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Sibelius Studies

Timothy L. Jackson,Veijo Murtomäki
Sibelius Studies Book PDF

Author : Timothy L. Jackson,Veijo Murtomäki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521624169

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Sibelius Studies by Timothy L. Jackson,Veijo Murtomäki Pdf

This book, first published in 2001, presents a portrait of Jean Sibelius as composer and man, a figure of national and international significance, patriot, husband and father. Three introductory articles explore Sibelius's reception in Finland, performance practice and recording history, and Sibelius's aesthetic position with regard to modernity. The second group of essays examines issues of ideology, sexuality and mythology, and their relationship to musical structure and compositional genesis. Studies of the Second, Fourth, Sixth, and Seventh Symphonies are presented in the concluding section. Collectively, these articles address historical, theoretical and analytical issues in Sibelius's most important works. The analyses are supported by investigations of Sibelius's compositional process as documented by the manuscripts and sketches primarily in the Sibelius Collection of the Helsinki University Library. Exploring Sibelius's innovative approach to tonality, form and texture, the book delineates his unique brand of modernism, which has proven highly influential in the late twentieth century.

After Sibelius: Studies in Finnish Music

Tim Howell
After Sibelius Studies in Finnish Music Book PDF

Author : Tim Howell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351577304

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After Sibelius: Studies in Finnish Music by Tim Howell Pdf

During the last twenty years, the rest of the world has come to focus on the music of Finland. The seemingly disproportionate creative energy from this small country defies prevalent trends in the production of classical music. Tim Howell provides an engaging investigation into Finnish music and combines elements of composer biography and detailed analysis within the broader context of cultural and national identity. The book consists of a collection of eight individual composer studies that investigate the historical position and compositional characteristics of a representative selection of leading figures, ranging from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. These potentially self-contained studies subscribe to a larger picture, which explains the Sibelian legacy, the effect of this considerable influence on subsequent generations and its lasting consequences: an internationally acclaimed school of contemporary music. Outlining a particular perspective on modernism, Howell provides a careful balance between biographical and analytical concerns to allow the work to be accessible to the non-specialist. Each composer study offers a sense of overview followed by progressively more detail. Close readings of selected orchestral works provide a focus, while the structure of each analysis accommodates the different levels of engagement expected by a wide readership. The composers under consideration are Aarre Merikanto, Erik Bergman, Joonas Kokkonen, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Aulis Sallinen, Paavo Heininen, Kaija Saariaho and Magnus Lindberg. The concluding discussion of issues of national distinctiveness and the whole phenomenon of why such a small nation is compositionally so active, is of wide-ranging significance. Drawing together various strands to emerge from these individual personalities, Howell explores the Finnish attitude to new music, in both its composition and reception, uncovering an enlightened view of the value of creativity from which

Jean Sibelius

Glenda Dawn Goss
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Author : Glenda Dawn Goss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135541170

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Jean Sibelius by Glenda Dawn Goss Pdf

First Published in 1998. This book is a comprehensive annotated bibliography of writings about the life, times, and music of Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Over 1,000 sources in 11 different languages are represented, from the earliest writings, which appeared in the 1890s, to studies published through 1994. Historical information and background are supplied together with an indication of the reliability of each source. Translations of studies into English, German, and French are noted, particularly important in a field where so many items are in Finnish and Swedish. Introductory essays to each section discuss Sibelius in different contexts: for example, vis--vis his contemporaries in Scandinavia, in relation to folk music, in reception history, and in the scholarly literature. Individual musical compositions have their own sections with bibliography. Comprehensive indexes cover the musical works, authors, and people and subjects mentioned.

Carl Nielsen Studies

Michael Fjeldsøe,Niels Krabbe,Daniel Grimley
Carl Nielsen Studies Book PDF

Author : Michael Fjeldsøe,Niels Krabbe,Daniel Grimley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Composers
ISBN : 1409462137

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Carl Nielsen Studies by Michael Fjeldsøe,Niels Krabbe,Daniel Grimley Pdf

This is the fifth volume of Carl Nielsen Studies which is an annual publication issuing from the Royal Library of Denmark, also home to the Carl Nielsen edition. These volumes provide a forum for the spectrum of historical, analytical and aesthetic approaches to the study of Nielsen's music from an international line-up of contributors. In addition, each volume features reviews and reports on current Nielsen projects and an updated Nielsen bibliography. Carl Nielsen Studies is distributed outside Scandinavia by Ashgate; distribution within Scandinavia is handled by The Royal Library, Copenhagen, PB 2149, DK 1016 K, Denmark.

