Michael Nyman Songs Arias

Author : Chester Music
Publisher : Chester Music
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783239993

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Michael Nyman Songs & Arias by Chester Music Pdf

Michael Nyman: Songs & Arias presents sixteen songs and seven arias for high voice and Piano from across Michael Nyman’s varied and exhilarating output: songs from his celebrated film scores, like The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover; from recent operas like Facing Goya; several concert song cycles, and two songs that stand independently. There can be few music lovers today who do not immediately recognise Nyman’s distinctive instrumental writing. But, until now, they may have been less familiar with the vocal music that forms so important a part of his creative personality. The wide range of sources from which Nyman draws the inspiration for his settings, including Rimbaud and Celan set in their original languages, fragments of Mozart, Pessoa and contemporary poets, demonstrates a composer of unusual learning and lively interests. This book is an important resource and extension to the repertoire of any high voice singer. Songlist: - If (The Diary Of Anne Frank) - Mozart On Mortality - Miserere (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover) - Allez! On Préviendra Les Reflux D'Incendie (L'Orgie Parisienne) - Quand Tes Pieds Ont Dansé (L'Orgie Parisienne) - Es War Erde In Ihnen (Six Celan Songs) - Nachtlich Geschurzt (Six Celan Songs) - Where The Bee Sucks (Ariel Songs From Prospero's Books) - Full Fathom Five (Ariel Songs From Prospero's Books) - Before You Can Say, 'Come' And 'Go' (Ariel Songs From Prospero's Books) - While You Here Do Snoring Lie (Ariel Songs From Prospero's Books) - Come Unto These Yellow Sands (Ariel Songs From Prospero's Books) - I Am An Unusual Thing (Letters, Riddles And Writs) - Why (The Diary Of Anne Frank) - Silence Emerges (Cycle Of Disquietude) - I'm Riding On A Tram (Cycle Of Disquietude) - He Sang In A Gentle Voice (Cycle Of Disquietude) - Tortured Prisoner (Facing Goya) - As Noses Move (Facing Goya) - You Are My Son (Facing Goya) - This Is What I Found Today (Man And Boy: Dada) - Things The Artist Must Not Do Today (Man And Boy: Dada) - Life's Chaos (Acts Of Beauty)

Author : Pwyll ap Siôn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351542265

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The Music of Michael Nyman by Pwyll ap Siôn Pdf

Nyman's rise to international prominence during the last three decades has made him one of the world's most successful living composers. His music has nevertheless been criticized for its parasitic borrowing of other composers' ideas and for its relentless self-borrowing. In this first book-length study in English, Pwyll ap Silaces Nyman's writings within the general context of Anglo-American experimentalism, minimalism and post-minimalism, and provides a series of useful contexts from which controversial aspects of Nyman's musical language can be more clearly understood and appreciated. Drawing upon terms informed by intertextual theory in general, appropriation and borrowing are first introduced within the context of twentieth-century art music and theory. Intertextual concepts are explained and their terms defined before Nyman's musical language is considered in relation to a series of intertextual classifications and types. These types then form the basis of a more in-depth study of his works during the second half of the book, ranging from opera and chamber music to film. Rather than restricting style and technique, Nyman's intertextual approach, on the contrary, is shown to provide his music with an almost infinite amount of variety, flexibility and diversity, and this has been used to illustrate a wide range of technical, aesthetic and expressive forms. He composes with his ear towards the past as if it were a rich quarry to mine, working like a musical archaeologist, uncovering artefacts and chiselling fresh and vibrant sonic edifices out of them.

Author : Wise Publications
Publisher : Wise Publications
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781787590915

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Michael Nyman: The Piano Collection by Wise Publications Pdf

Nyman is one of the most commercially successful composers of the 20th century and his music has struck a chord with audiences the world over. His award-winning scores have graced countless significant films including The Piano, Detroit: Ruin Of A City and Gattaca. This special collection of Nyman's Piano music includes previously unpublished works from Nyman's 2005 CD The Piano Sings. All works have been transcribed and restored to solo Piano arrangements, offering his most successful and best-loved pieces in one superb volume. Songlist: - All Imperfect Things - The Attraction Of The Pedalling Ankle - Big My Secret - Candlefire - Chasing Sheep Is Best Left To Shepherds - Chatterbox Waltz - The Departure - Diary Of Love - The Embrace - The Exchange - Franklyn - Goodbye Moortie - The Heart Asks Pleasure First - Here To There - If - Jack - Lost And Found - The Mood That Passes Through You - The Morrow - Odessa Beach - The Schoolroom - Sheep ’n’ Tides - Silver-Fingered Fling - Time Lapse - Why?

