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Didn't We Almost Have It All - In Defense of Whitney Houston (Paperback): Gerrick Kennedy Didn't We Almost Have It All - In Defense of Whitney Houston (Paperback)
Gerrick Kennedy; Foreword by Brandy
R310 Discovery Miles 3 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A candid exploration of the genius, shame, and celebrity of Whitney Houston a decade after her passing—now in paperback!In the decade since Whitney Houston’s passing, the world has mourned her death as a once–in–a–generation talent and queen of the pop charts. Didn’t We Almost Have It All is an exploration of Whitney’s life as a woman in the spotlight. This is the story of Whitney’s whole life, told with grace and honesty.Gerrick Kennedy deftly peels back the layers of Whitney’s story and pulls the narrative apart into the key elements that informed her life—growing up in a famous family; her relationships with Robyn Crawford and Bobby Brown; her connection to her own Blackness and the Black community; her drug addiction; and, finally, shame. Kennedy takes readers back to a time when someone like Whitney could not simply be and explains the myriad ways in which her fame could not protect her. A sweeping look at Whitney’s life, Didn’t We Almost Have It All contextualizes her struggles against the backdrop of tabloid culture, mental health stigmas, and racial divisions in America. It explores how and why we lost a beloved icon far too soon.

The Gypsy Caravan - From Real Roma to Imaginary Gypsies in Western Music (Hardcover): David Malvinni The Gypsy Caravan - From Real Roma to Imaginary Gypsies in Western Music (Hardcover)
David Malvinni
R3,926 Discovery Miles 39 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
1. The Relative Neglect of Gypsy Music: Nationalism, Interest and Advocacy in Musicology
2. Alms, Virgins, and Feuerzeichen: Literatures Place in Configuring Gypsiness
3. A Nineteenth-Century tale of two others: Gypsy Improvisation and the Exotic Remainder
4. Nomads and the Rhizome: Becoming Gypsy
5. Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5 and the Dynamics of Exaggeration
6. The Poetics of Gypsiness in Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies
7. Gypsies and Vol'Nost in Russian Music: Aleko
8. Gypsy Pleroma: Janacek's The Diary of One who Disappeared
9. The Specter of Bartk: From Hungarian Musicology to the Folk-Music Revival
10. Gypsy Music as Film Music: Spectacle and Act
11. O Lunga Drom: The Digital Migration of Gypsy Music
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John Taverner - His Life and Music (Hardcover, New Ed): Hugh Benham John Taverner - His Life and Music (Hardcover, New Ed)
Hugh Benham
R3,935 Discovery Miles 39 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

John Taverner was the leading composer of church music under Henry VIII. His contributions to the mass and votive antiphon are varied, distinguished and sometimes innovative; he has left more important settings for the office than any of his predecessors, and even a little secular music survives. Hugh Benham, editor of Taverner's complete works for Early English Church Music, now provides the first full-length study of the composer for over twenty years. He places the music in context, with the help of biographical information, discussion of Taverner's place in society, and explanation of how each piece was used in the pre-Reformation church services. He investigates the musical language of Taverner's predecessors as background for a fresh examination and appraisal of the music in the course of which he traces similarities with the work of younger composers. Issues confronting the performer are considered, and the music is also approached from the listener's point of view, initially through close analytical inspection of the celebrated votive antiphon Gaude plurimum.

The Flaming Cow - The Making of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother (Paperback, 2nd edition): Ron Geesin The Flaming Cow - The Making of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Ron Geesin; Foreword by Nick Mason
R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

By the late 1960s, popular British prog-rock outfit Pink Floyd were experiencing a creative voltage drop, so they turned to composer Ron Geesin for help in writing their next album.The Flaming Cow offers a rare insight into the brilliant but often fraught collaboration between the band and Geesin, the result of which became known as Atom Heart Mother - the title track from the Floyd's first UK number one album. From the time drummer Nick Mason visited Geesin's damp basement flat in Notting Hill, to the last game of golf between bassist Roger Waters and Geesin, this book is an unflinching account about how one of Pink Floyd's most celebrated compositions came to life. Alongside unpublished photographs from the Abbey Road recording sessions (the only ones taken) and the subsequent performances in London and Paris, Geesin goes on to describe how the title was chosen, why he was not credited on the record, how he left Hyde Park in tears, and why the group did not much like the work. The Flaming Cow rose again, firstly in France, then in London in 2008. After 40 years Atom Heart Mother remains a much-loved record, and The Flaming Cow explores its new-found cult status that has led to it being studied for the French Baccalaureat.

