Author: Xerox University MicrofilmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Comprehensive Dissertation Index, 1861-1972: Communications and the arts
Author: Xerox University MicrofilmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
The Four and the One
Author: David RoundsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Spotlighting the four women of the Lafayette Quartet, a leading Canadian ensemble, Rounds offers both a comprehensive history of the beloved instrumental form and an inside view of the complex world of professional quartet players, revealing the exultation and heatache that are the performing artists' daily fare. A treat for every music lover, whether player, listener or composer.
The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett
Author: Kenneth GloagPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107021979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
This Companion provides a wide ranging and accessible study of one of the most individual composers of the twentieth century. A team of international scholars shed new light on Tippett's major works and draw attention to those that have not yet received the attention they deserve.
Mozart's Music of Friends
Author: Edward KlormanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107093651
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
This study analyzes chamber music from Mozart's time within its highly social salon-performance context.
The Adventures of a Cello
Author: Carlos PrietoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
In 1720, Antonio Stradivari crafted an exquisite work of art—a cello known as the Piatti. Over the next three centuries of its life, the Piatti cello left its birthplace of Cremona, Italy, and resided in Spain, Ireland, England, Italy, Germany, and the United States. The Piatti filled sacred spaces, such as the Santa Cueva de Cádiz, with its incomparable voice. It also spent time in more profane places, including New York City bars, where it served as a guarantee for unpaid liquor tabs. The Piatti narrowly escaped Nazi Germany in 1935 and was once even left lying in the street all night. In 1978, the Piatti became the musical soul mate of world-renowned cellist Carlos Prieto, with whom it has given concerts around the world. In this delightful book, Mr. Prieto recounts the adventurous life of his beloved "Cello Prieto," tracing its history through each of its previous owners from Stradivari in 1720 to himself. He then describes his noteworthy experiences of playing the Piatti cello, with which he has premiered some eighty compositions. In this part of their mutual story, Prieto gives a concise summary of his own remarkable career and his relationships with many illustrious personalities, including Igor Stravinsky, Dmitry Shostakovich, Pablo Casals, Mstislav Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, and Gabriel García Márquez. To make the story of his cello complete, Mr. Prieto also provides a brief history of violin making and a succinct review of cello music from Stradivari to the present. He highlights the work of composers from Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, for whose music he has long been an advocate and principal performer. Thus,The Adventures of a Cellooffers not only the first biography of a musical instrument but also an inviting overview of cello music and its preeminent composers and performers.
Six Canonic Sonatas
Author: Georg Philipp TelemannPublisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457479625
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Expertly arranged Violin Duets by Georg Philipp Telemann from the Kalmus Edition series. This is from the Baroque era.
The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900
Author: Laura HamerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108470289
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
An overview of women's work in classical and popular music since 1900 as performers, composers, educators and music technologists.
Music of the Twentieth Century
Author: Ton de LeeuwPublisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9053567658
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Ton de Leeuw was a truly groundbreaking composer. As evidenced by his pioneering study of compositional methods that melded Eastern traditional music with Western musical theory, he had a profound understanding of the complex and often divisive history of twentieth-century music. Now his renowned chronicle Music of the Twentieth Century is offered here in a newly revised English-language edition. Music of the Twentieth Century goes beyond a historical survey with its lucid and impassioned discussion of the elements, structures, compositional principles, and terminologies of twentieth-century music. De Leeuw draws on his experience as a composer, teacher, and music scholar of non-European music traditions, including Indian, Indonesian, and Japanese music, to examine how musical innovations that developed during the twentieth century transformed musical theory, composition, and scholarly thought around the globe.
Britten's Musical Language
Author: Philip RupprechtPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139441280
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Blending insights from linguistic and social theories of speech, ritual and narrative with music-analytic and historical criticism, Britten's Musical Language offers interesting perspectives on the composer's fusion of verbal and musical utterance in opera and song and provides close interpretative studies of the major scores.
Transformations of Musical Modernism
Author: Erling E. GuldbrandsenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107127211
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.