Download or read book Music of the Soviet Era 1917 1991 written by Levon Hakobian and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a comprehensive and detailed survey of music and musical life of the entire Soviet era, from 1917 to 1991, which takes into account the extensive body of scholarly literature in Russian and other major European languages. In this considerably updated and revised edition of his 1998 publication, Hakobian traces the strikingly dramatic development of the music created by outstanding and less well-known, ‘modernist’ and ‘conservative’, ‘nationalist’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ composers of the Soviet era. The book’s three parts explore, respectively, the musical trends of the 1920s, music and musical life under Stalin, and the so-called ’Bronze Age’ of Soviet music after Stalin’s death. Music of the Soviet Era: 1917–1991 considers the privileged position of music in the USSR in comparison to the written and visual arts. Through his examination of the history of the arts in the Soviet state, Hakobian’s work celebrates the human spirit’s wonderful capacity to derive advantage even from the most inauspicious conditions.

Download or read book Shostakovich and His World written by Laurel E. Fay and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. But the story of his controversial role in history is still being told, and his full measure as a musician still being taken. This collection of essays goes far in expanding the traditional purview of Shostakovich's world, exploring the composer's creativity and art in terms of the expectations--historical, cultural, and political--that forged them. The collection contains documents that appear for the first time in English. Letters that young "Miti" wrote to his mother offer a glimpse into his dreams and ambitions at the outset of his career. Shostakovich's answers to a 1927 questionnaire reveal much about his formative tastes in the arts and the way he experienced the creative process. His previously unknown letters to Stalin shed new light on Shostakovich's position within the Soviet artistic elite. The essays delve into neglected aspects of Shostakovich's formidable legacy. Simon Morrison provides an in-depth examination of the choreography, costumes, décor, and music of his ballet The Bolt and Gerard McBurney of the musical references, parodies, and quotations in his operetta Moscow, Cheryomushki. David Fanning looks at Shostakovich's activities as a pedagogue and the mark they left on his students' and his own music. Peter J. Schmelz explores the composer's late-period adoption of twelve-tone writing in the context of the distinctively "Soviet" practice of serialism. Other contributors include Caryl Emerson, Christopher H. Gibbs, Levon Hakobian, Leonid Maximenkov, and Rosa Sadykhova. In a provocative concluding essay, Leon Botstein reflects on the different ways listeners approach the music of Shostakovich.

Download or read book Paper Mache 1917 paperback written by David Grunwald and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paper Mache 1917 is the author's first novella and celebrates the centenary of the Russian Revolution. The epic work explores timeless themes of war, love and hate, tragedy and redemption and offers a fresh historical look at the revolutionary forces unleashed before and after the Russian Revolution in 1917. In some cases, the story uses images made popular by Imaginism, a poetic school founded in Moscow after the Revolution in 1918. The story opens in 1905 and follows the lives of Johan Wagner, a radio specialist in the German Wehrmacht and Rosa Kautsky, a Polish born pianist and translator. The story performs a delicate dance between the meta and macro of people and places in a complex time - against the backdrop of the two major ideologies of the 20th century: the rise of German National Socialism and Soviet Communism. Original translations capture the creative forces of writers like Marina Tsvetaeva, and Goethe - voices not often heard in the West.

Download or read book HB written by Jürgen Schaarwächter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, This volume brings together a wide selection of those articles which include interviews, personal recollections of Brian and several detailed analyses of some of his works, generously illustrated with music examples. The book concludes with a recently updated catalogue of works.

Download or read book Orchestral Music written by David Daniels and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005-10-13 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also Available: Orchestral Music Online This fourth edition of the highly acclaimed, classic sourcebook for planning orchestral programs and organizing rehearsals has been expanded and revised to feature 42% more compositions over the third edition, with clearer entries and a more useful system of appendixes. Compositions cover the standard repertoire for American orchestra. Features from the previous edition that have changed and new additions include: · Larger physical format (8.5 x 11 vs. 5.5 x 8.5) · Expanded to 6400 entries and almost 900 composers (only 4200 in 3rd Ed.) · Merged with the American Symphony Orchestra League's OLIS (Orchestra Library Information Service) · Enhanced specific information on woodwind & brass doublings · Lists of required percussion equipment for many works · New, more intuitive format for instrumentation · More contents notes and durations of individual movements · Composers' citizenship, birth and death dates and places, integrated into the listings · Listings of useful websites for orchestra professionals

Download or read book Shostakovich written by Elizabeth Wilson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-03 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new edition, produced to coincide with the centenary of Shostakovich's birth, draws on many new writings on the composer. In doing so, it provides both a more detailed and focused image of Shostakovich's life, and a wider view of his cultural background."--P. [4] of cover.

