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Author : Kathryn Bailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521575669
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (756 download)
Download or read book The Life of Webern written by Kathryn Bailey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating account of Webern's life.
Author : Hans Moldenhauer
Publisher : New York : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Anton Von Webern, a Chronicle of His Life and Work written by Hans Moldenhauer and published by New York : Knopf. This book was released on 1979 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the discovery of previously unknown Webern manuscripts, notebooks, and diaries, this biography of the twentieth-century composer examines all the crucial elements of his life and work, including his years as a pupil of Schoenberg.
Author : Darin Hoskisson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317672682
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Anton Webern written by Darin Hoskisson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anton Webern: A Research and Information Guide offers carefully selected and annotated sources regarding Webern from 1975 to present day, including sources on Webern’s life, his music, and the interpretation and reception of his music. Along with this comprehensive annotated listing of print and online sources, the book discusses the history of research on Webern and includes a brief chronology of his life. It is a major reference tool for those interested in Webern and his music and valuable for researchers of 20th century music and the Second Viennese School.
Author : Kathryn Bailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521475266
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (752 download)
Download or read book Webern Studies written by Kathryn Bailey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays looks at the music of Webern from several different perspectives. Webern scholarship, based on the sketches and other primary material now owned by the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel and the Library of Congress in Washington, has emphasised Webern's lyricism, and this is a theme running through Webern Studies. Most of the essays are the result of work with primary material. The volume includes entries from Webern's diaries, and all of the row tables for his twelve-note music. A comprehensive Webern bibliography covers thoroughly the period since Zoltan Roman's bibliography of 1978.
Author : Hans Moldenhauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258072940
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (729 download)
Download or read book The Death of Anton Webern written by Hans Moldenhauer and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429932880
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Rest Is Noise written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Author : Fay Webern
Publisher : Sagging Meniscus Press
ISBN 13 : 9781944697112
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (971 download)
Download or read book The Button Thief of East 14th Street written by Fay Webern and published by Sagging Meniscus Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fay Webern's masterful chronicle of a youth spent in one of New York City's most vibrant immigrant communities during the harsh years of the Great Depression and The Second World War. Its forty-two beautifully sculpted episodes not only conjure into vivid existence a complete world, but reveal something of the bedrock of the author's inner being, in which the irreducible hardness, the 'is'-ness, of reality may be felt: the burden of survival; the 'stone in the heart'; the daily concerns, serious or frivolous, erected on it; and at the same time, always, flying above, indomitable, the muse of poetic imagination and the 'spirit of defiance.' "--Back cover.
Author : Tanya Buchdahl Tintner
Publisher : Apollo Books
ISBN 13 : 9781742582566
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (825 download)
Download or read book Out of Time written by Tanya Buchdahl Tintner and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conductor composer Georg Tintner is best known to music lovers for his stunning interpretations of Bruckners symphonies, recorded in the 1990s. A man who lived and breathed music, his long and eventful career began at the age of eight, when he was the first Jew to join the Vienna Boys Choir.
Author : Allen Forte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300207590
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Atonal Music of Anton Webern written by Allen Forte and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Austrian composer Anton Webern (1883-1945) is one of the major figures of musical modernism. His mature works comprise two styles: the so-called free atonal music composed between 1907 and 1924, and the twelve-tone serial music that began in 1924 and extended through the remainder of his creative life. In this book an eminent music theorist presents the first systematic and in-depth study of the early atonal works, from the George Lieder, opus 3, through the Latin Canons, opus 16. Drawing on music-analytical procedures that he and other scholars have developed in recent years, Allen Forte argues that a single compositional system underlies all of Webern's atonal music. Forte examines such elements as pitch, register, timbre, rhythm, form, and text setting, showing how Webern displaced the functional connections of traditional tonality to create a totally new sonic universe. Although the main thrust of the study is music-analytical in nature, Forte also considers historical context and significant biographical aspects of the individual works, as well as word-music relations in the music with text.
Author : Paul Elie
Publisher : Union Books
ISBN 13 : 1908526416
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Reinventing Bach written by Paul Elie and published by Union Books. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Sebastian Bach – celebrated pipe organist, court composer and master of sacred music – was also a technical pioneer. Working in Germany in the early eighteenth century, he invented new instruments and carried out experiments in tuning, the effects of which are still with us today. Two hundred years later, a number of extraordinary musicians have utilised the music of Bach to thrilling effect through the art of recording, furthering their own virtuosity and reinventing the composer for our time. In Reinventing Bach, Paul Elie brilliantly blends the stories of modern musicians with a polyphonic account of our most celebrated composer’ s life to create a spellbinding narrative of the changing place of music in our lives. We see the sainted organist Albert Schweitzer playing to a mobile recording unit set up at London’ s Church of All Hallows in order to spread Bach’ s organ works to the world beyond the churches, and Pablo Casals’ s Abbey Road recordings of Bach’ s cello suites transform the middle-class sitting room into a hotbed of existentialism; we watch Leopold Stokowski persuade Walt Disney to feature his own grand orchestrations of Bach in the animated classical-music movie Fantasia – which made Bach the sound of children’ s playtime and Hollywood grandeur alike – and we witness how Glenn Gould’ s Goldberg Variations made Bach the byword for postwar cool. Through the Beatles and Switched-on Bach and Gö del, Escher, Bach – through film, rock music, the Walkman, the CD and up to Yo-Yo Ma and the iPod – Elie shows us how dozens of gifted musicians searched, experimented and collaborated with one another in the service of a composer who emerged as the prototype of the spiritualised, technically savvy artist.
