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Author: Karen R. Moses Publisher: ISBN: Category : Wind quintets Languages : en Pages : 288
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This study focuses on a repertoire that established the twentieth-century wind quintet. This new genre is anchored on three canonic wind quintets written between 1922 and 1924: the Kvintet op. 43 of Carl Nielsen, Paul Hindemith's Kleine Kammermusik op. 24, no 2, and the Bläserquintett op. 26 by Arnold Schoenberg. Nielsen's score for the men in the Copenhagen Wind Quintet, confirmed in reminiscence by Svend Felumb, shows idiosyncratic instrumental and novel performer characterizations, as it expands instrumental range and timbre. His narrative and temporal program, with its anthropomorphic characterizations, opened a new world of rich color and expressive articulation. The Kleine Kammermusik demonstrates Hindemith's quest for a social and musical democracy with its melodic and textural teamwork. The quintet reveals new instrumental timbres, an expanded emotional range, novel textural combinations, and instrumental virtuosity based on strong motoric movement. Schoenberg's op. 26 stands as a laboratory for his twelve-tone technique, and as the presentation piece for his new theoretical system. With its formidable technical demands and arduous instrumental interactions, Schoenberg magnified the conventional limits of early twentieth-century technique and facility, anticipating and telegraphing a new instrumental virtuosity for the future. Correspondence in the Arnold Schoenberg Collection, Library of Congress, between Schoenberg and Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Hindemith, Paul Hagemann, Paul von Klenau, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Felix Greissle, Rudolf Kolisch, and Hermann Scherchen, reveals little-known connections between the Kvintet, the Kleine Kammermusik, and Op. 26. Letters by Berg to his wife reveal the unexplored connection between Schoenberg's Op. 26 and Berg's Chamber Concerto, originally intended as a work for the Copenhagen Wind Quintet. Premieres, performances, and reviews from Danish, German, French, and American newspapers provide historical context and contemporary perceptions. Analysis reveals remarkable and unrecognized commonalities between Nielsen's and Hindemith's quintets, with that of Schoenberg's Op. 26. Nielsen, Hindemith, and Schoenberg contributed to defining what is now recognized as one of the most important developments in the history of twentieth-century wind music--the renaissance of the wind quintet--as they raised and ennobled the genre, ensuring its continuation into the twenty-first century.
Author: Karen R. Moses Publisher: ISBN: Category : Wind quintets Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
This study focuses on a repertoire that established the twentieth-century wind quintet. This new genre is anchored on three canonic wind quintets written between 1922 and 1924: the Kvintet op. 43 of Carl Nielsen, Paul Hindemith's Kleine Kammermusik op. 24, no 2, and the Bläserquintett op. 26 by Arnold Schoenberg. Nielsen's score for the men in the Copenhagen Wind Quintet, confirmed in reminiscence by Svend Felumb, shows idiosyncratic instrumental and novel performer characterizations, as it expands instrumental range and timbre. His narrative and temporal program, with its anthropomorphic characterizations, opened a new world of rich color and expressive articulation. The Kleine Kammermusik demonstrates Hindemith's quest for a social and musical democracy with its melodic and textural teamwork. The quintet reveals new instrumental timbres, an expanded emotional range, novel textural combinations, and instrumental virtuosity based on strong motoric movement. Schoenberg's op. 26 stands as a laboratory for his twelve-tone technique, and as the presentation piece for his new theoretical system. With its formidable technical demands and arduous instrumental interactions, Schoenberg magnified the conventional limits of early twentieth-century technique and facility, anticipating and telegraphing a new instrumental virtuosity for the future. Correspondence in the Arnold Schoenberg Collection, Library of Congress, between Schoenberg and Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Hindemith, Paul Hagemann, Paul von Klenau, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Felix Greissle, Rudolf Kolisch, and Hermann Scherchen, reveals little-known connections between the Kvintet, the Kleine Kammermusik, and Op. 26. Letters by Berg to his wife reveal the unexplored connection between Schoenberg's Op. 26 and Berg's Chamber Concerto, originally intended as a work for the Copenhagen Wind Quintet. Premieres, performances, and reviews from Danish, German, French, and American newspapers provide historical context and contemporary perceptions. Analysis reveals remarkable and unrecognized commonalities between Nielsen's and Hindemith's quintets, with that of Schoenberg's Op. 26. Nielsen, Hindemith, and Schoenberg contributed to defining what is now recognized as one of the most important developments in the history of twentieth-century wind music--the renaissance of the wind quintet--as they raised and ennobled the genre, ensuring its continuation into the twenty-first century.
Author: Paul Jeffery Publisher: The Crowood Press ISBN: 0719825075 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 291
Book Description
Chamber music includes some of the world's greatest music. It is widely played in homes, without an audience, by players who are mostly amateurs, and much of the repertoire is playable even by those of quite moderate ability. A Player's Guide to Chamber Music gives advice on what music is available and helps the player to identify what is suitable. It covers chamber music from the seventeenth to the later twentieth century and all instrumental combinations including strings, piano, wind instruments, duet sonatas and baroque ensembles. All the significant composers and musical aspects of playing are covered along with works suitable for inexperienced players. Illustrated with 63 black & white illustrations.
