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Libby Larsen

Denise Von Glahn
Libby Larsen Book PDF

Author : Denise Von Glahn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252099724

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Libby Larsen by Denise Von Glahn Pdf

Libby Larsen has composed award-winning music performed around the world. Her works range from chamber pieces and song cycles to operas to large-scale works for orchestra and chorus. At the same time, she has advocated for living composers and new music since cofounding the American Composers Forum in 1973. Denise Von Glahn 's in-depth examination of Larsen merges traditional biography with a daring scholarly foray: an ethnography of one active artist. Drawing on musical analysis, the composer 's personal archive, and seven years of interviews with Larsen and those in her orbit, Von Glahn illuminates the polyphony of achievements that make up Larsen 's public and private lives. In considering Larsen 's musical impact, Von Glahn delves into how elements of the personal ”a 1950s childhood, spiritual seeking, love of nature, and status as an important woman artist ”inform her work. The result is a portrait of a musical pathfinder who continues to defy expectations and reject labels.

Libby Larsen

Denise Von Glahn
Libby Larsen Book PDF

Author : Denise Von Glahn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252082699

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Libby Larsen by Denise Von Glahn Pdf

Libby Larsen has composed award-winning music performed around the world. Her works range from chamber pieces and song cycles to operas to large-scale works for orchestra and chorus. At the same time, she has advocated for living composers and new music since cofounding the American Composers Forum in 1973. Denise Von Glahn 's in-depth examination of Larsen merges traditional biography with a daring scholarly foray: an ethnography of one active artist. Drawing on musical analysis, the composer 's personal archive, and seven years of interviews with Larsen and those in her orbit, Von Glahn illuminates the polyphony of achievements that make up Larsen 's public and private lives. In considering Larsen 's musical impact, Von Glahn delves into how elements of the personal ”a 1950s childhood, spiritual seeking, love of nature, and status as an important woman artist ”inform her work. The result is a portrait of a musical pathfinder who continues to defy expectations and reject labels.

In Her Own Words

Jennifer Kelly
In Her Own Words Book PDF

Author : Jennifer Kelly
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252094835

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In Her Own Words by Jennifer Kelly Pdf

This collection of new interviews with twenty-five accomplished female composers substantially advances our knowledge of the work, experiences, compositional approaches, and musical intentions of a diverse group of creative individuals. With personal anecdotes and sometimes surprising intimacy and humor, these wide-ranging conversations represent the diversity of women composing music in the United States from the mid-twentieth century into the twenty-first. The composers work in a variety of genres including classical, jazz, multimedia, or collaborative forms for the stage, film, and video games. Their interviews illuminate questions about the status of women composers in America, the role of women in musical performance and education, the creative process and inspiration, the experiences and qualities that contemporary composers bring to their craft, and balancing creative and personal lives. Candidly sharing their experiences, advice, and views, these vibrant, thoughtful, and creative women open new perspectives on the prospects and possibilities of making music in a changing world.

Women of Influence in Contemporary Music

Michael K. Slayton
Women of Influence in Contemporary Music Book PDF

Author : Michael K. Slayton
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810877481

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Women of Influence in Contemporary Music by Michael K. Slayton Pdf

In this collection of essays and interviews, nine gifted composers openly discuss their work.

Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers

Laurel Parsons,Brenda Ravenscroft
Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers Book PDF

Author : Laurel Parsons,Brenda Ravenscroft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190236861

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Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers by Laurel Parsons,Brenda Ravenscroft Pdf

This volume is the first to appear in a four-volume series devoted to the work of women composers across Western art music. Each chapter opens with a brief biographical sketch of the composer before presenting an in-depth exploration of a single representative composition, linking analytical observations with questions of meaning and content. Chapters are grouped thematically into three sections, each of which places the analytical methods used in the essays into the context of late twentieth-century ideas and trends.

Songs from Letters

Libby Larsen,Calamity Jane
Songs from Letters Book PDF

Author : Libby Larsen,Calamity Jane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015048333408

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Songs from Letters by Libby Larsen,Calamity Jane Pdf

The texts are selected from the letters of Calamity Jane to her daughter by Wild Bill Hickok. The five songs present a stirring picture of an independent woman's struggle.

Evening in the Palace of Reason

James Gaines
Evening in the Palace of Reason Book PDF

Author : James Gaines
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007153930

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Evening in the Palace of Reason by James Gaines Pdf

Tells the story of the history-making meeting between scorned master composer Johann Sebastian Bach and Prussia's Frederick the Great.

Before the Singing

Dr. Barbara Tagg
Before the Singing Book PDF

Author : Dr. Barbara Tagg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199991037

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Before the Singing by Dr. Barbara Tagg Pdf

All children must have an opportunity to share the joy of choral music participation - whether in school, church, or community choirs. What happens before the singing begins, is critical to supporting, sustaining, and nurturing choirs to give every child the opportunity to experience the wonder of choral singing. Based on years of experience conducting and teaching, Barbara Tagg brings a wealth of practical information about ways of organizing choirs. From classroom choirs, to mission statements, boards of directors, commissioning, auditioning, and repertoire, Before the Singing will inspire new ways of thinking about how choirs organize their daily tasks. The collaborative community that surrounds a choir includes conductors, music educators, church choir directors, board members, volunteers, staff, administrators, and university students in music education and nonprofit arts management degree programs. For all these, Tagg offers a wealth of knowledge about creating a positive environment to support artistry, creativity, dedication, and a commitment to striving for excellence.

