Choral Repertoire

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197622402
Total Pages : 929 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Book Synopsis Choral Repertoire by : Dennis Shrock

Download or read book Choral Repertoire written by Dennis Shrock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Choral Repertoire is the definitive and comprehensive one-volume presentation of the most significant composers and compositions of choral music from the Western Hemisphere throughout recorded history. The book is designed for multiple uses-as a programming guide for practicing conductors, instructional resource for students and teachers of choral music, historic and stylistic reference for choral singers, and source of information about composers and compositions for choral enthusiasts-and as such, the book intends to further and make accessible important information relevant to the vast scope of choral music. Organized by era (Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Modern), Choral Repertoire covers general characteristics of each historical era, trends and styles unique to various countries, biographical sketches of more than six hundred composers, and performance annotations of more than five thousand individual works. Of the composers, there is substantive coverage of women and composers of color, and of the repertoire, there is inclusion of lesser-known works as well as those works that are considered standard"--

Britten's Musical Language

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139441280
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis Britten's Musical Language by : Philip Rupprecht

Download or read book Britten's Musical Language written by Philip Rupprecht and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending insights from linguistic and social theories of speech, ritual and narrative with music-analytic and historical criticism, Britten's Musical Language offers interesting perspectives on the composer's fusion of verbal and musical utterance in opera and song and provides close interpretative studies of the major scores.

Massimo Puppieno

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674640313
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Massimo Puppieno by : Alessandro Scarlatti

Download or read book Massimo Puppieno written by Alessandro Scarlatti and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Giacomo Puccini and His World

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691172862
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Book Synopsis Giacomo Puccini and His World by : Arman Schwartz

Download or read book Giacomo Puccini and His World written by Arman Schwartz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an international roster of music specialists, several writing on Puccini for the first time, offers a variety of new critical perspectives on the composer and his works. Containing discussions of all of Puccini’s operas from Manon Lescaut (1893) to Turandot (1926), this volume aims to move beyond clichés of the composer as a Romantic epigone and to resituate him at the heart of early twentieth-century musical modernity. This collection’s essays explore Puccini’s engagement with spoken theater and operetta, and with new technologies like photography and cinema. Other essays consider the philosophical problems raised by "realist" opera, discuss the composer’s place in a variety of cosmopolitan formations, and reevaluate Puccini’s orientalism and his complex interactions with the Italian fascist state. A rich array of primary source material, including previously unpublished letters and documents, provides vital information on Puccini’s interactions with singers, conductors, and stage directors, and on the early reception of the verismo movement. Excerpts from Fausto Torrefranca’s notorious Giacomo Puccini and International Opera, perhaps the most vicious diatribe ever directed against the composer, appear here in English for the first time. The contributors are Micaela Baranello, Leon Botstein, Alessandra Campana, Delia Casadei, Ben Earle, Elaine Fitz Gibbon, Walter Frisch, Michele Girardi, Arthur Groos, Steven Huebner, Ellen Lockhart, Christopher Morris, Arman Schwartz, Emanuele Senici, and Alexandra Wilson.

Choral Techniques

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Publisher : WCB/McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Choral Techniques by : Gordon H. Lamb

Download or read book Choral Techniques written by Gordon H. Lamb and published by WCB/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1979 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses rehearsal techniques, organization, and conducting.

Puccini

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ISBN 13 : 0195179749
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Book Synopsis Puccini by : Julian Budden

Download or read book Puccini written by Julian Budden and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julian Budden, one of the world's foremost scholars of Italian opera, here offers music lovers a major biography of Giacomo Puccini--a volume in the esteemed Master Musicians series. Blending astute musical analysis with a colorful account of Puccini's life, Budden providess an illuminating look at some of the most popular operas in the repertoire, including Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot. Budden also paints an intriguing portrait of Puccini the man--talented but modest, a man who had friends from every walk of life: shopkeepers, priests, wealthy landowners, fellow artists.

Choral Scores

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199781958
Total Pages : 1017 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Book Synopsis Choral Scores by : Dennis Shrock

Download or read book Choral Scores written by Dennis Shrock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 1017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choral Scores is an anthology of music exemplifying distinctive choral repertoire by the most noteworthy composers throughout the history of Western music. A companion volume to Denis Shrock's Choral Repertoire (Oxford 2009), it presents works of salient importance to the development of choral music in Western culture, representing the music of the composers, eras, and movements discussed most prominently in that volume. Including 132 compositions by 124 different composers, each presented unabridged and in full score, and spanning the entirety of Western music history, from the medieval era through the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first, Choral Scores is the most thorough, and up-to-date collection of choral music available. Complete with an appendix offering literal translations of texts, as well as composer and genre indices, Choral Scores is an essential reference for choral scholars, teachers, and students alike.

