Great Composers in Historic Photographs
Author: James Camner
Publisher: New York : Dover Publications
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Striking gallery of major and minor composers from 1860s to 1960s. Many rarities.
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Composer Portraits and Autograph Scores
Musical Portraits : Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
Author: Paul Rosenfeld
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-07-31
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Musical Portraits : Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers" by Paul Rosenfeld. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Portraits of Great Composers
Author: H. Owen Reed
Publisher:
Published: 1985-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780769257174
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Full-color display posters of famous composers. Each composer portrait measures 14" x 17.5", is printed on high-quality varnished stock, and includes a short, informative biography of the composer printed on the back. Each portrait set contains 20 posters and a separate booklet with biographies. The classical composers set contains: Bach * Handel * Haydn * Mozart * Beethoven * Schubert * J. Strauss * Mendelssohn * Chopin * Schumann * Liszt * Wagner * Verdi * Brahms * Saint-Saëns * Bizet * Tchaikovsky * Dvorák * Grieg * Mahler.
Composers of the Nazi Era
Author: Michael H. Kater
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 0195099249
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How does creativity thrive in the face of fascism? How can a highly artistic individual function professionally in so threatening a climate? The final book in a critically acclaimed trilogy that includes Different Drummers (OUP 1992) and The Twisted Muse (OUP 1997), this is a detailed study of the often interrelated careers of eight outstanding German composers who lived and worked amid the dictatorship of the Third Reich: Werner Egk, Paul Hindemith, Kurt Weill, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Carl Orff, Hans Pfitzner, Arnold Schoenberg, and Richard Strauss. Noted historian Michael H. Kater weighs issues of accommodation and resistance to ask whether these artists corrupted themselves in the service of a criminal regime -- and if so, whether this is evident in their music. He also considers the degrees to which the Nazis poetically, socially, economically, and aesthetically succeeded in their treatment of these individuals, whose lives and compositions represent diverse responses to totalitarianism.
Illustrated List of the Portraits
Author: National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher:
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Musical Portraits
Author: Joshua S. Walden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0190653507
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Joshua S. Walden's Musical Portraits: The Composition of Identity in Contemporary and Experimental Music explores the wide-ranging but under-examined genre of musical portraiture. It focuses in particular on contemporary and experimental music created between 1945 and the present day, an era in which conceptions of identity have changed alongside increasing innovation in musical composition as well as in the uses of abstraction, mixed media, and other novel techniques in the field of visual portraiture. In the absence of physical likeness, an element typical of portraiture that cannot be depicted in sound, composers have experimented with methods of constructing other attributes of identity in music, such as character, biography, and profession. By studying musical portraits of painters, authors, and modern celebrities, in addition to composers' self-portraits, the book considers how representational and interpretive processes overlap and differ between music and other art forms, as well as how music is used in the depiction of human identities. Examining a range of musical portraits by composers including Peter Ablinger, Pierre Boulez, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Gy rgy Ligeti, and Virgil Thomson, and director Robert Wilson's on-going series of video portraits of modern-day celebrities and his "portrait opera" Einstein on the Beach, Musical Portraits contributes to the study of music since 1945 through a detailed examination of contemporary understandings of music's capacity to depict identity, and of the intersections between music, literature, theater, film, and the visual arts.
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A Composer's Guide to Understanding Music
Author: Sy Brandon
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2011-08-27
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 1430308982
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The purpose of this book is to provide insight into the compositional process to enable listeners, interpreters, and creators of music to advance their skills through a series of guided activities. Listeners can use this book to increase their musical understanding and appreciation. Developing performers, educators and conductors can use this book to gain valuable insights to assist them with interpreting music beyond what is printed on the page. Developing composers can use this book as a beginning text or to help refine their compositional techniques.Free downloadable mp3 files at http://www.lulu.com/content/446296 contain MIDI performances of most of the examples used in the chapters. Purchase of the book entitles the reader to join a free on-line discussion group that is moderated by the author. You can share experiences, comments and questions regarding subjects that are covered in the book and to respond to other reader's posts. The author will also contribute to the discussions.
