The Conservatoire Américain

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Total Pages : 316 pages
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Book Synopsis The Conservatoire Américain by : Kendra Preston Leonard

Download or read book The Conservatoire Américain written by Kendra Preston Leonard and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conservatoire Am ricain, the French musical institution at the Palais de Fontainebleau, was responsible for training generations of American musicians. Its students and faculty are among some of the most influential musical figures of the twentieth century, including Aaron Copland, Nadia Boulanger, and Elliott Carter. Within its walls, students were introduced to great French composers like Maurice Ravel, Jean Fran aix, and Darius Milhaud, many of whom wrote works specifically for Fontainebleau attendees. It brought performers into the recording age and encouraged women to pursue solo musical careers at a time when such a thing was exceptionally rare among Americans. The Conservatoire Am ricain: A History is the first full-length narrative of this institution. Drawing on rare materials from the Conservatoire's archives, combining them with personal correspondence, interviews, and first-person narratives with students and faculty, author Kendra Preston Leonard discusses a variety of topics important to the institution. These topics include--among others--the dissemination of French repertoire during the twentieth century, the pedagogical approaches used in teaching American music students, the impact of training Americans abroad, and the influence their French training had on performance, interpretation, and composition. The book concludes with several appendixes offering comprehensive reference information on the school's practices, the courses offered, awards and diplomas given, and notable students, faculty, and guest artists who attended the institution.

The Business of Music

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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781386250
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Book Synopsis The Business of Music by : Michael Talbot

Download or read book The Business of Music written by Michael Talbot and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is business, for music, a regrettable necessity or a spur to creativity? Are there limits to the influence that economic factors can or should exert on the musical imagination and its product? In the eleven essays contained in this book the authors wrestle with these questions from the perspective of their chosen area of research. The range is wide: from 1700 to the present day; from the opera house to the community centre; from composers, performers and pedagogues to managers, publishers and lawyers; from piano miniatures to folk music and pop CDs. If there is a consensus, it is that music serves its own interests best when it harnesses business rather than denying it.

Nadia Boulanger and Her World

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022675085X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Nadia Boulanger and Her World by : Jeanice Brooks

Download or read book Nadia Boulanger and Her World written by Jeanice Brooks and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979) was arguably one of the most iconic figures in twentieth-century music, and certainly among the most prominent musicians of her time. For many composers— especially Americans from Aaron Copland to Philip Glass—studying with Boulanger in Paris or Fontainebleau was a formative moment in a creative career. Composer, performer, conductor, impresario, and charismatic and inspirational teacher, Boulanger engaged in a vast array of activities in a variety of media, from private composition lessons and lecture-recitals to radio broadcasts, recordings, and public performances. But how to define and account for Boulanger’s impact on the music world is still unclear. Nadia Boulanger and Her World takes us from a time in the late nineteenth century, when many careers in music were almost entirely closed to women, to the moment in the late twentieth century when those careers were becoming a reality. Contributors consider Boulanger’s work in the worlds of composition, musical analysis, and pedagogy and explore the geographies of transatlantic and international exchange and disruption within which her career unfolded. Ultimately, this volume takes its title as a topic for exploration—asking what worlds Boulanger belonged to, and in what sense we can consider any of them to be “hers.”

Circle of Winners

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252054415
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Circle of Winners by : Denise Von Glahn

Download or read book Circle of Winners written by Denise Von Glahn and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential high culture institution, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has both supported and molded American musical culture. Denise Von Glahn examines the Foundation and its immense influence from the organization’s prehistory and origins through the onset of World War II. Funded by the Guggenheim mining fortune, the Foundation took early shape from the efforts of Carroll Wilson, Frank Aydelotte, and Henry Allen Moe--three Rhodes Scholars who initially struggled to envision and implement the organization’s ambitious goals. Von Glahn also examines the career of the longtime musical advisor Thomas Whitney Surette while profiling early awardees Aaron Copland, Ruth Crawford Seeger, William Grant Still, Roger Sessions, George Antheil, and Carlos Chàvez. She examines the processes behind their selection, their values and aesthetics, and their relationships with the insiders and others who championed their work.

Nadia and Lili Boulanger

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317090799
Total Pages : 208 pages
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Book Synopsis Nadia and Lili Boulanger by : Caroline Potter

Download or read book Nadia and Lili Boulanger written by Caroline Potter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneers in their fields and two of the best-known women in music in the twentieth century, Nadia and Lili Boulanger have previously been considered in isolation from one another. Yet, as Caroline Potter's new book demonstrates, their careers were closely linked during Lili Boulanger's short life (1893-1918) and there are several intriguing connections between their musical works. This biography also provides the first full analysis of the Boulanger sisters' musical styles, placing them within the context of French musical history. Their lives are also a case study in the issues of gender which surround music making even to the present day. Despite an unusually privileged upbringing, Nadia and Lili Boulanger exemplify the struggle women experienced when attempting to enter the professional music world. Lili became the first woman to win the Prix de Rome in 1913, and Nadia gained second place in 1908. Yet in spite of this initial success, Nadia Boulanger was to give up composing in her thirties and devoted the remainder of her long life to teaching. Her pupils included several of the great composers of the century, including Aaron Copland and Elliott Carter. This book, focusing on their musical careers, is essential reading for anyone interested in French music of the twentieth century.

