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Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, Listener

Roger Sessions
Musical Experience of Composer Performer Listener Book PDF

Author : Roger Sessions
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781400871049

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Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, Listener by Roger Sessions Pdf

One of America's foremost contemporary composers, professor of music at the University of California, Roger Sessions here discusses the musical experience of the composer, the performer, the listener. He believes this experience to be shared, on in which all three participants play vital roles, and in this book he speaks especially to the listener. Mr. Sessions finds that the artist-public relationships has been shifted to that of producer and consumer in big business. But his reply to his own question about a threat to the future of music is both a challenge and an expression of hope. A fascinating little book that will be read with pleasure by people at all levels of musical education. Originally published in 1950. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Roger Sessions

Frederik Prausnitz
Roger Sessions Book PDF

Author : Frederik Prausnitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195108927

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Roger Sessions by Frederik Prausnitz Pdf

His music was considered too difficult for performers and audiences alike, and encountered durable, if intensely respectful, neglect."--BOOK JACKET.

Roger Sessions

Andrea Olmstead
Roger Sessions Book PDF

Author : Andrea Olmstead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135868932

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Roger Sessions by Andrea Olmstead Pdf

Recognized as the primary American symphonist of the 20th century, Roger Sessions (1896-1985) is one of the leading representatives of high modernism. His stature among American composers rivals Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, and Elliott Carter. Sessions was awarded two Pulitzer prizes, election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, winning the Brandeis Creative Arts Award, the Gold Medal of the American Academy, and a MacDowell Medal, in addition to 14 honorary doctorates. Roger Sessions: A Biography brings together considerable previously unpublished archival material, such as letters, lectures, interviews, and articles, to shed light on the life and music of this major American composer. Andrea Olmstead, a teaching colleague of Sessions at Juilliard and the leading scholar on his music, has written a complete biography charting five touchstone areas through Sessions’s eighty-eight years: music, religion, politics, money, and sexuality.

Roger Sessions

Frederik Prausnitz
Roger Sessions Book PDF

Author : Frederik Prausnitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195355202

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Roger Sessions by Frederik Prausnitz Pdf

For more than half of his long life, composer Roger Sessions was a commanding figure on the American musical scene. He enjoyed the solid respect of his peers, and as a teacher of a generation of composers and author of compelling writings on his craft, his influence on musical thought remains profound. Yet, even in his lifetime, his music endured vastly disrespectful neglect. He was a "difficult" composer. Sessions was well aware of it. In a New York Times article, he wrote, "I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener. There are those who consider this as praise, those who consider it a reproach. For my part I regard it as, in itself, neither one or the other...it is the way the music comes, the way it has to come." The way Sessions's music "had to come" is a recurrent focus of this biography. As the story is told, often in the composer's own words, the complex picture emerges of a remarkable man who, gradually and not very willingly, learned to accept his unexpected lot as a "difficult" composer. Frederik Prausnitz, an acquaintance of Sessions and conductor of his work, combines personal and musical insights to present this fascinating portrait of an influential, yet often overlooked, modernist composer.

Harmonic Practice

Roger Sessions
Harmonic Practice Book PDF

Author : Roger Sessions
Publisher : New York : Harcourt, Brace & World
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042706643

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On traditional harmony, with over 800 exercises.

Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000

D. J. Hoek
Analyses of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Music 1940 2000 Book PDF

Author : D. J. Hoek
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461700791

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Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000 by D. J. Hoek Pdf

This new volume incorporates all entries from the previous editions by Arthur Wenk, expanding to cover writings drawn from periodicals, theses, dissertations, books, and Festschriften from 1940 to 2000. Over 9,000 references to analyses of works by over 1,000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are included.

