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Author : William H. Reed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Elgar as I Knew Him written by William H. Reed and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel M. Grimley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827081
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Elgar written by Daniel M. Grimley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Elgar occupies a pivotal place in the British cultural imagination. His music has been heard as emblematic of Empire and the English landscape. The recent success of Anthony Payne's elaboration of the sketches for Elgar's Third Symphony has prompted a critical revaluation of his music. This Companion provides an accessible and vivid account of Elgar's work in its historical and cultural context. Established authorities on British music and scholars new in the field examine Elgar's music from a range of critical perspectives, including nationalism, post-colonialism, decadence, reception and musical influences. There are also chapters on interpretation, including his own (Elgar was the first major composer to commit a representative quantity of his own work to record), and on Elgar's relationships with the BBC and with his publishers. The book includes much new material, drawing on original research, as well as providing a comprehensive introduction to Elgar's major musical achievements.
Author : Eric Fenby
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486280424
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Delius as I Knew Him written by Eric Fenby and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of Delius by the man who notated many of the disabled composer's last works. Includes 33 musical examples.
Author : Michael Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521009072
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Life of Elgar written by Michael Kennedy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new biography of Elgar draws on letters and documents which have become available in the last twenty-five years. Michael Kennedy, a leading scholar of British music and a distinguished musical biographer, uses this new material, which includes Elgar's own vast correspondence, in an attempt to get to the centre of the composer's complex personality. Elgar's letters reveal his unpredictable swings of mood, from gaiety and a fondness for puns to morose self-pity and a feeling that he was 'not wanted'.
Author : Emily Elgar
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 1408706822
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)
Download or read book If You Knew Her written by Emily Elgar and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect life? Or the perfect lie . . . When Cassie Jensen arrives on the intensive care ward in St Catherine's hospital, Alice Marlowe the chief nurse, is fascinated by this young, beautiful woman who strikes her as familiar and yet she doesn't know why. But then Alice is astonished to discover something about Cassie that she has been keeping secret from everyone, including her devoted husband and family; a secret that changes everything. Frank is a patient on the same ward who has locked-in-syndrome, so can hear and see everything around him but cannot communicate. Soon he comes to understand that Cassie's life is still in danger and as the police continue to investigate what really happened to Cassie, only Frank holds the truth, which no one can know and he cannot tell . . .
Author : Ella Elgar Bird Dumont
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292772157
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Ella Elgar Bird Dumont written by Ella Elgar Bird Dumont and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crack shot, expert skinner and tanner, seamstress, sculptor, and later writer—a list that only hints at her intelligence and abilities—Ella Elgar Bird Dumont was one of those remarkable women who helped tame the Texas frontier. First married at sixteen to a Texas Ranger, she followed her husband to Comanche Indian country in King County, where they lived in a tepee while participating in the final slaughter of the buffalo. Living off the land until the frontier was opened for ranching, Ella and Tom Bird typified the Old West ideals of self-sufficiency and generosity, with a hesitancy to complain about the hard life in the late 1800s. Yet, in one important way, Ella Dumont was unsuited for life on the frontier. Endowed with an instinctive desire and ability to carve and sculpt, she was largely prevented from pursuing her talents by the responsibilities of marriage and frontier life and later, widowhood with two small children. Even though her second marriage, to Auguste Dumont, made life more comfortable, the realities of her existence still prevented the fulfillment of her artistic longings. Ella Bird Dumont’s memoir is rich with details of the frontier era in Texas, when Indian depredations were still a danger for isolated settlers, where animals ranged close enough to provide dinner and a new pair of gloves, and where sheer existence depended on skill, luck, and the kindness of strangers. The vividness and poignancy of her life, coupled with the wealth of historical material in the editor’s exhaustive notes, make this Texas pioneer’s autobiography a very special book.
Author : David Young
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1035853280
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Reading Elgar’s The Music Makers written by David Young and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-11-08 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elgar’s The Music Makers, for contralto solo, choir and large orchestra, has experienced a chequered reputation since its 1912 premiere at the Birmingham Festival. The work faced significant adverse criticism which re-emerged over time. Criticism targeted the poem Elgar chose for his setting – Arthur O’Shaughnessy’s ode, whose reputation was later tarnished by T.S. Eliot’s infamous critique ‘What is Minor Poetry?’. Misunderstanding of Elgar’s innovatory compositional procedure was another main reason behind the negative responses. Elgar integrated the poetic language with musical self-borrowings, transforming the words and offering perceptive listeners enhanced emotion at the highest artistic level. All aspects of Elgar’s musical language combine to produce one of his greatest, yet least understood, masterworks. Reading Elgar’s The Music Makers brings to the fore a prime example of how first musical performances can be misunderstood and reception can shift over time. The work remains as relevant today as ever. The book’s multi-faceted approach will be invaluable not only for conductors, singers and music students, but for concert goers and music lovers generally.