Jean Sibelius

Glenda Dawn Goss
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Author : Glenda Dawn Goss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135541101

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Jean Sibelius by Glenda Dawn Goss Pdf

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

After Sibelius

Tim Howell
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Author : Tim Howell
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754651770

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After Sibelius by Tim Howell Pdf

The seemingly disproportionate creative energy from the small country of Finland defies prevalent trends in the production of classical music. Tim Howell provides an engaging investigation into Finnish music and combines elements of composer biography and

Jean Sibelius's Legacy

Tim Howell,Anna Krohn,Veijo Murtomäki
Jean Sibelius s Legacy Book PDF

Author : Tim Howell,Anna Krohn,Veijo Murtomäki
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781527500877

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Jean Sibelius's Legacy by Tim Howell,Anna Krohn,Veijo Murtomäki Pdf

In 2015, at the 150th anniversary of Jean Sibelius’ birth, research about his music and personality is more active than ever. Recent discoveries about the musical, literary, artistic, political, and social life around him have decisively widened the scope of scholarly discussion. As part of the anniversary celebrations, a great number of Sibelius scholars gathered in Hämeenlinna, his birth town, for a conference leading up to his birthday on December 8. This volume draws upon the most current achievements of Sibelius research. It brings together the diverse – and sometimes even divergent – viewpoints that emerged from this international meeting. These studies cover all of the genres in Sibelius’ production: orchestral works, incidental music, piano and chamber music, and songs, including both well-known works and rarities, and even some fresh discoveries. The chapters in this book are also a welcome reminder of the manifold sources of inspiration: the music of his contemporaries, nature, literature, and visual art. The versatility of Sibelius’ output, and the richness of his creative imagination are presented here to any reader interested to learn more about the music of the Finnish master.

The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius

Daniel M. Grimley
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Author : Daniel M. Grimley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107494633

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The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius by Daniel M. Grimley Pdf

Jean Sibelius has gradually emerged as one of the most striking and influential figures in twentieth-century music, yet his work is only just beginning to receive the critical attention that its importance deserves. This Companion provides an accessible and vivid account of Sibelius's work in its historical and cultural context. Leading international scholars, from Finland, the United States and the UK, examine Sibelius's music from a range of critical perspectives, including nationalism, eroticism and the exotic, music and landscape, reception and musical influence. There are also chapters on recording and interpretation that offer fascinating insights into the performance of Sibelius's work. The book includes much material, drawing on scholarship, as well as providing a comprehensive introduction to Sibelius's major musical achievements.

Jean Sibelius

Daniel M. Grimley
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Author : Daniel M. Grimley
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789144666

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Jean Sibelius by Daniel M. Grimley Pdf

An illuminating investigation into the interdisciplinary impact of the beloved modern classical composer. Few composers have enjoyed such critical acclaim—or longevity—as Jean Sibelius, who died in 1957 aged ninety-one. Always more than simply a Finnish national figure, an “apparition from the woods” as he ironically described himself, Sibelius’s life spanned turbulent and tumultuous events, and his work is central to the story of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century music. This book situates Sibelius within a rich interdisciplinary environment, paying attention to his relationship with architecture, literature, politics, and the visual arts. Drawing on the latest developments in Sibelius research, it is intended as an accessible and rewarding introduction for the general reader, and it also offers a fresh and provocative interpretation for those more familiar with his music.

Jean Sibelius and His World

Daniel M. Grimley
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Author : Daniel M. Grimley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400840205

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Jean Sibelius and His World by Daniel M. Grimley Pdf

New perspectives on the greatest Finnish composer of all time Perhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865–1957). Originally hailed as a new Beethoven by much of the Anglo-Saxon world, he was also widely disparaged by critics more receptive to newer trends in music. At the height of his popular appeal, he was revered as the embodiment of Finnish nationalism and the apostle of a new musical naturalism. Yet he seemingly chose that moment to stop composing altogether, despite living for three more decades. Providing wide cultural contexts, contesting received ideas about modernism, and interrogating notions of landscape and nature, Jean Sibelius and His World sheds new light on the critical position occupied by Sibelius in the Western musical tradition. The essays in the book explore such varied themes as the impact of Russian musical traditions on Sibelius, his compositional process, Sibelius and the theater, his understanding of music as a fluid and improvised creation, his critical reception in Great Britain and America, his "late style" in the incidental music for The Tempest, and the parallel contemporary careers of Sibelius and Richard Strauss. Documents include the draft of Sibelius's 1896 lecture on folk music, selections from a roman à clef about his student circle in Berlin at the turn of the century, Theodor Adorno's brief but controversial tirade against the composer, and the newspaper debates about the Sibelius monument unveiled in Helsinki a decade after the composer's death. The contributors are Byron Adams, Leon Botstein, Philip Ross Bullock, Glenda Dawn Goss, Daniel Grimley, Jeffrey Kallberg, Tomi Mäkelä, Sarah Menin, Max Paddison, and Timo Virtanen.

