Download or read book Book of Musical Anecdotes written by Norman Lebrecht and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1985-12 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of anecdotes about great composers and performers, as told by themselves, their friends and loved ones, and their colleagues; arranged chronologically by date of birth, from approximately 991 to 1928.
Download or read book Slonimsky s Book of Musical Anecdotes written by Nicholas Slonimsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scathing reviews, whimsical stories, and diverting games fill the pages of this utterly engaging kaleidoscope of skewed tales on the world of Classical music. It dishes out a marvelous feast of tales served up by a master storyteller whose reach extends around the world and to the beginnings of civilization.
Download or read book Schirmer Pronouncing Pocket Manual of Musical Terms written by Nicolas Slonimsky and published by Schirmer Trade Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handy guide has been expanded and adapted to cover all facets of music to meet the changing needs of today's musician. All of the latest musical terms, musical instruments, and performers have been added to this edition.
Download or read book The Book of Musical Anecdotes written by Norman Lebrecht and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is one of the most enjoyable and illuminating books ever published for the music lover, a feast of delightful anecdotes that reveal the all-too-human side of the great composers and performers. There are stories of appetites (Handel eating dinner for three), embarrassments (Brahms falling asleep as Liszt plays), oddities (Bruckner's dog being trained to howl at Wagner), and devotions (a lovely admirer disrobing in tribute to Puccini). There are memorable accounts of Stravinsky telling Proust how much he hates Beethoven, of Tchaikovsky's first bewildering telephone call, of Dvorak's strange love of pigeons, and of Verdi's intricate maneuvering to keep the now-famous melody of "La donna e mobile" top secret. There is also wonderful trivia (Beethoven loved to cat "bread soup" made with ten raw eggs), along with eccentric strategies (Verdi, disturbed by the sound of street organs playing arias from his operas, hired them all for a season and kept them locked in a room). There are examples of musicians munificent generosity (Haydn called Mozart "the greatest composer known to me, either in person or by name"), and scathing dismissal ("Have you heard any Stockhausen?" the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham was asked. "No," he replied, "but I believe I have trodden in some"). Collected from thousands of books, articles, and unpublished manuscripts (with historical sources provided in extensive notes), these anecdotes appear in their original form, throwing fresh light on familiar figures in the musical hall of fame. For browsing, reading, research and amusement, this book is a grand entertainment for concert-goers, record-buyers, operamanes, gossips and music lovers everywhere.
Download or read book A Book of Musical Anecdotes written by Frederick James Crowest and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Little Book of Music Anecdotes written by Helen L. Kaufmann and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Book Of Musical Anecdotes written by Frederick James Crowest and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with fascinating stories and interesting trivia about some of history's most famous musicians and composers, this book is a delight for music lovers everywhere. From Mozart to Beethoven to Chopin, it provides a unique glimpse into the lives and works of some of the past's greatest musical figures. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Lexicon of Musical Invective written by Nicolas Slonimsky and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Greatest Music Stories Never Told written by Rick Beyer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the highly successful History Channel series The Greatest Stories Never Told returns with new historic tales, this time focusing on amazing music stories that aren’t taught in the average classroom Rick Beyer plums the vast archives of the History Channel to deliver a treasure trove of obscure and fascinating stories to delight and entertain. The Greatest Music Stories Never Told continues the series tradition with short, fascinating tales accompanied by an array of stunning and diverse photographs from around the globe. The Greatest Music Stories Never Told illuminates the origins of a fascinating range of music topics, from instruments and styles to composers and technological advances—all which show us how little we really know. Guaranteed to astonish, bewilder, and stupefy, this all new volume will appeal not only to history buffs but to pop culture audiences and music fans of all ages and stripes.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and covering every kind of theatrical story and experience from the age of Shakespeare and Marlowe to the age of Stoppard and Mamet, from Richard Burbage to Richard Briers, from Nell Gwynn to Daniel Day-Lewis, from Sarah Bernhardt to Judi Dench. Players, playwrights, prompters, producers—they all feature. The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes provides a comprehensive, revealing, and hugely entertaining portrait of the world of theatre across four hundred years. Many of the anecdotes are humorous: all have something pertinent and illuminating to say about an aspect of theatrical life—whether it is the art of playwriting, the craft of covering up missed cues, the drama of the First Night, the nightmare of touring, or the secret ingredients of star quality. Edmund Kean, Henry Irving, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren—the great 'names' are all here, of course, but there are tales of the unexpected, too—and the unknown. This is a book—presented in five acts, with a suitably anecdotal and personal prologue from Gyles Brandreth—where, once in a while, the understudy takes centre-stage and Gyles Brandreth treats triumph and disaster just the same, including stories from the tattiest touring companies as well as from Broadway, the West End and theatres, large and small, in Australia, India, and across Europe.