Women in Music

Karin Pendle,Melinda Boyd
Women in Music Book PDF

Author : Karin Pendle,Melinda Boyd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415994200

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Women in Music by Karin Pendle,Melinda Boyd Pdf

Women in Music: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography emerging from more than twenty-five years of feminist scholarship on music. This book testifies to the great variety of subjects and approaches represented in over two decades of published writings on women, their work, and the important roles that feminist outlooks have played in formerly male-oriented academic scholarship or journalistic musings on women and music.

Transmedia Creatures

Francesca Saggini,Anna Enrichetta Soccio
Transmedia Creatures Book PDF

Author : Francesca Saggini,Anna Enrichetta Soccio
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781684480623

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Transmedia Creatures by Francesca Saggini,Anna Enrichetta Soccio Pdf

On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures presents studies of Frankenstein by international scholars from converging disciplines such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television studies, English and digital humanities. These innovative contributions investigate the afterlives of a novel taught in a disparate array of courses - Frankenstein disturbs and transcends boundaries, be they political, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and not least of media, ensuring its vibrant presence in contemporary popular culture. Transmedia Creatures highlights how cultural content is redistributed through multiple media, forms and modes of production (including user-generated ones from “below”) that often appear synchronously and dismantle and renew established readings of the text, while at the same time incorporating and revitalizing aspects that have always been central to it. The authors engage with concepts, value systems and aesthetic-moral categories—among them the family, horror, monstrosity, diversity, education, risk, technology, the body—from a variety of contemporary approaches and highly original perspectives, which yields new connections. Ultimately, Frankenstein, as evidenced by this collection, is paradoxically enriched by the heteroglossia of preconceptions, misreadings, and overreadings that attend it, and that reveal the complex interweaving of perceptions and responses it generates. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

American Opera

Elise Kuhl Kirk
American Opera Book PDF

Author : Elise Kuhl Kirk
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252026233

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American Opera by Elise Kuhl Kirk Pdf

A treasure trove of information, "American Opera" sketches musical traits and provides plot summaries, descriptions of sets and stagings, and biographical details on performers, composers, and librettists for more than 100 American operas. 86 photos.

Recent American Art Song

Keith E. Clifton
Recent American Art Song Book PDF

Author : Keith E. Clifton
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 0810862107

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Recent American Art Song by Keith E. Clifton Pdf

This reference source focuses on post-1980 songs with English texts by American composers, written for solo voice and piano. Composer entries include biographical and bibliographical information, as well as commentary concerning the range, appropriate voice type, and musical style of the songs.

The Muse that Sings

Ann McCutchan
The Muse that Sings Book PDF

Author : Ann McCutchan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195168127

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The Muse that Sings by Ann McCutchan Pdf

The Muse That Sings is a unique behind-the-scenes look at both twentieth-century music and the nuts and bolts of creative work. Here, twenty-five of America's leading composers--from Adams to Zorn, from Bolcom to Vierk--talk candidly about their craft, their motivations, their difficulties, and how they how proceed from musical idea to finished composition. While focusing on the process and the stories behind specific works, the composers also touch on topics that will interest anyone involved in creative work. They discuss teachers and mentors, the task of revision, relationships with performers, and the ongoing struggle for a balance between freedom and discipline. They reveal sources of inspiration, artistic goals, and the often unexpected ways their musical ideas develop. Some describe personal tonal systems; others discuss the impact of computers and other electronic tools on their work; still others reflect philosophically on the inner impulses and outer influences that continue to drive them. While serious music has a reputation for being difficult and inaccessible, The Muse That Sings provides a powerful antidote. The composers in this book speak clearly and thoughtfully in response to key questions of concern to all readers interested in contemporary music. Each interview has been edited to stand alone as a concise meditation on muse and technique, and the book includes selected discographies as well as brief biographical sketches. Anyone with an interest in twentieth-century music or in the creative process will find this lively collection a valuable source of inspiration and insight.

Contemporary Anthology of Music by Women

James R. Briscoe
Contemporary Anthology of Music by Women Book PDF

Author : James R. Briscoe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253211026

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Contemporary Anthology of Music by Women by James R. Briscoe Pdf

Contains vocal and instrumental music composed by women during the 20th Century.

Female Recreation of Music Traditions

Kheng K. Koay
Female Recreation of Music Traditions Book PDF

Author : Kheng K. Koay
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781527534384

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Female Recreation of Music Traditions by Kheng K. Koay Pdf

The current volume traces the ways in which women composers from the early 20th century onwards incorporate and reinterpret musical elements of past music in their compositions. It investigates their unique musical writings in which they fuse traditional idioms into their musical contexts. The book reveals the composers’ perspectives toward their compositional techniques and structural constructions, and the influences that lead us to better understand their music. It provides in-depth analyses, with musical examples, of the composers’ mature compositions, and several aspects of their compositional perspectives. It also discusses their personal experiences as they developed in their music careers; for example, organizations, patrons, groups and people in various countries that helped support their music are discussed. It offers an insight into the growth and development of women’s associations, organizations and musical activity that have developed since the 20th century. Valuable information is afforded to young musicians wanting to understand contemporary music, and to listener-readers seeking a wider knowledge of contemporary music by women composers.