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Author : David Clampitt
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781580463225
Leading authorities explore, in direct and accessible language, chamber-music masterpieces by twenty-one prominent composers since 1900.
Author : Wendy Lesser
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300169331
Aan de hand van vijftien door hem gecomponeerde kwartetten wordt een beeld geschetst van de persoonlijke, politieke en professionele gebeurtenissen in het leven van de Russische componist (1906-1975).
Author : Judith Kuhn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351548670
A thorough examination of Shostakovich's string quartets is long overdue. Although they can justifiably lay claim to being the most significant and frequently performed twentieth-century oeuvre for that ensemble, there has been no systematic English-language study of the entire cycle. Judith Kuhn's book begins such a study, undertaken with the belief that, despite a growing awareness of the universality of Shostakovich's music, much remains to be learned from the historical context and an examination of the music's language. Much of the controversy about Shostakovich's music has been related to questions of meaning. The conflicting interpretations put forth by scholars during the musicological 'Shostakovich wars' have shown the impossibility of fixing a single meaning in the composer's music. Commentators have often heard the quartets as political in nature, although there have been contradictory views as to whether Shostakovich was a loyal communist or a dissident. The works are also often described as vivid narratives, perhaps a confessional autobiography or a chronicle of the composer's times. The cycle has also been heard to examine major philosophical issues posed by the composer's life and times, including war, death, love, the conflict of good and evil, the nature of subjectivity, the power of creativity and the place of the individual - and particularly the artist - in society. Soviet commentaries on the quartets typically describe the works through the lens of Socialist-Realist mythological master narratives. Recent Western commentaries see Shostakovich's quartets as expressions of broader twentieth-century subjectivity, filled with ruptures and uncertainty. What musical features enable these diverse interpretations? Kuhn examines each quartet in turn, looking first at its historical and biographical context, with special attention to the cultural questions being discussed at the time of its writing. She then surveys the work's reception history, and
Author : Richard Louis Gillies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000483055
Singing Soviet Stagnation: Vocal Cycles from the USSR, 1964–1985 explores the ways in which the aftershock of an apparent crisis in Soviet identity after the death of Stalin in 1953 can be detected in selected musical- literary works of what has become known as the ‘Stagnation’ era (1964–1985). Richard Louis Gillies traces the cultural impact of this shift through the intersection between music, poetry, and identity, presenting close readings of three substantial musical-literary works by three of the period’s most prominent composers of songs and vocal cycles: • Seven Poems of Aleksandr Blok, Op. 127 (1966– 1967) by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) • Russia Cast Adrift (1977) by Georgy Sviridov (1915–1998) • Stupeni (1981–1982; 1997) by Valentin Silvestrov (b. 1937). The study elaborates an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of musicalliterary artworks that does not rely on existing models of musical analysis or on established modes of literary criticism, thereby avoiding privileging one discipline over the other. It will be of particular signifi cance for scholars, students, and performers with an interest in Russian and Soviet music, the intersection between music and poetry, and the history of Russian and East European culture, politics, and identity during the twentieth century.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Country life
ISBN : UVA:X001788554
Author : Horst Woldemar Janson,Anthony F. Janson
Publisher : Prentice Hall Professional
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0131828959
For forty years, this widely acclaimed classic has remained unsurpassed as an introduction to art in the Western world, boasting the matchless credibility of the Janson name. This newest update features a more contemporary, more colorful design and vast array of extraordinarily produced illustrations that have become the Janson hallmark. A narrative voice makes this book a truly enjoyable read, and carefully reviewed and revised updates to this edition offer the utmost clarity in contributions based on recent scholarship. Extensive captions for the book’s incredible art program offer profound insight through the eyes of twentieth-century art historians speaking about specific pieces of art featured throughout. Significantly changed in this edition is the chapter on “The Late Renaissance,” in which Janson offers a new perspective on the subject, tracing in detail the religious art tied to the Catholic Reform movement, whose early history is little known to many readers of art history. Janson has also rearranged early Renaissance art according to genres instead of time sequence, and he has followed the reinterpretation of Etruscan art begun in recent years by German and English art historians. With a truly humanist approach, this book gives written and visual meaning to the captivating story of what artists have tried to express—and why—for more than 30,000 years.
Author : David Rounds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020501941
Spotlighting the four women of the Lafayette Quartet, a leading Canadian ensemble, Rounds offers both a comprehensive history of the beloved instrumental form and an inside view of the complex world of professional quartet players, revealing the exultation and heatache that are the performing artists' daily fare. A treat for every music lover, whether player, listener or composer.
Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429932882
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Author : Daniel Elphick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108737765
Mieczysław Weinberg left his family behind and fled his native Poland in September 1939. He reached the Soviet Union, where he become one of the most celebrated composers. He counted Shostakovich among his close friends and produced a prolific output of works. Yet he remained mindful of the nation that he had left. This book examines how Weinberg's works written in Soviet Russia compare with those of his Polish contemporaries; how one composer split from his national tradition and how he created a style that embraced the music of a new homeland, while those composers in his native land surged ahead in a more experimental vein. The points of contact between them are enlightening for both sides. This study provides an overview of Weinberg's music through his string quartets, analysing them alongside Polish composers. Composers featured include Bacewicz, Meyer, Lutosławski, Panufnik, Penderecki, Górecki, and a younger generation, including Szymański and Knapik.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Bowed stringed instruments
ISBN : UOM:39015048054582
Author : Erling E. Guldbrandsen,Julian Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107127210
This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hutchinson Radius
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0091723000
Arranged in a topic-by-topic order, the Hutchinson Pocket Encyclopedia ranges from ancient history to sporting facts and figures. Compiled by over 25 expert consultants, it gives a clear outline for each subject, including chronologies, biographies, and common terms.
Author : David Fanning
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521028310
These eleven essays lay a foundation for a proper understanding of Shostakovich's musical language and provide new insights into issues surrounding his composition.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129755760
Author : Douglas Kahn
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262311625
An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts. This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it—to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries. Focusing on Europe in the first half of the century and the United States in the postwar years, Douglas Kahn explores aural activities in literature, music, visual arts, theater, and film. Placing aurality at the center of the history of the arts, he revisits key artistic questions, listening to the sounds that drown out the politics and poetics that generated them. Artists discussed include Antonin Artaud, George Brecht, William Burroughs, John Cage, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, Michael McClure, Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Luigi Russolo, and Dziga Vertov.