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29 produkter
The Music of Toru Takemitsu
Av Peter Burt, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2006
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426 kr
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Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) was the best-known Japanese composer of his generation, bringing aspects of Eastern and Western traditions together, yet he remained something of an elusive figure. The composer's own commentaries about his music, poetic and philosophical in tone, have tended to deepen …
Experimental Music
Cage and Beyond
Av Michael Nyman, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 1999
369 kr
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Michael Nyman's book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing which developed alongside, and partly in opposition to, the post-war modernist tradition of composers …
Music Since the First World War
Häftad, 1994
1035 kr
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This survey of the most significant modern composers and their techniques has become a standard work on the constantly shifting musical developments during the greater part of the twentieth century.
Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2000
1469 kr
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Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century builds on the foundations of Music since the First World War (first published 1977, revised edition 1988). It updates and reshapes the original text and places it in the wider context of twentieth-century serious music before 1918 and after 1975. The …
Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2000
3177 kr
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Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century builds on the foundations of Music since the First World War (first published 1977, revised edition 1988). It updates and reshapes the original text and places it in the wider context of twentieth-century serious music before 1918 and after 1975. The …
Exploring Twentieth-Century Music
Tradition and Innovation
Häftad, 2003
468 kr
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In this wide-ranging book, Arnold Whittall considers a group of important composers of the twentieth century, including Debussy, Webern, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartók, Janácek, Britten, Carter, Birtwistle, Andriessen and Adams. He moves skilfully between the cultural and the technical, the general …
The Stravinsky Legacy
Av Jonathan Cross, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2005
435 kr
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It has become increasingly apparent in recent decades that Stravinsky's music has had far-reaching influence on the development of music in our century. Stravinsky's modernist innovations - evident in such features as his music's discontinuity, its stasis, its ritualized anti-narrative, its novel …
The Music of Harrison Birtwistle
Av Robert Adlington, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2006
754 kr
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Harrison Birtwistle has become the most eminent and acclaimed of contemporary British composers. This book provides a comprehensive view of his large and varied output. It contains descriptions of every published work, and also of a number of withdrawn and unpublished pieces. Revealing light is …
The Music of Conlon Nancarrow
Häftad, 2006
468 kr
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The expatriate American experimentalist composer Conlon Nancarrow is increasingly recognized as having had one of the most innovative musical minds of the twentieth century. His music, almost all written for player piano, is the most rhythmically complex ever written, couched in intricate …
The Music and Thought of Michael Tippett
Modern Times and Metaphysics
Av David Clarke, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2006
687 kr
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Tippett is often cast as a composer with a strong visionary streak, but what does that mean for a twentieth-century artist? In this multi-faceted study, David Clarke explores Tippett's complex creative imagination - its dialogue between a romantic's aspirations to the ideal and absolute, and a …
Britten's Musical Language
Av Philip Rupprecht, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2006
502 kr
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Blending insights from linguistic and social theories of speech, ritual and narrative with music-analytic and historical criticism, Britten's Musical Language offers interesting perspectives on the composer's fusion of verbal and musical utterance in opera and song. It provides close interpretative …
Music and Ideology in Cold War Europe
Av Mark Carroll, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2006
770 kr
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This book places the radicalization of art music in early post-war France in its broader socio-cultural and political context. It pursues two general and intersecting lines of inquiry. The first details the stances towards musical conservatism and innovation adopted by cultural strategists …
The Music of Britten and Tippett
Studies in Themes and Techniques
Häftad, 1990
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720 kr
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In this classic study of Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett, Arnold Whittall builds up a unique double portrait of the two leading composers of their generation. For this second, revised edition Whittall includes a new chapter on Tippett's major works of the 1980s: the Piano Sonata No. 4, the …
Fauré and French Musical Aesthetics
Av Carlo Caballero, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2004
955 kr
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This wide-ranging study of Gabriel Fauré and his contemporaries reclaims aesthetic categories crucial to French musical life in the early twentieth century. Its interrelated chapters treat the topics of sincerity, originality, novelty, self-renewal, homogeneity and religious belief in relation to …
The Twelve-Note Music of Anton Webern
Old Forms in a New Language
Av Kathryn Bailey, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2004
586 kr
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This important new study reassesses the position of Anton Webern in twentieth-century music. The twelve-note method of composition adopted by Anton Webern had profound consequences for composers of the next generation such as Stockhausen and Boulez, who saw Webern's music as revolutionary. In her …
The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger
Av Joseph N. Straus, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2003
838 kr
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This book is the first full-length analytical study of the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Crawford was a pivotal figure in the American avant-garde, the so-called 'ultra-modern' movement of the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to her historical significance, as part of the first generation of American …
Serial Music, Serial Aesthetics
Compositional Theory in Post-War Europe
Av M. J. Grant, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2005
955 kr
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Serial music was one of the most important aesthetic movements to emerge in post-war Europe, but its uncompromising music and modernist aesthetic has often been misunderstood. This book focuses on the controversial journal die Reihe, whose major contributors included Stockhausen, Eimert, Pousseur, …
The Music of Harrison Birtwistle
Av Robert Adlington, Arnold Whittall
Inbunden, 2000
1693 kr
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Harrison Birtwistle has become the most eminent and acclaimed of contemporary British composers. This book provides a comprehensive view of his large and varied output. It contains descriptions of every published work, and also of a number of withdrawn and unpublished pieces. Revealing light is …
The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936
Shaping a Nation's Tastes
Av Jennifer Doctor, Arnold Whittall
Inbunden, 2000
2130 kr
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This book, first published in 2000, examines the BBC's campaign to raise cultural awareness of British mass audiences in the early days of radio. As a specific case, it focuses on policies and plans behind transmissions of music by composers associated with Arnold Schoenberg's circle between 1922, …
Serialism
Häftad, 2008
468 kr
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From the earliest years of the 20th century composers sought ways in which to break from earlier musical traditions. Serialism is one of the most prominent innovations resulting from this. From Schoenberg to Stockhausen, Berg to Boulez, this introduction tells the story of how serialism emerged, …
Serialism
Inbunden, 2008
1324 kr
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From the earliest years of the 20th century composers sought ways in which to break from earlier musical traditions. Serialism is one of the most prominent innovations resulting from this. From Schoenberg to Stockhausen, Berg to Boulez, this introduction tells the story of how serialism emerged, …
Schoenberg: 'Night Music' - Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung
Häftad, 2023
266 kr
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Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is often portrayed as a composer who began as a heart-on-sleeve late Romantic only to evolve during the First World War into an austere, mathematically-obsessed deviser of musical puzzles. Yet to claim that in his music he replaced tonality with its absolute opposite, …
Schoenberg: 'Night Music' - Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung
Inbunden, 2023
1132 kr
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Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is often portrayed as a composer who began as a heart-on-sleeve late Romantic only to evolve during the First World War into an austere, mathematically-obsessed deviser of musical puzzles. Yet to claim that in his music he replaced tonality with its absolute opposite, …
British Music after Britten
Inbunden, 2020
1338 kr
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By common consent the leading British composer of the twentieth-century's middle decades, Britten continues to create significant contexts for the work of those who survived and succeeded him.This collection of revised reprints of essays, reviews and analyses first published between 1995 and 2018 …
Whittall, A: Wagner Style
Av Arnold Whittall, Christopher Wintle m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
611 kr
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Whittall, A: Wagner Style
Av Arnold Whittall, Christopher Wintle m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
208 kr
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