Camille Saint-Saens - A Guide to Research (Hardcover): Timothy Flynn Camille Saint-Saens - A Guide to Research (Hardcover)
Timothy Flynn
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This monograph offers an overview of the writings about Camille Saint-Saens, his music, and the general period in which he worked. The bibliography includes works that offer differing opinions of the composer and his music. The author covers both the lesser-known writings on Saint-Saens and his music, as well as the most recent examples of scholarship produced at the end of the twentieth century. Hailed by such luminaries as Berlioz, Gounod, Liszt, and Wagner as among the greatest musicians of his time, Saint-Saens will be better appreciated and investigated by present and future scholars with the aid of this comprehensive guide to research.

Duke Ellington and His World (Paperback, New in Paperback): A. H Lawrence Duke Ellington and His World (Paperback, New in Paperback)
A. H Lawrence
R988 Discovery Miles 9 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Based on lengthy interviews with Ellington's bandmates, family, and friends, Duke Ellington and His World offers a fresh look at this legendary composer. The first biography of the composer written by a fellow musician and African-American, the book traces Ellington's life and career in terms of the social, cultural, political, and economic realities of his times. Beginning with his birth in Washington, DC, through his first bands and work at the legendary Cotton Club, to his final great extended compositions, this book gives a thorough introduction to Ellington's music and how it was made. It also illuminates his personal life because, for Ellington, music was his life and his life was a constant inspiration for music. When A. H. Lawrence was a young trombone player in the '40s, he met Ellington and befriended the elder musician. From that point forward, he closely followed Ellington's career. Because of his deep love for Ellington's music, he began interviewing many of the stars of Ellington's early bands, hoping to capture from them, before they passed away, their memories and insights. Drawing on these interviews with legendary musicians-including many who worked with Ellington from his earliest days, such as drummer Sonny Greer, who played with Ellington's first bands in the '20s and who continued in his bands through the early '50s-the book offers a rounded and human portrait of the great composer and musician. Ellington's son Mercer was particularly forthcoming, offering new information about his childhood and experiences working with his father. The insights into the family that he shared have not previously been published. The result is a thorough biography that offers unique insights into Ellington: the man and his music. This fresh and balanced portrayal will undoubtedly add to our understanding of one of America's greatest artists and bring renewed attention to his distinguished body of work.

Christoph Willibald Gluck - A Guide to Research (Hardcover, 2): Patricia Howard Christoph Willibald Gluck - A Guide to Research (Hardcover, 2)
Patricia Howard
R3,617 Discovery Miles 36 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Christoph Willibald Gluck composed for operas in such a way that served the story and related the poetic quality of music. He possessed a gift for creating unity between the art forms that comprise a ballet or opera. This bibliography and guide ties together the different writings on this artist, providing faster access to the information on his life and work.

Claudio Monteverdi - A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover): Susan Lewis, Maria Virginia Acuna Claudio Monteverdi - A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover)
Susan Lewis, Maria Virginia Acuna
R3,904 Discovery Miles 39 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Claudio Monteverdi: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography that navigates the vast scholarly resources on the composer with the most updated compilation since 1989. Claudio Monteverdi transformed and mastered the principal genres of his day and his works influenced generations of musicians and other artists. He initiated one of the most important aesthetic debates of the era by proposing a new relationship between poetry and harmony. In addition to scholarship by musicologists and music theorists, Monteverdi's music has attracted attention from literary scholars, cultural historians, and critical theorists. Research into Monteverdi and Renaissance and early baroque studies has expanded greatly, with the field becoming more complex as scholars address such issues as gender theory, feminist criticism, cultural theory, new criticism, new historicism, and artistic and popular cultures. The guide serves both as a foundational starting point and as a gateway for future inquiry in such fields as court culture, opera, patronage, and Italian poetry.

