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Author : Duncan Clark
Publisher : Rough Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781858287218
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Classical Music written by Duncan Clark and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2001 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketches of classical composers and CD reviews.
Author : Michael Steinberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019971262X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Choral Masterworks written by Michael Steinberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Steinberg's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony and The Concerto--have been universally praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now Steinberg follows these two greatly admired volumes with Choral Masterworks, the only such guide available to this most popular of musical forms. Here are more than fifty illuminating essays on the classic choral masterworks, ranging from Handel's Messiah, Bach's Mass in B Minor, and Beethoven's Missa solemnis, to works by Haydn, Brahms, Mendelssohn, and many others. Steinberg spans the entire history of classical music, from such giants of the Romantic era as Verdi and Berlioz, to leading modern composers such as Elgar, Rachmaninoff, Vaughan Williams, and Stravinsky, to contemporary masters such as John Adams and Charles Wuorinen. For each piece, Steinberg includes a fascinating biographical account of the work's genesis, often spiced with wonderful asides. The author includes an astute musical analysis of each piece, one that casual music lovers can easily appreciate and that more serious fans will find invaluable. The book also provides basic information such as the various movements of the work, the organization of the chorus and orchestra, and brief historical notes on early performances. More than twenty million Americans perform regularly in choirs or choruses. Choral Masterworks will appeal not only to concert goers and CD collectors, but also to this vast multitude of choral performers, an especially engaged and active community. "What sets Steinberg's writing apart is its appealing mixture of impregnable authority (he knows this music) and purely personal asides (by the end of the book, we know this man). Choral Masterworks can be read by anybody, from a professional musician to any young listener newly braced by the stoic pessimism of the Brahms 'German Requiem.'" --Washington Post Book World
Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Holy City written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robin Darwall-Smith
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783277246
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Music in Twentieth-Century Oxford: New Directions written by Robin Darwall-Smith and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book length study of musical education and culture in twentieth century Oxford. Music has always played a central role in the life of Oxford, both in the city and the university, whether through the great collegiate choral foundations, the many amateur choirs and instrumentalists, or the professional musicians regularly drawn to perform there. Oxford, with its collegiate system and its centuries-long tradition of musical activity, therefore presents a distinctive and multi-layered picture of the role of music in urban culture and university life. While college and university life dominate the volume, the collection also draws attention to the city's musical life, underlining music's unique ability to link 'town and gown'. Volume chapters tackle varied subjects such the Oxford Bach Choir, music in the city churches and the major choral foundations. The volume also tells the story of the development of the University's Music Faculty, music in the women's colleges, and the University Opera Club. Special attention is given to prominent Oxford composers, including Edmund Rubbra, Kenneth Leighton and Robert Saxton. The University College Musical Society and the Oxford and Cambridge Musical Club, which served as a kind of laboratory for such significant figures as Ralph Vaughan Williams and Walford Davies, also feature prominently. The volume will be indispensable reading for scholars and students of music in twentieth-century Britain, as well as those interested more generally in the history of Oxford's thriving cultural life in the university, its colleges and the city.
Author : Stephen Town
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793606013
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams written by Stephen Town and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams: Autographs, Context, Discourse combines contextual knowledge, a musical commentary, an inventory of the holograph manuscripts, and a critical assessment of the opus to create substantial and meticulous examinations of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s choral-orchestral works. The contents include an equitable choice of pieces from the various stages in the life of the composer and an analysis of pieces from the various stages of Williams’s life. The earliest are taken from the pre-World War I years, when Vaughan Williams was constructing his identity as an academic and musician—Vexilla Regis (1894), Mass (1899), and A Sea Symphony (1910). The middle group are chosen from the interwar period—Sancta Civitas (1925), Benedicite (1929), Magnificat (1932), Five Tudor Portraits (1935), Dona nobis pacem (1936)—written after Vaughan Williams had found his mature voice. The last cluster—Thanksgiving for Victory (1944), Fantasia (Quasi Variazione) on the ‘Old 104’ Psalm Tune(1949), Sons of Light (1950), Hodie (1954), The Bridal Day/Epithalamion (1938/1957)—typify the works finished or revisited during the final years of the composer’s life, near the end of the Second World War and immediately before or after his second marriage (1953).
