Download or read book Othmar Schoeck written by Chris Walton and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Places the Swiss composer Schoeck, master of a late-Romantic style both sensuous and stringent, in context and gives insight into his increasingly popular musical works.
Download or read book The Song Cycles of Othmar Schoeck written by Derrick Puffett and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1982 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oxford, 1976.
Download or read book 1 Brief an Othmar Schoeck written by Paul Schoeck and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Analyses of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Music 1940 2000 written by D. J. Hoek and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume incorporates all entries from the previous editions by Arthur Wenk, expanding to cover writings drawn from periodicals, theses, dissertations, books, and Festschriften from 1940 to 2000. Over 9,000 references to analyses of works by over 1,000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are included.
Download or read book The Song Cycle written by Laura Tunbridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates how other types of music have influenced the scope of the song cycle, from operas and symphonies to popular song --
Download or read book Othmar Schoeck 1886 1957 a biography written by Christopher Robert Walton and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Simon on Music written by John Ivan Simon and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative collection and major publishing event brings together the critical highlights of the well-known New York cultural critic John Simon. Covering a span of more than three decades, it includes previously published work from New York, The Hudson Review, National Review, Opera News, The New Leader, and other notable publications. This music volume is the most varied and contains both music reviews and essays on opera and classical performances and recordings, even Brazilian music, with CD references, that reflect Simon's most up-to-date views on the topic. A SAMPLE: Simon on Erik Satie: "The preferred word for Satie's music is depouillement, meaning stripping down, sobriety, concision, or bareness. 'The artist does not have the right to dispose needlessly of the hearer's time,' Satie proclaimed. But no one else's bareness, save that of a Greek statue or Renaissance nude, seems so fully, sensuously self-sufficient."
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation 1938 1945 written by David Fanning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following their entry into Austria and the Sudetenland in the late 1930s, the Germans attempted to impose a policy of cultural imperialism on the countries they went on to occupy during World War II. Almost all music institutions in the occupied lands came under direct German control or were subject to severe scrutiny and censorship, the prime objective being to change the musical fabric of these nations and force them to submit to the strictures of Nazi ideology. This pioneering collection of essays is the first in the English language to look in more detail at the musical consequences of German occupation during a dark period in European history. It embraces a wide range of issues, presenting case studies involving musical activity in a number of occupied European cities, as well as in countries that were part of the Axis or had established close diplomatic relations with Germany. The wartime careers and creative outputs of individual musicians who were faced with the dilemma of either complying with or resisting the impositions of the occupiers are explored. In addition, there is some reflection on the post-war implications of German occupation for the musical environment in Europe. Music under German Occupation is written for all music-lovers, students, professionals and academics who have particular interests in 20th-century music and/or the vicissitudes of European cultural life during World War II.
Download or read book Paul Hindemith written by Stephen Luttmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Hindemith: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a musician and teacher. The second edition includes research published since the publication of the first edition and provides electronic resources.
Download or read book The Book of Lieder written by Ian Bostridge and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 1247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume contains, in parallel translation, a thousand of the most frequently performed Lieder, both piano-accompanied and orchestral. Composers are arranged alphabetically, with their songs appearing under poet in chronological order of composition - thus allowing the reader to engage in depth with a particular poet and at the same time to follow the composer's development. Richard Stokes, whose work in this field is already widely acclaimed, provides illuminating short essays on each of the fifty composers' approach to Lieder composition, as well as well as notes on all the poets who inspired the songs.The volume is notable for the accuracy and elegance of its translations, and for its fidelity to the German verse: every care has been taken to print the words of the sung text, while adhering to the versification and punctuation of the original poem.Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, Goethe, Heine and Schiller are among the highlights of a book which illuminates one of the great musical traditions and will be an indispensable handbook for every music lover.
Download or read book Bronze by Gold written by Sebastian D.G. Knowles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume investigate several themes about music's relationship to the literary compositions of James Joyce: music as a condition to which Joyce aspired; music theory as a useful way of reading his works; and musical compositions inspired by or connected with him.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Lied written by James Parsons and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning several generations before Schubert, the Lied first appears as domestic entertainment. In the century that follows it becomes one of the primary modes of music-making. By the time German song comes to its presumed conclusion with Richard Strauss's 1948 Vier letzte Lieder, this rich repertoire has moved beyond the home and keyboard accompaniment to the symphony hall. This is a 2004 introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre. In essays by eminent scholars, this Companion places the Lied in its full context - at once musical, literary, and cultural - with chapters devoted to focal composers as well as important issues, such as the way in which the Lied influenced other musical genres, its use as a musical commodity, and issues of performance. The volume is framed by a detailed chronology of German music and poetry from the late 1730s to the present and also contains a comprehensive bibliography.
