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Fundamentals of Instrumental and Choral Conducting

Autor: Selim Giray , Michael Hanawalt

Número de Páginas: 397

Providing a thorough introduction to both choral and instrumental conducting, this textbook offers a complete package of teaching, study, and assessment materials to support a single-semester foundational conducting course. The book is designed to address the needs of students and instructors in mixed-discipline classrooms, giving equal weight to the conducting skills and repertoire of instrumental and choral ensembles. The 22 chapters are intended to fit comfortably into a single-semester course with two weekly classes. The authors cover key topics including conducting body alignment, breathing, the conducting box, baton use, cutoffs, left-hand use, conducting patterns, conducting styles, conducting subdivisions, accents, syncopation, score preparation and score reading, transpositions and clef reading, ensemble familiarity, error detection, rehearsal planning, and rehearsal techniques. This textbook and its accompanying supplemental materials are uniquely designed for the instructor to achieve an efficient and readily organized class, and for the students to receive essential fundamental conducting skills on both instrumental—including orchestral and band instruments—and...

The Creation of Beethoven's 35 Piano Sonatas

Autor: Barry Cooper

Número de Páginas: 240

Beethoven’s piano sonatas are a cornerstone of the piano repertoire and favourites of both the concert hall and recording studio. The sonatas have been the subject of much scholarship, but no single study gives an adequate account of the processes by which these sonatas were composed and published. With source materials such as sketches and correspondence increasingly available, the time is ripe for a close study of the history of these works. Barry Cooper, who in 2007 produced a new edition of all 35 sonatas, including three that are often overlooked, examines each sonata in turn, addressing questions such as: Why were they written? Why did they turn out as they did? How did they come into being and how did they reach their final form? Drawing on the composer’s sketches, autograph scores and early printed editions, as well as contextual material such as correspondence, Cooper explores the links between the notes and symbols found in the musical texts of the sonatas, and the environment that brought them about. The result is a biography not of the composer, but of the works themselves.

Nicolo Paganini: His Life and Work

Autor: Stephen S. Stratton

Número de Páginas: 209

In "Nicolo Paganini: His Life and Work," Stephen S. Stratton delivers an exhaustive exploration of the enigmatic violinist and composer, Nicolo Paganini, who revolutionized the art of violin performance in the early 19th century. Through a blend of biographical detail and musical analysis, Stratton weaves a narrative that captures Paganini's complex personality, his innovative techniques, and the cultural backdrop of Romanticism that influenced his music. The book is characterized by its scholarly rigor, featuring in-depth examinations of Paganini's compositions and their lasting impact on both classical and contemporary music. Stratton's eloquent prose engages readers while delivering insights that reveal Paganini not merely as a virtuoso but also as a pivotal figure in the evolution of violin artistry. Stephen S. Stratton, an esteemed musicologist and historian, combines his passion for performance and scholarly research to illuminate Paganini's extraordinary legacy. Stratton's fascination with the violin began at a young age, and his academic journey through music history and performance practice naturally led him to investigate the life of a figure who reshaped violin...

One Handed

Autor: Donald Patterson

Número de Páginas: 332

This guide to the piano literature for the one-handed pianist surveys over 2,100 individual piano pieces which include not only concert literature but pedagogical pieces as well. Following the introduction are four chapters cataloguing original works for the right hand alone, original works for the left hand alone, music arranged or transcribed for one hand alone, and concerted works for one hand in concert with other pianists, instruments, or voices. Each entry assesses the individual composition, its quality, its difficulty, its particular appeal, and its uses with the composer's name, dates, and nationality, where possible. Also included is a selected discography of commercially produced phonodiscs, compact discs, and cassettes. Instructors and pianists alike will appreciate this exhaustive guide to one-handed piano music. To aid further research, a bibliography of books, articles, and theses about the literature is provided along with a chapter that lists the contents of thirty-six anthologies devoted to one-handed piano music. This unique reference also includes an index.

Beethoven Forum

Autor: Mark Evan Bonds , Elaine Sisman

Número de Páginas: 196

The essays in this volume grew out of an international Beethoven conference held in honor of Lewis Lockwood at Harvard University in 1996. Michelle Fillion?s opening essay explores the Mass in C and its turn away from the ?heroic? style of the ?middle-period? works. In ?Beethoven and the Aesthetic State,? Karol Berger reflects on the manner in which the composer?s music often shifts back and forth between a ?real? and an ?imagined? world. William Drabkin examines the role of the cello part in Beethoven's late quartets, particularly in regard to the elusive parameter of texture. Richard Kramer?s reading of the song Resignation (1818) opens new perspectives on the idea of a ?late? style in the composer?s output. ø In ?Beethoven's ?Expressive? Markings,? Leo Treitler demonstrates how seemingly straightforward directions to performers about tempo, mood, or dynamics raise fundamental questions about the relationship between music and language. Michael C. Tusa reviews more than a century of attempts to relate form and content in the last movement of the Ninth Symphony and offers a new interpretation on the idea of the choral finale as a kind of four-movement symphony in its own right....