Breaking Stones (Hardcover): O'Neill, Mankowitz Breaking Stones (Hardcover)
O'Neill, Mankowitz 1
R1,003 R798 Discovery Miles 7 980 Save R205 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"I was impressed by The Stones. They were dressed casually, had mischief in them and were different to other bands." Terry O'Neill. In July 1962, a group of young men played a gig at The Marquee Club on Oxford Street, London. They called themselves 'The Rollin' Stones' and little did they know they would soon be making music history. This brilliant new book captures the youth, the times and the spirit of The Stones' formative early years. And documenting 1963-1965 were two young photographers just starting out in their careers. Terry O'Neill, aged just 25, had a few years' experience photographing musicians and knew that this group had the same magic as another British phenomenon that just recently started to chart, The Beatles. As the band was starting to record and tour, Gered Mankowitz came along. His first shoot, the now famous Mason's Yard session, was so fruitful, Gered was asked to tag along on tour to America. Gered was a mere 19 when he picked up his camera and joined the band on stage in 1965. Between these two legendary photographers, they document the band's beginnings and these indelible images are forever placed in music's consciousness.The photography throughout this book is embellished with various memoires and interviews, celebrating the early days and giving an inisght into what it must have felt like to go from a small club in Soho with no record deal to touring the world a few years later with a number one record. Terry O'Neill and Gered Mankowitz, two of the most respected, collected and exhibited photographers in the world were sitting in the front row. There are quotes from Andrew Loog Oldman, Norman Jopling, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Bill Wyman, full interviews with Terry O'Neill and Gered Mankowitz, original articles from the Record Mirror (1963), Evening Standard (1964) and Detroit Free Press (1965), and many rare and previously unseen photographs and contact sheets are included.

Vaughan Williams Essays (Hardcover, New Ed): Robin Wells Vaughan Williams Essays (Hardcover, New Ed)
Robin Wells
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Serious scholarship on the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams is currently enjoying a lively revival after a period of relative quiescence, and is only beginning to address the enduring affection of concert audiences for his music. The essays that comprise this volume extend the study of Vaughan Williams's music in new directions that will be of interest to scholars, performers and listeners alike. This volume contains the work of eleven North American scholars who have been recipients of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellowship based at the composer's own school, Charterhouse, which was created and has been supported by the Carthusian Trust since 1985. This wide-ranging and detailed collection of essays covers the spectrum of genres in which Vaughan Williams wrote, including dance, symphony, opera, song, hymnody and film music. The contributors also employ a range of analytical and historical methods of investigation to illuminate aspects of Vaughan Williams's compositional techniques and influences, musical, literary and visual.

Schubert the Progressive - History, Performance Practice, Analysis (Hardcover, New Ed): Brian Newbould Schubert the Progressive - History, Performance Practice, Analysis (Hardcover, New Ed)
Brian Newbould
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The eleven essays that comprise this volume represent some of the most significant strands of current Schubert research. Arising from an international conference organized by the Schubert Institute (UK) and the University of Leeds in 2000, the emphasis of the papers is on issues of performance practice, analysis and hermeneutics. In the opening essay of the book, Charles Rosen illuminates some of Schubert's compositional practices and their implications for performers. Further performance problems are explored by Walther Durr who highlights the paradox between Schubert's precise notation of pitches and rhythm and his imprecision in relation to dynamics and articulation. As Roy Howat makes clear in his essay, the performer needs to read between the lines of even the best Schubert editions. Aspects of Schubert's style are explored in other essays. Clive McClelland discusses the composer's use of ombra style, while Brian Newbould examines Schubert's techniques of compression and expansion as illustrated in his dances and in sonata movements. Robert Hatten explores the G major Piano Sonata as pastoral, and James Sobaskie and Nicholas Rast provide complementary analyses of the A minor Quartet. The organization of musical time in Schubert and his relationship in this regard to later composers is the subject of Susanne Kogler's essay, while Walburga Litschauer discusses Schubert's early piano sonatas and previously unknown versions of them. Various enigmas surrounding Schubert's life and music are discussed by Roger Neighbour. With contributions from both internationally acclaimed and younger scholars, this volume represents a further step in the multifaceted direction that Schubert research is taking.

