A History of Western Choral Music
Author: Chester Lee Alwes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 0199377006
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume 1. From medieval foundations to the romantic age
Author: Chester Lee Alwes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 0199377006
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume 1. From medieval foundations to the romantic age
Author: Chester L. Alwes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-08-03
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 0199377014
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A History of Western Choral Music explores the various genres, key composers, and influential works essential to the development of the western choral tradition. Author Chester L. Alwes divides this exploration into two volumes which move from Medieval music and the Renaissance era up to the 21st century. Volume II begins at the transition from the Classical era to the Romantic, with an examination of the major genres common to both periods. Exploring the oratorio, part song, and dramatic music, it also offers a thorough discussion of the choral symphony from Beethoven to Mahler, through to the present day. It then delves into the choral music of the twentieth century through discussions of the major compositional approaches and philosophies that proliferated over the course of the century, from impressionism to serialism, neo-classicism to modernism, minimalism, and the avant-garde. It also considers the emerging tendency towards nationalistic composition amongst composers such as Bartók and Stravinsky, and discusses in great detail the contemporary music of the United States, and Great Britain. Framing discussion within the political, religious, cultural, philosophical, aesthetic, and technological contexts of each era, A History of Western Choral Music offers readers specialized insight into major composers and works while providing a cohesive understanding of choral music's place in Western history.
Author: Dennis Shrock
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 929
ISBN-13: 0197622402
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Choral Repertoire is the definitive and comprehensive one-volume presentation of the most significant composers and compositions of choral music from the Western Hemisphere throughout recorded history. The book is designed for multiple uses-as a programming guide for practicing conductors, instructional resource for students and teachers of choral music, historic and stylistic reference for choral singers, and source of information about composers and compositions for choral enthusiasts-and as such, the book intends to further and make accessible important information relevant to the vast scope of choral music. Organized by era (Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Modern), Choral Repertoire covers general characteristics of each historical era, trends and styles unique to various countries, biographical sketches of more than six hundred composers, and performance annotations of more than five thousand individual works. Of the composers, there is substantive coverage of women and composers of color, and of the repertoire, there is inclusion of lesser-known works as well as those works that are considered standard"--
Author: André De Quadros
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-08-16
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 0521111730
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bringing together perspectives on history, global activity and professional development, this Companion provides a unique overview of choral music.
Author: Melvin P. Unger
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-08-14
Total Pages: 699
ISBN-13: 1538124343
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Library Journal Starred Review (March 2024) praises the book as a "remarkable resource that will please both musical professionals and amateurs, along with teachers and their students, and conductors and singers.” Throughout the ages, people have wanted to sing in a communal context. This desire apparently stems from a deeply rooted human instinct. Consequently, choral performance historically has often been related to human rituals and ceremonies, especially rites of a religious nature. Historical Dictionary of Choral Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,300 cross-referenced entries on composers, conductors, choral ensembles, choral genres, and choral repertoire. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about choral music.
Author: Chester Lee Alwes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 0199361932
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume 1. From medieval foundations to the romantic age
Author: Homer Ulrich
Publisher: Schirmer Books
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this brief text, Homer Ulrich offers students a history of choral music that is as rich and fascinating as the genre itself. Emphasizing those works that represent historical or stylistic turning points, A SURVEY OF CHORAL MUSIC begins several centuries before the invention of the genre and takes students all the way into the twentieth century. Ulrich's descriptive discussions mix history and analysis with explication of musical structures, text sources and treatments, and kinds of texture. The text offers a useful glossary, bibliography, and list of music sources--as well as appendices that provide several principal types of sacred texts (including Requiem Mass, Te Deum, and Magnificat) for quick reference.
Author: Nick Strimple
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781574671223
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Musical works for chorus are among the great masterpieces of 20th-century art. This guide, the first truly comprehensive volume on the choral music of the last century, covers the spectacular range of music for vocal ensembles, from Saint-Saens to Tan Dun. The book will be essential to every choral conductor and a valuable resource for choir members, choral societies and choruses.
Author: Avery T. Sharp
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0415994195
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites on choral music. This book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared since publication of the previous edition.
Author: Richard Taruskin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-08-27
Total Pages: 840
ISBN-13: 0195384830
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial five-volume survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin.Now this renowned work is available in paperback - both as a set and (for the first time) individually. This volume examines the music of the nineteenth century, ranging from Schubert and Berlioz to Wagner, Verdi, and Brahms. Taking a critical perspective, Taruskin sets the details of music, thechronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history. He combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporariesheard and understood it. He also describes how the context of each stylistic period - key cultural, historical, social, economic, and scientific events - influenced and directed compositional choices.Attractively illustrated and laced with brilliant observations, memorable musical analysis, and a panoramic sense of the interactions between history, culture, politics, art, literature, religion, and music, this volume is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand nineteenth-centurymusic.