From Boulanger To Stockhausen

Author : Bálint András Varga
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580464390

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From Boulanger to Stockhausen by Bálint András Varga Pdf

Bálint András Varga makes available here for the first time in English nineteen extended interviews with some of the most notable figures in music from the past fifty years, as well as lively snippets from interviews Varga conducted with thirteen other equally renowned musicians. Of special interest is an interview with the reclusive composer György Kurtág, here published for the first time in any language. From Boulanger to Stockhausen concludes with a poignant memoir by Varga of his experiences growing up in a Jewish family in Hungary during World War II and the early years of Communist rule. Varga's recollections also include details about his many interviews with some of these remarkable musicians, and about his employment at the Hungarian state radio station and then in the music-publishing industry, which brought him to, among other places, Vienna, where he now lives [Publisher description].

Author : Jeanice Brooks,Kimberly Francis,Kimberly A. Francis
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580469678

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Nadia Boulanger by Jeanice Brooks,Kimberly Francis,Kimberly A. Francis Pdf

The first collection ever of essays and reviews by the renowned pedagogue, composer, and conductor, providing fresh perspectives on her musical influence and impact. The impact of Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) on twentieth-century music was vast: as composer, keyboard performer, conductor, impresario, and pedagogue. Her extensive musical networks included figures such as Fauré, Stravinsky, and Poulenc, and her advocacy helped establish the compositions of her sister Lili Boulanger. Few today realize, though, that Boulanger wrote numerous essays and reviews at various times in her career. These offer unparalleled insight into her thinking and illuminate aspects of musical culture in Europe and America from the rare point of view of an internationally prominent female artist. Nadia Boulanger: Thoughts on Music provides a translation and critical edition of selected writings chosen for their quality and interest. The previously published articles and essays have never been reissued since their original appearance; the remaining materials are presented to readers here for the first time. The volume renders all these materials widely available, providing an important new resource for teaching and scholarship on twentieth-century music as well as an engaging collection of musical essays for the general reader.

Author : Nadia Boulanger,Igor Stravinsky
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580465960

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Nadia Boulanger and the Stravinskys by Nadia Boulanger,Igor Stravinsky Pdf

Published for the first time: a rich epistolary dialogue revealing one master teacher's power to shape the cultural canon and one great composer's desire to embed himself within historical narratives.

Author : Andrew H. Weaver
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781648250897

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Narrative and Robert Schumann's Songs by Andrew H. Weaver Pdf

Featuring 28 music examples this book takes an innovative approach to analyzing and interpreting nineteenth-century German song, offering new perspectives on Robert Schumann's Lieder and song cycles. Robert Schumann's Lieder are among the richest and most complex songs in the repertoire and have long raised questions and stimulated discussion among scholars, performers, and listeners. Among the wide range of methodologies that have been used to understand and interpret his songs, one that has been conspicuously absent is an approach based on narratology (the theory and study of narrative texts). Proceeding from the premise that the performance of a Lied is a narrative act, in which the singer and pianist together function as a narrator, Andrew Weaver's groundbreaking study proposes a comprehensive theory of narratology for the German Romantic Lied and song cycle, using Schumann's complete song oeuvre as the test case. The theory, grounded in the work of narratologist Mieke Bal but also drawing upon recent work in literary theory and musicology, illuminates how music can open up new meanings for the poem, as well as how a narratological analysis of the poem can help us understand the music. Weaver's book offers new insights into Schumann's Lieder and the poetry he set while simultaneously proposing a methodology applicable to the analysis and interpretation of a wide range of works, including not only the rich treasury of German Lieder but also potentially any genre of accompanied song in any language from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Author : Bob Gilmore
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580464857

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Claude Vivier by Bob Gilmore Pdf

In 1983, French-Canadian composer Claude Vivier was murdered in Paris at the age of thirty-four. Based on unrestricted access to Vivier's personal archives, this book is the first to tell his story.

Author : Gary A. Berg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475862386

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A Career in the Arts by Gary A. Berg Pdf

There is a gap in knowledge about artistic careers--few people fully understand the economics and sociology of the visual and performing arts. The public impression of the lives of artists are distorted because typically only the very successful get attention. Society generalizes based on those people who are statistical exceptions, not by looking at average careers, let alone those who discontinue their pursuit of arts professions. For emerging young artists, it is essential to know the histories of the different performing and visual arts, and their training and craft traditions. Additionally, understanding the role of informal learning, differences in types of institutions, approaches to teaching-learning, and the subsequent likely career impact is important. While some have hailed the advances in the arts as a result of new technology, changes in the finances of performers are greatly impacted by the digital world. Many have commented on the greying audiences for classical music and opera, but the characteristics of the younger generations who appear to want to view, listen, and interact with visual and performance art differently may be even more impactful.

Author : Bálint András Varga
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9781580465939

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The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste by Bálint András Varga Pdf

Bálint András Varga is perhaps the world's most respected interviewer of living composers. For The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste: Reflections on New Music, Varga has confronted thirty-three composers with quotations carefully chosen to elicit their thoughts about an issue that is crucial for any serious creative artist: How can one find courage to deal with the sometimes tyrannical expectations of the outside world? The result is an imaginary roundtable at which we encounter fresh, revealing, previously unpublished statements from such world-renowned composers as John Adams, Friedrich Cerha, George Crumb, Sofia Gubaïdulina, Georg Friedrich Haas, Giya Kancheli, György Kurtág, Helmut Lachenmann, Libby Larsen, Robert Morris, and Wolfgang Rihm. Also represented are composers who are becoming more prominent with the passing years -- Chaya Czernowin, Pascal Dusapin, and Rebecca Saunders -- as well as conductor-composer Michael Gielen, festival director Nicholas Kenyon, and music critics Paul Griffiths and Arnold Whittall. In The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste, composers and other insightful individuals comment on choices made, traps avoided, unforeseen consequences, proud accomplishments, occasional regrets: the whole range of experiences central to artistic creativity. Bálint András Varga isthe acclaimed author of György Kurtág: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages; Three Questions for 65 Composers; and From Boulanger to Stockhausen: Interviews and a Memoir (all available from University of Rochester Press).

