A Guide to 20th-century Composers
Author: Mark Morris
Publisher: London : Methuen
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeographically arranged, with the composers listed alphabetically. Covers music composed since 1918. 960 p.
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Exploring Twentieth-Century Vocal Music
Author: Sharon Mabry
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002-07-25
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780195349610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe vocal repertoire of the twentieth century--including works by Schoenberg, Boulez, Berio, Larsen, and Vercoe--presents exciting opportunities for singers to stretch their talents and demonstrate their vocal flexibility. Contemporary composers can be very demanding of vocalists, requiring them to recite, trill, and whisper, or to read non-traditional scores. For singers just beginning to explore the novelties of the contemporary repertoire, Exploring Twentieth-Century Vocal Music is an ideal guide. Drawing on over thirty years of experience teaching and performing the twentieth century repertoire, Sharon Mabry has written a cogent and insightful book for singers and voice teachers who are just discovering the innovative music of the twentieth century. The book familiarizes readers with the new and unusual notation systems employed by some contemporary composers. It suggests rehearsal techniques and vocal exercises that help singers prepare to tackle the repertoire. And the book offers a list of the most important and interesting works to emerge in the twentieth century, along with suggested recital programs that will introduce audiences as well as singers to this under-explored body of music.
Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover Classical Music of the 20th Century
Author: David McCleery
Publisher: Naxos Audio Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781843792376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFree website with music available, to access see page 4.
Music of the Twentieth Century
Author: Ton de Leeuw
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9053567658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTon de Leeuw was a truly groundbreaking composer. As evidenced by his pioneering study of compositional methods that melded Eastern traditional music with Western musical theory, he had a profound understanding of the complex and often divisive history of twentieth-century music. Now his renowned chronicle Music of the Twentieth Century is offered here in a newly revised English-language edition. Music of the Twentieth Century goes beyond a historical survey with its lucid and impassioned discussion of the elements, structures, compositional principles, and terminologies of twentieth-century music. De Leeuw draws on his experience as a composer, teacher, and music scholar of non-European music traditions, including Indian, Indonesian, and Japanese music, to examine how musical innovations that developed during the twentieth century transformed musical theory, composition, and scholarly thought around the globe.
The Rest Is Noise
Author: Alex Ross
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2007-10-16
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 1429932880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Music Notation in the Twentieth Century
Author: Kurt Stone
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780393950533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this comprehensive and definitive survey of current notation procedures, Kurt Stone has brought order to a field traditionally fraught with confusion and idiosyncrasy. He not only describes and recommends new methods for notating modern music, thereby establishing standard procedures for the present and future, but integrates them with traditional practices still in use. The result is a guide to all forms of notation used in serious music today.
Techniques of Twentieth Century Composition
Author: Leon Dallin
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe approach of "Techniques of Twentieth Century Music is appropriate for composers exploring contemporary idioms, for performers learning to cope with the innovations of modern music, and for teachers developing their understanding and appreciation of the music of our time. All three categories are served by this text. It is designed to provide essential knowledge of the techniques and materials of twentieth-century music and to bridge the gulf between traditional academic training and current practice.
Francis Poulenc
Author: Benjamin Ivry
Publisher: 20th Century Composers
Published: 1996-09-25
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe work of Poulenc in the context of his colourful personal life.
The War on Music
Author: John Mauceri
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2022-04-26
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0300265476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries during the three great wars of the past century This book offers a major reassessment of classical music in the twentieth century. John Mauceri argues that the history of music during this span was shaped by three major wars of that century: World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Probing why so few works have been added to the canon since 1930, Mauceri examines the trajectories of great composers who, following World War I, created voices that were unique and versatile, but superficially simpler. He contends that the fate of composers during World War II is inextricably linked to the political goals of their respective governments, resulting in the silencing of experimental music in Germany, Italy, and Russia; the exodus of composers to America; and the sudden return of experimental music—what he calls “the institutional avant-garde”—as the lingua franca of classical music in the West during the Cold War.
