Composers category: 3267 books
Composers in the Classroom
A Bio-Bibliography of Composers at Conservatories, Colleges, and Universities in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Composers in the Classroom is a bio-bibliographical dictionary, chronicling the careers and work of over 120 composers associated with conservatories, colleges, and universities in the United States and Puerto Rico. Scholars and students of music seeking critical information about composers who have...
Latin American Classical Composers
A Biographical Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Now in its third edition, Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary provides a singular English-language resource for biographical information on hundreds of composers from Central and South America and the Hispanic Caribbean. Painstakingly gathered from a wide variety of sources,...
Latin American Classical Composers
A Biographical Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2002
Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition of Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary presents expanded and updated coverage of its topic with an aim to be comprehensive. The authors have conducted exhaustive research to fill in gaps and correct minor...
by George T. Ferris
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents
CONTENTS
THE GREAT ITALIAN AND FRENCH COMPOSERS.
PALESTRINA.
PICCINI, PAISIELLO, AND CIMAROSA
ROSSINI.
VERDI.
CHERUBINI AND HIS PREDECESSORS.
MÉHUL, SPONTINI, AND HALÉVY.
BOÏELDIEU AND AUBER.
MEYERBEER.
GOUNOD AND THOMAS.
BERLIOZ.
THE...
Composers
A Quick Reference Guide to Well Known Composers from The15th to the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
The book shows well known composers in chronological order from the Renaissance period to the twentieth century.
An Ideal reference guide.
Contents:
Introduction
Renaissance Period
Baroque Period
Classical Period
Romantic Period
20th...
Joseph Holbrooke
Composer, Critic, and Musical Patriot
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
This is the first scholarly work to document the musical life of Joseph Holbrooke, one of Britain’s most prolific and controversial composers during the first half of the twentieth century. Holbrooke was outspoken on many issues, including the maligned fortunes of British composers, which he believed...
by George Ferris
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
The sketches of composers contained in this volume may seem arbitrary in the space allotted to them. The special attention given to certain names has been prompted as much by their association with great art-epochs as by the consideration of their absolute rank as composers.
by Robert Layton
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
A series of biographies of the great composers which present the subjects against the social background of their times. This volume focuses on Grieg and draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and - where they exist - photographs, to build up a complete picture of the composer’s life.
Secret Lives of Great Composers
What Your Teachers Never Told You about the World's Musical Masters
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
True tales of murder, riots, heartbreak, and great music.
With outrageous anecdotes about everyone from Gioachino Rossini (draft-dodging womanizer) to Johann Sebastian Bach (jailbird) to Richard Wagner (alleged cross-dresser), Secret Lives of Great Composers recounts the seamy, steamy, and...
by Bryce Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Arguably the greatest of all piano virtuosi, Liszt was one of the few composers of his day who had the technique to perform his own compositions. A child prodigy pianist who could read music before he could recite the alphabet, Franz Liszt is one of the most outrageously gifted and most controversial...
by Tim Dowley
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.
From Boulanger to Stockhausen
Interviews and a Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Bálint András Varga makes available here for the first time in English nineteen extended interviews with some of the most notable figures in music from the past fifty years, as well as lively snippets from interviews Varga conducted with thirteen other equally renowned musicians. The interviewees...
by Peggy Woodford
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Schubert died at the age of thirty-one, in obscurity, his genius unrecognised except by a few friends. Today he is acknowledged as one of the greatest composers of all times. His nine symphonies include what is probably the most famous of all symphonies - The Unfinished- and his chamber music, the...
by Brian Cherney
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Harry Somers is one of Canada's leading composers, and one of the most original. In the 1950s he experimented with contrapuntal writing, serialism, and style juxtaposition; in more recent years he has been concerned with the development of new vocal resources and improvisation.
Harry Somers,...