Download or read book The Marc Blitzstein Songbook written by Marc Blitzstein and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Marc Blitzstein Songbook written by Marc Blitzstein and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Marc Blitzstein Songbook written by Marc Blitzstein and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Marc Blitzstein Songbook written by Marc Blitzstein and published by Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Boosey & Hawkes Voice). Contents: Be with me * Bird Upon a Tree * Blues * Croon Spoon * Displaced * Emily * Expatriate * Few Little English * Fraught * How I Met My New Grandfather * I Wish It So * In the Clear * Joe Worker * Modest Maid * Nickle Under the Foot * One Kind Word * Penny Candy * Such a Little While * The Best Thing of All * The Cradle will Rock * The Freedom of the Press * The New Suit * The Purest Kind of Guy * The Rose Song * Then * What Will it Be? * With a Woman Be.
Download or read book The Marc Blitzstein Songbook Volume 3 written by Leonard Lehrman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Boosey & Hawkes Voice). Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964) was a true American original, creating compositions that straddled musical styles between traditional classical and theatre, blending social commentary and political satire with charm, simplicity and humor. This third volume devoted to the composer's vocal music presents over 50 songs and arias, many published for the first time. Interest in Blitzstein has been revived following the release of a new disc by Dawn Upshaw and a Hollywood film directed by Tim Robbins called The Cradle Will Rock . ALSO AVAILABLE: The Marc Blitzstein Songbook Vol. 1 (48008512/$39.95) and The Marc Blitzstein Songbook Vol. 2 (48008514/$39.95). Contents: Two A.E. Housman Songs: (From Far, From Eve and Morning * Into My Heart an Air) * Nine Walt Whitman Songs: (As If a PHantom Caress'd Me * After the Dazzle of Day * Joy, Shipmate, Joy! * What Weeping Face * Gods * O Hymen! O Hymenee! * As Adam * I Am He * Ages and Ages) * from A Word out of the Sea: (Shine, shine, shine! * Till, of a sudden * Blow, blow, blow!) * What's the Matter With Me? * Two Sets of E.E. Cummings Songs: Is 5: (after all white horses are in bed * mr youse needn't be so spry * Jimmie's got a goil * you are like the snow) From Marion's Book: (o by the by * when life is quite through with * what if a much of a which of a wind * silent unday by silently not night * until and i heard * yes is a pleasant country * open your heart) * Six Songs of the 1930s and '40s: (The Way You Are * Ode to Reason * Orpheus * Dusty Sun * Lovely to get back to love * War Song) * Six Elizabethan Songs: (Sweet is the rose * Shepherd's Song * Song of the glove * Court Song * Lullaby * Vendor's Song) * Three More Shakespeare Songs: (Fool's Song * Whilst Youthful Sports * Autolycus-Dorcas-Mopsa Trio) * Four Songs of the Countess: (Hard to Say * Upstairsy * The Spot * Mystery of the Flesh) * from Juno: (Song of the Ma * Darlin' Man * Old Sayin's * For Love * Lament * Hymn) * Mary Donovan's Aria
Download or read book The Marc Blitzstein Songbook written by Marc Blitzstein and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Marc Blitzstein Songbook Volume 2 written by Leonard Lehrman and published by Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Boosey & Hawkes Voice). Contents: Art for Art's Sake * Send for the Militia * Stay in My Arms * Who Knows? ("Let's Be Blue") * Smoking Glass * Outside Agitator * Francie * Lullaby * Secret Singing * Weep for Me * A Quiet Girl * Lovely Song * The Russian Language * Mamasha Goose * Music, Music * Miracle Song * Never Get Lost * Love at First Word * Musky and Whiskey * Monday Morning Blues * The Hills of Amalfi * Ireland's Eye * Farewell Me Butty * My True Heart * Quarrel Song * What Is the Stars? * Under the Sky * Vanzetti's First Aria * Rosa-Sacco Duet * Sacco's The Whole Shoe * Vanzetti's Last Statement.
