For the Love of Music

For the Love of Music PDF Author: Darwin Floyd Scott
Publisher: Theodore Front Music
ISBN: 9788888326016
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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For the Love of Music

For the Love of Music PDF Author: Darwin Floyd Scott
Publisher: Theodore Front Music
ISBN: 9788888326016
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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A History of Song

A History of Song PDF Author: Denis Stevens
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393005363
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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Story of almost a thousand years of song, from the time of the troubadours, to the present day.

Evenings with the Orchestra

Evenings with the Orchestra PDF Author: D. Kern Holoman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393029369
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 768

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Going to concerts is becoming, for large numbers of Americans, an increasingly frequent pleasure. For those who encounter unfamiliar traditions and terms in the concert hall, here is information and advice which tells all listeners what they need to know to be comfortable at an orchestral concert. Includes background, biographies, and discussions of 200 masterpieces. Drawings.

From Madrigal to Modern Music

From Madrigal to Modern Music PDF Author: Douglas Moore
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393002003
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Examines five great periods -- the Renaissance, Baroque, Classic, Romantic, and Modern -- and discusses every important type of composition from each era.

Opera

Opera PDF Author: Guy A. Marco
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113557801X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 655

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Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.

Richard Strauss and His World

Richard Strauss and His World PDF Author: Bryan Randolph Gilliam
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691027623
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Strongly influencing European musical life from the 1880s through the First World War and remaining highly productive into the 1940s, Richard Strauss enjoyed a remarkable career in a constantly changing artistic and political climate. This volume presents six original essays on Strauss's musical works--including tone poems, lieder, and operas--and brings together letters, memoirs, and criticism from various periods of the composer's life. Many of these materials appear in English for the first time. In the essays Leon Botstein contradicts the notion of the composer's stylistic "about face" after Elektra; Derrick Puffett reinforces the argument for Strauss's artistic consistency by tracing in the tone poems and operas the phenomenon of pitch specificity; James Hepokoski establishes Strauss as an early modernist in an examination of Macbeth; Michael Steinberg probes the composer's political sensibility as expressed in the 1930s through his music and use of such texts as Friedenstag and Daphne; Bryan Gilliam discusses the genesis of both the text and the music in the final scene of Daphne; Timothy Jackson in his thorough source study argues for a new addition to the so-called Four Last Songs. Among the correspondence are previously untranslated letters between Strauss and his post-Hofmannsthal librettist, Joseph Gregor. The memoirs range from early biographical sketches to Rudolf Hartmann's moving account of his last visit with Strauss shortly before the composer's death. Critical reviews include recently translated essays by Theodor Adorno, Guido Adler, Paul Bekker, and Julius Korngold [Publisher description].

The New Grove Turn of the Century Masters

The New Grove Turn of the Century Masters PDF Author: John Tyrrell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Janáček and Czech Music

Janáček and Czech Music PDF Author: Michael Brim Beckerman
Publisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9780945193364
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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In the first week of May 1988, more than seventy scholars and musicians from five countries gathered at Washington University in St. Louis to participate in the first conference and festival ever to take place in the United States on the Moravian composer Leos Janácek. This volume, arranged in seven parts, is a collection of thirty-five of the papers presented at the conference. It is the first large collection of essays in English concerning Janácek's music, and the only collection of proceedings from a Janácek symposium to be published in the last twenty-five years... most of its essays deal with Janácek's music, while some with other Czech music, mostly from before the time of Bedrich Smetana. This breadth of scope is not a weakness of either the conference or the volume, since it places Janácek in historical perspective, and since the articles that deal with the earlier music are among the best in the volume and are deserving of a forum. John K. Novak, Notes June 1996

The New Grove Russian Masters 2

The New Grove Russian Masters 2 PDF Author: Gerald Abraham
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Janáček Beyond the Borders

Janáček Beyond the Borders PDF Author: Derek Katz
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 1580463096
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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This contextual study of Janácek's operas reveals the composer's creative responses to a wide range of Czech and non-Czech traditions.