Download or read book Choral Repertoire written by Dennis Shrock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Choral Repertoire is the definitive and comprehensive one-volume presentation of the most significant composers and compositions of choral music from the Western Hemisphere throughout recorded history. The book is designed for multiple uses-as a programming guide for practicing conductors, instructional resource for students and teachers of choral music, historic and stylistic reference for choral singers, and source of information about composers and compositions for choral enthusiasts-and as such, the book intends to further and make accessible important information relevant to the vast scope of choral music. Organized by era (Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Modern), Choral Repertoire covers general characteristics of each historical era, trends and styles unique to various countries, biographical sketches of more than six hundred composers, and performance annotations of more than five thousand individual works. Of the composers, there is substantive coverage of women and composers of color, and of the repertoire, there is inclusion of lesser-known works as well as those works that are considered standard"--

Download or read book Yorkshire Writers written by Richard Rolle and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the holdings of the Western History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library, illuminate many aspects of the history of the American West. Most of the photographs were taken between 1860 and 1920. They illustrate Colorado towns and landscape, document the place of mining in the history of Colorado and the West, and show the lives of Native Americans from more than forty tribes living west of the Mississippi River. Also included are World War II photographs of the 10th Mountain Division, ski troops based in Colorado who saw action in Italy.

Download or read book Bibliotheca Spenceriana written by Earl George John Spencer Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Six Sonatas written by George Frideric Handel and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1998-08-06 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six Sonatas by George Frideric Handel for Violin and Piano now in one volume: A major, E major, G minor, D major, F major, A major.

Download or read book Adrian Willaert and the Theory of Interval Affect written by Timothy R. McKinney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the writings of Nicola Vicentino (1555) and Gioseffo Zarlino (1558) is found, for the first time, a systematic means of explaining music's expressive power based upon the specific melodic and harmonic intervals from which it is constructed. This "theory of interval affect" originates not with these theorists, however, but with their teacher, influential Venetian composer Adrian Willaert (1490-1562). Because Willaert left no theoretical writings of his own, Timothy McKinney uses Willaert's music to reconstruct his innovative theories concerning how music might communicate extramusical ideas. For Willaert, the appellations "major" and "minor" no longer signified merely the larger and smaller of a pair of like-numbered intervals; rather, they became categories of sonic character, the members of which are related by a shared sounding property of "majorness" or "minorness" that could be manipulated for expressive purposes. This book engages with the madrigals of Willaert's landmark Musica nova collection and demonstrates that they articulate a theory of musical affect more complex and forward-looking than recognized currently. The book also traces the origins of one of the most widespread musical associations in Western culture: the notion that major intervals, chords and scales are suitable for the expression of happy affections, and minor for sad ones. McKinney concludes by discussing the influence of Willaert's theory on the madrigals of composers such as Vicentino, Zarlino, Cipriano de Rore, Girolamo Parabosco, Perissone Cambio, Francesco dalla Viola, and Baldassare Donato, and describes the eventual transformation of the theory of interval affect from the Renaissance view based upon individual intervals measured from the bass, to the Baroque view based upon invertible triadic entities.

Download or read book Music in Renaissance Cities and Courts written by Jessie Ann Owens and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A festschrift prepared for the occasion of musicologist Lewis Lockwood's 65th birthday. The volume's 27 contributions, written by Lockwood's students and American colleagues, cover topics including tonal color in Dufay; notes on a Josquin motet and its sources; the Florentine madrigal, 1540-60; and a model for a changing aesthetic in the chansons of Loyset Compere. An appendix lists Lockwood's publications on Renaissance music.

Download or read book Music in the Culture of the Renaissance and Other Essays written by Edward Elias Lowinsky and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings gathered here finally make available in one place Lowinsky's major essays--including four previously unpublished ones--in two volumes that are lavishly provided with musical examples and illustrations. "Professor Lowinsky's method is the only kind of 'writing about music' that I value."--Igor Stravinsky

Download or read book The Medici Codex of 1518 Volume 3 written by Edward E. Lowinsky and published by . This book was released on 1968-12-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Medici Codex of 1518 is a privately owned choirbook of motets presented by Francis I to Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino. One of the most beautiful manuscripts of the time, it offers and anthology of motets by the greatest composers of the Renaissance, masters such as Josquin, Mouton, Brumel, Willaert, Andreas de Silva, and Costanzo Festa. It is invaluable for transmitting the excellent readings of the repertory of the French Royal Chapel and a number of political motets of great musical and historical interest that reflect events at the French court and are unique to this collection. Edward E. Lowinsky presents this anthology as part of a series containing critical editions of major sources of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century music in their entirety.

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Download or read book Choral Techniques written by Gordon H. Lamb and published by WCB/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1979 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses rehearsal techniques, organization, and conducting.

Download or read book Choral Scores written by Dennis Shrock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 1017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choral Scores is an anthology of music exemplifying distinctive choral repertoire by the most noteworthy composers throughout the history of Western music. A companion volume to Denis Shrock's Choral Repertoire (Oxford 2009), it presents works of salient importance to the development of choral music in Western culture, representing the music of the composers, eras, and movements discussed most prominently in that volume. Including 132 compositions by 124 different composers, each presented unabridged and in full score, and spanning the entirety of Western music history, from the medieval era through the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first, Choral Scores is the most thorough, and up-to-date collection of choral music available. Complete with an appendix offering literal translations of texts, as well as composer and genre indices, Choral Scores is an essential reference for choral scholars, teachers, and students alike.

Download or read book Viderunt omnes and Sederunt written by Perotin (Perotinus) and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perotin (Latin Perotinus) was a most gifted composer of the Notre Dame school, which, during the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, was the first school to produce polyphony of international acclaim. Four of the works included in this collection are organa. A Perotin organum consists of a liturgical chant melody and text, which forms the tenor or cantus firmus. Its rhythm is altered. In approximately the same vocal range, the composer added one, two or three other voices, the duplum, triplum and quadruplum, all of them in one of the six rhythmic patterns known as modi. Seven of the works included in this collection are motets. These originated throug the tradition of troping, which consisted of the addition of a text to a melismatic piece of music. In motets, it was the duplum of an organum or clausula which was troped. When this happend the duplum was called motetus, and this name was adapted for the entire composition.

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