Download or read book Enrique Granados written by Walter Aaron Clark and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Granados was among the leading pianists of his time, and his eloquence at the keyboard inspired critics to dub him the "poet of the piano." In Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano, Walter Aaron Clark offers the first substantive study in English of this virtuoso pianist, composer, and music pedagogue. While providing detailed analyses of his major works for voice, piano, and the stage, Clark argues that Granados's art represented a unifying presence on the cultural landscape of Spain during a period of imperial decline, political unrest, and economic transformation. Drawing on newly discovered documents, Clark explores the cultural spheres in which Granados moved, particularly of Castile and Catalonia. Granados's best-known music was inspired by the art of Francisco Goya, especially the Goyescas suite for solo piano that became the basis for the opera. These pieces evoked the colorful and dramatic world that Goya inhabited and depicted in his art. Granados's fascination with Goya's Madrid set him apart from fellow nationalists Albeniz and Falla, who drew their principal inspiration from Andalusia. Though he was resolutely apolitical, Granados's attraction to Castile antagonized some Catalan nationalists, who resented Castilian domination. Yet, Granados also made important contributions to Catalan musical theater and was a prominent figure in the modernist movement in Barcelona.".
Download or read book May Song written by Enrique Granados and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expertly arranged early advanced piano sheet music by Enrique Granados.
Download or read book 12 Spanish Dances Op 5 written by Enrique Granados and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2012-02-22 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Granados's 12 Spanish Dances is a cycle of keyboard vignettes depicting Spanish life. This is the first critical edition published in the United States that includes Granados's final revisions. Performance notes, historical information and a glossary of Spanish terms are included. This edition aids in interpretation through added fingerings, editorial pedal, and indications for subtle changes in tempo, which are integral to the performance of Spanish music. Dr. Kuehl-White studied in Barcelona with legendary Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha, who provided a tremendous legacy regarding the performance practice traditions of Granados's music. Titles: * Galante * Oriental * Fandango * Villanesca * Andaluza * Rondalla Aragonesa * Valenciana * Asturiana * Romántica * Melancólica * Arabesca * Bolero
Download or read book Enrique Granados written by Carol A. Hess and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1991-12-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enrique Granados (1867-1916) was one of the first modern Spanish composers to achieve international recognition. During a 1916 visit to the United States his opera Goyescas was premiered by the Metropolitan Opera and his symphonic poem, Dante, by the Chicago Symphony. Granados was also especially admired in Paris, where he knew Saint-Saens, d'Indy, and Faure. He had composed a remarkable body of work and was also at the height of his career as a concert pianist at his untimely death while a passenger on a torpedoed British ship. The biographical study, the first in English, draws on primary sources in English, Spanish, French, Catalan, and other languages. This material is carefully documented in the extensive annotated bibliography along with contemporaneous and recent analytical studies and other sources. Granados's oeuvre presents cataloging problems due to his habit of reworking pieces, long-delayed publication, and arbitrary opus numbers. In the Works and Performances section, however, every effort has been made to offer publication dates, manuscript locations, and information on premieres. Representative arrangements of his works by other composers are also given. An appendix classifies the works by scoring. A selective discography is also provided, and all parts of the volume are fully cross-referenced and indexed. Granados is placed in the context of the international artistic scene at the turn of the century, and a chronology notes related events.
Download or read book The Last Journey of Enrique Granados written by David Walton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-02-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survivor of the 1916 torpedo attack on a Cross channel ferry, Sussex, recognised Spanish composer Granados in a lifeboat, his wife in the water. Granados dived in to save her and perished. Subsequently, the Sussex incident became a pawn in the propaganda battle of WW1. Extensive research into family involvement in WW1 put David Walton in possession of historical detail not generally known. He assisted American novelist John Milton to obtain background material for 'The Fallen Nightingale'. This book, which includes translation into Spanish and Catalan, is Walton's own account of the composer's unhappy final journey. It is the truth behind the story.
Download or read book Allegro de concierto written by Enrique Granados and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of the color, harmonies, and rhythms of Spanish folk music, this excellent, authoritative compilation of works by Granados features his finest pieces: A la cubana, Op. 36 (In Cuban style); Allegro de concierto, Op. 46 (Concert allegro); Capricho español, Op. 39 (Spanish caprice); Dos danzas españoles, Op. 37 (Two Spanish dances); Dos Impromptus; El pelele (The puppet); Marche militaire, Op. 38; Moresque y Cancion arabe (Moorish piece and Arabian song); Ochos valses poeticos (Eight poetic waltzes); Seis piezas sobre cantos populares españoles (Six pieces on Spanish folksongs); and the composer's own transcription of the world-famous Intermezzo from his opera Goyescas.