Download or read book Marc Blitzstein written by Leonard Lehrman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marc Blitzstein was one of the 20th century's most important American composers, lyricists, and critics, often credited with having virtually invented opera in the American vernacular. Called the father of American opera in the vernacular by luminaries Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, Blitzstein was a masterful pianist, coach, and accompanist, though, ironically, he made more money on the lyrics to one song—Mack the Knife—than on everything else he ever did. Blitzstein's brilliant career was cut short in 1964 when he died at the age of 58. This book catalogs Blitzstein's own writings and writings about him, followed by detailed listings (chronological, alphabetical, and genre), analysis, a comprehensive performance history, and summaries of all known critiques of his 128 original musical works and 18 texts set to the music of others. Shown in detail are the ways in which Blitzstein took music from his earlier works and developed it in later works, a process that Lehrman utilized in completing (with Bernstein's and the Estate's approval) 20 Blitzstein works for performance, including The Cradle Will Rock, I've Got the Tune, No for an Answer, Idiots First, and Sacco and Vanzetti, which Blitzstein believed would be his magnum opus. The book provides a unique and full perspective on the works of one of America's greatest composers—one who deserves to be better known.
Download or read book Marc Blitzstein written by Howard Pollack and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning music historian Howard Pollack's new biography of Marc Blitzstein deftly captures the fascinating life and career of an American composer who was openly gay and Marxist at a time when neither was acceptable to the American public. The first biographer to deal with Blitzstein's music as well as his life, Pollack delves deeply into the Blitzstein's life, uncovering new details about his marriage to novelist Eva Goldbeck and his compositional process. Beautifully written and meticulously researched, this book is a must-have for any fan of Broadway or American music.
Download or read book Marc Blitzstein written by Howard Pollack and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A composer and lyricist of enormous innovation and influence, Marc Blitzstein remains one of the most versatile and fascinating figures in the history of American music, his creative output running the gamut from films scores and Broadway operas to art songs and chamber pieces. A prominent leftist and social maverick, Blitzstein constantly pushed the boundaries of convention in mid-century America in both his work and his life. Award-winning music historian Howard Pollack's new biography covers Blitzstein's life in full, from his childhood in Philadelphia to his violent death in Martinique at age 58. The author describes how this student of contemporary luminaries Nadia Boulanger and Arnold Schoenberg became swept up in the stormy political atmosphere of the 1920s and 1930s and throughout his career walked the fine line between his formal training and his populist principles. Indeed, Blitzstein developed a unique sound that drew on everything contemporary, from the high modernism of Stravinsky and Hindemith to jazz and Broadway show tunes. Pollack captures the astonishing breadth of Blitzstein's work--from provocative operas like The Cradle Will Rock, No for an Answer, and Regina, to the wartime Airborne Symphony composed during his years in service, to lesser known ballets, film scores, and stage works. A courageous artist, Blitzstein translated Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera during the heyday of McCarthyism and the red scare, and turned it into an off-Broadway sensation, its "Mack the Knife" becoming one of the era's biggest hits. Beautifully written, drawing on new interviews with friends and family of the composer, and making extensive use of new archival and secondary sources, Marc Blitzstein presents the most complete biography of this important American artist.
Download or read book I ve Got the Tune written by Marc Blitzstein and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers written by Margaret R. Simmons and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including thirty-nine pieces for voice and piano created since 1968 by eighteen artists, ANew Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers navigates a varied musical terrain from classical European traditions to jazz and spirituals. With nearly half of the featured songs composed by women and with others by lesser-known and emerging composers, this important collection offers a diverse, representative sampling of African American art songs and works to secure the places of these songs and artists in the canon of contemporary American music.
