Author : Stanley Sadie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 1990-04-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521399425
For all those who love music and wish to know more about its colourful history, development and theory.
Author : Stanley Sadie
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Music
ISBN :
Author : James Parsons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,77 MB
Release : 2004-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521804714
Beginning several generations before Schubert, the Lied first appears as domestic entertainment. In the century that follows it becomes one of the primary modes of music-making. By the time German song comes to its presumed conclusion with Richard Strauss's 1948 Vier letzte Lieder, this rich repertoire has moved beyond the home and keyboard accompaniment to the symphony hall. This is a 2004 introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre. In essays by eminent scholars, this Companion places the Lied in its full context - at once musical, literary, and cultural - with chapters devoted to focal composers as well as important issues, such as the way in which the Lied influenced other musical genres, its use as a musical commodity, and issues of performance. The volume is framed by a detailed chronology of German music and poetry from the late 1730s to the present and also contains a comprehensive bibliography.
Author : Melanie Fritsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1108473024
A wide-ranging survey of video game music creation, practice, perception and analysis - clear, authoritative and up-to-date.
Author : José Antonio Bowen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107494788
In this wide-ranging inside view of the history and practice of conducting, analysis and advice comes directly from working conductors, including Sir Charles Mackerras on opera, Bramwell Tovey on being an Artistic Director, Martyn Brabbins on modern music, Leon Botstein on programming and Vance George on choral conducting, and from those who work closely with conductors: a leading violinist describes working as a soloist with Stokowski, Ormandy and Barbirolli, while Solti and Abbado's studio producer explains orchestral recording, and one of the world's most powerful managers tells all. The book includes advice on how to conduct different types of groups (choral, opera, symphony, early music) and provides a substantial history of conducting as a study of national traditions. It is an unusually honest book about a secretive industry and managers, artistic directors, soloists, players and conductors openly discuss their different perspectives for the first time.
Author : Kenneth Hamilton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139825755
This Companion provides an up-to-date view of the music of Franz Liszt, its contemporary context and performance practice, written by some of the leading specialists in the field of nineteenth-century music studies. Although a core of Liszt's piano music has always maintained a firm hold on the repertoire, his output was so vast, influential and multi-faceted that scholarship too has taken some time to assimilate his achievement. This book offers students and music lovers some of the latest views in an accessible form. Katharine Ellis, Alexander Rehding and James Deaville present the biographical and intellectual aspects of Liszt's legacy, Kenneth Hamilton, James Baker and Anna Celenza give a detailed account of Liszt's piano music - including approaches to performance - Monika Hennemann discusses Liszt's Lieder, and Reeves Shulstad and Dolores Pesce survey his orchestral and choral music.
Author : Thomas S. Grey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139825941
Richard Wagner is remembered as one of the most influential figures in music and theatre, but his place in history has been marked by a considerable amount of controversy. His attitudes towards the Jews and the appropriation of his operas by the Nazis, for example, have helped to construct a historical persona that sits uncomfortably with modern sensibilities. Yet Wagner's absolutely central position in the operatic canon continues. This volume serves as a timely reminder of his ongoing musical, cultural, and political impact. Contributions by specialists from such varied fields as musical history, German literature and cultural studies, opera production, and political science consider a range of topics, from trends and problems in the history of stage production to the representations of gender and sexuality. With the inclusion of invaluable and reliably up-to-date biographical data, this collection will be of great interest to scholars, students, and enthusiasts.
Author : Mark Everist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107495121
From the emergence of plainsong to the end of the fourteenth century, this Companion covers all the key aspects of medieval music. Divided into three main sections, the book first of all discusses repertory, styles and techniques - the key areas of traditional music histories; next taking a topographical view of the subject - from Italy, German-speaking lands, and the Iberian Peninsula; and concludes with chapters on such issues as liturgy, vernacular poetry and reception. Rather than presenting merely a chronological view of the history of medieval music, the volume instead focuses on technical and cultural aspects of the subject. Over nineteen informative chapters, fifteen world-leading scholars give a perspective on the music of the Middle Ages that will serve as a point of orientation for the informed listener and reader, and is a must-have guide for anyone with an interest in listening to and understanding medieval music.
Author : Laura Tunbridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521896444
Investigates how other types of music have influenced the scope of the song cycle, from operas and symphonies to popular song --
Author : Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 943 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316025667
Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, languages and nations throughout world history. The chapters in this History take readers to foundational historical moments – in Europe, Oceania, China, India, the Muslim world, North and South America – in search of the connections provided by a truly world music. Historically, world music emerged from ritual and religion, labor and life-cycles, which occupy chapters on Native American musicians, religious practices in India and Indonesia, and nationalism in Argentina and Portugal. The contributors critically examine music in cultural encounter and conflict, and as the critical core of scientific theories from the Arabic Middle Ages through the Enlightenment to postmodernism. Overall, the book contains the histories of the music of diverse cultures, which increasingly become the folk, popular and classical music of our own era.
