List of Examples ; Sources ; Time ; Pitch Structure ; Harmony ; Harmonic and Contraptual Compositional rules ; Tonality ; Texture and Form ; Conclusion ; Appendix I: Alphabetical List of Treatises ; Appendix II: Chronological List of Treatises ; Appendix III: Editions of Playford's Introduction to the Skill of Musick ; Appendix IV: Origins of Material ; Bibliography ; Index
£255.00
Oxford University Press BACH CANTATAS C With Their Librettos In GermanEnglish Parallel Text
Book SynopsisThis is the only English translation of this important book by the world''s most distinguished Bach scholar. This work is widely regarded as the most authoritative and comprehensive treatment of the Bach cantatas. It begins with a historical survey of the seventeenth-century background to the cantatas, and performance practice issues. The core of the book is a work-by-work study in which each cantata in turn is represented by its libretto, a synopsis of its movements, and a detailed analytical commentary. This format makes it extremely useful as a reference work for anyone listening to, performing in, or studying any of the Bach cantatas.In this edition all the cantata librettos are given in German-English parallel text. The most recent (sixth) German edition appeared in 1995. For the English edition the text has been carefully revised to bring it up to date, taking account of Bach scholarship since that date.Trade ReviewFor students studying Bach's cantatas, this book is the best reading material currently available. This is a book that every university library must have on its shelf. * Bach Bibliography Book Review03/12/06 *Table of ContentsPART 1 INTRODUCTION TO BACH'S CANTATAS; PART 2 CHURCH CANTATAS; PART 3 SECULAR CANTATAS
£190.00
Oxford University Press The Creative Development of Johann Sebastian Bach Volume I 16951717 Volume I Music to Delight the Spirit
Book SynopsisThis first of a two-volume study deals with the earlier part of Bach's career, and examines the output of his youth and its may external influences, before moving on to study he first great masterpieces in which Bach's own personal voice begins to emerge.Table of ContentsPART I: FORMATIVE YEARS (1695-C.1709); PART II: FIRST MATURITY (C.1709-1717)
£46.07
Oxford University Press Mahlers Symphonic Sonatas Oxford Studies in Music Theory
Book SynopsisMahler's Symphonic Sonatas investigates Gustav Mahler's dynamic and career-long engagement with sonata-allegro form.Trade ReviewMahler's Symphonic Sonatas contains the most detailed, sophisticated, and insightful analytical readings of Mahler's music in existence. From every one of the book's analyses, the reader comes away with the intensely satisfying feeling of having come to know, indeed understand, a great piece of music better. If only more music theory were like this! For those reasons alone, the book is a milestone. * Steven Vande Moortele, Music Theory Spectrum *Table of ContentsContents ; Acknowledgements ; On the Accompanying Short Scores ; Introduction ; Part I ; Interpreting Mahler's Sonata Forms ; Chapter 1: Sonata Form in Mahler's Narrative Imagination ; Chapter 2: Adorno's Novel-Symphony: The Dialectic of Freedom and Determinism ; Chapter 3: Issues in Mahlerian Narrative ; Part II ; Mahler's "Classical" Sonatas ; Chapter 4: "A Demonic Haydn": Mahler's Confrontation with Tradition in the First Movement of the Sixth ; Chapter 5: "A Play within a Play": Games of Closure and Contingency in the First Movement of the Fourth ; Part III ; Mahler's "Epic" Sonatas ; Chapter 6: "The Objectification of Chaos": Epic Form and Narrative Multiplicity in Part One of the Third ; Chapter 7: "Tragedy refuses a nominalist form": "Inescapable" Coherence and the Failure of the Novel-Symphony in the Finale of the Sixth ; Works Cited
£52.25
Oxford University Press, USA Albions Dance British Ballet During the Second World War
Book SynopsisExploring the ballet boom in Britain during WWII, this book asks how art and artists thrive during conflict. Author Karen Eliot shows how ballet in Britain flourished during war, exhibiting a surprising heterogeneity and vibrant populism. The book focuses especially on the roles of dance critics, male and female dancers, producers, audiences, and choreographers.Trade Review"An enthralling story of how diverse groups of unsung dancers and choreographers changed the landscape of British ballet through their courageous work during the war. With her rigorous and deft handling of the sources, Eliot makes a major contribution to dance scholarship."--Geraldine Morris, Reader in Dance University of Roehampton "A detailed, insightful account of ballet in Britain during World War II, Albion's Dance probes the complexities and paradoxes of wartime - its socio-political and artistic realignments; its grittiness and transcendences - and how ballet contributed to reshaping the cultural landscape. The book is essential reading for dance students, teachers and scholars, and for all of us interested in new histories of ballet and its place on the world stage today."--Angela Kane, Professor of Dance, University of Michigan "Eliot bases much of her study on her extensive investigation of dancers>' memoirs and writings of dance critics, and the result is a book that is both well-researched and fascinating." --L.K. Rosenberg, Miami University, ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter One: The British Ballet and its Critics at the Onset of War Chapter Two: Making Ballet Central to British Wartime Experience Chapter Three: The Dancers' Experience Chapter Four: Propaganda, Publicity, and Social Pressure: Ballet in Discourse and Deed Chapter Five: The Function of the Classics in Wartime Chapter Six: Programming the Repertoire Chapter Seven: British Choreography during the War Afterword Index
£87.40
Oxford University Press Viennese MinorKey Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Mozart
Book SynopsisIn late eighteenth-century Vienna and the Habsburg territories, over 50 minor-key symphonies were written. Their distinctive stormy character, nervous energy and intense pathos make them a unique phenomenon.Trade Review"[R]eaders should be grateful for this groundbreaking contribution to our understanding of an era characterized by non-uniform stylistic heterogeneity and change. Riley opens up an important repertoire that has heretofore lacked a coherent theoretical treatment. In the process, he presents a plausible set of compositional options within the constraints of his proposed subgenre, in which rhetorical strategies may be interpreted as helping create marked expressive effects."--Music Theory Online "Riley has prompted a rethinking of our knowledge of the use of minor keys in the Classical era, and that is high praise indeed considering how much time scholars have invested in these works already...The fact that Riley was able to find all of these works and digest them in a meaningful way is impressive in its own right. Read Riley's first chapter; if you are still skeptical of his argument, read the rest of the book and watch as his preponderance of evidence piles upon you."--Fontes artis musicaeTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Tables, figures and music examples ; 1 The Viennese minor-key symphony ; 2 Imperial court composers: Wagenseil, Gassmann, Ordonez ; 3 Va?hal to 1771: five first movements ; 4. Two subgeneric conventions: the contrapuntal minuet, the stormy finale ; 5. Studies in Haydn's minor-key symphonies 1763-1772 ; 6. Va?hal's new paths: four later symphonies ; 7. Modal reversal and characteristic symphonies ; 8. Mozart and the minor-key symphony ; Glossary of analytical terms ; Appendix 1 Thematic catalogues consulted for the information in Table 1.1 ; Appendix 2 Sources of the symphonies used for analysis; CD recordings ; Bibliography ; Index