Download or read book Musical Meaning written by Lawrence Kramer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging widely over classical music, jazz, popular music, and film and television music, Musical Meaning uncovers the historical importance of asking about meaning in the lived experience of musical works, styles, and performances. Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of new resources for understanding music. In this accessible and eloquently written book, he argues boldly that humanistic, not just technical, meaning is a basic force in music history and an indispensable factor in how, where, and when music is heard. He demonstrates that thinking about music can become a vital means of thinking about general questions of meaning, subjectivity, and value. First published in 2001, Musical Meaning anticipates many of the musicological topics of today, including race, performance, embodiment, and media. In addition, Kramer explores music itself as a source of understanding via his composition Revenants for piano, revised for this edition and available on the UC Press website.
Download or read book The Great American Songbook written by Steven Suskin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of ubiquitous music and countless new songs releasing every minute, the Great American Songbook endures. After all, the Songbook—that sprawling canon of popular songs, standards, and show tunes from roughly the 1920s through the 1950s—is a foundational text of American pop music. Rare indeed is the song that doesn’t in some way draw on this magnificent corpus, and rare is the person who hasn’t heard at least a few of its most enduring melodies. Nonetheless, the Songbook is broader and deeper than most listeners can imagine, and on the margins, the question of whether this or that song should be included is the source of regular arguments among scholars and buffs alike. Attempting to plumb its depths can be a daunting prospect. Enter Steven Suskin, who has been writing about music since the days that Rodgers, Arlen, and Berlin still roamed the streets of Manhattan. In this carefully curated and cheerfully opinionated guidebook, Suskin surveys 201 of the most significant selections from the Songbook, ranging from celebrated masterpieces to forgotten gems. Year by year, he puts songwriters and their contributions in their context, and explains what makes each song such a distinctive treat—whether felicitous melody, colorful harmony, compositional originality, or merely the sheer, irreducible joy of listening to it. Old and new favorites await all readers of this painstakingly compiled, enthusiastically written catalog.
Download or read book Listening for America Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim written by Rob Kapilow and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Not since the late Leonard Bernstein has classical music had a combination salesman-teacher as irresistible as Kapilow.” —Kansas City Star Few people in recent memory have dedicated themselves as devotedly to the story of twentieth- century American music as Rob Kapilow, the composer, conductor, and host of the hit NPR music radio program, What Makes It Great? Now, in Listening for America, he turns his keen ear to the Great American Songbook, bringing many of our favorite classics to life through the songs and stories of eight of the twentieth century’s most treasured American composers—Kern, Porter, Gershwin, Arlen, Berlin, Rodgers, Bernstein, and Sondheim. Hardly confi ning himself to celebrating what makes these catchy melodies so unforgettable, Kapilow delves deeply into how issues of race, immigration, sexuality, and appropriation intertwine in masterpieces like Show Boat and West Side Story. A book not just about musical theater but about America itself, Listening for America is equally for the devotee, the singer, the music student, or for anyone intrigued by how popular music has shaped the larger culture, and promises to be the ideal gift book for years to come.
Download or read book Louis Armstrong Plays Standards Songbook written by Louis Armstrong and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Artist Transcriptions). The All Music Guide regards trumpet virtuoso Louis Armstrong as "the most important musician in (jazz's) history." This collection assembles note-for-note transcriptions of his trumpet playing on 16 fantastic standards: Ain't Misbehavin' * All of Me * Body and Soul * Hello, Dolly! * Lazy River * Mack the Knife * Stardust * and more. Includes a bio and discography.
Download or read book Pop Standards Super Easy Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Super Easy Songbook). It's super easy! This series features accessible arrangements for piano, with simple right-hand melody, letter names inside each note, basic left-hand chord diagrams, and no page turns. This edition includes nearly 60 great songs: Bridge over Troubled Water * Can't Help Falliing in Love * Every Breath You Take * Hallelujah * I Will Always Love You * Imagine * Just the Way You Are * Lean on Me * On Broadway * Right Here Waiting * Stand by Me * Tears in Heaven * The Wind Beneath My Wings * You Raise Me Up * You've Got a Friend * and many more.
