Janáček Beyond the Borders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Janáček Beyond the Borders write by Derek Katz. This book was released on 2009. Janáček Beyond the Borders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This contextual study of Janácek's operas reveals the composer's creative responses to a wide range of Czech and non-Czech traditions.
The Music of Leos Janácek
The Music of Leos Janácek - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Music of Leos Janácek write by Zdenek Skoumal. This book was released on 2020. The Music of Leos Janácek available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first thorough theoretical study of Janácek's compositions, focusing on motivic and rhythmic structure and identifying elements that give the music coherence, character, and interest.
Janácek’S Eternal Love
Janácek’S Eternal Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Janácek’S Eternal Love write by George M. Cummins III. This book was released on 2015-04-28. Janácek’S Eternal Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the last decade of his life, starting when he was a sixty-two-year old curmudgeon in a backwater Slavic country, Czech composer Leo Jancek produced operas and chamber music that would stun the music world, one masterpiece on top of another. In Janceks Eternal Love, author George M. Cummins III presents a biography focusing on the life of Jancek (1854-1928) based on original Czech sources, with special attention to detailed analysis of the last four operas and biographical focus on the composers relationship with his muse, Kamila Stsslov. In 1916, Jancek was known only as a local ethnographer specializing in folk music, but he acquired international fame with the operas and chamber pieces he composed after the age of sixty-two until his death at seventy-four. Cumminswith both a personal and scholarly knowledge of Czech language, history, and culturenarrates a personal biography that includes detailed, insightful descriptions of Janceks compositions.
Jenufa
Jenufa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jenufa write by Timothy Cheek. This book was released on 2016-12-06. Jenufa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Czech composer Leoš Janáček’s most famous opera, Jenůfa is a harrowing tale of forbidden love, abandonment, hypocrisy, desperation, and tragic infanticide. As today’s second most frequently performed Czech opera (following Dvorák’s Rusalka), Jenůfa holds a prominent place in international opera repertoire and continues to draw the attention of new audiences. Drawing on both scholarly studies and production experience, Timothy Cheek presents an original English-language translation of the original Czech libretto. As with the first two books in the Janáček Opera Libretti series (Příhody lišky Bystroušky, The Cunning Little Vixen and Kát’a Kabanová), this volume consists of two parts. Part One gives background on the opera, a discussion about the various voice types and roles, Janáček’s style and Czech performance traditions, Czech folk costumes, and a summary of Czech pronunciation and inflection. Part Two provides the original Czech libretto, word-for-word English translations, idiomatic English translations, IPA for pronunciation of the Czech, translations of the stage directions, and notes about certain words in Czech dialect. As a valuable resource not only for performers and directors, but also historians and opera lovers, this book brings new accessibility to a beloved and timeless opera.
Beyond Fingal's Cave
Beyond Fingal's Cave - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Fingal's Cave write by James Porter. This book was released on 2019. Beyond Fingal's Cave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Demonstrates the profound impact of The Poems of Ossian on composers of the Romantic Era and later: Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Massenet, and many others. Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination is the first study in English of musical compositions inspired by the poems published in the 1760s and attributed to a purported ancient Scottish bard named Ossian. From around 1780 onwards, the poems stimulated poets, artists, and composers in Europe as well as North America to break away from the formality of the Enlightenment. The admiration for Ossian's poems -shared by Napoleon, Goethe, and Thomas Jefferson - was an important stimulus in the development of Romanticism and the music that was a central part of it. More important still was the view of the German cultural philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder, who saw past the controversy over the poems' authenticity to the traditional elements in these heroic poems and their mood of lament. James Porter's long-awaited book traces the traditional sources used by James Macpherson for his epoch-making prose poems and examines crucial works by composers such as Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Massenet. Many other relatively unknown composers were also moved to write operas, cantatas, songs, and instrumental pieces, some of which have proven to be powerfully evocative and well worth performing and recording.
