Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
The Musical Times
Author: Music
Author: Sholto PercyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Musical World
Author: The Musical Standard
Author: Colymbia
Author: Robert Ellis DudgeonPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Colymbia is the science fiction novel of the century. You will love reading about this story in response to Samuel Butler's novel Erewhon. Its compelling world and engaging voice will lead you to new, wonderful revelations.
Colymbia
Author: Robert Ellis DudgeonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
An account of three years' residence in an imaginary submarine colony.
Speech about Music
Author: Malik SharifPublisher: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
ISBN: 3990125605
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The US American musicologist, composer, philosopher, inventor, and political activist Charles Seeger (1886–1979) is a key figure in the development of twentieth-century musicology. "Speech about Music" is an in-depth study of his philosophical theory of musicology – his meta-musicology. Seeger developed this body of theory in numerous publications over the course of more than sixty years, yet he never realized his dream of creating a comprehensive "Principia Musicologica". Detailed historical reconstruction and comparative analysis of Seeger's meta-musicology makes "Speech about Music" an important contribution to the study of the history of musicology. By approaching Seeger's theory as an arsenal of ideas in the discussion of twenty-first century meta-musicological issues, the book is also a critical examination of the pertinence of Seeger's ideas.
Music Speaks
Author: Daniel AlbrightPublisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 158046324X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Explores the meaning(s) of music, the most intricate and significant language invented by our culture.
The Musical Times & Singing-class Circular
Author: A History of the Oratorio
Author: Howard E. SmitherPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807837733
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Howard Smither has written the first definitive work on the history of the oratorio since Arnold Schering published his Geschichte des Oratoriums in 1911. This volume is the first of a four-volume comprehensive study that offers a new synthesis of what is known to date about the oratorio. Volume 1, divided into three parts, opens with the examination of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque antecedents and origins of the oratorio, with emphasis on Rome and Philip Neri's Congregation of the Oratory and with special attention to the earliest works for which the term oratorio seems appropriate. The second part recounts the development of the oratorio in Italy, circa 1640-1720. It reviews the social contexts, patrons, composers, poets, librettos, and music of the oratorio in Italy, especially in Vienna and Paris. The procedure adapted throughout the work is to treat first the social context, particularly the circumstances of performance of the oratorio in a given area and period, then to treat the libretto, and finally the music. For each geographic area and period, the author has selected for special attention a few oratorios that appear to be particularly important or representative. He has verified the information offered in the specialized literature whenever possible by reference to the music or documents. In a number of areas, particular seventeenth-century Italy, in which relatively few previous studies have been undertaken or secondary sources have proven to be inadequate, the author has examined the primary sources in manuscript and printed form -- music, librettos, and documents of early oratorio history. Impressive research and intelligent integration of disparate elements make this complicated, diffuse subject both readable and accessible to the student of music. Volume 2, The Oratorio in the Baroque Era: Protestant Germany and England, and Volume 3, The Oratorio in the Classical Era, continue and expand the study of oratorio history. Although this series was originally announced as a three-volume study, Smither will conclude with a fourth volume. This new work--the first English-language study of the history of the oratorio will become the standard work on its subject and an enduring contribution to music and scholarship. Originally published in 1977. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.