The Puccini Problem

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139460196
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis The Puccini Problem by : Alexandra Wilson

Download or read book The Puccini Problem written by Alexandra Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed investigation of the reception and cultural contexts of Puccini's music, this book offers a fresh view of this historically important but frequently overlooked composer. Wilson's study explores the ways in which Puccini's music and persona were held up as both the antidote to and the embodiment of the decadence widely felt to be afflicting late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italy, a nation which although politically unified remained culturally divided. The book focuses upon two central, related questions that were debated throughout Puccini's career: his status as a national or international composer, and his status as a traditionalist or modernist. In addition, Wilson examines how Puccini's operas became caught up in a wide range of extra-musical controversies concerning such issues as gender and class. This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of both the history of opera and of the wider artistic and intellectual life of turn-of-the-century Italy.

Diegetic Music in Opera and Film

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051832617
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (326 download)

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Book Synopsis Diegetic Music in Opera and Film by : Robbert Adrianus Jacobus van der Lek

Download or read book Diegetic Music in Opera and Film written by Robbert Adrianus Jacobus van der Lek and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1991 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Viderunt omnes and Sederunt

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Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457468773
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (687 download)

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Book Synopsis Viderunt omnes and Sederunt by : Perotin (Perotinus)

Download or read book Viderunt omnes and Sederunt written by Perotin (Perotinus) and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perotin (Latin Perotinus) was a most gifted composer of the Notre Dame school, which, during the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, was the first school to produce polyphony of international acclaim. Four of the works included in this collection are organa. A Perotin organum consists of a liturgical chant melody and text, which forms the tenor or cantus firmus. Its rhythm is altered. In approximately the same vocal range, the composer added one, two or three other voices, the duplum, triplum and quadruplum, all of them in one of the six rhythmic patterns known as modi. Seven of the works included in this collection are motets. These originated throug the tradition of troping, which consisted of the addition of a text to a melismatic piece of music. In motets, it was the duplum of an organum or clausula which was troped. When this happend the duplum was called motetus, and this name was adapted for the entire composition.

Recondite Harmony

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Recondite Harmony by : Deborah Burton

Download or read book Recondite Harmony written by Deborah Burton and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is Puccini? Most debates about the composer are focused on his cultural and musical identity: is his music traditional or progressive? The thesis of this volume is that the diametrically opposed forces of the traditional and the progressive live together in Puccini's music, embedded deeply within his harmonic constructs and in many musical parameters. Recondite Harmony is a study of all of Puccini's operas examined through a primarily analytic lens. It offers essays on salient aspects of each of the operas while tracing in them both progressive and traditional elements. The volume is divided into two parts: in the first, approaches that inform the entire corpus of Puccini's operas are examined. The second half of the book is devoted to brief essays discussing interesting aspects of each of his operas. Techniques in each opus that merit analytic attention are highlighted and discussed in relation to the drama at hand, individuating more fully musical aspects special to each score. Included are also previously unpublished source material and autograph sketches.

Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316194868
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Book Synopsis Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy by : Alessandra Campana

Download or read book Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy written by Alessandra Campana and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century Italian opera participated to the making of a modern spectator. The Ricordi stage manuals testify to the need to harness the effects of operatic performance, activating opera's capacity to cultivate a public. This book considers how four operas and one film deal with their public: one that in Boito's Mefistofele is entertained by special effects, or that in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra is called upon as a political body to confront the specters of history. Also a public that in Verdi's Otello is subjected to the manipulation of contemporary acting, or one that in Puccini's Manon Lescaut is urged to question the mechanism of spectatorship. Lastly, the silent film Rapsodia satanica, thanks to the craft and prestige of Pietro Mascagni's score, attempts to transform the new industrial medium into art, addressing its public's search for a bourgeois pan-European cultural identity, right at the outset of the First World War.

Unsung Voices

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691026084
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis Unsung Voices by : Carolyn Abbate

Download or read book Unsung Voices written by Carolyn Abbate and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work looks at the "voices" that speak to us through 19th-century classical music and opera. It proposes interpretive strategies that seek the polyphony and dialogism of music, celebrating musical gestures often marginalized by conventional musical analysis.

Opera As Drama

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Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 030783400X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Opera As Drama by : Joseph Kerman

Download or read book Opera As Drama written by Joseph Kerman and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passionate, witty, and brilliant, Opera as Drama has been lauded as one of the most controversial, thought-provoking, and entertaining works of operatic criticism ever written. First published in 1956 and revised in 1988, Opera as Drama continues to be indispensable reading for all students and lovers of opera.

Giacomo Puccini: Tosca

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521296618
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (966 download)

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Book Synopsis Giacomo Puccini: Tosca by : Mosco Carner

Download or read book Giacomo Puccini: Tosca written by Mosco Carner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-09-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for opera goers to Tosca, which includes a synopsis of the plot and discussions on style.

The Operas of Puccini

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801493096
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis The Operas of Puccini by : William Ashbrook

Download or read book The Operas of Puccini written by William Ashbrook and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The performance history of each of Puccini's operas are reviewed and related to events in his life.

Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy by : Vernon Lee

Download or read book Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy written by Vernon Lee and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: