Download or read book Studies in the Solo Song Cycles of Selected Twentieth Century British Composers written by Jay Weldon Wilkey and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Extended Works for Solo Voice and Piano Or Chamber Ensemble by Twentieth Century British Composers written by Dwight Eugene Weldy and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twentieth and Twenty First Century Song Cycles written by Gordon Sly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles: Analytical Pathways Toward Performance presents analyses of fourteen song cycles composed after the turn of the twentieth century, with a focus on offering ways into the musical and poetic structure of each cycle to performers, scholars, and students alike. Ranging from familiar works of twentieth-century music by composers such as Schoenberg, Britten, Poulenc, and Shostakovich to lesser-known works by Van Wyk, Sviridov, Wheeler, and Sánchez, this collection of essays captures the diversity of the song cycle repertoire in contemporary classical music. The contributors bring their own analytical perspectives and methods, considering musical structures, the composers' selection of texts, how poetic narratives are expressed, and historical context. Informed by music history, music theory, and performance, Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles offers an essential guide into the contemporary art-music song cycle for performers, scholars, students, and anyone seeking to understand this unique genre.
Download or read book Song written by Carol Kimball and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). Carol Kimball's comprehensive survey of art song literature has been the principal one-volume American source on the topic. Now back in print after an absence of several years, this newly revised edition includes biographies and discussions of the work of 150 composers of various nationalities, as well as articles on styles of various schools of composition.
Download or read book A Guide to 20th century Composers written by Mark Morris and published by London : Methuen. This book was released on 1996 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographically arranged, with the composers listed alphabetically. Covers music composed since 1918. 960 p.
Download or read book The Solo Song Cycle written by Wendell Dean Buckley and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art Song written by Carol Kimball and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). Art Song: Linking Poetry and Music is a follow-up to author Carol Kimball's bestselling Song: A Guide to Art Song Style and Literature . Rather than a general survey of art song literature, the new book clearly and insightfully defines the fundamental characteristics of art song, and the integral relationship between lyric poetry and its musical settings. Topics covered include poetry basics for singers, exercises for singers in working with poetry, insights into composers' musical settings of poetry, building recital programs, performance suggestions, and recommended literature for college and university classical voice majors. The three appendices address further aspects of poetry, guidelines for creating a recital program, and representative classical voice recitals of various descriptions. Art Song: Linking Poetry and Music is extremely useful as an "unofficial" text for college/university vocal literature classes, as an excellent resource for singers and voice teachers, and of interest to all those who are fascinated by the rich legacy of the art song genre.
Download or read book Sensibility and English Song written by Stephen Banfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of English song from the late nineteenth century to the Second World War.
Download or read book Studies in Music Literature written by Verne Waldo Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Music of Harrison Birtwistle written by Robert Adlington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harrison Birtwistle has become the most eminent and acclaimed of contemporary British composers. This book provides a comprehensive view of his large and varied output. It contains descriptions of every published work, and also of a number of withdrawn and unpublished pieces. Revealing light is often cast on the more familiar pieces by considering these lesser-known areas of Birtwistle's oeuvre. The book is structured around a number of broad themes - themes of significance to Birtwistle, but also to much other music. These include theatre, song, time and texture. This approach emphasizes the music's multifarious ways of meaning; now that even the academic world no longer takes the merits of 'difficult' contemporary music for granted, it is all the more important to assess what it represents beyond mere technical innovation. Adlington thus avoids in-depth technical analysis, focusing instead upon the music's wider cultural significance.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Download or read book German Song Onstage written by Natasha Loges and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A singer in an evening dress, a grand piano. A modest-sized audience, mostly well-dressed and silver-haired, equipped with translation booklets. A program consisting entirely of songs by one or two composers. This is the way of the Lieder recital these days. While it might seem that this style of performance is a long-standing tradition, German Song Onstage demonstrates that it is not. For much of the 19th century, the songs of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms were heard in the home, salon, and, no less significantly, on the concert platform alongside orchestral and choral works. A dedicated program was rare, a dedicated audience even more so. The Lied was a genre with both more private and more public associations than is commonly recalled. The contributors to this volume explore a broad range of venues, singers, and audiences in distinct places and time periods—including the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, and Germany—from the mid-19th century through the early 20th century. These historical case studies are set alongside reflections from a selection of today's leading musicians, offering insights on current Lied practices that will inform future generations of performers, scholars, and connoisseurs. Together these case studies unsettle narrow and elitist assumptions about what it meant and still means to present German song onstage by providing a transnational picture of historical Lieder performance, and opening up discussions about the relationship between history and performance today.
Download or read book Music of the Twentieth Century written by Ton de Leeuw and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ton de Leeuw was a truly groundbreaking composer. As evidenced by his pioneering study of compositional methods that melded Eastern traditional music with Western musical theory, he had a profound understanding of the complex and often divisive history of twentieth-century music. Now his renowned chronicle Music of the Twentieth Century is offered here in a newly revised English-language edition. Music of the Twentieth Century goes beyond a historical survey with its lucid and impassioned discussion of the elements, structures, compositional principles, and terminologies of twentieth-century music. De Leeuw draws on his experience as a composer, teacher, and music scholar of non-European music traditions, including Indian, Indonesian, and Japanese music, to examine how musical innovations that developed during the twentieth century transformed musical theory, composition, and scholarly thought around the globe.
Download or read book David Diamond as Song Composer written by Robert Allen Wells and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Leo Diamond (1915 - 2005) was one of the most prolific American composers of the twentieth century, having written eleven symphonies, nine string quartets, numerous works for solo piano and chamber ensemble, incidental music, and more than one hundred vocal works. A student of Roger Sessions and Nadia Boulanger, Diamond was a significant figure in American music, both as a composer and as a teacher. The purpose of this document is to highlight Diamond's achievements as a composer of works for voice and piano by providing a survey of his compositions in this genre along with a theoretical and stylistic analysis of selected, seminal compositions. The first chapter will comprise a brief biography of Diamond's life while placing his major compositions into the context of his stylistic evolution and development. Chapter Two, a survey the major works for voice and piano, will define more specifically Diamond's compositional style and approach as illustrated by his setting of text to music. The third chapter includes more detailed analyses of six songs that are representative of his early period of composition, On Death (1943), For an Old Man (1943), Music, when soft voices die (1943), Epitaph (1945), To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars (1945), and My Spirit will not Haunt the Mound (1946). Two song cycles, The Midnight Meditation (1951), and Hebrew Melodies (1968) represent Diamond's further evolution as a composer and are discussed in detail in this chapter. Chapter Four, the concluding chapter, summarizes Diamond's achievements as a composer of significance in the genre of vocal literature and addresses the comparative lack of recognition he has received for his works for voice when compared with his instrumental compositions. Despite the breadth and depth of his output for voice, Diamond's reputation rests primarily on his orchestral and chamber works. The songs of David Diamond merit further scholarly inquiry and more frequent public performance. It is the author's assertion that increased study and performance of his works will elevate Diamond's works to their rightful place in American Art Song.
Download or read book The Musical Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians written by Oscar Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 2506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
