Download or read book Nineteenth Century Choral Music written by Donna M. Di Grazia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-Century Choral Music is an in-depth examination of the rich repertoire of choral music and the cultural phenomenon of choral music making throughout the period. The book is divided into three main sections. The first details the attraction to choral singing and the ways it was linked to different parts of society, and to the role of choral voices in the two principal large-scale genres of the period: the symphony and opera. A second section highlights ten choral-orchestral masterworks that are a central part of the repertoire. The final section presents overview and focus chapters covering composers, repertoire (both small and larger works), and performance life in an historical context from over a dozen regions of the world: Britain and Ireland, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latin America, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia and Finland, Spain, and the United States. This diverse collection of essays brings together the work of 25 authors, many of whom have devoted much of their scholarly lives to the composers and music discussed, giving the reader a lively and unique perspective on this significant part of nineteenth-century musical life.
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Music written by New York Public Library. Music Division and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Camille Saint Sa ns 1835 1921 written by Sabina Teller Ratner and published by Oxford : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camille Saint-Sa ns 1835-1921: A Thematic Catalogue of his Complete Works defines the achievement of this great French composer. All his musical works are presented: the well-recognized masterpieces, the childhood sketches, the unpublished compositions, and the previously unknown pieces now revealed for the first time. This comprehensive collection fully documents the composer's extraordinary contribution to the musical world. Volume 1 concentrates specifically on his Instrumental output, while the two later volumes will cover Dramatic Works and Choral & Vocal Works respectively.
Download or read book The Correspondence of Camille Saint Sa ns and Gabriel Faur written by Camille Saint-Saëns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This English edition of Jean-Michel Nectoux's collection of the complete correspondence of Saint-Saëns and Fauré features some 130 letters spanning the period from 1862 to 1920. Immensely significant to the study of French music, these letters throw light upon one of the longest-surviving friendships between two composers in the history of music. They also contain frank exchanges of views on such topics as the music of Wagner, Berlioz, Debussy, Franck and others; the state of musical education in France; and other important artistic figures of fin de siècle Paris including Puvis de Chavannes, Rodin and Fremiet. Barrie Jones's skilful translation of this important body of correspondence captures the often playful, casual, but always stimulating language of both composers. These letters are frequently the sole source for dating certain compositions or discovering projects that were started but then abandoned. They constitute a primary source for appreciation of Saint-Saëns's and Fauré's compositions, opinions and working practices.
Download or read book Gabriel Faur Catalogue des uvres Catalogue of works Werkverzeichnis written by Jean-Michel Nectoux and published by Bärenreiter-Verlag. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) ist vor allem als Liedkomponist, durch sein Requiem, einige Kammermusikwerke oder die Pavane gegenwärtig. Die seit 2010 im Bärenreiter-Verlag erscheinenden "Œuvres complètes de Gabriel Fauré" machen es sich zur Aufgabe, sein Werk in seiner ganzen Vielfalt einer neuen Rezeption zuzuführen. Als deren achter Band ist nun das Werkverzeichnis von Jean-Michel Nectoux erschienen. Das thematische Verzeichnis listet mit 201 Einträgen in chronologischer Folge alle bekannten Werke des Franzosen auf. Die Einträge führen in der neuen Zählung nach N-Nummern Informationen zu Opuszahl (nach der Zählung zu Faurés Lebzeiten), Besetzung, Tonart, Incipit, Text-Incipit und Textquelle, Quellenbeschreibungen der handschriftlichen Quellen, Datierung, Widmungsträgern, Datum der ersten Aufführung, Hinweise zu Verlagsbindungen, erschienenen Ausgaben, ggf. eigenen und fremden Bearbeitungen, Kommentare und bibliographische Hinweise. Nicht weniger als sechs Register ermöglichen eine schnelle Suche. Das Werkverzeichnis ("Catalogue Nectoux") wird sich schnell für alle, die sich mit Fauré und der Musik seiner Zeit beschäftigen, als unverzichtbares Nachschlagewerk erweisen. Es ist das Konzentrat von Nectoux' Arbeit der letzten 50 Jahre, Ergebnis seiner Reisen zu allen Bibliotheken, die Manuskripte Faurés verwahren – und eine Wegmarke musikalischer Forschung in Frankreich.