Conversing with Cage (Paperback, 2nd edition): Richard Kostelanetz Conversing with Cage (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Richard Kostelanetz
R1,253 Discovery Miles 12 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Preface Epigraphs 1. Autobiography 2. Precursors 3. His Own Music (to 1970) 4. His Own Music (after 1970) 5. His Performances 6. His Writings 7. Radio and Audiotape 8. Visual Arts 9. Dance 10. Successors 11. Esthetics 12. Pedagogy 13. Social Philosophy 14. Coda Index

Revival: Handel (1906) (Hardcover): Richard Alexander Streatfield Revival: Handel (1906) (Hardcover)
Richard Alexander Streatfield
R6,141 Discovery Miles 61 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It is the inner meaning of Handel's music, and its power of searching the profoundest recesses of the soul, that in the following pages I have endeavoured, so far as I am able, to elucidate. Its merely technical qualities have already been discussed enough and to spare. Books on Handel written by musicians already abound, but musicians as a rule take more interest in the means by which an end is attained than the end itself. They tell us a great deal about the methods by which a composer expresses himself, but very little about what he actually has to express. I have tried, how feebly and with what little success no one knows better than myself, to find the man Handel in his music, to trace his character, his view of life, his thoughts, feelings, and aspirations, as they are set forth in his works.

Revival: Life of Richard Wagner Vol. II (1902) - Opera and Drama (Hardcover): Carl Friedrich Glasenapp Revival: Life of Richard Wagner Vol. II (1902) - Opera and Drama (Hardcover)
Carl Friedrich Glasenapp
R7,174 Discovery Miles 71 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The second volume of Carl Friedrich Glasenapp's Life of Richard Wagner.

Life Of Richard Wagner: - Art and Politics (Hardcover): Wm Ashton Ellis Life Of Richard Wagner: - Art and Politics (Hardcover)
Wm Ashton Ellis; Carl Francis Glasenapp
R8,067 Discovery Miles 80 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Fourth volume of Carl Francis Glasenapp's Life of Richard Wagner.

John Cage - A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover, annotated edition): Sara Haefeli John Cage - A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Sara Haefeli
R3,909 Discovery Miles 39 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This annotated bibliography uncovers the wealth of resources available on the life and music of John Cage, one of the most influential and fascinating composers of the twentieth-century. The guide will focus on documentary studies, archival resources, scholarly research, and autobiographical materials, and place the composer and his work in a larger context of postmodern philosophy, art and theater movements, and contemporary politics. It will support emerging scholarship and inquiry for future research on Cage, with carefully selected sources and useful annotations.

Charles Villiers Stanford (Hardcover, New Ed): Paul Rodmell Charles Villiers Stanford (Hardcover, New Ed)
Paul Rodmell
R3,922 Discovery Miles 39 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first book devoted to the composer Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) since 1935, this survey provides the fullest account of his life and the most detailed appraisal of his music to date. Renowned in his own lifetime for the rapid rate at which he produced new works, Stanford was also an important conductor and teacher. Paul Rodmell assesses these different roles and considers what Stanford's legacy to British music has been. Born and brought up in Dublin, Stanford studied at Cambridge and was later appointed Professor of Music there. His Irish lineage remained significant to him throughout his life, and this little-studied aspect of his character is examined here in detail for the first time. A man about whom no-one who met him could feel indifferent, Stanford made friends and enemies in equal numbers. Rodmell charts these relationships with people and institutions such as Richter, Parry and the Royal College of Music, and discusses how they influenced Stanford's career. Perhaps not the most popular of teachers, Stanford nevertheless coached a generation of composers who were to revitalize British music, amongst them Coleridge-Taylor, Ireland, Vaughan-Williams, Holst, Bridge and Howells. While their musical styles may not be obviously indebted to Stanford's, it is clear that, without him, British music of the first half of the twentieth century might have taken a very different course.

