Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung
Author: Paul Sacher Stiftung (Basel, Switzerland)
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13:
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After the Rite
Author: Maureen A. Carr
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0199742936
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After the Rite: Stravinsky's Path to Neoclassicism (1914-1925) traces the evolution of Stravinsky's compositional style as he searched for his own voice in the explosive musical world of the early 20th century as he responded to harsh criticisms of his work.
Compositional Process in Elliott Carter’s String Quartets
Author: Laura Emmery
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-11-21
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0429621663
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Compositional Process in Elliott Carter’s String Quartets is an interdisciplinary study examining the evolution and compositional process in Elliott Carter’s five string quartets. Offering a systematic and logical way of unpacking concepts and processes in these quartets that would otherwise remain opaque, the book’s narrative reveals new aspects of understanding these works and draws novel conclusions on their collective meaning and Carter’s place as the leading American modernist. Each of Carter’s five string quartets is driven by a new idea that Carter was exploring during a particular period, which allows for each quartet to be examined under a unique lens and a deeper understanding of his oeuvre at large. Drawing on key ideas from a variety of subjects including performance studies, philosophy, music cognition, musical meaning and semantics, literary criticism, and critical theory, this is an informative volume for scholars and researchers in the areas of music theory and musicology. Analyses are supplemented with sketch study, correspondence, text manuscripts, and other archival sources from the Paul Sacher Stiftung, the Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library.
Stravinsky in Context
Author: Graham Griffiths
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-17
Total Pages: 613
ISBN-13: 1108386660
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stravinsky in Context offers an alternative to chronological biography. Thirty-five short, specially commissioned essays explore the eventful life-tapestry from which Stravinsky's compositions emerged. The opening chapters draw on new research into the composer's childhood in St. Petersburg. Stravinsky's early, often traumatic upbringing is examined in depth, particularly in the context of his brother Roman's death, and religious sensibilities within the family. Further essays consider Stravinsky's years in exile at the centre of dynamic and ever-evolving cultural environments, the composer constantly refining his idiom and re-defining his aesthetics against a backdrop of world events and personal tragedy. The closing chapters review new material regarding Stravinsky's complicated relationship with the Soviet Union, whilst also anticipating his legacy from the varied perspectives of publishing, research and even - in the iconic example of The Rite of Spring - space exploration. The book includes previously unpublished images of the composer and his family.
A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches
Author: Patricia Hall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-12-02
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521808606
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This indispensable handbook explains how scholars and students should work with and think about the composer's working manuscripts.
Polycultural Synthesis in the Music of Chou Wen-chung
Author: Mary I. Arlin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-17
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1351974033
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The displacement of Chou Wen-chung from his native China in 1948 forced him into Western-European culture. Ultimately finding his vocation as a composer, he familiarized himself with classical and contemporary techniques but interpreted these through his traditionally oriented Chinese cultural perspective. The result has been the composition of a unique body of repertoire that synthesizes the most progressive Western compositional idioms with an astonishingly traditional heritage of Asian approaches, not only from music, but also from calligraphy, landscape painting, poetry, and more. Chou’s importance rests not only in his compositions, but also in his widespread influence through his extensive teaching career at Columbia University, where his many students included Bright Sheng, Zhou Long, Tan Dun, Chen Yi, Joan Tower, and many more. During his tenure at Columbia, he also founded the U.S.-China Arts Exchange, which continues to this day to be a vital stimulus for multicultural interaction. The volume will include an inventory of the Chou collection in the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland.
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Rethinking Reich
Author: Sumanth Gopinath
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-04-12
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0190945818
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Described by music critic Alex Ross as "the most original musical thinker of our time" and having received innumerable accolades in a career spanning over fifty years, composer Steve Reich is considered by many to be America's greatest contemporary composer. His music, however, remains largely underresearched. Rethinking Reich redresses this imbalance, providing a space for prominent and emerging scholars to reassess the composer's contribution to music in the twentieth century. Featuring fourteen tightly focused and multifarious essays on various aspects of Reich's work--ranging from analytical, aesthetic, and archival studies to sociocultural, philosophical, and ethnomusicological reflections--this edited volume reveals new insights, including those enabled by access to the growing Steve Reich Collection at the Paul Sacher Foundation archive, the premier institution for primary research on twentieth-century and contemporary classical music. This volume takes on the timely task of challenging the hegemony of Reich's own articulate and convincing discourses on his music, as found in his Writings on Music (OUP, 2002), and breaks new ground in the broader field of minimalism studies.
The British Union Catalogue of Music Periodicals
Author: John Wagstaff
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-23
Total Pages: 1061
ISBN-13: 0429802617
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1998, the aim of this catalogue is to help students, researchers and librarians determine the UK locations of over 2,000 music periodical titles held in public, academic and national libraries. Over 220 libraries in the UK have been surveyed, from St. Austell to Aberdeen, Aberystwyth to Brighton. Each catalogue entry provides detailed information on library holdings, and full bibliographic details of periodical titles, including ISSNs. The main catalogue is preceded by an address list, and by a preface outlining the history of music periodicals in Britain, together with statistical tables.
Anton Webern
Author: Darin Hoskisson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-03-27
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1317672682
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Anton Webern: A Research and Information Guide offers carefully selected and annotated sources regarding Webern from 1975 to present day, including sources on Webern’s life, his music, and the interpretation and reception of his music. Along with this comprehensive annotated listing of print and online sources, the book discusses the history of research on Webern and includes a brief chronology of his life. It is a major reference tool for those interested in Webern and his music and valuable for researchers of 20th century music and the Second Viennese School.