Author : Roger (of Wendover)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History written by Roger (of Wendover) and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : English Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Publications written by English Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 1, 3-10, 13, 15.
Author : Jonathan D. Green
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442244674
Total Pages : 747 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Choral-Orchestral Repertoire written by Jonathan D. Green and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choral-Orchestral Repertoire: A Conductor’s Guide, Omnibus Edition offers an expansive compilation of choral-orchestral works from 1600 to the present. Synthesizing Jonathan D. Green’s earlier six volumes on this repertoire, this edition updates and adds to the over 750 oratorios, cantatas, choral symphonies, masses, secular works for large and small ensembles, and numerous settings of liturgical and biblical texts for a wide variety of vocal and instrumental combinations. Each entry includes a brief biographical sketch of the composer, approximate duration, text sources, performing forces, available editions, and locations of manuscript materials, as well as descriptive commentary, a discography, and a bibliography. Unique to this edition are practitioner’s evaluations of the performance issues presented in each score. These include the range, tessitura, and nature of each solo role and a determination of the difficulty of the choral and orchestral portions of each composition. There is also a description of the specific challenges, staffing, and rehearsal expectations related to the performance of each work. Choral-Orchestral Repertoire is an essential resource for conductors and students of conducting as they search for repertoire appropriate to their needs and the abilities of their ensembles.
Author : François Verschaeve
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0973845414
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Répertitres written by François Verschaeve and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Bishop ELLIOTT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Horæ Apocalypticæ; Or a Commentary on the Apocalypse Critical and Historical; Including Also an Examination of the Chief Prophecies of Daniel written by Edward Bishop ELLIOTT and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Bishop Elliott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Horae Apocalypticae; Or, A Commentary on the Apocalypse, Critical and Historical written by Edward Bishop Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mette Birkedal Bruun
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004155031
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Parables written by Mette Birkedal Bruun and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is concerned with the topographical layout of Bernard of Clairvaux's "Parables," It examines his treatment of such locations as Paradise, Egypt, and the bridegroom's chamber, and his reformulation of central monastic issues as navigations within spiritual landscapes.
Author : Asuman Lätzer-Lasar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110641275
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Urban Religion in Late Antiquity written by Asuman Lätzer-Lasar and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Religion is an emerging research field cutting across various social science disciplines, all of them dealing with “lived religion” in contemporary and (mainly) global cities. It describes the reciprocal formation and mutual influence of religion and urbanity in both their material and ideational dimensions. However, this approach, if duly historicized, can be also fruitfully applied to antiquity. Aim of the volume is the analysis of the entanglement of religious communication and city life during an arc of time that is characterised by dramatic and even contradicting developments. Bringing together textual analyses and archaelogical case studies in a comparative perspective, the volume zooms in on the historical context of the advanced imperial and late antique Mediterranean space (2nd–8th centuries CE).
Author : John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Italy written by John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Cam Hobhouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
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Download or read book Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold: Containing Dissertations on the Ruins of Rome; and an Essay on Italian Literature by John Hobhouse written by John Cam Hobhouse and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Byron Adams
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226830462
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Vaughan Williams and His World written by Byron Adams and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-08-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) was one of the most innovative and creative figures in twentieth-century music, whose symphonies stand alongside those of Sibelius, Nielsen, Shostakovich, and Roussel. After his death, shifting priorities in the music world led to a period of critical neglect. What could not have been foreseen is that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, a handful of Vaughan Williams’s scores would attain immense popularity worldwide. Yet the present renown of these pieces has led to misapprehension about the nature of Vaughan Williams’s cultural nationalism and a distorted view of his international cultural and musical significance. Vaughan Williams and His World traces the composer’s stylistic and aesthetic development in a broadly chronological fashion, reappraising Vaughan Williams’s music composed during and after the Second World War and affirming his status as an artist whose leftist political convictions pervaded his life and music. This volume reclaims Vaughan Williams’s deeply held progressive ethical and democratic convictions while celebrating his achievements as a composer.
Author : John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold written by John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
