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Author : Wanda Landowska
Publisher : New York, Stein and Day
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Landowska on Music written by Wanda Landowska and published by New York, Stein and Day. This book was released on 1964 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wanda Landowska
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Music of the Past written by Wanda Landowska and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Kildea
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393652238
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument that Transformed Music written by Paul Kildea and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An exceptionally fine book: erudite, digressive, urbane and deeply moving.” —Wall Street Journal Chopin’s Piano traces the history of Frédéric Chopin’s twenty-four Preludes through the instruments on which they were played, the pianists who interpreted them, and the traditions they came to represent. Yet it begins and ends with Chopin’s Mallorquin pianino, which the great keyboard player Wanda Landowska rescued from an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in 1913—and which assumed an astonishing cultural potency during the Second World War as it became, for the Nazis, a symbol of the man and music they were determined to appropriate as their own. In scintillating prose, and with an eye for exquisite detail, Paul Kildea beautifully interweaves these narratives, which comprise a journey through musical Romanticism—one that illuminates how art is transmitted, interpreted, and appropriated over the ages.
Author : Paul Elie
Publisher : Union Books
ISBN 13 : 1908526416
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Reinventing Bach written by Paul Elie and published by Union Books. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Sebastian Bach – celebrated pipe organist, court composer and master of sacred music – was also a technical pioneer. Working in Germany in the early eighteenth century, he invented new instruments and carried out experiments in tuning, the effects of which are still with us today. Two hundred years later, a number of extraordinary musicians have utilised the music of Bach to thrilling effect through the art of recording, furthering their own virtuosity and reinventing the composer for our time. In Reinventing Bach, Paul Elie brilliantly blends the stories of modern musicians with a polyphonic account of our most celebrated composer’ s life to create a spellbinding narrative of the changing place of music in our lives. We see the sainted organist Albert Schweitzer playing to a mobile recording unit set up at London’ s Church of All Hallows in order to spread Bach’ s organ works to the world beyond the churches, and Pablo Casals’ s Abbey Road recordings of Bach’ s cello suites transform the middle-class sitting room into a hotbed of existentialism; we watch Leopold Stokowski persuade Walt Disney to feature his own grand orchestrations of Bach in the animated classical-music movie Fantasia – which made Bach the sound of children’ s playtime and Hollywood grandeur alike – and we witness how Glenn Gould’ s Goldberg Variations made Bach the byword for postwar cool. Through the Beatles and Switched-on Bach and Gö del, Escher, Bach – through film, rock music, the Walkman, the CD and up to Yo-Yo Ma and the iPod – Elie shows us how dozens of gifted musicians searched, experimented and collaborated with one another in the service of a composer who emerged as the prototype of the spiritualised, technically savvy artist.
Author : Larry Palmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780253208408
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Harpsichord in America written by Larry Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Luis Sagasti
Publisher : Charco Press
ISBN 13 : 1916277810
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (162 download)
Download or read book A Musical Offering written by Luis Sagasti and published by Charco Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical celebration of storytelling, of childhood, and of the transformative power of music. Tracing a circular course that echoes Bach’s Goldberg Variations , Luis Sagasti’s second book to appear in English takes the guise of a musical scheherazade, recounting story after story, vibrating to celestial harmonies. From the music born of the sun to the music sent into space on the Voyager mission, from Rothko to rock music, from the composers of the concentration camps to a weeping room for Argentinian conscripts in the Falklands, A Musical Offering traverses the shifting sands of fiction and history.
Author : Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486311848
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)
Download or read book The Well-Tempered Clavier written by Johann Sebastian Bach and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All 48 preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys. Authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition. Explanation of ornaments in English, tempo indications, music corrections.
Author : Annegret Fauser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351541471
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Musical Identity written by Annegret Fauser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the way in which composers, performers, and critics shaped individual and collective identities in music from Europe and the United States from the 1860s to the 1950s. Selected essays and articles engage with works and their reception by Richard Wagner, Georges Bizet (in an American incarnation), Lili and Nadia Boulanger, William Grant Still, and Aaron Copland, and with performers such as Wanda Landowska and even Marilyn Monroe. Ranging in context from the opera house through the concert hall to the salon, and from establishment cultures to counter-cultural products, the main focus is how music permits new ways of considering issues of nationality, class, race, and gender. These essays - three presented for the first time in English translation - reflect the work in both musical and cultural studies of a distinguished scholar whose international career spans the Atlantic and beyond.
Author : Harvey Sachs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500012864
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Virtuoso written by Harvey Sachs and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wanda Landowska
Publisher : London : Secker & Warburg
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Landowska on Music written by Wanda Landowska and published by London : Secker & Warburg. This book was released on 1965 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Haskell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486291628
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Early Music Revival written by Harry Haskell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comprehensive historical study, going back to 18th century. Influence of Schola Cantorum; instrument builders; performers such as Wanda Landowska, Alfred Deller, others. Includes 46 illustrations. "Well informed" -- Christopher Hogwood.
