epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Bergerac

(1797-1828) IMPROMPTU (Op. 142, no. 2) The title “impromptu” has no special musical meaning, joining the group of meaningless names thought up by the nineteenth-century Romantics to identify their music. ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-15 | Author:Jonathan Boswell

Chapter 6 ‘The Quality of Mercy’: Kyrie Eleison Palestrina’s record-breaking engagement with the Mass began in the 1550s. During this early phase in his career he was struggling and experimenting. ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-22 | Author:Macdonald, Hugh

Hartmann was firmly dedicated to the promotion of young French composers, nearly all of whom were habitués of his shop, and he published works by most of them. His list ...

epub |eng | 2017-03-05 | Author:Walsh, Stephen; NEFF, Severine; CARR, Maureen A. & Maureen Carr & Gretchen Horlacher & John Reef

Musical Topoi for Earthquakes and Fear in the Works of Rameau, Rebel, and Stravinsky The Earth is the element of the first part of Stravinsky’s ballet. Beginning with the first ...

epub |eng | 2018-07-16 | Author:Paul Kildea

They were in an impossibly vexing position: the hated Russian Empire was at war with Landowska’s adopted country, which had made them civil prisoners. “The Germans want to liberate us ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-09 | Author:Charles Blanchard [Blanchard, Charles]

epub, pdf |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Anna Beer

She seized upon the spirit of the composition and its innermost fibres, which then radiated out most forcefully into the souls of the singers and audience. A sforzando from her ...

epub |eng | | Author:Todd, R. Larry.

The Mazurkas The mazurkas provide a marvelous index of Chopin’s career. He wrote more of them than any other genre (we know of at least fifty-eight separate works entitled “Mazurka,” ...

epub |eng | | Author:Dirksen, Pieter;

Chapter 12 Intabulations Long neglected because of a certain bias against the art of the (keyboard) intabulation in general,1 Scheidemann’s intabulations have only been published and become widespread since the ...

epub |eng | 2018-06-04 | Author:Frédéric Chopin [Chopin, Frédéric]

epub |eng | 2016-02-27 | Author:Robert A. Green

DYNAMICS The vielle is capable of playing both loud (fort) and soft (doux), and these “terrace dynamics” are often found in the music. The difference between these two levels of ...

epub |eng | | Author:Harris, Laurie Lanzen; Ganson, Paul;

MOTOWN AND THE DSO In the mid-1960s, amidst all the serious classical music-making in Detroit, several members of the orchestra, notably a group of string players led by assistant concertmaster ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-11-15 | Author:Haruki Murakami & Seiji Ozawa [Murakami, Haruki]

I Never Even Knew Music Like That Existed MURAKAMI: Had you been listening to Mahler before Bernstein got you started? OZAWA: No, not at all. When I was a student ...

mobi |eng | 1997-05-31 | Author:Sherman, Robert [Sherman, Robert]

* * * Bet You Didn’t Know Medal or no medal, Tchaikovsky was so afraid that people would be upset with him for having used the same text as Beethoven ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-08 | Author:Stephen Walsh

ALTHOUGH out of bed for a short time each day, Stravinsky was not well enough to leave the hospital for another four weeks. He would shuffle round the hospital garden ...