Gustav Holst

Author : Mary Christison Huismann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135845261

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Gustav Holst by Mary Christison Huismann Pdf

First published in 2011, this text provides citations to the core Holst literature. The volume is intended for students and researchers, as well as those seeking an introduction to Holst. The inclusion of materials for the non- specialist seems entirely appropriate as Holst devoted much of his career to teaching amateur musicians. The contents of this book presents a selective, annotated list of essential materials published through the end of 2009, although a very few exceptions were made for a limited number of post-2009 print and web resources.

Author : Imogen Holst
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571281091

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Gustav Holst by Imogen Holst Pdf

Gustav Holst was a leading figure in the new age of English music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His most celebrated work, The Planets, is an orchestral tour de force, but he wrote music of startling originality in many forms, drawing inspiration from sources as varied as English folksong, oriental melody, the Apocrypha and Sanskrit literature, as well as from writers such as Keats, Hardy, Bridges and Whitman. This biography, by his daughter Imogen, was first published by Faber in 1938 and revised in 1969. In it she quotes at length from his many letters to his friends - especially to his closest colleague Vaughan Williams - and draws on her personal memories of Holst's later years. Holst struggled all his life against bouts of ill-health and depression, but his remarkable and good-humoured resilience enabled him to compose great music in often difficult circumstances. He was essentially a very private person, and the huge popular success of The Planets in 1919 disconcerted him. Imogen Holst describes the effect of this sudden fame on her father, and records the late flowering of his music in the final years of his life.

Author : Michael Short
Publisher : Nightingale Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Composers
ISBN : 1906451826

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Gustav Holst by Michael Short Pdf

Author : Richard Greene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995-03-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521456339

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Holst: The Planets by Richard Greene Pdf

The first comprehensive guide to Holst's orchestral suite considers the music in detail and places the work in its historical context.

Author : PHILIPPA. TUDOR
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910841595

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Mrs Gustav Holst by PHILIPPA. TUDOR Pdf

Author : Tim Rayborn
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476624945

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A New English Music by Tim Rayborn Pdf

The turn of the 20th century was a time of great change in Britain. The empire saw its global influence waning and its traditional social structures challenged. There was a growing weariness of industrialism and a desire to rediscover tradition and the roots of English heritage. A new interest in English folk song and dance inspired art music, which many believed was seeing a renaissance after a period of stagnation since the 18th century. This book focuses on the lives of seven composers--Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Ernest Moeran, George Butterworth, Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock), Gerald Finzi and Percy Grainger--whose work was influenced by folk songs and early music. Each chapter provides an historical background and tells the fascinating story of a musical life.

Author : Imogen Holst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015023342846

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The Music of Gustav Holst by Imogen Holst Pdf

Author : Paul Taylor,Frank Partridge
Publisher : Reardon Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780956376954

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The Gustav Holst Way by Paul Taylor,Frank Partridge Pdf

'The Gustav Holst Way' is the first guidebook to describe the 35-mile rambling route across the Cotswolds to celebrate the life and work of the composer Gustav Holst. Published exactly 100 years after Holst began work on The Planets, the route visits many of the places that were important to the young Holst as his musical career took wing. Among the highlights are the house in Cheltenham where he was born (now the Holst Birthplace Museum) and several venues in the Cotswolds where he played, conducted and taught music. The richly illustrated guidebook divides the walk into five easy/moderate sections (with four optional detours) and includes detailed maps, points of historical interest and all the practical information you need to follow in Gustav Holst's footsteps from Cranham to Wyck Rissington. The Holst Birthplace Museum Gustav Holst, one of England's greatest composers, was born in a Regency terraced house in Cheltenham in 1874. The house has been carefully restored and converted into a 'living museum' that captures the atmosphere of the era, both above and below stairs. The most eye-catching of the museum's collection of 3,000 items is the piano on which Holst composed The Planets, as popular as ever nearly 100 years after it was published. Step inside the Museum and see the piano Holst used to compose The Planets. Find out how he developed into a world-class composer by examining and listening to original manuscripts written when he was a schoolboy in Cheltenham. "

