|
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians
|
Buy Now
Choral Monuments - Studies of Eleven Choral Masterworks (Paperback)
Loot Price: R1,973
Discovery Miles 19 730
|
|
|
Choral Monuments - Studies of Eleven Choral Masterworks (Paperback)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Choral Monuments provides extensive material about eleven
epoch-making choral masterworks that span the history of Western
culture. Included are: Missa Pange lingua (Josquin Desprez); Missa
Papae Marcelli (G. P. da Palestrina); B Minor Mass (J. S. Bach);
Messiah (G. F. Handel); The Creation (Joseph Haydn); Symphony #9
(Ludwig van Beethoven); St. Paul (Felix Mendelssohn); Ein deutsches
Requiem (Johannes Brahms); Messa da Requiem (Giuseppe Verdi); Mass
(Igor Stravinsky); and War Requiem (Benjamin Britten). The works
are presented in separate chapters, with each chapter divided into
three basic sections-history, analysis, and performance practice.
Discussions of history are focused on relevancies-the genesis of
the designated work in reference to the composer's total choral
output, the work's place within the musical environment and social
climate of its time, and essential features of the work that make
it noteworthy. In addition, the compositional history addresses
three other factors: the work's public reception and critical
response, both at the time of its composition and in ensuing years;
the history of score publications, detailing the various
differences between editions; and the texts of the composition. The
material regarding textual treatment, which often includes the
complete texts of the works being discussed, concentrates on
primary concerns of the text's usage; also included in the
discussion are noteworthy aspects of texts separate from the music
as well as biographical details of librettists and poets, if
appropriate. The analysis section of each chapter outlines and
describes musical forms and other types of compositional
organization, including parody technique, mirror structures, and
motto repetitions, as well as salient compositional characteristics
that directly relate and contribute to the work's artistic stature.
Numerous charts and musical examples illustrate the discussions.
The discussion of performance practices includes primary source
quotations about a wide range of topics, from performing forces,
tempo, and phrasing of each work to specific issues such as tactus,
text underlay, musica ficta, metric accentuation, and
ornamentation.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
