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Author : Daniel M. Grimley
Release : 2018-12-06
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 394/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Delius and the Sound of Place by : Daniel M. Grimley
Download or read book Delius and the Sound of Place written by Daniel M. Grimley. This book was released on 2018-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a radical and interdisciplinary analysis that will transform readers' understanding of this deeply compelling early twentieth-century composer.
Author : Daniel M. Grimley
Release : 2018-12-06
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 318/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Delius and the Sound of Place by : Daniel M. Grimley
Download or read book Delius and the Sound of Place written by Daniel M. Grimley. This book was released on 2018-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few composers have responded as powerfully to place as Frederick Delius (1862–1934). Born in Yorkshire, Delius resided in the United States, Germany, and Scandinavia before settling in France, where he spent the majority of his professional career. This book examines the role of place in selected works, including 'On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring', Appalachia, and The Song of the High Hills, reading place as a creative and historically mediated category in his music. Drawing on archival sources, contemporary art, and literature, and more recent writing in cultural geography and the philosophy of place, this is a new interpretation of Delius' work, and he emerges as one of the most original and compelling voices in early twentieth-century music. As the popularity of his music grows, this book challenges the idea of Delius as a large-scale rhapsodic composer, and reveals a richer and more productive relationship between place and music.
Author : Jeremy Dibble
Release : 2021
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 774/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Music of Frederick Delius by : Jeremy Dibble
Download or read book The Music of Frederick Delius written by Jeremy Dibble. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Delius's individual approaches to genre, form, harmony, orchestration and literary texts which gave the composer's musical style such a unique voice.
Author : Simon McVeigh
Release : 2024-05-21
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 345/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Music in Edwardian London by : Simon McVeigh
Download or read book Music in Edwardian London written by Simon McVeigh. This book was released on 2024-05-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traversing London's musical culture, this book boldly illuminates the emergence of Edwardian London as a beacon of musical innovation. The dawning of a new century saw London emerge as a hub in a fast-developing global music industry, mirroring Britain's pivotal position between the continent, the Americas and the British Empire. It was a period of expansion, experiment and entrepreneurial energy. Rather than conservative and inward-looking, London was invigorated by new ideas, from pioneering musical comedy and revue to the modernist departures of Debussy and Stravinsky. Meanwhile, Elgar, Holst, Vaughan Williams, and a host of ambitious younger composers sought to reposition British music in a rapidly evolving soundscape. Music was central to society at every level. Just as opulent theatres proliferated in the West End, concert life was revitalised by new symphony orchestras, by the Queen's Hall promenade concerts, and by Sunday concerts at the vast Albert Hall. Through innumerable band and gramophone concerts in the parks, music from Wagner to Irving Berlin became available as never before. The book envisions a burgeoning urban culture through a series of snapshots - daily musical life in all its messy diversity. While tackling themes of cosmopolitanism and nationalism, high and low brows, centres and peripheries, it evokes contemporary voices and characterful individuals to illuminate the period. Challenging issues include the barriers faced by women and people of colour, and attitudes inhibiting the new generation of British composers - not to mention embedded imperialist ideologies reflecting London's precarious position at the centre of Empire. Engagingly written, Simon McVeigh's groundbreaking book reveals the exhilarating transformation of music in Edwardian London, which laid the foundations for the century to come.
Author : Andrew J. Boyle
Release : 2017
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 99X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Delius and Norway by : Andrew J. Boyle
Download or read book Delius and Norway written by Andrew J. Boyle. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontcover -- Contents -- List of illustrations and tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Selected glossary of landscape terms used in place names -- 1 Norway's awakening -- 2 1862-1888: Bradford, Florida and Leipzig -- 3 1888-1889: With Grieg on the heights -- 4 1890-1891: 'C'est de la Norderie' -- 5 1892-1895: Norway lost -- 6 1896: Norway regained -- 7 1897: Front page news -- 8 1898-1902: Unshakeable self-belief -- 9 1903-1907: Breakthrough in Germany and England -- 10 1908-1912: Changes of direction -- 11 1912-1918: High hills, dark forests -- 12 1919-1934: Myth and reality in Lesjaskog -- Appendix I: List of visits to Norway -- Appendix II: Works with Norwegian and Danish texts and associations -- Selected bibliography and archival sources -- Index
