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Author: Iain Fenlon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780198163701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays by European, British, and American musicologists seeks to consolidate the recent growth of interest in seventeenth century studies. It includes discussions of leading composers, repertories, geographical issues, institutional contexts, and iconography.
Author: Daniel Harris
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1993-11-01
Total Pages: 579
ISBN-13: 1461731038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic text, first published in 1972, has withstood the test of time as a teaching aid for English-speaking singers, teachers, coaches, and accompanists, in order that their art may be more communicative to the public. These word-by-word translations of songs and arias allow the artist to properly interpret and express the feelings and emotions that the words require at the proper time.
Author: Berton Coffin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 578
ISBN-13: 0810804638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBerton Coffin, "creator of The Singer's Repertoire," considers this volume to be Volume VIII of the set and explains that "Mr. Shoep has concentrated on the Italian opera repertoire, and Mr. Harris has concentrated on the Italian song repertoire."--Preface, p. viii.
Author: Gary Tomlinson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0520069803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining a close study of Monteverdi's secular works with recent research on late Renaissance history, Gary Tomlinson places the composer's creative career in its broad cultural context and illuminates the state of Italian music, poetry, and ideology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Author: Denise Gallo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1136088024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpera: The Basics offers an excellent introduction to four centuries of opera. Its easy to follow sections explore topics including: the origins of opera basic terminology the history of major opera genres including: serious opera, comic opera, semi-serious opera and vernacular opera. With key notes, discography and videography, this is the ideal book for students and interested listeners who want to learn more about this important musical genre.
Author: University of Michigan. School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Publisher: UM Libraries
Published: 1880
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes miscellaneous newsletters (Music at Michigan, Michigan Muse), bulletins, catalogs, programs, brochures, articles, calendars, histories, and posters.
Author: University of Michigan. School of Music
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 924
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gunther Schuller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1989-08-03
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 019972363X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of writings by Gunther Schuller--the first composer to be awarded the Elise L. Stoeger Composer's Chair of the Chamber Society of Lincoln Center--provides a marvelous introduction to the man and his extraordinary range of musical experience, taste, and learning. In Part I, "Jazz and the Third Stream," Schuller offers his reflections on jazz, insightful pieces on such figures as Duke Ellington, Cecil Taylor, and Sonny Rollins, and several essays on "the third stream," the genre where jazz and classical music intersect. Part II, "Music Performance and Contemporary Music," includes articles on the art of conducting, the future of opera, the question of a new classicism, and Schuller's own thoughts on his controversial opera The Visitation. The final section, "Music Aesthetics and Education," presents Schuller's reflections on such matters as form, structure, and symbol in music; the need for broadening the audience for quality music; and his vision of the ideal conservatory and the total musician.
Author: Jeanice Brooks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-04-25
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1107328314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNadia Boulanger - composer, critic, impresario and the most famous composition teacher of the twentieth century - was also a performer of international repute. Her concerts and recordings with her vocal ensemble introduced audiences on both sides of the Atlantic to unfamiliar historical works and new compositions. This book considers how gender shaped the possibilities that marked Boulanger's performing career, tracing her meteoric rise as a conductor in the 1930s to origins in the classroom and the salon. Brooks investigates Boulanger's promotion of structurally motivated performance styles, showing how her ideas on performance of historical repertory and new music relate to her teaching of music analysis and music history. The book explores the way in which Boulanger's musical practice relied upon her understanding of the historically transcendent masterwork, in which musical form and meaning are ideally joined, and shows how her ideas relate to broader currents in French aesthetics and culture.
