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Author: David C. H. Wright
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-09-05
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1107163382
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A rounded portrait of the Royal College of Music, investigating its educational and cultural impact on music and musical life.
Author: Byron Adams
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2023-08-05
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0226830454
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) was one of the most innovative and creative figures in twentieth-century music, whose symphonies stand alongside those of Sibelius, Nielsen, Shostakovich, and Roussel. After his death, shifting priorities in the music world led to a period of critical neglect. What could not have been foreseen is that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, a handful of Vaughan Williams's scores would attain immense popularity worldwide. Yet the present renown of these pieces has led to misapprehension about the nature of Vaughan Williams's cultural nationalism and a distorted view of his international cultural and musical significance. Vaughan Williams and His World traces the composer's stylistic and aesthetic development in a broadly chronological fashion, reappraising Vaughan Williams's music composed during and after the Second World War and affirming his status as an artist whose leftist political convictions pervaded his life and music. This volume reclaims Vaughan Williams's deeply held progressive ethical and democratic convictions while celebrating his achievements as a composer.
Author: Colin James Lawson
Publisher: Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781857599145
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Royal College of Music (RCM) is one of the world's great conservatoires, training gifted musicians from around the world for careers as performers, conductors, composers and teachers. Since its foundation in 1882, the RCM has developed an unrivalled collection of manuscripts, instruments, portraits, programmes and archives which are used to support and add breadth to the students' studies. This latest title in the Director's Choice series gives Professor Colin Lawson, Director of the RCM, the opportunity to present his personal selection from the College's treasures, giving an insight into their history and their place in the work of this busy conservatoire. This includes world-famous items like a Mozart manuscript and Thomas Hardy's portrait of Haydn, to less well-known items like opera set designs and Elgar's foray into map design. AUTHOR: Professor Colin Lawson is Director of the Royal College of Music. SELLING POINTS: * A personal and engaging guide with a unique approach to the works in one of the world's leading conservatoires * The Royal College of Music is part of the Director's Choice series 37 colour illustrations
Author: Rosemary Golding
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-08-15
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1000564304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume of primary source material examine the thoughts and ideas behind music in Britian during the ninteenth century. Sources explore music critics, listening to music, music education, and philosophy. The collection of materials are accompanied by an introduction by Rosemary Golding, as well as headnotes contextualising the pieces. This collection will be of great value to students and scholars.
Author: Simon McVeigh
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2024-05-21
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1837651345
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traversing London's musical culture, this book boldly illuminates the emergence of Edwardian London as a beacon of musical innovation. The dawning of a new century saw London emerge as a hub in a fast-developing global music industry, mirroring Britain's pivotal position between the continent, the Americas and the British Empire. It was a period of expansion, experiment and entrepreneurial energy. Rather than conservative and inward-looking, London was invigorated by new ideas, from pioneering musical comedy and revue to the modernist departures of Debussy and Stravinsky. Meanwhile, Elgar, Holst, Vaughan Williams, and a host of ambitious younger composers sought to reposition British music in a rapidly evolving soundscape. Music was central to society at every level. Just as opulent theatres proliferated in the West End, concert life was revitalised by new symphony orchestras, by the Queen's Hall promenade concerts, and by Sunday concerts at the vast Albert Hall. Through innumerable band and gramophone concerts in the parks, music from Wagner to Irving Berlin became available as never before. The book envisions a burgeoning urban culture through a series of snapshots - daily musical life in all its messy diversity. While tackling themes of cosmopolitanism and nationalism, high and low brows, centres and peripheries, it evokes contemporary voices and characterful individuals to illuminate the period. Challenging issues include the barriers faced by women and people of colour, and attitudes inhibiting the new generation of British composers - not to mention embedded imperialist ideologies reflecting London's precarious position at the centre of Empire. Engagingly written, Simon McVeigh's groundbreaking book reveals the exhilarating transformation of music in Edwardian London, which laid the foundations for the century to come.
Author: Clive Burgess
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1903153220
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A wide ranging survey of the medieval secular college and its context.
Author: John Link
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-01-27
Total Pages: 509
ISBN-13: 1009234404
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first comprehensive study of the late music of one of the most influential composers of the last half century, this book places Elliott Carter's music from 1995 to 2012 in the broader context of post-war contemporary concert music, including his own earlier work. It addresses Carter's reception history, his aesthetics, and his harmonic and rhythmic practice, and includes detailed essays on all of Carter's major works after 1995. Special emphasis is placed on Carter's settings of contemporary modernist poetry from John Ashbery to Louis Zukofsky. In readable and engaging prose, Elliott Carter's Late Music illuminates a body of late work that stands at the forefront of the composer's achievements.
Author: Liam Cagney
Publisher:
Published: 2023-11-29
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1009399489
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first in-depth historical overview of spectral music, which is widely regarded, alongside minimalism, as one of the two most influential compositional movements of the last fifty years. Charting spectral music's development in France from 1972 to 1982, this ground-breaking study establishes how spectral music's innovations combined existing techniques from post-war music with the use of information technology. The first section focuses on Gérard Grisey, showing how he creatively developed techniques from Messiaen, Xenakis, Ligeti, Stockhausen and Boulez towards a distinctive style of music based on groups of sounds mutating in time. The second section shows how a wider generation of young composers centred on the Parisian collective L'Itinéraire developed a common vision of music embracing seismic developments in in psychoacoustics and computer sound synthesis. Framed against institutional and political developments in France, spectral music is shown as at once an inventive artistic response to the information age and a continuation of the French colouristic tradition.
Author: Kent Cleland
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-03-18
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 1000357457
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Routledge Companion to Aural Skills Pedagogy offers a comprehensive survey of issues, practice, and current developments in the teaching of aural skills. The volume regards aural training as a lifelong skill that is engaged with before, during, and after university or conservatoire studies in music, central to the holistic training of the contemporary musician. With an international array of contributors, the volume captures diverse perspectives on aural-skills pedagogy, and enables conversation between different regions. It addresses key new developments such as the use of technology for aural training and the use of popular music. This book will be an essential resource and reference for all university and conservatoire instructors in aural skills, as well as students preparing for teaching careers in music.