Dramma Giocoso

Autor: Julian Rushton

Número de Páginas: 145

The three Mozart/Da Ponte operas offer a inexhaustible wellspring for critical reflection, possessing a complexity and equivocation common to all great humane works. They have the potential to reflect and refract whatever locus of contemporaneity may be the starting point for enquiry. Thus, even postmodern and postmillennial concerns, far from seeming irrelevant to these operas, are instead given new perspectives by them, while the music and the dramatic situations have the multivalency to accept each refreshed palette of interpretation without loss of their essential character. These operas seem perennially new. In exploring the evergreen qualities of Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro, the authors of this book do not shun approaches that have foundations in established theory, but refract them through such problems as the tension between operatic tradition and psychological realism, the coexistence of multiple yet equal plots, and the antagonism between the tenets of tradition and the need for self-actualization. In exploring such themes, the authors not only illuminate new aspects of Mozart's operatic compositions but also probe the nature of musical analysis itself.

Guide de la musique de piano et de clavecin

Autor: François-rené Tranchefort

Número de Páginas: 1078

Le piano de Chopin, le clavecin de Couperin, Iberia (pour piano) d’Albeniz, Khoaï (pour clavecin) de Xenakis, – ce nouveau Guide d’écoute parcourt les siècles et confronte les compositeurs qui, selon leur génie propre, ont écrit pour les deux instruments ici réunis. Après un Guide de la musique symphonique, avant un Guide de la musique de chambre, celui-ci propose au mélomane un accompagnement à l’écoute non point seulement des chefs-d’œuvre reconnus, mais de partitions moins fréquentées, souvent injustement : d’où, pour beaucoup sans doute, l’immense plaisir de la découverte. Cent quatre-vingt-cinq musiciens, au total, sont ici représentés grâce à plus de deux mille analyses ou commentaires, complétés de précisions sur les « styles », les circonstances de composition, les dates et lieux de création, etc. Tel quel, ce Guide de la musique de piano et de clavecin, d’une grande exactitude historique et musicologique, et qui s’est donné pour but d’éviter une technicité trop ardue, de même qu’une vulgarisation trop facile, devrait devenir l’inséparable compagnon de toute écoute musicale intelligente. Ce volume a été réalisé...

The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume II

Autor: A. Peter Brown

Número de Páginas: 760

More than 170 symphonies from this repertoire are described and analyzed in The First Golden Age of the Viennese Symphony, the first volume of the series to appear.

A Record of the Cambridge Centenary Commemoration on December 4 and 5, 1891 of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, Born Jan. 27, 1756 - Died Dec. 5, 1791

Autor: Sedley Taylor

Número de Páginas: 104

School of Music, Theatre & Dance (University of Michigan) Publications

Número de Páginas: 1088

School of Music Programs

Autor: University Of Michigan. School Of Music

Número de Páginas: 144

The Cambridge Companion to Conducting

Autor: José Antonio Bowen

Número de Páginas: 370

In this wide-ranging inside view of the history and practice of conducting, analysis and advice comes directly from working conductors, including Sir Charles Mackerras on opera, Bramwell Tovey on being an Artistic Director, Martyn Brabbins on modern music, Leon Botstein on programming and Vance George on choral conducting, and from those who work closely with conductors: a leading violinist describes working as a soloist with Stokowski, Ormandy and Barbirolli, while Solti and Abbado's studio producer explains orchestral recording, and one of the world's most powerful managers tells all. The book includes advice on how to conduct different types of groups (choral, opera, symphony, early music) and provides a substantial history of conducting as a study of national traditions. It is an unusually honest book about a secretive industry and managers, artistic directors, soloists, players and conductors openly discuss their different perspectives for the first time.

