Npr The Curious Listener S Guide To Opera

Author : William Berger
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781101221174

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NPR The Curious Listener's Guide to Opera by William Berger Pdf

Major composers including Mozart, Wagner, Verdi, Puccini, and Strauss * Legendary singers from the great divas to the Three Tenors * What to look for and listen to at the opera * The history of opera and why it endures * Stylistic variations and basic theoretical underpinnings * Appreciating the art form * Biographies of the opera's greatest artists * A survey of classic operas

Author : William Berger
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 0399527435

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The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Opera by William Berger Pdf

An opera buff's definitive guide to operatic music traces the history of opera and its stylistic variations, discusses major operatic composers and their work, surveys classic operatic works, and offers concise profiles of legendary singers and performers. Original.

Author : Loren Schoenberg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 039952794X

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The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz by Loren Schoenberg Pdf

A concise history of jazz The noteworthy composers and musicians, from Jelly Roll Morton and Thelonious Monk to Miles Davis and Charles Mingus Major performers from Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald to Nat King Cole and Duke Ellington Classic songs and compositions The most influential recordings of all time A complete guide to jazz terminology and lingo Valuable resources for the Curious Listener

Author : Chris Nickson
Publisher : Perigee Trade
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 0399530320

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The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to World Music by Chris Nickson Pdf

Discover world music--for illumination, enlightenment, and inspiration. Like few other musical forms, world music encompasses hundreds of different traditions and cultures, many intoxicating moods, and a richly diverse catalogue of music and musicians. THE MUSICIANS, including: Paco de Lucia, King Sunny Ade, Ravi Shankar, The Gipsy Kings, Tito Puente, Bob Marley, Beny Moré, The Chieftains, Wu Man, Sheila Chandra, and Miriam Makeba THE STYLES, including: African reggae, Indonesian gamelan, Brazilian bossa nova, Hindu Carnatic, Chinese opera, Russian folk, Nordic fiddle and ballad, Argentine tango, Parisian bal-musette, Spanish flamenco, Greek rembetika, and Trinidad calypso

Author : Timothy K. Smith
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 0399527958

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The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Classical Music by Timothy K. Smith Pdf

For the beginner or the devotee—it's everything the classical music buff needs to know. The major composers from Bach and Bartok to Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky Significant performers from Maurice Andre and Leornard Bernstein to Georg Solti and Yo Yo Ma The landmark works from Appalachian Spring to Don Juan A concise history of classical music A deconstruction of the art form The language of classical music Valuable resources for the Curious Listener

Author : Max Morath
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781101203118

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The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Popular Standards by Max Morath Pdf

Every major singer from Frank Sinatra to Christina Aguilera. Every major composer from Irving Berlin to Stephen Sondheim. Every major song from a century of favorites. Every major musician and lyricist. Every major styling from blues, jazz, and country to folk, big band, and rock and roll The most recorded songs of all time. A guide to understanding the "standard" lingo. The evolution of popular music from Tin Pan Alley to contemporary musical theater, and more.

Author : Timothy K. Smith
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781440674150

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The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Classical Music by Timothy K. Smith Pdf

For the beginner or the devotee—it's everything the classical music buff needs to know. The major composers from Bach and Bartok to Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky Significant performers from Maurice Andre and Leornard Bernstein to Georg Solti and Yo Yo Ma The landmark works from Appalachian Spring to Don Juan A concise history of classical music A deconstruction of the art form The language of classical music Valuable resources for the Curious Listener

Author : David Rolston
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004463394

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Inscribing Jingju/Peking Opera by David Rolston Pdf

What was the most influential mass medium in China before the internet reaching both literate and illiterate audiences? The answer may surprise you...it’s Jingju (Peking opera). This book traces the tradition’s increasing textualization and the changes in authorship, copyright, performance rights, and textual fixation that accompanied those changes.

Author : David Evans
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 039953072X

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The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Blues by David Evans Pdf

Examining the changing face of the genre from its beginnings at the end of the 19th century to its international popularity today, this book traces the social climate that inspired the blues and takes a look at the unmistakable influences that blues had on 20th-century music. Includes information on performances from Muddy Waters to Eric Clapton.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428966949

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The Arts in America: New Directions by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Holliday
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815651956

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Falling Up by Thomas Holliday Pdf

Actors know about "falling up": a split-second ignition from the wings, propelling entrance as a new character, an unwilled ascent to a different mode of being, an in-body experience that overlays preparation, opportunity, choice, or chance. Falling Up, the first and only full-length Floyd study, is a metaphor for humanity’s uncanny ability to rise from seeming disaster into rebirth. Floyd’s consistent succession of soars, stumbles, slides, or wrenches sings of triumph over odds. A modern Renaissance man, Floyd is our greatest living opera composer and librettist, a trained concert pianist, a master stage director, and a teacher. In Falling Up, Holliday offers an intimate account of the life that shaped the words and music. Combining insights from hundreds of interviews with Floyd, his family, and many of the last half-century’s greatest singers, conductors, and opera administrators, Falling Up traces Floyd’s Southern roots and the struggles and sacrifices that accompanied his rise to operatic stardom. With more than forty photographs, the detailed evolution of Floyd’s fourteen operas, and in-depth analysis of his nonoperatic works, Falling Up is essential reading for opera fans and professionals alike, a book that moves, informs, and entertains.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015056399440

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The American Music Teacher by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015082964902

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Library Journal by Anonim Pdf

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

Author : Max Morath
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595530175

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I Love You Truly by Max Morath Pdf

In her 1927 autobiography Carrie Jacobs-Bond wrote: "The only thing that seems to me at all remarkable about my life is that I was nearly thirty-two years old before I even thought of having a career." After years of research I have concluded, on the contrary, that everything about her life was remarkable. A divorcee, then a widow, she was nearly forty years old before her music lifted her out of poverty. She went on to make a fortune as her own publisher, becoming an international celebrity, world traveler, friend of the rich and famous, sometime vaudeville star, and a charitable woman who gave away most of her money before she died. The woman's life needs to be revisited. Her own book was long on anecdotes and platitudes but short on times and places, and on the secrets of her heart. I have filled in some of the blank pages in her life's story by creating this new autobiography. Names and places and dates within reach of my research are faithfully employed. The rest is an affectionate and studied re-telling of her life, knit together by a man who never met Carrie Jacobs-Bond but has been under her spell ever since he sang "I Love You Truly" in 7th grade Boys' Glee Club. MAX MORATH EDITOR: USE THIS QUOTE BOTTOM BACK PAGE: Morath brings to everything he touches a keen intelligence and encyclopedic knowledge of every aspect, musical and otherwise, of late 19th and early 20th century Americana. New York Post

Author : Jack Sacher
Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : Opera
ISBN : 0825672066

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Opera by Jack Sacher Pdf

Focusing on eleven key works, the author examine significant moments in each and explains how to listen to them, from Don Giovanni to Il Barbiere di Siviglia.