Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians PDF Author: George Grove
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 884

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Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians PDF Author: Sir George Grove
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 916

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Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians PDF Author: George Grove
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 862

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Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians PDF Author: John Alexander Fuller-Maitland
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians PDF Author:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians PDF Author: George Grove
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Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Supplement

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Supplement PDF Author: George Grove
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Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians PDF Author: George Grove
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 876

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Beyond Jerusalem: Music in the Women's Institute, 1919–1969

Beyond Jerusalem: Music in the Women's Institute, 1919–1969 PDF Author: Lorna Gibson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135157406X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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Music in the Women's Institute has become stereotyped by the ritualistic singing of Jerusalem at monthly meetings. Indeed, Jerusalem has had an important role within the organization, and provides a valuable means within which to assess the organization's relationship with women's suffrage and the importance of rurality in the Women's Institute's identity. However, this book looks beyond Jerusalem by examining the full range of music making within the organization and locates its significance within a wider historical-cultural context. The Institute's promotion of conducting - a regular part of its musical activity since the 1930s - is discussed within the context of embodying overtly feminist sentiments. Lorna Gibson concludes that a redefinition of the term 'feminism' is needed and the concept of 'gendered spheres' of conducting provides a useful means of understanding the Institute's policy. The organization's promotion of folk song is also examined and reveals the Institute's contribution to the Folk Revival, as well as providing a valuable context within which to understand the National Federation's first music commission, Ralph Vaughan Williams's Folk Songs of the Four Seasons (1950). This work, and the Institute's second commission, Malcolm Williamson's The Brilliant and the Dark (1969), are examined with the context of the organization's music policy. In addition to discussing the background to the works, issues of critical reception are addressed. The book concludes with an Epilogue about the National Society Choir (later known as the Avalon Singers), which tested the organization's commitment to amateur music making. The book is the result of meticulous work undertaken in the archives of the National Federation, the BBC Written Archives Centre, the V&A archives, the Britten-Pears Library, the Ralph Vaughan Williams Library, the Women's Library and the Newspaper Library.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life PDF Author: Jeffrey Green
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317322630
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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Green’s study is more than a biography of an Anglo-African composer.The first comprehensive study of Coleridge-Taylor’s life for almost a century, it reveals how class-ridden Britain could embrace even the most unlikely of cultural icons.

The Lives and Times of the Great Composers

The Lives and Times of the Great Composers PDF Author: Michael Steen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195222180
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 992

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"Gioachino Rossini was one of the most influential as well as one of the most industrious and emotionally complex of the great nineteenth-century composers. Between 1810 and 1829, he wrote thirty-nine operas, a body of work, comic and serious, which transformed Italian opera, and radically altered the course of opera in France." "His retirement from operatic composition in 1829, at the age of 37, was widely assumed to be the act of a talented but lazy man. In reality, political events and a series of debilitating illnesses were the determining factors. After drafting the Stabat mater in 1832, Rossini wrote no music of consequence for the best part of twenty-five years, before the clouds lifted and he began composing again in Paris in the late 1850s. During this glorious Indian summer of his career, he wrote 150 songs and solo piano pieces - his 'Sins of Old Age' - and his final masterpiece, the Petite Messe solennelle." "The image of Rossini as a gifted but feckless amateur - the witty, high-spirited bon vivant who dashed off The Barber of Seville in a mere thirteen days - persisted down the years, until the centenary of his death in 1968 inaugurated a process of re-evaluation by scholars, performers, and writers. The original 1985 edition of Richard Osborn's Rossini redefined the life and provided detailed analyses of the complete Rossini oeuvre. Twenty years on, all Rossini's operas have been staged and recorded, a Critical Edition of his works is well advanced, and a scholarly edition of his correspondence, including 250 previously unknown letters from Rossini to his parents, is in progress."--BOOK JACKET.