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Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Through Europe with Four Hands written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrian Daub
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199981809
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Four-Handed Monsters written by Adrian Daub and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of the nineteenth century, four-hand piano playing emerged across Europe as a popular pastime of the well-heeled classes and of those looking to join them. Nary a canonic work of classical music that was not set for piano duo, nary a house that could afford not to invest in them. Duets echoed from the student bedsit to Buckingham Palace, resounded in schools and in hundreds of thousands of bourgeois parlors. Like no other musical phenomenon, it could cross national, social, and economic boundaries, bringing together poor students with the daughters of the bourgeoisie, crowned heads with penniless virtuosi, and the nineteenth century often regarded it with extreme suspicion for that very reason. Four-hand piano playing was often understood as a socially acceptable way of flirting, a flurry of hands that made touching, often of men and women, not just acceptable but necessary. But it also became something far more serious than that, a central institution of the home, mediating between inside and outside, family and society, labor and leisure, nature and nurture. And writers, composers, musicians, philosophers, journalists, pamphleteers and painters took note: in the art, literature, and philosophy of the age, four-hand playing emerged as a common motif, something that allowed them to interrogate the very nature of the self, the family, the community and the state. In the four hands rushing up and down the same keyboard the nineteenth century espied, or thought to espy, an astonishing array of things. Four-Handed Monsters tells not only the story of that practice, but also the story of the astonishing array of things the nineteenth century read into it.
Author : Roger Grenier
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803270879
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Piano Music for Four Hands written by Roger Grenier and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piano Music for Four Hands is a novel about music and love set against three generations of French history. At its center is a charming but melancholy pianist named Michel Mailhoc. Having survived a series of bungled love affairs and professional disappointments, he retreats to his family house in the Pyrenees. The bright spot in his life is his grandniece Emma, who becomes his prizewinning student. Struggling with his fervent desire for her success and the fear of losing her, Michel sends Emma into the world of international musical stardom that he has renounced for himself. The Mailhoc family saga, stretching from World War I to the turbulent 1960s, is full of sorrow, but the underlying melody remains tender and humorous. From the first sentence we feel curiously at home in Roger Grenier's intimate, precise, and musical writing.
Author : Paco Ignacio Taibo (II)
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ISBN 13 : 9780312109875
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Four Hands written by Paco Ignacio Taibo (II) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lampoon against U.S. imperialism, by a Mexican crime writer. The bad guy is a U.S. secret agent spreading disinformation on Nicaragua's Sandinistas, the good guys are two journalists--a Mexican and an American--who are trying to expose him. By the author of Some Clouds.
Author : Ilona Von Dohnanyi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253109280
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Ernst von Dohnányi written by Ilona Von Dohnanyi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... a rare kind of biography and autobiography: a clear and elegant exposition of fact, as well as a humane portrait of a great piano virtuoso, composer, teacher, and democratic soul, as told to and seen through the eyes of one close to him." -- Mark Mitchell Ernst von Dohnányi (1877--1960) was one of the most highly respected musicians of his time. The young Dohnányi enjoyed an international prestige that brought him into contact with such 19th-century masters as Johannes Brahms and Eugà ̈ne d'Albert. He is remembered for his technique and interpretive skills as a pianist and conductor, as well as for the masterpieces he composed for piano, chamber ensembles, and orchestra. As a teacher and administrator, Dohnányi was responsible for the training of an entire generation of musicians in Hungary, and for helping to shape the country's musical culture. After World War II, his career foundered when he was falsely accused of being a Nazi sympathizer. In 1953, at the age of 76, Dohnányi returned to international prominence with a triumphant "re-debut" at Carnegie Hall. Ernst von Dohnányi: A Song of Life, written from a firsthand perspective by Dohnányi's widow, is the first full English-language biography of the artist.
Author : Jérôme aan de Wiel
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633864100
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Ireland's Helping Hand to Europe written by Jérôme aan de Wiel and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-war Marshall Plan aid to Europe and indeed Ireland is well documented, but practically nothing is known about simultaneous Irish aid to Europe. This book provides a full record of the aid – mainly food but also clothes, blankets, medicines, etc. – that Ireland donated to continental Europe, including France, the Netherlands, Hungary, the Balkans, Italy, and zones of occupied Germany. Starting with Ireland’s neutral wartime record, often wrongly presented as pro-German when Ireland in fact unofficially favoured the western Allies, Jerome aan de Wiel explains why Éamon de Valera’s government sent humanitarian aid to the devastated continent. His book analyses the logistics of collection and distribution of supplies sent abroad as far as the Greek islands. Despite some alleged Cold-War hijacking of Irish relief – and this humanitarianism was not above the politics of that East-West confrontation – it became mostly a story of hope, generosity and European Christian solidarity. Rich archival records from Ireland and the European beneficiary countries, as well as contemporary local and national newspapers across Europe, allow the author to measure and describe not only the official but also the popular response to Irish relief schemes. This work is illustrated with contemporary photographs and some key graphs and tables that show the extent of the aid programme.