Download or read book Shostakovich written by Laurel E. Fay and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this biography the author has used many primary documents; Shostakovich's many letters, concert programmes, newspaper articles and diaries of his contemporaries. Showing his life as an example of the paradoxes of living as an artist in Russia.

Download or read book Daniels Orchestral Music written by David Daniels and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 1464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniels’ Orchestral Music is the gold standard for all orchestral professionals—from conductors, librarians, programmers, students, administrators, and publishers, to even instructors—seeking to research and plan an orchestral program, whether for a single concert or a full season. This sixth edition, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the original edition, has the largest increase in entries for a new edition of Orchestral Music: 65% more works (roughly 14,050 total) and 85% more composers (2,202 total) compared to the fifth edition. Composition details are gleaned from personal inspection of scores by orchestral conductors, making it a reliable one-stop resource for repertoire. Users will find all the familiar and useful features of the fifth edition as well as significant updates and corrections. Works are organized alphabetically by composer and title, containing information on duration, instrumentation, date of composition, publication, movements, and special accommodations if any. Individual appendices make it easy to browse works with chorus, solo voices, or solo instruments. Other appendices list orchestral works by instrumentation and duration, as well as works intended for youth concerts. Also included are significant anniversaries of composers, composer groups for thematic programming, a title index, an introduction to Nieweg charts, essential bibliography, internet sources, institutions and organizations, and a directory of publishers necessary for the orchestra professional. This trusted work used around the globe is a must-have for orchestral professionals, whether conductors or orchestra librarians, administrators involved in artistic planning, music students considering orchestral conducting, authors of program notes, publishers and music dealers, and instructors of conducting.

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.

Download or read book Kirill Kondrashin written by Gregor Tassie and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirill Kondrashin: His Life in Music presents a full biography of the artist, from his humble background and early conducting experience at age 17, through his 20 years in Leningrad and at the Bolshoi Theatre; from his breaking with the Bolshoi and the expanded symphonic career that followed, through his defection in 1978 and his unexpected death of a heart attack in 1981. Twenty photos are included, as well as a full discography, bibliography, and index.

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Download or read book Hidden Fields written by By Dr. Charles N. Ford and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-01-12 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Charles Ford continues to examine the philosophy of choice in the spirit of poetry by existentialism. Many themes are included, such as alienation, God, death, love, and so on. Here the list of themes is not exhausted. The roots of these choices are grounded in the will of the individual rather than his/her reason. He/she confronts problems that are seen in the world, so by his/her actions disclose human nature and reflect his/her latent dispositions. This is where inner choices must arise, so external choices may be seen as actions per se. When these state-of-affairs are closely examined, they disclosed aspects of the human condition. Experiences that revealed that we are human beings touching various realms of reality. For our inner/external choices say something about our makeup, we are wonderfully composed, and dynamically active from moment-to-moment of our existence. In Hidden Fields Book 3, Charles has written lots of poems in a personal way. He invites the readers to come along, and experience reality both mentally and through their senses. Every reader will soon discover something about him/ her with respect to choices that were made that he/she is fleshly human and is real. Charles wants to share and invite the reader into his home now.

Download or read book Music Dictionary written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Paperback Songs). This convenient new paperback-sized music dictionary is divided into three main sections. The Dictionary of Music Terms concisely defines more than 2,200 notation and theory terms, and instruments and terms used in pop music, electronic music and the music business. The Dictionary of Musicians provides more than 450 capsule biographies of composers and other musicians, noting dates of birth and death, nationality, historical period, areas of composition, and major works. Finally, a collection of Reference Charts gives instant, at-a-glance summaries of the essentials of music: notation signs and symbols including tab and scales, modes and key signatures.

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Download or read book Dmitri Shostakovich written by Derek C. Hulme and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Toronto : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hulme's catalogue of the composer's works was first published privately in 1982. This second edition adds greatly to the information contained therein and brings it up-to-date. For each numbered work and all the known unnumbered compositions, Hulme provides a short description, and lists date of composition, dedicatee, forces the work employs, location of the autograph score, duration, arrangements of the work, première(s), an extensive list of recordings, and references to bibliography items where the piece is discussed in any detail.

Download or read book Gramophone Classical Good CD Guide 2001 written by Gramophone and published by Gramophone Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to be published in September 2000, this essential guide contains reviews by the world's leading writers on classical music. Whether you're looking for a Mozart symphony or a Turnadge opera, a Liebermann concerto or a Haydn string quartet, the Gramophone Classical Good CD Guide provides you with access to the expertise to ensure that the choices you make are the best possible. With a Suggested Basic Library, ratings for the best discs and over 5,000 reviews, the Gramophone Classical Good CD Guide is the essential buy for anyone interested in classical music.

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