Author: Jessica Waldoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426891
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
A comprehensive, up-to-date, resource providing an essential framework for understanding Mozart's most-performed opera and its extraordinary afterlife.
The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute
Author: Jessica Waldoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426891
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
A comprehensive, up-to-date, resource providing an essential framework for understanding Mozart's most-performed opera and its extraordinary afterlife.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426891
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
A comprehensive, up-to-date, resource providing an essential framework for understanding Mozart's most-performed opera and its extraordinary afterlife.
The Cambridge Companion to Schubert
Author: Christopher H. Gibbs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139825321
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This Companion to Schubert examines the career, music, and reception of one of the most popular yet misunderstood and elusive composers. Sixteen chapters by leading Schubert scholars make up three parts. The first seeks to situate the social, cultural, and musical climate in which Schubert lived and worked, the second surveys the scope of his musical achievement, and the third charts the course of his reception from the perceptions of his contemporaries to the assessments of posterity. Myths and legends about Schubert the man are explored critically and the full range of his musical accomplishment is examined.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139825321
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This Companion to Schubert examines the career, music, and reception of one of the most popular yet misunderstood and elusive composers. Sixteen chapters by leading Schubert scholars make up three parts. The first seeks to situate the social, cultural, and musical climate in which Schubert lived and worked, the second surveys the scope of his musical achievement, and the third charts the course of his reception from the perceptions of his contemporaries to the assessments of posterity. Myths and legends about Schubert the man are explored critically and the full range of his musical accomplishment is examined.
The Cambridge Companion to Composition
Author: Toby Young
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108923739
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
There are as many ways of creating music as there are composers in the world, with a vast array of possible methods and practices. This book provides essential critical and practical tools for composers as they try to navigate this complex landscape, whilst also offering provocations for practitioners discovering their own voices and solidifying their place in their musical communities. Designed to be a companion in the truest sense, the book offers practical support throughout the creative process and thought-provoking insights on technical questions for a range of compositional approaches.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108923739
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
There are as many ways of creating music as there are composers in the world, with a vast array of possible methods and practices. This book provides essential critical and practical tools for composers as they try to navigate this complex landscape, whilst also offering provocations for practitioners discovering their own voices and solidifying their place in their musical communities. Designed to be a companion in the truest sense, the book offers practical support throughout the creative process and thought-provoking insights on technical questions for a range of compositional approaches.
The Cambridge Companion to Tango
Author: Kristin Wendland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108982328
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Tango music rapidly became a global phenomenon as early as the beginning of the twentieth century, with about 30% of gramophone records made between 1903 and 1910 devoted to it. Its popularity declined between the 1950s and the 1980s but has since risen to new heights. This Companion offers twenty chapters from varying perspectives around music, dance, poetry, and interdisciplinary studies, including numerous visual and audio illustrations in print and on the accompanying webpages. Its multidisciplinary approach demonstrates how different disciplines intersect through performative, historical, ethnographic, sociological, political, and anthropological perspectives. These thematic continuities illuminate diverse international perspectives and highlight how the art form flourished in Argentina, Uruguay and abroad, while tracing its international and cultural impact over the last century. This book is an innovative resource for scholars and students of tango music, particularly those seeking a diverse international perspective on the subject.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108982328
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Tango music rapidly became a global phenomenon as early as the beginning of the twentieth century, with about 30% of gramophone records made between 1903 and 1910 devoted to it. Its popularity declined between the 1950s and the 1980s but has since risen to new heights. This Companion offers twenty chapters from varying perspectives around music, dance, poetry, and interdisciplinary studies, including numerous visual and audio illustrations in print and on the accompanying webpages. Its multidisciplinary approach demonstrates how different disciplines intersect through performative, historical, ethnographic, sociological, political, and anthropological perspectives. These thematic continuities illuminate diverse international perspectives and highlight how the art form flourished in Argentina, Uruguay and abroad, while tracing its international and cultural impact over the last century. This book is an innovative resource for scholars and students of tango music, particularly those seeking a diverse international perspective on the subject.
The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony
Author: Julian Horton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521884985
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding one of the major genres of Western music.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521884985
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding one of the major genres of Western music.
