Music Life And Changing Times Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy And Grace Williams 1927 77

Author : Sophie Fuller,Jenny Doctor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
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Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000007961

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Music, Life and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, 1927–77 by Sophie Fuller,Jenny Doctor Pdf

At this book's core is a critical edition of letters exchanged over 50 years between Anglo-Irish composer Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and the Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-1977). These two innovative and talented women are highly regarded for their music, their professional activities, and their roles in British musical life. The edition comprises around 353 letters from 1927 to 1977, none of which have been published before, along with scholarly introductions and contextualisation. Interwoven commentaries, in tandem with carefully constructed appendices, frame the letter texts. Moreover, the commentaries and introductory essays highlight and track the development of important themes and issues that characterise the study of twentieth-century British music today. This edition presents a dialogue, through both sides of a unique correspondence, offering an alternative commentary on musical and cultural developments of this period.

Author : Elizabeth Maconchy,Grace Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 0429282621

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Music, Life, and Changing Times by Elizabeth Maconchy,Grace Williams Pdf

At this book's core is a critical edition of letters exchanged over 50 years between Anglo-Irish composer Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and the Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-1977). These two innovative and talented women are highly regarded for their music, their professional activities and their roles in British musical life. The edition comprises around 200 letters from 1927 to 1977, none of which have been published before, along with scholarly introductions and contextualizations. Interwoven commentaries, in tandem with carefully constructed appendices, frame the letter texts. Moreover, the commentaries and introductory essays highlight and track the development of important themes and issues that characterize the study of twentieth-century British music today. This edition presents a dialogue, through both sides of a unique correspondence, offering an alternative commentary on musical and cultural developments of this period.

Author : Jenny Doctor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000090017

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Music, Life, and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, 1927–77 by Jenny Doctor Pdf

At this book's core is a critical edition of letters exchanged over 50 years between Anglo-Irish composer Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and the Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-1977). These two innovative and talented women are highly regarded for their music, their professional activities and their roles in British musical life. The edition comprises around 200 letters from 1927 to 1977, none of which have been published before, along with scholarly introductions and contextualizations. Interwoven commentaries, in tandem with carefully constructed appendices, frame the letter texts. Moreover, the commentaries and introductory essays highlight and track the development of important themes and issues that characterize the study of twentieth-century British music today. This edition presents a dialogue, through both sides of a unique correspondence, offering an alternative commentary on musical and cultural developments of this period.

Author : Sophie Fuller,Jennifer Ruth Doctor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Composers
ISBN : 1032087374

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Music, Life, and Changing Times by Sophie Fuller,Jennifer Ruth Doctor Pdf

Author : Fik Meijer,Onno van Nijf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002356173

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Music, Life and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, 1927–77 by Fik Meijer,Onno van Nijf Pdf

At this book's core is a critical edition of letters exchanged over 50 years between Anglo-Irish composer Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and the Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-1977). These two innovative and talented women are highly regarded for their music, their professional activities and their roles in British musical life. The edition comprises around 200 letters from 1927 to 1977, none of which have been published before, along with scholarly introductions and contextualizations. Interwoven commentaries, in tandem with carefully constructed appendices, frame the letter texts. Moreover, the commentaries and introductory essays highlight and track the development of important themes and issues that characterize the study of twentieth-century British music today. This edition presents a dialogue, through both sides of a unique correspondence, offering an alternative commentary on musical and cultural developments of this period.

Author : Erica Siegel
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9781837650514

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The Life and Music of Elizabeth Maconchy by Erica Siegel Pdf

The first full-length biographical study of Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994). The British-born Irish composer (Dame) Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) is best known today for her cycle of thirteen string quartets, composed over five decades. And yet, her oeuvre ranges from large scale choral works, to ballets, operas, and symphonic scores. Having studied with Charles Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music, many of her compositions also garnered accolades from peers and established musical figures such as Gustav Holst, Donald Francis Tovey, and Henry Wood, among others. With access to a wealth of documentation previously unavailable, this book explores Maconchy's life and music within a greater consideration of the social and political context of the world in which she lived. While the influence of Bartók has been well documented, this book reveals the equally potent influence of Vaughan Williams on Maconchy's musical idiom. This book also discusses Maconchy's foray into administration and her advocacy of young composers through her work as the first woman to be elected Chairman of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain in 1959 and President of the Society for the Promotion of New Music following the death of Benjamin Britten in 1976. It will be required reading for those interested in the lives of women composers, twentieth-century British music, and musical modernism.

Author : Laura Hamer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108470285

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The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 by Laura Hamer Pdf

An overview of women's work in classical and popular music since 1900 as performers, composers, educators and music technologists.

Author : Annika Forkert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781009337359

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Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark by Annika Forkert Pdf

Unlocks new perspectives on twentieth-century British music, charting Lutyens and Clark's influential and controversial contributions to composition, performance, appreciation, and education.