Author : Russell Hartenberger,Ryan McClelland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108492928

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The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm by Russell Hartenberger,Ryan McClelland Pdf

An exploration of rhythm and the richness of musical time from the perspective of performers, composers, analysts, and listeners.

Author : Rebecca Cypess,Estelí Gomez,Rachael Lansang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781003801825

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Historical Performance and New Music by Rebecca Cypess,Estelí Gomez,Rachael Lansang Pdf

The worlds of new music and historically informed performance might seem quite distant from one another. Yet, upon closer consideration, clear points of convergence emerge. Not only do many contemporary performers move easily between these two worlds, but they often do so using a shared ethos of flexibility, improvisation, curiosity, and collaboration—collaboration with composers past and present, with other performers, and with audiences. Bringing together expert scholars and performers considering a wide range of issues and case studies, Historical Performance and New Music—the first book of its kind—addresses the synergies in aesthetics and practices in historical performance and new music. The essays treat matters including technologies and media such as laptops, printing presses, and graphic notation; new music written for period instruments from natural horns to the clavichord; personalities such as the pioneering singer Cathy Berberian; the musically “omnivorous” ensembles A Far Cry and Roomful of Teeth; and composers Luciano Berio, David Lang, Molly Herron, Caroline Shaw, and many others. Historical Performance and New Music presents pathbreaking ideas in an accessible style that speaks to performers, composers, scholars, and music lovers alike. Richly documented and diverse in its methods and subject matter, this book will open new conversations about contemporary musical life.

Author : Bohuslav Martinů,Thomas D. Svatos
Publisher : Eastman Studies in Music
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580465571

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Martinů's Subliminal States by Bohuslav Martinů,Thomas D. Svatos Pdf

The composer's diaries, translated for the first time, with commentary on his distinctive musical aesthetics and his relationship to artistic cross-currents in Czechoslovakia, France, and America.

Author : Neil Gregor,Thomas Irvine
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781789200331

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Dreams of Germany by Neil Gregor,Thomas Irvine Pdf

For many centuries, Germany has enjoyed a reputation as the ‘land of music’. But just how was this reputation established and transformed over time, and to what extent was it produced within or outside of Germany? Through case studies that range from Bruckner to the Beatles and from symphonies to dance-club music, this volume looks at how German musicians and their audiences responded to the most significant developments of the twentieth century, including mass media, technological advances, fascism, and war on an unprecedented scale.

Author : Robert Adlington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429837371

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New Music Theatre in Europe by Robert Adlington Pdf

Between 1955 and 1975 music theatre became a central preoccupation for European composers digesting the consequences of the revolutionary experiments in musical language that followed the end of the Second World War. The ‘new music theatre’ wrought multiple, significant transformations, serving as a crucible for the experimental rethinking of theatrical traditions, artistic genres, the conventions of performance, and the composer’s relation to society. This volume brings together leading specialists from across Europe to offer a new appraisal of the genre. It is structured according to six themes that investigate: the relation of new music theatre to earlier and contemporaneous theories of drama; the use of new technologies; the relation of new music theatre to progressive politics; the role of new venues and environments; the advancement of new conceptions of the performer; and the challenges that new music theatre lays down for music analysis. Contributing authors address canonical works by composers such as Berio, Birtwistle, Henze, Kagel, Ligeti, Nono, and Zimmermann, but also expand the field to figures and artistic developments not regularly represented in existing music histories. Particular attention is given to new music theatre as a site of intense exchange – between practitioners of different art forms, across national borders, and with diverse mediating institutions.

Author : Ralph Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580465915

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Reflections of an American Harpsichordist by Ralph Kirkpatrick Pdf

Presents previously unpublished memoirs (1933-77), lectures, and essays by the eminent harpsichordist and scholar Ralph Kirkpatrick.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Concerts
ISBN : IND:30000061911107

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Your Musical Cue by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kimberly A. Francis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199373710

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Teaching Stravinsky by Kimberly A. Francis Pdf

In 1929 Nadia Boulanger accepted Igor Stravinsky's younger son, Soulima, as her student. Within two years, Stravinsky and Boulanger merged their artistic spheres, each influencing and enhancing the cultural work of the other until the composer's death in 1971. Teaching Stravinsky tells Boulanger's story of the ever-changing nature of her fractious relationship with Stravinksy. Author Kimberly A. Francis explores how Boulanger's own professional activity during the turbulent twentieth-century intersected with her efforts on behalf of Stravinsky, and how this facilitated her own influential conversations with the composer about his works while also drawing her into close contact with his family. Through the theoretical lens of Bourdieu, and drawing upon over one thousand pages of letters and scores, many published here for the first time, Francis examines the extent to which Boulanger played a foundational role in defining, defending, and ultimately consecrating Stravinsky's canonical identity. She considers how the quotidian events in the lives of these two icons of modernism informed both their art and their professional decisions, and convincingly argues for a reevaluation of the influence of women on cultural production during the twentieth century. At once a story of one woman's vibrant friendship with an iconic modernist composer, and a case study in how gendered polemics informed professional negotiations of the artistic-political fields of the twentieth-century, Teaching Stravinsky sheds new light not only on how Boulanger taught Stravinsky, but also how, in doing so, she managed to influence the course of modernism itself.