[PDF] Twentieth And Twenty First Century Song Cycles eBook

Author : Gordon Cameron Sly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 18,13 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Song cycles
ISBN : 9780367220266

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Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles: Analytical Pathways Toward Performance presents analyses of fourteen song cycles composed after the turn of the twentieth century, with a focus on offering "ways into" the musical and poetic structure of each cycle to performers, scholars, and students alike. Ranging from familiar works of twentieth-century music by composers such as Schoenberg, Britten, Poulenc, and Shostakovich to lesser-known works by Van Wyk, Sviridov, Wheeler, and Sánchez, this collection of essays captures the diversity of the song cycle repertoire in contemporary classical music. The contributors bring their own analytical perspectives and methods, considering musical structures, the composers' selection of texts, how poetic narratives are expressed, and historical context. Informed by music history, music theory, and performance, Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles offers an essential guide into the contemporary art-music song cycle for performers, scholars, students, and anyone seeking to understand this unique genre.

Author : Gordon Sly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 30,3 MB
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 1000219763

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Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles: Analytical Pathways Toward Performance presents analyses of fourteen song cycles composed after the turn of the twentieth century, with a focus on offering ways into the musical and poetic structure of each cycle to performers, scholars, and students alike. Ranging from familiar works of twentieth-century music by composers such as Schoenberg, Britten, Poulenc, and Shostakovich to lesser-known works by Van Wyk, Sviridov, Wheeler, and Sánchez, this collection of essays captures the diversity of the song cycle repertoire in contemporary classical music. The contributors bring their own analytical perspectives and methods, considering musical structures, the composers' selection of texts, how poetic narratives are expressed, and historical context. Informed by music history, music theory, and performance, Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles offers an essential guide into the contemporary art-music song cycle for performers, scholars, students, and anyone seeking to understand this unique genre.

Author : Steven Joel Elster
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Creation
ISBN :

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This study addresses music-making throughout a relatively large geographical region, one that extends beyond Southern California to include part of Northern Baja California in Mexico and also a portion of Arizona, an area designated here as the Extended Southern California Region (ESCR). Throughout the ESCR, singers from the various tribes perform "song cycles." A night-long performance of a song cycle generally involves the singing of a series of some 200 to 300 individual songs. In ESCR music, the melody of each song, its words, the rhythm of the percussion instruments used (most commonly hand-held gourd rattles), and the dance steps are closely integrated. The songs in a song cycle are divided into sets, each consisting of two or more songs. During the first half ot eh 20th century, a number of scholars, including Constance DuBois, Francis Densmore, Alfred Kroeber, Duncan Strong, and Ruth Underhill, studied the culture of one or more tribes. In the process, many of these researchers created transcriptions of songs and/or of the creation stories of a particular tribe. With their transcriptions of creation stories, most scholars sought to create a record of the narrative of each story, but they did not focus on the related question of documenting how each singer-storyteller told his story. However, a survey of a selection of these creation story-texts, taken from different parts of the region in question, shows that they contain a number of clues regarding how they may have been told. Many creation-story texts are divided into episodes, most of which are associated with a set of songs. A rendition of some creation stories may have involved both singing and telling, that is, spoken narration; furthermore, creation stories and song cycles may be similar both in the manner of their performance and in their overall structure.

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Publisher : Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 2006-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781423412182

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(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). This lyric American master is celebrated in comprehensive collections of some of the greatest achievements in setting words to music in the 20th century. Fascinating, extensive essays by the composer give fresh insights into these masterworks. The Medium/Low Voice edition includes the first published transpositions of Songs about Spring and Six Elizabethan Songs. Contents: SONGS ABOUT SPRING: Who Knows if the Moon's a Balloon * Spring is like a Perhaps Hand * In Just-spring * In Spring Comes * When Faces Called Flowers Float out of the Ground * SIX ELIZABETHAN SONGS: Spring * Sleep * Winter * Dirge * Diaphenia * Hymn * FROM THE DIARY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF: The Diary * Anxiety * Fancy * Hardy's Funeral * Rome * War * Parents * Last Entry * THE ANDREE EXPEDITION: PART ONE: IN THE AIR: Prologue * the Balloon Rises * Pride and Ambition * Dinner Aloft * The Unforeseen Problem * the Flight Aborted * PART TWO: ON THE ICE: Mishap with a Sledge * The King's Jubilee * Illness and Drugs * Hallucinations * Anna's Birthday * Epilogue * Final Words * CASA GUIDI: Casa Guidi * The Italian Cook and the English Maid * Robert Browning * The Death of Mr. Barrett * Domesticity * MISS MANNERS ON MUSIC: Prologue * Manners at a Concert * Manners at the Ballet * Manners for Contemporary Music * Manners at a Church Recital * Manners at the Opera * Envoi

Author : Jane Manning
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199390967

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"This book contains a diverse array of contemporary vocal music available in the 20th century. It provides specific pieces for different voices, abilities, and occasions. Choices range from substantial song cycles to shorter pieces suitable for encores, examinations, or auditions. Almost all works are for voice and piano, but there are some for solo voice. This volume also contains a rich variety of musical styles, which is reflected here along with some revised and updated articles on works featured in the previous edition, in order to keep them in circulation. Furthermore, this volume includes the broadest possible selection of works which are confined to settings of the English language. However, two works in Latin as well as one piece in fake 'Russian' are the only exceptions. In addition, there are certain songs culled from some diploma syllabus many years ago, which seem to have progressed unchallenged through successive generations despite a wealth of viable alternatives. Teachers can thus be inclined to steer students in the direction of pieces they are already familiar with in this book"--

Author : Stephen Banfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521379441

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The history of English song from the late nineteenth century to the Second World War.

Author : Jane Manning
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 019939105X

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Described as the "life and soul of British contemporary music", Jane Manning is an internationally celebrated English concert and opera soprano. In this new follow-up to her highly regarded New Vocal Repertory, Volumes I and II, she provides a seasoned expert's guidance and insight into the vocal genre she calls home. Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century spans the late middle-20th century through the second decade of the 21st. Manning's comprehensive selection of contemporary art songs ranges from the avant-garde to the more easily accessible, including substantial song cycles, shorter encore pieces, and songs suitable for auditions and competitions. The two-volume guide presents expertly-informed selections tailored to particular voice types. Each of the 160 selections is accompanied by a highly detailed performance guide, music examples, levels of difficulty, and a brief encapsulation of vocal characteristics or challenges contained in the piece. A supplemental companion website provides composer biographies and an up-to-date list of recommended recordings. With a focus on younger composers in addition to prominent figures, Manning encourages singers to refresh and expand their recital repertoire into less familiar territory, and discover the rewards therein. Volume 1 features works written before 2000, including pieces from such renowned composers as John Cage ("The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs", "A Flower"), André Previn ("Five Songs"), and Igor Stravinsky ("The Owl and the Pussycat").