The Cambridge Companion to Mozart
Author: Simon P. Keefe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521001922
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Table of contents
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521001922
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Table of contents
The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven
Author: Glenn Stanley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494044
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This Companion, first published in 2000, provides a comprehensive view of Beethoven and his work. The first part of the book presents the composer as a private individual, as a professional, and at the work-place, discussing biographical problems, Beethoven's professional activities when not composing and his methods as a composer. In the heart of the book, individual chapters are devoted to all the major genres cultivated by Beethoven and to the elements of style and structure that cross all genres. The book concludes by looking at the ways that Beethoven and his music have been interpreted by performers, writers on music, and in the arts, literature, and philosophy. The essays in this volume, written by leading Beethoven specialists, maintain traditional emphases in Beethoven studies while incorporating other developments in musicology and theory.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494044
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This Companion, first published in 2000, provides a comprehensive view of Beethoven and his work. The first part of the book presents the composer as a private individual, as a professional, and at the work-place, discussing biographical problems, Beethoven's professional activities when not composing and his methods as a composer. In the heart of the book, individual chapters are devoted to all the major genres cultivated by Beethoven and to the elements of style and structure that cross all genres. The book concludes by looking at the ways that Beethoven and his music have been interpreted by performers, writers on music, and in the arts, literature, and philosophy. The essays in this volume, written by leading Beethoven specialists, maintain traditional emphases in Beethoven studies while incorporating other developments in musicology and theory.
The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet
Author: Colin Lawson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139825240
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet is a practical guide to the world of the clarinet. It offers students and performers a composite survey of the history and repertoire of the instrument from its origins to the present day, as well as practical guidance on teaching and performing. Special focus is made on the various members of the extensive clarinet family and specialist chapters provide advice on the mechanics of clarinet playing, the art of historical performance, contemporary techniques, and the clarinet in jazz. A chapter on the professional clarinettist introduces the world of the performing musician, while a survey of the clarinet on record provides the listener with a useful guide to the recording history of the instrument. Informed by the experience of distinguished performers and teachers, this book makes an essential and stimulating reference book for all clarinet enthusiasts.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139825240
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet is a practical guide to the world of the clarinet. It offers students and performers a composite survey of the history and repertoire of the instrument from its origins to the present day, as well as practical guidance on teaching and performing. Special focus is made on the various members of the extensive clarinet family and specialist chapters provide advice on the mechanics of clarinet playing, the art of historical performance, contemporary techniques, and the clarinet in jazz. A chapter on the professional clarinettist introduces the world of the performing musician, while a survey of the clarinet on record provides the listener with a useful guide to the recording history of the instrument. Informed by the experience of distinguished performers and teachers, this book makes an essential and stimulating reference book for all clarinet enthusiasts.
The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers
Author: Matthew Head
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110848915X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Exploring a diverse, distinguished repertoire, and transcending the rhetoric of neglect, this book transforms understanding of women composers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110848915X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Exploring a diverse, distinguished repertoire, and transcending the rhetoric of neglect, this book transforms understanding of women composers.
The Cambridge Companion to Goethe
Author: Lesley Sharpe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139826131
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Goethe provides a challenging yet accessible survey of this versatile figure, not only one of the world's greatest writers but also a theatre director and art critic, a natural scientist and state administrator. The volume places Goethe in the context of the Germany and Europe of his lifetime. His literary work is covered in individual chapters on poetry, drama (with a separate chapter on Faust), prose fiction and autobiography. Other chapters deal with his work in the Weimar Theatre, his friendship with Schiller, his scientific studies and writings, his engagement with the visual arts, with religion and philosophy, the controversies surrounding his political standpoint and the impact of feminist criticism. A wide-ranging survey of reception inside and outside Germany and an extensive guide to further reading round off this volume, which will appeal to students and specialists alike.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139826131
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Goethe provides a challenging yet accessible survey of this versatile figure, not only one of the world's greatest writers but also a theatre director and art critic, a natural scientist and state administrator. The volume places Goethe in the context of the Germany and Europe of his lifetime. His literary work is covered in individual chapters on poetry, drama (with a separate chapter on Faust), prose fiction and autobiography. Other chapters deal with his work in the Weimar Theatre, his friendship with Schiller, his scientific studies and writings, his engagement with the visual arts, with religion and philosophy, the controversies surrounding his political standpoint and the impact of feminist criticism. A wide-ranging survey of reception inside and outside Germany and an extensive guide to further reading round off this volume, which will appeal to students and specialists alike.