Author: Percy Bysshe ShelleyPublisher:
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments,
Author: Percy Bysshe ShelleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Béla Bartók
Author: David CooperPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300213077
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
"This deeply researched biography of Béla Bartók (1881–1945) provides a more comprehensive view of the innovative Hungarian musician than ever before. David Cooper traces Bartók’s international career as an ardent ethno-musicologist and composer, teacher, and pianist, while also providing a detailed discussion of most of his works. Further, the author explores how Europe’s political and cultural tumult affected Bartók’s work, travel, and reluctant emigration to the safety of America in his final years. Cooper illuminates Bartók’s personal life and relationships, while also expanding what is known about the influence of other musicians—Richard Strauss, Zoltán Kodály, and Yehudi Menuhin, among many others. The author also looks closely at some of the composer’s actions and behaviors which may have been manifestations of Asperger syndrome. The book, in short, is a consummate biography of an internationally admired musician."
American History and Encyclopedia of Music
Author: William Lines HubbardPublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
I Saw Eternity the Other Night
Author: Timothy DayPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241352193
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
The sound of the choir of King's College, Cambridge - its voices perfectly blended, its emotions restrained, its impact sublime - has become famous all over the world, and for many, the distillation of a particular kind of Englishness. This is especially so at Christmas time, with the broadcast of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, whose centenary is celebrated this year. How did this small band of men and boys in a famous fenland town in England come to sing in the extraordinary way they did in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries? It has been widely assumed that the King's style essentially continues an English choral tradition inherited directly from the Middle Ages. In this original and illuminating book, Timothy Day shows that this could hardly be further from the truth. Until the 1930s, the singing at King's was full of high Victorian emotionalism, like that at many other English choral foundations well into the twentieth century. The choir's modern sound was brought about by two intertwined revolutions, one social and one musical. From 1928, singing with the trebles in place of the old lay clerks, the choir was fully made up of choral scholars - college men, reading for a degree. Under two exceptional directors of music - Boris Ord from 1929 and David Willcocks from 1958 - the style was transformed and the choir broadcast and recorded until it became the epitome of English choral singing, setting the benchmark for all other choral foundations either to imitate or to react against. Its style has now been taken over and adapted by classical performers who sing both sacred and secular music in secular settings all over the world with a precision inspired by the King's tradition. I Saw Eternity the Other Night investigates the timbres of voices, the enunciation of words, the use of vibrato. But the singing of all human beings, in whatever style, always reflects in profound and subtle ways their preoccupations and attitudes to life. These are the underlying themes explored by this book.
The New Music Review and Church Music Review
Author: Catalogue...authors, Titles, Subjects, and Classes
Author: Brooklyn Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians
Author: Oscar ThompsonPublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 2506
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Young Men's Association of the City of Milwaukee
Author: Young Men's Association of the City of MilwaukeePublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Meyer Schapiro Abroad
Author: Meyer SchapiroPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892368938
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
"Schapiro's letters to his future wife, Lillian Milgram, were written in 1926 and 1927, while he was a graduate student touring the artistic monuments of Europe and the Near East. Bearing intimate witness to this formative journey, they augment the visual and factual details he so painstakingly recorded in his notebooks with impassioned reflections on art and lively accounts of his encounters with an older generation of art historians."--Back cover.
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