Study of Selected Solo Vocal Works of Ernst Krenek

Study of Selected Solo Vocal Works of Ernst Krenek
Author: Yoon Hu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1991
Genre: Vocal music
ISBN:

The primary purpose of the study is to determine vocal difficulty for grading of Ernst Krenek's fifteen solo vocal works written between 1927 and 1931, and to discover and identify the several stylistic elements. The first chapter is a basic introduction. Included are a review of related literature, a definition of terminology, and an explanation of criteria. The second chapter gives a biographical sketch, concentrating on Krenek's activities as composer and scholar. Chapter Three is an analysis of the selected solo vocal works of Krenek involving both stylistic and vocal features. The study of the stylistic elements examined two things. The first was the style of vocal writing. The second was how the songs should be graded according to difficulty. Three levels of difficulty were considered: elementary, intermediate, and advanced. The individual songs, with specific examples, are discussed according to the following topics in stylistic analyses: form, rhythm and tempo, tonality, melodic style, harmony, phrases length, range, tessitura, diction, texture, and text setting. Chapter Four is a conclusion and summary.

An Imperishable Heritage: British Choral Music from Parry to Dyson

An Imperishable Heritage: British Choral Music from Parry to Dyson
Author: Stephen Town
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317181867

The rehabilitation of British music began with Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford. Ralph Vaughan Williams assisted in its emancipation from continental models, while Gerald Finzi, Edmund Rubbra and George Dyson flourished in its independence. Stephen Town's survey of Choral Music of the English Musical Renaissance is rooted in close examination of selected works from these composers. Town collates the substantial secondary literature on these composers, and brings to bear his own study of the autograph manuscripts. The latter form an unparalleled record of compositional process and shed new light on the compositions as they have come down to us in their published and recorded form. This close study of the sources allows Town to identify for the first time instances of similarity and imitation, continuities and connections between the works.

An Index to Music in Selected Historical Anthologies of Western Art Music, Part 2

An Index to Music in Selected Historical Anthologies of Western Art Music, Part 2
Author: Mara Parker
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0895798859

An Index to Music in Selected Historical Anthologies of Western Art Music is the essential reference for music history and music theory instructors for finding specific listings and details for all the pieces included in more than 140 anthologies published between 1931 and 2016. Containing over 5,000 individual listings, this concise book is an indispensable tool for teaching music history and theory. Since many anthologies exist in multiple editions, this Index provides instructors, students, and researches with the means to locate specific compositions in both print and online anthologies. This book includes listings by composer and title, as well as indexes of authors, titles, and first lines of text for music from antiquity through the early twenty-first century.

Composers in the Classroom

Composers in the Classroom
Author: James Michael Floyd
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2011-02-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1461657644

Composers in the Classroom is a bio-bibliographical dictionary, chronicling the careers and work of over 120 composers associated with conservatories, colleges, and universities in the United States and Puerto Rico. Scholars and students of music seeking critical information about composers who have taken on the mantle of instruction will find a wealth of detail on their subjects. Painstakingly obtained through direct correspondence with the composers themselves, Floyd includes within each entry a short biography of the composer's life and education, lists of previous positions, most prominent commissions, awards and honors, and notable performers of the subject's work. Each entry also contains a discography of the recordings and a bibliography of writings by the composer. Researchers will find especially useful the organization of each subject's compositions by a variety of types. These include vocal, choral/assembly, dramatic, keyboard, solo instrument, handbells, chamber music, jazz ensemble, band and wind ensemble, band and wind ensemble with solo instruments, orchestra, orchestra with solo instruments, film/television/commercial, electro-acoustic and multimedia, arrangements, transcriptions, and editions and reconstructions. Music scholars will find under each work not only the title and date of composition but also the date of revision, commission, and dedication information, as well as other pertinent details ranging from the names of collaborators to alternate titles under which works may circulate. Composers in the Classroom is an indispensable tool to scholars of modern music seeking to research the current state of musical composition and the compositional trends of the 21st century.

Postcolonial Readings of Music in World Literature

Postcolonial Readings of Music in World Literature
Author: Cameron Fae Bushnell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0415539560

This book reads representations of Western music in literary texts to reveal the ways in which artifacts of imperial culture function within contemporary world literature. Bushnell argues that Western music’s conventions for performance, composition, and listening, established during the colonial period, persist in postcolonial thought and practice. Music from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods (Bach through Brahms) coincides with the rise of colonialism, and Western music contains imperial attitudes and values embedded within its conventions, standards, and rules. The book focuses on the culture of classical music as reflected in the worlds of characters and texts and contends that its effects outlast the historical significance of the real composers, pieces, styles, and forms. Through examples by authors such as McEwan, Vikram Seth, Bernard MacLaverty, Chang-rae Lee, and J.M. Coetzee, the book demonstrates how Western music enters narrative as both acts of history and as structures of analogy that suggest subject positions, human relations, and political activity that, in turn, describes a postcolonial condition. The uses to which Western music is put in each literary text reveals how European art music of the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries is read and misread by postcolonial generations, exposing mostly hidden cultural structures that influence our contemporary understandings of social relations and hierarchies, norms for resolution and for assigning significance, and standards of propriety. The book presents strategies for thinking anew about the persistence of cultural imperialism, reading Western music simultaneously as representative of imperial, cultural dominance and as suggestive of resistant structures, forms, and practices that challenge the imperial hegemony.

Lamentations Through the Centuries

Lamentations Through the Centuries
Author: Paul M. Joyce
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2020-06-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1119673879

"I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is informative, thought-provoking, and despite being a commentary holds the reader's attention. It made me appreciate Lamentations in a new way. To be recommended." The Swedish Exegetical Yearbook 2014, 1 October 2014 One of the shortest books in the Bible, Lamentations exercises a disproportionately powerful cultural influence. As an unflinching account of the devastation wreaked by war, it has been called upon again and again by Jews, Christians, and others in their responses to catastrophes as varied as the destruction of the Jerusalem temple, the Great Fire of London, the Holocaust and 9/11. Covering two-and-a-half millennia of liturgy and literature, theology and psychology, art, music and film, this volume explores the astonishing variety of cultural and religious responses to Lamentations, taking in the New Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Yehudah Halevy, John Calvin, and Thomas Tallis, as well as the startling interpretations of Marc Chagall, Cynthia Ozick, Alice Miller, and Zimbabwean junk sculpture. Viewed through this kaleidoscope of sources, the ancient biblical text acquires a vital and resonant new life. Lamentations Through the Centuries is published within the Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries series. Further information about this innovative reception history series is available at www.bbibcomm.info.