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Download or read book Rigoletto written by Giuseppe Verdi and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject cannot fail!' exulted Verdi, when recommending Victor Hugo's play Le Roi s'amuse to his librettist. But the censors made every effort to stop it, and the baritone was not easily convinced that a hunchback role would suit him. Jonathan Keates gives a vivid insight into the composition of a masterpiece. Verdi long afterwards thought it his best work, and Roger Parker explains why. Peter Nichols, author of several bestselling books in Italy, picks out some of the peculiarly Italian attitudes and characters in the opera which make it timeless - and incredibly modern.Contents: Introduction, Jonathan Keates; Musical Commentary, Roger Parker; The Timelessness of 'Rigoletto', Peter Nichols; Rigoletto: Text by Francesco Maria Piave after Victor Hugo's 'Le Roi s'amuse'; Rigoletto: English translation by James Fenton
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto by : Simon P. Keefe
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto written by Simon P. Keefe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare volume dedicated entirely to scholarship on the genre of the concerto.
Book Synopsis The Classical Style by : Charles Rosen
Download or read book The Classical Style written by Charles Rosen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a detailed analysis of the musical styles and forms developed by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven.
Book Synopsis Symphonies nos. 1-21 by : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Download or read book Symphonies nos. 1-21 written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 21 symphonies, composed by Mozart between 1764 and 1771 while he was still a boy, are astonishing displays of his precocious genius. Reproduced from the authoritative Breitkopf and Härtel Complete Works Edition, they abound in the qualities that characterize his finest works: melodic richness, musical invention, and a much-imitated but unsurpassed grace. A splendid way for musicians and music lovers alike to savor and study the composer's youthful development and growing mastery of symphonic form, this new and modestly priced volume completes Dover's three-part cycle of Mozart's symphonic compositions, which include Symphonies Nos. 22–34 and Nos. 35–41. All are among the most performed and recorded works in the orchestral repertoire.
Book Synopsis Sviatoslav Richter by : Bruno Monsaingeon
Download or read book Sviatoslav Richter written by Bruno Monsaingeon and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sviatoslav Richter was a dazzling performer but an intensely private man. Though world famous and revered by classical music lovers everywhere, he guarded himself and his thoughts as carefully as his talent. Fascinated, author and filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon tried vainly for years to interview the enigmatic pianist. Richter eventually yielded, granting Monsaingeon hours of taped conversation, unlimited access to his diaries and notebooks, and, ultimately his friendship. This book is the product of that friendship. It offers readers the sizable pleasure of lingering in the thoughts and words of one of the most important pianists of the twentieth century. Sviatoslav Richter belongs on the shelves of everyone with a classical music collection and will also appeal to lovers of autobiography and admirers of Russian musical culture." -- Back cover
Book Synopsis Rethinking Brahms by : Nicole Grimes
Download or read book Rethinking Brahms written by Nicole Grimes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A History of the Concerto by : Michael Thomas Roeder
Download or read book A History of the Concerto written by Michael Thomas Roeder and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1994 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of the Concerto may be read from cover to cover, but readers may also use the extensive index to focus on specific concertos and their composers. Numerous musical examples illuminate critical points. While some readers may want to study the more detailed analyses with scores in hand, this is not essential for an understanding of the text.
Book Synopsis The Masterwork in Music: Volume III, 1930 by : Heinrich Schenker
Download or read book The Masterwork in Music: Volume III, 1930 written by Heinrich Schenker and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume III of this three-volume set is dominated by one of the eminent theorist's most celebrated studies: the analysis of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony. All four movements are discussed in painstaking detail.
Book Synopsis Great romantic violin concertos by : Ludwig Van Beethoven
Download or read book Great romantic violin concertos written by Ludwig Van Beethoven and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three of the most popular Romantic violin concertos performed today in one volume. Includes Beethoven, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Opus 61 (1806); Mendelssohn, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Opus 64 (1844); and Tchaikovsky, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Opus 35 (1878).
