Download or read book The New Grove Twentieth century American Masters written by and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1988 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spiritual, ragtime, blues, gospel, and jazz genres are covered in this thorough reworking of the coverage in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
Download or read book The New Grove Twentieth Century American Masters written by John Kirkpatrick and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1988-05-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides profiles on ten modern American composers and discusses the style an critical reception of their major works.
Download or read book The New Grove Twentieth century American Masters written by John Kirkpatrick and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1988 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Twentieth Century America written by Douglas Tallack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multi-volume Longman literature in English series aims to provide students of literature with a critical introduction to the major genres in their historical and cultural context. This book looks at cinema, painting and architecture in 20th-century America, as well as the culture of politics.
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Download or read book The New Grove Handel written by Winton Dean and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of Handel by Winton Dean, who has long been recognized as the leading expert on the composer and his works, the operas and oratorios in particular. It charts his career both before and after he moved to England and pays particular attention to his stage works. Book jacket.
Download or read book The New Grove Schubert written by Maurice John Edwin Brown and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of Franz Schubert, describes the development of his muscial career, and discusses the composition of his major works.
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Download or read book A Conductor s Guide to Choral orchestral Works Twentieth Century Part II written by Jonathan D. Green and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative survey of large choral-orchestral works is a continuation of the author's previous study of twentieth century works with English texts. Green examines nearly one hundred works, from Rachmaninov's Vesna to Penderecki's Song of Songs. For each work, he provides a biography of the composer, complete instrumentation, text sources, editions, availability of performing materials, performance issues, discography, and bibliography of the composer and the work. Based upon direct score study, each work has been evaluated in terms of potential performance problems, rehearsal issues, and level of difficulty for both the choir and orchestra. When present, solo roles are described. The composers represented in this work include Bela Bartok, Leonard Bernstein, Ernest Bloch, Maurice Duruf , Hans Werner Henze, Paul Hindemith, Arthur Honegger, Leos Janacek, Gy rgy Ligeti, Gustav Mahler, Carl Orff, Krzysztof Penderecki, Francis Poulenc, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern, and Kurt Weill. Written as a field guide for conductors and others involved in programming concerts for choir and orchestra, this text will prove a useful source of new repertoire ideas and an invaluable aid to rehearsal preparation.
Download or read book The New Grove Masters of Italian Opera written by Philip Gossett and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These five biographies provide the first complete survey of Italian opera from the early buffo operas of Rossini to Verdi's great masterpieces, Otello and Falstaff, and the verismo operas of Puccini. Andrew Porter has been highly praised for his original and enlightening account of Verdi, and Philip Gossett has received similar acclaim for his treatment of Rossini. Porter, Gossett, William Ashbrooke, Julian Budden, Mosco Carner, and Friedrich Lippmann, all acknowledged experts in the field of Italian opera, combine to offer insight into the traditions and workings of one of the most fascinating periods in the history of opera. Book jacket.
Download or read book Evenings with the Orchestra written by D. Kern Holoman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going to concerts is becoming, for large numbers of Americans, an increasingly frequent pleasure. For those who encounter unfamiliar traditions and terms in the concert hall, here is information and advice which tells all listeners what they need to know to be comfortable at an orchestral concert. Includes background, biographies, and discussions of 200 masterpieces. Drawings.
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