Author: Stephen Luttmann Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135848416 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 578
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Paul Hindemith: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a musician and teacher. The second edition includes research published since the publication of the first edition and provides electronic resources.
Author: Daniel M. Grimley Publisher: Boydell Press ISBN: 1843835819 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 338
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Beryl Foster's authoritative study can claim to be the most thorough investigation of this repertoire yet to have appeared in English, and is likely to remain the standard work on the subject for many years to come. TLS --
Author: Malcolm MacDonald Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198038402 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 401
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In this completely rewritten and updated edition of his long-indispensable study, Malcolm MacDonald takes advantage of 30 years of recent scholarship, new biographical information, and deeper understanding of Schoenberg's aims and significance to produce a superb guide to Schoenberg's life and work. MacDonald demonstrates the indissoluble links among Schoenberg's musical language (particularly the enigmatic and influential twelve-tone method), his personal character, and his creative ideas, as well as the deep connection between his genius as a teacher and as a revolutionary composer. Exploring newly considered influences on the composer's early life, MacDonald offers a fresh perspective on Schoenberg's creative process and the emotional content of his music. For example, as a previously unsuspected source of childhood trauma, the author points to the Vienna Ringtheater disaster of 1881, in which hundreds of people were burned to death, including Schoenberg's uncle and aunt-whose orphaned children were then adopted by Schoenberg's parents. MacDonald brings such experiences to bear on the music itself, examining virtually every work in the oeuvre to demonstrate its vitality and many-sidedness. A chronology of Schoenberg's life, a work-list, an updated bibliography, and a greatly expanded list of personal allusions and references round out the study, and enhance this new edition.
Author: Daniel Albright Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226012667 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 446
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If in earlier eras music may have seemed slow to respond to advances in other artistic media, during the modernist age it asserted itself in the vanguard. Modernism and Music provides a rich selection of texts on this moment, some translated into English for the first time. It offers not only important statements by composers and critics, but also musical speculations by poets, novelists, philosophers, and others-all of which combine with Daniel Albright's extensive, interlinked commentary to place modernist music in the full context of intellectual and cultural history.
Author: Robert Reilly Publisher: Ignatius Press ISBN: 1681497042 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 724
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The best music of the 20th century "developed our capacity for feeling, deepened our compassion, and furthered our quest for and understanding of what Aristotle called 'the perfect end of life' ". — from the Foreword by NPR music critic Ted Libbey The single greatest crisis of the 20th century was the loss of faith. Noise—and its acceptance as music—was the product of the resulting spiritual confusion and, in its turn, became the further cause of its spread. Likewise, the recovery of modern music, the theme to which this book is dedicated, stems from a spiritual recovery. This is made explicitly clear by the composers whose interviews with the author are collected in this book. Robert Reilly spells out the nature of the crisis and its solution in sections that serve as bookends to the chapters on individual composers. He does not contend that all of these composers underwent and recovered from the central crisis he describes, but they all lived and worked within its broader context, and soldiered on, writing beautiful music. For this, they suffered ridicule and neglect, and he believes their rehabilitation will change the reputation of modern music. It is the spirit of music that this book is most about, and in his efforts to discern it, Reilly has discovered many treasures. The purpose of this book is to share them, to entice you to listen—because beauty is contagious. English conductor John Eliot Gardiner writes that experiencing Bach's masterpieces "is a way of fully realizing the scale and scope of what it is to be human". The reader may be surprised by how many works of the 20th and 21st centuries of which this is also true.
Author: Robert Philip Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300120699 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 969
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An invaluable guide for lovers of classical music designed to enhance their enjoyment of the core orchestral repertoire from 1700 to 1950 Robert Philip, scholar, broadcaster, and musician, has compiled an essential handbook for lovers of classical music, designed to enhance their listening experience to the full. Covering four hundred works by sixty-eight composers from Corelli to Shostakovich, this engaging companion explores and unpacks the most frequently performed works, including symphonies, concertos, overtures, suites, and ballet scores. It offers intriguing details about each piece while avoiding technical terminology that might frustrate the non-specialist reader. Philip identifies key features in each work, as well as subtleties and surprises that await the attentive listener, and he includes enough background and biographical information to illuminate the composer's intentions. Organized alphabetically from Bach to Webern, this compendium will be indispensable for classical music enthusiasts, whether in the concert hall or enjoying recordings at home.
Author: Howard Pollack Publisher: Henry Holt and Company ISBN: 1627798498 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 708
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A candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Aaron Copland (1900-1990) became one of America's most beloved and esteemed composers. His work, which includes Fanfare for the Common Man, A Lincoln Portrait, and Appalachian Spring, has been honored by a huge following of devoted listeners. But the full richness of Copland's life and accomplishments has never, until now, been documented or understood. Howard Pollack's meticulously researched and engrossing biography explores the symphony of Copland's life: his childhood in Brooklyn; his homosexuality; Paris in the early 1920s; the Alfred Stieglitz circle; his experimentation with jazz; the communist witch trials; Hollywood in the forties; public disappointment with his later, intellectual work; and his struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Furthermore, Pollack presents informed discussions of Copland's music, explaining and clarifying its newness and originality, its aesthetic and social aspects, its distinctive and enduring personality. "Not only a success in its own right, but a valuable model of what biography can and probably should be. " - Kirkus Reviews
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