Author : James Day
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0460021680
Vaughan Williams
James Day
The Master Musicians Series
The Master Musicians Series Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Master Musicians Series book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Elgar
Robert Anderson
Author : Robert Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015029939223
Elgar by Robert Anderson Pdf
This book is intended for musicians, general music lovers, students of music from A-level onwards, university music departments.
Mozart
Eric Blom
Author : Eric Blom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1299658
Mozart by Eric Blom Pdf
The Master Musicians Series
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:185580131
The Master Musicians Series by Anonim Pdf
Liszt
Derek Watson
Author : Derek Watson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Composers
ISBN : 0198164998
Liszt by Derek Watson Pdf
Liszt's career at the centre of the Romantic Movement encompassed the legendary virtuoso tours, the composition and transcriptions which revolutionized the possibilities of the instrument, his important period as conductor in Weimar, his creation of new types of orchestral and choral music,his influence as a teacher, and his lifelong radical approach to harmony, tonality, and form. Derek Watson also examines Liszt's liberal religious philosophy, his artistic aesthetic, and his tireless efforts on behalf of fellow musicians, viewing him essentially as a cosmopolitan, pan-Europeanfigure, unique in the breadth of his travels and culture, who drew upon a richly diverse legacy of art, and who in turn left his mark on many different schools of composition. Areas of his music which have been hitherto ignored or forgotten are brought to light, and several myths andmisunderstandings about the man and his art are exposed and exploded.
Beethoven
Marion Margaret Scott,Jack Allan Westrup
Author : Marion Margaret Scott,Jack Allan Westrup
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015007837464
Beethoven by Marion Margaret Scott,Jack Allan Westrup Pdf
"Beethoven stands at the summit of the affections of music-lovers the world over. Not only is he a master musician but he is also among the master minds of all human history. Here, Marion Scott correlates all the available data into a coherent picture of the mental processes of the composer and, said The Times Literary Supplement, 'has harmonized the personality and the music into one convincing portrait.' This revised edition includes a new catalogue of works, arranged in categories instead of in a continuous chronological order." --Dust jacket.
Berg
Bryan R. Simms,Charlotte Erwin
Author : Bryan R. Simms,Charlotte Erwin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190931452
Berg by Bryan R. Simms,Charlotte Erwin Pdf
Alban Berg (1885-1935), a student of Arnold Schoenberg and one of the most prominent composers of the Second Viennese School, is counted among the pioneers of twelve-tone serialism. His circle included not only the musicians of the Wiener modern but also prominent literary and artistic figures from Vienna's brilliant fin-de-siècle. In his short lifetime he composed two ground-breaking operas, Wozzeck and Lulu, as well as chamber works, songs, and symphonic compositions. His final completed work, the deeply moving and elegiac Violin Concerto, is performed by leading soloists across the world. This new life-and-works study from authors Bryan R. Simms and Charlotte Erwin delivers a fresh perspective formed from comprehensive study of primary sources that reveal the forces that shaped Berg's personality, career, and artistic outlook. One such force was Berg's wife, Helene Nahowski Berg, and the book provides a unique assessment of her role in the composer's life and work, as well as her later quest to shape his artistic legacy in the forty-one years of her widowhood. The authors present insightful analysis of all of Berg's major works, bringing into play Berg's own analyses of the music, many of which have not been considered in existing scholarship. Berg is an accessible and all-encompassing resource for all readers who wish to learn about the life and music of this composer, one of the great figures in modern music.
Master Musicians - Britten
Michael Kennedy
Author : Michael Kennedy
Publisher : Master Musicians
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0198164793
Master Musicians - Britten by Michael Kennedy Pdf
For the revised edition of his highly-praised study of the composer, Michael Kennedy included new material on Britten's life which had recently become available. He also added a new chapter on Britten's posthumously published works. All the reference sections were updated, including thediscography of Britten's performances of his own works.
Master Musicians of India
Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
Author : Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135873974
Master Musicians of India by Regula Burckhardt Qureshi Pdf
Beginning with Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, Indian art music is renowned internationally for its improvised raga performance. This ancient tradition has for centuries been transmitted orally within the seclusion of hereditary families. Few such families remain today, and not enough is known about their central contribution to the life of Indian music. Master Musicians of India reveals this rich world through profiles and interviews of key musicians from this tradition.
Debussy
Eric Frederick Jensen
Author : Eric Frederick Jensen
Publisher : Master Musicians
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199730056
Debussy by Eric Frederick Jensen Pdf
Nearly one hundred years after the death of its composer, the music of Claude Debussy has lost none of its appeal. In this authoritative biography, author Eric Frederick Jensen brings together the most recent biographical research, including a revised catalogue of Debussy's compositions and the first complete edition of his correspondence. With separate, chronological sections on his life and music, Debussy is accessible to the general reader who wishes to focus on his life and personality, while providing detailed discussion of the music to musicians and students.
