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A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony

Author : Pauline Fairclough
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351577956
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony written by Pauline Fairclough and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed in 1935-36 and intended to be his artistic 'credo', Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony was not performed publicly until 1961. Here, Dr Pauline Fairclough tackles head-on one of the most significant and least understood of Shostakovich's major works. She argues that the Fourth Symphony was radically different from its Soviet contemporaries in terms of its structure, dramaturgy, tone and even language, and therefore challenged the norms of Soviet symphonism at a crucial stage of its development. With the backing of prominent musicologists such as Ivan Sollertinsky, the composer could realistically have expected the premiere to have taken place, and may even have intended the symphony to be a model for a new kind of 'democratic' Soviet symphonism. Fairclough meticulously examines the score to inform a discussion of tonal and thematic processes, allusion, paraphrase and reference to musical types, or intonations. Such analysis is set deeply in the context of Soviet musical culture during the period 1932-36, involving Shostakovich's contemporaries Shebalin, Myaskovsky, Kabalevsky and Popov. A new method of analysis is also advanced here, where a range of Soviet and Western analytical methods are informed by the theoretical work of Shostakovich's contemporaries Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Tomashevsky, Mikhail Bakhtin and Ivan Sollertinsky, together with Theodor Adorno's late study of Mahler. In this way, the book will significantly increase an understanding of the symphony and its context.

Bruckner's Symphonies

Author : Julian Horton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139455699
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Bruckner's Symphonies written by Julian Horton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-25 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few works in the nineteenth-century repertoire have aroused such extremes of hostility and admiration, or have generated so many scholarly problems, as Anton Bruckner's symphonies. In this 2004 book, Julian Horton seeks fresh ways of understanding the symphonies and the problems they have accrued by treating them as the focus for a variety of inter-disciplinary debates and methodological controversies. He isolates problematic areas in the works' analysis and reception, and approaches them from a range of analytical, historical, philosophical, literary, critical and psychoanalytical viewpoints. The symphonies are thus explored in the context of a number of crucial and sometimes provocative themes, including the political circumstances of the works' production, Bruckner and post-war musical analysis, issues of musical influence, the problem of editions, Bruckner and psychobiography, and the composer's controversial relationship to the Nazis.

The Faber Pocket Guide to Haydn

Author : Richard Wigmore
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571268730
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book The Faber Pocket Guide to Haydn written by Richard Wigmore and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Haydn is one of the greatest and most innovative of all composers, yet in some ways he is still curiously misunderstood. This engaging new Pocket Guide assesses what Haydn's music means to us today, and challenges some of the myths that have grown up around the composer. With suggestions for further reading and recommended CD recordings, Richard Wigmore's crisp and concise guide presents you with all you need to listen to and enjoy Haydn's music. It explores each of his key works, from his symphonies to his quartets, from his choral works to his sonatas, and invites a new generation of listeners to discover the depth and dazzling ingenuity of this most humane and life-affirming of composers.

The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume IV

Author : A. Peter Brown
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253334886
Total Pages : 1050 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume IV written by A. Peter Brown and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the symphonies of Brahms, Bruckner, Dvorák and Mahler, covering the period from roughly 1860 to 1930. Other contemporaries are discussed including Goldmark, Zemlinsky and Berg.

The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume IV

Author : A. Peter Brown
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253334886
Total Pages : 1050 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (348 download)

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Graphic Music Analysis

Author : Eric Wen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538104679
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Graphic Music Analysis written by Eric Wen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book approaches Schenkerian analysis in a practical and accessible manner fit for the classroom, guiding readers through a step-by-step process. It is suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of musicology, music theory, composition, and performance, and it is replete with a wide variety of musical examples.

Performing Pain

Author : Maria Cizmic
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199734607
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Performing Pain written by Maria Cizmic and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time after time, people turn to music when coping with traumatic life events. Music can help process emotions, interpret memories, and create a sense of collective identity. In Performing Pain, author Maria Cizmic focuses on the late 20th century in Eastern Europe as she uncovers music's relationships to trauma and grief. The 1970s and 1980s witnessed a cultural preoccupation in this region with the meanings of historical suffering, particularly surrounding the Second World War and the Stalinist era. Journalists, historians, writers, artists, and filmmakers frequently negotiated themes related to pain and memory, truth and history, morality and spirituality during glasnost and the years leading up to it. Performing Pain considers how works by composers Alfred Schnittke, Galina Ustvolskaya, Arvo Part, and Henryk Gorecki musically address contemporary concerns regarding history and suffering through composition, performance, and reception.Taking theoretical cues from psychology, sociology, and literary and cultural studies, Cizmic offers a set of hermeneutic essays that demonstrate the ways in which people employ music in order to make sense of historical traumas and losses. Seemingly postmodern compositional choices--such as quotation, fragmentation, and stasis--create musical analogies to psychological and emotional responses to trauma and grief, and the physical realities of their embodied performance focus attention on the ethics of pain and representation. Furthermore, as film music, these works participate in contemporary debates regarding memory and trauma. A comprehensive and innovative study, Performing Pain will fascinate scholars interested in the music of Eastern Europe and in aesthetic articulations of suffering.

