[PDF] Samuel Coleridge Taylor Musician eBook

Author : Charles Elford
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1781480109

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Black Mahler dramatically brings to life the true story of all but forgotten, English composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912). Born to a white mother and black father and raised in the London suburb of Croydon, Coleridge's titanic, choral trilogy, 'Hiawatha' makes this funny, generous and modest young man a worldwide sensation - overnight. Although hailed a cultural hero by African-Americans, Coleridge struggles against financial ruin, personal tragedy and seismic obstacles throughout his short life. Along the way, he unites a world. This moving, human life story will haunt the memory long after the final page is turned.

Author : Jeffrey Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317322630

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Green’s study is more than a biography of an Anglo-African composer.The first comprehensive study of Coleridge-Taylor’s life for almost a century, it reveals how class-ridden Britain could embrace even the most unlikely of cultural icons.

Author : W. C. Berwick Sayers
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 2008-06-01
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ISBN : 9781436564335

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : W. C. Berwick Sayers
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 23,16 MB
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780266456520

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Excerpt from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Musician: His Life and Letters Good excuse indeed must he have who seeks to draw aside the veil that every man places between the world and the sanctuary of his personal life. Particularly is this the case where such men as coleridge-taylor are concerned. When one remembers his disposition, his dislike of public adulation, his unwillingness to discuss his work or him self; when one remembers him in the artistes' room, waving aside with a word of smiling thanks the compli ments which were very Often showered upon him, and turning the conversation immediately to other and im personal channels; when one remembers, after his first great work had been received with unqualified enthusiasm by a large audience, that he crept away unnoticed from the hall of the Royal College of Music in order to escape con gratulation - the need for excuse seems more pronounced than ever. Fame he could not be said to have despised he had the natural and right - minded desire of every worker for a sound public appreciation of his work - but its direct expression from the lips of others he always avoided. Wrapped as he was in his art, there was never a man less self-centred. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : William Tortolano
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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During the late 1890s and early 1900s, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was an important and popular British composer. Respected by such contemporaries as Sir Arthur Sullivan, Sir Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, he attracted the attention of the British music critics, who followed his career with curious interest and often placed him in a class with other noted composers. A prolific composer during his short lifetime, he received great public acclaim and became known both nationally and internationally-his setting of Longfellow's Hiawatha was just as popular as Handel's Messiah in Victorian England. Although he composed Hiawatha when he was only twenty-three, Coleridge-Taylor already had reached a published opus of twenty-nine compositions. Born of a West African doctor and a British mother, Coleridge-Taylor belonged to two decidedly different cultures. Therefore, his compositional style was affected by two underlying currents: the classical tradition that dominated his training at the Royal College of Music, and the African and African-American folk music that was introduced to him through contacts with members of his father's race. This revised second edition, equipped with both an updated and expanded discography and bibliography, traces the development of his compositional style from his final years at the Royal College of Music to the time of his death in 1912. Also included is a list of his arrangements and later editions of his music. The author uses examples from selected works to show the influence of classical texts, West African and African-American elements, and English poetical dramas. Of particular interest are eight rare and/or never-before seen articles by and about this ground-breaking composer.