[PDF] A Guide To The Concerto eBook

Author : Michael Steinberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 18,24 MB
Release : 2000-10-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 019802634X

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Michael Steinberg's 1996 volume The Symphony: A Reader's Guide received glowing reviews across America. It was hailed as "wonderfully clear...recommended warmly to music lovers on all levels" (Washington Post), "informed and thoughtful" (Chicago Tribune), and "composed by a master stylist" (San Francisco Chronicle). Seiji Ozawa wrote that "his beautiful and effortless prose speaks from the heart." Michael Tilson Thomas called The Symphony "an essential book for any concertgoer." Now comes the companion volume--The Concerto: A Listener's Guide. In this marvelous book, Steinberg discusses over 120 works, ranging from Johann Sebastian Bach in the 1720s to John Adams in 1994. Readers will find here the heart of the standard repertory, among them Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, eighteen of Mozart's piano concertos, all the concertos of Beethoven and Brahms, and major works by Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, Bruch, Dvora'k, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Elgar, Sibelius, Strauss, and Rachmaninoff. The book also provides luminous introductions to the achievement of twentieth-century masters such as Arnold Schoenberg, Be'la Barto'k, Igor Stravinsky, Alban Berg, Paul Hindemith, Sergei Prokofiev, Aaron Copland, and Elliott Carter. Steinberg examines the work of these musical giants with unflagging enthusiasm and bright style. He is a master of capturing the expressive, dramatic, and emotional values of the music and of conveying the historical and personal context in which these wondrous works were composed. His writing blends impeccable scholarship, deeply felt love of music, and entertaining whimsy. Here then is a superb journey through one of music's richest and most diverse forms, with Michael Steinberg along as host, guide, and the best of companions.

Author : Robert Layton
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN :

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A Guide to the Concerto offers a fascinating survey of the growth and development of the concerto form from its origins in the seventeenth century to the present day. Written by a team of internationally renowned scholars and critics under the editorship of Robert Layton, it will prove invaluable to all who wish to understand more about this perennially popular form and expand their knowledge of the concerto repertoire. Throughout, original and penetrating analyses that avoid technical jargon are illuminated by over 130 music examples. Among the many contributors are Dr. Robert Simpson, who discusses Beethoven's concertos with characteristic insight; H.C. Robbins Landon, foremost scholar of the Viennese classical period; David Brown, world authority on nineteenth-century Russian music; Michael Kennedy, author of acclaimed studies on Elgar and Britten, and Peter Dickinson, composer and leading writer on American music. Robert Layton himself provides an introduction and discography with hundreds of recommended recordings, and writes perceptively on the concerto in Scandinavia and the modern Russian concerto. Informative and accessible, A Guide to the Concerto will both illuminate and stimulate. No serious music lover should be without it.

Author : Stephan D. Lindeman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 2006-11-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135922055

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Twelve-tone and serial music were dominant forms of composition following World War II and remained so at least through the mid-1970s. In 1961, Ann Phillips Basart published the pioneering bibliographic work in the field.

Author : Michael Thomas Roeder
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Concerto
ISBN : 0931340616

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A History of the Concerto may be read from cover to cover, but readers may also use the extensive index to focus on specific concertos and their composers. Numerous musical examples illuminate critical points. While some readers may want to study the more detailed analyses with scores in hand, this is not essential for an understanding of the text.

Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 2005-10-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521834834

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A rare volume dedicated entirely to scholarship on the genre of the concerto.

Author : Ethan Mordden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Music appreciation
ISBN : 0195040414

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This authoritative guide gives the non-musician the fundamentals of orchestral music. It begins with a general introduction to the symphony and various musical styles and then describes, chronologically, over seven hundred pieces--from Vivaldi to twentieth-century composers. Mordden also includes a glossary of musical terms and other useful aids for the music lover.

Author : Malcolm Boyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 1993-09-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521387132

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The Brandenburg Concertos represent a pinnacle in the history of the Baroque concerto. This analysis places the concertos in their historical context, investigates their sources, traces their origins and discusses the changing traditions of performance.

Author : Abraham Veinus
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 19,81 MB
Release : 1964-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486211789

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The first thorough English-language exploration of the concerto as a musical form, this is an oft-quoted, authoritative survey. Examining the social, economic, and personal factors that influenced the concerto's growth, the work also summarizes the contributions of theorists, composers, and musicians and defines the genre's terms and the changing nature.