Download or read book Walt Whitman and Modern Music written by Lawrence Kramer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walt Whitman's poetry, especially his Civil War poetry, attracted settings by a wide variety of modern composers in both English- and German-speaking countries. The essays in this volume trace the transformation of Whitman's nineteenth-century texts into vehicles for confronting twentieth-century problems-aesthetic, social, and political. The contributors pay careful attention to music and poetry alike in examining how the Whitman settings become exemplary means of dealing with both the tragic and utopian faces of modernism. The book is accompanied by a recording by Joan Heller and Thomas Stumpf of complete Whitman cycles composed by Kurt Weill, George Crumb, and Lawrence Kramer, and the first recording of four Whitman songs composed in the 1920s by Marc Blitzstein.
Download or read book Surprised by Beauty written by Robert Reilly and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best music of the 20th century "developed our capacity for feeling, deepened our compassion, and furthered our quest for and understanding of what Aristotle called 'the perfect end of life' ". — from the Foreword by NPR music critic Ted Libbey The single greatest crisis of the 20th century was the loss of faith. Noise—and its acceptance as music—was the product of the resulting spiritual confusion and, in its turn, became the further cause of its spread. Likewise, the recovery of modern music, the theme to which this book is dedicated, stems from a spiritual recovery. This is made explicitly clear by the composers whose interviews with the author are collected in this book. Robert Reilly spells out the nature of the crisis and its solution in sections that serve as bookends to the chapters on individual composers. He does not contend that all of these composers underwent and recovered from the central crisis he describes, but they all lived and worked within its broader context, and soldiered on, writing beautiful music. For this, they suffered ridicule and neglect, and he believes their rehabilitation will change the reputation of modern music. It is the spirit of music that this book is most about, and in his efforts to discern it, Reilly has discovered many treasures. The purpose of this book is to share them, to entice you to listen—because beauty is contagious. English conductor John Eliot Gardiner writes that experiencing Bach's masterpieces "is a way of fully realizing the scale and scope of what it is to be human". The reader may be surprised by how many works of the 20th and 21st centuries of which this is also true.
Download or read book The Fassbind Family 2019 written by Fridolin J. Fassbind and published by Fridolin J. Fassbind. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting in the Late Middle Ages, the Fassbind family history spans across almost a millennium until present day. Family trees go back to the 14th century and serve as orientation. Images and illustrations of personalities show the exponents of the individual Fassbind generations. Postcards of the hotel palaces during the Belle Époque reflect the pioneering spirit of the family and honors from a wide range of European royalties represent its business success. Ancestors’ achievements and notable positions in politics and military once brought influence and prestige to the family. The aforementioned appears in the first part of the book («The Golden Age»). With the outbreak of World War I, the Belle Époque ended and turbulent times dawned upon the family. The hotel business, in particular, faced lean years. These lasted until the end of World War II and put a lot of strain upon the family enterprises. The family eventually found economic relief in post-war years. At the same time, however, rapid social and technical change arose, which also took a grip of the Fassbind family and their companies. Family members had to adapt and opened a new chapter with new life and business models. Throughout this period, family ties loosened, and some branches lost contact altogether. Others continued to cultivate their relationships and met each other on a variety of family gatherings. This is especially true for the descendants of the Fassbind family in Arth and Lugano, who kept in touch throughout the decades and corresponded frequently. The second part of the book («Changing Times») focuses on these two branches. The third part of the book («A New Beginning») addresses the latest development of the Fassbind branch in Vitznau. It is the starting point for the further development of my history and that of my siblings and cousins.
Download or read book Derrick Puffett on Music written by KathrynBailey Puffett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I listen to a piece and ask myself what has made the greatest impression on me. What has moved me the most about it, what has excited me the most, what it is I want to write about, what sets my mind working, what sets off my imagination.' Derrick Puffett's description to a group of Cambridge graduate students of his approach to listening and writing about music is clearly evident in the articles reprinted in this collection. For the first time, the book makes available in one place writings previously widely dispersed amongst many journals and symposia. Resonances emerge that cross from essay to essay, with the result that a larger, coherent project is revealed. Insistent on the need of music analysis to be accompanied by a wider historical knowledge, Puffett believed strongly that the methods to be adopted on each occasion must be dictated by the music at hand. His work on Bruckner, Strauss, Webern, Zemlinsky, Delius and Debussy is of enduring importance to the study of music. With a prose style distinguished for its elegance and clarity, Puffett's writings will enhance the understanding and enjoyment of the music that he discusses amongst students and teachers alike.
Download or read book James Joyce in Zurich written by Andreas Fischer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive account of James Joyce and Zurich, one of the four cities (including Dublin, Trieste and Paris) in which he spent significant parts of his life. As a refugee during World War I, Joyce wrote a substantial part of Ulysses in Zurich and subsequently visited the city regularly during the 1930s. Finally, a refugee for the second time, he died there on 13 January 1941 and is buried in Fluntern Cemetery. This guide is conceived both as a book that may be read in its entirety or consulted selectively for specific information. An introduction and three chapters, Joyce in Zurich, Zurich in Joyce and Zurich after Joyce, are followed by sixty alphabetically ordered articles on people, places, institutions and events relevant to Joyce during his time in Zurich. Linked by cross-references and an index, they provide a rich, kaleidoscopic view of Joyce’s Zurich.