Hans Keller and Internment - The Development of an Emigre Musician (Hardcover, New): Alison Garnham, Christopher Wintle Hans Keller and Internment - The Development of an Emigre Musician (Hardcover, New)
Alison Garnham, Christopher Wintle; Edited by Christopher Wintle
R1,480 Discovery Miles 14 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The story of influentiual music critic, Hans Keller's months in British internment camps in 1940 and its effect on his intellectual development. After World War II, the musical life of Britain was transformed by the Hitler emigres. None was more influential than the writer and broadcaster Hans Keller who arrived in London from Vienna in 1938. Although his thought was grounded in the work of Kant and Freud, he devoted himself to music after hearing Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes. His remarkable development was accelerated during the nine months he spent in British internment camps, where from 1940 onwards the deracinated flower of European culture was confined . This book sets the story of Keller's internment in the context of what is still a too-little remembered part of British wartime history and traces its remarkable effects in the decade following his release as he gradually found his niche in London life. It includes several important texts, including that of his famous broadcast on the Kristallnacht, 'Vienna 1938', a selection of poignant letters from his two camps (in translation) and ends with a spirited memoir by Donald Mitchell of 'Hans Keller in the Early Years'. It is a remarkable and elegant contribution to our understanding both of Keller's development and of Britain in the 1940s.

Lennox Berkeley: A Source Book - A Source Book (Hardcover): Stewart Craggs Lennox Berkeley: A Source Book - A Source Book (Hardcover)
Stewart Craggs
R3,502 Discovery Miles 35 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title was first published in 2000: This source book on Lennox Berkeley, one of the most important figures in English music in the 20th century, provides a detailed reference for all those interested in his life and music. It is the result of Stewart Cragg's research over 15 years. Included is a chronology of Berkeley's life and work, a catalogue of works, bibliographical descriptions of original manuscripts and printed first editions, a discography and a bibliography. The foreword has been written by the composer's eldest son, Michael.

Leslie Stuart - Composer of Florodora (Hardcover): Andrew Lamb Leslie Stuart - Composer of Florodora (Hardcover)
Andrew Lamb
R3,929 Discovery Miles 39 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Leslie Stuart was one of the leading composers of English-language musical theatre in the years around 1900. His greatest musical comedy success, Floradora, was a hit in America and made him rich. Stuart's subsequent extravagant spending on gambling, drinking and entertaining, as well as his generous gifts to the needy, left him bankrupt. This book sets out the facts of Stuart's life, increases awareness of his achievements, and tells the fascinating story of his rise and fall from fame.

Amália Rodrigues’s Amália at the Olympia (Paperback): Lila Ellen Gray Amália Rodrigues’s Amália at the Olympia (Paperback)
Lila Ellen Gray
R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The voice of Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999), the “Queen of Fado” and Portugal’s most celebrated diva, was extraordinary for its interpretive power, soul wrenching timbre, and international reach. Amalia   l’Olympia (1957) is an album made from recordings of her first performances at the fabled Olympia Music Hall in Paris in 1956. This album, which was issued for multiple national markets (including: France; USA; Japan; Britain; the Netherlands) catapulted Amália Rodrigues into the international limelight. During its time, this album held the potential for international listeners, outside of Portugal, to represent Portugal, while also standing in for cosmopolitanism, the glamorous city of Paris, and to present a sonorous voyage in sound. This book introduces readers to the voice of Amália Rodrigues and to the genre of the Portuguese fado, offering a primer in how to listen to both. It unpacks this iconic album and the voice, sound, style, and celebrity of Amália Rodrigues. It situates this album within a historical context marked by cold war Atlanticist diplomacy, Portugal’s dictatorial regime, and the emergence of new forms of media, travel, and tourism.In so doing, it examines processes that shaped the internationalization of peripheral popular musics and the making of female vocal stardom in the mid-20th century.

Kraftwerk's Computer World (Paperback): Steve Tupai Francis Kraftwerk's Computer World (Paperback)
Steve Tupai Francis
R300 R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Save R89 (30%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Computer World was Kraftwerk's most concise and focused conceptual statement, their most influential record and crowning achievement. Computer World transformed the way pop music was composed, played, packaged and released and, in the process, helped create entire new genres of music including hip-hop, techno, trance, electro, industrial and synth-pop. They influenced the influencers. Upon its release on 10 May 1981, the record was a revelation. It was unlike anything created for mainstream consumers of music at that time, an electronic suite of assured and industrious propulsive forward movement. Kraftwerk set off a sonic detonation that is still being felt today. This book explores Kraftwerk's revolutionary sonic template, their conceptual and artistic preoccupations and lyrical obsessions to provide new insights into one of the greatest records ever made.