Download or read book A History of Spanish Piano Music written by Linton Powell and published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pianists Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature written by Jane Magrath and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1995 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference book is an invaluable resource for teachers, students and performers for evaluating and selecting piano solo literature. Concise and thoroughly researched, thousands of works, from the Baroque through the Contemporary periods, have been graded and evaluated in detail. Includes an alphabetical list of composers, explanations of works and much more.
Download or read book Famous Fun Classics Book 5 written by Carol Matz and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-10-19 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous & Fun: Classics, Book 5, offers a wonderful introduction to the timeless masterpieces of the great composers. Featuring arrangements of themes from symphonic, operatic and keyboard literature, these works have been carefully selected to appeal to students at the intermediate level. Titles: * Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod) * Canon (Pachelbel) * Clair de lune (Debussy) * Funeral March of a Marionette (Gounod) * Habanera (Bizet) * Hornpipe (Handel) * In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) * La donna e mobile (Verdi) * Piano Concerto No. 1 Theme (Tchaikovsky) * Swan, The (Saint-Saens) * Un bel di (Puccini)
Download or read book A History of Song written by Denis Stevens and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1961 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of almost a thousand years of song, from the time of the troubadours, to the present day.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century written by Lol Henderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century is an alphabetically arranged encyclopedia of all aspects of music in various parts of the world during the 20th century. It covers the major musical styles--concert music, jazz, pop, rock, etc., and such key genres as opera, orchestral music, be-bop, blues, country, etc. Articles on individuals provide biographical information on their life and works, and explore the contribution each has made in the field. Illustrated and fully cross-referenced, the Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century also provides Suggested Listening and Further Reading information. A good first point of reference for students, librarians, and music scholars--as well as for the general reader.
Download or read book Dissonances of Modernity written by Irene Gómez-Castellano and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dissonances of Modernity illuminates the ways in which music, as an artifact, a practice, and a discourse redefines established political, social, gender, and cultural conventions in Modern Spain. Using the notion of dissonance as a point of departure, the volume builds on the insightful approaches to the study of music and society offered by previous analyses in regards to the central position they give to identity as a socially and historically constructed concept, and continues their investigation on the interdependence of music and society in the Iberian Peninsula. While other serious studies of the intersections of music and literature in Spain have focused on contemporary usage, Dissonances of Modernity looks back across the centuries, seeking the role of music in the very formation of identity in the peninsula. The volume's historical horizon reaches from the nineteenth-century War of Africa to the Catalan working class revolutions and Enric Granados' central role in Catalan identity; from Francisco Barbieri's Madrid to the Wagnerian's influence in Benito Perez Galdos' prose; and from the predicaments surrounding national anthems to the use of the figure of Carmen in Francoist' cinema. This volume is a timely scholarly addition that contemplates not only a broad corpus that innovatively comprises popular and high culture--zarzuelas, choruses of industrial workers, opera, national anthems--but also their inter-dependence in the artists' creativity.
Download or read book Classical Music written by Duncan Clark and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2001 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketches of classical composers and CD reviews.
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Classical Music written by Joe Staines and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expanded and completely revised fifth edition is a unique ebook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to current leading lights such as Thomas Adès and Kaija Saariaho. There are concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics. Topics such as the influence of jazz, notation, conducting, the madrigal, and why Stradivarius made such great violins are covered fully in feature boxes. The Rough Guide to Classical Music in a new ebook (PDF) fromat has been praised for its mix of well-known composers with more obscure, but interesting, figures (like Antoine Brumel and Barbara Strozzi), and for the way it takes contemporary music seriously.
Download or read book A New Look at Segovia His Life His Music Volume 2 written by Graham Wade and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second comprehensive and scholarly volume of over 500 pages on the life and work of Andres Segovia contains a biography of the years 1958-1987 and focuses on Segovia's rendition of Spanish/Romantic and Contemporary/Neo-Classical masterpieces by Tárrega, Albeniz, Granados, Llobet and Ponce. A special appendix in each volume presents the original scores for the Segovia editions discussed in the text, some of which have never been published, as well as modern editions of these pieces. Includes access to an online audio recording by Gerard Garno.
Download or read book Music in the 20th Century 3 Vol Set written by Dave DiMartino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an examination of the crucial formative period of Chinese attitudes toward nuclear weapons, the immediate post-Hiroshima/Nagasaki period and the Korean War. It also provides an account of US actions and attitudes during this period and China's response.
Download or read book Song written by Carol Kimball and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naslagwerk van de liedkunst en de literatuur hierover.
