Margaret Bonds The Montgomery Variations And Du Bois Credo

Author : John Michael Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781009062664

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Margaret Bonds: The Montgomery Variations and Du Bois Credo by John Michael Cooper Pdf

In her lifetime, African American composer Margaret Bonds was classical music's most intrepid social-justice activist. Furthermore, her Montgomery Variations (1964) and setting of W.E.B. Du Bois's iconic Civil Rights Credo (1965-67) were the musical summits of her activism. These works fell into obscurity after Bonds's death, but were recovered and published in 2020. Since widely performed, they are finally gaining a recognition long denied. This incisive book situates The Montgomery Variations and Credo in their political and biographical contexts, providing an interdisciplinary exploration that brings notables including Harry Burleigh, W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abbie Mitchell, Ned Rorem, and – especially – Langston Hughes into the works' collective ambit. The resulting brief, but instructive, appraisal introduces readers to two masterworks whose recovery is a modern musical milestone – and reveals their message to be one that, though born in the mid-twentieth century, speaks directly to our own time.

Author : John Michael Cooper
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538157527

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Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music by John Michael Cooper Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries on traditions, famous pieces, persons, places, technical terms, and institutions of Romantic music.

Author : Julian Rushton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781316513835

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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique by Julian Rushton Pdf

Situates Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique within French Romanticism and considers influences, literary as well as musical, that shaped its conception.

Author : Julian Horton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781316512586

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Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto by Julian Horton Pdf

Offers an introduction to one of the most important and influential piano concertos in the history of Western music. It combines an account of the work's genesis with a detailed yet accessible analysis of each movement and new research into its reception and performance history.

Author : Benedict Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781009084390

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Hensel: String Quartet in E flat by Benedict Taylor Pdf

The String Quartet in E flat major (1834) by Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn, is one of the most important works by a female composer written in the nineteenth century. Composed at a turning point in her life (as Hensel was not only grappling with her own creative voice but also coming to terms with her identity as a married woman, and the role her family expected of her), the quartet is significant in showing a woman composing in a genre that was then almost exclusively the domain of male artists. Benedict Taylor's illuminating book situates itself within developing scholarly discourse on the music of women composers, going beyond apologetics – or condemnation of those who hindered their development – to examine the strength and qualities of the music and how it responded to the most progressive works of the period.

Author : Arnold Whittall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781009084796

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Schoenberg: ‘Night Music' – Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung by Arnold Whittall Pdf

Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) is often portrayed as a composer who began as a heart-on-sleeve late Romantic only to evolve during the First World War into an austere, mathematically-obsessed deviser of musical puzzles. Yet to claim that in his music he replaced tonality with its absolute opposite, atonality, as the twelve-tone method swept away all trace of traditional harmonic and thematic processes, is as misleading as to argue that romantic warmth and humanity morphed into the purest and most austerely modernistic spirituality. This handbook refocuses the wealth of recent research into two of Schoenberg's major compositions; the expressive character of those relatively early works which centre on nocturnal images of darkness and despair is at its most original and powerful in Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung, where the dramatic interplay between stabilising continuities and disorientating fragmentations reveals the elements of a modernist aesthetics that remained fundamental to Schoenberg's musical thought.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39076002054844

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American National Biography by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ralph P. Locke,Cyrilla Barr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520083954

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Cultivating Music in America by Ralph P. Locke,Cyrilla Barr Pdf

"The Victorian cup on my shelf--a present from my mother--reads 'Love the Giver.' Is it because the very word patronage implies the authority of the father that we have treated American women patrons and activists so unlovingly in the writing of our own history? This pioneering collection of superb scholarship redresses that imbalance. At the same time it brilliantly documents the interrelationship between various aspects of gender and the creation of our own culture."--Judith Tick, author of Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music "Together with the fine-grained and energetic research, I like the spirit of this book, which is ambitious, bold, and generous minded. Cultivating Music in America corrects long-standing prejudices, omissions, and misunderstandings about the role of women in setting up the structures of America's musical life, and, even more far-reaching, it sheds light on the character of American musical life itself. To read this book is to be brought to a fresh understanding of what is at stake when we discuss notions such as 'elitism, ' 'democratic taste, ' and the political and economic implications of art."--Richard Crawford, author of The American Musical Landscape "We all know we are indebted to royal patronage for the music of Mozart. But who launched American talent? The answer is women, this book teaches us. Music lovers will be grateful for these ten essays, sound in scholarship, that make a strong case for the women philanthropists who ought to join Carnegie and Rockefeller as household words as sponsors of music."--Karen J. Blair, author of The Torchbearers: Women and Their Amateur Arts Associations in America

