Requiem For A Mezzo

Author : Carola Dunn
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466820630

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Requiem for a Mezzo by Carola Dunn Pdf

In March 1923, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple takes a break from her writing to attend a performance of Verdi's Requiem at the Albert Hall with Scotland Yard's Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher. The tickets are a gift from Muriel Westlea, Daisy's neighbor and the sister of Bettina Westlea, who will be singing the mezzo role. What should be a pleasant afternoon is quickly disrupted when, during the performance, Bettina falls dead on stage--killed by cyanide poisoning. While it is quickly determined that Bettina's on-stage glass of liqueur was laced with the poison, discovering the person responsible will not prove to be an easy task. Bettina was neither well liked nor well behaved, and many of her colleagues, associates, and even her family had good reason to want her dead. Daisy, determined to help Detective Chief Inspector Fletcher whether he wants help or not, decides to do some investigating on her own. But with so many suspects, the murderer may well go free....

Author : Carola Dunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Dalrymple, Daisy (Fictitious character)
ISBN : OCLC:1280816099

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Requiem for a Mezzo by Carola Dunn Pdf

A show-stopping performance ... With dashing Scotland Yard detective Alec Fletcher at her side, Daisy Dalrymple is enjoying a splendid performance of Verdi's Requiem featuring her neighbour Muriel Westlea's celebrated sister, Bettina, when what emerges from the star's gifted vocal chords is literally a dying gasp. The doomed diva was notoriously difficult and had more than her share of enemies, including a philandering tenor, a burly Russian bass and even her own vocal coach husband, with whom she had a turbulent relationship. Did one of them poison the singer? Or was it someone determined to see that Daisy's investigation ends on as bitter a note as Bettina's last performance ...?

Author : Elinor Remick Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Requiems
ISBN : UOM:39015009770648

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Requiem by Elinor Remick Warren Pdf

Author : Scott Leslie Balthazar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521635357

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The Cambridge Companion to Verdi by Scott Leslie Balthazar Pdf

This Companion provides a biographical, theatrical, and social-cultural background for Verdi's operas, examines in detail important general aspects of its style and method of composing, and synthesizes stylistic themes in discussions of representative works. Aspects of Verdi's milieu, style, creative process, and critical reception are explored in essays by highly reputed specialists. Like others in the series this Companion is aimed primarily at students and opera lovers.

Author : Carola Dunn
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466893313

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The Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries by Carola Dunn Pdf

More than twenty years ago, Carola Dunn introduced to the world the charming, vivacious and perspicacious Daisy Dalrymple and the tumultuous decade of the 1920s, in an England barely starting to recover from World War I and now undergoing rapid social changes. Death at Wentwater Court: In early 1923, the young Honourable Daisy Dalrymple has made a decision that shocks her social class—she's decided to make her own living as a writer. Landing an assignment to write a series of articles on country manor houses, Daisy travels to Wentwater Court to research her first piece. There she finds a household in turmoil, filled with holiday guests and recriminations. But that's nothing compared to the uproar when one of those guests turns up dead in an "accident." The Winter Garden Mystery: Continuing her assignment on country manor houses, Daisy travels to gloomy Occles Hall, which is under the charge of the autocratic Lady Valeria. While touring the gardens, Daisy discovers the body of a parlor maid that had gone missing two months prior. Distressed by the ineptitude of the local police force, Daisy plunges in to help find the killer before he strikes again. Requiem for a Mezzo: Back in London, Daisy attends a performance of Verdi's "Requiem." During the show, the lead soprano keels over dead of an apparent poisoning. Joining Daisy in figuring out what happened is Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Alec Fletcher. The two embark on finding who wanted the singer dead, and why.

Author : B. D. James
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595265343

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Ghost Rider by B. D. James Pdf

Not since Kiss of the Spider Woman has a story about the effects of persecution on the human mind interwoven fantastic and realistic elements as effectively. A story of biting irony and bitter satire, leaning heavily on Nabokov s Pale Fire, Ghost Rider addresses contemporary social concerns with its elegant, crisp prose. The protagonist has no name and no identity. Together with her memory, they have been taken in a Latin American war. When she falls for a famous rider, she must descend into the pits of her past, to tell him her story, and is forced to add new chapters as she peels away hidden layers of herself. Initially, there seems to be nothing wrong with her, except for a strange affinity for ghosts. Her memories of fear-filled nights take her back to Peru, into the vengeful mind of an executed man. Claiming she has killed him, he tries to convince her of the advantages of being dead. To banish him, she sets music against her blood-reeking past. When she finally succeeds, she is eighty-two. But it might be a dream, like the rest of her story, or her final nightmare. Nothing rules out that she could awake in the torture chamber, facing her final hour.

