The Solo Vocal Music Of American Composer John La Montaine
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The Solo Vocal Music Of American Composer John La Montaine
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Author : Pearl Yeadon McGinnis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The Solo Vocal Music Of American Composer John La Montaine written by Pearl Yeadon McGinnis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Vocal music categories.
The Solo Vocal Music Of American Composer John La Montaine
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Author : Pearl Yeadon McGinnis
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 2004
The Solo Vocal Music Of American Composer John La Montaine written by Pearl Yeadon McGinnis and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Music categories.
John La Montaine is known primarily for his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 9, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1959. In addition, he has won countless awards for composition. However, his compositions for voice and piano are not yet an established part of the vocal solo repertoire. This work illustrates La Montaine's music for voice and piano through an analysis of musical and dramatic elements that support the text and drama. A biographical study provides details about the composer's life such as musical training, personal influences, awards and goals. In addition, the issues of philosophy, creativity, methods, musical styles, and textual considerations are discussed and are the basis for the following analysis.
A Biography Of Charlie Christian Jazz Guitar S King Of Swing
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Author : Wayne E. Goins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
A Biography Of Charlie Christian Jazz Guitar S King Of Swing written by Wayne E. Goins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is a biography on the career of jazz guitarist Charlie Christian, who was raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma during the Depression era in the Southwestern region of the United States. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the details surrounding the events that shaped Christian's musical development, beginning with his early influences of 'Territory bands' and 'western swing' groups. The book documents Christian's performances in the urban area of Oklahoma City on Second Street, better known as 'Deep Deuce', as well as his travels with both Anna Mae Winburn and the Alphonso Trent Orchestra. Christian's discovery by producer John Hammond led to Christian's membership in the Benny Goodman Sextet in August of 1939. The book also chronicles Christian's most significant radio broadcasts, live performances, and recordings for Columbia Records, and also includes facts regarding Christian's pioneering guitar style during the early 1940's, as his performances at Minton's Playhouse in Harlem represented the connection between swing and bebop. The biography finally uncovers details into Christian's private life, and his untimely death during the apex of the Goodman era. ... ground-b Christian's contributions to swing and early bebop.
An Examination Of The Neo Classical Wind Works Of Igor Stravinsky
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Author : Scott Lubaroff
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 2004
An Examination Of The Neo Classical Wind Works Of Igor Stravinsky written by Scott Lubaroff and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This study asserts that Stravinsky's Octour pour instruments a vents (1923) is pivotal within Stravinsky's progressions in regard to orchestrational practice, instrumental choices, and compositional choices, and presents it as the point in which all of these transitions came together for the first time. After an opening discussion of Stravinsky's early life and compositional career, it concentrates on setting up the Octet and Concerto through discussion of the years leading up to their composition. In addition to placing the two works within their context of their position and broader influence upon Stravinsky's surrounding production, it provides a full musical analysis of the Octet, followed by comparative analysis between it and the Concerto. The analysis is predominantly centered around compositional practices and orchestrational techniques.
Catalog Of Published Concert Music By American Composers
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Author : United States Information Agency
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Catalog Of Published Concert Music By American Composers written by United States Information Agency and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Music, American categories.
Theory And Composition Of Percussion Music
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Author : Geary Larrick
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 2004
Theory And Composition Of Percussion Music written by Geary Larrick and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Music categories.
Larrick shares his knowledge of the theory and composition of percussion music. In the first section, more than a dozen brief entries address such topics as music education's treatment of drummers and the notation of Western music. In the second section, Larrick presents an annotated bibliography of music theory books found in the University Library at the U. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. The third section contains bibliographical references for a wide range of materials relating to percussion. A life-long performer, Larrick is the author of a number of scholarly books on percussion. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
A Chronological Order For The Keyboard Sonatas Of Domenico Scarlatti 1685 1757
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Author : Matthew Flannery
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 2004
A Chronological Order For The Keyboard Sonatas Of Domenico Scarlatti 1685 1757 written by Matthew Flannery and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Music categories.
