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Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (929 download)
Download or read book Composer and Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621968715
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Music Makes the Nation written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sidney Walter Finkelstein
Publisher : International Publishers Co
ISBN 13 : 9780717806713
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Composer and Nation written by Sidney Walter Finkelstein and published by International Publishers Co. This book was released on 1989 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of a work equally useful to the student of music and the lover of music.
Author : Joshua H. Howard
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824885732
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Composing for the Revolution written by Joshua H. Howard and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Composing for the Revolution: Nie Er and China’s Sonic Nationalism, Joshua Howard explores the role the songwriter Nie Er played in the 1930s proletarian arts movement and the process by which he became a nationalist icon. Composed only months before his untimely death in 1935, Nie Er’s last song, the “March of the Volunteers,” captured the rising anti-Japanese sentiment and was selected as China’s national anthem with the establishment of the People’s Republic. Nie was quickly canonized after his death and later recast into the “People’s Musician” during the 1950s, effectively becoming a national monument. Howard engages two historical paradigms that have dominated the study of twentieth-century China: revolution and modernity. He argues that Nie Er, active in the leftist artistic community and critical of capitalism, availed himself of media technology, especially the emerging sound cinema, to create a modern, revolutionary, and nationalist music. This thesis stands as a powerful corrective to a growing literature on the construction of a Chinese modernity, which has privileged the mass consumer culture of Shanghai and consciously sought to displace the focus on China’s revolutionary experience. Composing for the Revolution also provides insight into understudied aspects of China’s nationalism—its sonic and musical dimensions. Howard’s analyses highlights Nie’s extensive writings on the political function of music, examination of the musical techniques and lyrics of compositions within the context of left-wing cinema, and also the transmission of his songs through film, social movements, and commemoration. Nie Er shared multiple and overlapping identities based on regionalism, nationalism, and left-wing internationalism. His march songs, inspired by Soviet “mass songs,” combined Western musical structure and aesthetic with elements of Chinese folk music. The songs’ ideological message promoted class nationalism, but his “March of the Volunteers” elevated his music to a universal status thereby transcending the nation. Traversing the life and legacy of Nie Er, Howard offers readers a profound insight into the meanings of nationalism and memory in contemporary China. Composing for the Revolution underscores the value of careful reading of sources and the author’s willingness to approach a subject from multiple perspectives.
Author : Sidney Finkelstein
Publisher : International Publishers Co
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Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Composer and Nation written by Sidney Finkelstein and published by International Publishers Co. This book was released on 1989 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sidney Finkelstein's contribution to the understanding of music with Composer and Nation is unusual in some respects, and well worth presenting again to a new audience. Only rarely have recent music writers looked at long spans of history. With the proliferation of scholars and the ever-increasing historical detail available from their work, the task of compiling a one-volume history of music is formidable. Well written, and intended for both the amateur as well as the musician, this volume approaches a time span of 300 years, from 1700 to the present. The presentation avoids detailed analysis of works and does not aim at complete coverage of historical detail. Instead, Finkelstein surveys major details of what is usually called the modern era from an unpretentious sociological premise, namely that musical values and the relationship of the composer to society are reflected in the musical works. It follows then that the structure and texture of the work would reflect the composer's view of society and that important musical events offer insight into contemporary social and historical currents. Finkelstein presents an outline of the era from the viewpoint of the musical sociologist. His lively writing style, in the best tradition of the amateur, and his observation post-removed from the usual musicological context make this new edition a welcome addition to musical and sociological literature.
Author : Sidney Finkelstein
Publisher : New York : International
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Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Composer and Nation written by Sidney Finkelstein and published by New York : International. This book was released on 1960 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of nationalism in music and the use of folk and popular music by the great composers from the 17th century to the present.