Gaspar Cassado - Cellist, Composer and Transcriber (Paperback): Gabrielle Kaufman Gaspar Cassado - Cellist, Composer and Transcriber (Paperback)
Gabrielle Kaufman
R1,360 Discovery Miles 13 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Barcelonian Gaspar Cassado (1897-1966) was one of the greatest cello virtuosi of the twentieth century and a notable composer and arranger, leaving a vast and heterogeneous legacy. In this book, Gabrielle Kaufman provides the first full-length scholarly work dedicated to Cassado, containing the results of seven years of research into his life and legacy, after following the cellist's steps through Spain, France, Italy and Japan. The study presents in-depth descriptions of the three main parts of Cassado's creative output: composition, transcription and performance, especially focusing on Cassado's plural and multi-facetted creativity, which is examined from both cultural and historical perspectives. Cassado's role within the evolution of twentieth-century cello performance is thoroughly examined, including a discussion regarding the musical and technical aspects of performing Cassado's works, aimed directly at performers. The study presents the first attempt at a comprehensive catalogue of Cassado's works, both original and transcribed, as well as his recordings, using a number of new archival sources and testimonies. In addition, the composer's significance within Spanish twentieth-century music is treated in detail through a number of case studies, sustained by examples from recovered score manuscripts. Illuminated by extraordinary source material Gaspar Cassado: Cellist, Composer and Transcriber expands and deepens our knowledge of this complex figure, and will be of crucial importance to students and scholars in the fields of Performance Practice and Spanish Music, as well as to professional cellists and advanced cello students.

Every Sound There Is - The Beatles' "Revolver" and the Transformation of Rock and Roll (Paperback, New Ed): Russell Reising Every Sound There Is - The Beatles' "Revolver" and the Transformation of Rock and Roll (Paperback, New Ed)
Russell Reising
R1,243 Discovery Miles 12 430 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Every Sound There Is': Revolver and the Transformation of Rock and Roll assesses and celebrates the Beatles' accomplishment in their 1966 masterpiece. The essays of Every Sound There Is examine Revolver from a large number of complementary starting points that help us to understand both the album's contemporary creation and reception and the ways in which it continues to shape the creation and reception of popular music in the twenty-first century. Responding to the incredible diversity of Revolver, this gathering of international scholars focuses on the Beatles' 1966 album as one of rock and roll history's threshold moments. Bringing to bear approaches from the disciplines of musicology, cultural studies, poetics, gender studies, these essays address matters as diverse as the influence of American R&B on Revolver as well as its influence on Pink Floyd, each Beatle's contributions to the album, the musicological significance of the Beatles' harmonies and chord progressions, its status and coherence as a work of art, the technological and marketing significance of Revolver's recording and distribution, and its influence on the development of rock music.

The Music of Joonas Kokkonen (Hardcover): Edward Jurkowski The Music of Joonas Kokkonen (Hardcover)
Edward Jurkowski
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Joonas Kokkonen (1921-1996) has been one of the most performed Finnish composers during the past 25 years both within Finland and abroad.The author's study of Joonas Kokkonen is the first full-scale account in English. Starting with a brief survey of Finnish music during the 20th century, the book then devotes a separate chapter to each of the major genres in which Kokkonen composed: symphonic, orchestral, vocal, chamber and keyboard. Illustrated with over a hundred music examples, The Music of Joonas Kokkonen seeks to overturn his reputation in some quarters as a conservative, even old fashioned, composer, and argues that Kokkonen created an interesting and refreshing approach to dodecaphonic composition and pitch organization. With a full chronological listing of works and bibliography, this book is the most important reference source to date on Kokkonen and his music." "Book Description: One of the most performed Finnish composers during the last 25 years, Joonas Kokkonen (1921-1996) was also instrumental in the development of the nation's system of music education. In this study,the author (music, U. of Lethbridge, Canada) examines Kokkonen's compositions in each of five major genres: symphonic, orchestral, vocal, chamber, and key

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