Author: Martin DalbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Requiem for Philip Sparrow
Author: Martin DalbyRequiem for Philip Sparrow
Author: Martin DalbyDirectory of Choral-orchestral Music
Author: Michael RosewallPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415980046
Category : Choruses with orchestra
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Dies Irae
Author: Robert ChasePublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0585471622
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Since time immemorial, the response of the living to death has been to commemorate the life of the departed through ceremonies and rituals. For nearly two millennia, the Christian quest for eternal peace has been expressed in a poetic-musical structure known as the requiem. Traditional requiem texts, among them the anonymous medieval Latin poem Dies Irae ('Day of Wrath'), have inspired an untold number of composers in different ages and serving different religions, Western and Eastern. This book, the first comprehensive survey of requiem music for nearly half a century, provides a great deal of diverse and detailed information that will be of use to the professional musician, the musical scholar, the choral conductor, the theologian and liturgist, and the general reader. The main body of the guide is a description of some 250 requiems. Each entry includes a concise biography of the composer and a description of the composition. Details of voicing, orchestration, editions, and discography are given. An extensive bibliography includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, prayer books, monographs, and articles. An appendix lists more than 1700 requiems not discussed within the main text.
Shakespeare and the Truth of Love
Author: J. BednarzPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230393322
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
A comprehensive study of Shakespeare's forgotten masterpiece The Phoenix and Turtle . Bednarz confronts the question of why one of the greatest poems in the English language is customarily ignored or misconstrued by Shakespeare biographers, literary historians, and critics.
The Dramatic Writings of Nicholas Udall
Author: Nicholas UdallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Kitchen Fugue
Author: Sheila Kaye-SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cookbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Sheila Kaye-Smith discusses her pets, her childhood, Jane Austen, and life in wartime Sussex, interspersed with excellent simple recipes.
Beyond the Lyric
Author: Fiona SampsonPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448138663
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
British poetry is enjoying a period of exceptional richness and variety. This is exciting but it's also confusing, and throws up the need for an enthusiastic guide that can explain and celebrate the many parallel poetry projects now underway. Beyond the Lyric does just that. This is a book of enthusiasms: an intelligent and witty map of contemporary British poetry and a radical, accessible guide to living British poets, grouped for the first time according to the kind of poetry they write. In a series of groundbreaking new classifications, beginning with the bread-and-butter diction of the Plain Dealers and ending on the capacious generosity of the Exploded Lyric, it examines the broad range of contemporary tendencies – from the baroque swagger of the Dandies to the restrained elegance of the Oxford Elegists; from the layered, haunting verse of Mythopoesis to the inventive explorations of the New Formalists. By probing the cultural context from which these groups emerge and shifting the critical focus back to the work itself, Sampson’s astute analysis illuminates and demystifies each of these terms and asks the big questions about what makes a poem. The result is a celebration of poetry as a connected, responsive and above all communitarian form. Lively, engaging and inviting, this is the indispensible and authoritative guide for anyone who's ever wondered what's going on in British poetry today.
An Anthology of Catholic Poets
Author: The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Author: Stephen TownPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793606013
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams: Autographs, Context, Discourse combines contextual knowledge, a musical commentary, an inventory of the holograph manuscripts, and a critical assessment of the opus to create substantial and meticulous examinations of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s choral-orchestral works. The contents include an equitable choice of pieces from the various stages in the life of the composer and an analysis of pieces from the various stages of Williams’s life. The earliest are taken from the pre-World War I years, when Vaughan Williams was constructing his identity as an academic and musician—Vexilla Regis (1894), Mass (1899), and A Sea Symphony (1910). The middle group are chosen from the interwar period—Sancta Civitas (1925), Benedicite (1929), Magnificat (1932), Five Tudor Portraits (1935), Dona nobis pacem (1936)—written after Vaughan Williams had found his mature voice. The last cluster—Thanksgiving for Victory (1944), Fantasia (Quasi Variazione) on the ‘Old 104’ Psalm Tune(1949), Sons of Light (1950), Hodie (1954), The Bridal Day/Epithalamion (1938/1957)—typify the works finished or revisited during the final years of the composer’s life, near the end of the Second World War and immediately before or after his second marriage (1953).