Download or read book Carlo Gesualdo Prince of Venosa Musician and Murderer written by Cecil Gray and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1971 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of Don Carlo fully illuminates his life as Prince of Venosa, as accused murderer, and as composer of extraordinary genius.
Download or read book Carlo Gesualdo Prince of Venosa Musician and Murderer written by Philip Heseltine and published by . This book was released on 1926-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carlo Gesualdo Prince of Venosa Musician and Murderer by Cecil Gray and Philip Heseltine written by Philip Heseltine and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carlo Gesualdo Prince of Venosa Musician and Murderer By C Gray and Philip Heseltine With 34 Musical Examples Etc written by Cecil William Turpie GRAY and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carlo Gesualdo Prince of Venosa written by Cecil Gray and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carlo Gesualdo Prince of Venosa Musician and Murderer with 34 Musical Examples in the Text and 8 Full page Pl written by Cecil Gray and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carlo Gesualdo Prince of Venosa written by Cecil Gray and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carlo Gesualdo Prince of Venosa written by Cecil Gray and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rest Is Noise written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner 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.
Download or read book The madrigal at Ferrara 1579 1597 2 Musical examples written by Anthony Newcomb and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Devil Maria D Avalos written by Victoria Hammond and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steeped in the overripe beauty, violence and exoticism of sixteenth century Naples, this is the riveting story behind one of the most famous and terrible murders in the history of the Renaissance. In 1590, the great and tormented composer Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, murdered his beautiful wife Maria d'Avalos and her aristocratic lover. Gesualdo was a character of Shakespearian proportions: nobleman, musical genius and, for the last sixteen years of his life, madman or so it is alleged. With the chilling calculation of a hunter, he staged the violent and bloody murder of the lovers like an opera. Yet far from ending his torment, in the years that followed Gesualdo became increasingly persecuted by his furies and demons. Inspired by this story that has haunted generations of Neapolitans and ignited the imaginations of artists the world over, Victoria Hammond has written a lush and sensual evocation of love, desire and madness, vividly imagining the life of the mysterious and seductive Maria, her tormented marriage to Carlo, and her affair with Fabrizio Carafa, the handsomest and accomplished nobleman in Naples.
Download or read book Gesualdo written by Glenn Watkins and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1991 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, is equally celebrated as the composer of madrigals of great power and tortured complexity and as the murderer of his wife and her lover in flagrante delicto. His life and compositions are not unconnected. His neurotic sensibility found an ideal outlet in the mannerist tendencies of late Renaissance music, and his works are the most extreme examples of those tendencies. Watkins's extended study of Gesualdo's life and works was originally published in 1973. Alongside detailed analysis of Gesualdo's remarkable madrigals and of the few works in other genres, it contained much new biographical material, particularly on the latter part of the composer's life. This new edition has been extensively updated, and contains a new chapter covering the research of recent years. The preface to the first edition, by Igor Stravinsky is reprinted.
Download or read book Carlo Gesualdo Prince of Venosa Musician and Murderer written by Cecil Gray and published by London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited etc. 1926.. This book was released on 1926 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Gesualdo Hex Music Myth and Memory written by Glenn Watkins and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting investigation of one of the most provocative musicians of the Renaissance, who continues to captivate composers, artists, and audiences today. In this vivid tale of adultery and intrigue, witchcraft and murder, Glenn Watkins explores the fascinating life of the Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo—a life suffused with scandal and bordering on the fantastical. An isolated prince, Gesualdo had a personal life that was no less eccentric and bewildering than the music he composed; his biography has often clouded our perception of his oeuvre, which music scholars have periodically dismissed as a late Renaissance deformation of little consequence. Today, however, Gesualdo’s music, once deemed so strange as to be unperformable, stands as one of the most vibrant legacies of the late Italian Renaissance with an undeniable impact on a host of twentieth-century musicians and artists. The incendiary details of Gesualdo’s life recede, and his grip on our musical imagination comes to the fore. Watkins challenges our preconceptions of what has become a nearly mythic persona, weaving together the cumulative experience of some of the most vibrant artists of the past century from Stravinsky and Schoenberg to Abbado and Herzog. Beyond questions of mere influence, however, The Gesualdo Hex offers a profound meditation on cultural memory and historical awareness: how composers attempt to shape the legacy they will bequeath to the world, and how music and history inevitably take on a new guise as they are revisited by subsequent generations and reinterpreted in light of contemporary experience. In examining Gesualdo’s life, music, myth, and memory intertwine with one another to reveal an uncanny affinity with our own time. With his elegant and engaging prose, Watkins asks us to grapple with our understanding not only of art and the artists who create it but also of history itself.
Download or read book Law and Opera written by Filippo Annunziata and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the various connections between Law and Opera, providing a comprehensive, multinational, and multidisciplinary (with approaches from jurists, philosophers, musicologist, historians) resource on the subject. Further, it makes a valuable contribution to studies on law and the humanities. While, for example, the relationship between law and literature has been extensively researched, the relationship between Law and Opera remains largely overlooked. The book approaches the topic from three perspectives in three main sections: Law in Opera, Law on Opera, and Law around Opera.
Download or read book Chopin s Piano written by Paul Kildea and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma, where Chopin finished what would eventually be recognised as one of the great and revolutionary works of musical Romanticism - his 24 Preludes. There was scarcely a decent piano on the island (these were still early days in the evolution of the modern instrument), so Chopin worked on a small pianino made by a local craftsman, which remained in their monastic cell for seventy years after he and Sand had left. This brilliant and unclassifiable book traces the history of Chopin's 24 Preludes through the instruments on which they were played, the pianists who interpreted them and the traditions they came to represent. Yet it begins and ends with the Majorcan pianino, which during the Second World War assumed an astonishing cultural potency as it became, for the Nazis, a symbol of the man and music they were determined to appropriate as their own. The unexpected hero of the second part of the book is the great keyboard player and musical thinker Wanda Landowska, who rescued the pianino from Valldemossa in 1913, and who would later become one of the most influential musical figures of the twentieth century. Kildea shows how her story - a compelling account based for the first time on her private papers - resonates with Chopin's, while simultaneously distilling part of the cultural and political history of Europe and the United States in the central decades of the century. Kildea's beautifully interwoven narratives, part cultural history and part detective story, take us on an unexpected journey through musical Romanticism and allow us to reflect freshly on the changing meaning of music over time.