Author : Robert Adlington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521027809

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The Music of Harrison Birtwistle by Robert Adlington Pdf

Harrison Birtwistle has become the most eminent and acclaimed of contemporary British composers. This book provides a comprehensive view of his large and varied output. It contains descriptions of every published work, and also of a number of withdrawn and unpublished pieces. Revealing light is often cast on the more familiar pieces by considering these lesser-known areas of Birtwistle's oeuvre. The book is structured around a number of broad themes - themes of significance to Birtwistle, but also to much other music. These include theatre, song, time and texture. This approach emphasizes the music's multifarious ways of meaning; now that even the academic world no longer takes the merits of 'difficult' contemporary music for granted, it is all the more important to assess what it represents beyond mere technical innovation. Adlington thus avoids in-depth technical analysis, focusing instead upon the music's wider cultural significance.

Author : Pwyll ap Siôn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317096856

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Michael Nyman: Collected Writings by Pwyll ap Siôn Pdf

For over three decades Michael Nyman's music has succeeded in reaching beyond the small community of contemporary music aficionados to a much wider range of listeners. An important element in unlocking the key to Nyman's success lies in his writings about music, which preoccupied him for over a decade from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. During this time Nyman produced over 100 articles, covering almost every conceivable musical style and genre - from the Early Music revival and the West's interest in 'world' music, or from John Cage and minimalism to rock and pop. Nyman initiated a number of landmark moments in the course of late twentieth-century music along the way: he was one of the first to critique the distinction between the European avant-garde and the American experimental movement; he was the first to coin the term 'minimalism' in relation to the music of (then largely unknown) Steve Reich and Terry Riley, and later Philip Glass; the first to seriously engage with the music of the English experimental tradition and the importance of Cornelius Cardew, and to identify the importance of Art Colleges in nurturing and developing a radical alternative to modernism; and one of the first writers to grasp the significance of post-minimalists such as Brian Eno and Harold Budd, and to realize how these elements could be brought together into a new aesthetic vision for his own creative endeavours, which was formulated during the late 1970s and early 80s. Much of what transformed and defined Nyman's musical character may be found within the pages of this volume of his writings, comprehensively edited and annotated for the first time, and including previously unpublished material from Nyman's second interview with Steve Reich in 1976. There is also much here to engage the minds of those who are interested in pre-twentieth century music, from Early and Baroque music (Handel and Purcell in particular) to innovative features in Haydn, spatial elements in Berlioz, or Bruckner and Mahler's symphonic works.

Author : Michele Marrapodi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317056430

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Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance by Michele Marrapodi Pdf

Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance investigates the works of Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists from within the context of the European Renaissance and, more specifically, from within the context of Italian cultural, dramatic, and literary traditions, with reference to the impact and influence of classical, coeval, and contemporary culture. In contrast to previous studies, the critical perspectives pursued in this volume’s tripartite organization take into account a wider European intertextual dimension and, above all, an ideological interpretation of the 'aesthetics' or 'politics' of intertextuality. Contributors perceive the presence of the Italian world in early modern England not as a traditional treasure trove of influence and imitation, but as a potential cultural force, consonant with complex processes of appropriation, transformation, and ideological opposition through a continuous dialectical interchange of compliance and subversion.

Author : Eric Salzman,Thomas Desi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190282769

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The New Music Theater by Eric Salzman,Thomas Desi Pdf

Alternatives to grand opera and the popular musical can be traced at least as far back as the 1912 premiere of Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire." Yet this ongoing history has never been properly sorted out, its complex ideas and philosophy as well as musical and theatrical achievements never brought fully to light. The New Music Theater is the first comprehensive attempt in English to cover this still-emerging art form in its widest range. This book provides a wealth of examples and descriptions not only of the works themselves, but of the concepts, ideas, and trends that have gone into the evolution of what may be the most central performance art form of the post-modern world. Authors Salzman and Desi consider the subject of music theatre from a social as well as artistic point of view, exploring how theatre works in culture, and how music works in the theatre. Illuminating their discussion with illustrations from current artists and their works, The New Music Theater both describes where we have been and points the way to the future of this all-encompassing art form.

