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The Composer's Legacy

Michael DeStefano
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Author : Michael DeStefano
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781640826229

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Esteemed California music professor David Whealy is drawn to the other side of the country to investigate the circumstances behind his unexpected inheritance. As David probes deeper into the secrets of his benefactor, James Burton West, he finds more than just a wealth of unpublished music on the order of the great composers. David’s benefactor knew precious little about his own estate that had been in continuous family hands since 1724. He knew nothing about his colonial ancestor, a Thomas of historic import, nor the origins of that ancient iron key which held a secret even West knew nothing about. A secret which may well have redrawn the map of the United States.

Josquin des Prez and His Musical Legacy

Willem Elders
Josquin des Prez and His Musical Legacy Book PDF

Author : Willem Elders
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9789462702851

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Josquin des Prez and His Musical Legacy by Willem Elders Pdf

Josquin des Prez and His Musical Legacy is the most up-to-date contribution to the research on one of the most important and internationally famous composers of the Renaissance. This monograph offers factual information on the composer as well as insights into his 16th-century and modern reception, a survey of the sources of his music, and a discussion of the thorny issue of authorship. Willem Elders, one of the most distinguished scholars of Josquin's music, also discusses the influence of Gregorian chant as a source of inspiration and explains the various aspects of Josquin's symbolic language. Each individual work (including some of those in the old Josquin edition now considered inauthentic) receives a short discussion of relevant contextual aspects and interesting musical features. Ranges and lengths are given for each work. The style is adapted to the professional musicologist as well as to the 'music lover' and performer. Includes 45 figures and 90 musical examples

Beethoven, A Life

Jan Caeyers
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Author : Jan Caeyers
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520390218

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"This new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven offers connoisseurs and newcomers alike an unparalleled story of the composer's life and works, written by a renowned conductor and scholar of Beethoven's music. With unprecedented access to the archives at the Beethoven House in Bonn, Jan Caeyers expertly weaves together a deeply human and complex picture of Beethoven-his troubled youth, his unpredictable mood swings, his desires, relationships, and conflicts with family and friends, the mysteries surrounding his affair with the 'immortal beloved, ' and the dramatic tale of his deafness. Caeyers also offers new insights into Beethoven's music, showing how it transformed from the work of a skilled craftsman to that of a consummate artist. Demonstrating an impressive command of the vast scholarship on this iconic composer, Caeyers brings Beethoven's world alive with elegant prose, memorable musical descriptions, and a vivid depiction of Bonn and Vienna, where Beethoven produced and performed his works. Caeyers explores how Beethoven's career was impacted by the historical and philosophical shifts taking place in the music world and how, in turn, his trajectory changed the music industry. Equal parts an absorbing cultural history and a lively biography, Beethoven, A Life reveals a complex portrait of the musical genius that defined a style of music and went on to become one of the great pillars of Western art music"--

Bach's Legacy

Russell Stinson
Bach s Legacy Book PDF

Author : Russell Stinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190091224

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"This book examines how four of the greatest composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries-Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner, and Edward Elgar-engaged with the legacy of the music of J. S. Bach. It investigates the various ways in which these individuals responded to Bach's oeuvre, not as composers per se, but as performers, conductors, scholars, critics, and all-around ambassadors. In its detailed analyses of both musical and epistolary sources, the book sheds light on how Bach's works were received within the musical circles of these composers. The book's narrative also helps humanize these individuals as it reconstrcts, with touching immediacy, and often by recounting colorful anecdotes, the intimate social circumstances in which Bach's music was performed and discussed. Special emphasis is given to Mendelssohn's and Schumann's reception of Bach's organ works, Schumann's encounter with the St. Matthew and St. John Passions, Wagner's musings on the Well-Tempered Clavier, and Elgar's (resoundingly negative) thoughts on Bach's vocal works"--

The Legacy of Chopin

Jan Holcman
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Author : Jan Holcman
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781504060219

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A fascinating survey of Chopin’s views on music, from composition theory to his philosophy of teaching, including explanatory notes from the author. The Legacy of Chopin is a comprehensive study of the great composer’s views on music—including pianism, composition, pedagogy, music criticism, and more. Drawing on extensive research from a wide range of sources, Jan Holcman provides essential historical and musicological context for Chopin’s references and concepts, making his more esoteric ideas accessible to the general reader. An author and musicologist, Holcman shares his deep knowledge of Chopin’s life and oeuvre in this enlightening exploration of his theories, practices, and philosophies.

