Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Dictionary Catalog of the Music Collection
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
The Penguin Companion to Classical Music
Author: Paul GriffithsPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141909765
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
Book Description
This superbly authoratitive new work provides a comprehensive A-Z guide to some 1000 years of Western music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a vast range of composers, as well as looking at such key topics as music history (from medieval plainchant to contemporary minimalism), performers, theory and jargon. Throught Griffiths skilfully blends lightly worn scholarship with personal insight, whether examining the emotional colouring that different musical keys achieve or charting the rise and development of the symphony.
Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Musical Magazine and Musical Courier
Author: Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835-1921
Author: Sabina Teller RatnerPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198163206
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Camille Saint-Sa ns 1835-1921: A Thematic Catalogue of his Complete Works defines the achievement of this great French composer. All his musical works are presented: the well-recognized masterpieces, the childhood sketches, the unpublished compositions, and the previously unknown pieces now revealed for the first time. This comprehensive collection fully documents the composer's extraordinary contribution to the musical world. Volume 1 concentrates specifically on his Instrumental output, while the two later volumes will cover Dramatic Works and Choral & Vocal Works respectively.
The Monthly Musical Record
Author: Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst: Virtuoso Violinist
Author: Mark RowePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351563920
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
From 1840-57, Heinrich Ernst was one of the most famous and significant European musicians, and performed on stage, often many times, with Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Wagner, Alkan, Clara Schumann, and Joachim. It is a sign of his importance that, in 1863, Brahms gave two public performances in Vienna of his own and Ernst's music to raise money for the now mortally ill violinist. Berlioz described Ernst as 'one of the artists whom I love the most, and with whose talent I am most sympathetique', while Joachim was in no doubt that Ernst was 'the greatest violinist I ever heard; he towered above the others'. Many felt that he surpassed the expressive and technical achievements of Paganini, but Ernst, unlike his great predecessor, was also a tireless champion of public chamber music, and did more than any other early nineteenth-century violinist to make Beethoven's late quartets widely known and appreciated. Ernst was not only a great virtuoso but also an accomplished composer. He wrote two of the most popular pieces of the nineteenth century - the Elegy and the Carnival of Venice - and he is best known today for two solo pieces which represent the ne plus ultra of technical difficulty: the transcription of Schubert's Erlking, and the sixth of his Polyphonic Studies, the variations on The Last Rose of Summer. Perhaps he made his greatest contribution to music through his influence on Liszt's outstanding masterpiece, the B minor piano sonata. In 1849, Liszt conducted Ernst playing his own Concerto Path que, a substantial single-movement work, in altered sonata form, using thematic transformation. Soon after this performance, Liszt wrote his Grosses Konzertsolo (1849-50), his first extended single-movement work, using altered sonata form, and thematic transformation. This is now universally acknowledged to be the immediate forerunner of the sonata, which refines and develops all these techniques. Liszt made his debt clear when, three years after completi
Catalogs
Author: Harold Reeves (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description