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Author : Irving Kolodin
Publisher : Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Critical Composer written by Irving Kolodin and published by Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irving Kolodin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The critical composer written by Irving Kolodin and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irving Kolodin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282634537
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (345 download)
Download or read book The Critical Composer written by Irving Kolodin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Critical Composer: The Musical Writings of Berlioz, Wagner, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, and Others I can disclaim such an intention by remarking, merely, that a man who wrote as much music as Wagner did had an understanding of the procedures and the effort by which a score is created which is not accessible to one whose approach to the art was essentially external. I am not contending that it is therefore a better, or more valid attitude - merely that it is an individual one, and worthy of attention. Certainly such translation into verbal terms of a music's effect as one finds in Wagner's wisely-flavored comments on the C sharp minor quartet of Beethoven does nor need the addi tional force of being said by the composer of Die Meistersinger. His writing conveys, in excelsis, the sensitivity to an art and a capacity for conveying that sensitivity in words which should be the basis of all critical effort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Critical Composition Today written by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ned Rorem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (468 download)
Download or read book Critical Affairs written by Ned Rorem and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicolas Slonimsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lexicon of Musical Invective written by Nicolas Slonimsky and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527527581
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Giacomo Meyerbeer written by Robert Ignatius Letellier and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giacomo Meyerbeer was once one of the most famous of all opera composers, enjoying into the twentieth century the same universal admiration and performance as a composer like Puccini does today. Through a series of adverse factors, his reputation was seriously damaged with the resurgence of nationalism and the growing ant-Semitism in France and Germany at the end of the nineteenth century, the propagation of a Wagnerian operatic aesthetic, the decline of the bel canto vocal tradition, and the disfavour manifested towards the heroism of French grand opera. All these factors, and especially the ban on his music in Nazi Germany, meant that Meyerbeer’s reputation was seriously overshadowed in the years after the Second World War. During the 1960s and 1970s, a tentative interest began to manifest itself, and with the advent of the new millennium, a growing rediscovery of his operas has been apparent. Not least in this process has been the recovery of all the composer’s private papers and their scholarly editing. His life and work have been the subject of a growing number of informed studies which have enabled radical reassessment. This volume takes a fresh look at this process of rediscovery by considering the composer in terms of the primary sources (diaries and letters) now available for forming a more complete and detailed biography unclouded by prejudicial or uninformed opinions. The extraordinary nature of Meyerbeer’s Jewish background and the role of this family in Prussian emancipation are also considered. Most importantly, however, his life and works are presented in a critical chronology that is fundamentally based on his own private papers, with testimony (both positive and negative) from many contemporary sources. A detailed iconography is integral to this process, and helps to bring Meyerbeer's story and music more vividly to life.
Author : Claude Debussy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Debussy on Music written by Claude Debussy and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David C Paul
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252094697
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Charles Ives in the Mirror written by David C Paul and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American composer Charles Ives (1874–1954) has gone from being a virtual unknown to become one of the most respected and lauded composers in American music. In this sweeping survey of intellectual and musical history, David C. Paul tells the new story of how Ives's music was shaped by shifting conceptions of American identity within and outside of musical culture, charting the changes in the reception of Ives across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. Paul focuses on the critics, composers, performers, and scholars whose contributions were most influential in shaping the critical discourse on Ives, many of them marquee names of American musical culture themselves, including Henry Cowell, Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, and Leonard Bernstein. Paul explores both how Ives positioned his music amid changing philosophical and aesthetic currents and how others interpreted his contributions to American music. Although Ives's initial efforts to find a public in the early twenties attracted a few devotees, the resurgence of interest in the American literary past during the thirties made a concert staple of his "Concord" Sonata, a work dedicated to nineteenth-century transcendentalist writers. Paul shows how Ives was subsequently deployed as an icon of American freedom during the early Cold War period and how he came to be instigated at the head of a line of "American maverick" composers. Paul also examines why a recent cadre of scholars has beset the composer with Gilded Age social anxieties. By embedding Ives' reception within the changing developments of a wide range of fields including intellectual history, American studies, literature, musicology, and American politics and society in general, Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an Iconic Composer greatly advances our understanding of Ives and his influence on nearly a century of American culture.
Author : Lois Fitch
Publisher : Intellect Books - Critical Gui
ISBN 13 : 9781783200184
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Brian Ferneyhough written by Lois Fitch and published by Intellect Books - Critical Gui. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of contemporary music's most significant and controversial figures, Brian Ferneyhough's complex and challenging music draws inspiration from painting, literature, and philosophy, as well as music from the recent and distant past. His dense, multilayered compositions intrigue musicians while pushing both performer and instrument to the limits of their abilities. A wide-ranging survey of his life and work to date, Brian Ferneyhough examines the critical issues fundamental to understanding the composer as a musician and a thinker. Debuting in celebration of Ferneyhough's seventieth birthday in 2013, this book strikes a rich balance between critical analysis of the music and close scrutiny of its aesthetic and philosophical contexts, making possible a more rounded view of the composer than has been available.
Author : Claude Debussy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Debussy on Music written by Claude Debussy and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the essays and reviews of the great French composer, together with interviews with him, in which he comments on the composers and musical events of his day and on his own philosophy of music.
Author : Eric Walter White
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486297552
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Stravinsky written by Eric Walter White and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating critical and biographical portrait of famed 20th-century composer includes commentary on the evolution of such masterworks as The Firebird, Petrouchka, Le Sacre du Printemps, Pulcinella, and Histoire du Soldat.
Author : Mosco Carner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Puccini written by Mosco Carner and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into three parts, this book addresses all aspects of Puccini's life and work. Part I, The Man, gives the facts of the composer's somewhat stormy life, quoting extensively from his own letters. Part II, The Artist, calls on the resources of modern psychology in assessing his personality and its curious limitations, and the unconscious springs of his creative processes. Part III, The Work, is a detailed guide to each opera, both music and libretto, with a synopsis of opera plots.
Author : John Knowles Paine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Famous Composers and Their Works written by John Knowles Paine and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Cope
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0895794543
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (957 download)
Download or read book The Algorithmic Composer written by David Cope and published by A-R Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying disc contains Melody Predictor (a program), Compose (a program), Fun, Déjà vu (a program), Backtalk, some tutorials, Alice (an interactive program), recorded performances of many of the works presented in the text, and MIDI performances of most of the music in the figures.
Author : Pauline Fairclough
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789141907
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Dmitry Shostakovich written by Pauline Fairclough and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dmitry Shostakovich was one of the most successful composers of the twentieth century—a musician who adapted as no other to the unique pressures of his age. By turns vilified and feted by Stalin during the Great Purge, Shostakovich twice came close to succumbing to the whirlwind of political repression of his times and remained under political surveillance all his life, despite the many privileges and awards heaped upon him in old age. Through it all, Shostakovich showed a remarkable ability to work with, rather than against, prevailing ideological demands, and it was this quality that ensured both his survival and his musical posterity. Pauline Fairclough’s absorbing new biography offers a vivid portrait of Shostakovich. Featuring quotations from previously unpublished letters as well as rarely seen photographs, Fairclough’s book provides fresh insight into the music and life of a composer whose legacy, above all, was to have written some of the greatest and most cherished music of the last century.
Author : Clive Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521029056
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Louis Spohr written by Clive Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and works of the once renowned nineteenth-century composer who is now largely overlooked.