Author : Benedict Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190493291
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Melody of Time written by Benedict Taylor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Romantic era onwards, music has been seen as the most quintessentially temporal art, possessing a unique capacity to invoke the human experience of time. Through its play of themes and recurrence of events, music has the ability to stylise in multiple ways our temporal relation to the world, with far-reaching implications for modern conceptions of memory, subjectivity, personal and collective identity, and history. Time, as philosophers, scientists and writers have found throughout history, is notoriously hard to define. Yet music, seemingly bound up so intimately with the nature of time, might well be understood as disclosing aspects of human temporality unavailable to other modes of inquiry, and accordingly was frequently granted a privileged position in nineteenth-century thought. The Melody of Time examines the multiple ways in which music relates to, and may provide insight into, the problematics of human time. Each chapter explores a specific theme in the philosophy of time as expressed through music: the purported timelessness of Beethoven's late works or the nostalgic impulses of Schubert's music; the use of music by philosophers as a means to explicate the aporias of temporal existence or as a medium suggestive of the varying possible structures of time; and, a reflection of a particular culture's sense of historical progress or the expression of the intangible spirit behind the course of human history itself. Moving fluidly between cultural context and historical reception, competing philosophical theories of time and close reading of the repertoire, Benedict Taylor argues for the continued importance of engaging with music's temporality in understanding the significance of music within society and human experience. At once historical, analytical, critical, and ultimately hermeneutic, The Melody of Time provides both fresh insight into many familiar nineteenth-century pieces and a rich theoretical basis for future research.
Author : Jerrold Northrop Moore
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198163664
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (636 download)
Download or read book Edward Elgar written by Jerrold Northrop Moore and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a vast amount of source material, much of it previously unpublished, Moore here presents Sir Edward Elgar's life and works as inseparable parts of a single creative whole.
Author : Maeve Brennan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719062766
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (627 download)
Download or read book The Philip Larkin I Knew written by Maeve Brennan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maeve Brennan had a close friendship with Philip Larkin, as well as working with him for a number of years. In this book, she provides new insight into the poet's complex personality, overturning the perceived image of him as a misanthrope.
Author : Chris Nicholson
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1035815036
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Elgar's Secret Lover written by Chris Nicholson and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When old friend Arnold Chater Q.C. sends retired Norwegian Judge Christofferson a yellowing manuscript with the mysterious initials G.B. on the first page, the latter starts a quest to seek the truth about British composer Sir Edward Elgar’s secret muse in his masterpiece, the Enigma Variations, and whether he fathered an illegitimate child. Fascinated with riddles and puzzles, the composer was in the habit of leaving a series of codes denoting the inspiration for his timeless compositions. But in the Enigma Variations, Elgar forsook his usual practice of inserting initials to honour his muse, explicitly refusing to name his great love by using a mysterious ellipsis. Cheekily, he gives a clue about his inspiration in the violin concerto with the words, ‘Here is enshrined the soul of ...’ Chris Nicholson’s seminal musical thriller weaves an amazing tale with enigmas piled on riddles. He flagrantly delights in leading readers on a breathless chase of the women who were extraordinarily important in Elgar’s life. At the same time, he also unmasks Elgar as a man who hid himself and his intimate affairs behind a mask of respectability. Nicholson is merciless in the details of Elgar’s life, loves and music, deciphering all the clues and delivering the final judgment as only he can. Chris Nicholson is a retired judge and author of seven books.
Author : Jerrold Northrop Moore
Publisher : London : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Elgar - a Life in Photographs written by Jerrold Northrop Moore and published by London : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pictorial record of the life of Sir Edward Elgar contains contemporary postcards, family photographs, and newspaper illustrations that combine to form an illuminating and moving portrait of the great composer.
Author : Liane Curtis
Publisher : The Rebecca Clarke Society, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0977007901
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (77 download)
Download or read book A Rebecca Clarke Reader written by Liane Curtis and published by The Rebecca Clarke Society, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emily Elgar
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062945645
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Grace Is Gone written by Emily Elgar and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of If You Knew Her comes this harrowing tale of suspense—a story ripped from today’s headlines—of a tight-knit English community, who’s rocked by the murder of a mother and the mysterious disappearance of her daughter, and the secrets that lie concealed beneath a carefully constructed facade. A small town’s beloved family. A shocking, senseless crime—and the dark secret at the heart of it all. Everyone in Ashford, Cornwall, knows Meg Nichols and her daughter, Grace. Meg has been selflessly caring for Grace for years, and Grace—smiling and optimistic in spite of her many illnesses—adores her mother. So when Meg is found brutally bludgeoned in her bed and her daughter missing, the community is rocked. Meg had lived in terror of her abusive, unstable ex, convinced that he would return to try and kidnap Grace…as he had once before. Now it appears her fear was justified. Jon Katrin, a local journalist, knows he should avoid getting drawn back into this story. The article he wrote about Meg and Grace caused rifts within his marriage and the town. Perhaps if he can help find Grace, he can atone for previous lapses in judgment. The Nichols’ neighbor, Cara—contending with her own guilt over not being a better friend to Grace—becomes an unexpected ally. But in searching for Grace, Jon and Cara uncover anomalies that lead to more and more questions. Through multiple viewpoints and diary entries, the truth about Grace emerges, revealing a tragedy more twisted than anyone could have ever imagined…
Author : George Gissing
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 167811605X
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (781 download)
Download or read book The Emancipated (Esprios Classics) written by George Gissing and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 1895 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Henry Reed
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Elgar as I Knew Him written by William Henry Reed and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a personal account of Elgar the man and Elgar the composer by one of his closest friends.
Author : Isabelle Steiger
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN 13 : 1250088488
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Empire's Ghost written by Isabelle Steiger and published by Thomas Dunne Books. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The empire of Elesthene once spanned a continent, but its rise heralded the death of magic. It tore itself apart from within, leaving behind a patchwork of kingdoms struggling to rebuild. But when a new dictator, the ambitious and enigmatic Imperator Elgar, seizes power in the old capital and seeks to recreate the lost empire anew, the other kingdoms have little hope of stopping him"--
