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Author: Arnold Whittall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-11-30
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1316514099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSynthesises and refocuses the wealth of recent research into two of Arnold Schoenberg's major compositions from the years 1899-1909.
Author: Julian Rushton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-11-30
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 1316513831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSituates Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique within French Romanticism and considers influences, literary as well as musical, that shaped its conception.
Author: Julian Horton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-11-30
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1316512584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers an introduction to one of the most important and influential piano concertos in the history of Western music. It combines an account of the work's genesis with a detailed yet accessible analysis of each movement and new research into its reception and performance history.
Author: Benedict Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-11-30
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 1009084399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe String Quartet in E flat major (1834) by Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn, is one of the most important works by a female composer written in the nineteenth century. Composed at a turning point in her life (as Hensel was not only grappling with her own creative voice but also coming to terms with her identity as a married woman, and the role her family expected of her), the quartet is significant in showing a woman composing in a genre that was then almost exclusively the domain of male artists. Benedict Taylor's illuminating book situates itself within developing scholarly discourse on the music of women composers, going beyond apologetics – or condemnation of those who hindered their development – to examine the strength and qualities of the music and how it responded to the most progressive works of the period.
Author: John Michael Cooper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-11-30
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1009062662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn her lifetime, African American composer Margaret Bonds was classical music's most intrepid social-justice activist. Furthermore, her Montgomery Variations (1964) and setting of W.E.B. Du Bois's iconic Civil Rights Credo (1965-67) were the musical summits of her activism. These works fell into obscurity after Bonds's death, but were recovered and published in 2020. Since widely performed, they are finally gaining a recognition long denied. This incisive book situates The Montgomery Variations and Credo in their political and biographical contexts, providing an interdisciplinary exploration that brings notables including Harry Burleigh, W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abbie Mitchell, Ned Rorem, and – especially – Langston Hughes into the works' collective ambit. The resulting brief, but instructive, appraisal introduces readers to two masterworks whose recovery is a modern musical milestone – and reveals their message to be one that, though born in the mid-twentieth century, speaks directly to our own time.
Author: Duncan Clark
Publisher: Rough Guides
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 630
ISBN-13: 9781858287218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSketches of classical composers and CD reviews.
Author: Walter Frisch
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780520212183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1893 and 1908, composer Arnold Schoenberg created many genuine masterworks in the genres of Lieder, chamber music and symphonic music. Here is the first full-scale account of Schoenberg's rich repertory of early tonal works. 139 music examples. 2 illustrations.
Author: Christine Ammer
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1438130090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Facts On File Dictionary of Music provides in-depth explanations and examples of more than 3
Author: Richard Taruskin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-07-27
Total Pages: 6390
ISBN-13: 0199813698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history. Written by an authoritative, opinionated, and controversial figure in musicology, The Oxford History of Western Music provides a critical aesthetic position with respect to individual works, a context in which each composition may be evaluated and remembered. Taruskin combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understood it. It also describes how the c
Author: Richard Taruskin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-08-14
Total Pages: 881
ISBN-13: 0199796017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks-the themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to a significant period in the history of Western music. Music in the Early Twentieth Century , the fourth volume in Richard Taruskin's history, looks at the first half of the twentieth century, from the beginnings of Modernism in the last decade of the nineteenth century right up to the end of World War II. Taruskin discusses modernism in Germany and France as reflected in the work of Mahler, Strauss, Satie, and Debussy, the modern ballets of Stravinsky, the use of twelve-tone technique in the years following World War I, the music of Charles Ives, the influence of peasant songs on Bela Bartok, Stravinsky's neo-classical phase and the real beginnings of 20th-century music, the vision of America as seen in the works of such composers as W.C. Handy, George Gershwin, and Virgil Thomson, and the impact of totalitarianism on the works of a range of musicians from Toscanini to Shostakovich
