Author : Richard Cohn
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 2012-01-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 019977269X
Reconstructing historical conceptions of harmonic distance, Audacious Euphony advances a geometric model appropriate to understanding triadic progressions characteristic of 19th-century music. Author Rick Cohn uncovers the source of the indeterminacy and uncanniness of romantic music, as he focuses on the slippage between chromatic and diatonic progressions and the systematic principles under which each operate.
Author : Clive Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 24,83 MB
Release : 2004-05-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195347242
The past ten years have seen a rapidly growing interest in performing and recording Classical and Romantic music with period instruments; yet the relationship of composers' notation to performing practices during that period has received only sporadic attention from scholars, and many aspects of composers' intentions have remained uncertain. Brown here identifies areas in which musical notation conveyed rather different messages to the musicians for whom it was written than it does to modern performers, and seeks to look beyond the notation to understand how composers might have expected to hear their music realized in performance. There is ample evidence to demonstrate that, in many respects, the sound worlds in which Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, and Brahms created their music were more radically different from ours than is generally assumed.
Author : David Milsom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351571745
This volume brings together twenty-two of the most diverse and stimulating journal articles on classical and romantic performing practice, representing a rich vein of enquiry into epochs of music still very much at the forefront of current concert repertoire. In so doing, it provides a wide range of subject-based scholarship. It also reveals a fascinating window upon the historical performance debate of the last few decades in music where such matters still stimulate controversy.
Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385352115
An instant #1 New York Times Bestseller One of the most revered voices in literature today gives us a story of love, friendÂship, and heartbreak for the ages. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the remarkable story of a young man haunted by a great loss; of dreams and nightmares that have unintended consequences for the world around us; and of a journey into the past that is necessary to mend the present. A New York Times and Washington Post notable book, and one of the Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Slate, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, and BookPage's best books of the year
Author : Charles Rosen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 40,94 MB
Release : 1998-09-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780674779341
Accompanied by a sound disc (digital; 4 3/4 in.) by the same name which is available in Multimedia : CD 6.
Author : Jan Swafford
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 0465097553
A preeminent composer, music scholar, and biographer presents an engaging and accessible introduction to classical music For many of us, classical music is something serious -- something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at fancy gatherings. In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible to all. Ranging from Gregorian chant to Handel's Messiah, from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons to the postmodern work of Philip Glass, Swafford is an affable and expert guide to the genre. He traces the history of Western music, introduces readers to the most important composers and compositions, and explains the underlying structure and logic of their music. Language of the Spirit is essential reading for anyone who has ever wished to know more about this sublime art.
Author : David McCleery
Publisher : Naxos Audiobooks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,74 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9781843792369
Free website with music available, to access see page 4.
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 0744033470
What makes Mozart's music so great? Why does a minor chord sound sad and a major chord sound happy? What's the difference between opera and operetta? From Bach to Bernstein, this definitive guide offers a complete survey of the history of classical music. Whether you already love classical music or you're just beginning to explore it, The Complete Classical Music Guide invites you to discover the spirituality of Byrd's masses, the awesome power of Handel's Messiah, and the wonders of Wagner's operas, as well as hundreds of more composers and their masterpieces. This guide takes you on a journey through more than 1,000 years, charting the evolution of musical instruments, styles, and genres. Biographies of major and lesser-known composers offer rich insights into their music and the historical and cultural contexts that influenced their genius. The book explores the features that defined each musical era - from the ornate brilliance of the Baroque, through the drama of Romantic music, to contemporary genres such as minimalism and electronic music. Timelines, quotes, and color photographs give a voice to this music and the exceptionally gifted individuals who created it.
Author : Emma Sutton
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,70 MB
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748637885
This study is a groundbreaking investigation into the formative influence of music on Virginia Woolf's writing. In this unique study Emma Sutton discusses all of Woolf's novels as well as selected essays and short fiction, offering detailed commentaries on Woolf's numerous allusions to classical repertoire and to composers including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner. Sutton explores Woolf's interest in the contested relationship between politics and music, placing her work in a matrix of ideas about music and national identity, class, anti-Semitism, pacifism, sexuality and gender. The study also considers the formal influence of music - from fugue to Romantic opera - on Woolf's prose and narrative techniques. The analysis of music's role in Woolf's aesthetics and fiction is contextualized in accounts of her musical education, activities as a listener, and friendships with musicians; and the study outlines the relationship between her 'musicalized' work and that of contemporaries including Joyce, Lawr
Author : Charles Rosen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 44,3 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393040203
Presents a detailed analysis of the musical styles and forms developed by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven.
