Musica Ecclesiae, Part 2
Musica Ecclesiae, Part 2

Author: Karl Kroeger

Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0895795612

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ix + 215 pp.Publishined in three volumes, A48, A49, and A50

Fortunato
Fortunato

Author: Stephanie Jensen-Moulton

Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780895797698

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Book URL: https://www.areditions.com/rr/rra/a075.html In 1958 American composer Miriam Gideon (1906¿1996) completed her only opera, Fortunato, based on the eponymous ¿tragicomic farce¿ by the Spanish playwrights Serafín and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero (1871¿1938 and 1873¿1944, respectively). Although Gideon¿s opera has never received a full performance and has only been available until now in a marginally legible autograph copy of the piano-vocal score, it may be regarded as a central work within Gideon's style and oeuvre and an important American operatic work of the 1950s. In addition to the fully edited piano-vocal score, the edition includes a significant introductory essay that summarizes Gideon's compositional activity during the post¿World War II years, her most active period. The essay also provides a context for Gideon's opera by examining attitudes toward women composers in the American 1950s and by placing the opera's main themes into dialogue with recently discovered personal writings by the composer. A supplement to this edition includes Gideon's full orchestration of Fortunato¿s first scene, recently discovered among the composer¿s personal papers, which she may have intended as a sample piece to be pitched to television networks.

Fortunato
Fortunato

Author: Miriam Gideon

Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 0895797674

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Musica Ecclesiae, Part 1
Musica Ecclesiae, Part 1

Author: Karl Kroeger

Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0895795604

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xxi + 211 pp.Published in three parts, vols. A48, A49, A50

Two Overtures
Two Overtures

Author: George Whitefield Chadwick

Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 089579571X

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xv + 222 pp.

Three Connecticut Composers
Three Connecticut Composers

Author: Karl Kroeger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1135651426

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First Published in 1997. This series presents the music of early American composers of sacred music—psalmody, as it was called—in collected critical editions. Each volume has been prepared by a scholar who has studied the musical history of the period and the stylistic qualities of the composer. The purpose of the series is to present the music of important early American com posers in accurate editions for both performance and study. This volume presents the music of three composers who were active and influential in northwestern Connecticut during the 1780s and 1790s: Oliver Brownson, Alexander Gillet, and Solomon Chandler.

The Cashaway Psalmody
The Cashaway Psalmody

Author: Stephen A. Marini

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2020-02-14

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 025205170X

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Singing master Durham Hills created The Cashaway Psalmody to give as a wedding present in 1770. A collection of tenor melody parts for 152 tunes and sixty-three texts, the Psalmody is the only surviving tunebook from the colonial-era South and one of the oldest sacred music manuscripts from the Carolinas. It is all the more remarkable for its sophistication: no similar document of the period matches Hills's level of musical expertise, reportorial reach, and calligraphic skill. Stephen A. Marini, discoverer of The Cashaway Psalmody, offers the fascinating story of the tunebook and its many meanings. From its musical, literary, and religious origins in England, he moves on to the life of Durham Hills; how Carolina communities used the book; and the Psalmody's significance in understanding how ritual song—transmitted via transatlantic music, lyrics, and sacred singing—shaped the era's development. Marini also uses close musical and textual analyses to provide a critical study that offers music historians and musicologists valuable insights on the Pslamody and its period. Meticulous in presentation and interdisciplinary in scope, The Cashaway Psalmody unlocks an important source for understanding life in the Lower South in the eighteenth century.