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The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius - Cambridge Companions to Music (Hardcover, New): Daniel M. Grimley The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius - Cambridge Companions to Music (Hardcover, New)
Daniel M. Grimley
R2,171 R1,948 Discovery Miles 19 480 Save R223 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This Companion provides an up-to-date introduction to the life and music of Finland's greatest composer, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Divided into four sections, it explores Sibelius's early career, his major musical achievements, historical reception and influence, and the performance and interpretation of his work. Sibelius emerges as one of the most striking figures in twentieth-century music. The book will be of interest to performers and the general public as well as serious scholars.

Delius and the Sound of Place (Paperback): Daniel M. Grimley Delius and the Sound of Place (Paperback)
Daniel M. Grimley
R957 Discovery Miles 9 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Few composers have responded as powerfully to place as Frederick Delius (1862-1934). Born in Yorkshire, Delius resided in the United States, Germany, and Scandinavia before settling in France, where he spent the majority of his professional career. This book examines the role of place in selected works, including 'On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring', Appalachia, and The Song of the High Hills, reading place as a creative and historically mediated category in his music. Drawing on archival sources, contemporary art, and literature, and more recent writing in cultural geography and the philosophy of place, this is a new interpretation of Delius' work, and he emerges as one of the most original and compelling voices in early twentieth-century music. As the popularity of his music grows, this book challenges the idea of Delius as a large-scale rhapsodic composer, and reveals a richer and more productive relationship between place and music.

The Cambridge Companion to Elgar - Cambridge Companions to Music (Hardcover): Daniel M. Grimley, Julian Rushton The Cambridge Companion to Elgar - Cambridge Companions to Music (Hardcover)
Daniel M. Grimley, Julian Rushton
R2,473 R2,336 Discovery Miles 23 360 Save R137 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Edward Elgar occupies a pivotal place in the British cultural imagination. His music has been heard as emblematic of Empire and the English landscape. The recent success of Anthony Payne's elaboration of the sketches for Elgar's Third Symphony have prompted a critical re-evaluation of his music. This Companion provides an accessible and vivid account of Elgar's work in its historical and cultural context. Established authorities on British music and a series of younger scholars examine Elgar's music from a range of critical perspectives, including nationalism, post-colonialism, decadence, reception and musical influence. There are also chapters on interpretation, including his own (Elgar was the first major composer to commit a representative quantity of his own work to record), and on Elgar's relationships with the BBC and with his publishers. The book includes much new material, drawing on original research, as well as providing a comprehensive introduction to Elgar's major musical achievements.

Vaughan Williams and His World: Byron Adams, Daniel M. Grimley Vaughan Williams and His World
Byron Adams, Daniel M. Grimley
R2,718 Discovery Miles 27 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Delius and the Sound of Place (Hardcover): Daniel M. Grimley Delius and the Sound of Place (Hardcover)
Daniel M. Grimley
R2,587 Discovery Miles 25 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Few composers have responded as powerfully to place as Frederick Delius (1862-1934). Born in Yorkshire, Delius resided in the United States, Germany, and Scandinavia before settling in France, where he spent the majority of his professional career. This book examines the role of place in selected works, including 'On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring', Appalachia, and The Song of the High Hills, reading place as a creative and historically mediated category in his music. Drawing on archival sources, contemporary art, and literature, and more recent writing in cultural geography and the philosophy of place, this is a new interpretation of Delius' work, and he emerges as one of the most original and compelling voices in early twentieth-century music. As the popularity of his music grows, this book challenges the idea of Delius as a large-scale rhapsodic composer, and reveals a richer and more productive relationship between place and music.

The Cambridge Companion to Elgar - Cambridge Companions to Music (Book, New): Daniel M. Grimley, Julian Rushton The Cambridge Companion to Elgar - Cambridge Companions to Music (Book, New)
Daniel M. Grimley, Julian Rushton
R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Edward Elgar occupies a pivotal place in the British cultural imagination. His music has been heard as emblematic of Empire and the English landscape. The recent success of Anthony Payne's elaboration of the sketches for Elgar's Third Symphony have prompted a critical re-evaluation of his music. This Companion provides an accessible and vivid account of Elgar's work in its historical and cultural context. Established authorities on British music and a series of younger scholars examine Elgar's music from a range of critical perspectives, including nationalism, post-colonialism, decadence, reception and musical influence. There are also chapters on interpretation, including his own (Elgar was the first major composer to commit a representative quantity of his own work to record), and on Elgar's relationships with the BBC and with his publishers. The book includes much new material, drawing on original research, as well as providing a comprehensive introduction to Elgar's major musical achievements.

The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius - Cambridge Companions to Music (Book, New): Daniel M. Grimley The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius - Cambridge Companions to Music (Book, New)
Daniel M. Grimley
R823 Discovery Miles 8 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This Companion provides an up-to-date introduction to the life and music of Finland's greatest composer, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Divided into four sections, it explores Sibelius's early career, his major musical achievements, historical reception and influence, and the performance and interpretation of his work. Sibelius emerges as one of the most striking figures in twentieth-century music. The book will be of interest to performers and the general public as well as serious scholars.

Jean Sibelius and His World (Paperback): Daniel M. Grimley Jean Sibelius and His World (Paperback)
Daniel M. Grimley
R1,002 R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Save R137 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Perhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Originally hailed as a new Beethoven by much of the Anglo-Saxon world, he was also widely disparaged by critics more receptive to newer trends in music. At the height of his popular appeal, he was revered as the embodiment of Finnish nationalism and the apostle of a new musical naturalism. Yet he seemingly chose that moment to stop composing altogether, despite living for three more decades. Providing wide cultural contexts, contesting received ideas about modernism, and interrogating notions of landscape and nature, "Jean Sibelius and His World" sheds new light on the critical position occupied by Sibelius in the Western musical tradition.

The essays in the book explore such varied themes as the impact of Russian musical traditions on Sibelius, his compositional process, Sibelius and the theater, his understanding of music as a fluid and improvised creation, his critical reception in Great Britain and America, his "late style" in the incidental music for "The Tempest," and the parallel contemporary careers of Sibelius and Richard Strauss.

Documents include the draft of Sibelius's 1896 lecture on folk music, selections from a roman a clef about his student circle in Berlin at the turn of the century, Theodor Adorno's brief but controversial tirade against the composer, and the newspaper debates about the Sibelius monument unveiled in Helsinki a decade after the composer's death.

The contributors are Byron Adams, Leon Botstein, Philip Ross Bullock, Glenda Dawn Goss, Daniel Grimley, Jeffrey Kallberg, Tomi Makela, Sarah Menin, Max Paddison, and Timo Virtanen."

Jean Sibelius - Life, Music, Silence (Hardcover): Daniel M. Grimley Jean Sibelius - Life, Music, Silence (Hardcover)
Daniel M. Grimley
R888 R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Save R172 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Few composers have enjoyed such critical acclaim – or longevity – as Jean Sibelius, who died in 1957 aged 91. Always more than simply a Finnish national figure, an ‘apparition from the woods’ as he ironically described himself, Sibelius’s life spanned turbulent and tumultuous events, and his work is central to the story of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century music. This book situates Sibelius within a rich interdisciplinary environment, paying attention to his relationship with architecture, literature, politics and the visual arts. Drawing on the latest developments in Sibelius research, it is intended as an accessible and rewarding introduction for the general reader, and also offers a fresh and provocative interpretation for those more familiar with his music.

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