Classical category: 3244 books
by Susan McClary
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
In this book, Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective states—desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure. She demonstrates how every major genre of the period, from opera to religious music to instrumental pieces based on dances,...
Bach's Testament
On the Philosophical and Theological Background of The Art of Fugue
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Written late in his life, J. S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue has long been admired—in some quarters revered—as one of his masterworks. Its last movement, Contrapunctus 14, went unfinished, and the enigma of its incompleteness still preoccupies scholars and musical conductors alike. In 1881, Gustav...
Mourning de Pachmann
The Quest for the Spirit of Chopin
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
In January 1933, widowed Canadian psychiatrist Charles Flemming traveled to Rome to deliver a paper at an international psychiatric meeting and to further research the career of the eccentric Ukranian pianist, Vladimir de Pachmann, for a biography he has always wanted to write. En route, he learns...
by Humbert Lucarelli, Daniel Pereira
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Insightful and illuminating, Daniel Pereira's conversations with oboist soloist Bert Lucarelli reflect on his life, performing, music, and philosophy. Music lovers will not only enjoy, but also will learn from, Bert's recollections of rehearsing and working with great conductors and musicians such...
by Gladys Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This vintage book contains a collection of stories based upon Wagner's operas told by Gladys Davidson. Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly famous for his operas. These masterfully retold stories are highly recommended...
Unheard Of
Memoirs of a Canadian Composer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
For Voice(s)
John Beckwith
Beckwith’s earliest compositional successes were solo songs, and works featuring the solo voice or voices have continued to interest him well into the twenty-first century.
In Their Own Words
Canadian Choral Conductors
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
Winner of the 2002 National Choral Award for Outstanding Choral Publication
They are at the heart of every community in Canada, whether they be singing in concert or rehearsal, in a worship service or at a special event. They are Canada’s choirs, and their dedication to their craft is a source...
by Peter Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Peter Dickinson has made an enduring contribution to British musical life, and his music has been regularly performed and recorded by leading musicians. His writings, brought together here for the first time, are equally noteworthy. Covering well over half a century, the subjects are fascinatingly...
This Awareness of Beauty
The Orchestral and Wind Band Music of Healey Willan
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
“Tender, Lyrical, Forceful, Arresting”: The Orchestral Works
Keith Kinder
Includes historical, analytical and critical evaluations of every work for orchestra attributed to Willan, including unfinished compositions and sketches. The circumstances surrounding the creation of each...
by Jonathan D. Green
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Now in paperback. This innovative survey of large choral-orchestral works written between 1900 and 1972 and containing some English text examines eighty-nine works, from Elgar's Dream of Gerontius to Bernstein's Mass. For each work, the author provides a biography of the composer, complete instrumentation,...
Star Turns and Cameo Appearances
Memoirs of a Life among Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Star Turns and Cameo Appearances is the entertaining and insightful memoir by veteran music critic Bernard Jacobson. Its pages are populated by eminent composers ranging from Hans Werner Henze to Andrzej Panufnik and by renowned performers, including Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim, Sviatoslav Richter,...
Landscapes in Music
Space, Place, and Time in the World's Great Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2006
Using landscape as its unifying concept, this engaging book explores orchestral music that represents real and imagined physical and cultural spaces, natural forces, and humans and wildlife. Spanning continents and centuries, David Knight links contrasting forms of music through unifying themes of...
by Krysten A. Keches
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
In 1958, under the founding music director, Prof. Marvin Rabin, the Boston University College of Fine Arts established a youth orchestra for junior and senior high school students from the Greater Boston area. The Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (BYSO), formerly known as the Greater Boston Youth...
Maestros in America
Conductors in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008
Maestros in America: Conductors in the 21st Century provides short biographical and critical essays of over 100 American conductors-and conductors in America-in the twenty-first century. Roderick L. Sharpe and Jeanne Koekkoek Stierman made their selections based on three categories of persons: American-born;...