Gian Francesco Malipiero 1882 1973

Author : John C. G. Waterhouse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134409174

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Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973) by John C. G. Waterhouse Pdf

In recent years Gian Francesco Malipiero has been recognised increasingly widely as one of the most original and strangely fascinating Italian composers of the early 20th century. He was the teacher of Maderna and Nono, and was revered by (among many others) Dallapiccola, who even called him the most important (musical) personality that Italy has had since the death of Verdi . He was also a key figure in the revival of the long- neglected music of Italy's great past, and himself edited what remains the only virtually complete edition of the surviving compositions of Monteverdi. The present book not only provides the first monographic survey of Malipiero's life, times and music to appear in English, but covers the subject more comprehensively than any previous publication in any language. Dr Waterhouse draws on hitherto unpublished documents, and with the help of numerous musical examples, analyses the composer's works, style and idiosyncratic personality.

Author : Arnold Schoenberg Institute,Kathryn P. Glennan,Jerry L. McBride,R. Wayne Shoaf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSD:31822004083077

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Arnold Schoenberg Institute Archives Preliminary Catalog by Arnold Schoenberg Institute,Kathryn P. Glennan,Jerry L. McBride,R. Wayne Shoaf Pdf

Author : Donald J. Grout,Hermine Weigel Williams
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 1047 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780231507721

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A Short History of Opera by Donald J. Grout,Hermine Weigel Williams Pdf

When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have. The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day. A Short History of Opera examines not only the standard performance repertoire, but also works considered important for the genre's development. Its expanded scope investigates opera from Eastern European countries and Finland. The section on twentieth-century opera has been reorganized around national operatic traditions including a chapter devoted solely to opera in the United States, which incorporates material on the American musical and ties between classical opera and popular musical theater. A separate section on Chinese opera is also included. With an extensive multilanguage bibliography, more than one hundred musical examples, and stage illustrations, this authoritative one-volume survey will be invaluable to students and serious opera buffs. New fans will also find it highly accessible and informative. Extremely thorough in its coverage, A Short History of Opera is now more than ever the book to turn to for anyone who wants to know about the history of this art form.

Author : David Daniels
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810856745

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Orchestral Music by David Daniels Pdf

Also Available: Orchestral Music Online This fourth edition of the highly acclaimed, classic sourcebook for planning orchestral programs and organizing rehearsals has been expanded and revised to feature 42% more compositions over the third edition, with clearer entries and a more useful system of appendixes. Compositions cover the standard repertoire for American orchestra. Features from the previous edition that have changed and new additions include: · Larger physical format (8.5 x 11 vs. 5.5 x 8.5) · Expanded to 6400 entries and almost 900 composers (only 4200 in 3rd Ed.) · Merged with the American Symphony Orchestra League's OLIS (Orchestra Library Information Service) · Enhanced specific information on woodwind & brass doublings · Lists of required percussion equipment for many works · New, more intuitive format for instrumentation · More contents notes and durations of individual movements · Composers' citizenship, birth and death dates and places, integrated into the listings · Listings of useful websites for orchestra professionals

Author : James L. McHard
Publisher : The Future of Modern Music
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 0977819507

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The Future of Modern Music by James L. McHard Pdf

Author : Guy Graybill
Publisher : Branden Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 0937832499

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Bravo! by Guy Graybill Pdf

The Italians were so busy creating and performing superb music that they neglected to tell the great epic story of their wondrous achievement. With BRAVO! we hope to tell that story. The 1,000-year-old story begins, basically, with the work of a humble monk from the city of Arezzo. And this story has no ending. If, on one hand, we will never know the music of the Egyptians, of the Greeks, and of the Romans, on the other, we have come to know and to enjoy the music of every composer from the 12th Century to the Present day thanks to Guido's invention of the musical scale. As the story unfolds, we are rewarded with the many convincing superlatives forever tied to Italian musical endeavors. The first ten chapters deal with the Italian musical geniuses who theorized, made superb instruments, composed, performed, orchestrated, conducted and sang for the enjoyment of listeners worldwide, and the closing chapter gives a comprehensive look at the beautiful things that have happened in the Italian and American world of music. While each page of BRAVO! is full of surprising and fascinating details, the title reminds us that the term, BRAVO! is reserved only for topnotch performances. Book jacket.

Author : HANNU ANNALA
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781609743536

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Handbook of Guitar and Lute Composers by HANNU ANNALA Pdf

In compiling this landmark sourcebook, Finnish guitarists Hannu Annala and Heiki Matlik consulted more than 70 music texts as well as dozens of composer resumes acquired from the musical information centers of several countries. During the writing process, which lasted for more than three years, they received additional information from many modern composers, including Leo Brouwer and Reginald Smith Brindle among others. In addition, several internationally renowned performing guitarists provided valuable information; these include Magnus Andersson (Sweden), Remi Boucher (Canada), Margarita Escarpa (Spain), Aleksander Frauchi (Russia) and David Tanenbaum (USA) among others.The authors' aim was to write a well-structured book with separate chapters for each instrument, such as the Renaissance and Baroque guitar, the Renaissance and Baroque lute, the vihuela, etc. This unique structure enables the reader to easily discover which composers wrote for a certain instrument during any given period.In addition to the composers one would expect to find in such a comprehensive listing, the book documents several historical and modern composers for whom little previous information has been available. the book's list of more than 400 guitar and lute concertos dating from the Baroque era to the present day is a totally unprecedented.Short introductions regarding guitar and lute-like instruments as well as their basic histories are provided at the beginning of the book. the authors hope that the Handbook of Guitar and Lute Composers will serve as a practical guide for both amateurs and professionals, encouraging further study of the history of these instruments and expanding the repertoire heard on today's concert stage.

