Author : Guy Rickards
Publisher : Phaidon
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 1995-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This book presents the entwined biographies of three composers who, in this century, have dominated the mainstream development of German music.
Author : Guy Rickards
Publisher : Phaidon
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 1995-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This book presents the entwined biographies of three composers who, in this century, have dominated the mainstream development of German music.
Author : Michael H. Kater
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,46 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195099249
How does creativity thrive in the face of fascism? How can a highly artistic individual function professionally in so threatening a climate? The final book in a critically acclaimed trilogy that includes Different Drummers (OUP 1992) and The Twisted Muse (OUP 1997), this is a detailed study of the often interrelated careers of eight outstanding German composers who lived and worked amid the dictatorship of the Third Reich: Werner Egk, Paul Hindemith, Kurt Weill, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Carl Orff, Hans Pfitzner, Arnold Schoenberg, and Richard Strauss. Noted historian Michael H. Kater weighs issues of accommodation and resistance to ask whether these artists corrupted themselves in the service of a criminal regime -- and if so, whether this is evident in their music. He also considers the degrees to which the Nazis poetically, socially, economically, and aesthetically succeeded in their treatment of these individuals, whose lives and compositions represent diverse responses to totalitarianism.
Author : Claire Taylor-Jay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351546309
This is the first book-length study of the genre of 'artist-opera', in which the work's central character is an artist who is uncomfortable with his place in the world. It investigates how three such operas (Pfitzner's Palestrina (1915), Krenek's Jonny spielt auf (1926) and Hindemith's Mathis der Maler (1935)) contributed to the debate in early twentieth-century Germany about the place of art and the artist in modern society, and examines how far the artist-character may be taken as functioning as a persona for the real composer of the work. Because of their concern with the place of art within society, the works are also engaged with inherently political questions, and each opera is read in the light of the political context of its time: conservatism circa World War I, Americanism and democracy, and the rise of National Socialism.
Author : Stephen Luttmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135848416
Paul Hindemith: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a musician and teacher. The second edition includes research published since the publication of the first edition and provides electronic resources.
Author : Lawrence Kramer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135672423
Walt Whitman's poetry, especially his Civil War poetry, attracted settings by a wide variety of modern composers in both English- and German-speaking countries. The essays in this volume trace the transformation of Whitman's nineteenth-century texts into vehicles for confronting twentieth-century problems-aesthetic, social, and political. The contributors pay careful attention to music and poetry alike in examining how the Whitman settings become exemplary means of dealing with both the tragic and utopian faces of modernism. The book is accompanied by a CD recording by Joan Heller and Thomas Stumpf of complete Whitman cycles composed by Kurt Weill, George Crumb, and Lawrence Kramer, and the first recording of four Whitman songs composed in the 1920s by Marc Blitzstein.
Author : Stephen C. Downes
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 25,47 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107472884
Stephen Downes examines the work of Britten, Weill and Henze to explore the significance of Gustav Mahler for twentieth-century music.
Author : Murray Steib
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2624 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135942692
The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).
Author : Jonathan D. Green
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810833760
This innovative survey of large choral-orchestral works is a continuation of the author's previous study of twentieth century works with English texts. Green examines nearly one hundred works, from Rachmaninov's Vesna to Penderecki's Song of Songs. For each work, he provides a biography of the composer, complete instrumentation, text sources, editions, availability of performing materials, performance issues, discography, and bibliography of the composer and the work. Based upon direct score study, each work has been evaluated in terms of potential performance problems, rehearsal issues, and level of difficulty for both the choir and orchestra. When present, solo roles are described. The composers represented in this work include Bela Bartok, Leonard Bernstein, Ernest Bloch, Maurice Duruf , Hans Werner Henze, Paul Hindemith, Arthur Honegger, Leos Janacek, Gy rgy Ligeti, Gustav Mahler, Carl Orff, Krzysztof Penderecki, Francis Poulenc, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern, and Kurt Weill. Written as a field guide for conductors and others involved in programming concerts for choir and orchestra, this text will prove a useful source of new repertoire ideas and an invaluable aid to rehearsal preparation.
Author : Bernard Jacobson
Publisher : Phaidon
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 38,34 MB
Release : 1996-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Four Polish composers who changed the shape of music in the 20th-century.
