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Beethoven's Orpheus Concerto: The Fourth Piano Concerto in Its Cultural Context (North American Beethoven Studies) מאת Owen Jander Beethoven composed his Fourth Piano Concerto in Vienna in the years 1803-06. In that period there was an unusually keen interest in the Orpheus legend; and so it is not surprising to learn that all three movements ... were undeclaredly or better described, secretly based on that famous story. So beg...

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Valved Brass: The History of an Invention (Bucina: the Historic Brass Society Series No. 7) מאת Christian Ahrens In the history of brass instruments, few developments can rival the early nineteenth-century invention of the valve for enduring significance. Nevertheless, the acceptance of valved brass instruments proved controversial, as newspapers and other documents repeatedly attest. Christian Ahrens (Ruhr-Un...

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The Birth of the Cool of Miles Davis and His Associates (Cms Sourcebooks in American Music) מאת Frank Tirro Jazz, from its origins until World War II, was America s hot new music of the 20th century, and this music spread like wildfire to Europe and beyond. Shortly after the war ended a calming influence manifested itself in jazz and a new genre emerged with its own soundscape and quickly rose to worldwid...

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Messiaen's Interpretations of Holiness and Trinity: Echoes of Medieval Theology in the Oratorio, Organ Meditations, and Opera (Dimension and Diversity: Studies in 20th-Century Music) מאת Siglind Bruhn Three of Olivier Messiaen s later works, La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ, Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, and Saint François d Assise, are linked by the fact that the composer refers to and quotes from Thomas Aquinas. The composer s rec...

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Traverso, Historical Flute Newsletter: The Second Decade, 1999-2008 מאת Ardal Powell Traverso, the international newsletter of historical flutes and flute-playing, celebrates its twentieth anniversary by reprinting the entire run of back issues in Volumes 11-20. The volume contains forty articles on the renaissance, baroque, classical, and early romantic flute, its repertoire, and p...

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The Timpani: More Pictures and Documents מאת Edmund A. Bowles This addendum to The Timpani: A History in Pictures and Documents (ISBN 9780945193852) contains 100 new drawings, paintings, and photographs, and many new documents to fill out a unique iconographical and documentary history of the timpani. The two volumes combine a wealth of pictorial material with...

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Music and Architecture (Iannis Xenakis) מאת Iannis Xenakis This important work fills a major lacuna in the literature by bringing together, for the first time, all the texts relating to architecture by the multi-faceted Xenakis, who worked with Le Corbusier for 12 years. Sharon Kanach assisted the composer in gathering the texts for this, his last ambitious...

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The Notation of Medieval Music (paperback) (Distinguished Reprints) מאת Carl Parrish This work studies the development of musical notation from the ninth to the fifteenth century, and contains sixty-two fascimiles. Originally published in 1957, this has long been the only concise study of the subject in English. For the Pendragon edition corrigenda and addenda have been incorporated...

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Bach and the Baroque: European Source Materials from the Baroque and Early Classical Periods With Special Emphais on the Music of J.S. Bach מאת Anthony Newman Most articles written about performance practice deal with relatively small areas (trills, overdotting, etc.), placing emphasis on citing original sources, or collating several original sources in order to support a given position. There is not sufficient information in these articles to deal with a...

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Playing the Organ Works of Cesar Franck (The Complete Organ No. 1) מאת Rollin Smith A companion to the author's Toward and Authentic Interpretation of the Organ Works of César Franck, this title applies the sources discussed in that volume in its practical approach to performance. Each of Franck's twelve major organ works is discussed in detail: the manuscript, the work's...

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Music In Terezín II מאת Joza Karas When Adolf Hitler created the model camp at Theresienstadt (Terezín in Czech) for the better-known of Europe's Jewish transportees, he gathered together many of the continent's finest musicians. This examination of the associations, the compositions, the performances, and above all, the people in...

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Saint-Saens and the Organ (The Complete Organ No.7) מאת Rollin Smith Hailed by Franz Liszt as the world's greatest organist, Camille Saint-Saëns was revered by his contemporaries for his ingenious improvisations, his mastery of the art of registration, his virtuosity, and his eclectic organ compositions . Saint-Saëns's technique and style developed out of what ...

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Louis Vierne (Paperback): Organist of Notre Dame Cathedral (The Complete Organ) מאת Rollin Smith Louis Vierne (1870-1937), a student of César Franck and Charles-Marie Widor, was organist of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris for 37 years, until his death at the console during a recital. Widor's successor as the organ's great French symphonist - an assessment the passage of time has proved cor...

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Busoni and the Piano: The Works, the Writings, and the Recordings (Distinguished Reprints) (Distinguished Reprints) מאת Larry Sitsky Musicologists, pianists, composers and music-lovers in general will welcome the re-issue and second edition of Larry Sitsky's Busoni and the Piano, which has been out of print for a number of years. The second edition, which brings various aspects of the book up-to-date, will thus once again be avai...

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Music Theory from Boethius to Zarlino: A Bibliography and Guide (Harmonologia) מאת David Russell Williams Music Theory from Boethius to Zarlino is a companion volume to Music Theory from Zarlino to Schenker: A Bibliography and Guide by David Damschroder and David Russell Williams (Harmonologia, No. 4, Pendragon Press). Like the previous work, the goal of the volume is to create a logically organized int...

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The Era After the Baroque: Music and Fine Arts, 1750-1900 (Monographs in Musicology) (Monographs in Musicology) מאת Robert Laudon What shall we call the era in Western music history from 1750 to 1900? Listeners and scholars alike treasure the works of its great composers: Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Wagner, Tchaikovsky. A powerfully symbolic name, though analogous to "baroque" for the previous era still eludes us. We refer co...

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Joseph Jongen and his Organ Music: A Performer's Guide (The Complete Organ No.2) מאת John Scott Whiteley Joseph Jongen was Director of the Brussels Conservatoire from 1925 to 1939. He was first and foremost a composer and yet his career as an organist and composer of organ music was remarkable. His Sonata Eroïca has become one of the enduring works of the repertory, and the Symphonie Concertante, co...

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Charles Ives Omnibus (Monographs & Bibliographies in American Music, No. 18) מאת James M. Burk Central to the evolution of American music is the legacy of Charles Ives. This grand-scale reference work provides details surrounding the multifarious responses to the achievement of this singular businessman/musician for more than a century. Performances, recordings, journalistic reports, reviews,...

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Analyzing Jazz: A Schenkerian Approach (Harmononologia: Studies in Music Theory) מאת Steve Larson Analyzing Jazz: A Schenkerian Approach demonstrates that the theories of Heinrich Schenker can illuminate not only the technical aspects of jazz (such as melody, rhythm, and harmony), but also its artistic content. In considering objections that have been raised to the application of Schenker s appr...

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Messiaen's Contemplations of Covenant and Incarnation (Dimension & Diversity: Studies in 20th Century Music) מאת Siglind Bruhn The celebrated composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) characterized himself as a rhythmician, ornithologist, and theologian. All interpreters concur that his life and work are grounded in a profound faith. This book examines the translation of his faith into his musical language. It centers on a herm...