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Stradella's Revenge

Author : Robert Tell
Publisher : RTP Press
ISBN 13 : 1310914362
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Stradella's Revenge written by Robert Tell and published by RTP Press. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is killing classical composers all over America? A serial killer is on the loose and Harry Grouch must find out why and catch the murderer. "Stradella's Revenge" is based on the real life conflicts of two 17th century Italian composers, Tomaso Albinoni and Alessandro Stradella. It is the third in the entertaining Harry Grouch Detective Series that includes "The Witch of Maple Park" and "Nanobe." Dr. Tomaso Albinoni, a Medical Microbiologist at Bard Memorial Hospital (and a descendant of the baroque composer with the same name) hires Harry Grouch and Associates to investigate anonymous death threats. Could they be related to an unsolved series of recent murders of other composers? Harry discovers that in Tom Albinoni's case they may be revenge threats coming from a descendant of Alessandro Stradella, a composer who was assassinated in 1682, possibly by one of Albinoni's ancestors. These were real and talented composers whose music is often heard and celebrated today. Flashbacks to 1682 reveal what really happened. Stradella was a blessed composer and a cursed personality, a cad, a womanizer, and an embezzler from the church. Some would probably say he deserved assassination. The current day Albinoni is stalked by the current day Stradella. Harry Grouch investigates using clues from the composer's music. What is driving the modern day Stradella and will Harry catch him in time?

Aspects of the Secular Cantata in Late Baroque Italy

Author : Michael Talbot
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351575171
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Aspects of the Secular Cantata in Late Baroque Italy written by Michael Talbot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As shown by the ever-increasing volume of recordings, editions and performances of the vast repertory of secular cantatas for solo voice produced, primarily in Italy, in the second half of the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth century, this long neglected genre has at last 'come of age'. However, scholarly interest is currently lagging behind musical practice: incredibly, there has been no general study of the Baroque cantata since Eugen Schmitz's handbook of 1914, and although many academic theses have examined microscopically the cantatas of individual composers, there has been little opportunity to view these against the broader canvas of the genre as a whole. The contributors in this volume choose aspects of the cantata relevant to their special interests in order to say new things about the works, whether historical, analytical, bibliographical, discographical or performance-based. The prime focus is on Italian-born composers working between 1650 and 1750 (thus not Handel), but the opportunity is also taken in one chapter (by Graham Sadler) to compare the French cantata tradition with its Italian parent in association with a startling new claim regarding the intended instrumentation. Many key figures are considered, among them Tomaso Albinoni, Giovanni Bononcini, Giovanni Legrenzi, Benedetto Marcello, Alessandro Scarlatti, Alessandro Stradella, Leonardo Vinci and Antonio Vivaldi. The poetic texts of the cantatas, all too often treated as being of little intrinsic interest, are given their due weight. Space is also found for discussions of the history of Baroque solo cantatas on disc and of the realization of the continuo in cantata arias - a topic more complex and contentious than may at first be apparent. The book aims to stimulate interest in, and to win converts to, this genre, which in its day equalled the instrumental sonata in importance, and in which more than a few composers invested a major part of their creativity.

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by Eminent Writers, English and Foreign

Author : George Grove
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by Eminent Writers, English and Foreign written by George Grove and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Birth of the Orchestra : History of an Institution, 1650-1815

Author : Music History and Literature San Francisco Conservatory of Music John Spitzer Chair
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199719914
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book The Birth of the Orchestra : History of an Institution, 1650-1815 written by Music History and Literature San Francisco Conservatory of Music John Spitzer Chair and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-08-05 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the orchestra, from 16th-century string bands to the "classical" orchestra of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Spitzer and Zaslaw document orchestral organization, instrumentation, social roles, repertories, and performance practices in Europe and the American colonies, concluding around 1800 with the widespread awareness of the orchestra as a central institution in European life.

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers, English and Foreign

Author : George Grove
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers, English and Foreign written by George Grove and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Identity and Locality in Early European Music, 1028–1740

Author : Jason Stoessel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351563386
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Book Synopsis Identity and Locality in Early European Music, 1028–1740 by : Jason Stoessel

Download or read book Identity and Locality in Early European Music, 1028–1740 written by Jason Stoessel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents numerous discoveries and fresh insights into music and musical practices that shaped distinctly localized individual and collective identities in pre-modern and early modern Europe. Contributions by leading and emerging European music experts fall into three areas: plainchant traditions in Aquitania and the Iberian peninsula during the first 700 years of the second millennium; late medieval musical aesthetics, traditions and practices in Paris, Padua, Prague and more generally England, Germany and Spain; and local traditions in Renaissance Augsburg and Baroque Naples and Dresden. In addition to in-depth readings of anonymous musical traditions, contributors provide new details concerning the lives and music of well-known composers such as Ad r de Chabannes, Bartolino da Padova, Ciconia, Josquin, Senfl, Alessandro Scarlatti, Heinichen and Zelenka. This book will appeal to a broad range of readers, including chant scholars, medievalists, music historians, and anyone interested in music's place in pre-modern and early modern European culture.

Opera Plots

Author : Waldemar Rieck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Opera Plots written by Waldemar Rieck and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bulletin of the New York Public Library

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bulletin of the New York Public Library

Author : New York Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .

Operas in German

Author : Margaret Ross Griffel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442247975
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Operas in German written by Margaret Ross Griffel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nearly three thousand new entries, the revised edition of Operas in German: A Dictionary is the most current encyclopedic treatment of operas written specifically to a German text from the seventeenth century through 2016. Musicologist Margaret Ross Griffel details the operas’ composers, scores, librettos, first performances, and bibliographic sources. Four appendixes then list composers, librettists, authors whose works inspired or were adapted for the opera librettos, and a chronological listing of the entries in the A–Z section. The bibliography details other dictionaries and encyclopedias, performance studies, collections of plot summaries, general studies on operas, sources on locales where opera premieres took place, works on the history of operas in German, and selective volumes on individual opera composers, librettists, producers, directors, and designers. Finally, two indexes list the main characters in each opera and the names of singers, conductors, producers, composers, directors, choreographers, and arrangers. The revised edition of Operas in German provides opera historians, musicologists, performers, and opera lovers with an invaluable resource for continued study and enjoyment. As the most current encyclopedic collection of German opera from the seventeenth century through the twenty-first, Operas in German is an invaluable resource for opera historians, musicologists, performers, and opera lovers.

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Author : George Grove
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Music and Musicians written by George Grove and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thematic Catalogues in Music

Author : Barry S. Brook
Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780918728869
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book Thematic Catalogues in Music written by Barry S. Brook and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, twenty-five years after its first publication, Thematic Catalogues in Music-An Annotated Bibliography (Pendragon Press, 1972) appeared in a completely revised and expanded Second Edition. It contains almost twice as many entries as its predecessor; virtually every one of the original entries has been updated; and the following noteworthy features have been added.1. A second introductory essay detailing trends and innovations in thematic cataloguing brought about by the revolution in technology of the past twenty years. 2. Appendices listing thematic catalogues in series; both by national organizations and publishers; a detailed up-to-date, country-by-country report of activities worldwide; a listing of major computerized databanks. 3. New double-column format. 4. Numerous illustrations and reproductions of pages from thematic catalogues of historical significance. The second edition continues the policy of listing all known thematic catalogues and indexes, including those in doctoral dissertations, masters essays, and computer databanks, as well as in-progress and unpublished works, plus reviews, and literature about thematic cataloguing. The original numbering of the 1972 entries has been retained, with new items appearing in proper alphabetical/chronological sequence but with the addition of decimal numbers and/or letters (363.1 or 960a). Lastly, the original historical introduction and special appendices of the first edition have been retained with emendations where needed.

Opera

Author : Guy A. Marco
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135578001
Total Pages : 1037 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Opera written by Guy A. Marco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-05-03 with total page 1037 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.

The Instrumental Music of Schmeltzer, Biber, Muffat and their Contemporaries

Author : Professor Charles E Brewer
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409494225
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Instrumental Music of Schmeltzer, Biber, Muffat and their Contemporaries written by Professor Charles E Brewer and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on primary sources, many of which have never been published or examined in detail, this book examines the music of the late seventeenth-century composers, Biber, Schmeltzer and Muffat, and the compositions preserved in the extensive Moravian archives in Kromeriz. These works have never before been fully examined in the cultural and conceptual contexts of their time. Charles E. Brewer sets these composers and their music within a framework that first examines the basic Baroque concepts of instrumental style, and then provides a context for the specific works. The dances of Schmeltzer, for example, functioned both as incidental music in Viennese operas and as music for elaborate court pantomimes and balls. These same cultural practices also account for some of Biber's most programmatic music, which accompanied similar entertainments in Kromeriz and Salzburg. The many sonatas by these composers have also been misunderstood by not being placed in a context where it was normal to be entertained in church and edified in court. Many of the works discussed here remain unpublished but have, in recent years, been recorded. This book enhances our understanding and appreciation of these recordings by providing an analysis of the context in which the works were first performed.

'Make It Old': Retro Forms and Styles in Literature and Music

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004516476
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book 'Make It Old': Retro Forms and Styles in Literature and Music written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Retro’ is not only a pervading phenomenon in today’s Western culture but has informed cultural history for some centuries and thus gives momentousness to the subject of the present volume, namely literary texts and musical compositions which, for various reasons and with multiple functions, ‘make it old’.

"Composition, Chromaticism and the Developmental Process "

Author : Henry Burnett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135157132X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book "Composition, Chromaticism and the Developmental Process " written by Henry Burnett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musicology, having been transmitted as a compilation of disparate events and disciplines, has long necessitated a 'magic bullet', a 'unified field theory' so to speak, that can interpret the steady metamorphosis of Western art music from late medieval modality to twentieth-century atonality within a single theoretical construct. Without that magic bullet, discussions of this kind are increasingly complicated and, to make matters worse, the validity of any transformational models and ideas of the natural evolution of styles is questioned and even frowned upon today as epitomizing a grotesque teleological bigotry. Going against current thinking, Henry Burnett and Roy Nitzberg claim that the teleological approach to observing stylistic change is still valid when considered from the purely compositional perspective. The authors challenge the traditional understanding of development, and advance a new theory of eleven-pitch tonality as it relates to the corpus of Western composition. The book plots the evolution of tonality and its bearing on style and the compositional process itself. The theory is not based on the diatonic aspect of the various tonal systems exploited by composers; rather, the theory is chromatically based - the chromatically inflected octave being the source not only of a highly ingenious developmental dialectic, but also encompassing the moment-to-moment progression of the musical narrative itself. Even the most profound teachings of Schenker, and the often startlingly original and worthwhile speculations of Riemann, Tovey, Dahlhaus and others, still provide no theory of development and so are ultimately unable to unite the various tendrils of the compositional organism into a unified whole. Burnett and Nitzberg move beyond existing theory and analysis to base their theory from the standpoint of chromatic 'pitch fields'. These fields are the specific chromatic pitch choices that a composer uses to inform and design a complete composition, utilizing