The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini

Autor: Nicholas Mathew , Benjamin Walton

Número de Páginas: 399

Beethoven and Rossini have always been more than a pair of famous composers. Even during their lifetimes, they were well on the way to becoming 'Beethoven and Rossini' – a symbolic duo, who represented a contrast fundamental to Western music. This contrast was to shape the composition, performance, reception and historiography of music throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini puts leading scholars of opera and instrumental music into dialogue with each other, with the aim of unpicking the origins, consequences and fallacies of the opposition between the two composers and what they came to represent. In fifteen chapters, contributors explore topics ranging from the concert lives of early nineteenth-century capitals to the mythmaking of early cinema, and from the close analysis of individual works by Beethoven and Rossini to the cultural politics of nineteenth-century music histories.

Essays on Opera, 1750-1800

Autor: Johna. Rice

Número de Páginas: 580

The study of opera in the second half of the eighteenth century has flourished during the last several decades, and our knowledge of the operas written during that period and of their aesthetic, social, and political context has vastly increased. This volume explores opera and operatic life of the years 1750-1800 through a selection of articles intended to represent the last few decades of scholarship in all its excitement and variety.

Las sonatas para piano y los conciertos de cuerdas de Beethoven

Número de Páginas: 116

Guide to Chamber Music

Autor: Melvin Berger

Número de Páginas: 502

Authoritative guide presents 231 of the most frequently performed pieces by 55 composers. A must for music lovers and musicians alike. "No lover of chamber music should be without this Guide." — John Barkham Reviews.

Guide de la musique symphonique

Autor: François-rené Tranchefort

Número de Páginas: 1731

Ce livre (Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros 1986) se veut d'un genre inédit en France dans le domaine du livre " musical ": celui du Guide d'écoute tant à l'intention d'un public non averti qu'à celle du mélomane, voire du professionnel. De quoi s'agit-il? D'apporter à l'auditeur _ qui se rend au concert, qui écoute un programme de radio ou qui s'apprête à savourer le disque qu'il vient d'acquérir _ les informations les plus nécessaires sur les oeuvres musicales qui lui sont proposées et dont il pourra se flatter de connaître autre chose que le seul nom des interprètes. Dans le cas présent, tout ce qui relève de la musique symphonique, vocable dont l'imprécision même engendre la richesse: autrement dit, les symphonies, les poèmes symphoniques, les concertos, les suites d'orchestre et de ballet, les ouvertures, pain plus ou moins quotidien des formations symphoniques dans le monde. On trouvera dans ce volume environ quinze cents analyses ou commentaires d'oeuvres orchestrales de quelque deux cents compositeurs, complétés de précisions sur les circonstances de leur composition, leurs sources d'inspiration, les date et lieu de leur création, leur effectif...

THE INDIAN LISTENER

Autor: All India Radio (air),new Delhi

Número de Páginas: 108

The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,started on 22 december, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in english, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it was published by All India Radio,New Delhi.In 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later,The Indian listener became "Akashvani" in January 5, 1958. It was made a fortnightly again on July 1,1983. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes,who writes them,take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artistS. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: The Indian Listener LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE,MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 07-12-1938 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Fortnightly NUMBER OF PAGES: 108 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. III, No. 24. BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED(PAGE NOS): 1808-1811, 1813-1859, 1861-1872, 1874-1889, 1891-1901 ARTICLE: 1. The Wonders of Wireless 2. AIR ...

Comme des ombres portées

Autor: Danielle Giroud

Número de Páginas: 233

Après « Et dans les arbres passe le vent » et « Ce sont là parfois d'étranges lunes », retrouvez les vagabondages et la plume légère et vivante de Danielle Giroud. D'un coup d'ailes vous irez de New York à Saint-Pétersbourg, de la Baltique à Gibraltar ; la magie de trois mots et vous serez sur la montagne Blanche, dans les steppes arides, en plein Bronx... souvent l'Histoire en toile de fond. Des thèmes graves ou futiles, des émotions, de la fantaisie. On y rencontre des randonneurs adolescents, une classe cartophile, des amoureux du cheval ou du vélo, une corrida, les résonances d'un divorce, une drôle de fugue, un fabuleux destin de chat et un mort qui continue de vivre... D'autres arts s'invitent : quelques peintres, la musique, des chansons... Il peut arriver que certains personnages des précédents livres s'y retrouvent pour des ressemblances passagères. Mais partout, c'est la perception miroitante des êtres selon le voisinage, toutes les ombres qui se profilent, la lumière quand même, le réel et l'imaginaire liés ; c'est une quête de reconnaissance d'identité.

