The Strad

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Category : Bowed stringed instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 724

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The Strad

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Category : Bowed stringed instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 724

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Collection of famous overtures

Collection of famous overtures PDF Author: Louis Oesterle
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Category : Overtures (Orchestra) arranged for piano (4 hands)
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Twelve Select Overtures

Twelve Select Overtures PDF Author: Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0895795191
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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xii + 289 pp.Performance parts available (N35P), $54.00 per set

College Songs

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Category : Students' songs
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Famous overtures

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Languages : en
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Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959

Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959 PDF Author: Graham Webb
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147668118X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 735

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Short subject films have a long history in American cinemas. These could be anywhere from 2 to 40 minutes long and were used as a "filler" in a picture show that would include a cartoon, a newsreel, possibly a serial and a short before launching into the feature film. Shorts could tackle any topic of interest: an unusual travelogue, a comedy, musical revues, sports, nature or popular vaudeville acts. With the advent of sound-on-film in the mid-to-late 1920s, makers of earlier silent short subjects began experimenting with the short films, using them as a testing ground for the use of sound in feature movies. After the Second World War, and the rising popularity of television, short subject films became far too expensive to produce and they had mostly disappeared from the screens by the late 1950s. This encyclopedia offers comprehensive listings of American short subject films from the 1920s through the 1950s.

The Etude

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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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A monthly journal for the musician, the music student, and all music lovers.

Il Guarany Overture

Il Guarany Overture PDF Author: Carlos Gomes
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Category : Overtures (Band), Arranged
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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The Overtures of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

The Overtures of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber PDF Author: Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443827932
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 467

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The overtures of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782–1871), once as popular as those of Gioacchino Rossini and Franz von Suppé, were formerly known everywhere, a staple of the light Classical repertoire. The influence of Auber’s melodies and dance rhythms on piano and instrumental music, and on the genre of Romantic comic opera, especially in Germany, was overwhelming. The operas themselves, apart from Fra Diavolo (1830), have virtually passed out of the repertoire, but some of their overtures live on vicariously, and sound brilliant and charming when given the chance—The Bronze Horse, Masaniello, The Crown Diamonds, Fra Diavolo, The Black Domino. The freshness of the melody, the incision of the orchestral colours, and the rhythmic vitality are still capable of generating a visceral excitement. Auber, the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled commercial career, he studied with Cherubini. His first operas were not a success, but La Bergère Châteleine (1820), written at the age of 38, established him as an operatic composer. It was at this time that he met the librettist Eugène Scribe (1791–1861), with whom he established a working partnership, one of the most successful in musical history, that lasted until Scribe’s death. After Le Maçon (1825) and La Muette de Portici (1828), Auber’s life was filled with success. In 1829 he was appointed a member of the Institut, in 1839 Director of Concerts at Court, in 1842 Director of the Conservatoire, in 1852 Musical Director of the Imperial Chapel, and in 1861 Grand Officer of the Légion d’Honneur. Auber’s famous historical grand opera La Muette de Portici (Masaniello) is a key work in operatic history, and helped to inspire the revolution in Brussels that led to the separation of Belgium from Holland. Auber himself experienced four French Revolutions (1789, 1830, 1848, 1870). The latter (The Commune) hastened the end of his life. He died on 12 May 1871, at the advanced old age of 89, and in the pitiful conditions of civil strife, after a long and painful illness which worsened during the Siege of Paris. He refused to leave the city he had always loved despite the dangers and privation, even after his house had been set on fire by the petroleurs et petroleuses. By some irony a mark had been placed against the house of the composer of La Muette de Portici, the very voice of Romantic liberty! Auber’s elegant and restrained art now has little appeal for the world of music, attuned as it is to meatier substance of verismo, high Wagnerian ideology, and twentieth-century experimentalism. But he was once a household name, and his pared style, fleet rhythms and restrained emotion were a byword of taste. This collection brings together 40 of Auber’s overtures, from his first great success with La Bergère Châtelaine, to his last opera, written at the age of 87, Rêve d’Amour, and including the concert overture he wrote in 1862 for the London Exhibition. Auber adopted the Rossinian adaptation of the overture genre, a sonata form with foreshortened development (or a sequential passage for transition back to the recapitulation). His handling of this basic structure remained consistent throughout his career, and followed three or four differing approaches, but always invested with his characteristic verve, rhythmic élan, clarity of texture, and brilliance of orchestration. In all, the overtures, especially when viewed as a corpus, present a journey through the creative life of composer dedicated to musical drama, who always remained the perfect exemplar of a certain French style and elegance—even in his serious works.

Stories Behind the World's Great Music

Stories Behind the World's Great Music PDF Author: Sigmund Spaeth
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1839743077
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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In Stories Behind the World's Great Music, second edition published in 1940, renowned musical author Sigmund Spaeth recounts the many and varied exploits of the great compsers and musicians from Bach to Tchaikowsky, Schubert to Brahms.