£92.15
Oxford University Press Baton Basics Communicating Music Through Gestures
Book SynopsisIn Baton Basics, conductor Diane Wittry offers a unique approach to teaching conducting through weight, resistance, and energy. In doing so she gives readers new tools for effective and ultimately musical forms of conducting, forms based on conveying energy.Trade ReviewAfter her singularly successful exploration of what a modern conductor needs to know about all aspects of professional life in Beyond the Baton, Diane Wittry has written another essential book. In this lucid, comprehensive study of conducting gesture and technique, Wittry has managed to distill and clarify the essence of the conductor's craft. * Alan Gilbert, Music Director, New York Philharmonic *Diane Wittry's Baton Basics is an extraordinary addition to the art of conducting pedagogy. With impressive clarity, she dissects the physical science of gesture and motion, and she tackles the less easily defined skills of leadership with sensitivity and understanding. Diane has explored the intricacies of our profession with great imagination and insight. * JoAnn Falletta, Music Director and Conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Virginia Symphony *Diane Wittry has proven herself as an exceptional conductor and conducting teacher whose new book Baton Basics tackles the issue of conducting from more than just a gestural aspect. Her concentration in this book for conductors is one which uses not only a systematic approach to building a gesture, but also deals with the issues of conducting without tension. Weight, resistance, intensity and the character of the musical phrase are all dealt with in clear and concise language. This book is a valuable tool for those teaching conducting in choral or instrumental courses. * Jo-Michael Scheibe, Chair, Choral and Sacred Music, Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California *Diane Wittry's new book is a welcome contribution to the library of conducting texts. Her holistic approach, especially her most useful ways to imagine various hand and arm motions, will help innumerable young conductors better employ their bodies in expressing music. A must for every conductor's shelf. * Charles Peltz, Director of Wind Ensembles, New England Conservatory and Music Director, Glens Falls Symphony *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Section 1. The Body ; Section 2. Motion and Gestures ; Section 3. Connecting with the Sound ; Section 4. Applying and Combining Gestures ; Section 5. Controlling Tempo and Volume ; Section 6. Becoming Centered ; Section 7. Making Music ; Appendix ; Index
£38.47
Oxford University Press Composition in the Digital World Conversations with 21st Century American Composers
Book SynopsisIn a series of intimate conversations with some of the most influential composers of concert music currently working on the American music scene, composer and educator Robert Raines covers subjects ranging from the source of inspiration to work habits, the business of music, and the impact of technology on music and life in the 21st century.Trade ReviewWhat a rare opportunity to eavesdrop on personal conversations with such a diverse and impressive group of American composers. Robert Raines masterfully engages each artist to share insights, reflections, and experiences * a collection that will surely change how you view contemporary composition.Darla S. Hanley, PhD, Dean of the Professional Education Division, Berklee College of Music *This fascinating book will make a valuable addition to a course in contemporary music for music majors and non-majors alike, as well as a springboard for one-on-one discussion in the composition studio. * Peter Spencer, DMA, Professor Emeritus, Music Theory and Composition, Florida State University *Raines (himself a composer) provides an impressive compilation of interviews ... The selected works will be especially useful for those who wish to learn more about 21st-century music. A good resource for those interested in the intersection of creativity and technology. * M. Goldsmith, CHOICE *Table of ContentsForeword ; Introduction ; Ellen Taaffe Zwilich ; Steve Reich ; Christopher Rouse ; Martin Bresnick ; Joan Tower ; William Averitt ; Michael Torke ; Libby Larsen ; Aaron J. Kernis ; Jennifer Higdon ; John Anthony Lennon ; David T. Little ; Kevin Puts ; Michael Daugherty ; Mohammed Fairouz ; Tania Leon ; Bright Sheng ; Ladislav Kubik ; Chen Yi ; Jose Bevia ; Daniel Wohl ; Eve Beglarian ; Glen Branca ; Marcus Roberts ; Luke DuBois ; Greg Wilder ; Pamela Z ; Eric Whitacre ; About Robert Raines ; Index
£49.40
Oxford University Press Fanny Hensel The Other Mendelssohn
Book SynopsisGranddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847) was an extraordinary musician who left well over four hundred compositions, most of which fell into oblivion until their rediscovery late in the twentieth century. In this book, Larry Todd offers a compelling, authoritative account of Hensel's life and music.Trade ReviewAn authoritative new biography. * Forward.com *Todd's exhaustively researched and engaging biography will probably remain the authoritative source into the foreseeable future. It has helped to life the curtain of silence" that kept Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's works in the dark for well over a century. * Chamber Music *At last an authoritative account of Hensel's life and music. Todd accords Hensel the creative recognition that is long overdue, and builds on his Mendelssohnian expertise to trace the mutually influential relationship between Fanny and Felix. A scholarly tour de force!