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Author : Rita H. Mead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Music Performed at Concerts of the New Music Society 1925-1936 written by Rita H. Mead and published by . This book was released on 1979* with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joel Sachs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199939187
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Henry Cowell written by Joel Sachs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joel Sachs offers the first complete biography of one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American music. Henry Cowell, a major musical innovator of the first half of the century, left a rich body of compositions spanning a wide range of styles. But as Sachs shows, Cowell's legacy extends far beyond his music. He worked tirelessly to create organizations such as the highly influential New Music Quarterly, New Music Recordings, and the Pan-American Association of Composers, through which great talents like Ruth Crawford Seeger and Charles Ives first became known in the US and abroad. As one of the first Western advocates for World Music, he used lectures, articles, and recordings to bring other musical cultures to myriad listeners and students including John Cage and Lou Harrison, who attributed their life work to Cowell's influence. Finally, Sachs describes the tragedy of Cowell's life, being sentenced to fifteen years in San Quentin -- of which he served four -- after pleading guilty to a morals charge that even the prosecutor felt was trivial. Providing a wealth of insight into Cowell's ideas and philosophy, Joel Sachs lays out a much-needed perspective on one of the giants of twentieth-century American music.
Author : Rita H. Mead
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Henry Cowell's New Music, 1925-1936 written by Rita H. Mead and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicole V. Gagné
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538122987
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music written by Nicole V. Gagné and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary music scene thus embodies a uniquely broad spectrum of activity, which has grown and changed down to the present hour. With new talents emerging and different technologies developing as we move further into the 21st century, no one can predict what paths music will take next. All we can be certain of is that the inspiration and originality that make music live will continue to bring awe, delight, fascination, and beauty to the people who listen to it. This book cover modernist and postmodern concert music worldwide from the years 1888 to 2018. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on the most important composers, musicians, methods, styles, and media in modernist and postmodern classical music worldwide, from 1888 to 2018. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about modern and contemporary classical music.
Author : Leonora Saavedra
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691169489
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Carlos Chávez and His World written by Leonora Saavedra and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlos Chávez (1899–1978) is the central figure in Mexican music of the twentieth century and among the most eminent of all Latin American modernist composers. An enfant terrible in his own country, Chávez was an integral part of the emerging music scene in the United States in the 1920s. His highly individual style—diatonic, dissonant, contrapuntal—addressed both modernity and Mexico's indigenous past. Chávez was also a governmental arts administrator, founder of major Mexican cultural institutions, and conductor and founder of the Orquesta Sinfónica de México. Carlos Chávez and His World brings together an international roster of leading scholars to delve into not only Chávez’s music but also the history, art, and politics surrounding his life and work. Contributors explore Chávez’s vast body of compositions, including his piano music, symphonies, violin concerto, late compositions, and Indianist music. They look at his connections with such artistic greats as Aaron Copland, Miguel Covarrubias, Henry Cowell, Silvestre Revueltas, and Paul Strand. The essays examine New York’s modernist scene, Mexican symphonic music, portraits of Chávez by major Mexican artists of the period, including Diego Rivera and Rufino Tamayo, and Chávez’s impact on El Colegio Nacional. A quantum leap in understanding Carlos Chávez and his milieu, this collection will stimulate further work in Latin American music and culture. The contributors are Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, Amy Bauer, Leon Botstein, David Brodbeck, Helen Delpar, Christina Taylor Gibson, Susana González Aktories, Anna Indych-López, Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus, James Krippner, Rebecca Levi, Ricardo Miranda, Julián Orbón, Howard Pollack, Leonora Saavedra, Antonio Saborit, Stephanie Stallings, and Luisa Vilar Payá. Bard Music Festival 2015: Carlos Chávez and His World Bard College August 7-9 and August 14-16, 2015
Author : Elliott Antokoletz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135037302
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context written by Elliott Antokoletz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context is an integrated account of the genres and concepts of twentieth-century art music, organized topically according to aesthetic, stylistic, technical, and geographic categories, and set within the larger political, social, economic, and cultural framework. While the organization is topical, it is historical within that framework. Musical issues interwoven with political, cultural, and social conditions have had a significant impact on the course of twentieth-century musical tendencies and styles. The goal of this book is to provide a theoretic-analytical basis that will appeal to those instructors who want to incorporate into student learning an analysis of the musical works that have reflected cultural influences on the major musical phenomena of the twentieth century. Focusing on the wide variety of theoretical issues spawned by twentieth-century music, A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context reflects the theoretical/analytical essence of musical structure and design.
Author : Jennifer Ruth Doctor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521661171
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (611 download)
Download or read book The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936 written by Jennifer Ruth Doctor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2000, examines the BBC's attempts to manipulate critical and public responses to contemporary music between 1922 and 1936.
Author : Gayle Sherwood Magee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135847169
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Charles Ives written by Gayle Sherwood Magee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research guide provides detailed information on over one thousand publications and websites concerning the American composer Charles Ives. With informative annotations and nearly two hundred new entries, this greatly expanded, updated, and revised guide offers a key survey of the field for interested readers and experienced researchers alike.
