The Unashamed Accompanist

The Unashamed Accompanist
Author: Gerald Moore
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Total Pages: 125
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780531097717

The author provides detailed advice about the art of piano accompaniment, including preparation, practice, rehearsal, and work with orchestras, violins, and string sections

Falling Slowly

Falling Slowly
Author: Anita Brookner
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-08-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307826244

The brilliant Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Times as "one of the finest novelists of her generation," now gives us a stunning story of two sisters and the strange patterns of identity and love. The Sharpe sisters have lived a careful and contemplative existence. Miriam is a translator of French texts and Beatrice a moderately successful pianist. Their lives of quiet sophistication are suddenly interrupted by several complicated men: Max, Beatrice's agent; Simon, a handsome and charming married man; and Tom Rivers, a journalist who befriends Miriam. These men create disorder in the Sharpe sisters' controlled lives as Miriam, the unromantic stoic of the two, begins an affair and Beatrice's career undergoes an unexpected change. The exquisite writing, affecting characters, and astonishing psychological perceptions for which Anita Brookner is famous are evident on every page of this beautiful novel by a modern master.

The Accompanist

The Accompanist
Author: Robert L. Quinn
Publisher: Ogma Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0978585321

A young musician's illusions of concert greatness are demolished by an enigmatic baritone named Dewallisch who persuades him to take a lesser role as accompanist, abandon his girlfriend and take to the road of art and lechery. The combination of idealism in music and decadence offstage lead the musician to believe he is engaged in a Faustian pact from which he must escape...

Am I Too Loud?

Am I Too Loud?
Author: Gerald Moore
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1962
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Famous British accompanist recalls his association with singers, violinists, and others. Includes many anecdotes, praise where it is due, and some remarks on artistic temperament.

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Author: Erving Goffman
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-09-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0593468295

A notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves. This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others. Dr. Goffman uses the metaphor of theatrical performance as a framework. Each person in everyday social intercourse presents himself and his activity to others, attempts to guide and cotnrol the impressions they form of him, and employs certain techniques in order to sustain his performance, just as an actor presents a character to an audience. The discussions of these social techniques offered here are based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions.

Édith Piaf

Édith Piaf
Author: David Looseley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2015
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1781382573

The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an 'imagined Piaf.

Repertorium Bibliographicum

Repertorium Bibliographicum
Author: Ludwig Hain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2010-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781888262186

2010 Reprint of 1931 Edition. Giovanni Battista Lamperti (1839 -1910) was an Italian singing teacher and son of the singing teacher Francesco Lamperti. He is source for Vocal Wisdom: Maxims of Giovanni Battista Lamperti (1931). His preferred teaching arrangement was having three or four students present at each lesson: each would get their turn while the others observed and learned thereby. He was said to be a strict, exacting instructor not given to flattery, but who enthusiastically praised his students upon exceptional achievement. Many of Giovanni's students became international opera stars including Irene Abendroth, Marcella Sembrich, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Paul Bulss, Roberto Stagno, David Bispham and Franz Nachbaur. The Technics of Bel Canto is the only book (other than the maxims recalled and published posthumously by his pupil William E. Brown) that Giovanni ever wrote on his method.