The Atonal Music of Anton Webern

The Atonal Music of Anton Webern
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Total Pages : 402
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ISBN-10 : 030020759X
ISBN-13 : 9780300207590
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Synopsis The Atonal Music of Anton Webern by : Allen Forte

The Austrian composer Anton Webern (1883-1945) is one of the major figures of musical modernism. His mature works comprise two styles: the so-called free atonal music composed between 1907 and 1924, and the twelve-tone serial music that began in 1924 and extended through the remainder of his creative life. In this book an eminent music theorist presents the first systematic and in-depth study of the early atonal works, from the George Lieder, opus 3, through the Latin Canons, opus 16. Drawing on music-analytical procedures that he and other scholars have developed in recent years, Allen Forte argues that a single compositional system underlies all of Webern's atonal music. Forte examines such elements as pitch, register, timbre, rhythm, form, and text setting, showing how Webern displaced the functional connections of traditional tonality to create a totally new sonic universe. Although the main thrust of the study is music-analytical in nature, Forte also considers historical context and significant biographical aspects of the individual works, as well as word-music relations in the music with text.

The Rest Is Noise

The Rest Is Noise
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 706
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ISBN-10 : 9781429932882
ISBN-13 : 1429932880
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis The Rest Is Noise by : Alex Ross

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

The Structure of Atonal Music

The Structure of Atonal Music
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 0300021208
ISBN-13 : 9780300021202
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis The Structure of Atonal Music by : Allen Forte

Describes and cites examples of pitch-class sets and relations in atonal music

Webern and the Lyric Impulse

Webern and the Lyric Impulse
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Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105004210311
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Synopsis Webern and the Lyric Impulse by : Anne Chatoney Shreffler

This study provides a new view of a composer long considered to be one of the century's most rigorously intellectual creators, Anton Webern. By examining a central pre-twelve-tone work, the Trakl cycle, Op 14, in the context of the Viennese intellectual and artistic climate, Professor Shreffler shows how Webern's responses to Trakl's complex verse enabled him to expand his musical vocabulary. The author's emphasis on Webern's compositional process is of particular importance: whether because of the anxiety of creating a new musical language, or because of an innate hyper-perfectionism (or both), Webern rejected most of what he composed. A close examination of the manuscript sources - fragments, sketches, and fair copies - of Webern's comparatively neglected middle-period lieder enables her to shed light on Webern's musical language and his working methods. A focus on the sources also helps to modify the view that his music progressed steadily in the direction of the twelve-tone technique. The works reveal instead a concern with expressing the essence of the text; this lyricism, rather than articulating a substantially different aesthetic from the later works, provides a better understanding of the consummate lyricism of all his music, however compressed or fragmented its utterance in the `classic' twelve-tone works.

Five orchestral pieces, op. 16

Five orchestral pieces, op. 16
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 82
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ISBN-10 : 9780486406428
ISBN-13 : 0486406423
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Five orchestral pieces, op. 16 by : Arnold Schoenberg

Possessing a soloistic texture and variations in instrumental color defined by Grove's as "chamber music for full orchestra," this 1909 work demonstrates the composer's daring explorations in music that renounces motivic connections and tonality. Includes bar-numbered movements and ample margins at the bottom of each page for notes and analysis.

Nadia Boulanger and Her World

Nadia Boulanger and Her World
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9780226750712
ISBN-13 : 022675071X
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Nadia Boulanger and Her World by : Jeanice Brooks

The strange fate of Boulanger and Pugno's La ville morte /Alexandra Laederich --Serious ambitions : Nadia Boulanger and the composition of La ville morte /Jeanice Brooks, Kimberly Francis --From the trenches : extracts from the final issue of the Paris Conservatory Gazette /translated by Anna Lehman --From technique to musique : the institutional pedagogy of Nadia Boulanger /Marie Duchêne-Thégarid --Nadia Boulanger's 1935 Carte du tendre --36 rue Ballu : a multifaceted place /Cédric Segond-Genovesi --"What an arrival!" : Nadia Boulanger's New world (1925) --Modern French music : translating Fauré in America, 1925-1945 /Jeanice Brooks --For Nadia Boulanger : five poems by May Sarton --Friend and force : Nadia Boulanger's presence in Polish musical culture /Andrea F. Bohlman, J. Mackenzie Pierce --"What awaits them now?" : a letter to Paris /Zygmunt Mycielski --A letter from Professor Nadia Boulanger /translated by J. Mackenzie Pierce --The Beethoven lectures for the Longy School /translated by Miranda Stewart --Boulanger and atonality : a reconsideration /Kimberly Francis --Why music? Aesthetics, religion, and the ruptures of modernity in the life and work of Nadia Boulanger /Leon Botstein.

The Music of Alban Berg

The Music of Alban Berg
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 476
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ISBN-10 : 0300064004
ISBN-13 : 9780300064001
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis The Music of Alban Berg by : David John Headlam

Headlam closely analyzes Berg's compositional technique and the use of symmetry and cycles throughout his oeuvre. He brings into the discussion Berg's own writings, as well as those of composer and musicologist George Perle; the techniques of Schoenberg, Webern, and other serialists; and aspects of pitch-class set and twelve-tone theory.

Reinventing Bach

Reinventing Bach
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Publisher : Union Books
Total Pages : 731
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ISBN-10 : 9781908526410
ISBN-13 : 1908526416
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Reinventing Bach by : Paul Elie

Johann Sebastian Bach – celebrated pipe organist, court composer and master of sacred music – was also a technical pioneer. Working in Germany in the early eighteenth century, he invented new instruments and carried out experiments in tuning, the effects of which are still with us today. Two hundred years later, a number of extraordinary musicians have utilised the music of Bach to thrilling effect through the art of recording, furthering their own virtuosity and reinventing the composer for our time. In Reinventing Bach, Paul Elie brilliantly blends the stories of modern musicians with a polyphonic account of our most celebrated composer’ s life to create a spellbinding narrative of the changing place of music in our lives. We see the sainted organist Albert Schweitzer playing to a mobile recording unit set up at London’ s Church of All Hallows in order to spread Bach’ s organ works to the world beyond the churches, and Pablo Casals’ s Abbey Road recordings of Bach’ s cello suites transform the middle-class sitting room into a hotbed of existentialism; we watch Leopold Stokowski persuade Walt Disney to feature his own grand orchestrations of Bach in the animated classical-music movie Fantasia – which made Bach the sound of children’ s playtime and Hollywood grandeur alike – and we witness how Glenn Gould’ s Goldberg Variations made Bach the byword for postwar cool. Through the Beatles and Switched-on Bach and Gö del, Escher, Bach – through film, rock music, the Walkman, the CD and up to Yo-Yo Ma and the iPod – Elie shows us how dozens of gifted musicians searched, experimented and collaborated with one another in the service of a composer who emerged as the prototype of the spiritualised, technically savvy artist.

Sound Figures

Sound Figures
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 0804735581
ISBN-13 : 9780804735582
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Sound Figures by : Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor Adorno is one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics and music. This volume of essays contains Adorno's thoughts on music and its wider social implications.

Schoenberg's Atonal Music

Schoenberg's Atonal Music
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 407
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ISBN-10 : 9781108419130
ISBN-13 : 1108419135
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Schoenberg's Atonal Music by : Jack Boss

Portrays Schoenberg's atonal music as successions of motives and pitch-class sets that flesh out 'musical idea' and 'basic image' frameworks.