Book Description
An examination of the music of two great exponents of Baroque music and their influence on later composers.
Author : Joseph P. Swain
Publisher :
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 48,61 MB
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781576473139
An examination of the music of two great exponents of Baroque music and their influence on later composers.
Author : David Hurwitz
Publisher : Unlocking the Masters
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,17 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781574674873
This book takes the listener through Handel's entire output, from his earliest works in Italy, through his more than 40 operas, and including the famous English oratorios Along the way it examines his orchestral music, the pieces he wrote for England's lavish royal ceremonies, and his surprisingly limited production of sacred music.
Author : Archibald Thompson Davison
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Composers
ISBN :
Author : Craig M. Wright
Publisher :
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780314067524
Author : Paul Henry Lang
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 44,29 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486144593
Exceptionally full, detailed study of the man, his music and times. Childhood, music training, years in London; analysis of Messiah and other works; much more. Introduction. Includes 35 illustrations.
Author : Archibald Thompson Davison
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 1986-01-21
Category : Music
ISBN :
Author : Alfred Mann
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Choral music
ISBN :
Author : Paul Griffiths
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 168137580X
Shortlisted for the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize Based on the German composer's own correspondence, this inventive, counterfactual work of historical fiction imagines Beethoven traveling to America to write an oratorio based on the Book of Job. It is a matter of historical record that in 1823 the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston (active to this day) sought to commission Beethoven to write an oratorio. The premise of Paul Griffiths’s ingenious novel is that Beethoven accepted the commission and traveled to the United States to oversee its first performance. Griffiths grants the composer a few extra years of life and, starting with his voyage across the Atlantic and entry into Boston Harbor, chronicles his adventures and misadventures in a new world in which, great man though he is, he finds himself a new man. Relying entirely on historically attested possibilities to develop the plot, Griffiths shows Beethoven learning a form of sign language, struggling to rein in the uncertain inspiration of Reverend Ballou (his designated librettist), and finding a kindred spirit in the widowed Mrs. Hill, all the while keeping his hosts guessing as to whether he will come through with his promised composition. (And just what, the reader also wonders, will this new piece by Beethoven turn out to be?) The book that emerges is an improvisation, as virtuosic as it is delicate, on a historical theme.
Author : Patrick Kavanaugh
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0310208068
This is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.
Author : Charles Barnard
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 1870
Category :
ISBN :