Author : Benjamin W. Curtis
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ISBN 13 : 9781624991066
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Music Makes the Nation written by Benjamin W. Curtis and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an intellectual and cultural history about one of the most striking phenomena in all of nineteenth-century culture-namely, the interaction of nationalism and music. Nearly all the nation-building movements that swept across Europe in that century found some of their most influential and lasting expressions through the art of nationalist composers who took an active part in those movements. The political, intellectual, and artistic story behind some of the greatest musical works of the time and the artists who created them is the book's focus. Beginning with a theoretical explanation of the relationship between nationalism and music, three composers then come forward to stand at the center of the analysis: Richard Wagner in Gemany, Bedrich Smetana in the Czech lands, and Edvard Grieg in Norway. Their political and artistic projects to create a national music for their countries are the topic of the second chapter. The third chapter explores in detail the essential role that folk music played in nationalism as an attempt to fuse artistically the urban and rural populations into one national whole. The fourth chapter discusses the conflicts within nationalist movements over foreign artistic influence on the national culture. The international dimensions of nationalist music are the subject of the fifth chapter, examining Wagner's, Smetana's, and Grieg's aspirations for their art to represent their nations to the world. Finally, the concluding chapter offers a sweeping overview of nationalist composers and their works for a probing historical summary of music's contribution to nation building. As one of the very few broad, comparative studies of nationalist music, Music Makesthe Nation is an essential resource for students and scholars in history and musicology. In addition, as a groundbreaking analysis of the socio-political functions of nationalist music, the book will be of interest to those studying nationalism and political science.
Author : Joseph Horowitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393881253
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)
Download or read book Dvorak's Prophecy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music written by Joseph Horowitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"—how it got to be that way and what can be done about it. In 1893 the composer Antonín Dvorák prophesied a “great and noble school” of American classical music based on the “negro melodies” he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would foster popular genres known the world over, it never gained a foothold in the concert hall. Black composers found few opportunities to have their works performed, and white composers mainly rejected Dvorák’s lead. Joseph Horowitz ranges throughout American cultural history, from Frederick Douglass and Huckleberry Finn to George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and the work of Ralph Ellison, searching for explanations. Challenging the standard narrative for American classical music fashioned by Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, he looks back to literary figures—Emerson, Melville, and Twain—to ponder how American music can connect with a “usable past.” The result is a new paradigm that makes room for Black composers, including Harry Burleigh, Nathaniel Dett, William Levi Dawson, and Florence Price, while giving increased prominence to Charles Ives and George Gershwin. Dvorák’s Prophecy arrives in the midst of an important conversation about race in America—a conversation that is taking place in music schools and concert halls as well as capitols and boardrooms. As George Shirley writes in his foreword to the book, “We have been left unprepared for the current cultural moment. [Joseph Horowitz] explains how we got there [and] proposes a bigger world of American classical music than what we have known before. It is more diverse and more equitable. And it is more truthful.”
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Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Nation and Athenæum written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tomi Mäkelä
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Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Music and Nationalism in 20th-century Great Britain and Finland written by Tomi Mäkelä and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virgil Thomson
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598534750
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The State of Music written by Virgil Thomson and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil Thomson had already established himself as one of the nation's leading composers when he published The State of Music (1939), the book that made his name as a writer and won him a fourteen-year stint as chief music reviewer at the New York Herald Tribune. This feisty, often hilarious polemic, presented here in the extensively revised edition of 1962, surveys the challenges confronting the American composer in a hide-bound world where performance and broadcast outlets are controlled by institutions shocked by the new and suspicious of homegrown talent. For Aaron Copland, The State of Music was not just “the most original book on music that America has produced,” but “the wittiest, the most provocative, the best written.”
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Total Pages : 558 pages
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Download or read book The Nation and the Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Hindemith
Publisher : Schott Music
ISBN 13 : 3795730287
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (957 download)
Download or read book A Composer's World written by Paul Hindemith and published by Schott Music. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book aims to be a guide through the little universe which is the working place of the man who writes music. As such it talks predominantly to the layman, although the expert composer may also find some stimulation in it... From the center of basic theory our discussion will spread out into all the realms of experience which border the technical aspect on composing, such as aesthetics, sociology, philosphy and so on... We must be grateful that with our art we have been placed halfway between science and religion, enjoying equally the advantages of exactitude in thinking... and of the unlimeted world of faith. Paul Hindemith, from the preface
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Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Author, Playwright and Composer written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederic M. Scherer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691116211
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Quarter Notes and Bank Notes written by Frederic M. Scherer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the diversity of composers' economic aspirations, the strategies through which they pursued success, the burgeoning music publishing industry, and the emergence of copyright protection. It concludes by drawing some parallels to the economic state of music composition in 2003.
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Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The New World written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