Author : Keith Potter,Kyle Gann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317042556

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music by Keith Potter,Kyle Gann Pdf

In recent years the music of minimalist composers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass has, increasingly, become the subject of important musicological reflection, research and debate. Scholars have also been turning their attention to the work of lesser-known contemporaries such as Phill Niblock and Eliane Radigue, or to second and third generation minimalists such as John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Michael Nyman and William Duckworth, whose range of styles may undermine any sense of shared aesthetic approach but whose output is still to a large extent informed by the innovative work of their minimalist predecessors. Attempts have also been made by a number of academics to contextualise the work of composers who have moved in parallel with these developments while remaining resolutely outside its immediate environment, including such diverse figures as Karel Goeyvaerts, Robert Ashley, Arvo Pärt and Brian Eno. Theory has reflected practice in many respects, with the multimedia works of Reich and Glass encouraging interdisciplinary approaches, associations and interconnections. Minimalism’s role in culture and society has also become the subject of recent interest and debate, complementing existing scholarship, which addressed the subject from the perspective of historiography, analysis, aesthetics and philosophy. The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music provides an authoritative overview of established research in this area, while also offering new and innovative approaches to the subject.

Author : K. Donnelly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230597747

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British Film Music and Film Musicals by K. Donnelly Pdf

In the first book-length consideration of the topic for sixty years, Kevin Donnelly examines the importance of music in British film, concentrating both on musical scores, such as William Walton's score for Henry V (1944) and Malcolm Arnold's music for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and on the phenomenon of the British film musical.

Author : Wise Publications
Publisher : Wise Publications
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783239641

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Music For Millions: New Classics To Moderns by Wise Publications Pdf

Since its release in 1968, the Classics To Moderns series has been a favourite with pianists from all around the world, appealing to players of all levels and backgrounds. Music For Millions: New Classics To Moderns has been developed from this original series. As with previous volumes, the collection opens with music from the 1600s before journeying through different periods of musical history, up to the living composers of the present day – Over 400 years of classical compositions. This book has been carefully edited for the late beginner to early intermediate pianist, whilst also remaining faithful to the composers' intentions. Music For Millions: New Classics To Moderns contains original pieces by Purcell, Scarlatti, Couperin, Vivaldi, Telemann, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Turk, Beethoven, Hummel, Diabelli, Schubert, Chopin, Rossini, Schumann, Franck, Brahms, Bizet, Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky, Dvorák, Elgar, Debussy, Gretchaninoff, Holst, Swinstead, Nielsen, Bartók, Stravinsky, Rowley, Maxwell Davies, Glass, Nyman, Einaudi, Hauschka, Richter, O’Halloran and many others.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Audiocassettes
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011430092

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Schwann Opus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Nyman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521653835

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Experimental Music by Michael Nyman Pdf

Composer Michael Nyman's classic 1974 account of the postwar experimental tradition in music.

Author : Paul Griffiths
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1400 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780141909769

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The Penguin Companion to Classical Music by Paul Griffiths Pdf

This superbly authoratitive new work provides a comprehensive A-Z guide to some 1000 years of Western music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a vast range of composers, as well as looking at such key topics as music history (from medieval plainchant to contemporary minimalism), performers, theory and jargon. Throught Griffiths skilfully blends lightly worn scholarship with personal insight, whether examining the emotional colouring that different musical keys achieve or charting the rise and development of the symphony.

Author : David T Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429757686

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Phantasmagoria by David T Evans Pdf

First published in 1999, this original and entertaining sociological study takes a comprehensive and critical view of opera as unique cultural artefact as loss making ‘industry’, as institution with a ‘museum’ culture, and as consumed commodity of rare distinction and elaborate ritual. Specific chapters deal with opera within the contexts of musicological analysis, auratic art and fetishized taste: opera as business and as ‘museum’: singers’ opera: producers’ opera and audiences’ opera. There is also a chapter on ‘opera’: popular, commercialised fragments of opera outside the opera house, consumed by and through all manner of reproduced means: CD, video, Three Tenors concerts: film and TV soundtracks: advertising jingles etc. Despite the supposed popularisation and successful commercial exploitation of ‘opera’ during the past decade or so, this study concludes that opera remains an art-form, institution and ritual of relative inaccessibility and exclusiveness. The commercial interest in and profitability of ‘opera’ do not translate into new ‘popular’ audiences in the opera house. The increased dependency of opera companies on corporate funding in the face of retreating government subsidies may have brought a new ‘elite’ audience into the expensive seats, pandered to by the introduction of surtitles etc., but the traditional ‘elite’ has succeeded in closing down entry to opera in other select venues where opera continues to confirm and maintain their select identity and prestige of their life-style.

Author : Phillip Rehfeldt
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520033795

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New Directions for Clarinet by Phillip Rehfeldt Pdf

The purpose of this work has been to deal with clarinet performance as it has evolved in the literature since approximately 1950: to identify or "catalogue" the practices now prevalent which differ from those formerly standardized; to provide some perspective on specific performance capabilities and limitations; and, whenever appropriate, to include suggestions for performance based on the author's own experience. It is intended as a guidebook for composers as well as a manual to which clarinettists might refer in working out various problems associated with new music performance. --pref.