Life of Robert Schumann

Autor: Wilhelm Joseph Von Wasielewski

Número de Páginas: 324

Nineteenth-Century Piano Music

Autor: R. Larry Todd

Número de Páginas: 485

First Published in 2004. 19th-Century Piano Music focuses on the core composers of the 19th-century repertoire, beginning with 2 chapters giving a general overview of the repertoire and keyboard technique of the era, and then individual chapters on Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, and the women composers of the era, particularly focusing on Fanny Hensel and Clara Schumann.

Robert Schumann. Eine Biographie. Life of Robert Schumann ... Translated by A. L. Alger

Autor: Joseph Wilhelm Von Wasielwski

Número de Páginas: 288

Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music

Autor: Robert Marshall

Número de Páginas: 431

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Virtual Haydn

Autor: Tom Beghin

Número de Páginas: 372

This is a highly original book about Haydn s keyboard music, about 18th-century keyboard practices and culture, and about performance. Written in the first person by the author, himself a professional keyboard player, the study places the performer, both historical and contemporary, at the center of the scholarly inquiry and explores in exquisite detail the process by which a modern performer arrives at a historically-informed interpretation of Haydn s sonatas. The veiled reference to Diderot s "Paradox of an Actor "in the title explicitly situates the study within the context of 18th-century debates on performancea crucial issue in the period, with the rapid expansion of music publishing, of concert culture, of amateur music making, especially among aristocratic women performers, and with rapid changes in the technology and the physical properties of the instruments themselves. The reference to Diderot also hints at the way in which Beghin s text itself performs in the manner of many 18th-century critical texts: like them, it has a tendency to be personal and idiosyncratic. Discussing a group of Viennese sonatas, for example, the author explores the contemporary fascination with...

Beethoven

Autor: Nicholas Cook

Número de Páginas: 148

Nicholas Cook's guide charts the dramatic transformation in the reception of Symphony No. 9.

Mr. Charles Hallé's Beethoven Recitals. (23 May-11 July 1862.) [With Analyses of the Sonatas.]

Autor: Charles Hallé

Número de Páginas: 388

Programs

Autor: University Of Michigan. School Of Music, Theatre & Dance

Número de Páginas: 654

Six great piano trios, opp. 1, 70, and 97

Autor: Ludwig Van Beethoven

Número de Páginas: 210

This definitive Breitkopf & Härtel edition of Beethoven's most performed and recorded piano trios includes the Ghost (Op. 70, No. 1) and the Archduke (Op. 97). Features lay-flat sewn binding.

Daniels' Orchestral Music

Autor: David Daniels , David W. Oertel , David A. Rahbee

Número de Páginas: 1464

Daniels’ Orchestral Music is the gold standard for all orchestral professionals—from conductors, librarians, programmers, students, administrators, and publishers, to even instructors—seeking to research and plan an orchestral program, whether for a single concert or a full season. This sixth edition, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the original edition, has the largest increase in entries for a new edition of Orchestral Music: 65% more works (roughly 14,050 total) and 85% more composers (2,202 total) compared to the fifth edition. Composition details are gleaned from personal inspection of scores by orchestral conductors, making it a reliable one-stop resource for repertoire. Users will find all the familiar and useful features of the fifth edition as well as significant updates and corrections. Works are organized alphabetically by composer and title, containing information on duration, instrumentation, date of composition, publication, movements, and special accommodations if any. Individual appendices make it easy to browse works with chorus, solo voices, or solo instruments. Other appendices list orchestral works by instrumentation and duration, as well as works ...

Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Opus 1, No. 3

Autor: Ludwig Van Beethoven

Número de Páginas: 68

Expertly arranged Piano Trio by Ludwig van Beethoven from the Kalmus Edition series. This Trio is from the Classical and Romantic eras.

Ludwig Van Beethoven - Piano Trio in C minor - Op. 1/No. 3 - A Score for Piano, Cello and Violin

Autor: Ludwig Van Beethoven

Número de Páginas: 41

“Piano Trio in C minor - Op.1 No.3” is a score for piano, cello and violin composed by Beethoven between 1793 and 1795. It contains four movements: “Allegro con brio”, “Andante cantabile con variazioni”, “Menuetto. Quasi Allegro”, and “Prestissimo”. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) was a seminal German composer. He had a significant influence on the transition from the Classical to the Romantic era of music, and to this day he is considered to be one the most celebrated and important composers of all time. This volume is highly recommended for fan's of Beethoven's music, and it constitutes a must-have for collectors of important classical scores. Classic Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of classical music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.