Author : Carol J. Oja
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252071805
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)
Download or read book Colin McPhee written by Carol J. Oja and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin McPhee was a performer, writer, and pioneer among Western composers in turning to Asia for inspiration. A close friend of Aaron Copland, Carlos Chavez, Henry Cowell, and Virgil Thomson, he played a vital role in new music activities in New York in the 1920s, but his most important accomplishments came from his devotion to the music of Bali. Carol Oja's Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds traces his life, his influences on fellow musicians, and the profound experience of a composer striving to comprehend an entirely new musical language. After hearing rare recordings of the Balinese gamelan--a percussion orchestra with delicately layered textures and clangorous sounds--McPhee traveled to Bali and worked closely with such Western anthropologists as Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. The island may also have appealed to him because of its relatively open attitude toward homosexuality. Gay by inclination, he nevertheless married anthropologist Jane Belo and built a native-style house on the island where they lived for most of the 1930s. During this time, McPhee became a devoted and meticulous chronicler of Balinese musical culture, and his Music of Bali remains a classic in ethnomusicology. Beginning in the mid-1930s, his own compositions became an imaginative hybrid of Balinese and Western music, anticipating the later work of such figures as John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Steve Reich. Finally back in print, Carol Oja's account of McPhee's unconventional life and work evokes key issues in composition and ethnomusicology, sure to be of interest to scholars, musicians or anyone interested in 20th century American or Balinese music.
Author : Stanley Sadie
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Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Monnet to Nirvana written by Stanley Sadie and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kay Larson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143123475
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Where the Heart Beats written by Kay Larson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “heroic” biography of John Cage and his “awakening through Zen Buddhism”—“a kind of love story” about a brilliant American pioneer of the creative arts who transformed himself and his culture (The New York Times) Composer John Cage sought the silence of a mind at peace with itself—and found it in Zen Buddhism, a spiritual path that changed both his music and his view of the universe. “Remarkably researched, exquisitely written,” Where the Heart Beats weaves together “a great many threads of cultural history” (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings) to illuminate Cage’s struggle to accept himself and his relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Freed to be his own man, Cage originated exciting experiments that set him at the epicenter of a new avant-garde forming in the 1950s. Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Allan Kaprow, Morton Feldman, and Leo Castelli were among those influenced by his ‘teaching’ and ‘preaching.’ Where the Heart Beats shows the blossoming of Zen in the very heart of American culture.
Author : Don Michael Randel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674372993
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (729 download)
Download or read book The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music written by Don Michael Randel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographaical dictionary emphisizes classicaland art music; also gives ample attention to the classics as well as Jazz, Blues, rock and pop, and hymns and showtunes across the ages.
Author : Anthony Marcus Lien
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Total Pages : 1144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Against the Grain written by Anthony Marcus Lien and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the art song was a favorite genre for American composers at the turn of the twentieth century, its favor declined rapidly and significantly during and after the 1910s, and for the rest of the first half of the century the genre held a marginalized place in the output of the most significant American composers. Concomitant with this decline in song composition, song publication also declined considerably after 1920, and a significant percentage of the songs published thereafter were authored by composers who specialized in songs and shorter works expressly intended for the domestic song market and written in a conservative musical idiom which appealed to mass audiences. In contrast to these earlier declines, the number of song concerts in New York City and Chicago increased steadily until about 1930, even as the percentage of song concerts to other concerts held steady. After 1930, however, the number and percentage of song concerts in these two cities declined as well. The emergence of modernism on the musical landscape in the United States after 1915 was largely responsible for the decline in song publication and composition. Among other things, musical modernism valorized dissonance, melodic fragmentation, and objectivity; these characteristics ran counter to the largely Romantic orientation of the art song with its long-spun lyricism and subjectivity. As a revision of current thought, this study broadens the accepted corpus of modernist composers to include neo-Romantics such as Samuel Barber whose music retained an essentially Romantic character but was frequently imbued with modernistic elements. This study also shows that composers in certain stylistic, professional, and demographic categories wrote songs in significantly greater numbers those in others. For example, in looking at the total song output of over 100 American and transplanted composers, there was a direct correlation between musical style and song production; the more progressive a composer's musical style, the fewer songs he authored. In addition to the impact of modernism on the art song, these declines were also exacerbated by the art song's close association with other song types which lowered the art song's aesthetic credentials.
Author : Oscar Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2506 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians written by Oscar Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 2506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9789712328152
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (281 download)
Download or read book Physical Education, health, and music written by and published by Rex Bookstore, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christian Utz
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839450950
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Musical Composition in the Context of Globalization written by Christian Utz and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early transformation of European music practice and theory in the cultural centers of Asia, Latin America, and Africa around 1900, it has become necessary for music history to be conceived globally - a challenge that musicology has hardly faced yet. This book discusses the effects of cultural globalization on processes of composition and distribution of art music in the 20th and 21st century. Christian Utz provides the foundations of a global music historiography, building on new models such as transnationalism, entangled histories, and reflexive globalization. The relationship between music and broader changes in society forms the central focus and is treated as a pivotal music-historical dynamic.
Author : Michael J. Budds
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Total Pages : 1042 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Charles Ives Omnibus written by Michael J. Budds and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to the evolution of American music is the legacy of Charles Ives. This grand-scale reference work provides details surrounding the multifarious responses to the achievement of this singular businessman/musician for more than a century. Performances, recordings, journalistic reports, reviews, and scholarly studies of all kinds as well as assorted Ivesiana in the form of literature, art, film, dance, and other expressions of homage are included. Many of the entries are amplified with contextual information or carefully selected excerpts. Professor Burk has been an enthusiastic connoisseur of Ives's music and a thoughtful student of the Ives literature for many years; his systematic presentation results in much more than a glorified work list or another ambitious bibliography.
