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The Cambridge Companion to Debussy

The Cambridge Companion to Debussy
Author: Simon Trezise
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003-06-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521654784

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Often considered the father of twentieth-century music, Debussy was a visionary whose influence is still felt. This book offers a wide-ranging series of essays on Debussy the man, the musician and composer. It contains insights into his character, his relationship to his Parisian environment and his musical works across all genres, with challenging views on the roles of nature and eroticism in his life and music. His music is considered through the characteristic themes of sonority, rhythm, tonality and form, with closing chapters considering the performance and reception of his music in the first years of the new century and our view of Debussy today as a major force in Western culture. This comprehensive view of Debussy is written by a team of specialists for students and informed music lovers.


The Cambridge Companion to French Music

The Cambridge Companion to French Music
Author: Simon Trezise
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2015-02-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0521877946

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This accessible Companion provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive introduction to French music from the early middle ages to the present.


The Cambridge Companion to Ravel

The Cambridge Companion to Ravel
Author: Deborah Mawer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2000-08-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521648561

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A comprehensive introduction to the life, music and compositional aesthetic of Maurice Ravel.


The Cambridge Companion to Haydn

The Cambridge Companion to Haydn
Author: Caryl Clark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2005-11-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1139827227

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This Companion provides an accessible and up-to-date introduction to the musical work and cultural world of Joseph Haydn. Readers will gain an understanding of the changing social, cultural, and political spheres in which Haydn studied, worked, and nurtured his creative talent. Distinguished contributors provide chapters on Haydn and his contemporaries, his working environments in Eisenstadt and Eszterháza, and humor and exoticism in Haydn's oeuvre. Chapters on the reception of his music explore keyboard performance practices, Haydn's posthumous reputation, sound recordings and images of his symphonies. The book also surveys the major genres in which Haydn wrote, including symphonies, string quartets, keyboard sonatas and trios, sacred music, miscellaneous vocal genres, and operas composed for Eszterháza and London.


The Cambridge Companion to Liszt

The Cambridge Companion to Liszt
Author: Kenneth Hamilton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2005-09-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1139825755

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This Companion provides an up-to-date view of the music of Franz Liszt, its contemporary context and performance practice, written by some of the leading specialists in the field of nineteenth-century music studies. Although a core of Liszt's piano music has always maintained a firm hold on the repertoire, his output was so vast, influential and multi-faceted that scholarship too has taken some time to assimilate his achievement. This book offers students and music lovers some of the latest views in an accessible form. Katharine Ellis, Alexander Rehding and James Deaville present the biographical and intellectual aspects of Liszt's legacy, Kenneth Hamilton, James Baker and Anna Celenza give a detailed account of Liszt's piano music - including approaches to performance - Monika Hennemann discusses Liszt's Lieder, and Reeves Shulstad and Dolores Pesce survey his orchestral and choral music.


The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera
Author: Mervyn Cooke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2005-12-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521780094

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This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentieth-century operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a distinguished team of academics, critics and practitioners. Beginning with a discussion of the century's vital inheritance from late-romantic operatic traditions in Germany and Italy, the text embraces fresh investigations into various aspects of the genre in the modern age, with a comprehensive coverage of the work of individual composers from Debussy and Schoenberg to John Adams and Harrison Birtwistle. Traditional stylistic categorizations (including symbolism, expressionism, neo-classicism and minimalism) are reassessed from new critical perspectives, and the distinctive operatic traditions of Continental and Eastern Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and United States are subjected to fresh scrutiny. The volume includes essays devoted to avant-garde music theatre, operettas and musicals, filmed opera, and ends with a discussion of the position of the genre in today's cultural marketplace.


Debussy and the Theatre

Debussy and the Theatre
Author: Robert Orledge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1982-12-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521228077

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Debussy and the Theatre means, in effect, 'Debussy and Pellias et Milisande', the opera both established Debussy's mature style and changed the course of operatic history.


The Cambridge Companion to Chopin

The Cambridge Companion to Chopin
Author: Jim Samson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1994-12-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1139824996

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The Cambridge Companion to Chopin provides the enquiring music-lover with helpful insights into a musical style which recognises no contradiction between the accessible and the sophisticated, the popular and the significant. Twelve essays by leading Chopin scholars make up three parts. Part 1 discusses the sources of Chopin's style in the music of his predecessors and the social history of the period. Part 2 profiles the mature music, and Part 3 considers the afterlife of the music - its reception, its criticism and its compositional influence in the works of subsequent composers.


Debussy Studies

Debussy Studies
Author: Richard Langham Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1997-04-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521460903

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A collection of essays on Debussy exploring his working methods, visual tastes and his performance practice.


The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet

The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet
Author: Robin Stowell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2003-11-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1139826549

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This Companion offers a concise and authoritative survey of the string quartet by eleven chamber music specialists. Its fifteen carefully structured chapters provide coverage of a stimulating range of perspectives previously unavailable in one volume. It focuses on four main areas: the social and musical background to the quartet's development; the most celebrated ensembles; string quartet playing, including aspects of contemporary and historical performing practice; and the mainstream repertory, including significant 'mixed ensemble' compositions involving string quartet. Various musical and pictorial illustrations and informative appendixes, including a chronology of the most significant works, complete this indispensable guide. Written for all string quartet enthusiasts, this Companion will enrich readers' understanding of the history of the genre, the context and significance of quartets as cultural phenomena, and the musical, technical and interpretative problems of chamber music performance. It will also enhance their experience of listening to quartets in performance and on recordings.