Debussy's Legacy and the Construction of Reputation

Marianne Wheeldon
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Author : Marianne Wheeldon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190631246

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Debussy's Legacy and the Construction of Reputation by Marianne Wheeldon Pdf

Today, Claude Debussy's position as a central figure in twentieth-century concert music is secure, and scholarship has long taken for granted the enduring musical and aesthetic contributions of his compositions. Yet this was not always the case. Unknown to many concert-goers and music scholars is the fact that for years after his death, Debussy's musical aesthetic was perceived as outmoded, decadent, and even harmful for French music. In Debussy's Legacy and the Construction of Reputation, Marianne Wheeldon examines the vicissitudes of the composer's posthumous reception in the 1920s and 30s, and analyzes the confluence of factors that helped to overturn the initial backlash against his music. Rather than viewing Debussy's artistic greatness as the cause of his enduring legacy, she considers it instead as an effect, tracing the manifold processes that shaped how his music was received and how its aesthetic worth was consolidated. Speaking to readers both within and beyond the domain of French music and culture, Debussy's Legacy and the Construction of Reputation enters into dialogue with research in the sociology of reputation and commemoration, examining the collective nature of the processes of artistic consecration. By analyzing the cultural forces that came to bear on the formation of Debussy's legacy, Wheeldon contributes to a greater understanding of the inter-war period--the cultural politics, debates, and issues that confronted musicians in 1920s and 30s Paris--and offers a musicological perspective on the subject of reputation building, to date underrepresented in recent writings on reputation and commemoration in the humanities. Debussy's Legacy and the Construction of Reputation is an important new study, groundbreaking in its methodology and in its approach to musical influence and cultural consecration.

Jean Sibelius's Legacy

Tim Howell,Anna Krohn,Veijo Murtomäki
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Author : Tim Howell,Anna Krohn,Veijo Murtomäki
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 Musical Legacy of Wartime France

Leslie A. Sprout
The Musical Legacy of Wartime France Book PDF

Author : Leslie A. Sprout
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520955271

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The Musical Legacy of Wartime France by Leslie A. Sprout Pdf

For the three forces competing for political authority in France during World War II, music became the site of a cultural battle that reflected the war itself. German occupying authorities promoted German music at the expense of French, while the Vichy administration pursued projects of national renewal through culture. Meanwhile, Resistance networks gradually formed to combat German propaganda while eyeing Vichy’s efforts with suspicion. In The Musical Legacy of Wartime France, Leslie A. Sprout explores how each of these forces influenced the composition, performance, and reception of five well-known works: the secret Resistance songs of Francis Poulenc and those of Arthur Honegger; Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, composed in a German prisoner of war camp; Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem, one of sixty-five pieces commissioned by Vichy between 1940 and 1944; and Igor Stravinsky’s Danses concertantes, which was met at its 1945 Paris premiere with protests that prefigured the aesthetic debates of the early Cold War. Sprout examines not only how these pieces were created and disseminated during and just after the war, but also how and why we still associate these pieces with the stories we tell—in textbooks, program notes, liner notes, historical monographs, and biographies—about music, France, and World War II.

The Lure and Legacy of Music at Versailles

John Hajdu Heyer
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Author : John Hajdu Heyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521519885

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Taking its departure from King Louis XIV's 1660 visit to Provence, this book reveals the remarkable musical developments that followed.

The Legacy of Cornelius Cardew

Tony Harris
The Legacy of Cornelius Cardew Book PDF

Author : Tony Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317025931

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The Legacy of Cornelius Cardew by Tony Harris Pdf

Cornelius Cardew is an enigma. Depending on which sources one consults he is either an influential and iconic figure of British musical culture or a marginal curiosity, a footnote to a misguided musical phenomenon. He is both praised for his uncompromising commitment to world-changing politics, and mocked for being blindly caught up in a maelstrom of naïve political folly. His works are both widely lauded as landmark achievements of the British avant-garde and ridiculed as an archaic and irrelevant footnote to the established musical culture. Even the events of his death are shrouded in mystery and lack a sense of closure. As long ago as 1967, Morton Feldman cited Cardew as an influential figure, central to the future of modern music-making. The extent to which Cardew has been a central figure and a force for new ideas in music forms the backbone to this book. Harris demonstrates that Cardew was an original thinker, a charismatic leader, an able facilitator, and a committed activist. He argues that Cardew exerted considerable influence on numerous individuals and groups, but also demonstrates how the composer's significance has been variously underestimated, undermined and misrepresented. Cardew's diverse body of work and activity is here given coherence by its sharing in the values and principles that underpinned the composer's world view. The apparently disparate and contradictory episodes of Cardew's career are shown to be fused by a cohesive 'Cardew aesthetic' that permeates the man, his politics and his music.

Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey

Lesley Main
Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey Book PDF

Author : Lesley Main
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780299285838

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Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey by Lesley Main Pdf

Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey looks inside four of Doris Humphrey’s major choreographic works—Water Study (1928), The Shakers (1931), With My Red Fires (1936), and Passacaglia (1938)—with an eye to how directorial strategies applied in recent contemporized stagings in the United States and Europe could work across the modern and contemporary dance genre. Author Lesley Main, a seasoned practitioner of Doris Humphrey choreography, stresses to the reader the need to balance respect for classical works from the modern dance repertory with the necessity for fresh directorial strategies, to balance between traditional practices and a creative role for the reconstructor. Drawing upon her own dance experience, Main’s book addresses an area of dance research and practice that is becoming increasingly pertinent as the dancer-choreographers of the 20th century modern and contemporary dance are no longer alive to attend to the re-stagings of the body of their works. Insightful and thought-provoking, Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey calls for the creation of new forms of directorial practice in dance beyond reconstruction. The radical new practices it proposes to replace the old are sure to spark debate and fresh thinking across the dance field.

The Stravinsky Legacy

Jonathan Cross
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Author : Jonathan Cross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521563658

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The Stravinsky Legacy by Jonathan Cross Pdf

This book explores the technical and aesthetic legacy of Igor Stravinsky.

Radio's Legacy in Popular Culture

Martin Cooper
Radio s Legacy in Popular Culture Book PDF

Author : Martin Cooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501360435

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Radio's Legacy in Popular Culture by Martin Cooper Pdf

Examining work by novelists, filmmakers, TV producers and songwriters, this book uncovers the manner in which the radio – and the act of listening – has been written about for the past 100 years. Ever since the first public wireless broadcasts, people have been writing about the radio: often negatively, sometimes full of praise, but always with an eye and an ear to explain and offer an opinion about what they think they have heard. Novelists including Graham Greene, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, and James Joyce wrote about characters listening to this new medium with mixtures of delight, frustration, and despair. Clint Eastwood frightened moviegoers half to death in Play Misty for Me, but Lou Reed's 'Rock & Roll' said listening to a New York station had saved Jenny's life. Frasier showed the urbane side of broadcasting, whilst Good Morning, Vietnam exploded from the cinema screen with a raw energy all of its own. Queen thought that all the audience heard was 'ga ga', even as The Buggles said video had killed the radio star and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers lamented 'The Last DJ'. This book explores the cultural fascination with radio; the act of listening as a cultural expression – focusing on fiction, films and songs about radio. Martin Cooper, a broadcaster and academic, uses these movies, TV shows, songs, novels and more to tell a story of listening to the radio – as created by these contemporary writers, filmmakers, and musicians.

The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music

Bj Heile
The Modernist Legacy Essays on New Music Book PDF

Author : Bj Heile
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351542418

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The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music by Bj Heile Pdf

This collection of essays offers a historical reappraisal of what musical modernism was, and what its potential for the present and future could be. It thus moves away from the binary oppositions that have beset twentieth-century music studies in the past, such as those between modernism and postmodernism, between conceptions of musical autonomy and of cultural contingency and between formalist-analytical and cultural-historical approaches. Focussing particularly on music from the 1970s to the 1990s, the volume assembles approaches from different perspectives to new music with a particular emphasis on a critical reassessment of the meaning and function of the legacy of musical modernism. The authors include scholars, musicologists and composers who combine culturally, socially, historically and aesthetically oriented approaches with analytical methods in imaginative ways.

Ludwig Van Beethoven His Story and Legacy

Ana Gernard
Ludwig Van Beethoven His Story and Legacy Book PDF

Author : Ana Gernard
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798391482321

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Ludwig Van Beethoven His Story and Legacy by Ana Gernard Pdf

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era in classical music. His career has conventionally been divided into early, middle, and late periods. His early period, during which he forged his craft, is typically considered to have lasted until 1802. From 1802 to around 1812, his middle period showed an individual development from the styles of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and is sometimes characterized as heroic. During this time, he began to grow increasingly deaf. In his late period, from 1812 to 1827, he extended his innovations in musical form and expression.