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Claude Debussy
A Critical Biography
Häftad, 2024
484 kr
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English translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy.François Lesure's "critical biography" of Claude Debussy (Fayard, 2003) is widely recognized by scholars as the most comprehensive and reliable account of that composer's life and career as …
Music Theory and Mathematics
Chords, Collections, and Transformations
Av Jack Douthett, Martha Hyde m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1345 kr
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Essays in diatonic set theory, transformation theory, and neo-Riemannian theory -- the newest and most exciting fields in music theory today.The essays in Music Theory and Mathematics: Chords, Collections, and Transformations define the state of mathematically oriented music theory at the beginning …
Analyzing Wagner's Operas
Alfred Lorenz and German Nationalist Ideology
Inbunden, 1998
1357 kr
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An examination of work by the German music theorist, Alfred Lorenz, to explain Wagner's operas and how they fit with German nationalist ideology.The work of the Wagnerian theorist and analyst Alfred Lorenz (1869-1939) has had a profound influence upon both Wagnerian scholarship and music analysis …
Elliott Carter: Collected Essays and Lectures, 1937-1995
Av Elliott Carter, Jonathan W. Bernard m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
536 kr
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Elliott Carter [b.1908] is now generally acknowledged as America's most eminent living composer. This definitive volume of his essays and lectures -- many previously unpublished or uncollected -- shows his thinking and writing onmusic and associated issues developing in parallel with his career as …
Art of Musical Phrasing in the Eighteenth Century
Punctuating the Classical "Period"
Inbunden, 2008
1746 kr
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Practical suggestions, and documentary evidence, for performers wishing to understand the gestures and nuances embedded in eighteenth-century musical notation.There are, of course, no commas, periods, or question marks in music of the Baroque and Classic eras. Nonetheless, the concept of …
Berlioz: Past, Present, Future
Av Peter Bloom
Inbunden, 2003
1440 kr
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A collection of essays commemorating Hector Berlioz's life and work on the 200th anniversary of his birth.This far-reaching collection of heretofore unpublished studies ushers in the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Hector Berlioz [1803-1869]. The contributors include leading music …
French Organ Music from the Revolution to Franck and Widor
Av Lawrence Archbold, William J. Peterson m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
340 kr
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Essays by prominent scholars and organists examine the music of Franck and other nineteenth-century French organist-composers through stylistic analysis, study of compositional process, and exploration of how ideas about organ technique and performance-practice traditions developed and became …
Chansons of Orlando di Lasso and Their Protestant Listeners
Music, Piety, and Print in Sixteenth-Century France
Inbunden, 2001
1318 kr
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A study of how the secular lyrics of the French composer Orlando di Lasso were reworked by Protestant printers in the sixteenth century to convey new spiritual meanings.This book aims to enrich our understanding of the French secular music of Orlando di Lasso, using those songs as a means of …
Broadway Sound
The Autobiography and Selected Essays of Robert Russell Bennett
Av Estate of Robert Russell Bennett, George J. Ferencz m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
421 kr
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The previously unpublished autobiography and additional essays by the orchestrator-composer of some of America's most important musical theatre productions.The remarkable career of composer-orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett [1894-1981] encompassed a wide variety of both "legitimate" and popular …
Portrait of Percy Grainger
Av Malcolm Gillies, David Pear
Inbunden, 2002
1330 kr
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A unique treatment of the key influences on the life of this important Australian composer, consisting of oral histories by people who knew Grainger, as well as reflections from his own writings.Percy Grainger [1882-1961] was a pianist, composer, ethnographer, essayist, and much more. The …
Berlioz's Semi-Operas
Roméo et Juliette and La damnation de Faust
Inbunden, 2001
1290 kr
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A full-length study of two of Berlioz's most unique works, which combine the highest goals of both symphony and opera and incorporate two of the greatest classics of Western literature into a total fusion of the arts.This work studies two works that are among the most challenging of the entire …
Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz since 1945
Essays and Analytical Studies
Av Elizabeth West Marvin, Richard Hermann
Häftad, 2002
582 kr
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Interdisciplinary articles bridge the gulf between classical and popular music.Modern musical-analytical techniques are applied to a wide range of Western music, disregarding barriers between different kinds of music. Topics discussed fall into three sections: compositional poietics (poietics being …
Bach and the Pedal Clavichord
An Organist's Guide
Inbunden, 2004
1290 kr
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An examination of the role of the pedal clavichord in understanding the work of J. S. Bach, as well as its relevance to contemporary organ performances.Friederich Griepenkerl, in his 1844 introduction to Volume 1 of the first complete edition of J. S. Bach's organ works, wrote: "Actually the six …
Music of American Folk Song
and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music
Av Ruth Crawford Seeger, Larry Polansky
Häftad, 2003
308 kr
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This is the first complete publication of the late composer and scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger's major work on American folksongs. It preserves them as well as demonstrates how they should be played so that they remain a living partof the American musical tradition.This is the first publication of an …
Sea on Fire: Jean Barraqué
Inbunden, 2003
1330 kr
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The life and works of one of the most difficult yet rewarding composers of modern time.Jean Barraqué is increasingly being recognized as one of the great composers of the second half of the 20th century. Though he left only seven works, his voice in each of them is unmistakeable, and powerful. He …
