Antiphonies
Author : Justin Connolly
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Orchestral music
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Author : Justin Connolly
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Orchestral music
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Author : Christian David Ginsburg
Publisher :
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Bible
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Publisher :
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Bible
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Author : Jonathan Cross
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801486722
Sir Harrison Birtwistle is the most original, the most challenging, and the most controversial British composer of our time. His notoriously angular music is at once defiantly modernist and deeply indebted to the traditions, medieval and modern, of English music. Birtwistle composes for ensembles of every size and shape but is perhaps best known for his music for the opera stage. His opera Gawain, possibly his most famous work, is fully characteristic in its marriage of a modernist musical language and a mythic subject. Accessible to anyone with an interest in modern music, this book uncovers the sources of Birtwistle's art and presents a critical account of his musical, dramatic, and aesthetic preoccupations through an exploration of such topics as theater, myth, ritual, pastoral, pulse, and line. It places Birtwistle in a broad cultural context, examining the composers and painters who have influenced his work.
Author : Edward Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316715167
Pierre Boulez is acknowledged as one of the most important composers in contemporary musical life. This collection explores his works, influence, reception and legacy, shedding new light on Boulez's music and its historical and cultural contexts. In two sections that focus firstly on the context of the 1940s and 1950s, and secondly on the development of the composer's style, the contributors address recurring themes such as Boulez's approach to the serial principle and the related issues of form and large-scale structure. Featuring excerpts from Boulez's correspondence with a range of his contemporaries here published for the first time, the book illuminates both Boulez's relationship with them and his thinking concerning the challenges which confronted both him and other leading figures of the European avant-garde. In the final section, three chapters examine Boulez's relationship with audiences in the United Kingdom, and the development of the appreciation of his music.
Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher :
Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 1891
Category : History
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Author : Peter O'Hagan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 1315517841
Pierre Boulez's first piano pieces date from his youth, prior to his studies in Paris with Messiaen, and his subsequent meteoric rise to international acclaim as the leader of the musical avant-garde during the 1950s. His most recent published work is a solo piano piece, Une page d’éphéméride, written some sixty years after his first attempts at composition. The piano has remained central to Boulez's creative work throughout his career, and although his renown as a conductor has to some extent overshadowed his other achievements, it was as a performer of his own piano music that his practical gifts first found expression. Peter O'Hagan has given performances of various unpublished piano works by Boulez, including Antiphonie from the Third Sonata and Trois Psalmodies. In this study, he considers Boulez's writing for the piano in the context of the composer's stylistic evolution throughout the course of his development. Each of the principal works is considered in detail, not only on its own terms, but also as a stage in Boulez's ongoing quest to invent radical solutions to the renewal of musical language and to reinvigorate tradition. The volume includes reference to hitherto unpublished source material, which sheds light on his working methods and on the interrelationship between works.
Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher :
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 1892
Category : History
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Donated by Sydney Harris.
Author : Christian Karl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen
Publisher :
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Church history
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Author : Christian J. B. Bunsen
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 1854
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