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by Bertil van Boer
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
When we speak of “classical music” it often refers rather loosely to serious “art” music but at the core is really the music of the classical period running from about 1730 to 1800, give or take. This was truly one of the most glorious periods for both composition and performance and it is...
Television Westerns
Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Westerns have featured prominently in films almost since motion pictures were first produced at the end of the nineteenth century and when televisions invaded American homes in the late 1940s and early '50s, Western programs filled the small screen landscape. Throughout the 1950s and well into the...
Experiencing Mozart
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
In Experiencing Mozart: A Listener’s Companion, music historian David Schroeder illustrates through the great composer’s music how the issues he cared about so deeply in his time remain as pressing to modern listeners. Analysis of Mozart’s views on politics, women, authority, and religion sit...
Yevgeny Mravinsky
The Noble Conductor
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2005
The last of a long line of distinguished Russian aristocrats, Yevgeny Mravinsky emerges from the 20th Century musical scene as a noble conductor and exceptional treasure of Soviet culture. His friendship of some forty years with Dmitri Shostakovich led to the opening of that composer's music to the...
by John Flower
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Almost all of us know French literature, even if we don’t know French, because it is probably the second largest and certainly the most translated into English. And, even if we don’t read, we would have seen film and television versions (think Count of Monte-Cristo) and even a musical rendition...
by Dayna Oscherwitz, MaryEllen Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
It can be argued that cinema was created in France by Louis Lumi_re in 1895 with the invention of the cinZmatographe, the first true motion-picture camera and projector. While there were other cameras and devices invented earlier that were capable of projecting intermittent motion of images, the cinZmatographe...
Sondheim on Music
Minor Details and Major Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
Stephen Sondheim is widely regarded as the most important composer and lyricist of musical theater in the second half of the 20th century. Celebrating his 80th birthday, this new edition of Sondheim on Music finds him in these guided interviews expounding in great depth and detail on his craft. As...
The Invisible Art of Film Music
A Comprehensive History
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Beginning with the era of synchronized sound in the 1920s, music has been an integral part of motion pictures. Whether used to heighten the tension of a scene or evoke a subtle emotional response, scores have played a significant—if often unrealized—role in the viewer’s enjoyment.
In...
The Drum
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
In The Drum: A History, drummer, instructor, and blogger Matt Dean details the earliest evidence of the drum from all regions of the planet, looking at cave paintings, statues, temple reliefs, and burial remains before finding existing relics of actual drums, which have survived thousands of years....
Verdi and Puccini Heroines
Dramatic Characterization in Great Soprano Roles
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
New in paperback! This book comes at a time when opera-lovers, singers, directors, and critics alike are taking a new look at the dramatic soprano heroines created by Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini, endeavoring to delve beyond inherited scholarly interpretation and gain a richer understanding...
Rusalka
A Performance Guide with Translations and Pronunciation
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Known worldwide as a composer of symphonies and chamber music, Czech composer Antonín Dvorák declared toward the end of his life that his main love was writing operas. Written in 1900 at the height of Dvorák’s creative powers, his fairy tale opera Rusalka is a masterpiece firmly established in...
Ellingtonia
The Recorded Music of Duke Ellington and His Sidemen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
More than a discography, this book compiles the complete recorded music of Duke Ellington and his sidemen, including studio recordings, movie soundtracks, concerts, dance dates, radio broadcasts, telecasts, and private recordings, creating an easy to use reference source for Jazz collectors and scholars.
Robeson
An American Ballad
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Paul Robeson was a towering figure in American culture, conquering many disparate venues—from football and film to law to Shakespeare. An extraordinary athlete-scholar-actor-singer, Robeson also became a crusader for human rights. And though he was admired by many, his controversial support of the...
by Thomas S. Hischak
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is considered one of the most versatile and influential of all American theatre and film composers. His pioneer work in developing a truly American musical sound inspired many of the great songwriters of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and his songs include dozens of beloved standards...