-Marcia J. Citron, Author of Gender and the Musical Canon (1993) and Editor of Letters of Fanny Hensel to Felix Mendelssohn (1987)The author of an acclaimed biography of Felix Mendelssohn, R. Larry Todd has now written what will surely be the authoritative life-and-works study of Fanny Hensel for a long time to come. With his superb insights into the workings of her music, he brings her out of her brother's shadow and enables her to take her rightful place in the sun. This book is an event, one that enlarges our picture of a woman, a family, a place, an era, and an important body of music. * Susan Youens, author of Heinrich Heine and the Lied (2008) and Hugo Wolf and his Morike Songs (2006) *It is hard to believe that once again Larry Todd has made history with scholarship. Close on the heels of his authoritative biography of Felix Mendelssohn, for the first time we have a comprehensive biography of Fanny Mendelssohn. The biography is magisterial and pathbreaking, replete with a useful thematic catalog of Fanny's compositions. This book represents an indispensable piece of social and cultural history concerning German-speaking Europe before 1848. * Leon Botstein, President of Bard College, Music Director of the American Symphony Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ; Acknowledgments ; Note On the Website ; Genealogical Tree of the Itzig and Mendelssohn Families ; Preface ; I. Fugal Fingers (1805-1818) ; II. Musical Ornaments (1819-1821) ; III. Sibling Rivalry and Separation (1822-1824) ; IV. Leipzigerstrasse No. 3 (1825-1828) ; V. Becoming Frau Hensel (1828-1830) ; VI. Secret Aspirations (1830-1833) ; VII. Youthful Decrepitude (1834-1835) ; VIII. Demonic Influences (1836-1839) ; IX. Italian Intermezzo (1839-1840) ; X. Domestic Tranquility (1840-1842) ; XI. The Joys of Dilettantism (1843-1845) ; XII. Engraver's Ink and Heavenly Songs (1846-1847) ; Epilogue ; Abbreviations ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index of Fanny Hensel's Compositions ; General Index
£41.32
Oxford University Press Discoveries from the Fortepiano A Manual for Beginning and Seasoned Performers
Book SynopsisDiscoveries from the Fortepiano meets the demand for a manual on authentic Classical piano performance practice that is at once accessible to the performer and accurate to the scholarship.Trade Review"This carefully researched book offers a collection of intriguing and applicable strategies that will encourage and enable performers of all abilities to speak the language of both composer and period -- with authenticity and creativity." - Joan Reist, Past President, Music Teachers National Association "...a detailed manual for avid historical instrument buffs and modern performers...Gunn presents a practical approach on how to look at a score from the time of Mozart and create a convincing performance on any instrument. She is far more than an enthusiast in her desire to bring the ideas of early performance practices to life in a modern world. Useful as reference work or a college text." - Choice "[A] landmark book...This is a book that should be in every classical pianist's library."--American Music TeacherTable of ContentsAbout the Companion Website ; Foreword ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; 1. Urgency: Why Bother? ; 2. Affekt and Good Taste ; 3. Formal Structure and Harmonic Function ; 4. Technique-Execution ; 5. Rhythm ; 6. Dynamics ; 7. Accents and Other Expression Marks ; 8. Articulation and Touch ; 9. Staccato Dots and the Other Usual Suspects Ornaments ; 10. Ornaments ; 11. Repeats ; 12. Damper Pedal ; 13. Indicated Tempo ; 14. Final Words
£37.04
Oxford University Press, USA Nicolas Nabokov A Life in Freedom and Music
Book SynopsisThis first biography of Nicolas Nabokov (1903-78) reevaluates the role of the Russian-born American composer as a postwar cultural force, notably as secretary general of the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the 1950s and 1960s, and the contribution to twentieth-century music of this collaborator of Diaghilev, Stravinsky, and Balanchine.Trade ReviewConductor, author, translator, multi-lingual cosmopolite, Nicolas Nabokov was one of the most versatile intellectuals of the past century. Vincent Giroud, a brilliant musicologist and Nabokov's very first biographer, narrates his subject's multi-faceted life with unusual clarity and vigor. * Francine du Plessix Gray *They just don't make cultured, quadrilingual, cosmopolitans of this sort anymore. Nicolas Nabokov managed to hit every artistic and intellectual high note of the 20th century, missing no one, from Auden and Balanchine to Virgil Thomson and Edmund Wilson. The genius went equally into the life and the music; Vincent Giroud elegantly captures both in his joyous, star-studded, beautifully modulated biography. - Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Vera: (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)Nicolas Nabokov is our most famous unknown composer. At last there is a book that sheds light on this extraordinary composer's life and work. * Ned Rorem, composer and author *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Introduction ; Note on transliteration of Russian names and phrases ; Chapter 1: The Lubcza Years ; Chapter 2: The Petersburg Years ; Chapter 3: The Road to Exile ; Chapter 4: In Stuttgart and Berlin ; Chapter 5: Paris Debuts ; Chapter 6: Successes and Frustrations ; Chapter 7: New Exile ; Chapter 8: Engagement and Americanization ; Chapter 9: In Wartime Washington ; Chapter 10: In Postwar Germany ; Chapter 11: Music and the Cold War ; Chapter 12: Moving Center Stage ; Chapter 13: Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century ; Chapter 14: Culture Generalissimo ; Chapter 15: The Rasputin Years ; Chapter 16: Disenchantment and New Departure ; Chapter 17: Berlin, Don Quixote, and the CIA ; Chapter 18: Love's Labours Won ; Epilogue ; Checklist of Nabokov's Works and Writings ; Works Consulted ; Notes ; Index
£38.94
Oxford University Press, USA Musorgsky His Life and Works Composers Across Cultures
Trade ReviewThis does a good job of putting those red-blooded melodies into context - from a childhood spent listening to his nurse's folk tales, to his death surrounded by unfinished potential masterpieces. * Anna Britten, Classic FM - The Magazine *
£31.02
Oxford University Press The Performance of 16thCentury Music Learning from the Theorists
Book SynopsisThrough The Performance of 16th-Century Music, today's musicians will gain fundamental insight into how 16th-century polyphony functions, and the tools necessary to perform this repertoire to its fullest and glorious potential.Trade Reviewan engaging and useful study * Richard Wistreich, Early Music *[a] subtle and coherent story ... No one who performs sixteenth-century music, and no one who cares about what this music sounded like or how they understood it back then, can afford to be without this ... book. * Kenneth Kreitner, Performance Practice Review *Ann Smith ... does an immense service to performers, and especially to students, not only by bringing relevant quotations together, but also by contextualizing them without in any other way over-simplifying their ambiguities. ...we should expect nothing less of someone who has devoted her working life to developing and imparting such understanding. * Richard Wistreich, Early Music *Table of ContentsABOUT THE COMPANION WEB SITE; PREFACE; APPENDIX: MODAL CHARACTERISTICS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
