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Schoenberg's Serial Odyssey
Author: Ethan Haimo
Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Schoenberg's twelve-tone method of composition has proved to be one of the most enduring and influential ideas in the history of music. Yet until now, little attention has been devoted to the evolution of his method and the refinement of his compositional technique. Drawing upon Schoenberg's papers, sketches, and manuscripts, as well as his scores, this book traces the development of his twelve-tone serial idea from its rudimentary beginnings in 1914 to the highly refined works of his mature period.
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The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg
Author: Jennifer Shaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-05-13
Total Pages: 655
ISBN-13: 113982807X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Arnold Schoenberg – composer, theorist, teacher, painter, and one of the most important and controversial figures in twentieth-century music. This Companion presents engaging essays by leading scholars on Schoenberg's central works, writings, and ideas over his long life in Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles. Challenging monolithic views of the composer as an isolated elitist, the volume demonstrates that what has kept Schoenberg and his music interesting and provocative was his profound engagement with the musical traditions he inherited and transformed, with the broad range of musical and artistic developments during his lifetime he critiqued and incorporated, and with the fundamental cultural, social, and political disruptions through which he lived. The book provides introductions to Schoenberg's most important works, and to his groundbreaking innovations including his twelve-tone compositions. Chapters also examine Schoenberg's lasting influence on other composers and writers over the last century.
Adorno's Aesthetics of Music
Author: Max Paddison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780521626088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This introduction to the aesthetics and sociology of music of the German philosopher and music theorist T. W. Adorno is the only book to deal comprehensively with this topic and it has quickly established itself as a classic text.
A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers
Author: Pamela Y. Dees
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2002-02-28
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0313017034
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Designed as a practical reference guide for professional pianists and piano teachers, A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers, Volume I, is an annotated catalogue of the available piano music in print composed by 144 women born before the 20th century. The work also features biographies and extensive bibliographical information for each composer. Arranged alphabetically by composer into categories including single works, collections, and anthologies, the music is also described in terms of grade level, genre, mood, style characteristics, and technical requirements, and ranges in difficulty from late elementary to virtuoso concert repertoire. Far too many teachers, students, professional musicians, and audiences are unaware of the contributions made by women in music, and of the beauty and merit of their specific compositions. This reference work provides an invaluable addition to the current literature.
Nature and History in Modern Italy
Author: Marco Armiero
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2010-08-31
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0821419161
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Marco Armiero is Senior Researcher at the Italian National Research Council and Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies, Universitat Aut(noma de Barcelona. He has published extensively on-Italian environmental history and edited Views from the South: Environmental Stories from the Mediterranean World. --
The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music
Author: Nick Collins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-10-30
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1108548474
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Musicians are always quick to adopt and explore new technologies. The fast-paced changes wrought by electrification, from the microphone via the analogue synthesiser to the laptop computer, have led to a wide range of new musical styles and techniques. Electronic music has grown to a broad field of investigation, taking in historical movements such as musique concrète and elektronische Musik, and contemporary trends such as electronic dance music and electronica. The first edition of this book won the 2009 Nicolas Bessaraboff Prize as it brought together researchers at the forefront of the sonic explorations empowered by electronic technology to provide accessible and insightful overviews of core topics and uncover some hitherto less publicised corners of worldwide movements. This updated and expanded second edition includes four entirely new chapters, as well as new original statements from globally renowned artists of the electronic music scene, and celebrates a diverse array of technologies, practices and music.
Elliott Carter Studies
Author: Marguerite Boland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-07-26
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1139535951
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over the course of an astonishingly long career, Elliott Carter has engaged with many musical developments of the twentieth and now twenty-first centuries - from his early neo-classic music of the interwar period, to his modernist works of conflict and opposition in the 1960s and 1970s, to the reshaping of a modernist aesthetic in his latest compositions. Elliott Carter Studies throws new light on these many facets of Carter's extensive musical oeuvre. This collection of essays presents historic, philosophic, philological and theoretical points of departure for in-depth investigations of individual compositions, stylistic periods in Carter's output and his contributions to a variety of genres, including vocal music, the string quartet and the concerto. The first multi-authored book to appear on Carter's music, it brings together research from a distinguished team of leading international Carter scholars, providing the reader with a wide range of perspectives on an extraordinary musical life.
The New Century Italian Renaissance Encyclopedia