Playing Beyond the Notes

Autor: Deborah Rambo Sinn

Número de Páginas: 160

Playing Beyond the Notes: A Pianist's Guide to Musical Interpretation demystifies the complex concepts of musical interpretation in Western tonal piano music by boiling it down to basic principles in an accessible writing style. Author and veteran piano instructor Deborah Rambo Sinn tackles a different interpretive principle, explaining clearly, for example, how to play effective ornaments and rubatos. As a whole, the book helps pianists understand concrete ways to apply interpretive concepts to their own playing and gives teachers practical ways to teach interpretation to their students. The book is illustrated with over 200 repertoire excerpts and supplemented by a companion website with over 100 audio recordings. Playing Beyond the Notes is essential reading for all performing pianists, independent piano teachers, and piano pedagogy students.

Ballet Music

Autor: Matthew Naughtin

Número de Páginas: 471

Musicians who work professionally with ballet and dance companies sometimes wonder if they haven’t entered a foreign country—a place where the language and customs seem so utterly familiar and so bafflingly strange at the same. To someone without a dance background, phrases and terms--boy’s variation, pas d’action, apothéose—simply don’t fit their standard musical vocabulary. Even a familiar term like adagio means something quite different in the world of dance. Like any working professional, those conductors, composers, rehearsal pianists, instrumentalists and even music librarians working with professional ballet and dance companies must learn what dance professionals talk about when they talk about music. In Ballet Music: A Handbook Matthew Naughtin provides a practical guide for the professional musician who works with ballet companies, whether as a full-time staff member or as an independent contractor. In this comprehensive work, he addresses the daily routine of the modern ballet company, outlines the respective roles of the conductor, company pianist and music librarian and their necessary collaboration with choreographers and ballet masters, and examines the...

La poésie de la musique, son expression, ses accents rapprochés des beautés naturelles et des scènes de la vie

Autor: A. Meugy , Alphonse Meugy

Número de Páginas: 468

Resounding Truth ()

Autor: Jeremy S. Begbie

Número de Páginas: 416

Christianity Today 2008 Book Award (Theology/Ethics) Even fallen humans compose beautiful symphonies, music that touches emotions as nothing else can. Resounding Truth shows Christians how to uncover the Gospel message found in the many melodies that surround us. Theologian and musician Jeremy Begbie believes our divinely-inspired imagination reveals opportunity for sincere, heartfelt praise. With practical examples, lucid explanations, and an accessible bibliography, this book will help music lovers discover how God's diversity shines through sound. Begbie helps readers see the Master of Song and experience the harmony of heavenly hope.

Edward MacDowell’s European Piano Music

Autor: Paul Bertagnolli

Número de Páginas: 487

Edward MacDowell’s European Piano Music is a critical study of the piano music that MacDowell composed during his European sojourn (1876–1888), steeped in reception history and with a special emphasis of programmaticism. The book expands current knowledge of MacDowell’s childhood in four of the chapters based on his previously uninvestigated sheet music collection, thereby achieving a better balance among the stages of MacDowell’s life than is evident in most books of the life-and-works variety. Prolific contemporaneous music criticism, meticulously preserved in MacDowell’s scrapbooks, is likewise undervalued in the MacDowell literature, but it furnishes penetrating observations about the expressive and programmatic content of numerous compositions, especially as it was revealed to critics when MacDowell performed his own works. Lastly, the book offers explanations for why MacDowell immersed himself in European culture for decades and then, at a crucial juncture in his career, embraced diverse American heritages and worked toward a conception of a pluralistic music that was American “in a creative sense.” The book’s content and methodology would appeal most...

THE INDIAN RADIO TIMES

Autor: All India Radio (air), New Delhi

Número de Páginas: 66

THE INDIAN RADIO TIMES was the first programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, formerly known as The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, it was started publishing from 16 July, 1927. Later, it has been renamed to The Indian Listener w.e.f. 22 December, 1935. It used to serve the listener as a Bradshaw of broadcasting, and used to give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them, take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information about major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: THE INDIAN RADIO TIMES LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE, MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 22-11-1934 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Fortnightly NUMBER OF PAGES: 66 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED (PAGE NOS): 31-66 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. VIII, No. 23 Document ID: IRT-1933-34 (J-J)Vol-I-23

String Players' Guide to the Orchestra

Autor: Susan C. Brown

Número de Páginas: 56

The String Player’s Guide to the Orchestra includes orchestral repertoire, excerpts, scales and studies for string orchestra as well as individual study. The works may be played individually or in ensembles and the music selections work within a wide range of student ability levels. The book focuses on phrasing, technique and musical styles and provides a unique entry into performance music preparation with right- and left-hand studies using authentic orchestral excerpts.