Author : Helen Walker-Hill
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : African American women composers
ISBN : 9780252074547

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From Spirituals to Symphonies by Helen Walker-Hill Pdf

Exploding the assumption that black women's only important musical contributions have been in folk, jazz, and pop Helen Walker-Hill's unique study provides a carefully researched examination of the history and scope of musical composition by African American women composers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the effect of race, gender, and class, From Spirituals to Symphonies notes the important role played by individual personalities and circumstances in shaping this underappreciated category of American art. The study also provides in-depth exploration of the backgrounds, experiences, and musical compositions of eight African American women including Margaret Bonds, Undine Smith Moore, and Julia Perry, who combined the techniques of Western art music with their own cultural traditions and individual gifts. Despite having gained national and international recognition during their lifetimes, the contributions of many of these women are today forgotten.

Author : Helen Walker-Hill
Publisher : Center for Black Music Rsrch
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 0929911040

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Music by Black Women Composers by Helen Walker-Hill Pdf

Author : John Szwed
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781478012054

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Space Is the Place by John Szwed Pdf

Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra—aka Herman Blount—was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn. He recorded over 200 albums with his Arkestra, which, dressed in Egypto-space costumes, played everything from boogie-woogie and swing to fusion and free jazz. John Szwed's Space is the Place is the definitive biography of this musical polymath, who was one of the twentieth century's greatest avant-garde artists and intellectuals. Charting the whole of Sun Ra's life and career, Szwed outlines how after years in Chicago as a blues and swing band pianist, Sun Ra set out in the 1950s to impart his views about the galaxy, black people, and spiritual matters by performing music with the Arkestra that was as vital and innovative as it was mercurial and confounding. Szwed's readers—whether they are just discovering Sun Ra or are among the legion of poets, artists, intellectuals, and musicians who consider him a spiritual godfather—will find that, indeed, space is the place.

Author : Drozdstoy Stoyanov,Bill Fulford,Giovanni Stanghellini,Werdie Van Staden,Michael TH Wong
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030478520

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International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice by Drozdstoy Stoyanov,Bill Fulford,Giovanni Stanghellini,Werdie Van Staden,Michael TH Wong Pdf

This open access book offers essential information on values-based practice (VBP): the clinical skills involved, teamwork and person-centered care, links between values and evidence, and the importance of partnerships in shared decision-making. Different cultures have different values; for example, partnership in decision-making looks very different, from the highly individualized perspective of European and North American cultures to the collective and family-oriented perspectives common in South East Asia. In turn, African cultures offer yet another perspective, one that falls between these two extremes (called batho pele). The book will benefit everyone concerned with the practical challenges of delivering mental health services. Accordingly, all contributions are developed on the basis of case vignettes, and cover a range of situations in which values underlie tensions or uncertainties regarding how to proceed in clinical practice. Examples include the patient’s autonomy and best interest, the physician’s commitment to establishing high standards of clinical governance, clinical versus community best interest, institutional versus clinical interests, patients insisting on medically unsound but legal treatments etc. Thus far, VBP publications have mainly dealt with clinical scenarios involving individual values (of clinicians and patients). Our objective with this book is to develop a model of VBP that is culturally much broader in scope. As such, it offers a vital resource for mental health stakeholders in an increasingly inter-connected world. It also offers opportunities for cross-learning in values-based practice between cultures with very different clinical care traditions.

Author : Corcoran Gallery of Art,Sarah Cash,Emily Dana Shapiro,Jennifer Carson
Publisher : Lucia Marquand
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Painting
ISBN : 1555953611

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Corcoran Gallery of Art by Corcoran Gallery of Art,Sarah Cash,Emily Dana Shapiro,Jennifer Carson Pdf

This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : African American poetry
ISBN : UVA:X001120008

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Shakespeare in Harlem by Langston Hughes Pdf

A book of light verse.

Author : W. E. B. DuBois
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351318341

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Dusk of Dawn! by W. E. B. DuBois Pdf

In her perceptive introduction to this edition, Irene Diggs sets this classic autobiography against its broad historical context and critically analyzes its theoretical and methodological significance.