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  • Between Composers

    The Letters of Norma Beecroft and Harry Somers

    Edición de Brian Cherney ...
    In the fall of 1959 Norma Beecroft, a twenty-five-year-old composition student, left her home in Toronto and travelled to Rome to study with the eminent Italian composer Goffredo Petrassi. She left behind her lover and mentor, the thirty-four-year-old Harry Somers, by then recognized as one of Canada’s leading young composers. For the next six months they wrote each other almost every day. Their ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Between Composers

    The Letters of Norma Beecroft and Harry Somers

    Edición de Brian Cherney ...
    In the fall of 1959 Norma Beecroft, a twenty-five-year-old composition student, left her home in Toronto and travelled to Rome to study with the eminent Italian composer Goffredo Petrassi. She left behind her lover and mentor, the thirty-four-year-old Harry Somers, by then recognized as one of Canada’s leading young composers. For the next six months they wrote each other almost every day. Their ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Harry Somers

    de Brian Cherney ...
    Series series Heritage
    Harry Somers is one of Canada's leading composers, and one of the most original. In the 1950s he experimented with contrapuntal writing, serialism, and style juxtaposition; in more recent years he has been concerned with the development of new vocal resources and improvisation.Harry Somers, a detailed study of the composer and his works, has been commissioned by the Canadian Music Centre as the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Weinzweig

    Essays on His Life and Music

    Edición de John Beckwith, Brian Cherney ...
    First comprehensive study of John Weinzweig (1913–2006), the pre-eminent Canadian composer of his generation, with essays by composers, theorists, and musicologists. Includes a CD of extracts.Influenced by European modernists such as Stravinsky, Berg, and Webern, Weinzweig was the first Canadian composer to employ serialism, thereby bringing a spirit of innovation to mid-twentieth-century Canadian ... Leer más

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  • Illegal Harmonies

    Music in the Modern Age

    de Andrew Ford ...
    Listen. What do you hear?We are surrounded by sounds all the time, but we tend not to hear them; our brains are very good at editing what our ears pick up. If we stop for a moment to listen, there they are: the ticking clock, traffic noise, fragments of conversation, a passing plane. These are examples of what the American composer John Cage called “illegal harmony”.In response to the noisiest ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten

    Edición de Mervyn Cooke ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten is a comprehensive guide to the composer's work, aimed both at the non-specialist and music student. It sheds light on both the composer's stylistic and personal development, offering new interpretations of his operatic works and discussing his characteristic working methods. Topics treated here in detail for the first time include Britten's work in the ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet

    Edición de Robin Stowell ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    This Companion offers a concise and authoritative survey of the string quartet by eleven chamber music specialists. Its fifteen carefully structured chapters provide coverage of a stimulating range of perspectives previously unavailable in one volume. It focuses on four main areas: the social and musical background to the quartet's development; the most celebrated ensembles; string quartet playing ... Leer más

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  • The Music of Michael Nyman

    Texts, Contexts and Intertexts

    Nyman's rise to international prominence during the last three decades has made him one of the world's most successful living composers. His music has nevertheless been criticized for its parasitic borrowing of other composers' ideas and for its relentless self-borrowing. In this first book-length study in English, Pwyll ap Si laces Nyman's writings within the general context of Anglo-American ... Leer más

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  • Neoclassical Music in America

    Voices of Clarity and Restraint

    Series series Modern Traditionalist Classical Music
    From the 1920s to the 1950s, neoclassicism was one of the dominant movements in American music. Today this music is largely in eclipse, mostly absent in performance and even from accounts of music history, in spite of—and initially because of—its adherence to an expanded tonality. No previous book has focused on the nature and scope of this musical tradition. Neoclassical Music in America: Voices ... Leer más

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  • John Cage

    Music, Philosophy, and Intention, 1933-1950

    Edición de David Patterson ...
    Series series Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture
    John Cage seeks to explore the early part of the composer's life and career, concentrating on the pre-chance period between 1933 and 1950 that is crucial to understanding his later work. The essays consider Cage's influences, his evolving aesthetic, and his movement toward ideology that would later shape his work. ... Leer más

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  • Music, Performance, Meaning

    Selected Essays

    de Nicholas Cook ...
    Series series Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series
    This selection of sixteen of Nicholas Cook's essays covers the period from 1987 to 2004 and brings out the development of the author's ideas over these years. In particular the two keywords of the title -Meaning and Performance- represent critical directions that expand to the point that, by the end of the book, they become coextensive: music is seen as social action and meaning as created by that ... Leer más

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