£42.27
Oxford University Press Making Music for Modern Dance Collaboration In The Formative Years Of A New American Art Source Readings
Book SynopsisMaking Music for Modern Dance is a fascinating collection of source readings that offer first-hand accounts of musical collaboration for early modern dance in America.Trade ReviewWow! A book with such glorious content and organization that I would enthusiastically use it in my own courses, and recommend it to students and all readers in modern dance history, music for dance, collaborative and interdisciplinary arts, and American music history. How wonderful to have all these primary sources (many rare or previously unavailable) under one cover, each one placed in a clear context. A fantastic contribution illuminating an often neglected subject. * Greg Presley, Music Instructor, Gonzaga University, and former pianist for Martha Graham *This meticulously researched and annotated collection of articles gives invaluable context to the development of dance as an American art form and the intertwining and influences of leading composers and dance figures to its history. * Janet Mansfield Soares, author, Martha Hill and the Making of American Dance and Professor of Dance Emerita, Barnard College, Columbia University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Threads of America's Heritage in Music and Dance Part One: Musical Collaboration for a New Era in Dance Overview: The Question of Using Old Music for New Dance 1. Émile Jaques-Dalcroze. How to Revive Dancing Music and the Dancer 2. Isadora Duncan. Dancing to Beethoven's Seventh Symphony 3. Baird Hastings. Music for Isadora Duncan's Dance 4. Helen Caldwell. The Dance Poems of Michio Ito: The White Peacock, to Music by Griffes 5. Denishawn program. America and the Dance Music Visualization 6. Norman Cazden. On Dancing to Bach: Humphrey-Weidman Programs 7. Ted Shawn. American Music and Composers: What Dancers Need Part Two: Creative Procedures and Ingredients Overview: Some Challenges of Collaboration, and Composers Debate What Works 8. Louis Horst. Music and Dance: The New Generation's Change in Methods 9. Henry Gilfond. Louis Horst 10. Gertrude Lippincott. A Quiet Genius Himself: A Dance Teacher's Tribute to Louis Horst 11. Wallingford Riegger. Synthesizing Music and the Dance 12. Ernestine Stodelle. Sensing the Dancer's Impulse: A Dancer Talks about the Art of Composer-Accompanists 13. Vivian Fine. My Scores for Modern Dance: Tragedy and Comedy 14. Doris Humphrey. The Race of Life: My Side of the Story The Relationship of Music and Dance 15. Lehman Engel. Under Way: Composing for Martha Graham Details of Contemporary Collaboration 16. Henry Cowell. Relating Music and Concert Dance: An Idea for Elastic Form 17. Norman Lloyd. Sound-Companion for Dance: Henry Cowell's Talent 18. Norman Lloyd. Composing for the Dance: A Retrospective Overview of Procedures; Personal Experiences; and Advice to Collaborators Part Three: Towards New "American" Styles Overview: Defining "American" Music; Common Musical Concerns of Ballet and Modern Dance 19. Verna Arvey. The Cosmopolitan Scene of the 1920s and '30s: Avant-Garde Experiments; Symphonic Ballet Scores; Jazz 20. Virgil Thomson. The Theatrical Thirties 21. Katherine Teck: Virgil Thomson's Later Reflections 22. Dance Observer. Editorial: Dance and American Composers Drawing Upon Folk Music and War-Time Patriotism 23. Woody Guthrie. People Dancing 24. Nora Guthrie. Sophie Maslow and Woody 25. Agnes de Mille. Music for Martha 26. Aaron Copland. The Commission for Appalachian Spring 27. Gail Levin. Aaron Copland's America 28. Richard Philp. Appalachian Spring: An Appreciation 54 Years Later Building on the Horton Experience 29. Larry Warren and Others. Lester Horton: Of Money, Music, and Motivation 30. Katherine Teck. Kenneth Klauss: Musician for California Dancers 31. Katherine Teck. Carmen de Lavallade: Dancing to Many Musical Styles 32. Alvin Ailey. Instructions: How to Play the Drums 33. Jennifer Dunning. Alvin Ailey's Revelations 34. Alvin Ailey with A. Peter Bailey. How Revelations Came to Be Part Four: Instruments, Technology, and the Avant-Garde Overview: Expanding Timbre Possibilities with Percussion, Vocalization, Electronic Instruments, and the Sounds Around Us 35. Franziska Boas. Percussion Music and Its Relation to the Modern Dance 36. Henry Cowell. East Indian Tala Music 37. Lehman Engel. Choric Sound for the Dance 38. John Cage. Goal: New Music, New Dance 39. Otto Luening. Electronic Music for Doris Humphrey's Theatre Piece No. 2 40. Alwin Nikolais. My Total Theater Concept 41. John Cage. Experimental Music 42. John Cage. Communication 43. Carolyn Brown. Dancing with the Avant-Garde Part Five: Well-Springs of Creative Collaboration Overview: Diverse Methods and Aesthetic Ideas 44. Leonard Bernstein. "Fun" in Music and the Dance 45. Paul Taylor. Why I Make Dances 46. Carlos Surinach. My Intention to Serve Spanish Ballet Serves American Modern Dancers Instead 47. Lou Harrison. Meditations on Melodies, Modes, Emotion, and Creation 48. Lucia Dlugoszewski. New Music for the Dance: Choices Open to Collaborators at Mid-Century Part Six: Master Artists Speak to Future Generations Overview: Postwar Trends, and Music in the Training of Dancers 49. Erick Hawkins. My Love Affair With Music 50. Bessie Schönberg. Finding Your Own Voice 51. Paul Draper. Music and Dancing 52. José Limón. Dancers Are Musicians Are Dancers Afterword: Creativity in One's Own Time Appendix: Checklist of Composers Notes, Commentary, and Recommended Resources Bibliographic Essay Index
£48.45
Oxford University Press Inc Bizet
