[PDF] Musicians Composers Of The 20th Century eBook

Author : Alfred William Cramer
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain...these are the people who helped shape the history of music. Their stories and others are told in Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century. This five volume set offers biographical and critical essays on over 600 musicians in just about every genre imaginable, from Accordion Players to Musical Theater Composers to World Music, and everything in between.

Author : Jane Weiner LePage
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 25,5 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Lepage's latest volume comprises eighteen biographies.

Author : Ton de Leeuw
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 9053567658

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Ton de Leeuw was a truly groundbreaking composer. As evidenced by his pioneering study of compositional methods that melded Eastern traditional music with Western musical theory, he had a profound understanding of the complex and often divisive history of twentieth-century music. Now his renowned chronicle Music of the Twentieth Century is offered here in a newly revised English-language edition. Music of the Twentieth Century goes beyond a historical survey with its lucid and impassioned discussion of the elements, structures, compositional principles, and terminologies of twentieth-century music. De Leeuw draws on his experience as a composer, teacher, and music scholar of non-European music traditions, including Indian, Indonesian, and Japanese music, to examine how musical innovations that developed during the twentieth century transformed musical theory, composition, and scholarly thought around the globe.

Author : Patrick Kavanaugh
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0310208068

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This is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.

Author : Arnold Whittall
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780198166832

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Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century builds on the foundations of Music since the First World War (first published 1977, revised edition 1988). It updates and reshapes the original text and places it in the wider context of twentieth-century serious music before 1918 and after 1975. The focus is on matters of compositional technique, with sections of detailed analytical comment framed by more concise sketches of a range of twentieth-century composers from Faure to Wolfgang Rihm.Extensive music examples reinforce this technical focus. Though in no sense a history of music concerned primarily with the institutional and critical climate within which composers live and work, nor an encyclopedia dealing with every significant composer, Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century offers a critical engagement with that confrontation between tradition and innovation to which twentieth-century composers have responded with resourcefulness and vitality.

Author : George Gershwin
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 1994-11-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457493438

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To provide greater availability for a work of such importance, the original publishers secured from Gershwin a solo piano version wherein the orchestral parts are fused together with the solo piano part (PS0047). Due to concerns that the composer's arrangement presented too many technical demands to pianists not possessing the requisite technique, a modified arrangement was delicately solicited from pianists of the time. (Gershwin's untimely death precluded any modification from the composer himself.) Many attempts at technical modifications were rejected on ethical grounds until Herman Wasserman--who taught Gershwin to play the piano--submitted a manuscript which became this edition. Several prominent pianists who reviewed the score all attested to the amazing reduction in technical demands while retaining the clarity, sonority, and brilliance of the original. This edition is designed for Early Advanced pianists, although some sections, including the well-known Moderato middle section, are accessible to those performing at less-advanced levels.

Author : David McCleery
Publisher : Naxos Audio Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 10,98 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781843792376

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Author : John Mauceri
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 16,49 MB
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0300233701

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A prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries during the three great wars of the past century"[Mauceri's] writing is more exhilarating than any helicopter ride we have been on."--Air Mail "Fluently written and often cogent."--Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal This book offers a major reassessment of classical music in the twentieth century. John Mauceri argues that the history of music during this span was shaped by three major wars of that century: World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Probing why so few works have been added to the canon since 1930, Mauceri examines the trajectories of great composers who, following World War I, created voices that were unique and versatile, but superficially simpler. He contends that the fate of composers during World War II is inextricably linked to the political goals of their respective governments, resulting in the silencing of experimental music in Germany, Italy, and Russia; the exodus of composers to America; and the sudden return of experimental music--what he calls "the institutional avant-garde"--as the lingua franca of classical music in the West during the Cold War.