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Music Collection written by New York Public Library. Reference Department and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Organist written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music Books on Music and Sound Recordings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Record Changer written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Operas of Maurice Ravel written by Emily Kilpatrick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive study unites musical, literary, documentary and cultural perspectives to shed new light on Ravel's compositional practice.
Download or read book The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger written by Jeanice Brooks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the career of Nadia Boulanger, among the most influential musical figures of the entire twentieth century.
Download or read book Masters of French Music written by Arthur Hervey and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Masters of French Music by Arthur Hervey
Download or read book The carnival of the animals written by Camille Saint-Saëns and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen pieces -- scored for flute/piccolo, clarinet, glass harmonica (tuned glass bowls), xylophone, two pianos, and strings -- paint delightful musical portraits of a lion, chickens, turtles, an elephant, kangaroos, and the immensely popular swan.
Download or read book Debussy Letters written by Claude Debussy and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carmen Abroad written by Richard Langham Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 'old world' to the 'new' and back again, this transnational history of the performance and reception of Bizet's Carmen – whose subject has become a modern myth and its heroine a symbol – provides new understanding of the opera's enduring yet ever-evolving and resituated presence and popularity. This book examines three stages of cultural transfer: the opera's establishment in the repertoire; its performance, translation, adaptation and appropriation in Europe, the Americas and Australia; its cultural 'work' in Soviet Russia, in Japan in the era of Westernisation, in southern, regionalist France and in Carmen's 'homeland', Spain. As the volume reveals the ways in which Bizet's opera swiftly travelled the globe from its Parisian premiere, readers will understand how the story, the music, the staging and the singers appealed to audiences in diverse geographical, artistic and political contexts.
Download or read book The Ballets Russes and Beyond written by Davinia Caddy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh perspective on the Ballets Russes, focusing on relations between music, dance and the cultural politics of belle-époque Paris.
Download or read book The Life and Works of Lili Boulanger written by Léonie Rosenstiel and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite her chronic illness, the French composer Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) was able to overcome great obstacles and to achieve an unusual degree of both artistic success and public acclaim during her very short lifetime. This phenomenon is the more remarkable in that her chosen field is one in which, even today, women find it difficult to be evaluated solely on artistic merits. At the age of nineteen she was the first woman to win the prestigious Premier Grand Prix de Rome in composition, an award carrying with it extended residence at the famous Villa Medici in Rome. Even before this recognition was accorded her, some of her compositions had been performed by outstanding artists of the day and had received critical praise. This first full-length study of the life and works of Lili Boulanger is based almost entirely on sources that have hitherto been unavailable, such as family photographs, records, and documents in the possession of her only surviving relative, the eminent music pedagogue Mlle Nadia Boulanger, as well as on personal reminiscences both of Nadia Boulanger and of friends of the Boulanger family. Further information was secured from newly discovered library and archival sources in addition to the young composer's personal memorabilia, correspondence, and manuscript scores, which have never before been made available for study. In order to describe accurately the ambience of the places visited by Lili Boulanger during her life, the author not only undertook the necessary archival research, but also personally retraced the travels of the composer through six European countries, using the same means of transportation that the young composer had used. Born into a family with a long tradition of artistic accomplishment, surrounded during her twenty-four years by a devoted family and friends, Lili Boulanger became a creative, productive human being. The best of her works--especially those she wrote after winning the Prix de Rome in 1913--display firmness, delicacy, strength, and mastery of compositional technique. Lili Boulanger's musical style ranges from impressionism, to a Wagnerian vocabulary, to post-impressionism and growing chromaticism in her last compositions. As Debussy observed, her music "undulates with grace." The author's analysis of the 91 musical examples from the oeuvre of Lili Boulanger, and the 53 illustrations, many drawn from among old family photographs and other privately held manuscript sources, provide two of the many highlights of this superior biography.
