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Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

2006-07-01 Juvenile Nonfiction
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Release : 2006-07-01
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 372/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue by : Anna Harwell Celenza

Download or read book Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue written by Anna Harwell Celenza. This book was released on 2006-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Gershwin only has a few weeks to compose a concerto. His piece is supposed to exemplify American music and premiere at a concert entitled "An Experiment in Modern Music." Homesick for New York while rehearsing for a musical in Boston, he soon realizes that American music is much like its people, a great melting pot of sounds, rhythms, and harmonies. JoAnn Kitchel's illustrations capture the 1920s in all their art deco majesty.

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

1997-09-25 Music
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Release : 1997-09-25
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue by : David Schiff

Download or read book Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue written by David Schiff. This book was released on 1997-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue as musical work, historical event and cultural document.

Rhapsody in Blue

1994-11-02 Music
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Release : 1994-11-02
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 438/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Rhapsody in Blue by : George Gershwin

Download or read book Rhapsody in Blue written by George Gershwin. This book was released on 1994-11-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Rhapsody in blue

1998 Music
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Release : 1998
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 924/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Rhapsody in blue by : George Gershwin

Download or read book Rhapsody in blue written by George Gershwin. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wind accompaniment to George Gershwin's popular piano solo, Rhapsody in Blue, is based upon the 1924 and 1926 Grofe editions for jazz band and theatre orchestra. Donald Hunsberger has scored this edition for 23 players which produces a leaner and more muscular version to serve as a companion to Thomas Verrier's setting for full concert band or wind ensemble. (See Verrier listing above under Grade IV-V.)

Arranging Gershwin

2014 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2014
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Arranging Gershwin by : Ryan Raul Bañagale

Download or read book Arranging Gershwin written by Ryan Raul Bañagale. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Arranging Gershwin, author Ryan Bañagale approaches George Gershwin's iconic piece Rhapsody in Blue not as a composition but as an arrangement -- a status it has in many ways held since its inception in 1924, yet one unconsidered until now. Shifting emphasis away from the notion of the Rhapsody as a static work by a single composer, Bañagale posits a broad vision of the piece that acknowledges the efforts of a variety of collaborators who shaped the Rhapsody as we know it today. Arranging Gershwin sheds new light on familiar musicians such as Leonard Bernstein and Duke Ellington, introduces lesser-known figures such as Ferde Grofé and Larry Adler, and remaps the terrain of this emblematic piece of American music. At the same time, it expands on existing approaches to the study of arrangements -- an emerging and insightful realm of American music studies -- as well as challenges existing and entrenched definitions of composer and composition. Based on a host of newly discovered manuscripts, the book significantly alters existing historical and cultural conceptions of the Rhapsody. With additional forays into visual media, including the commercial advertising of United Airlines and Woody Allen's Manhattan, it moreover exemplifies how arrangements have contributed not only to the iconicity of Gershwin and Rhapsody in Blue, but also to music-making in America -- its people, their pursuits, and their processes.

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