This work proposes a solution to what is often considered the central problem facing Scarlatti scholarship, determining the chronological order of his keyboard sonatas. In the data-poor arena of Scarlatti research, this work, avoiding a primarily musicological or organological approach, analyzes large-scale patterns of musical characteristics over all (or parts) of a sonata sequence founded primarily on the Parma manuscript. As a result of an extensive application of this analytic approach to the sequence, this work notes that many sequence patterns seem to be chronologically structured, that none seem anti-chronological, and that a few mirror historical changes in the music of Scarlatti's time. These phenomena and other observations delimit something like a general history of Scarlatti's musical development enriched further by a variety of localized events. Among some 26 patterns observed in the sequence are a systematic rise in Scarlatti's use of the major mode, stepped increases in sonata compass that seem to accord with the sequential availability of larger keyboards, and both an increase in the rate at which the sonatas were combined into sets of two or three works and the use by Scarlatti of progressively complex techniques for doing so. This work also sketches a methodological background for the chronological proposal, including a discussion of why chronological order seems a superior interpretation of the sequence compared to the thought that it may have been reorganized, whether at random or by specific criteria. This study also discusses such subjects as the probable location of the 30 essercizi within the sonata sequence, the likely mis-location of several other sonatas, implications of chronological order from organology, a broadly dated window for the latter part of the sequence, the relationship between conservative and radical elements in Scarlatti's compositions, a late-sequence change in his approach to writing slow sonatas, and the interplay of structural integration and musical diversity in the later sonatas. It presents a new catalog of the sonatas that, while substantially congruent with Kirkpatrick's, proposes modifications to his ordering of the first hundred sonatas as well to a few other but smaller regions of the sequence.
Fontainebleau Operas For The Court Of Louis Xv Of France By Jean Philippe Rameau 1683 1764
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Author : Paul Francis Rice
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 2004
Fontainebleau Operas For The Court Of Louis Xv Of France By Jean Philippe Rameau 1683 1764 written by Paul Francis Rice and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
During the eighteenth century, the French court made yearly trips to the chateau of Fontainebleau during the autumn months, partaking of the abundant hunting in the surrounding area, and enjoying evenings of operas and plays presented by the leading performers from Paris. Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683- 1764), the leading French composer of the period, was asked to present 5 new operas at the chateau in 1753 and 1754. Only one of these works was ever published and three of the five were never heard in Paris. Consequently, these works have remained little known. This book presents Rameau's works first heard at Fontainebleau in the context of their compositional and performance histories, a context which is rich in court intrigues and social change. This study is the first published work to investigate these operas in detail, Rameau's relationship to the court and the public opera house of Paris is reevaluated, and the richness of Rameau's musical imagination is revealed in works from his maturity.
Connectionist Models Of Musical Thinking
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Author : Harold E. Fiske
language : en
Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press
Release Date : 2004
Connectionist Models Of Musical Thinking written by Harold E. Fiske and has been published by Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Music categories.
For the past decade, Fiske (music, U. of Western Ontario) has been using neural network models to test his theory that musical thinking can be described as a hierarchy of progressively more intricate pattern-comparison activity, and that the resulting musical realizations are limited to only three cognitive category types. He describes the development of his theory, several related experimental studies, and the neural network models he uses to test the theory. Neural network methodology can seem daunting, he admits, so he has tried to keep technical descriptions to a minimum in order to highlight his main goal: to describe and test a set of principles that appear to represent the foundation of musical understanding. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
The Opera Theatre Of Jean Pierre Ponnelle
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Author : Kristina Bendikas
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 2004
The Opera Theatre Of Jean Pierre Ponnelle written by Kristina Bendikas and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Music categories.
Bendikas' research work is particularly praiseworthy, given the difficulty of recreating the ephemeral experience of any staged production. Her examples are specific, grounded in impeccable scholarship, and employed to make important forays into matters of twentieth-century stage practice and theory as well as suggesting important questions about aesthetics and artistry in general. For theatre practitioners, the implications of Ponnelle's work for performance are immensely valuable. - Langdon Brown, University at Albany This work is the first full-length analysis of the major productions of Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (1932-1988), who has been hailed internationally as one of the most important opera directors/designers of the last century. In a career spanning four decades he was in demand at the leading opera houses of the world where he regularly collaborated with world-class conductors and singer-actors producing an enormous range of operas representing every period, genre and style from Monteverdi and Rossini to Wagner and Strauss. He was instrumental in reinstating the seria operas of Mozart into the active repertoire and was a formidable champion for new works. These credentials