Thomas Adès Asyla

Author : Edward Venn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351580366

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Thomas Adès: Asyla by Edward Venn Pdf

Thomas Adès (b. 1971) is an established international figure, both as composer and performer, with popular and critical acclaim and admiration from around the world. Edward Venn examines in depth one of Adès’s most significant works so far, his orchestral Asyla (1997). Its blend of virtuosic orchestral writing, allusions to various idioms, including rave music, and a musical rhetoric encompassing both high modernism and lush romanticism is always compelling and utterly representative of Adès’s distinctive compositional voice. The reception of Asyla since its premiere in 1997 by Sir Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) has been staggering. Instantly hailed as a classic, Asyla won the 1997 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Large-Scale Composition. An internationally acclaimed recording made of the work was nominated for the 1999 Mercury Music Prize, and in 2000, Adès became the youngest composer (and only the third British composer) to win the Grawemeyer prize, for Asyla. Asyla is fast becoming a repertory item, rapidly gaining over one hundred performances: a rare distinction for a contemporary work.

Author : Edward Venn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1315454009

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Thomas Ades: 'A safe place to go in times of trouble' by Edward Venn Pdf

Author : Thomas Ades,Tom Service
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571278992

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Thomas Ades: Full of Noises by Thomas Ades,Tom Service Pdf

Thomas Adès is fêted from Los Angeles to London, from New York to Berlin, as the musician who has done more than any other living composer to connect contemporary music with wider audiences. His operas, orchestral pieces and chamber works have already stood the test of repeated performances, productions and continued critical acclaim. But this celebrated composer, conductor and pianist is notoriously secretive about his creative process, about what lies behind his compositional impulse. The poetry, technique and biography that fuel his most successful and shattering works, such as his operas Powder Her Face and The Tempest, or his orchestral works Asyla and Tevot, have remained hidden and unexplained. Until now. In conversation with Tom Service - the writer with whom he has had the closest relationship in his career - Adès opens up for the first time about how he creates his music, where it comes from, and what it means. In these provocative and challenging interviews, Adès connects his music with influences from a huge historical and cultural spectrum - from Sephardic Jewish folk music to 80s electronica, from the films of Luis Buñuel and pre-Columbian art to the soundtracks of Al-Qaeda training videos - and offers a unique insight into the crucible of his composition.

Author : Edward Venn,Philip Stoecker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108486651

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Thomas Adès Studies by Edward Venn,Philip Stoecker Pdf

This wide-ranging and authoritative volume discusses the major works of acclaimed contemporary composer Adès from a variety of critical perspectives.

Author : Drew Massey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199374960

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Thomas Adès in Five Essays by Drew Massey Pdf

Introduction. The Informal Adès -- The Glossary -- The Twelve Tones -- The Song Inside Your Mind : The "New Object" of The Tempest -- The Dilemmas of Musical Surrealism -- The Great Beyond.

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429932882

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The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross Pdf

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Author : Mark Hutchinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317164654

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Coherence in New Music: Experience, Aesthetics, Analysis by Mark Hutchinson Pdf

What does it mean to talk about musical coherence at the end of a century characterised by fragmentation and discontinuity? How can the diverse influences which stand behind the works of many late twentieth-century composers be reconciled with the singular immediacy of the experiences that they can create? How might an awareness of the distinctive ways in which these experiences are generated and controlled affect the way we listen to, reflect upon and write about this music? Mark Hutchinson outlines a novel concept of coherence within Western art music from the 1980s to the turn of the millennium as a means of understanding the work of a number of contemporary composers, including Thomas Adès, Kaija Saariaho, Tō ru Takemitsu and György Kurtág, whose music cannot be fitted easily into a particular compositional school or analytical framework. Coherence is understood as a multi-layered phenomenon experienced, above all, in the act of listening, but reliant upon a variety of other aspects of musical experience, including compositional statements, analysis, and connections of aesthetic, as well as listeners' own, imaginative conceptualisations. Accordingly, the approach taken here is similarly multi-faceted: close analytical readings of a number of specific works are combined with insights drawn from philosophy and aesthetics, music perception, and critical theory, with a particular openness to novel metaphorical presentations of basic musical ideas about form, language and time.

Author : Tim Rutherford-Johnson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520959040

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Music after the Fall by Tim Rutherford-Johnson Pdf

"...the best extant map of our sonic shadowlands, and it has changed how I listen."—Alex Ross, The New Yorker "...an essential survey of contemporary music."—New York Times "…sharp, provacative and always on the money. The listening list alone promises months of fresh discovery, the main text a fresh new way of navigating the world of sound."—The Wire 2017 Music Book of the Year—Alex Ross, The New Yorker Music after the Fall is the first book to survey contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological environment of the post–Cold War era. In this book, Tim Rutherford-Johnson considers musical composition against this changed backdrop, placing it in the context of globalization, digitization, and new media. Drawing connections with the other arts, in particular visual art and architecture, he expands the definition of Western art music to include forms of composition, experimental music, sound art, and crossover work from across the spectrum, inside and beyond the concert hall. Each chapter is a critical consideration of a wide range of composers, performers, works, and institutions, and develops a broad and rich picture of the new music ecosystem, from North American string quartets to Lebanese improvisers, from electroacoustic music studios in South America to ruined pianos in the Australian outback. Rutherford-Johnson puts forth a new approach to the study of contemporary music that relies less on taxonomies of style and technique than on the comparison of different responses to common themes of permission, fluidity, excess, and loss.