Author : Matthew Head,Susan Wollenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108804394

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The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers by Matthew Head,Susan Wollenberg Pdf

Moving beyond narratives of female suppression, and exploring the critical potential of a diverse, distinguished repertoire, this Companion transforms received understanding of women composers. Organised thematically, and ranging beyond elite, Western genres, it explores the work of diverse female composers from medieval to modern times, besides the familiar headline names. The book's prologue traces the development of scholarship on women composers over the past five decades and the category of 'woman composer' itself. The chapters that follow reveal scenes of flourishing creativity, technical innovation, and (often fleeting) recognition, challenging long-held notions around invisibility and neglect and dismissing clichés about women composers and their work. Leading scholars trace shifting ideas about composers and compositional processes, contributing to a wider understanding of how composers have functioned in history and making this volume essential reading for all students of musical history. In an epilogue, three contemporary composers reflect on their careers and identities.

Author : Rhiannon Mathias
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429577154

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The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music by Rhiannon Mathias Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music presents a unique collection of core research by academics and music practitioners from around the world, engaging with an extraordinarily wide range of topics on women’s contributions to Western and Eastern art music, popular music, world music, music education, ethnomusicology as well as in the music industries. The handbook falls into six parts. Part I serves as an introduction to the rich variety of subject matter the reader can expect to encounter in the handbook as a whole. Part II focuses on what might be termed the more traditional strand of feminist musicology – research which highlights the work of historical and/or neglected composers. Part III explores topics concerned with feminist aesthetics and music creation and Part IV focuses on questions addressing the performance and reception of music and musicians. The narrative of the handbook shifts in Part V to focus on opportunities and leadership in the music professions from a Western perspective. The final section of the handbook (Part VI) provides new frames of context for women’s positions as workers, educators, patrons, activists and promoters of music. This is a key reference work for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in music and gender.

Author : Mary Caputi,Patricia Moynagh
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800889132

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Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought by Mary Caputi,Patricia Moynagh Pdf

Illustrating the collective power and relevance of feminist theory today, Mary Caputi and Patricia Moynagh have carefully selected a diverse international range of leading scholars and activists to critically assess key social and political challenges in the twenty-first century. This Research Handbook demonstrates a variety of feminist analyses that offer compelling insights into an array of topics, including police brutality, the carceral state, racial and sexualised violence, trans rights, climate change, and the denial of reproductive rights.

Author : Trevor Herbert,Martin V. Clarke,Helen Barlow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781009041676

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A History of Welsh Music by Trevor Herbert,Martin V. Clarke,Helen Barlow Pdf

From early medieval bards to the bands of the 'Cool Cymru' era, this book looks at Welsh musical practices and traditions, the forces that have influenced and directed them, and the ways in which the idea of Wales as a 'musical nation' has been formed and embedded in popular consciousness in Wales and beyond. Beginning with early medieval descriptions of musical life in Wales, the book provides both an overarching study of Welsh music history and detailed consideration of the ideas, beliefs, practices and institutions that shaped it. Topics include the eisteddfod, the church and the chapel, the influence of the Welsh language and Welsh cultural traditions, the scholarship of the Celtic Revival and the folk song movement, the impacts of industrialization and digitization, and exposure to broader trends in popular culture, including commercial popular music and sport.

Author : Rhiannon Mathias
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 1138262765

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Lutyens, Maconchy, Williams and Twentieth-Century British Music by Rhiannon Mathias Pdf

Contemporaries at the Royal College of Music, Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and Grace Williams (1906-1977) were important figures in twentieth-century British music. Combining musical analysis with contextual material drawn from documents and interviews, Rhiannon Mathias re-evaluates the composers' positions in British music history.

Author : Kenneth Gloag,Nicholas Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107021976

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The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett by Kenneth Gloag,Nicholas Jones Pdf

This Companion provides a wide ranging and accessible study of one of the most individual composers of the twentieth century. A team of international scholars shed new light on Tippett's major works and draw attention to those that have not yet received the attention they deserve.

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780744033472

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The Complete Classical Music Guide by DK Pdf

Packed with photographs, composer biographies, analyses of major works, and essential information on every musical genre, style, form, instrument, and ensemble, DK's Complete Classical Music Guide is a portable encyclopedic guide to more than one thousand years of Western classical music. From Bach to Berlioz, Glinka to Gershwin, Stravinsky to Shostakovich, and everyone in between, the Complete Classical Music Guide contains more than three hundred composer profiles, and offers a clear definition of the particular styles and characteristics of seven key eras: Early Music (1000-1600); The Baroque Era (1600-1750); The Classical Era (1750-1820); The Romantic Era (1810-1920); Romantic Opera (1810-1920); National Schools (1830-1950); and Modern Music (1900-). The Complete Classical Music Guide also includes a timeline that charts the evolution of musical styles and forms, instruments, and provides explanations of the building blocks of music — melody, harmony, rhythm, texture, form, tempo, and dynamics. Previously published as Eyewitness Companion: Classical Music, this book has been reformatted and designed and now comes packaged in an exclusive presentation slipcase.