Book SynopsisToday Georges Bizet is most immediately recognized as the composer of the acclaimed opera Carmen. One of the most frequently performed operas for over a century, Carmen explores concepts such as the femme fatale and murderous jealousy with vivacity, color, and a wealth of melody. Yet it is only one act in Bizet''s story. In Bizet, renowned musicologist Hugh Macdonald goes beyond the composer''s most famous opera to take an in-depth look at his entire life and oeuvre. In so doing, Macdonald identifies a number of previously unknown pieces by Bizet, assembling the first comprehensive catalogue of the composer''s work. Incorporating these little-known pieces with a thorough reading of primary sources, Macdonald considers the latest in Bizet scholarship to create a complete biography of the composer. Revealing the true extent of Bizet''s work as arranger and transcriber, Macdonald sheds light on the composer''s complex relationships with his contemporaries, and traces the strange misrepresTrade ReviewThough best known as a distinguished Berlioz scholar, Hugh Macdonald now reveals himself as wearing a different French hat with no less aplomb. His fine new Master Musicians volume on Georges Bizet adds much to our knowledge of this deeply disappointed composer of operas * Musical Times, Andrew Thompson *One of Professor Hugh Macdonald's declared aims is 'to set the composer in the context of French music of the Second Empire', and this spledid biography proves that there is no one better qualifies for the task * BBC Music Magazine, Roger Nichols *Long meditated and meticulously documented, Hugh Macdonald's critical biography of Bizet will surely have no trouble being acclaimed as the definitine work on its subject * Rupert Christiansen, Literary Review *Table of ContentsPreface ; List of Illustrations ; 1 1838 - 1857: Le Docteur Miracle ; 2 1858 - 1860: Don Procopio ; 3 1860 - 1863: Les Pecheurs de perles ; 4 1864 - 1865: Ivan IV ; 5 1866 - 1867: La Jolie Fille de Perth ; 6 1868 - 1870: La Coupe du Roi de Thule ; 7 1870 - 1872: Djamileh ; 8 1872 - 1873: Don Rodrigue ; 9 1873 - 1875: Carmen ; 10 1875 - 2013: Life After Death ; Appendices ; A. Calendar ; B. List of Works ; C. Personalia ; D. Select Bibliography ; Index
£37.39
Oxford University Press Enrique Granados Poet Of The Piano
Trade ReviewClark tactfully addresses conspiracy theories surrounding the tragic death, including a far-fetched one, which claimed that England plotted the torpedo attack to lure America into the war. A compelling musical-historical panorama. * Newark Star-Ledger *Table of ContentsForeword by Alicia de Larrocha ; Preface to the Paperback Edition ; Abbreviations ; Map of Spain ; Preludio: Renaissance ; 1. A Born Pianist ; 2. The Emerging Composer ; 3. Works for Piano in a Central European Style ; 4. Teacher, Conductior, Organizer ; 5. Modernisme Catalan ; 6. Catalan Works with Texts by Apeles Mestres ; 7. La Maja de Goya ; 8. Goyescas ; 9. A World of Ideas ; Epilogo: The Legacy of Ideas ; Appendix 1: Genealogy ; Appendix 2: List of Works ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index of Works ; General Index
£40.37
Oxford University Press, USA The Organ and Its Music in GermanJewish Culture
Book SynopsisThe Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture examines the powerful presence of the organ in synagogue music and in the general musical life of German-speaking Jewish communities in the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores the development of a new organ music repertoire as a paradigm for the changing identity of modern Jewry.Trade ReviewThis groundbreaking and engaged study is really two books in one: the story of modern Jewry's growing interest in the organ, combined with a fresh look at music in German Jewish culture. It's solid and satisfying on both counts. * Mark Slobin, Professor of Music, Wesleyan University, and author, Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World *Table of Contents1 The Organ, Jewish Music, and Identity ; 2 Jewish "Curiosities": The Organ in Judaism Before 1800 ; * The Jewish Literature of Early Modernity ; * Pictorial Sources of Different Cultural and Religious Provenance ; * Meshorerim as the Forerunners of Organ Accompaniment ; * The Synagogues of Prague and Venice ; 3 The Organ as a Jewish Religious Response to Modernity ; * From Liturgical Reforms to a New Musical Identity ; * The Synagogue Organ in the Context of Organ Building Traditions ; * Intermezzo: Sharing the Console-The Synagogue Organist ; * The Synagogue Organist in the Framework of Christian Traditions ; * Organists at the New Synagogue in Berlin ; * The Impact of the Organist Question ; 4 Organ Music in Jewish Communities ; * From Lewandowski to Schalit: The Stylistic Development of Jewish Organ Music ; * Departure and Destruction: Organ Music in the "Spiritual Ghetto" ; 5 The Aftermath of Emigration ; * Limitations in the "Land of Opportunity" ; * The Organ in Israeli Culture-A Bridge between East and West ; 6 Between Assimilation and Dissimilation: The Jewish Community in the Course of Modernity ; Notes, Bibliography, Index-Names, Index-Places
£32.77
Oxford University Press, USA Music the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisThe first book to explore the contribution made by the military to British music history, Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century shows that military bands reached far beyond the official ceremonial duties they are often primarily associated with and had a significant impact on wider spheres of musical and cultural life.Trade ReviewThe meticulous and exhaustive research, enormous depth of experience, and exemplary clarity infomring Herbert and Barlow's account turn the British aristocracy and even royalty from philistines into diachronic patrons of music...This book is a magnificent achievement. * CHOMBEC News, Univeristy of Bristol *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Historical preface ; Introduction ; Chapter 1 Trumpets, drums and fifes ; Chapter 2 Bands of musick ; Chapter 3 Soldiers and musicians ; Chapter 4 Musical identities and infrastructures 1770-1857 ; Chapter 5 Military music in the British provinces 1770-1840 ; Chapter 6 Recruitment, training and the Kneller Hall project ; Chapter 7 Amateurs, brass bands and the 1859 Rifle Volunteers ; Chapter 8 Concerted performances and instrumentation ; Chapter 9 Military culture, the music profession and the question of status ; Chapter 10 Ritual, performance style and musical patriotism ; Chapter 11 The empire and other foreign fields ; Appendix 1 Regulations, standing orders and circular memoranda, etc., addressing ; music ; Appendix 2 Printed (Harmonie) repertoire for bands of music, c.1800, an indicative ; list ; Appendix 3 The Duke of Cumberland's Band Archive ; Appendix 4 Indicative list of band instrumentations in the late eighteenth and ; nineteenth centuries ; Appendix 5 The objects of the Military School of Music ; Bibliography
£92.15
Oxford University Press, USA Piano Sonata in A Major Op 101 Beethovens Last Piano Sonatas An Edition with Elucidation Volume 4
Table of ContentsAbout the Companion Website ; Editor's Preface ; Foreword ; Preliminary Remarks ; First Movement ; Second Movement ; Third Movement ; Editions ; Bibliography of Cited Works by Heinrich Schenker ; Bibliography of Cited Works by Other Authors ; Index
£77.90
Oxford University Press J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument
Book SynopsisIn J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument, author Russell Stinson delves into various unexplored aspects of the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Drawing on previous research and new archival sources, he sheds light on many of the most mysterious aspects of these masterpieces, and their reception, and shows how they have remained a fixture of Western culture for nearly three hundred years.Trade ReviewA wonderfully readble work of high scholarship ... Anyone with a serious interest in Bach should certainly engage the book carefully and in depth. * Jonathan B. Hall, The American Organist *Table of ContentsContents ; INTRODUCTION ; ONE ; Studies and Discoveries ; TWO ; Bach and the Varied Stollen ; THREE ; Some Observations on Mendelssohn's Reception of Bach's Organ Works ; FOUR ; Bach's Organ Works and Schumann's Neue Zeitschrift ; FIVE ; Cesar Franck as a Receptor of Bach's Organ Works ; Franck's Performances of Bach's Organ Works ; Matters of Pedagogy ; Franck's Compositional Responses to Bach's Organ Works ; SIX ; Edward Elgar as a Receptor of Bach's Organ Works ; Elgar as Bach Interpreter ; Elgar as Bach Devotee and Bach Critic ; Elgar's Bach Transcriptions ; SEVEN ; Aspects of Reception from Bach's Day to the Present ; The Six Trio Sonatas, BWV 525-30 ; The Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532 ; The Prelude and Fugue in E Minor, BWV 533 ; The Toccata and Fugue in F Major, BWV 540 ; The Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 ; The Six Great Preludes and Fugues, BWV 543-48 ; The Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major, BWV 552 ; The Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564 ; The Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 ; The Fantasy in G Major (Piece d'Orgue), BWV 572 ; The Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582 ; <"Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ,>" BWV 639 ; <"Herzlich tut mich verlangen,>" BWV 727 ; APPENDIX 1 ; APPENDIX 2 ; LITERATURE CITED
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Oxford University Press Arranging Gershwin Rhapsody In Blue And The Creation Of An American Icon
Book SynopsisThis book reconceives the history and reception of Rhapsody in Blue, freeing it from established narratives and frequently encountered anecdotes. By approaching the Rhapsody as an "arrangement," it shifts emphasis away from a centralized text and from the sole agency of George Gershwin, providing a dynamic and multifaceted reappraisal of this emblematic piece.Trade ReviewA fascinating exploration of the 'active and, at times, surprising life' of an American musical icon. Saturated in original archival research and musical insights, the book offers a vivid, unique account of the Rhapsody as a 'variable idea and not a fixed text'-a savvy approach that opens up fresh ways of hearing and understanding the piece. * Jeffrey Magee, Associate Professor of Music and Theater at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign *Addressing fascinating but little-noticed source material, Arranging Gershwin advances an original thesis that promises to change the way we think about Rhapsody in Blue in particular and the whole question of classical/nonclassical hybridity in general. Moreover, Banagale accomplishes his goal with an accessible, engaging style that draws in the general reader as well as the specialist. * Larry Hamberlin, Middlebury College, author oTin Pan Opera: Operatic Novelty Songs in the Ragtime Era *Table of ContentsCredits ; Acknowledgements ; About the Companion Website ; Introduction: Arranging an Icon ; 1. Complex Compositional Origins: Ferde Grofe and Rhapsody in Blue ; 2. Living Legends: George Gershwin and Rhapsody in Blue ; 3. From Camp to Carnegie Hall: Leonard Bernstein and Rhapsody in Blue ; 4. Rearranging Concert Jazz: Duke Ellington and Rhapsody in Blue ; 5. "It Ain't Necessarily So": Larry Adler and Rhapsody in Blue ; 6. Selling Success: Visual Media and Rhapsody in Blue ; Epilogue: Arranging at Multiple Levels ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press FourHanded Monsters FourHand Piano Playing and NineteenthCentury Culture
Trade Review"What a delight! Adrian Daub has written the cultural history of a long-neglected and much-maligned medium of musical performance that at one time was cultivated in just about every bourgeois household. If four-hand piano playing regains renewed interest in our own age of mechanical reproduction, we will have Adrian Daub partly to thank." --Thomas Christensen, Professor of Music and the Humanities, University of Chicago "Adrian Daub is a peerless and stimulating exegete of the 'four-handed monster': he brilliantly and meticulously excavates the cultural, social, and aesthetic traces of a vital nineteenth-century musical practice." --Jeffrey Kallberg, Associate Dean for Arts & Letters and Professor of Music History, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: The Sonic Hearth and the "Piano Plague" ; Chapter 2: Four-Hand Piano Playing between Parlor Music and the Culture Industry ; Chapter 3: "At Best an Intruder, at Worst a Voyeur": Four-Hand Piano Playing and the Family Unit ; Chapter 4: Four-Handed Monsters ; Chapter 5: The Semantics of the Hand ; Chapter 6: Fordist Chords ; Chapter 7: Musical Platonism: Four-Hand Playing Among the Philosophers ; Chapter 8: Kakanian Variations-Four Hands and the Passing of the Nineteenth Century ; Index
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ABC-CLIO A Tidal Wave of Encouragement
Book SynopsisIn July of 1884, pianist Calixa Lavallée performed a recital of works by American composers that began a highly influential series of such concerts.Table of ContentsIntroduction Prelude: American Concerts before 1884 The MTNA Concerts, 1884-1888: an idea whose time had come Henry Krehbiel, critic Frank Van der Stucken's Novelty Concerts The Exposition Universelle of 1889: American Music on a world stage Interlude: Flood Tide The MTNA Concerts, 1889-1892: an idea whose time had past The Arens tour of 1891-1892: Propaganda, Parochialism, and All-American Concerts Edward MacDowell, reluctant hero The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893: American art and music humiliated The Manuscript Societies and the Ghettoization of New Music Postlude: Dvorak and new directions in American art music Appendix 1: Master List of American Composers' Concerts Appendix 2: Programs and Reviews of the Van der Stuken Festival, November 1887 Appendix 3: Programs and Reviews of American Composers' Concerts in Europe Appendix 4: Repertoire Performed at Public Meetings of the Manuscript Society of New York, 1890-1901 Bibliography
£70.00
Yale University Press Dramma per Musica
Book SynopsisIntroduces the concept and history of dramma per musica. The text examines the contemporary reception and environment of this operatic tradition, analyzing its social and repertorial patterns and relating it to theories concerning French spoken drama and Italian libretto reform.