Schoenberg
Malcolm MacDonald
Author : Malcolm MacDonald
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195172010
Schoenberg by Malcolm MacDonald Pdf
"Directly or indirectly, Arnold Schoenberg had a greater impact on the music of the twentieth century than any other composer. He was a vigorous polemicist whose theories were driven by his compositional practice, and although his music was for many decades more talked about than listened to, Schoenberg's influence has been incalculable" "In this completely rewritten and much enlarged updating of his long-indispensable study, Malcolm MacDonald takes advantage of thirty years of recent scholarship, new biographical information, and deeper understanding of the composer's aims and significance to produce a richly argued and thought-provoking guide to Schoenberg's life and work. He demonstrates how Schoenberg's musical language (including the much misunderstood twelve-note method), his personal character, and his creative ideas are indissolubly linked, as is his genius as a teacher and as an original composer. He also examines virtually every work in the oeuvre to demonstrate its vitality and many-sidedness. A chronology of Schoenberg's life, a work-list, an updated bibliography, and a much-expanded personalia enhance the usefulness of this new edition."--BOOK JACKET.
Schumann
Eric Frederick Jensen
Author : Eric Frederick Jensen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199830688
Schumann by Eric Frederick Jensen Pdf
Robert Schumann is one of the most intriguing-and enigmatic-composers of the nineteenth century. Extraordinarily gifted in both music and literature, many of his compositions were inspired by poetry and novels. For much of his life he was better known as a music critic than as a composer. But whether writing as critic or composer, what he produced was created by him as a reflection of his often turbulent life. Best known was the tempestuous courtship of his future wife, the pianist Clara Wieck. Though marriage and family life seemed to provide a sense of constancy, he increasingly experienced periods of depression and instability. Mounting criticism of his performance as music director at Dusseldorf led to his attempted suicide in 1854. Schumann was voluntarily committed to an insane asylum near Bonn where, despite indications of improvement and dissatisfaction with his treatment, he spent the final two years of his life. Drawing on original research and newly published letters and journals from the time, author Eric Frederick Jensen presents a balanced portrait of the composer with both scholarly authority and engaging clarity. Biographical chapters alternate with discussion of Schumann's piano, chamber, choral, symphonic, and operatic works, demonstrating how the circumstances of his life helped shape the music he wrote. Chronicling the romance of Robert and Clara, Jensen offers a nuanced look at the evolution of their relationship, one that changed dramatically after marriage. He also follows Schumann's creative musical criticism, which championed the burgeoning careers of Chopin, Liszt, and Brahms and challenged the musical tastes of Europe.
Puccini
Julian Budden
Author : Julian Budden
Publisher : Master Musicians
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195179743
Puccini by Julian Budden Pdf
Julian Budden provides a look at the process of putting an opera together, the cut-and-slash of nineteenth-century Italian opera, -the struggle to find the right performers for the debut of La Boheme, Puccini's anxiety about completing Turandot (he in fact died of cancer before he did so), and his animosity toward his rival Leoncavallo (whom he called Leonasino or "lion-ass"). Budden provides an analysis of the operas themselves, examining the music act by act. He highlights, among other things, the influence of Wagner on Puccini--alone among his Italian contemporaries, Puccini followed Wagner's example in bringing the motif into the forefront of his narrative, sometimes voicing the singer's unexpressed thoughts, sometimes sending out a signal to the audience of which the character is unaware. And Budden also paints a portrait of Puccini the man--talented but modest, a man who had friends from every walk of life: shopkeepers, priests, wealthy landowners, fellow artists. --From publisher's description.
Brahms
Malcolm MacDonald
Author : Malcolm MacDonald
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 019816484X
Brahms by Malcolm MacDonald Pdf
'There is no better book on Brahms in print, and all its succesors will be deeply in its debt ... inaugurates a new era in Brahms studies.' The Musical Times
Tallis
Kerry McCarthy PhD
Author : Kerry McCarthy PhD
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190635220
Tallis by Kerry McCarthy PhD Pdf
The composer Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 - November 1585) lived and worked through much of the turbulent Tudor period in England. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not just react to radical change: he thrived on it. He helped invent new musical styles to meet the demands of the English Reformation. He revived and reimagined older musical forms for a new era. Fewer than a hundred of his works have survived, but they are incredibly diverse, from miniature settings of psalms and hymns to a monumental forty-voice motet. In this new biography, author Kerry McCarthy traces Tallis's long career from his youthful appointment at Dover Priory to his years as a senior member of the Chapel Royal, revisiting the most important documents of his life and a wide variety of his musical works. The book also takes readers on a guided journey along the River Thames to the palaces, castles, and houses where Tallis made music for the four monarchs he served. It ends with reflections on Tallis's will, his epitaph (whose complete text McCarthy has recently rediscovered), and other postmortem remembrances that give us a glimpse of his significant place in the sixteenth-century musical world. Tallis will be treasured by performers, scholars, Tudor enthusiasts, and anyone interested in English Renaissance music.