An Encyclopedia of the Violin
Author: Alberto Bachmann
Publisher:
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13:
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Nineteenth-Century Piano Music
Author: R. Larry Todd
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-08
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 1136731210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2004. 19th-Century Piano Music focuses on the core composers of the 19th-century repertoire, beginning with 2 chapters giving a general overview of the repertoire and keyboard technique of the era, and then individual chapters on Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, and the women composers of the era, particularly focusing on Fanny Hensel and Clara Schumann.
The Penguin Companion to Classical Music
Author: Paul Griffiths
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2004-10-07
Total Pages: 1412
ISBN-13: 0141909765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis superbly authoratitive new work provides a comprehensive A-Z guide to some 1000 years of Western music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a vast range of composers, as well as looking at such key topics as music history (from medieval plainchant to contemporary minimalism), performers, theory and jargon. Throught Griffiths skilfully blends lightly worn scholarship with personal insight, whether examining the emotional colouring that different musical keys achieve or charting the rise and development of the symphony.
French Music Since Berlioz
Author: Caroline Potter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 1351566474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrench Music Since Berlioz explores key developments in French classical music during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume draws on the expertise of a range of French music scholars who provide their own perspectives on particular aspects of the subject. D dre Donnellon's introduction discusses important issues and debates in French classical music of the period, highlights key figures and institutions, and provides a context for the chapters that follow. The first two of these are concerned with opera in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries respectively, addressed by Thomas Cooper for the nineteenth century and Richard Langham Smith for the twentieth. Timothy Jones's chapter follows, which assesses the French contribution to those most Germanic of genres, nineteenth-century chamber music and symphonies. The quintessentially French tradition of the nineteenth-century salon is the subject of James Ross's chapter, while the more sacred setting of Paris's most musically significant churches and the contribution of their organists is the focus of Nigel Simeone's essay. The transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century is explored by Roy Howat through a detailed look at four leading figures of this time: Faur Chabrier, Debussy and Ravel. Robert Orledge follows with a later group of composers, Satie & Les Six, and examines the role of the media in promoting French music. The 1930s, and in particular the composers associated with Jeune France, are discussed by Deborah Mawer, while Caroline Potter investigates Parisian musical life during the Second World War. The book closes with two chapters that bring us to the present day. Peter O'Hagan surveys the enormous contribution to French music of Pierre Boulez, and Caroline Potter examines trends since 1945. Aimed at teachers and students of French music history, as well as performers and the inquisitive concert- and opera-goer, French Music Since Berlioz is an essential companion for an
The Finale in Western Instrumental Music
Author: Michael Talbot
Publisher: Oxford Monographs on Music
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780198166955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe knowledge that finales are by tradition (and perhaps also necessarily) 'different' from other movements has been around a long time, but this is the first time that the special nature of finales in instrumental music has been examined comprehensively and in detail. Three main types offinale, labelled 'relaxant', 'summative', and 'valedictory', are identified. Each type is studied closely, with a wealth of illustration and analytical commentary covering the entire period from the Renaissance to the present day. The history of finales in five important genres -- suite, sonata,string quartet, symphony, and concerto -- is traced, and the parallels and divergences between these traditions are identified. Several wider issues are mentioned, including narrativity, musical rounding, inter-movement relationships, and the nature of codas. The book ends with a look at thefinales of all Shostakovich's string quartets, in which examples of most of the types may be found.
The Monthly Musical Record
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrahms's Elegies
Author: Nicole Grimes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-24
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1108474497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique insight into the relationship between Brahms's music and his philosophical and literary context from a modernist perspective.
Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music
Author: Stephen Hefling
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-03-01
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1135887624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNineteenth Century Chamber Music proceeds chronologically by composer, beginning with the majestic works of Beethoven, and continuing through Schubert, Spohr and Weber, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, the French composers, Smetana and Dvorák, and the end-of-the-century pre-modernists. Each chapter is written by a noted authority in the field. The book serves as a general introduction to Romantic chamber music, and would be ideal for a seminar course on the subject or as an adjunct text for Introduction to Romantic Music courses. Plus, musicologists and students of 19th century music will find this to be an invaluable resource.
Music and Theatre
Author: Nigel Fortune
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-02-17
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780521619288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of eleven essays, compiled as a tribute to Winton Dean on his seventieth birthday, focuses on that area which has absorbed Winton Dean's interest throughout his distinguished career: opera and other theatre music. The first half of the book covers the period from the late seventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth. The second half of the book ranges over later opera: operacomique; Mendelssohn's operas; the influence of Wagner; the finales of Janácek's operas; and Britten's first two major operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia.