£57.13
Yale University Press Music Science and Natural Magic in SeventeenthCentury England
Book SynopsisThis text argues that changing musical practice in 16th-century Europe affected 17th-century English thought on science and magic. It maps out the various relationships between these disciplines, using different historical, geographical, and social approaches.
£57.13
Yale University Press Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music
Book SynopsisVincenzo Galilei, the father of the astronomer Galileo, was a guiding light of the Florentine Camerata. His "Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music", published in 1581 or 1582 and here translated into English, was among the most influential music treatises of his era.
£72.71
Yale University Press The Possessor and the Possessed
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Yale University Press The Atonal Music of Anton Webern
Trade Review"This study by a distinguished scholar of an important and neglected body of music will be of great interest to musicologists everywhere."—Kathryn Bailey, author of The Twelve-Note Music of Anton Webern
£41.57
Yale University Press Performing Music in the Age of Recording
£34.89
The Perseus Books Group Contemporary Composers On Contemporary Music
Book Synopsis"This anthology of essays, interviews, and autobiographical pieces provides an invaluable overview of the evolution of contemporary music--from chromaticism, serialism, and indeterminacy to jazz, vernac"Table of ContentsEuropean Music Before 1945 * From Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music Ferruccio Busoni [18661924] * From Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater Claude Debussy [18621918] * Three Brief Epigrams Erik Satie [18661925] * From Notes Without Music Darius Milhaud [18921974] * Man and Music Ernest Bloch [18801959] * From Dialogues and a Diary Igor Stravinsky [18821971] * Why is Schoenbergs Music so Hard to Understand? Alban Berg [18851935] * The Influence of Peasant Music on Modern Music Bla Bartk [18811945] * From A Composers World Paul Hindemith [18951963] * From Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences Serge Prokofiev [18921953] * Music and the Times Dmitri Shostakovitch [19061975] * From The Making of Music Ralph Vaughan Williams [18721958] * On Winning the First Aspen Award Benjamin Britten [19131976] Experimental Music and American Developments * Preface to 114 Songs Charles Ives [18741954] * From New Musical Resources Henry Cowell [18971965] * The Creative Mind and the Interpretive Mind Aaron Copland [19001990) * FolksongAmerican Big Business Roy Harris [18981979] * On Waiting for a Libretto Samuel Barber [19101981] * From The State of Music Virgil Thomson [18961989] * The Musical Impulse Roger Sessions [18961985] * The Liberation of Sound Edgard Varse [18851964] * Experiments in Notation Harry Partch [19011974] * Space as an Essential Aspect of Musical Composition Harry Brant [1913 ] * Who Cares if You Listen? Milton Babbit [1916 ] * Some Random Remarks about Electronic Music Otto Luening [19001996] * Shop Talk by an American Composer Elliot Carter [1908 ] * Thinking Twice Stefan Wolpe [19021972] * Towards a Re-merger in Music Chou Wen-Chung [1923 ] * Grand and Not So Grand Jack Beeson [1921 ] * The Changing ComposerPerformer Relationship: A Monologue and a Dialogue Lukas Foss [1922 ] * John CageInterview with Roger Reynolds John Cage [19121992] * Composers, Performance and Publications; Music, Electronic and Performed Richard Maxfield [19241969] * Morton FeldmanAn Interview with Robert Ashley, August, 1964 Morton Feldman [19261987] * Charles WuorinenAn Interview with Barney Childs Charles Wuorinen [1938 ] Postmodernism and Recent Concerns * Five Revolutions Since 1950 Karlheinz Stockhausen [1928 ] * Dreaming of Things to Come... Michael Tippet [1905 ] * Gyrgy LigetiAn interview with Joseph Husler, 1968/69 Gyrgy Ligeti [1923 ] * On the Third String Quartet George Rochberg [1918 ] * Third Stream Third Stream Revisited Gunther Shuller [1925 ] * Some sound Observations Pauline Oliveros [1932 ] * Music as a Gradual Process Steve Reich [1936 ] * T. J. AndersonAn Interview with Elliot Schwartz T. J. Anderson [1928 ] * Maximum Clarity Ben Johnston [1926 ] * On Criticism Cornelius Cardew [19361981] * Sofia GubaidulinaAn Interview with Dorothea Redepenning, 1992 SOfia Gubaidulina [1931 ] * I am Sitting in a Room (1969) Alvin Lucier [1931 ] * Anthony BraxtonAn Interview with Graham Lock, 1988 Anthony Braxton [1945 ] * Composing a Viable (if transitory Self): Brian Ferneyhough in Conversation with James Boros Brian Fenneyhough [1943 ] * From Something About Music William Bolcom [1938 ]
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Zondervan Music of the Great Composers
Book SynopsisPatrick Kavanaugh shows that great music was written to be enjoyed, not merely admired. In Music of the Great Composers, he displays his gift for making the classics easy to understand and a delight to listen to. This practical book lets you select a listening program that''s based on your needs and interests. Choose from a variety of approaches to pick the one that fits you best. From chorales to concertos to solo repertoire, Music of the Great Composers lets you customize your listening to broaden your understanding and love of music. You''ll find: - Guidance for building a personal listening library - Fascinating insights into instruments, history, composers, compositions, musical terms--even simple music theory for the layperson - A lively guide to hundreds of masterworks--for hours of reading and listening enjoyment. Kavanaugh removes the intimidations from highbrow music, taking it out of its ivory tower so everyone can enjoy it. Written in a refreshing, popular style, Music of tTable of ContentsContents Introduction 1. Getting the Big Picture Intermezzo: Musical Titles, or “What’s an Opus?” 2. Orchestra Music Intermezzo: The Conductor Instruments of the Orchestra 3. Choral Music Intermezzo: The Mass 4. The Concerto Intermezzo: Tempo Indications Keys and Tonality 5. Opera Intermezzo: Vocal Types 6. Chamber Music Intermezzo: The Components of Musical Sound 7. Song Intermezzo: The Elements of Music Composition 8. Solo Literature Intermezzo: Sonata Form 9. Where Do We Go from Here? Intermezzo: Concert Etiquette Appendix 1: A Lifetime of Listening: Your First Thousand Pieces Appendix 2: The Major Composers Glossary For Further Reading
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ABC-CLIO Mozart in Person His Character and Health Contributions to the Study of Music Dance 14