Author : Phillip R. Rehfeldt
Publisher : Phillip Rehfeldt/MillCreekPublishing
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780933251113

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Research Materials in Music by Phillip R. Rehfeldt Pdf

This text was developed for use in a standard college-level "introduction to graduate studies" course in musicology that I taught for thirty-three years at the University of Redlands.

Author : Jonathan Goldman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781009363396

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Avant-Garde on Record by Jonathan Goldman Pdf

A new perspective on post-war avant-garde music's engagement with records, highlighting the stereo technology that also fascinated popular music creators.

Author : Ben Earle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107433793

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Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy by Ben Earle Pdf

Luigi Dallapiccola is widely considered a defining figure in twentieth-century Italian musical modernism, whose compositions bear passionate witness to the historical period through which he lived. In this book, Ben Earle focuses on three major works by the composer: the one-act operas Volo di notte ('Night Flight') and Il prigioniero ('The Prisoner'), and the choral Canti di prigionia ('Songs of Imprisonment'), setting them in the context of contemporary politics to trace their complex path from fascism to resistance. Earle also considers the wider relationship between musical modernism and Italian fascism, exploring the origins of musical modernism and investigating its place in the institutional structures created by Mussolini's regime. In doing so, he sheds new light on Dallapiccola's work and on the cultural politics of the early twentieth century to provide a history of musical modernism in Italy from the fin de siècle to the early Cold War.

Author : Robert Reilly
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781681497044

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Surprised by Beauty by Robert Reilly Pdf

The best music of the 20th century "developed our capacity for feeling, deepened our compassion, and furthered our quest for and understanding of what Aristotle called 'the perfect end of life' ". — from the Foreword by NPR music critic Ted Libbey The single greatest crisis of the 20th century was the loss of faith. Noise—and its acceptance as music—was the product of the resulting spiritual confusion and, in its turn, became the further cause of its spread. Likewise, the recovery of modern music, the theme to which this book is dedicated, stems from a spiritual recovery. This is made explicitly clear by the composers whose interviews with the author are collected in this book. Robert Reilly spells out the nature of the crisis and its solution in sections that serve as bookends to the chapters on individual composers. He does not contend that all of these composers underwent and recovered from the central crisis he describes, but they all lived and worked within its broader context, and soldiered on, writing beautiful music. For this, they suffered ridicule and neglect, and he believes their rehabilitation will change the reputation of modern music. It is the spirit of music that this book is most about, and in his efforts to discern it, Reilly has discovered many treasures. The purpose of this book is to share them, to entice you to listen—because beauty is contagious. English conductor John Eliot Gardiner writes that experiencing Bach's masterpieces "is a way of fully realizing the scale and scope of what it is to be human". The reader may be surprised by how many works of the 20th and 21st centuries of which this is also true.

Author : Chester L. Alwes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199377015

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A History of Western Choral Music by Chester L. Alwes Pdf

A History of Western Choral Music explores the various genres, key composers, and influential works essential to the development of the western choral tradition. Author Chester L. Alwes divides this exploration into two volumes which move from Medieval music and the Renaissance era up to the 21st century. Volume II begins at the transition from the Classical era to the Romantic, with an examination of the major genres common to both periods. Exploring the oratorio, part song, and dramatic music, it also offers a thorough discussion of the choral symphony from Beethoven to Mahler, through to the present day. It then delves into the choral music of the twentieth century through discussions of the major compositional approaches and philosophies that proliferated over the course of the century, from impressionism to serialism, neo-classicism to modernism, minimalism, and the avant-garde. It also considers the emerging tendency towards nationalistic composition amongst composers such as Bartók and Stravinsky, and discusses in great detail the contemporary music of the United States, and Great Britain. Framing discussion within the political, religious, cultural, philosophical, aesthetic, and technological contexts of each era, A History of Western Choral Music offers readers specialized insight into major composers and works while providing a cohesive understanding of choral music's place in Western history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004549609

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Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama by Anonim Pdf

This collection offers an in-depth study of music’s narrative functions in radio drama, whether original or adapted, alongside speech and sound. It features a range of historical perspectives as well as case studies from Australia, Europe and North America, highlighting broadcasting institutions such as the BBC, RAI, ABC, WDR and SWR, from early radio to the medium’s postwar golden age and contemporary productions. Not limited to classical or popular music, the chapters also pay attention to electronic varieties and musical uses of language, in addition to intermedial exchanges with other art forms such as theatre, opera and film. In doing so, the present volume sits at the crossroads of various disciplines: musicology, narratology, history, literary, media, sound and radio studies.

Author : Nick Strimple
Publisher : Amadeus Press
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781574673784

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Choral Music in the Twentieth Century by Nick Strimple Pdf

(Amadeus). Nick Strimple's all-encompassing survey ranges from 19th-century masters, such as Elgar, to contemporary composers, such as Tan Dun and Paul McCartney. Repertory of every style and level of complexity is critically surveyed and described. This book is an essential resource for choral conductors and a valuable guide for choral singers and other music lovers.

Author : Don Michael Randel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780674417991

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The Harvard Dictionary of Music by Don Michael Randel Pdf

This classic reference work, the best one-volume music dictionary available, has been brought completely up to date in this new edition. Combining authoritative scholarship and lucid, lively prose, the Fourth Edition of The Harvard Dictionary of Music is the essential guide for musicians, students, and everyone who appreciates music.