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Contents: Theme from Schindler's List * Jewish Town * Remembrances.
On March 10, 1948, world-renowned composer and pianist Ernst von
Dohnanyi (1877 1960) embarked for the United States, leaving Europe
for good. Only a few years earlier, the seventy-year-old Hungarian
had been a triumphant, internationally admired musician and leading
figure in Hungarian musical life. Fleeing a political smear
campaign that sought to implicate him in intellectual collaboration
with fascism, he reached American shores without a job or a home. A
Wayfaring Stranger presents the final period in Dohnanyi's
exceptional career and uses a range of previously unavailable
material to reexamine commonly held beliefs about the musician and
his unique oeuvre. Offering insights into his life as a teacher,
pianist, and composer, the book also considers the difficulties of
emigre life, the political charges made against him, and the
compositional and aesthetic dilemmas faced by a conservative
artist. To this rich biographical account, Veronika Kusz adds an
in-depth examination of Dohnanyi's late works-in most cases the
first analyses to appear in musicological literature. This
corrective history provides never-before-seen photographs of the
musician's life in the United States and skillfully illustrates
Dohnanyi's impact on European and American music and the culture of
the time.
The popular Trumpet Stars by H.A. VanderCook are now combined in
two collections that are also included on many state contest lists.
Presented in two sets of six titles each (Set 2 - HL04470001), the
pieces range in difficulty from grade 1 to grade 2. Each collection
also includes a demonstration CD with a full performance recording
and accompaniment only recording for each song. (Trumpet: Bob
Clark; Piano: Mari Falcone) Contents: Lyra * Vega * Cygnus *
Antares * Altair * Arcturus
In New York and London during World War I, the performance of
lieder--German art songs--was roundly prohibited, representing as
they did the music and language of the enemy. But as German
musicians returned to the transatlantic circuit in the 1920s, so
too did the songs of Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, and Richard
Strauss. Lieder were encountered in a variety of venues and
media--at luxury hotels and on ocean liners, in vaudeville
productions and at Carnegie Hall, and on gramophone recordings,
radio broadcasts, and films. Laura Tunbridge explores the renewed
vitality of this refugee musical form between the world wars,
offering a fresh perspective on a period that was pervaded by
anxieties of displacement. Through richly varied case studies,
Singing in the Age of Anxiety traces how lieder were circulated,
presented, and consumed in metropolitan contexts, shedding new
light on how music facilitated unlikely crossings of nationalist
and internationalist ideologies during the interwar period.
The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. This book
explores the history of music in Vienna, focussing on three
different epochs, 1700, 1800 and 1900. The image of Vienna as a
musical city is a familiar one. Vienna has long been associated
with many of the most significant composers in Western music - from
Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, through the Strauss family,
Brahms, Bruckner and Wolf, to Mahler, Lehar, Schoenberg and Webern.
Today, venerable institutions like the Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Staatsoper and the Vienna Boys' Choir, together with
the shared pride of residents and visitors in its musical
inheritance, ensure that the image of a musical city is undimmed.
This book explores the history of music in Vienna, focussing on
three different epochs, 1700, 1800 and 1900, an approach which
allows the very different relationships between music and society
that existed in each of these periods to be distinguished.
Patronage, social function and audience are key considerations, set
within wider political and cultural developments. The volume is
populated by emperors, princes, performers, publishers and writers
as well as composers, and deals with institutional and commercial
characteristics alongside representative individual works. Music in
Vienna focusses on the political and social role of music,
broadening our understanding of the city as a musical capital. It
will appeal to a wide readership, including music historians and
political, cultural and social historians, as well as the
interested general reader. DAVID WYN JONES is Professor of Music at
Cardiff University.
Contents: Elegie * Melodie * Polichinelle * Prelude * Serenade.