Schumann's Piano Cycles and the Novels of Jean Paul
Av Erika Reiman
Inbunden, 2004
1440 kr
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A study on the influence which the German novelist Jean Paul Friedrich Richter had upon Robert Schumann's music.Robert Schumann frequently expressed his deep admiration for the novels of Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, the late-eighteenth-century German novelist, essayist, and satirist. Schumann …
Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach
Häftad, 2004
609 kr
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Few bodies of Western music are as widely respected, studied, and emulated as the fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach. Despite the esteem which Bach's contributions brought to the genre, however, the origin and early history of the fugue remain poorly understood. Theories of Fugue from the Age of …
Explaining Tonality
Schenkerian Theory and Beyond
Inbunden, 2005
1357 kr
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A defense of Schenkerian analysis of tonality in music.A wide range of music -- from Bach to Mozart and Brahms -- is marked by its use of some form of what is generally called "tonality": the tendency of music to focus melodically on some stable pitch or tonic and for its harmony to use functional …
Debussy's Letters to Inghelbrecht
The Story of a Musical Friendship
Inbunden, 2005
1278 kr
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The first English translation of the correspondence between two composers and friends.Désiré-Emile Inghelbrecht was a conductor and composer. His friendship with Claude Debussy began in 1911 (although they had met previously), and he soon became one of the Master's closest friends.This book is the …
Musical Madhouse
An English Translation of Berlioz's Les Grotesques de la musique
Av Hector Berlioz, Alastair Bruce
Häftad, 2005
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372 kr
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This is the first complete translation into English of Berlioz's second collection of musical articles, originally published in 1859. The work is a uniquely Berliozian combination of light-hearted journalism and serious musical comment and analysis.Hector Berlioz's Les Grotesques de la musique is …
Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair
Inbunden, 2005
1763 kr
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Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair explores the ways in which music was used, appropriated, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the six months of the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, thereby revealing the role and the sociopolitical uses of music in France and, more …
Irony and Sound
The Music of Maurice Ravel
Av Stephen Zank
Inbunden, 2009
1763 kr
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An insightful and exquisitely written reconsideration of Ravel's modernity, his teaching, and his place in twentieth-century music and culture.What is it about Boléro, Gaspard de la nuit, and Daphnis et Chloé that makes musicians and listeners alike love them so?Stephen Zank here illuminates these …
Bach's Changing World:
Voices in the Community
Av Carol Baron
Inbunden, 2006
1399 kr
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Bach's Changing World is a study of popular culture in the community in which Bach spent the last, the longest, and the most productive part of his life: the Leipzig middle-class.The Leipzig middle-class evolved with the cooperation and gratitude of an extravagant, greedy, and disinterested …
European Music and Musicians in New York City, 1840-1900
Inbunden, 2006
2933 kr
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The first thorough exploration of musical life in nineteenth-century New York City, with topics ranging from military bands and immigrant impresarios to visits from operatic diva Adelina Patti.The musical scene in mid-nineteenth century New York City, contrary to common belief, was exceptionally …
Rosary Cantoral
Ritual and Social Design in a Chantbook from Early Renaissance Toledo
Inbunden, 2008
1290 kr
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Unlocks the secrets behind the images and music of an important Spanish musical manuscript compiled for a brotherhood of suspected heretics ca. 1500.The Rosary Cantoral is a rare and beautifully decorated manuscript of Latin plainchant for the Catholic Mass compiled in Toledo, Spain, around the …
Substance of Things Heard
Writings about Music
Inbunden, 2005
1763 kr
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A choice selection of essays, reviews and interviews providing insights into musical performance, composition in the late 20th century and very early 21st, and the nature of opera.Paul Griffiths offers his own personal selection of some of his most substantial and imaginative articles and concert …
Wagner and Wagnerism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic Provinces
Reception, Enthusiasm, Cult
Av Hannu Salmi
Inbunden, 2005
1357 kr
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An exploration of how Wagner's operas were performed and received in the theaters of Stockholm and other cities of the region.Wagner and Wagnerism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic Provinces explores how Wagner's operas were performed and received in the theaters of Stockholm …
Letters I Never Mailed: Clues to a Life
Av Alec Wilder, David B. Demsey
Inbunden, 2005
559 kr
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Letters I Never Mailed: Clues to a Life, by Alec Wilder, in a new, annotated edition with introduction and supplementary material by David Demsey, foreword by jazz pianist Marian McPartland, and photographs by Louis Ouzer.Letters I Never Mailed: Clues to a Life, by Alec Wilder, in a new, annotated …
Berlioz: Scenes from the Life and Work
Av Peter Bloom
Inbunden, 2008
1357 kr
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New studies of the great French composer by Jacques Barzun, David Cairns, Joël-Marie Fauquet, Hugh Macdonald, Julian Rushton, and other prominent experts.These twelve essays bring new breadth and depth to our knowledge of the life and work of the composer of the Symphonie fantastique. A …
Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds
Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music
Av Ellie M. Hisama, Ray Allen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1357 kr
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Interdisciplinary perspectives on the life and work of the esteemed "ultra-modern" American composer and pioneering folk music activist, Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953).Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds offers new perspectives on the life and pioneering musical activities of American composer and folk …