Author : Sondra Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Requiems
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020659822

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Requiem for Lost Children by Sondra Clark Pdf

Author : Hartmut Gagelmann
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1576470210

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Nicolae Bretan, His Life, His Music by Hartmut Gagelmann Pdf

"The rediscovery of Bretan and the revival of his music today are important for two reasons. The need for atonement - for the political injustice done to the man himself, in his own country and as an artist - is fairly obvious. But the recovery of his works is a cultural obligation we all must share, as we must with respect to all of Western culture's great artistic creations."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Bernard Jacobson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580465410

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Star Turns and Cameo Appearances by Bernard Jacobson Pdf

Up-close and personal views, by the renowned music critic and orchestra administrator, of musical luminaries from Alfred Brendel to Jessye Norman and beyond.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1516 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357235

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : David Rosen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995-09-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521397677

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Verdi: Requiem by David Rosen Pdf

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Author : Nicole V. Gagné
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538122983

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Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music by Nicole V. Gagné Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on the most important composers, musicians, methods, styles, and media in modernist and postmodern classical music.

Author : Ronald Ebrecht
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781498527880

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Duruflé's Music Considered by Ronald Ebrecht Pdf

In this book, Ronald Ebrecht has meticulously studied each of Duruflé’s works and put together the first book to discuss in detail all of Duruflé’s music. With encouragement from Duruflé’s editor and the foundation established in his name, Ebrecht has compiled copious examples from manuscript sources to be published for the first time along with the little-known contextualizing works of Messiaen and Barraine. Most widely known for his masterpiece Requiem, the composer’s orchestral gems are analyzed alongside his delightful miniature: the orchestration of the Sicilienne. The organ works which set the standard for virtuosity at conservatories around the world are given new insightful and thorough evaluation by Ebrecht, whose long association with late 19th and early 20th century France and French music affords illuminating connections between Duruflé and his predecessors and successors with sweeping insight and minute detail.

Author : Michael P. Steinberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691126166

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Listening to Reason by Michael P. Steinberg Pdf

This pathbreaking work reveals the pivotal role of music--musical works and musical culture--in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the "long nineteenth century." Michael Steinberg argues that, from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, music not only reflected but also embodied modern subjectivity as it increasingly engaged and criticized old regimes of power, belief, and representation. His purview ranges from Mozart to Mahler, and from the sacred to the secular, including opera as well as symphonic and solo instrumental music. Defining subjectivity as the experience rather than the position of the "I," Steinberg argues that music's embodiment of subjectivity involved its apparent capacity to "listen" to itself, its past, its desires. Nineteenth-century music, in particular music from a north German Protestant sphere, inspired introspection in a way that the music and art of previous periods, notably the Catholic baroque with its emphasis on the visual, did not. The book analyzes musical subjectivity initially from Mozart through Mendelssohn, then seeks it, in its central chapter, in those aspects of Wagner that contradict his own ideological imperialism, before finally uncovering its survival in the post-Wagnerian recovery from musical and other ideologies. Engagingly written yet theoretically sophisticated, Listening to Reason represents a startlingly original corrective to cultural history's long-standing inhibition to engage with music while presenting a powerful alternative vision of the modern.

Author : Neil Butterworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136790249

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Dictionary of American Classical Composers by Neil Butterworth Pdf

The Dictionary of American Classical Composers covers over 650 composers active from the 18th century to today. Covering all classical styles, it offers the most comprehensive overview of key composers in the United States available. Entries include basic biographical information and critical analysis of each composer's key works and ideas. Entries also include worklists and bibliographic information. Whenever possible, the entries will have been checked by the composers themselves to assure greatest possible accuracy. This new edition, completely updated and expanded from the 1984 edition, also includes over 200 historic photographs.