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Cambridge University Press Debussy and the Theatre
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Cambridge University Press Technology and the Diva Sopranos Opera and Media from Romanticism to the Digital Age Cambridge Studies in Opera
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Cambridge University Press Benjamin Britten Turn of the Screw The Turn of the Screw Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Heinrich Heine and the Lied
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Cambridge University Press Benjamin Britten Peter Grimes Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Benjamin Britten Death in Venice Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs
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Cambridge University Press Trtse Vocal Perform Ornament Hiller By Johann Adam Hiller Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs
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Cambridge University Press Mendelssohn Hebrides Overtures The Hebrides and Other Overtures Cambridge Music Handbooks
Book SynopsisThe concert overtures A Midsummer Night's Dream, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, and The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), conceived by Mendelssohn before the age of twenty, have ranked amongst the most enduring of the nineteenth-century orchestral repertoire. R. Larry Todd offers a historical, stylistic, and analytical guide to these three remarkable works which secured for Mendelssohn no small measure of his fame. After placing the overtures in the context of Mendelssohn's astonishing compositional development during the 1820s, the volume disentangles the complex history of their creation and considers in turn their style and formal structure, their contents as programme music, aspects of their orchestration and their reception and influence. All this is supported by a wealth of primary documents, including Mendelssohn's correspondence, memoirs of his friends, and nineteenth-century critical reviews.Trade Review'R. Larry Todd's slim volume about Mendelssohn's overtures is packed through with fascinating detail …' Newsletter, Ipswich Arts AssociationTable of Contents1. Background; 2. Genesis; 3. Musical influences; 4. Formal considerations: a synoptic overview; 5. The Overture as programmatic music; 6. Some thoughts on Mendelssohn's orchestration; 7. Influence and reception of the overtures.
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Cambridge University Press Schubert Die schne Mllerin Die Scheone Meullerin Cambridge Music Handbooks
Book SynopsisThis is a guide to both the music and the poetry of Schubert's much loved song cycle which was composed in 1823 and is considered one of the greatest masterpieces of the repertoire.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; 1. The poet of Die schöne Mullerin; 2. Schubert and the genesis of the music; 3. Romantic illusions: the poetic texts, nos. 1-12; 4. Disillusionment and death: the poetic texts continued; 5. The music of Die schöne Mullerin; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Introduction to the Art of Singing by Johann Friedrich Agricola Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs
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Cambridge University Press Putting Popular Music in Its Place
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Cambridge University Press Vocal Authority
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Cambridge University Press Embodied Voices Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture 0001 New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism Series Number 1
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Cambridge University Press Camb Companion to Singing Cambridge Companions to Music
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Cambridge University Press Hugo Wolf and his Mrike Songs
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Cambridge University Press Schuberts Poets and the Making of Lieder
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Lied Cambridge Companions to Music
Book SynopsisBeginning several generations before Schubert, the Lied first appears as domestic entertainment. In the century that follows it becomes one of the primary modes of music-making. By the time German song comes to its presumed conclusion with Richard Strauss's 1948 Vier letzte Lieder, this rich repertoire has moved beyond the home and keyboard accompaniment to the symphony hall. This is a 2004 introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre. In essays by eminent scholars, this Companion places the Lied in its full context - at once musical, literary, and cultural - with chapters devoted to focal composers as well as important issues, such as the way in which the Lied influenced other musical genres, its use as a musical commodity, and issues of performance. The volume is framed by a detailed chronology of German music and poetry from the late 1730s to the present and also contains a comprehensive bibliography.Trade Review'How pleasing to see that the lied merits its own volume in this attractively presented series from CUP' The Schubertian'… a fine addition to the material written on this subject, and I do recommend it highly.' Piano ProfessionalTable of ContentsNotes on the contributors; Acknowledgments; The Lied in context: a chronology; Names and dates mentioned in this Volume; Part I. Introducing a Genre: 'Introduction: Why the Lied?' James Parsons: 1. 'In the beginning was poetry' Jane Brown; Part II. The Birth and Early History of a Genre in the Age of Enlightenment: 2. The eighteenth-century Lied James Parsons; 3. The Lieder of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven Amanda Glauert; Part III. The Nineteenth Century: Issues of Style and Development: 4. The Lieder of Schubert Marie-Agnes Dittrich; 5. The early nineteenth-century song cycle Ruth O. Bingham; 6. Schumann: reconfiguring the Lied Jürgen Thym; 7. The Lied at mid-century James Deaville; 8. The Lieder of Liszt Rena Charnin Mueller; 9. The Lieder of Brahms Heather Platt; 10. Tradition and innovation: the Lieder of Hugo Wolf Susan Youens; 11. Song beyond song: instrumental transformations and adaptations of the Lied from Schubert to Mahler Christopher H. Gibbs; Part IV. Into the Twentieth Century: 12. The Lieder of Mahler and Richard Strauss James L. Zychowicz; 13. The Lied in the modern age: to mid century James Parsons; Part V. Reception and Performance: 14. The circulation of the Lied: the double life of an artwork and a commodity David Gramit; 15. The Lied in performance Graham Johnson; A guide to suggested further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Lied Cambridge Companions to Music
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Cambridge University Press Music Sketches Cambridge Introductions to Music
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Cambridge University Press The Great Transformation of Musical Taste Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms
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Cambridge University Press Heritage and Transformation of an African Popular Music
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Cambridge University Press Music and the Sonorous Sublime in European
Book SynopsisA historically situated study of the relationship between music, sound and the sublime, this book embraces familiar works and composers, such as Handel, C. P. E. Bach, Haydn and Wagner, but also explores less familiar repertory and source material. Performers and audiences are also considered as agents and sites of sublime experience.Trade Review'... carefully presented ...' Agathe Sueur, translated from Revue de musicologieTable of ContentsSonorous sublimes: an introduction Sarah Hibberd and Miranda Stanyon; 1. Thunder or celestial harmony: French theological debates on the sonorous sublime Sophie Hache; 2. 'A pleasing rape': John Dennis, music and the queer sublime Matthew Head; 3. The idea of the past in eighteenth-century British music Suzanne Aspden; 4. C. P. E. Bach and the neoclassical sublime: revisions of a concept Keith Chapin; 5. Cherubini's Médée and sublime vengeance Sarah Hibberd; 6. When does the sublime stop? Cavatinas and quotations in Haydn's Seasons Elaine Sisman; 7. Counterfeits, contraltos and consonance in De Quincey's sublime Miranda Stanyon; 8. The consecration of sound: sublime musical creation in Haydn, Weber and Spohr Benedict Taylor; 9. Commanding performances: opera, surrogation and the royal sublime in 1848 Dana Gooley; 10. Wagner's sublime effects: bells, cannon and the perception of heavy sound David Trippett.
