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Author: Arnold Steinhardt Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780547086002 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 276
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"A rapturous, witty, and passionate memoir ... Violin Dreams is not only the story of a man becoming an artist, it’s a history of twentieth-century music.” -- John Guare, Tony Award-winning playwright Arnold Steinhardt, for more than forty years an international soloist and the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet, brings warmth, wit, and fascinating insider details to the story of his lifelong obsession with the violin, that most seductive and stunningly beautiful instrument. His story is rich with vivid scenes: the terror inflicted by his early violin teachers, the sensual pleasure involved in the pursuit of the perfect violin, the charged atmosphere of high-level competitions. Steinhardt describes Bach’s Chaconne as the holy grail for the solo violin, and he illuminates, from the perspective of an ardent owner of a great Storioni violin, the history and mysteries of the renowned Italian violinmakers. Violin Dreams includes a remarkable CD recording of Steinhardt performing Bach’s Partita in D Minor as a young violinist forty years ago and playing the same piece especially for this book. A conversation between the author and Alan Alda on the differences between the two performances is included in the liner notes.
Author: Joel Lester Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195171446 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 197
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J.S. Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin have been central to the violin repertoire since the mid-18th century. This engaging introduction to these works is the first comprehensive exploration of their place within Bach's music, focusing on their structural and stylistic features as they have been perceived since their creation. Combining an analytical study, a historical guide, and an insightful introduction to Bach's style, this book will help violinists, scholars, and other listeners develop a deeper personal involvement with many aspects of these wonderful pieces.
Author: Andrew Driscoll Publisher: Mel Bay Publications ISBN: 1619114534 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 77
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This book contains the first three of J.S. Bach's solo violin Sonatas and Partitas arranged for mandolin. The goal of the material is to make learning these challenging pieces easier. Mandolin tablature is included throughout the book. Mandolinists who have little or no experience reading standard notation will find this to be an essential learning tool. For good reason, there has been widespread interest in learning these pieces in the mandolin community. The pieces were originally written for violin. As a result, Bach's use of string crossing patterns and open-string pedals work brilliantly on the mandolin. Also, as solo works they are a useful addition to anyone's performing repertoire. Lastly, even if never performed, learning all or some of these is wonderful for building mandolin technique. Violinists often say that if you can play the Bach Solo Sonatas and Partitas you can play anything-the same is certainly true for mandolinists
Author: Jaap Schroder Publisher: ISBN: 9780300204612 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 160
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Long admired for his interpretation of Bach's six 'Sonatas and Partitas' for unaccompanied violin, Jaap Schroder provides a detailed but informal guide to their performance."
Author: Alex Ross Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 1429977612 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 384
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One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, showcases the best of his writing from more than a decade at The New Yorker. These pieces, dedicated to classical and popular artists alike, are at once erudite and lively. In a previously unpublished essay, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history—from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin—through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and lament. He vibrantly sketches canonical composers such as Schubert, Verdi, and Brahms; gives us in-depth interviews with modern pop masters such as Björk and Radiohead; and introduces us to music students at a Newark high school and indie-rock hipsters in Beijing. Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross shows how music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. Witty, passionate, and brimming with insight, Listen to This teaches us how to listen more closely.
Author: Alex Ross Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 1429932880 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 706
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Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Author: Yuhong Tu Publisher: ISBN: Category : Chaconne Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Bach's Chaconne in D minor for solo violin is one of the most famous pieces in the violin repertoire. Although Max Reger also wrote three important Chaconnes, these pieces are less familiar to musicians. Reger's three Chaconnes--op. 42/4, op. 91/7 and op. 117/4--were composed during the first ten years of the twentieth century, modeled and stylized after Bach's Chaconne. These Chaconnes' structural elements are borrowed significantly from an earlier era, but their harmonic practice comports with that of the fin de siècle, the era during which Reger lived. The combination of earlier Baroque forms and early twentieth-century Modernist influences in Reger's three Chaconnes is singular and has been branded at once "conservative" and "radical" ever since their publication. During Reger's lifetime, many critics were provoked by his music. However, after the middle of the twentieth century, interest in Reger has increased, both in terms of performance and scholarly research. Musicologists and critics are now reconsidering his aesthetic and historical influences, while musicians are performing and recording his pieces. Scholarly research on Reger has not only been conducted in Europe, but also in the United States. (My thesis advisor, Dr. Ira Braus, introduced me to this neglected yet remarkable composer). By way of expanding the renewed interest in Reger, my study analyzes his three solo violin Chaconnes, op. 42/4, op. 91/7, and op. 117/4. It also offers a second look into how Baroque compositional styles--as well as those of Reger's own time--influenced these works, and how Reger creatively merged historicism and modernism to forge a paradoxically "conservative" yet "radical" compositional style of his own." -- author's abstract.