Book Description
CD recording of Haydn's Symphony No. 45 ("Farewell") and Symphony No. 31 included.
Author : Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1570914060
CD recording of Haydn's Symphony No. 45 ("Farewell") and Symphony No. 31 included.
Author : Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher : Charlesbridge
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1632895013
Anna Harwell Celenza's engaging fictionalized telling of the story behind Franz Joseph Haydn's famous symphony is a perfect introduction to classical music and its power. THE FAREWELL SYMPHONY brings to life a long summer spent at Esterháza, the summer palace of Prince Nicholas of Esterházy. The blustering, bellowing prince entertained hundreds of guests at his rural retreat and demanded music for every occasion. As the months passed, Haydn was kept very busy writing and performing music for parties, balls, dinners, and even walks in the gardens. His orchestra members became homesick and missed their families. The anger, frustration, and longing of the musicians is expressed beautifully in the symphony born of the clever mind of Joseph Haydn who used it to convince Prince Nicholas that it was time to go home. Wonderfully expressive illustrations by JoAnn E. Kitchel capture all the comedy and pathos of this unique symphony. Beautifully interpretive motifs and borders convey the setting and emotion of the story mirroring the structure of the symphony with the repetitive use of sets of four. Making classical music and history come alive with color and character, THE FAREWELL SYMPHONY ensures a place for the arts in the hearts and minds of children.
Author : James Webster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521612012
This volume offers a new view of Joseph Haydn's instrumental music. It argues that many of Haydn's greatest and most characteristic instrumental works are 'through-composed' in the sense that their several movements are bound together into a cycle. This cyclic integration is articulated, among other ways, by the 'progressive' form of individual movements, structural and gestural links between the movements, and extramusical associations. Central to the study is a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the 'Farewell' Symphony, No. 45 in F sharp minor (1772). The analysis is distinguished by its systematic use of different methods (Toveyan formalism, Schenkerian voice leading, Schoenbergian developing variation) to elucidate the work's overall coherence. The work's unique musical processes, in turn, suggest an interpretation of the entire piece (not merely the famous 'farewell' finale) in terms of the familiar programmatic story of the musicians' wish to leave Castle Eszterhaza. In a book which relates systematically the results of analysis and interpretation, Professor Webster challenges the concept of 'classical style' which, he argues has distorted our understanding of Haydn's development, and he stresses the need for a greater appreciation of Haydn's early music and of his stature as Beethoven's equal.
Author : Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher : Charlesbridge
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1607344459
After learning that he is going deaf, Beethoven is determined to write a great symphony using the heroic deeds of Napoleon as his initial inspiration.
Author : Edmund White
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 1994-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0679755403
When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising--and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink--The Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age. "With intelligence, candor, humor--and anger--White explores the most insidious aspects of oppression.... An impressive novel."--Washington Post book World
Author : Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher : Charlesbridge
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1607344629
Depicts the story of how Antonio Vivaldi composed and wrote his famous Four Seasons concertos and the accompanying sonnets.
Author : William Henry Channing
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 1997-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780836236743
An 18th century poem about living a virtuous life and real satisfaction coming from contentment. 4-8 yrs.
Author : Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher : Charlesbridge
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 33,49 MB
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1607340372
George Gershwin only has a few weeks to compose a concerto. His piece is supposed to exemplify American music and premiere at a concert entitled "An Experiment in Modern Music." Homesick for New York while rehearsing for a musical in Boston, he soon realizes that American music is much like its people, a great melting pot of sounds, rhythms, and harmonies. JoAnn Kitchel's illustrations capture the 1920s in all their art deco majesty.
Author : Camille Saint-Saens
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,92 MB
Release : 1999-04-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780805061802
A silly story that presents an assortment of animals and an orchestra.
Author : Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1580895301
Discover the little-known story of Beethoven's beloved masterwork. As the best pianist in Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven had everything: talent, money, fame. But he also had a terrible secret. He was slowly going deaf. Though his hearing deserted him, the maestro never lost his music. Seeking inspiration for his compositions, Beethoven hit upon Napoleon Bonaparte, then considered a liberator and a folk hero. Soon after Beethoven completed the work, Napoleon declared himself Emperor of France; betrayed and enraged, Beethoven tore his copy of the score to pieces. But his friend Ferdinand rescued a copy, and in time, Beethoven renamed it Eroica: the Heroic Symphony, dedicated to hero in each and every one of us.