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Cambridge University Press The Empire at the Opéra
Book SynopsisAlthough nineteenth-century legislation had tried to ensure a precise separation between genre and institution for Parisian music in the theatre, it had inadvertently laid out a field on which the politics of genre could be played out as agents and actors of all types deployed various forms of artistic power. During the Second Empire, from 1854 until 1870, the state took over day-to-day control of the Opéra in ways that were without precedent. Every element of the Opéra''s activity was subjugated to the exigency of Empire; the selection or artists, works and more general questions of artistic policy were handed over to politicians. The Opéra effectively became a branch of government. The result was a stagnation of the Opéra''s repertory, and beneficiaries were the composers of larger-scale works for competing organisations: the Opéra Comique and the Théâtre Lyrique.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Technologies of power; 3. Artistic management; 4. Repertory; 5. The diplomatic imperative; 6. Opera, power and repertory; 7. Other pasts, other presents; 8. French pasts; 9. Opéra comique; 10. Conclusion.
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HarperCollins Publishers 100 Unofficial Taylor Swift Guide
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Penguin Putnam Inc 1776
Book SynopsisWinner of five 1969 Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Musical, this oft-produced musical play is an imaginative re-creation of the events from May 8 to July 4, 1776 in Philadelphia, when the second Continental Congress argued about, voted on, and signed the Declaration of Independence.
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The University of Chicago Press Top 40 Democracy The Rival Mainstreams of
Book SynopsisLove it or hate it, the world that radio made has steered popular music and provided the soundtrack of American life for more than half a century. The author studies the evolution of this multicentered pop landscape, along the way telling the stories of the Isley Brothers, Dolly Parton, A&M Records, and Elton John, among others.Trade Review"Weisbard is one of our top pop music scribes, and Top 40 Democracy is the best kind of revisionist history. It takes something familiar and makes it strange again. It enables us to listen with fresh ears and find beauty and meaning in music too often dismissed for lacking both. I wanted to turn it up and sing along at the top of my lungs." (Karl Hagstrom Miller, University of Texas at Austin)"
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Mariner Books The Musical Child
Book SynopsisA pioneering music educator reveals how music can supercharge early childhood development—and explains how parents and educators can harness its power.Since opening her famed Parisian conservatory over three decades ago, Joan Koenig has led a global movement to improve children’s lives and minds with the transformative power of music. With a curriculum and philosophy drawn from cutting-edge science, L’École Koenig has educated and empowered even its youngest students—from baby Max, whose coordination and communication grow as he wiggles and coos to targeted songs and dance routines, to five-year-old Constance, who nourishes her empathy, creativity, and memory while practicing music from other cultures. In The Musical Child, Koenig shares stories from her classrooms, along with tips about how to use the latest research during the critical years when children are most sensitive to musical exposure and most receptive to its
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Random House USA Inc The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II
Book SynopsisFrom every “beautiful mornin’” to “some enchanted evening,” the songs of Oscar Hammerstein II are part of our daily lives, his words part of our national fabric.Born into a theatrical dynasty headed by his grandfather and namesake, Oscar Hammerstein II breathed new life into the moribund art form of operetta by writing lyrics and libretti for such classics as Rose-Marie (music by Rudolf Friml), The Desert Song (Sigmund Romberg), The New Moon (Romberg) and Song of the Flame (George Gershwin). Hammerstein and Jerome Kern wrote eight musicals together, including Sweet Adeline, Music in the Air, and their masterpiece, Show Boat. The vibrant Carmen Jones was Hammerstein’s all-black adaptation of the tragic opera by Georges Bizet.In 1943, Hammerstein, pioneer in the field of operetta, joined forces with Richard Rodgers, who had for the previous twenty-five years taken great strides in the fie
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WW Norton & Co Ear Training Sight Singing
Book SynopsisEar Training and Sight Singing is the result of years of experimentation in this field; it is a tool to help the development of the skills a student must have.
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The University of Michigan Press Rebel Dance Renegade Stance
Book SynopsisUmi A. Vaughan reveals a rarely discussed perspective on contemporary Cuban society during the 1990s, the peak decade of timba, and beyond, as the Cuban leadership transferred from Fidel Castro to his brother. Simultaneously, the book reveals popular dance music in the context of a young and astutely educated Cuban generation of fierce and creative performers.
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The University of Michigan Press The Black Musician and the White City
Book SynopsisTells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-20th century. While depicting the segregated city before World War II, Amy Absher traces the migration of black musicians, both men and women and both classical and vernacular performers, from the American South to Chicago during the 1930s–50s.
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