Essays On Roberto Gerhard

Author : Monty Adkins,Michael Russ
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781443874816

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Essays on Roberto Gerhard by Monty Adkins,Michael Russ Pdf

For much of the mid-twentieth century, Roberto Gerhard found himself an outsider. He was airbrushed from much writing on contemporary music in Spain during the Franco regime, and was known in England more for his ‘commercial’ music for theatre, film and radio than his concert works. However, his significance as a musical innovator in developing serial technique and in the field of electro-acoustics is now being gradually recognised in both Spain and England, as well as further afield. The volume explores an extensive range of Gerhard’s work from the early Wind Quintet and the Spanish ballets Pandora and Don Quixote with their overt political overtones, through to the late period Metamorphoses and a newly discovered chance-based composition Claustophilia written in response to a request by John Cage for his book Notations. One of the key themes presented throughout the book is Gerhard’s innovative use of serialism. Gerhard’s development of Schoenberg’s technique led him to explore the serialization of both pitch and time. This volume suggests evidence for the first time that situates Gerhard’s idiosyncratic experiments alongside rather than after the total serialist works of his European counterparts Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Author : Monty Adkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317017233

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The Roberto Gerhard Companion by Monty Adkins Pdf

More than forty years after the composer's death, the music of Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) continues to be recorded and performed and to attract international scholarly interest. The Roberto Gerhard Companion is the first full length scholarly work on this composer noted for his sharp intellect and original, exploring mind. This book builds on the outcomes of two recent international conferences and includes contributions by scholars from Spain, the USA and UK. The essays collected here explore themes and trends within Gerhard’s work, using individual or groups of works as case studies. Among the themes presented are the way Gerhard’s work was shaped by his Catalan heritage, his education under Pedrell and Schoenberg, and his very individual reaction to the latter’s teaching and methods, notably Gerhard’s very distinctive approach to serialism. The influence of these and other cultural and literary figures is an important underlying theme that ties essays together. Exiled from Catalonia from 1939, Gerhard spent the remainder of his life in Cambridge, England, composing a string of often ground-breaking compositions, notably the symphonies and concertos composed in the 1950s and 1960s. A particular focus in this book is Gerhard's electronic music. He was a pioneer in this genre and the book will contain the first rigorous studies of this music as well as the first accurate catalogue of this electronic output. His ground-breaking output of incidental music for radio and the stage is also given detailed consideration.

Author : Nicole V. Gagné
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538122983

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Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music by Nicole V. Gagné Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on the most important composers, musicians, methods, styles, and media in modernist and postmodern classical music.

Author : Björn Heile,Charles Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317042457

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The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music by Björn Heile,Charles Wilson Pdf

Modernism in music still arouses passions and is riven by controversies. Taking root in the early decades of the twentieth century, it achieved ideological dominance for almost three decades following the Second World War, before becoming the object of widespread critique in the last two decades of the century, both from critics and composers of a postmodern persuasion and from prominent scholars associated with the ‘new musicology’. Yet these critiques have failed to dampen its ongoing resilience. The picture of modernism has considerably broadened and diversified, and has remained a pivotal focus of debate well into the twenty-first century. This Research Companion does not seek to limit what musical modernism might be. At the same time, it resists any dilution of the term that would see its indiscriminate application to practically any and all music of a certain period. In addition to addressing issues already well established in modernist studies such as aesthetics, history, institutions, place, diaspora, cosmopolitanism, production and performance, communication technologies and the interface with postmodernism, this volume also explores topics that are less established; among them: modernism and affect, modernism and comedy, modernism versus the ‘contemporary’, and the crucial distinction between modernism in popular culture and a ‘popular modernism’, a modernism of the people. In doing so, this text seeks to define modernism in music by probing its margins as much as by restating its supposed essence.

Author : University of Michigan. School of Music
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Concert programs
ISBN : UOM:39015009459390

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School of Music Programs by University of Michigan. School of Music Pdf

Author : Ramsay Burt,Michael Huxley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429855948

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Dance, Modernism, and Modernity by Ramsay Burt,Michael Huxley Pdf

This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity by examining the ways in which leading dancers have responded to modernity. Burt and Huxley examine dance examples from a period beginning just before the First World War and extending to the mid-1950s, ranging across not only mainland Europe and the United States but also Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific Asian region, and the UK. They consider a wide range of artists, including Akarova, Gertrude Colby, Isadora Duncan, Katherine Dunham, Margaret H’Doubler, Hanya Holm, Michio Ito, Kurt Jooss, Wassily Kandinsky, Margaret Morris, Berto Pasuka, Uday Shankar, Antony Tudor, and Mary Wigman. The authors explore dancers’ responses to modernity in various ways, including within the contexts of natural dancing and transnationalism. This collection asks questions about how, in these places and times, dancing developed and responded to the experience of living in modern times, or even came out of an ambivalence about or as a reaction against it. Ideal for students and practitioners of dance and those interested in new modernist studies, Dance, Modernism, and Modernity considers the development of modernism in dance as an interdisciplinary and global phenomenon.