Author : Huw Ellis-Williams,Maria Johnson,Susan Roberts
Publisher : Rhinegold Education
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783238934

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OCR AS And A Level Music Study Guide by Huw Ellis-Williams,Maria Johnson,Susan Roberts Pdf

The OCR AS and A Level Music Study Guide is a definitive study guide for the AS and A Level specifications – For exams in 2017 and 2018 (AS); in 2018 and 2019 (A Level). This comprehensive guide covers all components of the AS and A Level courses: Performing, Composing and Appraising. As well as giving students support and practice in dealing with ‘unfamiliar’ repertoire, the historical context behind each Area of Study and the terminology and techniques required, practice questions and answers will ensure that every student is as comfortable as possible with the exams and familiar with what to expect.

Author : Miguel A. Roig-Francolí
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000332636

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Understanding Post-Tonal Music by Miguel A. Roig-Francolí Pdf

Understanding Post-Tonal Music is a student-centered textbook that explores the compositional and musical processes of twentieth-century post-tonal music. Intended for undergraduate or general graduate courses on the theory and analysis of twentieth-century music, this book will increase the accessibility of post-tonal music by providing students with tools for understanding pitch organization, rhythm and meter, form, texture, and aesthetics. By presenting the music first and then deriving the theory, Understanding Post-Tonal Music leads students to greater understanding and appreciation of this challenging and important repertoire. The updated second edition includes new "Explorations" features that guide students to engage with pieces through listening and a process of exploration, discovery, and discussion; a new chapter covering electronic, computer, and spectral musics; and additional coverage of music from the twenty-first century and recent trends. The text has been revised throughout to enhance clarity, both by streamlining the prose and by providing a visual format more accessible to the student.

Author : Nicole Grimes,Reuben Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197541753

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Rethinking Brahms by Nicole Grimes,Reuben Phillips Pdf

As one of the most significant and widely performed composers of the nineteenth century, Brahms continues to command our attention. Rethinking Brahms counterbalances prevailing scholarly assumptions that position him as a conservative composer (whether musically or politically) with a wide-ranging exploration and re-evaluation of his significance today. Drawing on German- and English-language scholarship, it deploys original approaches to his music and pursues innovative methodologies to interrogate the historical, cultural, and artistic contexts of his creativity. Empowered by recent theoretical work on form and tonality, it offers fresh analytical insights into his music, including a number of corpus studies that interrogate the relationships between Brahms and other composers, past and present. The book brings into sharp focus the productive tension that exists between the perceived fixedness of musical texts and the ephemerality of performance by considering how historical and modern performers shape established understandings of Brahms and his music. Rethinking Brahms invites the reader to hear familiar pieces anew as they are refracted through historical, artistic, and philosophical prisms. Bringing us up to the present day, it also gives sustained attention to the resounding impact of Brahms's compositions on new music by exploring works by recent composers who have engaged deeply with his oeuvre. Combining awareness of overarching contexts with perceptive insights into Brahms's music, this book enlivens our understanding of Brahms, providing a dynamic, multifaceted, complex, and invigoratingly fresh portrait of the composer.

Author : D. Kern Holoman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520256187

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Writing about Music by D. Kern Holoman Pdf

How do you spell "Mendelssohn"? Where do you place the hyphen in "Beethoven" if it breaks between two lines? Is it "premiere" or "première"? The answers and much more can be found in this completely revised and updated resource for authors, students, editors, concert producers—anyone who deals with classical music in print. This essential volume covers some of the thorniest issues of musical discourse: how to go about describing musical works and procedures in prose, the rules for citations in notes and bibliography, and proper preparation of such materials as musical examples, tables, and illustrations. One section discusses program notes, another explains the requirements for submitting manuscripts and electronic files. A new section outlines best practices for student writers. An appendix lists common problem words.

Author : Jacob Bryant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : History, Ancient
ISBN : UOM:39015010301177

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A New System by Jacob Bryant Pdf

Author : Thomas Robert May
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 1574671324

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The John Adams Reader by Thomas Robert May Pdf

This collection of 59 essays--comprising the first full-length book in English on the music of American composer John Adams--contains mostly reprints by critics and musicologists. Also compiled are new interviews with Adams, his colleagues, collaborators, and performers of his music; program and liner notes on his works from 1978 to 2005; and secti

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780744033472

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The Complete Classical Music Guide by DK Pdf

Packed with photographs, composer biographies, analyses of major works, and essential information on every musical genre, style, form, instrument, and ensemble, DK's Complete Classical Music Guide is a portable encyclopedic guide to more than one thousand years of Western classical music. From Bach to Berlioz, Glinka to Gershwin, Stravinsky to Shostakovich, and everyone in between, the Complete Classical Music Guide contains more than three hundred composer profiles, and offers a clear definition of the particular styles and characteristics of seven key eras: Early Music (1000-1600); The Baroque Era (1600-1750); The Classical Era (1750-1820); The Romantic Era (1810-1920); Romantic Opera (1810-1920); National Schools (1830-1950); and Modern Music (1900-). The Complete Classical Music Guide also includes a timeline that charts the evolution of musical styles and forms, instruments, and provides explanations of the building blocks of music — melody, harmony, rhythm, texture, form, tempo, and dynamics. Previously published as Eyewitness Companion: Classical Music, this book has been reformatted and designed and now comes packaged in an exclusive presentation slipcase.