Book SynopsisThe real key to this distinctive book lies in its subtitle. The book's core is an astonishingly detailed medical history of Mozart, spanning his entire life, compiled with great ingenuity and skill from varied and sometimes surprising sources. Davies, a British physician specializing in internal medicine, has already established his credentials with a series of substantial journal articles concerning Mozart's final illness and death. Here he expands and consolidates his research, offering a presumably definitive account of the intricate cluster of ailments and disabilities, some stretching back over many years, that eventually contributed to Mozart's early death. After reading Davies, one wonders not at Mozart's early end but, rather, how he survived for so long. . . . Davies advances unexpected medical causes for some Mozartean peculiarities of behavior, and surely these ideas will provoke much interest among Mozart scholars. For college or university libraries that already haTable of ContentsForeword by Stanley Sadie Introduction by Erna Schwerin Medical History Ancestry, Birth, and Early Childhood The First Recorded Illnesses The Grand Tour Illnesses, 1763-1766 The Smallpox Epidemic in 1767 Eighteenth-Century Medicine The Illnesses, 1770-1783 The Illnesses, 1784-1790 The Last Year, 1791 Lifestyles Religious Beliefs and Attitudes The Eternal Feminine Mozartean Economics Extravagance, Generosity, and Debts Mozart's Gambling Enigmatic Personality Mozart's Personality Pastimes and Stresses Mozart's Cyclothymic Disorder Death and Aftermath Terminal Illness and Burial Mozart Was Not Poisoned The Cause of Mozart's Death Bibliography Index
£80.75
ABC-CLIO The Character of a Genius
Book SynopsisBeethoven's often-discussed "dark side", marked by paranoia, narcissism, and obsession, is brought into focus by Peter J. Davies, who examines both the composer's genetic roots and the familial cruelty and neglect that defined his childhood.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chronological Calendar Childhood and Adolescence Religious Beliefs and Attitudes Beethoven's Religious Music Work Habits and Pastimes Beethoven's Personality I: Paranoid Character Beethoven's Personality II: Other Traits Stresses Humour and the Eternal Feminine Beethoven's Personality III: Manic-Depressive Tendencies: The Suffering Depressive Composer Beethoven's Personality IV: Manic-Depressive Tendencies, Upswings of Mood, Sanity, Genetics, Creativity Bibliography Index of Beethoven's Works in This Volume General Index
£74.00
Pan Macmillan Stephen Frys Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music
Book SynopsisStephen Fry is a writer, comedian, presenter, actor, half-man, half-demi-god. Tim Lihoreau regularly writes with Stephen Fry and is the muli-award winning scriptwriter for the Classic FM The Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music. He is also Creative Director for Classic FM, and lives in Cambridge.
£14.30
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Indivisible by Four
Book SynopsisThe Guarneri Quartet is fabled for its unique longevity and high-spirited virtuosity. Here is its story from the inside--a story filled with drama, humor, danger, compassion, and, of course, glorious music.A player who studies and performs the exalted string-quartet repertoire has opted for a very special life. Arnold Steinhardt, tracing his own development as a student, orchestra player, and budding young soloist, gives a touching account of how he and his intrepid colleagues were converted to chamber music despite the daunting odds against success. And he reveals, as no one has before, the intensely difficult process by which--on the battlefield of daily three-hour rehearsals--four individualists master and then overcome the confining demands of ensemble playing.
£14.45
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Inside Music
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£13.29
W W Norton & Co Ltd Essays Before a Sonata the Majority and Other Writings
Book SynopsisIves's second piano sonata, Concord, Mass., 1845, stands among the masterpieces of American music.
£21.05
W. W. Norton & Company The World of the Bach Cantatas Early Selected Cantatas
Book SynopsisThe cantatas of J.S. Bach are among the best known and most frequently performed musical works of the baroque period. However, when they are played and heard today, questions arise that are difficult to answer because the works are being experienced outside their historical context.
£19.95
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Beethoven His Spiritual Development Vintage Book V100
Book SynopsisFrom the Author's Preface:I believe that in his greatest music Beethoven was primarily concerned to express his personal vision of life. This vision was, of course, the product of his character and his experience. Beethoven the man and Beethoven the composer are not two unconnected entities, and the known history of the man may be used to throw light upon the character of his music.Clifton Fadiman has said of this classic study:It is the most interesting book on music that I have ever read and it is not written for musical experts; rather for people like myself who like to listen to music but can boast no special knowledge of it. It deals not only with music, on which I do not speak with authority, but with human life in general, about which you and I speak with authority every day of our lives.
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Penguin Publishing Group To Selena with Love
Book SynopsisChris Perez tells the story of his relationship with music superstar Selena in this heartfelt tribute.One of the most compelling and adored superstars in Latin music history, Selena was nothing short of a phenomenon who shared all of herself with her millions of devoted fans. Her tragic murder, at the age of twenty-three, stripped the world of her talent and boundless potential, her tightly-knit family of their beloved angel, and her husband, Chris Perez, of the greatest love he had ever known. For over a decade, Chris held onto the only personal thing he had left from his late wife—the touching and sometimes painful memories of their very private bond. Now, for the first time, Chris opens up about their unbreakable friendship, their forbidden relationship, and their blossoming marriage that was cut short. Chris’s powerful story gives a rare glimpse into Selena’s sincerity and vulnerability when falling in love, stren
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Faber & Faber Slavonic and Romantic Music
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Faber & Faber Menuhin
Book SynopsisSince 2000, when this biography was first published, Menuhin''s name has not faded from public attention, as often happens in the decades after the death of a popular performing artist. Far from it: the centenary of his birth, April 22, 1916, is being marked by celebrations around the world.Yehudi Menuhin was born in New York of Russian Jewish immigrants. Prodigiously gifted, the ''Miracle Boy'' gave his first solo recital aged eight and within five years was world-famous. Menuhin was a visionary individualist, who didn''t mind shocking the establishment. His post-war support for the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, and his determination to build bridges with the defeated German nation, brought him into sharp conflict with the Jewish establishment and DPs in Berlin. Later he spoke out against apartheid in South Africa and denounced the Soviet Union''s oppressive policy towards writers and dissidents.Drawing on contemporary sources, unpublished family correspond
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