Berlin Cantata

Author : Jeffrey Lewis
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781907822421

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Berlin Cantata by Jeffrey Lewis Pdf

A city that has lost one of its limbs and is receiving a miraculous gift, a little bump under the flesh, where the limb is just beginning to grow back. Thus does the American girl in Jeffrey Lewis's remarkable polyphonic novel describe Berlin and the "remnant Jews, secret GDR Jews...Soviet Jews...Jews who'd fled and come back with the victors, Jews who were lost mandarins now, Jews who'd believed in the universality of man and maybe still did" whom she finds at a Day of Atonement gathering in the eastern part of the city in a year soon after the Wall fell. Berlin Cantata deploys thirteen voices to tell a story not only of atonement, but of discovery, loss, identity, intrigue, mystery, insanity, sadomasochism and lies. At its centre is a country house owned successively by Jews, Nazis and Communists. In the country house, the American girl seeks her hidden past. In the girl, a local reporter seeks redemption. In the reporter, a false hero of the past seeks exposure. In the false hero, the American girl seeks a guide. And so it goes, a round of conspiracy and desire. Even as he describes his native city, the false hero describes the characters of Berlin Cantata: "We dined on wreckage. We were not afraid to beg. We continued our long tradition of believing either in nothing or too much."

Author : Lawrence Bennett
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253010346

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The Italian Cantata in Vienna by Lawrence Bennett Pdf

A history of music for the imperial court “from a professor, choral director, and professional tenor who has studied Viennese cantatas for half a century” (Lowell Lindgren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Lawrence Bennett provides a comprehensive study of the rich repertoire of accompanied vocal chamber music that entertained the imperial family in Vienna and their guests throughout the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The cantata became a form of elite entertainment composed to amuse listeners during banquets or pay homage to members of the royal family during special occasions. Concentrating on Baroque cantatas composed in the Habsburg court, Bennett draws extensively on primary source material to explore the stylistic changes that occurred within the genre in the generations before Haydn and Mozart. “An important book. It deserves to be warmly welcomed not only by scholars but also by performers of Baroque vocal chamber music.” —Early Music “Shed[s] light on an important yet seldom-discussed repertory, written by someone whose expertise is unquestionable.” —Music and Letters “By taking multiple analytical approaches, Bennett establishes an overall understanding while also demonstrating how individual composers approached the genre. . . . Recommended.” —Choice “An important tool for understanding the context in which cantatas were composed and performed, and in which the Hapsburgs’ important music collection . . . was created.” —Notes “A wealth of new information . . . from a scholar who writes clearly and perceptively, and who has devoted decades of attention to the material.” —Steven Saunders, Charles A. Dana Professor of Music, Colby College

Author : Michael Talbot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351575171

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Aspects of the Secular Cantata in Late Baroque Italy by Michael Talbot Pdf

As shown by the ever-increasing volume of recordings, editions and performances of the vast repertory of secular cantatas for solo voice produced, primarily in Italy, in the second half of the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth century, this long neglected genre has at last 'come of age'. However, scholarly interest is currently lagging behind musical practice: incredibly, there has been no general study of the Baroque cantata since Eugen Schmitz's handbook of 1914, and although many academic theses have examined microscopically the cantatas of individual composers, there has been little opportunity to view these against the broader canvas of the genre as a whole. The contributors in this volume choose aspects of the cantata relevant to their special interests in order to say new things about the works, whether historical, analytical, bibliographical, discographical or performance-based. The prime focus is on Italian-born composers working between 1650 and 1750 (thus not Handel), but the opportunity is also taken in one chapter (by Graham Sadler) to compare the French cantata tradition with its Italian parent in association with a startling new claim regarding the intended instrumentation. Many key figures are considered, among them Tomaso Albinoni, Giovanni Bononcini, Giovanni Legrenzi, Benedetto Marcello, Alessandro Scarlatti, Alessandro Stradella, Leonardo Vinci and Antonio Vivaldi. The poetic texts of the cantatas, all too often treated as being of little intrinsic interest, are given their due weight. Space is also found for discussions of the history of Baroque solo cantatas on disc and of the realization of the continuo in cantata arias - a topic more complex and contentious than may at first be apparent. The book aims to stimulate interest in, and to win converts to, this genre, which in its day equalled the instrumental sonata in importance, and in which more than a few composers invested a major part of their creativity.

Author : Melvin P. Unger
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996-04-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461659051

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Handbook to Bach's Sacred Cantata Texts by Melvin P. Unger Pdf

The German church cantata of the eighteenth century was the culmination of a long tradition of Lutheran "sermon music" that used the proclamation, amplification, and interpretation of scripture to teach and persuade the listener. Bach's cantatas also served this didactic purpose and typically incorporate numerous allusions to scriptural passages or themes in their librettos. Unfortunately, many of these passages remain obscure to the twentieth-century musician because they demand a much closer familiarity with the Bible than is common today. The Handbook to Bach's Sacred Cantata Texts identifies scriptural references for the wording, imagery, and themes that Bach's listeners would have known. In addition, the religious or literary theme of each text is summarized within the specific context of the cantata as a whole. With interlinear translations and a full complement of indexes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1598 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Music
ISBN : NYPL:33433018642904

