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Author: Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-08-22
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1108423531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how Gershwin's iconic music was shaped by American political, intellectual, cultural and business interests as well as technological advances.
Author: David Schiff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-09-25
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 0521550777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue as musical work, historical event and cultural document.
Author: William A. Everett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-09-21
Total Pages: 503
ISBN-13: 1107114748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn expanded and updated edition of this acclaimed, wide-ranging survey of musical theatre in New York, London, and elsewhere.
Author: Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Published: 2006-07-01
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1607340372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge Gershwin only has a few weeks to compose a concerto. His piece is supposed to exemplify American music and premiere at a concert entitled "An Experiment in Modern Music." Homesick for New York while rehearsing for a musical in Boston, he soon realizes that American music is much like its people, a great melting pot of sounds, rhythms, and harmonies. JoAnn Kitchel's illustrations capture the 1920s in all their art deco majesty.
Author: Peter Humfrey
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Published: 2008-06-16
Total Pages: 404
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion volume brings together commissioned essays by an international team of scholars on Giovanni Bellini, the dominant painter of Early Renaissance Venice. Among the topics and themes to be discussed are Bellini's position in the social and professional life of early modern Venice; his artistic relationships with his brother-in-law Mantegna, with Flemish painting, and with the 'modern style' that emerged in Italy around 1500; and the connections between Bellini's paintings and the sister arts of architecture and sculpture. Further essays reassess the artist's approaches to landscape and color, elements that have always been recognized as central to his pictorial genius.
Author: David Rowland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-11-19
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521479868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to the piano, one of the world's most popular instruments.
Author: Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Published: 2012-07-01
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1607344629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDepicts the story of how Antonio Vivaldi composed and wrote his famous Four Seasons concertos and the accompanying sonnets.
Author: Mervyn Cooke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-12-08
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780521780094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentieth-century operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a distinguished team of academics, critics and practitioners. Beginning with a discussion of the century's vital inheritance from late-romantic operatic traditions in Germany and Italy, the text embraces fresh investigations into various aspects of the genre in the modern age, with a comprehensive coverage of the work of individual composers from Debussy and Schoenberg to John Adams and Harrison Birtwistle. Traditional stylistic categorizations (including symbolism, expressionism, neo-classicism and minimalism) are reassessed from new critical perspectives, and the distinctive operatic traditions of Continental and Eastern Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and United States are subjected to fresh scrutiny. The volume includes essays devoted to avant-garde music theatre, operettas and musicals, filmed opera, and ends with a discussion of the position of the genre in today's cultural marketplace.
Author: Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 1570914923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSuggests how the death of a friend, Victor Hartmann, inspired the music of Modest Mussorgsky in St. Petersburg in the 1870s.
Author: Mark Berry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-09-24
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1108916139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Companion is an essential, interdisciplinary tool for those both familiar and unfamiliar with Wagner's Ring. It opens with a concise introduction to both the composer and the Ring, introducing Wagner as a cultural figure, and giving a comprehensive overview of the work. Subsequent chapters, written by leading Wagner experts, focus on musical topics such as 'leitmotif', and structure, and provide a comprehensive set of character portraits, including leading players like Wotan, Brünnhilde, and Siegfried. Further chapters look to the mythological background of the work and the idea of the Bayreuth Festival, as well as critical reception of the Ring, its relationship to Nazism, and its impact on literature and popular culture, in turn offering new approaches to interpretation including gender, race and environmentalism. The volume ends with a history of notable stage productions from the world premiere in 1876 to the most recent stagings in Bayreuth and elsewhere.
