Constant Lambert

Author : Stephen Lloyd
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843838982

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Constant Lambert by Stephen Lloyd Pdf

"To the economist and ballet enthusiast John Maynard Keynes he was potentially the most brilliant man he'd ever met; to Dame Ninette de Valois he was the greatest ballet conductor and advisor this country has ever had; to the composer Denis ApIvor he was the greatest, mostr lovable, and most entertaining personality of the musical world; whilst to the dance critic Clement Crisp he was quite simply a musician of genius. Yet sixty years after his ... death Constant Lambert is little known today. As a composer he is remembered for his jazz-inspired The Rio Grande but little more, and for a man who ... devoted the graeter part of his life to the establishment of English ballet his work is largely unrecognized today. [This book] looks not only at his music but at his journalism, his talks for the BBC, his championing of jazz (in particular, Duke Ellington), and, more privately - his longstanding affair with Margot Fonteyn. ..."--Book jacket.

Author : Constant Lambert
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-05T11:09:00Z
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781774642702

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Music Ho!: A Study of Music in Decline by Constant Lambert Pdf

A brilliant analysis of the music of the twenties and thirties, also discusses the music of composers like Stravinsky, Satie, Gershwin, and considers the contributions of jazz and other pop music of the time with classical music.

Author : Richard Shead,Anthony Powell
Publisher : London : Simon Publications
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042354386

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Constant Lambert by Richard Shead,Anthony Powell Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498769

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Daniel Albright
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 0226012662

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Modernism and Music by Daniel Albright Pdf

If in earlier eras music may have seemed slow to respond to advances in other artistic media, during the modernist age it asserted itself in the vanguard. Modernism and Music provides a rich selection of texts on this moment, some translated into English for the first time. It offers not only important statements by composers and critics, but also musical speculations by poets, novelists, philosophers, and others-all of which combine with Daniel Albright's extensive, interlinked commentary to place modernist music in the full context of intellectual and cultural history.

Author : Jonathan D. Green,David W. Oertel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442244672

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Choral-Orchestral Repertoire by Jonathan D. Green,David W. Oertel Pdf

Choral-Orchestral Repertoire: A Conductor’s Guide, Omnibus Edition offers an expansive compilation of choral-orchestral works from 1600 to the present. Synthesizing Jonathan D. Green’s earlier six volumes on this repertoire, this edition updates and adds to the over 750 oratorios, cantatas, choral symphonies, masses, secular works for large and small ensembles, and numerous settings of liturgical and biblical texts for a wide variety of vocal and instrumental combinations. Each entry includes a brief biographical sketch of the composer, approximate duration, text sources, performing forces, available editions, and locations of manuscript materials, as well as descriptive commentary, a discography, and a bibliography. Unique to this edition are practitioner’s evaluations of the performance issues presented in each score. These include the range, tessitura, and nature of each solo role and a determination of the difficulty of the choral and orchestral portions of each composition. There is also a description of the specific challenges, staffing, and rehearsal expectations related to the performance of each work. Choral-Orchestral Repertoire is an essential resource for conductors and students of conducting as they search for repertoire appropriate to their needs and the abilities of their ensembles.

Author : Stephen H. Smith
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781800466968

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Albion’s Glory by Stephen H. Smith Pdf

My book begins with a brief consideration of what we mean by “English music” and what factors are involved. I explain the reasons behind my choice of composers for consideration, and for the omissions from the survey.

Author : Jonathan D. Green
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461655787

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A Conductor's Guide to Choral-Orchestral Works by Jonathan D. Green Pdf

Now in paperback. This innovative survey of large choral-orchestral works written between 1900 and 1972 and containing some English text examines eighty-nine works, from Elgar's Dream of Gerontius to Bernstein's Mass. For each work, the author provides a biography of the composer, complete instrumentation, text sources, editions, availability of performing materials, performance issues, discography, and bibliographies of the composer and the work. Based upon direct score study, each work has been evaluated in terms of potential performance problems, rehearsal issues, and level of difficulty for both choir and orchestra. When present, solo roles are described. The forty-nine composers represented include Samuel Barber, Arthur Bliss, Benjamin Britten, Henry Cowell, Frederick Delius, R. Nathaniel Dett, Gerald Finzi, Howard Hanson, Roy Harris, Paul Hindemith, Ulysses Kay, Constant Lambert, Peter Mennin, Gunther Schuller, William Schumann, Michael Tippett, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, and Healey Willan. Written as a field guide for conductors and anyone else involved in programming concerts for choir and orchestra, this text should prove a useful source of new repertoire ideas and an invaluable aid to rehearsal preparation. Cloth edition first published in 1994.

