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Author : Clayton W. Henderson
Release : 2008-07-02
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis The Charles Ives Tunebook, Second Edition by : Clayton W. Henderson
Download or read book The Charles Ives Tunebook, Second Edition written by Clayton W. Henderson. This book was released on 2008-07-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henderson provides important insights into the composer's body of work.
Author : Clayton W. Henderson
Release : 1990
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis The Charles Ives Tunebook by : Clayton W. Henderson
Download or read book The Charles Ives Tunebook written by Clayton W. Henderson. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Pace
Release : 2019-05-24
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Critical Perspectives on Michael Finnissy by : Ian Pace
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Michael Finnissy written by Ian Pace. This book was released on 2019-05-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The composer and pianist Michael Finnissy (b. 1946) is an unmistakeable presence in the British and international new music scene, both for his immeasurable generosity as prolific composer for many different types of musicians, major advocate for the works of others, and performer and conductor who has also been a driving force behind ensembles; he was also President of the International Society for Contemporary Music from 1990 to 1996. His vast and enormously varied output confounds those who seek easy categorisations: once associated strongly with the ‘new complexity’, Finnissy is equally known as composer regularly engaged with many different folk musics, for working with amateur and community musicians, for a long-term engagement with sacred music, or as an advocate of Anglo-American ‘experimental’ music. Twenty years ago, a large-scale volume entitled Uncommon Ground: The Music of Michael Finnissy gave the first major overview of the output of any ‘complex’ composer. This new volume brings a greater plurality of perspectives and critical sensibility to bear upon an output which is almost twice as large as it was when the earlier book was published. A range of leading contributors – musicologists, composers, performers and others – each grapple with particular questions relating to Finnissy’s music, often in ways which raise questions relating more widely to new music, and provide theoretical foundations for further of study both of Finnissy and other composers.
Author : Murray Steib
Release : 2013-12-02
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 692/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reader's Guide to Music by : Murray Steib
Download or read book Reader's Guide to Music written by Murray Steib. This book was released on 2013-12-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).
Author : David C Paul
Release : 2013-04-01
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 697/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Charles Ives in the Mirror by : David C Paul
Download or read book Charles Ives in the Mirror written by David C Paul. This book was released on 2013-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American composer Charles Ives (1874–1954) has gone from being a virtual unknown to become one of the most respected and lauded composers in American music. In this sweeping survey of intellectual and musical history, David C. Paul tells the new story of how Ives's music was shaped by shifting conceptions of American identity within and outside of musical culture, charting the changes in the reception of Ives across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. Paul focuses on the critics, composers, performers, and scholars whose contributions were most influential in shaping the critical discourse on Ives, many of them marquee names of American musical culture themselves, including Henry Cowell, Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, and Leonard Bernstein. Paul explores both how Ives positioned his music amid changing philosophical and aesthetic currents and how others interpreted his contributions to American music. Although Ives's initial efforts to find a public in the early twenties attracted a few devotees, the resurgence of interest in the American literary past during the thirties made a concert staple of his "Concord" Sonata, a work dedicated to nineteenth-century transcendentalist writers. Paul shows how Ives was subsequently deployed as an icon of American freedom during the early Cold War period and how he came to be instigated at the head of a line of "American maverick" composers. Paul also examines why a recent cadre of scholars has beset the composer with Gilded Age social anxieties. By embedding Ives' reception within the changing developments of a wide range of fields including intellectual history, American studies, literature, musicology, and American politics and society in general, Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an Iconic Composer greatly advances our understanding of Ives and his influence on nearly a century of American culture.
