Ernest Bloch Lectures – serie
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15 produkter
Bela Bartok
Composition, Concepts, and Autograph Sources
Inbunden, 1996
705 kr
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This long-awaited, authoritative account of Bartok's compositional processes stresses the composer's position as one of the masters of Western music history and avoids a purely theoretical approach or one that emphasizes him as an enthusiast for Hungarian folk music. For Bela Bartok, composition …
Listening Composer
Av George Perle
Häftad, 1996
290 kr
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George Perle takes us into the composer's workshop as he reevaluates what we call 'twentieth-century music' - a term used to refer to new or modern or contemporary music that represents a radical break from the tonal tradition, or 'common practice', of the preceding three centuries. He proposes …
American Musical Landscape
The Business of Musicianship from Billings to Gershwin, Updated With a New Preface
Häftad, 2000
441 kr
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In this refreshingly direct and engaging historical treatment of American music and musicology, Richard Crawford argues for the recognition of the distinct and vital character of American music. What is that character? How has musical life been supported in the United States and how have Americans …
Conventional Wisdom
The Content of Musical Form
Häftad, 2001
272 kr
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With her usual combination of erudition, innovation, and spirited prose, Susan McClary reexamines the concept of musical convention in this fast-moving and refreshingly accessible book. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, "Conventional Wisdom" offers an …
Remaking the Song
Operatic Visions and Revisions from Handel to Berio
Av Roger Parker
Inbunden, 2006
759 kr
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Opera performances are often radically inventive. Composers' revisions, singers' improvisations, and stage directors' re-imaginings continually challenge our visions of canonical works. But do they go far enough? This elegantly written, beautifully concise book, spanning almost the entire history …
Secular Commedia
Comic Mimesis in Late Eighteenth-Century Music
Av Wye Jamison Allanbrook, Mary Ann Smart m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
538 kr
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Wye Jamison Allanbrook's The Secular Commedia is a stimulating and original rethinking of the music of the late eighteenth century. Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart with an ear tuned to operatic style, as their earliest listeners did, Allanbrook shows that this familiar …
Castrato
Reflections on Natures and Kinds
Inbunden, 2015
538 kr
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The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of …
Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music
Singing Devils and Distant Sounds
Inbunden, 2014
726 kr
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Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic period--Mahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Puccini--regarded by many critics as perhaps not quite of the first rank? Why has modernist discourse continued to brand these works as overly sentimental and emotionally …
Castrato
Reflections on Natures and Kinds
Häftad, 2016
316 kr
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The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of …
Composition and Cognition
Reflections on Contemporary Music and the Musical Mind
Av Fred Lerdahl
Inbunden, 2019
847 kr
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In Composition and Cognition, renowned composer and theorist Fred Lerdahl builds on his careerlong work of developing a comprehensive model of music cognition. Bringing together his dual expertise in composition and music theory, he reveals the way in which his research has served as a foundation …
Composition and Cognition
Reflections on Contemporary Music and the Musical Mind
Av Fred Lerdahl
Häftad, 2019
316 kr
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In Composition and Cognition, renowned composer and theorist Fred Lerdahl builds on his careerlong work of developing a comprehensive model of music cognition. Bringing together his dual expertise in composition and music theory, he reveals the way in which his research has served as a foundation …
Composer's Voice
Häftad, 1974
530 kr
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Music, we are often told, is a language. But if music is a language, then who is speaking? The Composer's Voice tries to answer this obvious but infrequently raised question. In so doing, it puts forward a dramatistic theory of musical expression, based on the view that every composition is a …
Essays on Italian Poetry and Music in the Renaissance, 1350-1600
Av James Haar
Häftad, 1986
575 kr
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These essays illuminate the changing nature of text-music relationships from the time of Petrarch to Guarini and, in music, from the madrigals of Giovanni da Cascia to those of Gesualdo da Venosa. Haar traces a line of development from the stylized rhetoric of Trecento song through the popularizing …
Composer's Voice
Inbunden, 1974
1227 kr
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Music, we are often told, is a language. But if music is a language, then who is speaking? The Composer's Voice tries to answer this obvious but infrequently raised question. In so doing, it puts forward a dramatistic theory of musical expression, based on the view that every composition is a …
Essays on Italian Poetry and Music in the Renaissance, 1350-1600
Av James Haar
Inbunden, 1986
1329 kr
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These essays illuminate the changing nature of text-music relationships from the time of Petrarch to Guarini and, in music, from the madrigals of Giovanni da Cascia to those of Gesualdo da Venosa. Haar traces a line of development from the stylized rhetoric of Trecento song through the popularizing …
