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Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: Peter Tregear
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810882639
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 195

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Ernst Krenek has been described as a “one-man history of twentieth-century music.” His vast compositional output encompasses many of its extremes and expresses many of its contradictions. Few have attempted, however, to contextualize Krenek’s compositional output because our understanding of classical music in the first half of the twentieth century still largely remains focused on the music of a few canonical figures. Responding to renewed interest from performers in Krenek’s work, particularly his operas, Peter Tregear’s Ernst Krenek and the Politics of Musical Style addresses this gap in the scholarly literature and makes an important contribution to our comprehension of the ways in which his music reflected and informed broader social and political debates in Austria and Germany at the time. Focusing on Krenek’s compositional path from the eclectic musical language of Jonny spielt auf to the austere twelve-tone technique of Karl V, Tregear provides an historical and critical context to this most historically significant period of Krenek’s creative life. His study also enriches our understanding of many of Krenek’s contemporaries, such as Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg. This book should interest students, scholars and practitioners with an interest in modern opera, and contemporary classical music as well as early-20th-century German history more generally.

Author: Mara Parker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135848343
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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This research guide is an annotated bibliography of sources dealing with the string quartet. This second edition is organized as in the original publication (chapters for general references, histories, individual composers, aspects of performance, facsimiles and critical editions, and miscellaneous topics) and has been updated to cover research since publication of the first edition. Listings in the previous volume have been updated to reflect the burgeoning interest in this genre (social aspects, newly issued critical editions, doctoral dissertations). It also offers commentary on online links, databases, and references.

Author: Music Library Association
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 776

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Author: Yoon Hu
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Category : Vocal music
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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The primary purpose of the study is to determine vocal difficulty for grading of Ernst Krenek's fifteen solo vocal works written between 1927 and 1931, and to discover and identify the several stylistic elements. The first chapter is a basic introduction. Included are a review of related literature, a definition of terminology, and an explanation of criteria. The second chapter gives a biographical sketch, concentrating on Krenek's activities as composer and scholar. Chapter Three is an analysis of the selected solo vocal works of Krenek involving both stylistic and vocal features. The study of the stylistic elements examined two things. The first was the style of vocal writing. The second was how the songs should be graded according to difficulty. Three levels of difficulty were considered: elementary, intermediate, and advanced. The individual songs, with specific examples, are discussed according to the following topics in stylistic analyses: form, rhythm and tempo, tonality, melodic style, harmony, phrases length, range, tessitura, diction, texture, and text setting. Chapter Four is a conclusion and summary.

Author: Darin Hoskisson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317672674
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Anton Webern: A Research and Information Guide offers carefully selected and annotated sources regarding Webern from 1975 to present day, including sources on Webern’s life, his music, and the interpretation and reception of his music. Along with this comprehensive annotated listing of print and online sources, the book discusses the history of research on Webern and includes a brief chronology of his life. It is a major reference tool for those interested in Webern and his music and valuable for researchers of 20th century music and the Second Viennese School.

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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1850

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Author: Klara Moricz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520975529
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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The Bolsheviks’ 1917 political coup caused a seismic disruption in Russian culture. Carried by the first wave of emigrants, Russian culture migrated West, transforming itself as it interacted with the new cultural environment and clashed with exported Soviet trends. In this book, Klára Móricz explores the transnational emigrant space of Russian composers Igor Stravinsky, Vladimir Dukelsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Nicolas Nabokov, and Arthur Lourié in interwar Paris. Their music reflected the conflict between a modernist narrative demanding innovation and a narrative of exile wedded to the preservation of prerevolutionary Russian culture. The emigrants’ and the Bolsheviks’ contrasting visions of Russia and its past collided frequently in the French capital, where the Soviets displayed their political and artistic products. Russian composers in Paris also had to reckon with Stravinsky’s disproportionate influence: if they succumbed to fashions dictated by their famous compatriot, they risked becoming epigones; if they kept to their old ways, they quickly became irrelevant. Although Stravinsky’s neoclassicism provided a seemingly neutral middle ground between innovation and nostalgia, it was also marked by the exilic experience. Móricz offers this unexplored context for Stravinsky’s neoclassicism, shedding new light on this infinitely elusive term.

Author: Music Library Association
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Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Dorothy L. Crawford
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300155484
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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This book is the first to examine the brilliant gathering of composers, conductors, and other musicians who fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the Los Angeles area. Musicologist Dorothy Lamb Crawford looks closely at the lives, creative work, and influence of sixteen performers, fourteen composers, and one opera stage director, who joined this immense migration beginning in the 1930s. Some in this group were famous when they fled Europe, others would gain recognition in the young musical culture of Los Angeles, and still others struggled to establish themselves in an environment often resistant to musical innovation. Emphasizing individual voices, Crawford presents short portraits of Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, and the other musicians while also considering their influence as a group—in the film industry, in music institutions in and around Los Angeles, and as teachers who trained the next generation. The book reveals a uniquely vibrant era when Southern California became a hub of unprecedented musical talent.