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Author | : Robin Stowell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2003-11-13 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521000420 |
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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.
Author | : Robin Stowell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1992-12-10 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521399234 |
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Enth. S.1 - 29: The violin and bow - origins and development / John Dilworth
Author | : John Butt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1997-06-26 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1107493773 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Bach, first published in 1997, goes beyond a basic life-and-works study to provide a late twentieth-century perspective on J. S. Bach the man and composer. The book is divided into three parts. Part One is concerned with the historical context, the society, beliefs and the world-view of Bach's age. The second part discusses the music and Bach's compositional style, while Part Three considers Bach's influence and the performance and reception of his music through the succeeding generations. This Companion benefits from the insights and research of some of the most distinguished Bach scholars, and from it the reader will gain a notion of the diversity of current thought on this great composer.
Author | : Michael Musgrave |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1999-05-27 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1139825305 |
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This Companion gives a comprehensive view of the German composer Johannes Brahms (1833–97). Twelve specially-commissioned chapters by leading scholars and musicians provide systematic coverage of the composer's life and works. Their essays represent recent research and reflect changing attitudes towards a composer whose public image has long been out-of-date. The first part of the book contains three chapters on Brahms's early life in Hamburg and on the middle and later years in Vienna. The central section considers the musical works in all genres, while the last part of the book offers personal accounts and responses from a conductor (Roger Norrington), a composer (Hugh Wood), and an editor of Brahms's original manuscripts (Robert Pascall). The volume as a whole is an important addition to Brahms scholarship and provides indispensable information for all students and enthusiasts of Brahms's music.
Author | : John Irving |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1998-01-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521585613 |
Download Mozart: The 'Haydn' Quartets Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The six string quartets dedicated to his friend Joseph Haydn represent a turning point in Mozart's compositional development. In addition to providing a full synopsis of each quartet this book examines the music in relation to Mozart's earlier quartets, considers the genesis of the six 'Haydn' quartets through close examination of the autograph revisions and looks at contemporary eighteenth-century analytical models. John Irving also charts the reception of the quartets, drawing upon a broad range of sources: Mozart's letters and diary entries, early newspaper reports, harmony/compositional textbooks, contemporary criticism and early biographies.
Author | : Colin James Lawson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2003-04-24 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521001328 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This guide to the orchestra and orchestral life is unique in its breadth of coverage. It combinesorchestral history and repertory with a practical bias offering critical thought about the past, present and future of the orchestra. Including topics such as the art of orchestration, scorereading, conducting, international orchestras, recording, as well as consideration of what it means to be an orchestral musician, an educator, or an informed listener, it will be of interest to a wideranging readership of music historians and professional or amateur performers.
Author | : Edward Klorman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2016-04-21 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107093651 |
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This study analyzes chamber music from Mozart's time within its highly social salon-performance context.
Author | : Amanda Bayley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2001-03-26 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1139826093 |
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This Companion is an accessible guide to Bartók's music and is an ideal introduction to the composer for students, performers and concert-goers. Part I of the book sets out the cultural, social and political background in Hungary at the beginning of the twentieth century, and considers Bartók's interest in and research into folk music. Part II surveys his compositional output in all genres, relating changes in style to broad aesthetic issues, his folk music studies, and his activities as a pianist, music editor and teacher. The final part reveals the wide variety of responses to Bartók's music in Europe and the United States, both during and after his lifetime. It includes a comparison of analytical approaches to his music and an evaluation of performances including those of the composer himself. The book is written by a team of specialists, who represent more recent thinking on the composer and his music.
Author | : Kenneth Gloag |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2013-01-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1107021979 |
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This Companion provides a wide ranging and accessible study of one of the most individual composers of the twentieth century. A team of international scholars shed new light on Tippett's major works and draw attention to those that have not yet received the attention they deserve.
Author | : Richard Ingham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1999-02-13 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1107494052 |
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The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone, first published in 1999, tells the story of the saxophone, its history and technical development from Adolphe Sax (who invented it c. 1840) to the end of the twentieth century. It includes extensive accounts of the instrument's history in jazz, rock and classical music as well as providing practical performance guides. Discussion of the repertoire and soloists from 1850 to the present day includes accessible descriptions of contemporary techniques and trends, and moves into the electronic age with midi wind instruments. There is a discussion of the function of the saxophone in the orchestra, in 'light music' and in rock and pop studios, as well as of the saxophone quartet as an important chamber music medium. The contributors to this volume are some of the finest performers and experts on the saxophone.