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The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss

Author : Charles Youmans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139828529

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Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars, who considered his commercial success and his continued reliance on the tonal system to be liabilities. However, the past two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in the composer. This Companion surveys the results, focusing on the principal genres, the social and historical context, and topics perennially controversial over the last century. Chapters cover Strauss's immense operatic output, the electrifying modernism of his tone poems, and his ever-popular Lieder. Controversial topics are explored, including Strauss's relationship to the Third Reich and the sexual dimension of his works. Reintroducing the composer and his music in light of recent research, the volume shows Strauss's artistic personality to be richer and much more complicated than has been previously acknowledged.

The Cambridge Companion to the Lied

Author : James Parsons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 052180471X

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The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg

Author : Jennifer Shaw,Joseph Auner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139828079

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The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg by Jennifer Shaw,Joseph Auner Pdf

Arnold Schoenberg – composer, theorist, teacher, painter, and one of the most important and controversial figures in twentieth-century music. This Companion presents engaging essays by leading scholars on Schoenberg's central works, writings, and ideas over his long life in Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles. Challenging monolithic views of the composer as an isolated elitist, the volume demonstrates that what has kept Schoenberg and his music interesting and provocative was his profound engagement with the musical traditions he inherited and transformed, with the broad range of musical and artistic developments during his lifetime he critiqued and incorporated, and with the fundamental cultural, social, and political disruptions through which he lived. The book provides introductions to Schoenberg's most important works, and to his groundbreaking innovations including his twelve-tone compositions. Chapters also examine Schoenberg's lasting influence on other composers and writers over the last century.

The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss

Author : Steven B. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1139828258

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The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss by Steven B. Smith Pdf

Leo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss's work. These include his revival of the great 'quarrel between the ancients and the moderns,' his examination of tension between Jerusalem and Athens, and most controversially his recovery of the tradition of esoteric writing. The volume also examines Strauss's complex relation to a range of contemporary political movements and thinkers, including Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Gershom Scholem, as well as the creation of a distinctive school of 'Straussian' political philosophy.

The Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra

Author : Colin James Lawson,Colin Lawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521001323

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The Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra by Colin James Lawson,Colin Lawson Pdf

This guide to the orchestra and orchestral life is unique in its breadth of coverage. It combinesorchestral history and repertory with a practical bias offering critical thought about the past, present and future of the orchestra. Including topics such as the art of orchestration, scorereading, conducting, international orchestras, recording, as well as consideration of what it means to be an orchestral musician, an educator, or an informed listener, it will be of interest to a wideranging readership of music historians and professional or amateur performers.

Richard Strauss

Author : Derrick Puffett
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521359716

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Richard Strauss by Derrick Puffett Pdf

The contributions to this handbook bring together a full-length study of Elektra in English. The volume examines the many facets of one of Richard Strauss's most complex operas. First, P. E. Easterling surveys the mythological background, while Karen Forsyth discusses Hofmannsthal's adaptation of his sources. The second part brings the music to the fore. Derrick Puffett offers an introductory essay and synopsis; Arnold Whittall considers the tonal and dramatic structure of the composition; Tethys Carpenter explores the musical language of the work in detail, with special focus given to part of the Klytaemnestra scene. The third part of the volume offers two contrasting critical essays: Carolyn Abbate provides an interpretation informed by her recent work on narrative, and Robin Holloway analyses Strauss's orchestration of the opera. The book also contains a discography and an appendix of excerpts from the Strauss-Hofmannsthal correspondence.

The Cambridge Companion to Conducting

Author : José Antonio Bowen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521527910

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The Cambridge Companion to Conducting by José Antonio Bowen Pdf

In this wide-ranging inside view of the history and practice of conducting, analysis and advice comes directly from working conductors, including Sir Charles Mackerras on opera, Bramwell Tovey on being an Artistic Director, Martyn Brabbins on modern music, Leon Botstein on programming and Vance George on choral conducting, and from those who work closely with conductors: a leading violinist describes working as a soloist with Stokowski, Ormandy and Barbirolli, while Solti and Abbado's studio producer explains orchestral recording, and one of the world's most powerful managers tells all. The book includes advice on how to conduct different types of groups (choral, opera, symphony, early music) and provides a substantial history of conducting as a study of national traditions. It is an unusually honest book about a secretive industry and managers, artistic directors, soloists, players and conductors openly discuss their different perspectives for the first time.

The Cambridge Companion to the Musical

Author : William A. Everett,Paul R. Laird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107114746

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The Cambridge Companion to the Musical by William A. Everett,Paul R. Laird Pdf

An expanded and updated edition of this acclaimed, wide-ranging survey of musical theatre in New York, London, and elsewhere.

The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet

Author : Colin James Lawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995-12-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521476682

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Written for students, performers, and music lovers.

Richard Strauss in Context

Author : Morten Kristiansen,Joseph E. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108434460

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Richard Strauss in Context by Morten Kristiansen,Joseph E. Jones Pdf

Richard Strauss in Context offers a distinctive approach to the study of a composer in that it places the emphasis on contextualizing topics rather than on biography and artistic output. One might say that it inverts the relationship between composer and context. Rather than studies of Strauss's librettists that discuss the texts themselves and his musical settings, for instance, this book offers essays on the writers themselves: their biographical circumstances, styles, landmark works, and broader positions in literary history. Likewise, Strauss's contributions to the concert hall are positioned within the broader development of the orchestra and trends in programmatic music. In short, readers will benefit from an elaboration of material that is either absent from or treated only briefly in existing publications. Through this supplemental and broader contextual approach, this book serves as a valuable and unique resource for students, scholars, and a general readership.

Richard Strauss: Salome

Author : Derrick Puffett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521359708

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Richard Strauss: Salome by Derrick Puffett Pdf

This first full-length study of Salome in English since Lawrence Gilman's (1907) moves from historical and literary analysis to critical appraisal and includes a synopsis, bibliography and discography.

The Cambridge Companion to Percussion

Author : Russell Hartenberger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107093454

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The Cambridge Companion to Percussion by Russell Hartenberger Pdf

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The Cambridge Companion to French Music

Author : Simon Trezise
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521877947

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The Cambridge Companion to French Music by Simon Trezise Pdf

This accessible Companion provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive introduction to French music from the early middle ages to the present.

The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony

Author : Julian Horton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107469709

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The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony by Julian Horton Pdf

Few genres of the last 250 years have proved so crucial to the course of music history, or so vital to public musical experience, as the symphony. This Companion offers an accessible guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding this major genre of Western music, discussing an extensive variety of works from the eighteenth century to the present day. The book complements a detailed review of the symphony's history with focused analytical essays from leading scholars on the symphonic music of both mainstream composers, including Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven and lesser-known figures, including Carter, Berio and Maxwell Davies. With chapters on a comprehensive range of topics, from the symphony's origins to the politics of its reception in the twentieth century, this is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the history, analysis and performance of the symphonic repertoire.

The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett

Author : Kenneth Gloag,Nicholas Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,8 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.