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Two Centuries of British Symphonism

Author : Jürgen Schaarwächter
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783487152271

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Two Centuries of British Symphonism by Jürgen Schaarwächter Pdf

Die britische Sinfonik ist erst in jüngster Zeit ins allgemeine Interesse gerückt. Ein Überblick über die sinfonische Entwicklung im Vereinigten Königreich seit den Anfängen im 18. Jahrhundert bis ins 20. Jahrhundert blieb aber bis heute ein Desideratum. Der hier vorgelegte Überblick zeigt, wie sich die Identität einer britischen Sinfonik über mehr als hundert Jahre entwickelte, geprägt durch Einflüsse vom europäischen Kontinent und von dem Bedürfnis, eigene Wege zu finden. Gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts nahm das sinfonische Schaffen in Großbritannien stark zu, brachte jedoch erst mit Edward Elgar einen prominenten Vertreter von internationalem Rang hervor. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt dieser Publikation liegt auf jenen Werken, die zu einem gewissen Grade von anderen überschattet wurden, unveröffentlicht oder unaufgeführt blieben. Das Ergebnis ist das Bild einer vielgestaltigen sinfonischen Landschaft Großbritanniens, das die ästhetischen Perspektiven der einzelnen Komponisten wie auch ihre soziokulturellen Kontexte erhellt. Ein umfangreiches Verzeichnis aller bekannten Werke und eine ausführliche Bibliographie laden zu weiterer Erkundung des Sujets ein. Only in relatively recent times has any real attention been given to British symphonies. So a comprehensive survey, showing what exists and how the situation in the United Kingdom developed, from the beginnings in the 18th century until well into the 20th century, is long overdue. The preliminary survey presented here shows how a British symphonic identity gradually took shape over more than a century, through influences from abroad and, at home, enterprising attempts to find new ways of expression. By the end of the 19th century, British symphonists had produced an impressive body of work, yet only with the appearance of Elgar’s two symphonies in the following decade did this flourishing school find a champion of international renown. In this publication, light is shone on those works that have to some extent been overshadowed, as well as on those that have remained unpublished or unperformed. The result is a multi-faceted panorama of British symphonism, offering many insights into the composers’ thinking and their socio-cultural contexts. A comprehensive catalogue of all known works and an extensive bibliography invite readers to delve further into the subject.

The Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850-1950

Author : Michael Allis,Paul Watt
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783275281

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The Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850-1950 by Michael Allis,Paul Watt Pdf

The Symphonic Poem in Britain 1850-1950 aims to raise the status of the genre generally and in Britain specifically. The volume reaffirms British composers' confidence in dealing with literary texts and takes advantage of the contributors' interdisciplinary expertise by situating discussions of the tone poem in Britain in a variety of historical, analytical and cultural contexts. This book highlights some of the continental models that influenced British composers, and identifies a range of issues related to perceptions of the genre. Richard Strauss became an important figure in Britain during this time, not only in terms of the clear impact of his tone poems, but the debates over their value and even their ethics. A focus on French orchestral music in Britain represents a welcome addition to scholarly debate, and links to issues in several other chapters. The historical development of the genre, the impact of compositional models, issues highlighted in critical reception as well as programming strategies all contribute to a richer understanding of the symphonic poem in Britain. Works by British composers discussed in more detail include William Wallace's Villon (1909), Gustav Holst's Beni Mora(1909-10), Hubert Parry's From Death to Life (1914), John Ireland's Mai-Dun (1921), and Frank Bridge's orchestral 'poems' (1903-15).

The Symphony in Australia, 1960-2020

Author : Rhoderick McNeill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000578621

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The Symphony in Australia, 1960-2020 by Rhoderick McNeill Pdf

The Symphony remained a major orchestral form in Australia between 1960 and 2020, with a body of diverse and interesting symphonies produced during the 1960s and 1970s that defied the widespread modernist trends of serialism, electronic music and indeterminism that seemed harbingers of the symphony’s demise. From the late 1970s onwards, many Australian composers chose to work in styles that admitted modal and tonal melodic and harmonic elements with regular pulse. Major cycles of symphonies by Carl Vine, Brenton Broadstock and Ross Edwards began to appear in the late 1980s. Other prolific symphonists like Paul Paviour (10 symphonies), David Morgan (15 symphonies), Philip Bracanin (11), Peter Tahourdin (5), John Polglase (5) and many others demonstrated a revived interest in the form. This trend continued into the first two decades of the present century with symphonies by Matthew Hindson, Katy Abbott, Stuart Greenbaum, Andrew Schultz, Mark Isaacs and Gordon Kerry. This renewed interest in the symphony reflects similar trends in Britain and the United States. Rhoderick McNeill provides a comprehensive introduction to this large body of music with the aim of making the music and its composers known to concert- goers, music educators and students, conductors and music entrepreneurs.