Author : Ralph P. Locke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520083950
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (839 download)
Download or read book Cultivating Music in America written by Ralph P. Locke and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Victorian cup on my shelf--a present from my mother--reads 'Love the Giver.' Is it because the very word patronage implies the authority of the father that we have treated American women patrons and activists so unlovingly in the writing of our own history? This pioneering collection of superb scholarship redresses that imbalance. At the same time it brilliantly documents the interrelationship between various aspects of gender and the creation of our own culture."--Judith Tick, author of Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music "Together with the fine-grained and energetic research, I like the spirit of this book, which is ambitious, bold, and generous minded. Cultivating Music in America corrects long-standing prejudices, omissions, and misunderstandings about the role of women in setting up the structures of America's musical life, and, even more far-reaching, it sheds light on the character of American musical life itself. To read this book is to be brought to a fresh understanding of what is at stake when we discuss notions such as 'elitism, ' 'democratic taste, ' and the political and economic implications of art."--Richard Crawford, author of The American Musical Landscape "We all know we are indebted to royal patronage for the music of Mozart. But who launched American talent? The answer is women, this book teaches us. Music lovers will be grateful for these ten essays, sound in scholarship, that make a strong case for the women philanthropists who ought to join Carnegie and Rockefeller as household words as sponsors of music."--Karen J. Blair, author of The Torchbearers: Women and Their Amateur Arts Associations in America
Author : Peter Watchorn
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754657873
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (578 download)
Download or read book Isolde Ahlgrimm, Vienna and the Early Music Revival written by Peter Watchorn and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isolde Ahlgrimm (1914-1995), was an important pioneer in the revival of Baroque and Classical keyboard instruments in her native city, Vienna, and later, throughout Europe and the United States. Ahlgrimm's performances of Baroque music represented a radical departure from the distinctly twentieth-century interpretations by the much more famous Wanda Landowska and her followers. Peter Watchorn provides an engaging study of Ahlgrimm, and argues that her contribution to the harpsichord and fortepiano revival was pivotal, and that her use of period instruments and the inspiration she instilled in younger musicians, including Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt, has been almost entirely overlooked by the wider musical world.
Author : Edward L. Kottick
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253341662
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (416 download)
Download or read book A History of the Harpsichord written by Edward L. Kottick and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of the Harpsichord brings together for the first time more than 200 photographs, illustrations, and drawings of harpsichords in public museums and private collections throughout Europe the United States. Edward L. Kottick draws on his extensive technical knowledge and experience as a harpsichord builder to detail the changing design, structure, and acoustics of the instrument over seven centuries.Based on painstaking research, the book considers the place of the instrument in society and vividly describes the market forces that brought about changes in its form, decoration, and cultural importance. An accompanying CDincludes performances on several of the historical instruments described and illustrated in the volume, including a 1580 spinett virginal by Martin van der Biest and instruments built by Ruckers and Pleyel. The volume devotes attention to American harpsichord design as well as to present and future uses of the instrument.Also of interestThe History of the PianoforteA Documentary in SoundEva Badura-Skoda0-253-33582-5 HB £37.95
Author : Jonathan Harnum
Publisher : Questions Ink. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780970751287
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Basic Music Theory written by Jonathan Harnum and published by Questions Ink. Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic Music Theory takes you through the sometimes confusing world of written music with a clear, concise style that is at times funny and always friendly. The book is written by an experienced teacher using methods refined over more than ten years in his private teaching studio and in schools. --from publisher description.
Author : Paul Kildea
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241187958
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Chopin's Piano written by Paul Kildea and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Beguiling ... Limpidly written, effortlessly learned' William Boyd, TLS, Books of the Year In November 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma, where Chopin finished what would eventually be recognised as one of the great and revolutionary works of musical Romanticism - his 24 Preludes. There was scarcely a decent piano on the island (these were still early days in the evolution of the modern instrument), so Chopin worked on a small pianino made by a local craftsman, which remained in their monastic cell for seventy years after he and Sand had left. This brilliant and unclassifiable book traces the history of Chopin's 24 Preludes through the instruments on which they were played, the pianists who interpreted them and the traditions they came to represent. Yet it begins and ends with the Majorcan pianino, which during the Second World War assumed an astonishing cultural potency as it became, for the Nazis, a symbol of the man and music they were determined to appropriate as their own. The unexpected hero of the second part of the book is the great keyboard player and musical thinker Wanda Landowska, who rescued the pianino from Valldemossa in 1913, and who would later become one of the most influential musical figures of the twentieth century. Kildea shows how her story - a compelling account based for the first time on her private papers - resonates with Chopin's, while simultaneously distilling part of the cultural and political history of Europe and the United States in the central decades of the century. Kildea's beautifully interwoven narratives, part cultural history and part detective story, take us on an unexpected journey through musical Romanticism and allow us to reflect freshly on the changing meaning of music over time.
Author : Bruce Haynes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195189876
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The End of Early Music written by Bruce Haynes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
