Manuel de Falla and Visions of Spanish Music
Manuel de Falla and Visions of Spanish Music

Author: Michael Christoforidis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-23

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 1351392581

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Michael Christoforidis is widely recognized as a leading expert on one of Spain's most important composers, Manuel de Falla. This volume brings together both new chapters and revised versions of previously published work, some of which is made available here in English for the first time. The introductory chapter provides a biographical outline of the composer and characterisations of both Falla and his music during his lifetime. The sections that follow explore different facets of Falla’s mature works and musical identity. Part II traces the evolution of his flamenco-inspired Spanish style through contacts with Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky, while Part III explores the impact of post-World War I modernities on Falla’s musical nationalism. The final part reflects on aspects of Falla’s music and the politics of Spain in the 1930s and 1940s. Situating his discussion of these aspects of Falla's music within a broader context, including currents in literature and the visual arts, Christoforidis provides a distinctive and original contribution to the study of Falla as well as to the wider fields of musical modernism, exoticism, and music and politics.

Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla

Author: Nancy Lee Harper

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13:

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Harper aims to provide readers with a deeper, more accurate understanding of Falla's creative process by drawing from a complete array of rare, authentic sources including Falla's own personal library, valuable sketch material, and the more than 20,000 pieces of correspondence maintained in Granada, Spain by the Manuel de Falla Archive. The book is arranged in three sections. The first part of the book, organized according to Falla's geographical stays, attempts to clarify certain aspects of Falla's life that have to date been ambiguous or unknown. The second section engages various prominent aspects of Falla's character, such as his relationship with his European contemporaries. In this second section, significant collaborations with prestigious Falla specialists - Louis Jambou, Michael Christofordis, and Chris Collins - have greatly enhanced the dimension of the topics addressed. The book's final section attempts to introduce readers to the most recent information available. It is generously illustrated with manuscript examples and is organized according to the stylistic classifications of the Manuel de Falla Archive's Musical Director, which greatly assist in clarifying the development of Falla's creative process. A chronologically-arranged photo section rounds out this offering that will be of great significance to music students and teachers, as well as those with an interest in Spanish culture.

Sacred Passions
Sacred Passions

Author: Carol A. Hess

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0195145615

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This biography offers a fresh understanding of the life and work of Spanish composer Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), recognized as the greatest composer in the Spanish cultural renaissance that extended from the latter part of the 19th century until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. The biography incorporates recent research on Falla, draws on untapped sources in the Falla archives, reevaluates Falla's work in terms of current issues in musicology, and considers Falla's accomplishments in their historical and cultural contexts.

Manuel de Falla and Modernism in Spain, 1898-1936
Manuel de Falla and Modernism in Spain, 1898-1936

Author: Carol A. Hess

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0226330389

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Although studies of Modernism have focused largely on European nations, Spain has been conspicuously neglected. As Carol A. Hess argues in this compelling book, such neglect is wholly undeserved. Through composer Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Hess explores the advent of Modernism in Spain in relation to political and cultural tensions prior to the Spanish Civil War. The result is a fresh view of the musical life of Spain that departs from traditional approaches to the subject and reveals an open and constantly evolving aesthetic climate.

Musical Perceptions
Musical Perceptions

Author: Annette Aiello

Publisher: Neuroscience

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780195064766

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This introduction to the perception and cognition of music has been designed for both psychology and music students. The chapters are prefaced by editorial comments that give readers a background to the research discussed by the contributors.

Lorca in Tune with Falla
Lorca in Tune with Falla

Author: Nelson R. Orringer

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1442647299

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Lorca in Tune with Falla is the first book to trace Lorca's impact on Falla's music, and Falla's influence on Lorca's writings.

Position Pieces for Cello
Position Pieces for Cello

Author: Rick Mooney

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published:

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781457404986

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Position Pieces for Cello is designed to give students a logical and fun way to learn their way around the fingerboard. Each hand position is introduced with exercises called "Target Practice," "Geography Quiz," and "Names and Numbers." Following these exercises are tuneful cello duets which have been specifically composed to require students to play in that hand position. In this way, students gain a thorough knowledge of how to find the hand positions and, once there, which notes are possible to play. Using these pieces (with names like "I Was a Teenage Monster," "The Irish Tenor," and "I've Got the Blues, Baby"), position study on the cello has never been so much fun!

Latin American Classical Composers
Latin American Classical Composers

Author: Miguel Ficher

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2002-10-16

Total Pages: 668

ISBN-13: 1461669111

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Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition of Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary presents expanded and updated coverage of its topic with an aim to be comprehensive. The authors have conducted exhaustive research to fill in gaps and correct minor errors in the first edition, adding young composers and documenting deaths since 1996, when the first edition appeared. Hundreds of composers are represented in this volume, which presents biographical data, including dates of birth and death, personal information about composers' background and training, and a selective listing of each composer's works. Sources for further study are noted within each entry. An index of composers by country rounds out this work.