Download or read book A Book of Musical Anecdotes from Every Available Source Volume 2 written by Frederick James Crowest and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...according to the measure usually given to the spondee." Pope in his "Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus," has mercilesslyt ridiculed the accounts of the power attributed to music by the ancients, and we must say that we feel inclined to agree with the author of "The Dunciad," when he refuses to give credence to accounts which are certainly over-seasoned with that quality known as the "miraculous." 403.--An Indirect Hint. Musicians as a rule love good cheer, both liquid and solid; fortunately for this predilection they have been at all times favoured guests of the wealthy, and perhaps no class in the whole community has had so large an experience of the hospitality of great men. That this rather undignified position of musical artists is no new thing is shown by the following story of ancient date: Philoxenus, who taught Antigenides the flute--and who, Burney says, "was so great an epicure that he is said to have wished for a throat as long as that of a crane, and all palate, in order to prolong the relish of the delicious morsels he swallowed--being served with a small fish at the table of Dionysius of Syracuse, and seeing an enormous turbot placed before the tyrant, put the head of the little fish close to his mouth, and pretended to whisper to it: then placed it close to his ear, as if to receive the answer more distinctly. Upon being AN INDIRECT HINT. 161 asked by Dionysius for an explanation of this mummery, he said, fI am writing a poem, sir, upon Galatea, one of the Nereids, and as I want information concerning several particulars relative to her father Nereus, and the watery element, that are quite out of my ken, I was in hopes of obtaining some satisfaction from this fish; but he tells me that...
Download or read book High Notes and Low written by Ray W. Moore and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Amadeus). Everyone loves to laugh, to wonder, and to be amazed. High Notes and Low presents interesting and unusual anecdotal information about classical music and musicians in a down-to-earth, easily readable form. Free of technical jargon, the book is appealing not only to the musician but to the general reader as well, and offers information that all can enjoy. The book is divided into six sections that provide general categories of anecdotes Composers, Performers, Critics, Conductors, Compositions, and This and That and encompasses information from all periods of music history. Whether it's camels onstage during the performance of an opera, a conductor's faux pas with a queen, an enraged wife burning her husband's only copy of a symphony, or a look into the many complexities of the Metropolitan Opera building at Lincoln Center, readers will find a vast assortment of fascinating, unexpected, and often unusual facts to keep them enthralled. No other book on the market provides such a wide, enthusiastic, and all-encompassing look into the facts and foibles of classical music. Originally designed for broadcast on KLRE-FM, Arkansas' premier classical music station, High Notes and Low proves that the world of the classical musician is indeed a wonderful, and sometimes zany, place to visit!
Download or read book Musical and Socio Cultural Anecdotes from Kit b al Agh n al Kab r written by George Dimitri Sawa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains annotated translations of anecdotes, on musicological and socio-cultural topics, from al-Iṣbahānī’s The Grand Book of Songs. Includes music theory and treatises; instruments; composition techniques; education and transmission; vocal and instrumental performances; solo and ensemble music; improvisations; emotions; dances; social status.
Download or read book A Book of Musical Anecdotes written by Frederick James Crowest and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ A Book Of Musical Anecdotes: From Every Available Source, Volume 2; A Book Of Musical Anecdotes: From Every Available Source; Frederick James Crowest Frederick James Crowest R. Bentley and son, 1878 Music
Download or read book Classic Fm Musical Anecdotes written by Henry Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Kelly and John Foley have compiled a symphony of anecdotes, notes, and quotes from the world of classical music—composers, conductors, soloists, instruments, and their critics; from batons to Beethoven, maracas to Meistersinger, Verdi to violas.
Download or read book A Book of Musical Anecdote from Every Available Source V1 1878 written by Frederick J. Crowest and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Show Boat written by Miles Kreuger and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of nearly two decades of collecting material on the masterpiece of musical theatre that Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern made from Edna Ferber's 1926 novel. Since Florenz Ziegfeld's production opened on Broadway in December 1927, "Show Boat" has been revived over and over, including three film versions, a recent TV adaptation, and the acclaimed 1988 recording featuring Frederica von Stade and Teresa Stratas. Kreuger tells a number of stories about the making of "Show Boat", such as Ferber's friendship with an acting couple who gave shows on their boat. He also talks about the stage production and its stars, including Paul Robeson, and how, in Broadway revivals and in films over the decades, "Show Boat" has remained one of the landmarks of the American musical stage. -- Amazon.com