Author : Nathaniel G. Lew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317009887

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Tonic to the Nation: Making English Music in the Festival of Britain by Nathaniel G. Lew Pdf

Long remembered chiefly for its modernist exhibitions on the South Bank in London, the 1951 Festival of Britain also showcased British artistic creativity in all its forms. In Tonic to the Nation, Nathaniel G. Lew tells the story of the English classical music and opera composed and revived for the Festival, and explores how these long-overlooked components of the Festival helped define English music in the post-war period. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Lew looks closely at the work of the newly chartered Arts Council of Great Britain, for whom the Festival of Britain provided the first chance to assert its authority over British culture. The Arts Council devised many musical programs for the Festival, including commissions of new concert works, a vast London Season of almost 200 concerts highlighting seven centuries of English musical creativity, and several schemes to commission and perform new operas. These projects were not merely directed at bringing audiences to hear new and old national music, but to share broader goals of framing the national repertory, negotiating between the conflicting demands of conservative and progressive tastes, and using music to forge new national definitions in a changed post-war world.

Author : Trevor Hold
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843831740

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Parry to Finzi by Trevor Hold Pdf

"Each chapter begins with a discussion of its composer's song-output and of the poets and poetry he sets, and goes on to give an account of the influences on him and the hallmarks of his style; the songs are then discussed in detail, focusing on the major works. The text is illustrated with musical examples and there is a comprehensive bibliography and index"--Jacket.

Author : Nalini Ghuman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199314898

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Resonances of the Raj by Nalini Ghuman Pdf

This text examines the ramifications of the intertwined and overlapping histories of Britain and India on English music in the last fifty years of the colonial encounter, and traces the effects of the British Raj on the English musical imagination. Through a series of case studies, author Nalini Ghuman integrates music directly into the cultural history of the British Raj, revealing unexpected minglings of peoples, musics, and ideas that raise questions about 'Englishness', about the nature of Empire, and about the fixedness of identity.

Author : Christopher Grogan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843835998

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Imogen Holst by Christopher Grogan Pdf

Extensively revised with new material, the book also includes a study of Imogen Hoist's music and a chronological list of her works, revealing her as a composer of tremendous talent, whose music deserves to be much more familiar.

Author : Matthew Riley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351573016

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British Music and Modernism, 1895-1960 by Matthew Riley Pdf

Imaginative analytical and critical work on British music of the early twentieth century has been hindered by perceptions of the repertory as insular in its references and backward in its style and syntax, escaping the modernity that surrounded its composers. Recent research has begun to break down these perceptions and has found intriguing links between British music and modernism. This book brings together contributions from scholars working in analysis, hermeneutics, reception history, critical theory and the history of ideas. Three overall themes emerge from its chapters: accounts of British reactions to Continental modernism and the forms they took; links between music and the visual arts; and analysis and interpretation of compositions in the light of recent theoretical work on form, tonality and pitch organization.

Author : Michael Short
Publisher : Oxford ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042275664

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Gustav Holst by Michael Short Pdf

Gustav Holst's "Planets" suite has become established as one of the classics of twentieth-century orchestral music. Short's access to Holst's letters and diaries, as well as his close work with Holst's daughter Imogen have resulted in the most detailed book on the composer's life and music yet to appear. Containing new information which has become available since Imogen Holst published a biography of her father fifty years ago, this book includes an analysis of Holst's musical style and a substantial reference section.

Author : Willis M. Rapp
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781574633825

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The Wind Band Masterworks of Holst, Vaughan Williams and Grainger by Willis M. Rapp Pdf

(Meredith Music Resource). With this superb text, Dr. Rapp gives the wind band community both a historical and musical insight into three of its most revered composers. His study of their band works' evolvement through traditional folk music will serve as a fascinating resource, giving both veteran and novice conductors an invaluable understanding of the band repertoire's formative stages.