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226677109

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Miscellaneous Verdicts by Anthony Powell Pdf

Miscellaneous Verdicts represents the best of Anthony Powell's critical writing over a period of four decades. Drawn from his regular reviews for the Daily Telegraph, from his occasional humorous pieces for Punch, and from his more sustained pieces of critical and anecdotal writing on writers, this collection is as witty, fresh, surprising, and entertaining as one would expect from the author of Dance to the Music of Time. Powell begins with a section on the British, exploring his fascination both with genealogy and with figures like John Aubrey, and writing in depth about writers like Kipling, Conrad, and Hardy. The second section, on America, also opens with discussions of family trees (in this case presidential ones) and includes pieces on Henry James, James Thurber, American booksellers in Paris, Hemingway, and Dashiell Hammett. Personal encounters, and absorbing incidents from the lives of his subjects, frequently fill these pages—as they do even more in the section on Powell's contemporaries—Connolly, Orwell, Graham Greene, and others. Finally, and aptly, the book closes with a section on Proust and matters Proustian, including a marvellous essay on what is eaten and drunk, and by whom, in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. "An urbane book, quietly erudite, very sensible, highly civilized, remarkably useful."—Anthony Burgess, Observer "An acute intelligence and fastidious sense of humor make [Powell] the funniest and most profound living writer of the English language."—Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Sunday Telegraph Anthony Powell was born in London in 1905. He is the author of seven novels, a biography of John Aubrey, two plays, a collection of memoirs, and the twelve-volume novel sequence Dance to the Music of Time.

Author : Roger Copeland,Marshall Cohen
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195031973

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What is Dance? by Roger Copeland,Marshall Cohen Pdf

A wide variety of writing is included in this anthology, from the practical criticism of Arlene Croce and David Denby to the more scholarly work of Rudoloph Arnheim, Suzanne Langer, and Havelock Ellis. The collection is divided into seven sections: What is Dance?; the Dance Medium; Dance andthe Other Arts; Genre and Style; Language, Notation, and Identity; Dance Criticism; and Dance and Society.

Author : Paul Bevan,Anne Witchard,Da Zheng
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888754137

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Chiang Yee and His Circle by Paul Bevan,Anne Witchard,Da Zheng Pdf

This book, Chiang Yee and His Circle: Chinese Artistic and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1930–1950, celebrates the life and work of Chiang Yee (1903–1977), a Chinese writer, poet, and painter who made his home in London, England during the 1930s and 1940s. It examines Chiang’s relationship with his circle of friends and colleagues in the English capital, and assesses the work he produced during his sojourn there. This edited volume, with contributions from eleven distinguished scholars, tells a story of a Chinese intellectual community in London that up to now has been largely overlooked. It portrays a dynamic picture of the London-based émigré life during the years that led up to the war and during the conflict that was the catalyst for many of them moving on. In addition, the book broadens our understanding of cultural interactions between China and the West in Hampstead, one of the most vibrant artistic communities in London. ‘The collected essays convey a striking portrait of a community of Chinese intellectuals in England during World War II and how it interacted with cultural elites in London and elsewhere both as artists and as anti-fascist activists. As a whole, the volume makes significant points about how people claim status as “authentic” interpreters of a cultural tradition, a process that can pit friends against each other.’ —Kristin Stapleton, The University at Buffalo, SUNY ‘In this delightful collection of essays, a team of experts in literature, history, and the arts bring to light a world of literary interconnectedness and wartime collaboration seldom explored in scholarship. The perfect resource for anyone who values the humanistic common ground between the East and the West.’ —Jenny H. Day, Skidmore College

Author : Peter Dickinson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783271061

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Words and Music by Peter Dickinson Pdf

Articles, tributes and reminiscences of composer, pianist and author Peter Dickinson are here brought together for the first time.

Author : Stephen Lloyd
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 085115803X

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William Walton by Stephen Lloyd Pdf

"Using first-hand accounts, including contemporary correspondence, articles and interviews, this account of Walton's life also draws on material newly available relating to his friends and associates. The reception of Facade and Walton's work in both films and radio are fully explored."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Charles P. Mitchell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476609850

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The Great Composers Portrayed on Film, 1913 through 2002 by Charles P. Mitchell Pdf

This book is a comprehensive filmography of biographical films featuring the lives of 65 great classical composers. Performances analyzed include Richard Burton as Richard Wagner, Cornel Wilde as Frederic Chopin, Gary Oldman as Ludwig van Beethoven, Tom Hulce as Mozart, and Katharine Hepburn as Clara Schumann, among others. Arranged alphabetically by composer’s name and illustrated1with stills and posters, the text provides a brief biography of each composer and analyzes the feature films portraying him or her. Emphasis is given to the factual accuracy of the screenplay, the validity of the portrayal, and the film’s presentation of the composer’s music.

Author : Stewart Craggs
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780193409897

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William Walton: A Catalogue by Stewart Craggs Pdf

This revised, updated, and expanded edition of the definitive catalogue of works by Sir William Walton (1902-83) follows the completion of the William Walton Edition. A comprehensive source of musical and documentary information relevant to Walton's life and work, the catalogue features full details of composition dates, instrumentation, first performance, publication, the location of autograph manuscripts, critical comment, and significant recordings, as well as previously undiscovered pieces. Appended are a helpful bibliography for further reading and indexes including for works, authors of texts, first lines, and dedicatees.