Contents: Haydn Sonatas: C major, G major, D major, C# minor, E
minor * Mozart Sonatas: C major (K. 565), F major (K. 280), F major
(K. 332), G major (K. 283), A major (K. 331) * Beethoven Sonatas: G
minor, Op. 49, No. 1; G major, Op. 49, No. 2; G major, Op. 79; E
major, Op. 14, No. 1; G major, Op. 14, No. 2.
"It is hard to think of any music in which the composer is more spontaneous and masterful, and uncompromising in his thought."--Olin Downes, Thompson's International Cyclopedia.These revolutionary works brought a strikingly organic--almost architectural--unity to the symphony that music historians recognized as being far in advance of anything in the classical masters. Planted with seeds of change already evident in the beautiful, dark third symphony, the fourth symphony presented the most individual work in this form that the twentieth century had yet witnessed. Harmonically new, boldly innovative, and structured on a subtle continuity of line, this was a kind of music previously unheard in the concert hall. Austere and intensely concentrated, Sibelius's symphonies of 1907 and 1911 are frequently performed around the world by major orchestras.
Johann Joachim Quantz's On Playing Flute has long been recognized
as one of the most significant and in-depth treatises on
eighteenth-century musical thought, performance practice, and
style. This classic text of Baroque music instruction goes far
beyond an introduction to flute methods by offering a comprehensive
program of studies that is equally applicable to other instruments
and singers.
The work is comprised of three interrelated essays that examine the
education of the solo musician, the art of accompaniment, and forms
and style. Quantz provides detailed treatment of a wide range of
subjects, including phrasing, ornamentation, accent, intensity,
tuning, cadenzas, the role of the concertmaster, stage deportment,
and techniques for playing dance movements. Of special interest is
a table that relates various tempos to the speed of the pulse,
which will help today's musicians solve the challenge of playing
authentic performance tempos in Baroque music. This edition
includes 224 musical examples from Quantz's original text and
features a new introduction by translator Edward R. Reilly that
considers recent scholarship on Quantz's significant role in
eighteenth-century musical activity.
On Playing the Flute vividly conveys the constancy of musical life
over time and remains a valuable guide for contemporary musicians.
(Faber Piano Adventures ). An ideal introduction to the easiest
keyboard sonatinas. Contents include: Sonatina in C 1st mvt
(Gurlitt) * Sonatina in C (Duncombe) * Sonatina Op. 57 No. 1
(Biehl) * Sonatina in D (Saliutrinskaya) * Sonatina in C (Biehl) *
Sonatina Op. 792, No. 8 (Czerny) * Sonatina in G (Attwood).
A group of resourceful kids start "solution-seekers.com," a website
where "cybervisitors" can get answers to questions that trouble
them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas,
the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the
prophecies of the Old Testament. What they find is a series of "S"
words that reveal a "spectacular story " With creative characters,
humorous dialogue and great music, The "S" Files is a children's
Christmas musical your kids will love performing.
One of our top-selling sheet arrangements of this famous piece.
Canon in D is the most famous piece of music by Johann Pachelbel,
written in or around 1680 as a piece of chamber music for three
violins and basso continuo. Robert Schultz's faithful setting is
for the advanced pianist. Tasteful use of arpeggios, rolled chords,
and dynamics brings out a rich, sonorous sound that evokes the
original string arrangement. Perfect for weddings, recitals, or any
other special occasion.
44 complete works, 1670-1905, by Lully, Couperin, Rameau, Alkan, Saint-Saens, Delibes, Bizet, Godard, many others; favorites, lesser-known examples, but all top quality.
Gila Flam offers a penetrating insider's look at a musical culture
previously unexplored---the song repertoire created and performed
in the Lodz ghetto of Poland. Drawing on interviews with survivors
and on library and archival materials, the author illustrates the
general themes of the Lodz repertoire and explores the nature of
Holocaust song. Most of the songs are presented here for the first
time. "An extremely accurate and valuable work. There is nothing
like it in either the extensive holocaust literature or the
ethnomusicology literature." -- Mark Slobin, author of Chosen
Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate
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