Book Synopsis The Beethoven Quartet Companion by : Robert Winter
Download or read book The Beethoven Quartet Companion written by Robert Winter and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Beethoven string quartets are to chamber music what the plays of Shakespeare are to drama, even seasoned concertgoers will welcome guidance with these personal and sometimes enigmatic works. This collection offers Beethoven lovers both detailed notes on the listening experience of each quartet and a stimulating range of more general perspectives: Who has the quartets' audience been? How were the quartets performed before the era of sound recordings? What is the relationship between "classical" and "romantic" in the quartets? How was their reception affected by social and economic history? What sorts of interpretive decisions are made by performers today? The Companion brings together a matchless group of Beethoven experts. Joseph Kerman is perhaps the world's most renowned Beethoven scholar. Robert Winter, an authority on sketches for the late quartets, has created interactive programs regarded as milestones in multimedia publishing. Maynard Solomon has written an acclaimed biography of Beethoven. Leon Botstein is the conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra as well as a distinguished social historian and college president. Robert Martin writes from his experience as cellist of the Sequoia Quartet. And the book is anchored by the program notes of Michael Steinberg, who has served as Artistic Advisor of the San Francisco Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra.
Download or read book Rudolf Serkin written by Stephen Lehmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first biography of 20th-century pianist Rudolf Serkin, providing a narrative of Serkin's life with emphasis on his European roots and the impact of his move to America. Based on his personal papers and correspondence, as well as extensive interviews with friends, family, and colleagues, the authors focus on three key aspects of Serkin's work, particularly as it unfolded in America: his art and career as a pianist, his activities as a pedagogue, including his long association with the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, and his key role in institutionalizing a redefinition of musical values in America through his work as artistic director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival in Vermont. A candid and colorful blend of narrative and interviews, it offers a probing look into the life and character of this very private man and powerful musical personality.
Book Synopsis The Masterwork in Music: Volume I, 1925 by : Heinrich Schenker
Download or read book The Masterwork in Music: Volume I, 1925 written by Heinrich Schenker and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-volume set features complete translation of major writings by a distinguished Austrian music theorist. Volume I includes analyses of keyboard pieces by Bach, Scarlatti, Chopin, and Beethoven; Bach's music for solo violin, and more.
Book Synopsis The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Music by : Barrie Jones
Download or read book The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Music written by Barrie Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Music, in 7,500 entries, retains the breadth of coverage, clarity, and accessibility of the highly acclaimed Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Music, from which it is derived. Tracing its lineage to the Everyman Dictionary of Music, now out of print, it boasts a distinguished heritage of the finest musical scholarship. This book provides comprehensive coverage of theoretical and technical music terminology, embracing the many genres and forms of classical music, clearly illustrated with examples. It also provides core information on composers and comprehensive lists of works from the earliest exponents of polyphony to present-day composers.
Book Synopsis The Penguin Companion to Classical Music by : Paul Griffiths
Download or read book The Penguin Companion to Classical Music written by Paul Griffiths and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-10-07 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superbly authoratitive new work provides a comprehensive A-Z guide to some 1000 years of Western music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a vast range of composers, as well as looking at such key topics as music history (from medieval plainchant to contemporary minimalism), performers, theory and jargon. Throught Griffiths skilfully blends lightly worn scholarship with personal insight, whether examining the emotional colouring that different musical keys achieve or charting the rise and development of the symphony.
Book Synopsis Symphonies nos. 5, 6, and 7 by : Ludwig van Beethoven
Download or read book Symphonies nos. 5, 6, and 7 written by Ludwig van Beethoven and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering unparalleled insight into Beethoven's creativity, here are superb, authoritative editions of three great orchestral masterworks filled with drama and great beauty. Includes Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67; Symphony No. 6 in F Major ("Pastoral"), Op. 68; Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92. Lists of instruments.
Book Synopsis Brigg Fair and Other Favorite Orchestral Works by : Frederick Delius
Download or read book Brigg Fair and Other Favorite Orchestral Works written by Frederick Delius and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six works include "Brigg Fair," "In a Summer Garden," "A Song of the High Hills," "A Dance Rhapsody," "Summer Night on the River," and "On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring."
Book Synopsis Miscellaneous keyboard works by : Johann Sebastian Bach
Download or read book Miscellaneous keyboard works written by Johann Sebastian Bach and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 40 pieces, many difficult to find elsewhere, including harpsichord toccatas, Capriccio on the Departure of His Most Beloved Brother, 6 Little Preludes, more. Breitkopf & Härtel edition.