Author : Roger Ellis,Elaine Hogard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351740326

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Handbook of Quality Assurance for University Teaching by Roger Ellis,Elaine Hogard Pdf

This practical and authoritative handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the issues and approaches to assuring quality in university teaching. Including contributions from major international figures, the book contains a wealth of ideas and practical advice to help universities commit to quality in teaching and offers insights into how the topics raised can be directly applied. The book initially identifies some of the key issues surrounding the topic, such as the evidence-based identification of teaching quality; the training of university lecturers and faculty; external and internal quality assurance; the tension between professional autonomy and governmental regulation; and the involvement of students in developing quality. It then moves on to present ideas and initiatives to address these problems, tackling the subject through four sections: Assuring Quality – questioning what quality assurance means and how it might be practised; Identifying Quality – examining what knowledge exists at present and how it might be further researched; Developing Quality – investigating the development of staff through teacher training and appraisal; Case Studies of Quality Assurance – reviewing six case studies of quality assurance in a range of contrasting subjects including the professional subjects of Medicine, Nursing and Teacher Training which are also addressed systemically in the first section. Full of practical advice, Handbook of Quality Assurance for University Teaching is an invaluable and unique resource for Faculty, Subject Leaders, University Administrators and Quality Assessors.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Dance
ISBN : NYPL:33433074735949

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London Musical Events by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eva Moreda Rodriguez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781134805860

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Music and Exile in Francoist Spain by Eva Moreda Rodriguez Pdf

The Spanish Republican exile of 1939 impacted music as much as it did literature and academia, with well-known figures such as Adolfo Salazar and Roberto Gerhard forced to leave Spain. Exile is typically regarded as a discontinuity - an irreparable dissociation between the home country and the host country. Spanish exiled composers, however, were never totally cut off from the musical life of Francoist Spain (1939-1975), be it through private correspondence, public performances of their work, honorary appointments and invitations from Francoist institutions, or a physical return to Spanish soil. Music and Exile in Francoist Spain analyses the connections of Spanish exiled composers with their homeland throughout 1939-1975. Taking the diversity and heterogeneity of the Spanish Republican exile as its starting point, the volume presents extended comparative case studies in order to broaden and advance current conceptions of, and debates surrounding, exile in musicology and Spanish studies. In doing so, it significantly furthers academic research on individual composers including Salvador Bacarisse, Julian Bautista, Roberto Gerhard, Rodolfo Halffter, Julian Orbon and Adolfo Salazar. As the first English-language monograph to explore the exiled composers from the perspectives of historiography, music criticism, performance and correspondence, Eva Moreda Rodriguez's vivid reconception of the role of place and nation in twentieth-century music history will be of particular interest for scholars of Spanish music, Spanish Republican history, and exile and displacement more broadly.

Author : Francis Routh
Publisher : Little Brown and Company (UK)
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Music
ISBN : UCAL:B3959861

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Contemporary British Music by Francis Routh Pdf

Author : Philip Reed
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 0851156142

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On Mahler and Britten by Philip Reed Pdf

In February 1995 Donald Mitchell, the foremost authority on the life and works of Gustav Mahler and Benjamin Britten, celebrated his seventieth birthday. To mark this event, the present Festschrift has been compiled under the editorship of Philip Reed. Distinguished composers, scholars, colleagues and friends from around the world have written on aspects of the two composers closest to Mitchell's heart - Mahler and Britten - to produce a volume which not only reflects some of the latest thinking on this pair of remarkable figures in the music of our century, but which also pays full tribute to the impact of Mitchell's own work on these composers over the last fifty years. The volume includes the fullest bibliography of Mitchell's writings yet compiled.

Author : Roger Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781134733903

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Form and Method: Composing Music by Roger Reynolds Pdf

First Published in 2007. This volume is a collection of a series of six illustrated lectures that demonstrate a picture of the author’s evolved thinking about the composing of music: both from a more general, overall perspective and from that of the particular moment-to-moment decision making that, gradually accumulating, brings a whole into being.

Author : Alan J. Poulton
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015049686556

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A Dictionary-catalog of Modern British Composers: D-L by Alan J. Poulton Pdf

This catalog of works, organized alphabetically by composer, details the compositions of fifty-four modern British composers born between 1893 and 1923. Volume two covers composers from Christian Darnton to Elisabeth Lutyens. Compositions are listed chronologically and include pertinent information about the performance, year of composition, music history, first recordings, and original manuscript location. Concert music is listed separately from documentary and feature films and from music composed for radio, television or stage. As a tool for further research, this catalog will appeal to soloists, chamber musicians and orchestral players as well as to scholars of classical music. A selective bibliography is included for each composer. Each volume includes a title index organized by composer.

Author : Hans Keller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521673488

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Essays on Music by Hans Keller Pdf

Hans Keller (1919-1985), who lived and worked in London, was one of the most brilliant and stimulating writers on music of his day and the new theory of music which has emerged from his psychologically based music criticism has exerted considerable influence on a whole generation of composers and performers. This first large selection of his writing will appeal to professional and amateur musicians and all those listeners who remember the distinctive style of his broadcasts for the BBC.

Author : Robert Spruytenburg
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781843838357

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The Lasalle Quartet by Robert Spruytenburg Pdf

The definitive study of the LaSalle Quartet, for forty years the premier exponent of 'the new music' for string quartet.