Author : Anne Chatoney Shreffler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Webern and the Lyric Impulse written by Anne Chatoney Shreffler and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a new view of a composer long considered to be one of the century's most rigorously intellectual creators, Anton Webern. By examining a central pre-twelve-tone work, the Trakl cycle, Op 14, in the context of the Viennese intellectual and artistic climate, Professor Shreffler shows how Webern's responses to Trakl's complex verse enabled him to expand his musical vocabulary. The author's emphasis on Webern's compositional process is of particular importance: whether because of the anxiety of creating a new musical language, or because of an innate hyper-perfectionism (or both), Webern rejected most of what he composed. A close examination of the manuscript sources - fragments, sketches, and fair copies - of Webern's comparatively neglected middle-period lieder enables her to shed light on Webern's musical language and his working methods. A focus on the sources also helps to modify the view that his music progressed steadily in the direction of the twelve-tone technique. The works reveal instead a concern with expressing the essence of the text; this lyricism, rather than articulating a substantially different aesthetic from the later works, provides a better understanding of the consummate lyricism of all his music, however compressed or fragmented its utterance in the `classic' twelve-tone works.
Author : Allen Shawn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674011014
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Arnold Schoenberg's Journey written by Allen Shawn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this text, Allen Shawn puts aside ultimate judgements about Arnold Schoenberg's place in music history to explore the composer's world in a series of linked essays that are searching and suggestive. Approaching Schoenberg primarily from a listener's point of view, Shawn plunges into the details of some of Schoenberg's works while at the same time providing a broad overview of his involvements in music, painting and the history through which he lived.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Music Division written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804735582
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Sound Figures written by Theodor W. Adorno and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodor Adorno is one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics and music. This volume of essays contains Adorno's thoughts on music and its wider social implications.
Author : Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521338844
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Alban Berg written by Theodor W. Adorno and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adorno's study of Alban Berg is a unique document. Itself now a part of music history, it is a personal account, by a pre-eminent philosopher and aesthetician, of the life and musical works of his mentor, friend and composition teacher. Shortly after Berg's death in 1935, Adorno contributed several analyses to the first Berg biography. Thirty years later he incorporated these chapters and several subsequent essays into one volume. Beyond analyses of individual pieces, the book explores the historical and cultural significance of Berg's music, its relationship to that of other twentieth-century composers, and to the larger issues of contemporary life. This is a classic study, made available here for the first time in English, and it provides a key to understanding Adorno himself as well as offering an individual perspective on one of the major composers of the twentieth century.
Author : Joseph Auner
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030012712X
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Schoenberg Reader written by Joseph Auner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arnold Schoenberg’s close involvement with many of the principal developments of twentieth-century music, most importantly the break with tonality and the creation of twelve-tone composition, generated controversy from the time of his earliest works to the present day. This authoritative new collection of Schoenberg’s essays, letters, literary writings, musical sketches, paintings, and drawings offers fresh insights into the composer’s life, work, and thought. The documents, many previously unpublished or untranslated, reveal the relationships between various aspects of Schoenberg’s activities in composition, music theory, criticism, painting, performance, and teaching. They also show the significance of events in his personal and family life, his evolving Jewish identity, his political concerns, and his close interactions with such figures as Gustav and Alma Mahler, Alban Berg, Wassily Kandinsky, and Thomas Mann. Extensive commentary by Joseph Auner places the documents and materials in context and traces important themes throughout Schoenberg’s career from turn-of-century Vienna to Weimar Berlin to nineteen-fifties Los Angeles.
Author : Julian Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521661492
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Webern and the Transformation of Nature written by Julian Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the idea of nature in the music of Anton Webern. It stands out from other studies because it explores the wider social and cultural dimensions of the music, as opposed to the often narrow, technical analysis of the music. In doing so it offers an important case study for the way in which social ideas can be discussed in relation to apparently 'abstract' modern music. Moreover, it does so in relation to musical details not simply on the level of biography or cultural history.