Software Fortresses

Roger Sessions
Software Fortresses Book PDF

Author : Roger Sessions
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0321166086

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This book introduces a new approach for modeling large enterprise systems: the software fortress model. In the software fortress model, an enterprise architecture is viewed as a series of self-contained, mutually suspicious, marginally cooperating software fortresses interacting with each other through carefully crafted and meticulously managed treaty relationships. The software fortress model is an intuitive, simple, expressive approach that maps readily to existing technologies such as .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). This book is designed to meet an immediate need to define, clarify, and explain the basics of this new modeling methodology for large enterprise software architectures. "Software Fortresses is your essential roadmap to all aspects of software fortresses. Key topics include: The fundamental concepts and terminology of software fortressesDocumentation techniques, including Fortress Ally Responsibility Cards (based on Class Responsibility Cards) and Sequence Ally Diagrams (based on UML's Class Sequence Diagrams)The proper use of drawbridges to provide fortress interoperabilityThe innovative software fortress model for enterprise securityCorrect design approaches to fortress walls, which keep intruders out, and to guards, which let allies in.The role of loosely coupled and tightly coupled transactions in a software fortress architectureDesign and technology issues associated with the six major software fortress types This book is a must-read for all enterprise software professionals, whether you are a manager seeking to rein in run-away enterprise system complexity, an architect seeking to design interoperable, scalable, and highly secure systems, aconsultant expected to give advice on how .NET and J2EE fit into the enterprise space, an implementer wanting to understand how your system relates to a larger enterprise architecture, or a business analyst needing to know that your system requirements will be translated into a successful software implementation. 0321166086B12202002

Circle of Winners

Denise Von Glahn
Circle of Winners Book PDF

Author : Denise Von Glahn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252054419

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Circle of Winners by Denise Von Glahn Pdf

An essential high culture institution, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has both supported and molded American musical culture. Denise Von Glahn examines the Foundation and its immense influence from the organization’s prehistory and origins through the onset of World War II. Funded by the Guggenheim mining fortune, the Foundation took early shape from the efforts of Carroll Wilson, Frank Aydelotte, and Henry Allen Moe--three Rhodes Scholars who initially struggled to envision and implement the organization’s ambitious goals. Von Glahn also examines the career of the longtime musical advisor Thomas Whitney Surette while profiling early awardees Aaron Copland, Ruth Crawford Seeger, William Grant Still, Roger Sessions, George Antheil, and Carlos Chàvez. She examines the processes behind their selection, their values and aesthetics, and their relationships with the insiders and others who championed their work.

Dictionary of American Classical Composers

Neil Butterworth
Dictionary of American Classical Composers Book PDF

Author : Neil Butterworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1359 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136790232

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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.

The Aesthetics of Survival

George Rochberg
The Aesthetics of Survival Book PDF

Author : George Rochberg
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 0472030264

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A revised paperback edition of composer George Rochberg's landmark essays "Rochberg presents the rare spectacle of a composer who has made his peace with tradition while maintaining a strikingly individual profile. . . . [H]e succeeds in transforming the sublime concepts of traditional music into contemporary language." ---Washington Post "An indispensable book for anyone who wishes to understand the sad and curious fate of music in the twentieth century." ---Atlantic Monthly "The writings of George Rochberg stand as a pinnacle from which our past and future can be viewed." ---Kansas City Star As a composer, George Rochberg has played a leading role in bringing about a transformation of contemporary music through a reassessment of its relation to tonality, melody, and harmony. In The Aesthetics of Survival, the author addresses the legacy of modernism in music and its related effect on the cultural milieu, particularly its overemphasis on the abstract, rationalist thinking embraced by contemporary science, technology, and philosophy. Rochberg argues for the renewal of holistic values in order to ensure the survival of music as a humanly expressive art. A renowned composer, thinker, and teacher, George Rochberg has been honored with innumerable awards, including, most recently, an Alfred I. du Pont Award for Outstanding Conductors and Composers, and an André and Clara Mertens Contemporary Composer Award. He lives in Pennsylvania.

Conversations with Roger Sessions

Roger Sessions,Andrea Olmstead
Conversations with Roger Sessions Book PDF

Author : Roger Sessions,Andrea Olmstead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Composers
ISBN : UCAL:B4968212

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Sessions also touches on the world of professional music, and on his relations with such luminaries as Arnold Schoenberg, Ernest Bloch, Otto Klemperer, Nadia Boulanger, and Igor Stravinsky. He proves himself here to be a superb raconteur whose charming anecdotes consistently surprise and instruct. Sessions tells us, for instance, how his misreading of a poem by James Joyce led to a piece for solo soprano--and an embarrassing encounter with the great writer's daughter-in-law. He also comments wryly on the critical reception of his more controversial works; in another instance he describes an unlikely fistfight between Sarah Caldwell's mother and an unsympathetic concertgoer at the world premiere of Montezuma.

Leon Kirchner

Robert Riggs
Leon Kirchner Book PDF

Author : Robert Riggs
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580463430

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Leon Kirchner by Robert Riggs Pdf

In addition to Riggs's extensive interviews with the composer, the biography is documented with Kirchner's colorful correspondence from a roster of luminaries: Saul Bellow, Leonard Bernstein, Edward Cone, Aaron Copland, Darius Milhaud, Isaac Stern, Roger Sessions, and many others. Excerpts from Kirchner's own elegantly written essays and speeches complete the portrait and reveal his highly personal, romantic view of music as powerful art capable of endowing humanity with an "aesthetic sensibility and protective wisdom, without which we cannot survive." --Book Jacket.

Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises

Roger Sessions
Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises Book PDF

Author : Roger Sessions
Publisher : Microsoft Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780735646056

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Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises by Roger Sessions Pdf

Dismantle the overwhelming complexity in your IT projects with strategies and real-world examples from a leading expert on enterprise architecture. This guide describes best practices for creating an efficient IT organization that consistently delivers on time, on budget, and in line with business needs. IT systems have become too complex—and too expensive. Complexity can create delays, cost overruns, and outcomes that do not meet business requirements. The resulting losses can impact your entire company. This guide demonstrates that, contrary to popular belief, complex problems demand simple solutions. The author believes that 50 percent of the complexity of a typical IT project can and should be eliminated—and he shows you how to do it. You’ll learn a model for understanding complexity, the three tenets of complexity control, and how to apply specific techniques such as checking architectures for validity. Find out how the author’s methodology could have saved a real-world IT project that went off track, and ways to implement his solutions in a variety of situations.

Choral-Orchestral Repertoire

Jonathan D. Green,David W. Oertel
Choral Orchestral Repertoire Book PDF

Author : Jonathan D. Green,David W. Oertel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442244672

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Choral-Orchestral Repertoire by Jonathan D. Green,David W. Oertel Pdf

Choral-Orchestral Repertoire: A Conductor’s Guide, Omnibus Edition offers an expansive compilation of choral-orchestral works from 1600 to the present. Synthesizing Jonathan D. Green’s earlier six volumes on this repertoire, this edition updates and adds to the over 750 oratorios, cantatas, choral symphonies, masses, secular works for large and small ensembles, and numerous settings of liturgical and biblical texts for a wide variety of vocal and instrumental combinations. Each entry includes a brief biographical sketch of the composer, approximate duration, text sources, performing forces, available editions, and locations of manuscript materials, as well as descriptive commentary, a discography, and a bibliography. Unique to this edition are practitioner’s evaluations of the performance issues presented in each score. These include the range, tessitura, and nature of each solo role and a determination of the difficulty of the choral and orchestral portions of each composition. There is also a description of the specific challenges, staffing, and rehearsal expectations related to the performance of each work. Choral-Orchestral Repertoire is an essential resource for conductors and students of conducting as they search for repertoire appropriate to their needs and the abilities of their ensembles.

Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music

Nicole V. Gagné
Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music Book PDF

Author : Nicole V. Gagné
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 46,6 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

The contemporary music scene thus embodies a uniquely broad spectrum of activity, which has grown and changed down to the present hour. With new talents emerging and different technologies developing as we move further into the 21st century, no one can predict what paths music will take next. All we can be certain of is that the inspiration and originality that make music live will continue to bring awe, delight, fascination, and beauty to the people who listen to it. This book cover modernist and postmodern concert music worldwide from the years 1888 to 2018. 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 worldwide, from 1888 to 2018. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about modern and contemporary classical music.