Louise Talma

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317103211
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Louise Talma written by Kendra Preston Leonard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman to have an opera premiered in Europe (1962), the first female winner of the Sibelius Award for Composition (1963), and the first woman composer elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1974). This book analyses Talma’s works in the context of her life, focusing on the effects on her work of two major changes she made during her adult life: her conversion to Catholicism as an adult, under the guidance of Nadia Boulanger, and her adoption of serial compositional techniques. Employing approaches from traditional musical analysis, feminist and queer musicology, and women’s autobiographical theory to examine Talma’s body of works, comprising some eighty pieces, this is the first full-length study of this pioneering composer. Exploring Talma’s compositional language, text-setting practices, and the incorporation of autobiographical elements into her works using her own letters, sketches, and scores, as well as a number of other relevant documents, this book positions Talma’s contributions to serial and atonal music in the United States, considers her role as a woman composer during the twentieth century, and evaluates the legacy of her works and career in American music.

Music Lovers' Phonograph Monthly Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music Lovers' Phonograph Monthly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Musician

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Nadia Boulanger

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580469671
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Nadia Boulanger by : Jeanice Brooks

Download or read book Nadia Boulanger written by Jeanice Brooks and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection ever of essays and reviews by the renowned pedagogue, composer, and conductor, providing fresh perspectives on her musical influence and impact. The impact of Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) on twentieth-century music was vast: as composer, keyboard performer, conductor, impresario, and pedagogue. Her extensive musical networks included figures such as Fauré, Stravinsky, and Poulenc, and her advocacy helped establish the compositions of her sister Lili Boulanger. Few today realize, though, that Boulanger wrote numerous essays and reviews at various times in her career. These offer unparalleled insight into her thinking and illuminate aspects of musical culture in Europe and America from the rare point of view of an internationally prominent female artist. Nadia Boulanger: Thoughts on Music provides a translation and critical edition of selected writings chosen for their quality and interest. The previously published articles and essays have never been reissued since their original appearance; the remaining materials are presented to readers here for the first time. The volume renders all these materials widely available, providing an important new resource for teaching and scholarship on twentieth-century music as well as an engaging collection of musical essays for the general reader.

Composers Voices from Ives to Ellington

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300138377
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Composers Voices from Ives to Ellington written by Vivian Perlis and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first opportunity to read--and hear--interviews with and about great American composers and musicians of the early twentieth century.

Composers in the Classroom

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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461657644
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Book Synopsis Composers in the Classroom by : James Michael Floyd

Download or read book Composers in the Classroom written by James Michael Floyd and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composers in the Classroom is a bio-bibliographical dictionary, chronicling the careers and work of over 120 composers associated with conservatories, colleges, and universities in the United States and Puerto Rico. Scholars and students of music seeking critical information about composers who have taken on the mantle of instruction will find a wealth of detail on their subjects. Painstakingly obtained through direct correspondence with the composers themselves, Floyd includes within each entry a short biography of the composer's life and education, lists of previous positions, most prominent commissions, awards and honors, and notable performers of the subject's work. Each entry also contains a discography of the recordings and a bibliography of writings by the composer. Researchers will find especially useful the organization of each subject's compositions by a variety of types. These include vocal, choral/assembly, dramatic, keyboard, solo instrument, handbells, chamber music, jazz ensemble, band and wind ensemble, band and wind ensemble with solo instruments, orchestra, orchestra with solo instruments, film/television/commercial, electro-acoustic and multimedia, arrangements, transcriptions, and editions and reconstructions. Music scholars will find under each work not only the title and date of composition but also the date of revision, commission, and dedication information, as well as other pertinent details ranging from the names of collaborators to alternate titles under which works may circulate. Composers in the Classroom is an indispensable tool to scholars of modern music seeking to research the current state of musical composition and the compositional trends of the 21st century.

Nadia Boulanger

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393317138
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis Nadia Boulanger by : Léonie Rosenstiel

Download or read book Nadia Boulanger written by Léonie Rosenstiel and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a life that spanned nearly a century, at her death Nadia Boulanger was still director of the American School of Music at Fontainebleau, which she helped found after World War I. Enormously influential, she taught many distinguished performers and composers and helped American music gain worldwide recognition. This first full biography of Boulanger is a rich portrait of an important woman of our time. Photos.

Pierre Key's Music Year Book

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Pierre Key's International Music Year Book

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
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Download or read book Pierre Key's International Music Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Harrison Kerr

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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810832589
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Book Synopsis Harrison Kerr by : Randy B. Kohlenberg

Download or read book Harrison Kerr written by Randy B. Kohlenberg and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harrison Kerr (1897-1978) is probably best known for his efforts to foster an understanding of twentieth-century American music, but his achievements as a teacher, administrator, and composer are equally important. The present volume presents an extensive biography of Kerr and detailed analyses of three representative musical works with explanations.

Musical Observer

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Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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The Journal of Education

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Total Pages : 1356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Education written by Thomas Williams Bicknell and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: