The Cambridge Companion to John Cage
Author: David Nicholls
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-08
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780521789684
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John Cage and David Tudor
Author: Martin Iddon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-03-07
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1107014328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMartin Iddon discusses one of the twentieth century's most provocative musical collaborations: between composer John Cage and pianist David Tudor.
The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet
Author: Robin Stowell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-11-13
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13: 1139826549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion offers a concise and authoritative survey of the string quartet by eleven chamber music specialists. Its fifteen carefully structured chapters provide coverage of a stimulating range of perspectives previously unavailable in one volume. It focuses on four main areas: the social and musical background to the quartet's development; the most celebrated ensembles; string quartet playing, including aspects of contemporary and historical performing practice; and the mainstream repertory, including significant 'mixed ensemble' compositions involving string quartet. Various musical and pictorial illustrations and informative appendixes, including a chronology of the most significant works, complete this indispensable guide. Written for all string quartet enthusiasts, this Companion will enrich readers' understanding of the history of the genre, the context and significance of quartets as cultural phenomena, and the musical, technical and interpretative problems of chamber music performance. It will also enhance their experience of listening to quartets in performance and on recordings.
The Cambridge Companion to the Violin
Author: Robin Stowell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-12-10
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780521399234
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The Cambridge History of American Music
Author: David Nicholls
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-11-19
Total Pages: 668
ISBN-13: 9780521454292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge History of American Music, first published in 1998, celebrates the richness of America's musical life. It was the first study of music in the United States to be written by a team of scholars. American music is an intricate tapestry of many cultures, and the History reveals this wide array of influences from Native, European, African, Asian, and other sources. The History begins with a survey of the music of Native Americans and then explores the social, historical, and cultural events of musical life in the period until 1900. Other contributors examine the growth and influence of popular musics, including film and stage music, jazz, rock, and immigrant, folk, and regional musics. The volume also includes valuable chapters on twentieth-century art music, including the experimental, serial, and tonal traditions.
John Cage
Author: David Patterson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1136527915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Cage seeks to explore the early part of the composer's life and career, concentrating on the pre-chance period between 1933 and 1950 that is crucial to understanding his later work. The essays consider Cage's influences, his evolving aesthetic, and his movement toward ideology that would later shape his work.
The Cambridge Companion to Singing
Author: John Potter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-04-13
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1139825771
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRanging from medieval music to Madonna and beyond, this book covers in detail the many aspects of the voice. The volume is divided into four broad areas. Popular Traditions begins with an overview of singing traditions in world music and continues with aspects of rock, rap and jazz. The Voice in the Theatre includes both opera singing from the beginnings to the present day and twentieth-century stage and screen entertainers. Choral Music and Song features a history of the art song, essential hints on singing in a larger choir, the English cathedral tradition and a history of the choral movement in the United States. The final substantial section on performance practices ranges from the voice in the Middle Ages and the interpretation of early singing treatises to contemporary vocal techniques, ensemble singing, the teaching of singing, children's choirs, and a comprehensive exposition of vocal acoustics.
The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm
Author: Russell Hartenberger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-09-24
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1108492924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of rhythm and the richness of musical time from the perspective of performers, composers, analysts, and listeners.
The Boulez-Cage Correspondence
Author: Pierre Boulez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780521485586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of two of the greatest composers of the twentieth century through their correspondence, now available for the first time in English in a paperback edition.
The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism
Author: Donald Pizer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-06-30
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780521438766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism. The introduction seeks both to discuss the problems in the use of these two terms in relation to late nineteenth-century fiction and to describe the history of previous efforts to make the terms expressive of American writing of this period. The Companion includes ten essays which fall into four categories: essays on the historical context of realism and naturalism by Louis Budd and Richard Lehan; essays on critical approaches to the movements since the early 1970s by Michael Anesko, essays on the efforts to expand the canon of realism and naturalism by Elizabeth Ammons; and a full-scale discussion of ten major texts, from W. D. Howell's The Rise of Silas Lapham to Jack London's The Call of the Wild, by John W. Crowley, Tom Quirk, J. C. Levenson, Blanche Gelfant, Barbara Hochman, and Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin.