Author : Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486427362
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (273 download)
Download or read book La jota aragonesa and other favorites for piano four hands written by Louis Moreau Gottschalk and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gottschalk's Creole heritage and extensive visits to Cuba, the West Indies, and South America are reflected in this great-sounding, glittering, and wonderfully melodious music for piano duet. Contents include La jota aragonesa, Op. 14; Ojos criollos, Op. 37; Réponds-moi (Cuban dance), Op. 50; La gallina, Op. 53; Ses yeux (polka), Op. 66; Grande tarentelle, Op. posth. 67; Radieuse (concert waltz), Op. 72; and — as an encore — Gottschalk's legendary four-hand arrangement of Rossini's ever-popular William Tell Overture.
Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 147062785X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Sonatas for One Piano, Four Hands written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mozart's four sonatas for one piano, four hands, are the first important works in the piano duet literature. This carefully researched edition contains historical information, in-depth notes on performing Mozart's piano music, editorial fingering and metronome marks, as well as realizations of many ornaments. Titles: * Sonata in D Major, K. 381 (123a) * Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 358 (186c) * Sonata in F Major, K. 497 * Sonata in C Major, K. 521
Author : Rudolf Rasch
Publisher : BWV Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3830503903
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Music Publishing in Europe 1600-1900 written by Rudolf Rasch and published by BWV Verlag. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Bertagnolli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040104762
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Edward MacDowell’s European Piano Music written by Paul Bertagnolli and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward MacDowell’s European Piano Music is a critical study of the piano music that MacDowell composed during his European sojourn (1876–1888), steeped in reception history and with a special emphasis of programmaticism. The book expands current knowledge of MacDowell’s childhood in four of the chapters based on his previously uninvestigated sheet music collection, thereby achieving a better balance among the stages of MacDowell’s life than is evident in most books of the life-and-works variety. Prolific contemporaneous music criticism, meticulously preserved in MacDowell’s scrapbooks, is likewise undervalued in the MacDowell literature, but it furnishes penetrating observations about the expressive and programmatic content of numerous compositions, especially as it was revealed to critics when MacDowell performed his own works. Lastly, the book offers explanations for why MacDowell immersed himself in European culture for decades and then, at a crucial juncture in his career, embraced diverse American heritages and worked toward a conception of a pluralistic music that was American “in a creative sense.” The book’s content and methodology would appeal most directly to specialists within the broad fields of musicology and music theory, particularly within American art music and its composers; nineteenth-century music; program music; reception history; and piano literature.
Author : Katja May
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350283592
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Needlework, Affect and Social Transformation written by Katja May and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Needlework, Affect and Social Transformation offers an original framework for moving beyond binary discourses that class practices of needlework as either feminist or reactionary. Using transnational, contemporary case studies such as the Social Justice Sewing Academy, fictionalised Bangladeshi garment workers as well as the famous Pussyhat Project Katja May suggests a new approach to the interpretation of textile crafts as an affective social practice, and draws on under-represented issues of race. May connects her study to broader material and social conditions of inequality, allowing for a nuanced and sensitive understanding of the role of needlework in feminist political activism. This broader look at how textile crafts function in the realms of politics and activism conceptualizes quilting, dressmaking, embroidery and knitting as routine activities invested with emotions and entangled with material and social conditions as well as political potential.
Author : Nancy November
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108831753
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Beethoven's Symphonies Arranged for the Chamber written by Nancy November and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the importance of arrangements of Beethoven's works for nineteenth-century domestic music-making to the history of the classical symphony.
Author : Barbara B. Heyman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190863730
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Samuel Barber written by Barbara B. Heyman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is one of the most admired and honored American composers of the twentieth century. An unabashed Romantic, largely independent of worldwide trends and the avant-garde, he infused his works with poetic lyricism and gave tonal language and forms new vitality. His rich legacy includes every genre, including the famous Adagio for Strings, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, three concertos, a plethora of songs, and two operas, the Pulitzer prize-winning Vanessa, and Antony and Cleopatra, the commissioned work that opened the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in 1966. Generously documented by letter, sketches, autograph manuscripts, and interviews with friends, colleagues, and performers with whom he worked, this ASCAP-Award winning book is still unquestionably the most authoritative biography on Barber, covering his entire career and interweaving the events of his life with his compositional process. This second edition benefits from many new discoveries, including a Violin Sonata recovered from an artist's estate, a diary Barber kept his seventeenth year, a trove of letters and manuscripts that were recovered from a suitcase found in a dumpster, documentation that dispels earlier myths about the composition of Barber's Violin Concerto, and research of scholars that was stimulated by Heyman's work. Barber's intimate relations are discussed when they bear on his creativity. A testament to the lasting significance of Romanticism, Samuel Barber stands as a model biography of an important musical figure.
Author : Reginald Heber
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bambay, 1824-1825; (With Notes Upon Ceylon,) an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in India written by Reginald Heber and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Parliament
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England: 1737-1739 written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 746 pages
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Download or read book Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Cobbett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
