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Emma Lou Diemer
A Bio-Bibliography
E-bok, 2001
1044 kr
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Emma Lou Diemer--a composer who successfully combines a classicist's interest in form with a fresh, contemporary, harmonic vocabulary--has produced a diverse, sophisticated, and largely unheralded opus, including 350 works composed for orchestra, symphonic band, chamber ensemble, keyboard, chorus, …
George Crumb
A Bio-Bibliography
Av David Cohen
E-bok, 2002
883 kr
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George Crumb is a composer at the forefront of post-World War II American music, and never before has one volume combined a portrait of his life with a catalogue of his extensive work. David Cohen's George Crumb: A Bio-Bibliography corrects this by providing the reader and researcher with an …
Paul Creston
A Bio-Bibliography
E-bok, 1994
883 kr
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Although born Giuseppe Guttovergi to a poor, immigrant Italian family, it was as Paul Creston that Giuseppe rose to prominence, becoming one of the most widely performed American composers. Rhythm was a continued subject of research for this composer, and by 1945 he had established a terminology of …
William Grant Still
A Bio-Bibliography
Av Michael J. Dabrishus, Carolyn Quin m. fl.
E-bok, 1996
999 kr
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Presenting the life and professional career of The Dean of Afro-American Composers, this is the first comprehensive book on the writings by and about Still, the compositions with manuscript sources, the performances of Still's works, and the reviews of those performances. It includes a touching …
Henry F. Gilbert
A Bio-Bibliography
E-bok, 2004
1204 kr
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During his lifetime, Henry F. Gilbert was regarded as one of the foremost composers of the day and a trailblazer in America's rich musical heritage. Often called the Mark Twain of American Music, Gilbert was one of American music's nonconformists. He was a maverick who became a true prophet of …
Kenneth Leighton
A Bio-Bibliography
E-bok, 2004
1152 kr
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Kenneth Leighton, best known for his organ and sacred choral music, was a composer of great depth and talent who wrote a significant body of works. Many of those works were written for large orchestras and a significant number of pieces of chamber music were composed for a variety of instrument …
Benjamin Britten
A Bio-Bibliography
E-bok, 2001
1013 kr
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Benjamin Britten was arguably the greatest English composer of his time. His music crossed boundaries of genre and form to include opera, ballet, orchestral and chamber music, and film and incidental music. The result of twenty years of research, ^IBenjamin Britten^R provides up-to-date and …
Ernst von Dohnányi
A Bio-Bibliography
E-bok, 2001
883 kr
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As a result of both his political reputation--destroyed by false charges of Nazism after World War II--and his rejection of avant-garde techniques, the recordings and compositions of Ernst von Dohnányi went largely ignored for most of the 20th century. In recent years, however, musicians have begun …
Marc Blitzstein
A Bio-Bibliography
E-bok, 2005
1152 kr
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Marc Blitzstein was one of the 20th century's most important American composers, lyricists, and critics, often credited with having virtually invented opera in the American vernacular. Called the father of American opera in the vernacular by luminaries Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, …
Sergei Rachmaninoff
A Bio-Bibliography
E-bok, 2000
1044 kr
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Sergei Rachmaninoff was a renowned composer, pianist, and conductor. Because he was a member of the Russian aristocracy, he fled the country after the tsar's abdication, and eventually relocated in the United States. Many of his compositions are for piano, yet he also composed orchestral and …
Gian Carlo Menotti
A Bio-Bibliography
E-bok, 2000
1044 kr
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Gian Carlo Menotti is a composer known chiefly for his popular operas, including Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Medium, and The Consul. He also wrote a considerable amount of choral, instrumental and chamber music. This addition to the Greenwood Press series Bio-Bibliographies in Music serves as …
Thea Musgrave
A Bio-Bibliography
Inbunden, 1984
1364 kr
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Thea Musgrave ranks among the world's foremost living composers, and is widely known for the warmth, humor, and theatrical qualities of her music. Donald L. Hixon has prepared the first and only substantial bibliographical treatment of the composer, and the only complete listing of her works, with …
Samuel Barber
A Bio-Bibliography
Inbunden, 1985
958 kr
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Hennessee provides a biographical overview of the life of Samuel Barber, one of America's foremost composers, as well as comprehensive bibliographical information about his complete oeuvre. The volume consists of four main sections: a brief biography, a complete list of works and performances, a …
Aaron Copland
A Bio-Bibliography
Inbunden, 1985
958 kr
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Otto Luening
A Bio-Bibliography
Inbunden, 1991
837 kr
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This volume, part of Greenwood's continuing series of Bio-Bibliographies in Music, provides a concise bibliographic guide to the life and career of Otto Luening. While the music of this American composer, educator, conductor, and flutist has been performed throughout the northeastern United States, …
Esther Williamson Ballou
A Bio-Bibliography
Inbunden, 1987
505 kr
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Esther Williamson Ballou was greatly admired by all who encountered her remarkable versatility as a musician and teacher. Although her music has continued to be performed over the years since her death in 1973, this volume is the first book-length study of her life and contributions to the musical …
Roy Harris
A Bio-Bibliography
Av Dan Stehman
Inbunden, 1991
958 kr
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A seminal figure in the development of distinctively American concert music, Roy Harris created a large body of compositions in virtually all media in a career spanning more than fifty years, from the 1920s to the 1970s. His fortunes fluctuated widely with the public and critical community. …
Gunther Schuller
A Bio-Bibliography
Inbunden, 1987
958 kr
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Gyorgy Ligeti
A Bio-Bibliography
Inbunden, 1990
837 kr
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Richart's bio-bibliography is a most welcome addition to the literature. For the first time, Richart has made available a comprehensive bibliography, discography, and up-to-date worklist. Ligeti's writings, writings about Ligeti, and reviews and analyses of his works, mainly after his 1956 flight …
Ernst Krenek
A Bio-Bibliography
Inbunden, 1989
917 kr
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This clear, comprehensive reference guide highlights the major events in Ernst Krenek's life in the context of his musical and literary works. An insightful biography carefully puts the man and his work into perspective. Next, a list of compositions is organized in generally chronological order. …
William Grant Still
A Bio-Bibliography
Av Michael J. Dabrishus, Carolyn Quin m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
988 kr
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Presenting the life and professional career of The Dean of Afro-American Composers, this is the first comprehensive book on the writings by and about Still, the compositions with manuscript sources, the performances of Still's works, and the reviews of those performances. It includes a touching …
Max Reger
A Bio-Bibliography
Inbunden, 1988
812 kr
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Professor Grim's bio-bibliography is the first publication in English to bring together the considerable amount of scholarship that has been devoted to Reger's life and work and to his role in the transition from late romanticism to modernism. The volume begins with a brief biography and a …
Alexander Tcherepnin
A Bio-Bibliography
Inbunden, 1989
812 kr
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A modern composer linked to the great Russian tradition of Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky, Alexander Tcherepnin produced a substantial body of work-both compositions and writings-that is of interest to music scholars as well as performers. Although his works are better known and more frequently …
Cecile Chaminade
A Bio-Bibliography
Inbunden, 1988
812 kr
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This first scholarly book on Cecile Chaminade, a popular composer, pianist, and one of the few women to attain critical acclaim as a composer in the early twentieth century, contains an extensive biography drawn from a significant collection of primary sources. The study presents basic information, …
Vincent Persichetti
A Bio-Bibliography
Av Donald Patterson, Janet Patterson
Inbunden, 1988
958 kr
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This is the first book to focus exclusively on Vincent Persichetti, whose widespread influence as composer, conductor, and educator has had a significant impact on twentieth-century American music. A gifted pianist, Persichetti often performed the works of others as well as his own, and many of his …
Paul Creston
A Bio-Bibliography
Inbunden, 1994
837 kr
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Although born Giuseppe Guttovergi to a poor, immigrant Italian family, it was as Paul Creston that Giuseppe rose to prominence, becoming one of the most widely performed American composers. Rhythm was a continued subject of research for this composer, and by 1945 he had established a terminology of …
Heitor Villa-Lobos
A Bio-Bibliography
Inbunden, 1988
958 kr
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One of the most prolific composers of the 20th century, Heitor Villa-Lobos' influence on the music of Latin America was enormous. This bio-bibliography, published to coincide with the centennial celebration of the composer's birth, contains comprehensive information about his life and work …
William Walton
A Bio-Bibliography
Inbunden, 1988
777 kr
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This bio-bibliography of one the most important contemporary British composers begins with a brief biographical sketch. Works and first performances are listed alphabetically by title, and each entry is followed by the relevant bibliographic citation numbers. The discography includes sound …
Charles Wuorinen
A Bio-Bibliography
Inbunden, 1993
958 kr
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Charles Wuorinen: A Bio-Bibliography is a chronicle, a lexicon, a manual, a narrative, and a testament to the life and work of an American musical genius. The work contains a biography, discography, interview, comprehensive listing of works and detailed roster of performances, and almost 1,200 …
