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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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The American Organist
Author: Amico
Author: Warwick ListerPublisher: Oxford University Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Giovanni Battista Viotti was unquestionably the most influential violinist of his time, and his style continues to pervade to the present day. The last great representative of the Italian tradition that Corelli began, Viotti is often considered the founder of the modern or 19th-century French school of violin playing. In Amico: The Life of Giovanni Battista Viotti, author Warwick Lister provides the first complete biography in English of this continuously significant violinist. Much of the documentary material Lister cites is previously unknown or not translated. Lister's biography takes the reader on a fascinating journey over the European continent and into the musical culture of the late 18th century. Born one year prior to Mozart and dying three years before Beethoven's death, Viotti rose from the humble origins of a blacksmith's son in a village near Turin, Italy, to international fame. His multifarious career as a concert performer, composer, teacher, opera theater director, and impresario was played out against the backdrop of a dramatically changing world - he served as a court musician for no less a figure than Marie Antoinette before founding an opera house in Paris. Viotti also knew tragedy as well as success: he was forced to flee the French Revolution, he was exiled from England for an extended period based on suspicions of certain Jacobin tendencies, his attempt to establish himself in business met with failure, and he died heavily in debt. Lister concludes Amico by coming to grips with the very things that account for Viotti's greatness and influence: the technical aspects of his violin playing and compositions. With its extensive documentary research and the inclusion of translations of various archival documents, this is the essential English-language biography of Viotti, a significant addition to the libraries of students and scholars of 18th and early 19th century music, as well as violin performers, students, and instructors.
Chamber Music
Author: John H BaronPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135848270
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1059
Book Description
Chamber Music: A Research and Information Guide is a reference tool for anyone interested in chamber music. It is not a history or an encyclopedia but a guide to where to find answers to questions about chamber music. The third edition adds nearly 600 new entries to cover new research since publication of the previous edition in 2002. Most of the literature is books, articles in journals and magazines, dissertations and theses, and essays or chapters in Festschriften, treatises, and biographies. In addition to the core literature obscure citations are also included when they are the only studies in a particular field. In addition to being printed, this volume is also for the first time available online. The online environment allows for information to be updated as new research is introduced. This database of information is a "live" resource, fully searchable, and with active links. Users will have unlimited access, annual revisions will be made and a limited number of pages can be downloaded for printing.
Trombone/euphonium Discography
Author: Edward R. BahrPublisher: Stevens Point, Wis. : Index House
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Diapason
Author: Siegfried Emanuel GruensteinPublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Includes music.
The History of Galashiels
Author: Robert HallPublisher:
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Category : Galashiels (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
The Pilgrim Hymnal
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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The Agnews of Lochnaw
Author: Sir Andrew AgnewScotland, Social and Domestic
Author: Charles RogersPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Musical Implications
Author: Lawrence F. BernsteinPublisher: Festschrift
ISBN: 9781576471593
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
This collection of seventeen essays by friends, colleagues, and former students celebrates the extraordinarily broad intellectual reach of Eugene Narmour, Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, a seminal figure in the field of music theory, and a path breaking scholar in music cognition. The studies range widely in subject and approach, just as Narmour's work demonstrates impressive mastery in an imposing array of disciplines, including, beyond his own training in music theory, art history, cognitive studies, linguistics, and psychology. Fittingly, therefore, these essays draw upon cognitive, historical, performative, philosophical, style-analytical, and theoretical models. The contributors include: Lawrence Bernstein, James Buhler, Matthew Butterfield, Catherine Chamblee, Alfred Cramer, Zohar Eitan, Robert Gjerdingen, Christopher Hasty, Robert Hopkins, Cristle Judd, Fred Lerdahl, Justin London, Eugene Montague, Caroline Palmer and Janeen Loehr, Alexander Rozin, Ruth Solie, and Gary Tomlinson.