Alan Bush, Modern Music, and the Cold War

Author : Joanna Bullivant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107033368

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Alan Bush, Modern Music, and the Cold War by Joanna Bullivant Pdf

The first major study of British communist composer Alan Bush, providing new perspectives on music and politics during the Cold War.

Including a Symposium on Latin American Monetary Thought

Author : Luca Fiorito,Scott Scheall,Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781787564329

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Including a Symposium on Latin American Monetary Thought by Luca Fiorito,Scott Scheall,Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak Pdf

In addition to general research contributions, volume 36C features a symposium edited by Andrés Álvarez on monetary economics in post-independence Latin America. The symposium features contributions from Matías Vernengo and Esteban Pérez Caldentey, Ricardo Solis Rosales, Florencia Sember, and Edna Carolina Sastoque Ramírez.

Lutyens, Maconchy, Williams and Twentieth-Century British Music

Author : Rhiannon Mathias
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317102991

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Lutyens, Maconchy, Williams and Twentieth-Century British Music by Rhiannon Mathias Pdf

Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and Grace Williams (1906-1977) were contemporaries at the Royal College of Music. The three composers' careers were launched with performances in the Macnaghten-Lemare Concerts in the 1930s - a time when, in Britain, as Williams noted, a woman composer was considered 'very odd indeed'. Even so, by the early 1940s all three had made remarkable advances in their work: Lutyens had become the first British composer to use 12-note technique, in her Chamber Concerto No. 1 (1939-40); Maconchy had composed four string quartets of outstanding quality and was busy rethinking the genre; and Williams had won recognition as a composer with great flair for orchestral writing with her Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes (1940) and Sea Sketches (1944). In the following years, Lutyens, Maconchy and Williams went on to compose music of striking quality and to attain prominent positions within the British music scene. Their respective achievements broke through the 'sound ceiling', challenging many of the traditional assumptions which accompanied music by female composers. Rhiannon Mathias traces the development of these three important composers through analysis of selected works. The book draws upon previously unexplored material as well as radio and television interviews with the composers themselves and with their contemporaries. The musical analysis and contextual material lead to a re-evaluation of the composers' positions in the context of twentieth-century British music history.

Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-century British Music

Author : Rachel Cowgill,Julian Rushton
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754652084

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Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-century British Music by Rachel Cowgill,Julian Rushton Pdf

This volume illuminates musical connections between Britain and the continent of Europe, and Britain and its Empire. The seldom-recognized vitality of musical theatre and other kinds of spectacle in Britain itself, and also the flourishing concert life of the period, indicates a means of defining tradition and identity within nineteenth-century British musical culture. The volume benefits not only from new archival research, but also from fresh musicological approaches and interdisciplinary methods that recognize the integral role of music within a wider culture.

England Resounding

Author : Keith Alldritt
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780719829765

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England Resounding by Keith Alldritt Pdf

The spectacular revival of serious music in England is a chief feature of the history of British culture from the turn of the twentieth century and after. For some two centuries the art form had stagnated in England, which was referred to, notoriously, by a German commentator as 'the land without music'. But then came a great renaissance. In the three linked essays that make up this book, Keith Alldritt, the most recent biographer of Vaughan Williams, examines the several phases and genres of this revival. A number of composers including Gustav Holst, Arnold Bax and William Walton contributed to the renewal. But this book presents the renaissance as centrally a continuity of enterprise, sometimes of riposte, running from Elgar to Vaughan Williams and then to Benjamin Britten. Their concern was with music at its most serious, though not unceasingly humourless. All three explored music's frontier with philosophy. They also probed the psychological impact of the unprecedently violent and destructive century in which they practised their art. Going beyond musicological comment, England Resounding essays insights into the historical, geopolitical and personal events that elicited the major works of these three great composers.

Symposium

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Computer programs
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044055189

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Symposium by Anonim Pdf

The Symphony: The eighteenth century

Author : Preston Stedman
Publisher : Garland Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015019641862

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The Symphony: The eighteenth century by Preston Stedman Pdf

Vol. 1 : The eighteenth century.

The Sovereignty Symposium

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061799784

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The Sovereignty Symposium by Anonim Pdf

Sovereignty Symposium VII

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : OSU:32437121836445

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Sovereignty Symposium VII by Anonim Pdf

Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0367435365

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Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

This volume of primary source material examines music and British national identity during the ninteenth century. Sources explore the reception of British music, continental and other foreign music, English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish music, and Empire. The collection of materials are accompanied by an introduction by Rosemary Golding, as well as headnotes contextualising the pieces. This collection will be of great value to students and scholars.