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Schwann Long Playing Record Catalog by Anonim Pdf

Author : Axel Fischer,Matthias Kornemann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783598441745

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The Archive of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin. Catalogue by Axel Fischer,Matthias Kornemann Pdf

With The Archive of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin. Catalogue a complete catalogue of the music archive of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin is now available for the first time since the archive, which disappeared during World War II, was rediscovered in 1999. (The whole work is complete in English and German). Since 2001 the more than 260,000 pages of music manuscripts, copies and first prints (from 17th to early 19th cent.) were revised by two musicologists which compiled an index of shelf marks and an index of composers. Thus detailed searches in the holdings of the archive (which were filmed since 2002 in severeal parts on microfiche at K. G. Saur) are possible for the first time. The Catalogue lists 9,735 works of 1.008 different composers. It provides also a concordance signature – microfiche and therefore serves as a cumulated guide to the microfiche editions, all the more the registers have been revised and improved. The unique collection is introduced by a number of articles by the following musicologists: Axel Fischer (Archive of the Sing-Akademie, Berlin), Christoph Henzel (Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg), Klaus Hortschansky (University of Münster), Matthias Kornemann (Archive of the Sing-Akademie, Berlin), Ulrich Leisinger (Mozarteum, Salzburg), Mary Oleskiewicz (University of Massachusetts Boston), Ralph-J. Reipsch (Zentrum für Telemann-Pflege und -Forschung, Magdeburg), Tobias Schwinger (Berlin).

Author : Richard D. P. Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199696284

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The Creative Development of Johann Sebastian Bach, Volume II: 1717-1750 by Richard D. P. Jones Pdf

This last in a two-volume study examines Bach's musical compositional development in his later years, including his time at Cðthen and Leipzig.

Author : Philadelphia Bibliographical Center and Union Library Catalogue. Committee on Microphotography
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Books on microfilm
ISBN : OSU:32435018219584

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Union List of Microfilms. Supplement by Philadelphia Bibliographical Center and Union Library Catalogue. Committee on Microphotography Pdf

Author : Philadelphia Bibliographical Center and Union Library Catalogue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015059741440

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Union List of Microfilms by Philadelphia Bibliographical Center and Union Library Catalogue Pdf

Author : Wm. A. Little
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199741830

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Mendelssohn and the Organ by Wm. A. Little Pdf

Mendelssohn and the Organ is the first comprehensive historical-critical study in any language to examine the role of the organ in Mendelssohn's personal and professional career. It examines his entire oeuvre for the instrument, including the Berlin-Krakow manuscripts, and presents for the first time Mendelssohn's complete correspondence with his English publisher, Charles Coventry.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011421521

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Schwann Artist Listing Long Playing Record Catalog by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1670 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1962-02
Category : Music
ISBN : NYPL:33433018633630

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Classical Recordaid by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Putnam Upton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732621279

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The Standard Cantatas by George Putnam Upton Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : David Schulenberg
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580464819

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The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach by David Schulenberg Pdf

Of the four sons of J. S. Bach who became composers, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-88) was the most prolific, the most original, and the most influential both during and after his lifetime. This first full-length English-language study critically surveys his output, examining not only the famous keyboard sonatas and concertos but also the songs, chamber music, and sacred works, many of which resurfaced in 1999 and have not previously been evaluated. The book also outlines the composer's career from his student days at Leipzig and Frankfurt (Oder) to his nearly three decades as court musician to Prussian King Frederick "the Great" and his last twenty years as cantor at Hamburg. Focusing on the composer's choices within his social and historical context, the book shows how C. P. E. Bach deliberately avoided his father's style while adopting the manner of his Berlin colleagues, derived from Italian opera. A new perspective on the composer emerges from the demonstration that C. P. E. Bach, best known for his virtuoso keyboard works, refashioned himself as a writer of vocal music and popular chamber compositions in response to changing cultural and aesthetic trends. Supplementary texts and musical examples are included on a companion website. David Schulenberg is professor of music at Wagner College and teaches historical performance at the Juilliard School. He is the author of The Music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (University of Rochester Press, 2010).

Author : Michael Talbot
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 1843832011

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The Chamber Cantatas of Antonio Vivaldi by Michael Talbot Pdf

Detailed survey of Vivaldi's unjustly neglected chamber cantatas, showing them to stand comparison with his more famous works. Vivaldi's chamber cantatas for solo voice, some forty in total, are steadily gaining in popularity: but because of their relatively small place in the oeuvre of a composer famed for his productivity, and also on account of the general scholarly neglect of their genre, they are little discussed in the literature. This book comprehensively explores their literary and musical background, their relation to the composer's biography, the chronology of their composition, and their musical qualities. Each cantata is discussed individually, but there is also a broader consideration of aspects concerning them collectively, such as performance practice, topical allusion, and the conventions of Italian verse. The author argues that while Vivalid's cantatas are not as innovative as his concertos and operas, he produced several masterpieces in the genre that rank with his best music. MICHAEL TALBOT is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool.