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By: Stewart R. Craggs
ISBN: 9780313273216
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Publication Date: May 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This bibliography documents the prolific output of the Welsh composer Alun Hoddinott, artistic director of the Cardiff Festival of Twentieth- Century Music. 278 musical works are catalogued, along with derived pieces composed between 1946 and 1991. An introductory biography is included.
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By: John H. Yoell
ISBN: 9780313273674
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Publication Date: Nov 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Compiled in cooperation with the Antonin Dvorak Society of Prague, Czechoslovakia, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, this is the first book-length discography on Dvorak.
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Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1979
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Focusing his studies on the organ fugues, the 48, the Art of Fugues, and the choral fugues, Dickinson analyzes the polyphonic musical compositions before and after Bach.
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By: Peter Laki
ISBN: 9780691006338
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Publication Date: Nov 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Bela Bartok, who died in New York, is one of the most frequently performed twentieth-century composers. He is also the subject of a growing critical and analytical literature. Divided into three parts, this volume aims to provide insights into the life and reception of this musician, especially in Hungary.
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By: Peter J. Davies
ISBN: 9780313315879
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Publication Date: May 2001
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This critical reevaluation of the causes of many of Beethoven's illnesses offers detailed accounts of the treatments applied by his physicians and a comprehensive rendering of the composer's final illness, death, and burial.
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By: Stewart R. Craggs
ISBN: 9780313295317
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Publication Date: Nov 2001
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Certain to be of use to any scholar of British music or 20th century composition, this reference work is an invaluable addition to the literature on this important artist.
Following a brief biography of the subject, author Stewart Craggs provides a complete list of works and performances, arranged by genre;
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By: Keith Nainby
ISBN: 9781498582636
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Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This study of Bob Dylans art explores the distinctive ways he brings words and music to life on recordings, onstage, and onscreen. Dylans body of work to date is situated in terms of the influences that have shaped his performances and the ways these performances have shaped contemporary popular music.
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By: Jann Pasler
ISBN: 9780691155555
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Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Camille Saint-Sans - perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in every musical genre, from opera and the symphony to film music - is now being rediscovered after a century of modernism overshadowed his importance. This book deconstructs the multiple realities behind the man and his music.
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By: Jonathan D. Green
ISBN: 9780313294563
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Publication Date: Nov 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Since there is currently a renewed interest in his work, this bio-bibliography is timely and needed, and of interest to scholars, students, and performers.
During the 1920s, had Edgard Varese or Charles Ives been asked to name America's greatest living composer, the response would have been Carl Ruggles.
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By: Karl Kroeger
ISBN: 9780313278273
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Publication Date: Sep 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An extensive list of works cited is followed by five indexes providing access to the material in the catalog by first line of text, Billings's anthem titles, text sources, musical form (tune types), and musical incipits.
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By: Pierre Azoury
ISBN: 9780313309717
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Publication Date: Aug 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A critical portrayal of Chopin's personality as revealed through his relationships with select contemporaries and based on documents and correspondence, including five letters previously unpublished in English.
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By: Mark A. Peters
ISBN: 9781498554978
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Publication Date: Jul 2020
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Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The essays explore Bachs sacred vocal music from the perspectives of historical theology, music analysis, the study of parody procedures, and reception history.
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By: Dieter Borchmeyer
ISBN: 9780691114972
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Publication Date: Feb 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Richard Wagner continues to be the most controversial artist in history, a perpetually troubling figure in our cultural consciousness. This book presents an overall picture of his musical dramas from the standpoint of literary and theatrical history. It also examines Wagner in relation to political figures including King Ludwig II and Bismarck.
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By: Byron Adams
ISBN: 9780691134468
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Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music. This work examines the composer's life, presenting a comprehensive portrait of both the man and the age in which he lived.
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By: Virginia Bortin
ISBN: 9780313258794
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Publication Date: Apr 1993
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Elinor Remick Warren's distinguished career as a composer, concert pianist, and accompanist for renowned singers spanned seventy-five years of American musical history. A biographical sketch is supplemented by a long interview conducted by the author with Warren four years before the composer's death in 1991.
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By: Donald Bogle
ISBN: 9781451676983
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Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Ellen G. Grolman
ISBN: 9780313318146
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Publication Date: Jun 2001
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Emma Lou Diemer--a composer who successfully combines a classicist's interest in form with a fresh, contemporary, harmonic vocabulary--has produced a diverse, sophisticated, and largely unheralded opus, including 350 works composed for orchestra, symphonic band, chamber ensemble, keyboard, chorus, voices, and solo and electronic instruments.
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By: Carol A. Hess
ISBN: 9780313273841
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Publication Date: Dec 1991
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He had composed a remarkable body of work and was also at the height of his career as a concert pianist at his untimely death while a passenger on a torpedoed British ship.
The biographical study, the first in English, draws on primary sources in English, Spanish, French, Catalan, and other languages.
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By: James A. Grymes
ISBN: 9780313308505
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Publication Date: Jun 2001
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As a result of both his political reputation--destroyed by false charges of Nazism after World War II--and his rejection of avant-garde techniques, the recordings and compositions of Ernst von Dohnnyi went largely ignored for most of the 20th century.
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By: John Clark
ISBN: 9781442243408
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Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An icon of musical talent and independence, Bessie Smiths contributions to the blues and the music industry earned her the title of Empress of the Blues.Learning how to listen to Smith's work in turn develops a greater understanding of how her successors extended and reinterpreted her music to honor her enduring legacy.
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By: Brooke Halpin
ISBN: 9781442271432
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Publication Date: Oct 2017
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Brooke Halpin takes the reader on a magical adventure through the Beatles entire catalog of remarkable, timeless songs to discover the circumstances that inspired the songs and brought four Liverpudlian musicians eternal fame. The volume includes personal vignettes to take the reader back in time to experience Beatlemania for themselves.
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Publication Date: Jun 1974
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In his introduction Mr. Foss gives us a short sketch of Delius; contributions by Rogber Quilter, Charles Kennedy and Percy Scott.
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By: David Cohen
ISBN: 9780313318870
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Publication Date: Jun 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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George Crumb is a composer at the forefront of post-World War II American music, and never before has one volume combined a portrait of his life with a catalogue of his extensive work.
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By: Norbert Carnovale
ISBN: 9780313260032
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Publication Date: Jan 2000
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American composer George Gershwin, an icon of the American Jazz Age, indelibly marked 20th-century music, with many of his works becoming standards in the popular and jazz music repertory, not to mention his world-famous classical works such as Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and Porgy and Bess (1935).
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