Famous Composers and Their Works
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Page : 338 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Composers
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Page : 338 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Composers
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Author : Tim Blanning
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 33,9 MB
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0674417275
A distinguished historian chronicles the rise of music and musicians in the West from lowly balladeers to masters employed by fickle patrons, to the great composers of genius, to today’s rock stars. How, he asks, did music progress from subordinate status to its present position of supremacy among the creative arts? Mozart was literally booted out of the service of the Archbishop of Salzburg “with a kick to my arse,” as he expressed it. Yet, less than a hundred years later, Europe’s most powerful ruler—Emperor William I of Germany—paid homage to Wagner by traveling to Bayreuth to attend the debut of The Ring. Today Bono, who was touted as the next president of the World Bank in 2006, travels the world, advising politicians—and they seem to listen. The path to fame and independence began when new instruments allowed musicians to showcase their creativity, and music publishing allowed masterworks to be performed widely in concert halls erected to accommodate growing public interest. No longer merely an instrument to celebrate the greater glory of a reigning sovereign or Supreme Being, music was, by the nineteenth century, to be worshipped in its own right. In the twentieth century, new technological, social, and spatial forces combined to make music ever more popular and ubiquitous. In a concluding chapter, Tim Blanning considers music in conjunction with nationalism, race, and sex. Although not always in step, music, society, and politics, he shows, march in the same direction.
Author : Alfred William Cramer
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Page : 386 pages
File Size : 23,93 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain...these are the people who helped shape the history of music. Their stories and others are told in Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century. This five volume set offers biographical and critical essays on over 600 musicians in just about every genre imaginable, from Accordion Players to Musical Theater Composers to World Music, and everything in between.
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Music
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Author : Ignace Jan Paderewski
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Composers
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Author : Bryan R. Simms
Publisher : Schirmer G Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Music
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Composers on Modern Musical Culture focuses on issues of composition and style through a collection of original writings by major 20th century composers. Students are engaged by the wide spectrum of issues and composers that are represented.
Author : John Joseph Brown
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Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 1883
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Author : Theodore Thomas
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Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,18 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Composers
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Author : Theodore Thomas
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Page : 240 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Composers
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Author : William Bingley
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Page : 420 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 1814
Category : Composers
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