The Concert Song Companion - 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 Concert Song Companion write by Charles Osborne. This book was released on 2012-12-06. The Concert Song Companion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. W HAT I H A V E attempted in this book is a survey of song; the kind of song which one finds variously described as 'concert', 'art', or sometimes even 'classical song'. 'Concert song' seems the most useful, certainly the least inexact or misleading, of some descriptions, especially since 'art song' sounds primly off putting, and 'classical song' really ought to be used only to refer to songs written during the classical period, i. e. the 18th century. Concert song clearly means the kind of songs one hears sung at concerts or recitals. Addressing myself to the general music-lover who, though he possesses no special knowledge of the song literature, is never theless interested enough in songs and their singers to attend recitals of Lieder or of songs in various languages, I have naturally confined myself to that period of time in which the vast majority of these songs was composed, though not necessarily only to those composers whose songs have survived to be remembered in recital programmes today. I suppose this to be roughly the three centuries covered by the years 1650-1950, though most of the songs we, as audiences, know and love were composed in the middle of this period, in other words in the 19th century.
The Spanish Song Companion
The Spanish Song Companion - 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 Spanish Song Companion write by Graham Johnson. This book was released on 2006-05-08. The Spanish Song Companion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, the first of its kind to be published in English, introduces the reader to the rich heritage of Spanish song. Here in one volume are the texts of over 300 songs with parallel translations in accurate and readable English. The majority are love poems, which form a fascinating anthology of Spanish poetry from the thirteenth to the twentieth century. The introduction by Graham Johnson, who in recent years has done more than anyone to kindle interest in the international song repertoire, traces the history of Spanish song from its beginnings, via the period of the Catholic kings in the fifteenth century, the Golden Age of the sixteenth, through to the remarkable rebirth in the twentieth century. All the songs and cycles frequently heard in recital are gathered here: Albeniz, Falla, Granados, Rodrigo and Obradors are generously represented, as well as Catalan composers such as Montsalvatge and Mompou. The volume is arranged chronologically by composer, and includes notes on all the major poets and composers, a discography, and names and addresses of the music publishers. The Spanish Song Companion is a much-needed volume and will be welcomed by singers, students of Spanish literature, concert-goers and record-collectors throughout the English-speaking world.
The Concert Companion
The Concert Companion - 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 Concert Companion write by Robert C. Bagar. This book was released on 1947. The Concert Companion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Program notes written for the New York Philhamonic-Symphony Society's concerts in the 1940s. They emphasize little-known anecdotes and details of composer's lives, and the process that each composer went through in composing a musical composition.
The Liszt Companion
The Liszt Companion - 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 Liszt Companion write by Ben Arnold. This book was released on 2002-06-30. The Liszt Companion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Franz Liszt is most well-known for his compositions for piano and orchestra, but his influence is also strong in chamber music, choral music, and orchestral transcriptions. This new collection of essays presents a scholarly overview of all of the composer's work, providing the most comprehensive and current treatment of both his oeuvre and the immense amount of secondary literature written about it. Highly regarded critics and scholars write for both a general and academic audience, covering all of Liszt's major compositions as well as the neglected gems found among his choral and chamber works. Following an outline of the subject's life, The Liszt Companion goes on to detail Liszt's critical reception in the German press, his writings and letters, his piano and orchestral works, his neglected secular choral works, and his major organ compositions. Also explored here are his little-known chamber pieces and his songs. An exhaustive bibliography and index of works conclude the volume. This work will both elucidate aspects of Liszt's most famous work and revive interest in those pieces that deserve and require greater attention.
Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music
Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music - 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 Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music write by Tess Knighton. This book was released on 1997. Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With contributions from a range of internationally known early music scholars and performers, Tess Knighton and David Fallows provide a lively new survey of music and culture in Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to 1600. Fifty essays comment on the social, historical, theoretical, and performance contexts of the music and musicians of the period to offer fresh perspectives on musical styles, research sources, and performance practices of the medieval and Renaissance periods.