Sibelius

Glenda Dawn Goss
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Author : Glenda Dawn Goss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226304793

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Sibelius by Glenda Dawn Goss Pdf

One of the twentieth century’s greatest composers, Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) virtually stopped writing music during the last thirty years of his life. Recasting his mysterious musical silence and his undeniably influential life against the backdrop of Finland’s national awakening, Sibelius will be the definitive biography of this creative legend for many years to come. Glenda Dawn Goss begins her sweeping narrative in the Finland of Sibelius’s youth, which remained under Russian control for the first five decades of his life. Focusing on previously unexamined events, Goss explores the composer’s formative experiences as a Russian subject and a member of the Swedish-speaking Finnish minority. She goes on to trace Sibelius’s relationships with his creative contemporaries, with whom he worked to usher in a golden age of music and art that would endow Finns with a sense of pride in their heritage and encourage their hopes for the possibilities of nationhood. Skillfully evoking this artistic climate—in which Sibelius emerged as a leader—Goss creates a dazzling portrait of the painting, sculpture, literature, and music it inspired. To solve the deepest riddles of Sibelius’s life, work, and enigmatic silence, Goss contends, we must understand the awakening in which he played so great a role. Situating this national creative tide in the context of Nordic and European cultural currents, Sibelius dramatically deepens our knowledge of a misunderstood musical giant and an important chapter in the intellectual history of Europe.

Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto

Tina K. Ramnarine
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Author : Tina K. Ramnarine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190611538

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Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto by Tina K. Ramnarine Pdf

Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto is the story of Sibelius as performer and composer, of violin performing traditions, of histories of musical transmission, and of virtuosity itself. It investigates the history and legacy of one of the most recorded concertos in the violin repertoire. Sibelius, a celebrated and influential composer of the late 19th and 20th centuries, was an accomplished violinist, whose enduring interest in the instrument has been paralleled by the broad success of the only concerto in his oeuvre: his violin concerto (premiered in 1904 and revised in 1905). Considering how violinists engage with the work, author Tina K. Ramnarine discusses technology's central role in the concerto's transmission from Jascha Heifetz's seminal 1935 recording to contemporary online performances, gender issues in violin solo careers, and nature-based musical aesthetics that lead to thinking about the ecology of virtuosity in an era of environmental crisis. Beginning with Sibelius's early training as a violinist and his aspirations as a performer, Ramnarine traces the dramatic historical context of the violin concerto. It was composed as Finland underwent a period of heightened self-determination, nationalism, and protest against Russian imperial policies, and it heralded intense political dynamics relating to Europe's East-West border that have extended to the present. This story of the violin concerto points to the notion of Sibelius - and the virtuoso more generally - as a political figure.

Schenker Studies 2

Hedi Siegel
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Author : Hedi Siegel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521470110

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Schenker Studies 2 by Hedi Siegel Pdf

Second volume of studies based on the work of Heinrich Schenker.

A Topical Guide to Schenkerian Literature

David Carson Berry
A Topical Guide to Schenkerian Literature Book PDF

Author : David Carson Berry
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1576470954

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A Topical Guide to Schenkerian Literature by David Carson Berry Pdf

To the growing list of Pendragon Press publications devoted to the work of Heinrich Schenker, we wish to announce the addition of this much-needed bibliography. The author, a student of Allen Forte, has created a work useful to a wide range of researchers music theorists, musicologists, music librarians and teachers. The Guide is the largest Schenkerian reference work ever published. At nearly 600 pages, it contains 3600 entries (2200 principal, 1400 secondary) representing the work of 1475 authors. Fifteen broad groupings encompass seventy topical headings, many of which are divided and subdivided again, resulting in a total of 271 headings under which entries are collected.

Sibelius

Andrew Barnett
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Author : Andrew Barnett
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300111592

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Sibelius by Andrew Barnett Pdf

Informed by a wealth of information that has come to light in recent years, this engaging biography tells the complete story of the life and musical work of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Drawing on Sibelius’s own correspondence and diaries, contemporary reviews, and the remarks of family and friends, the book presents a rich account of the events of the musician’s life. In addition, this volume is the first to set every work and performable fragment by Sibelius in its historical and musical context. Filling a significant gap, the biography also provides the first accurate information about much of the composer’s early music. Writing for the general music-lover, Andrew Barnett combines his own extensive knowledge of Sibelius’s music with the insights of other scholars and musicians. He lays to rest a number of myths and untruths—that Sibelius wrote no chamber music of value, for example, and that he stopped composing in 1926 and didn’t need to compose to earn a living. Barnett completes the volume with the most thorough worklist available and an authoritative chronology of Sibelius’s entire output.