The 20th Century A-GI

The 20th Century A-GI
Author: Frank N. Magill
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1426
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136593349

Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.

A History of Song

A History of Song
Author: Denis Stevens
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1961
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780393005363

Story of almost a thousand years of song, from the time of the troubadours, to the present day.

A Conductor's Guide to Choral-orchestral Works, Twentieth Century, Part II

A Conductor's Guide to Choral-orchestral Works, Twentieth Century, Part II
Author: Jonathan D. Green
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1998
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780810833760

This innovative survey of large choral-orchestral works is a continuation of the author's previous study of twentieth century works with English texts. Green examines nearly one hundred works, from Rachmaninov's Vesna to Penderecki's Song of Songs. For each work, he provides a biography of the composer, complete instrumentation, text sources, editions, availability of performing materials, performance issues, discography, and bibliography of the composer and the work. Based upon direct score study, each work has been evaluated in terms of potential performance problems, rehearsal issues, and level of difficulty for both the choir and orchestra. When present, solo roles are described. The composers represented in this work include Bela Bartok, Leonard Bernstein, Ernest Bloch, Maurice Duruf , Hans Werner Henze, Paul Hindemith, Arthur Honegger, Leos Janacek, Gy rgy Ligeti, Gustav Mahler, Carl Orff, Krzysztof Penderecki, Francis Poulenc, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern, and Kurt Weill. Written as a field guide for conductors and others involved in programming concerts for choir and orchestra, this text will prove a useful source of new repertoire ideas and an invaluable aid to rehearsal preparation.

Research Materials in Music

Research Materials in Music
Author: Phillip R. Rehfeldt
Publisher: Phillip Rehfeldt/MillCreekPublishing
Total Pages: 141
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0933251114

This text was developed for use in a standard college-level "introduction to graduate studies" course in musicology that I taught for thirty-three years at the University of Redlands.

Evenings with the Orchestra

Evenings with the Orchestra
Author: D. Kern Holoman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 768
Release: 1992
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780393029369

Going to concerts is becoming, for large numbers of Americans, an increasingly frequent pleasure. For those who encounter unfamiliar traditions and terms in the concert hall, here is information and advice which tells all listeners what they need to know to be comfortable at an orchestral concert. Includes background, biographies, and discussions of 200 masterpieces. Drawings.

Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen
Author: Vincent Benitez
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2017-09-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 135158913X

Olivier Messiaen: A Research and Information Guide, Second Edition presents researchers with the most significant and helpful resources on Olivier Messiaen, one of the twentieth century's greatest composers. With multiple indices, this annotated bibliography will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars sorting through the massive amount of material in the field. The second edition has been fully revised and updated.

The Music of Frank Bridge

The Music of Frank Bridge
Author: Fabian Huss
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2015
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1783270594

A detailed and long-overdue study of Frank Bridge's music and its socio-cultural and aesthetic contexts

The New Grove Schubert

The New Grove Schubert
Author: Maurice John Edwin Brown
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1983
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393315868

Traces the life of Franz Schubert, describes the development of his muscial career, and discusses the composition of his major works.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern French Culture

The Cambridge Companion to Modern French Culture
Author: Nicholas Hewitt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2003-09-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521794657

France entered the twentieth century as a powerful European and colonial nation. In the course of the century, her role changed dramatically: in the first fifty years two World Wars and economic decline removed its status as a world power, whilst the immediate post-war era was marked by wars of independence in its colonies. Yet at the same time, in the second half of the century, France entered a period of unprecedented growth and social transformation. Throughout the century and into the new millennium France retained its former international reputation as a centre for cultural excellence and innovation and its culture, together with that of the Francophone world, reflected the increased richness and diversity of the period. This 2003 Companion explores this vibrant culture, and includes chapters on history, language, literature, thought, theatre, architecture, visual culture, film and music, and discuss the contributions of popular culture, Francophone culture, minorities and women.

Satie the Composer

Satie the Composer
Author: Robert Orledge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1990-10-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521350372

Erik Satie remains one of the most bizarre figures in music history, yet everything he did has its own curious logic, once it can be perceived. In this important new study Dr Orledge reveals what made Satie 'tick' as a composer, dealing with every aspect of Satie's complex career and relating his achievement to the other arts and to the society in which he lived. Almost every figure in contemporary art was involved with Satie in some way or another, from Matisse and Picasso to Apollinaire, Cocteau and Brancusi. This, however, is no mere life-and-works study but rather an exploration of the technique behind Satie's art, which foreshadowed most of the 'advances' of twentieth-century music from serialism to minimalism, and even muzak. As the book progresses Satie appears as far more than just the composer of the popular Gymnopédies and Parade.