Early American Choral Music
Author : Irving Lowens
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
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Category : Music
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Author : Irving Lowens
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
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Category : Music
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Author : David P. DeVenney
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Music
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Author : Floyd Corson
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Page : 2 pages
File Size : 19,86 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble
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Author : David P. DeVenney
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780965064705
Author : John Mark Mulkey
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Choral music
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Author : Nym Cooke
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781567925593
The ultimate collection of early American choral music, including folk hymns from the 19th century. A two volume work in a sturdy slipcase, American Harmony includes full musical scores and complete verses for 176 pieces of music, 100 illustrations, over 100 pages of biographical information about composers and musical arrangers, and a CD recording of 35 pieces. The first volume of this set covers New England compositions from 1770 to 1815, the second volume covers a wide range of locations from 1813 to the present. Selections are drawn from well-known sources (such as the shape-note hymnal, The Sacred Harp) as less well known sources, all in their original harmonizations. The author, Nym Cooke, has made the study of shape-note music his life's work and is among the foremost authorities on the subject. Beginning his research in 1976, he has sung every one of the 5,000 pieces published in American tunebooks through 1810, researched the composers' biographies, and determined not only how the music should be presented in print, but also how it might best be performed in person. In addition to the music, the author's historical introduction and detailed critical commentary provide context. As The American Record Guide said, "American Harmony is a thing of beauty... not only to the eye but also the mind and the ear."
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Page : 81 pages
File Size : 38,17 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Choral singing
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Author : Donna M. Di Grazia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 34,77 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1136294090
Nineteenth-Century Choral Music is an in-depth examination of the rich repertoire of choral music and the cultural phenomenon of choral music making throughout the period. The book is divided into three main sections. The first details the attraction to choral singing and the ways it was linked to different parts of society, and to the role of choral voices in the two principal large-scale genres of the period: the symphony and opera. A second section highlights ten choral-orchestral masterworks that are a central part of the repertoire. The final section presents overview and focus chapters covering composers, repertoire (both small and larger works), and performance life in an historical context from over a dozen regions of the world: Britain and Ireland, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latin America, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia and Finland, Spain, and the United States. This diverse collection of essays brings together the work of 25 authors, many of whom have devoted much of their scholarly lives to the composers and music discussed, giving the reader a lively and unique perspective on this significant part of nineteenth-century musical life.
Author : David P. DeVenney
Publisher : Fallen Leaf Reference Books in Music
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 34,64 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Music
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Lowell Mason, Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Charles Ives, Edward MacDowell, and Arthur Foote are but some of the American composers featured in this guide.
Author : N. Lee Orr
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810836648
Choral music represented an important part of American cultural life during the nineteenth century, whether integral to worship or merely for entertainment. Despite this history, choral music remains one of the more neglected studies in the scholarly community. In an effort to fill this gap, N. Lee Orr and W. Dan Hardin offer a new approach to the study of choral music by mapping out and bringing bibliographical control to this expansive and challenging field of study. Their unique guide focuses on literature related to choral music in the United States from the end of the second decade of the nineteenth century through the earlier part of the twentieth century. Choral Music in Nineteenth-Century America explores the entire range of choral music conceived, written, published, rehearsed, and performed by an ensemble of singers gathered specifically to present the music before an audience or congregation. The guide expertly sifts through the extensive literature to cite the most notable sources for study and provides individual chapters on the leading nineteenth-century composers who were instrumental in the development of choral music.