The Clarinet in the Classical Period

Author : Albert R. Rice
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199887780
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Clarinet in the Classical Period written by Albert R. Rice and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the clarinet in use through the classical period, 1760 to 1830, a period of intensive musical experimentation. The book provides a detailed review and analysis of construction, design, materials, and makers of clarinets. Rice also explores how clarinet construction and performance practice developed in tandem with the musical styles of the period.

Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5

Author : Marina Frolova-Walker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197566332
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 written by Marina Frolova-Walker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, created against the backdrop of one of Stalin's most infamous purges, is one of Shostakovich's most controversial works. It was Shostakovich's response to criticism that earned him disfavor in the eyes of officials, one that allowed him to regain artistic pride even as he won the approval necessary to regain his livelihood. This book explores this symphony in full and clues readers into secrets about it that took decades to uncover.

Leonard Bernstein

Author : Barry Seldes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520943070
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Leonard Bernstein written by Barry Seldes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein's star blazed brilliantly. In this fresh and revealing biography of Bernstein's political life, Barry Seldes examines Bernstein's career against the backdrop of cold war America—blacklisting by the State Department in 1950, voluntary exile from the New York Philharmonic in 1951 for fear that he might be blacklisted, signing a humiliating affidavit to regain his passport—and the factors that by the mid-1950s allowed his triumphant return to the New York Philharmonic. Seldes for the first time links Bernstein's great concert-hall and musical-theatrical achievements and his real and perceived artistic setbacks to his involvement with progressive political causes. Making extensive use of previously untapped FBI files as well as overlooked materials in the Library of Congress's Bernstein archive, Seldes illuminates the ways in which Bernstein's career intersected with the twentieth century's most momentous events. This broadly accessible and impressively documented account of the celebrity-maestro's life deepens our understanding of an entire era as it reveals important and often ignored intersections of American culture and political power.

Fantasy Pieces

Author : Harald Krebs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195353811
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Fantasy Pieces written by Harald Krebs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy Pieces examines from several vantage points a vital life-force of Robert Schumann's music, namely metrical conflict. Harald Krebs's imaginative yet rigorous study makes use of Schumann's fascinating projections of his own personality--the characters Florestan and Eusebius--as one means of addressing the biographical and aesthetic context of the music. In counterpoint with the remarks of these personae, Krebs develops an original theory of metrical conflict by adapting the concepts of consonance and dissonance to metrical analysis. He investigates how states of metrical dissonance arise, and shows how they are manipulated and resolved in the course of compositions. He offers new methods for understanding the metrical progressions of entire works or movements, and studies the interaction of metrical conflict with form, with pitch structure, and with the texts of Schumann's vocal works. Krebs includes a wealth of illustrations from the whole range of Schumann's work and offers numerous insights important for performance. In the final chapter, he provides richly detailed studies of pieces by Schumann in various genres, interspersing them with shorter discussions of music by Berlioz, Chopin, Clara Schumann, Ives, and Schoenberg. This is a book that will appeal not only to students and scholars of music theory, but to all musicians interested in the life, work, and unique personality of Robert Schumann.

Billboard

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1968-07-20 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brahms: Symphony No. 1

Author : David Lee Brodbeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521479592
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book Brahms: Symphony No. 1 written by David Lee Brodbeck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1997 examination of the genesis, background and extra-compositional allusions of this controversial work.

Gramophone

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Gramophone written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Schoenberg's New World

Author : Sabine Feisst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019970709X
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Schoenberg's New World written by Sabine Feisst and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arnold Schoenberg was a polarizing figure in twentieth century music, and his works and ideas have had considerable and lasting impact on Western musical life. A refugee from Nazi Europe, he spent an important part of his creative life in the United States (1933-1951), where he produced a rich variety of works and distinguished himself as an influential teacher. However, while his European career has received much scholarly attention, surprisingly little has been written about the genesis and context of his works composed in America, his interactions with Americans and other émigrés, and the substantial, complex, and fascinating performance and reception history of his music in this country. Author Sabine Feisst illuminates Schoenberg's legacy and sheds a corrective light on a variety of myths about his sojourn. Looking at the first American performances of his works and the dissemination of his ideas among American composers in the 1910s, 1920s and early 1930s, she convincingly debunks the myths surrounding Schoenberg's alleged isolation in the US. Whereas most previous accounts of his time in the US have portrayed him as unwilling to adapt to American culture, this book presents a more nuanced picture, revealing a Schoenberg who came to terms with his various national identities in his life and work. Feisst dispels lingering negative impressions about Schoenberg's teaching style by focusing on his methods themselves as well as on his powerful influence on such well-known students as John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Dika Newlin. Schoenberg's influence is not limited to those who followed immediately in his footsteps-a wide range of composers, from Stravinsky adherents to experimentalists to jazz and film composers, were equally indebted to Schoenberg, as were key figures in music theory like Milton Babbitt and David Lewin. In sum, Schoenberg's New World contributes to a new understanding of one of the most important pioneers of musical modernism.

Formal Functions in Perspective

Author : Steven Vande Moortele
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580465188
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Formal Functions in Perspective written by Steven Vande Moortele and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents thirteen studies that engage with the notion of formal function in a variety of ways