The Cambridge Companion To Sibelius
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Author |
: Daniel M. Grimley |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 298 |
Release |
: 2004-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521894603 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521894609 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Sibelius by : Daniel M. Grimley
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Author |
: Alain Frogley |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 361 |
Release |
: 2013-11-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107650268 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107650267 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams by : Alain Frogley
An icon of British national identity and one of the most widely performed twentieth-century composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams has been as much misunderstood as revered; his international impact and enduring influence on areas as diverse as church music, film scores and popular music has been insufficiently appreciated. This volume brings together a team of leading scholars, examining all areas of the composer's output from new perspectives, and re-evaluating the cultural politics of his lifelong advocacy for the music-making of ordinary people. Surveys of major genres are complemented by chapters exploring such topics as the composer's relationship with the BBC and his studies with Ravel; uniquely, the book also includes specially commissioned interviews with major living composers Peter Maxwell Davies, Piers Hellawell, Nicola Lefanu and Anthony Payne. The Companion is a vital resource for all those interested in this pivotal figure of modern music.
Author |
: Julian Horton |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 469 |
Release |
: 2013-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107469709 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107469708 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony by : Julian Horton
Few genres of the last 250 years have proved so crucial to the course of music history, or so vital to public musical experience, as the symphony. This Companion offers an accessible guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding this major genre of Western music, discussing an extensive variety of works from the eighteenth century to the present day. The book complements a detailed review of the symphony's history with focused analytical essays from leading scholars on the symphonic music of both mainstream composers, including Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven and lesser-known figures, including Carter, Berio and Maxwell Davies. With chapters on a comprehensive range of topics, from the symphony's origins to the politics of its reception in the twentieth century, this is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the history, analysis and performance of the symphonic repertoire.
Author |
: Julian Horton |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 469 |
Release |
: 2013-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521884983 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521884985 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony by : Julian Horton
A comprehensive guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding one of the major genres of Western music.
Author |
: Daniel M. Grimley |
Publisher |
: Reaktion Books |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2025-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789144666 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789144663 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jean Sibelius by : Daniel M. Grimley
An illuminating investigation into the interdisciplinary impact of the beloved modern classical composer. Few composers have enjoyed such critical acclaim—or longevity—as Jean Sibelius, who died in 1957 aged ninety-one. Always more than simply a Finnish national figure, an “apparition from the woods” as he ironically described himself, Sibelius’s life spanned turbulent and tumultuous events, and his work is central to the story of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century music. This book situates Sibelius within a rich interdisciplinary environment, paying attention to his relationship with architecture, literature, politics, and the visual arts. Drawing on the latest developments in Sibelius research, it is intended as an accessible and rewarding introduction for the general reader, and it also offers a fresh and provocative interpretation for those more familiar with his music.
Author |
: Gustav Djupsjöbacka |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 437 |
Release |
: 2023-12-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783277810 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783277815 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Songs of Jean Sibelius by : Gustav Djupsjöbacka
A landmark in Sibelius scholarship, this is the first book that presents all of Sibelius's solo art songs in their musical and aesthetic context. Indispensable for scholars and performers alike. This is the first book to discuss the complete solo art songs of Jean Sibelius and to locate them in their musical, literary and artistic context. The book is organized around the poets Sibelius set to music and the literary themes associated with them, thus providing invaluable information for the scholar, student and performer. The musical and aesthetic contextualisation of the songs will help to enable new interpretations on the performance stage.
Author |
: Tina K. Ramnarine |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 128 |
Release |
: 2020-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190611552 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190611553 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto by : Tina K. Ramnarine
Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto is the story of Sibelius as performer and composer, of violin performing traditions, of histories of musical transmission, and of virtuosity itself. It investigates the history and legacy of one of the most recorded concertos in the violin repertoire. Sibelius, a celebrated and influential composer of the late 19th and 20th centuries, was an accomplished violinist, whose enduring interest in the instrument has been paralleled by the broad success of the only concerto in his oeuvre: his violin concerto (premiered in 1904 and revised in 1905). Considering how violinists engage with the work, author Tina K. Ramnarine discusses technology's central role in the concerto's transmission from Jascha Heifetz's seminal 1935 recording to contemporary online performances, gender issues in violin solo careers, and nature-based musical aesthetics that lead to thinking about the ecology of virtuosity in an era of environmental crisis. Beginning with Sibelius's early training as a violinist and his aspirations as a performer, Ramnarine traces the dramatic historical context of the violin concerto. It was composed as Finland underwent a period of heightened self-determination, nationalism, and protest against Russian imperial policies, and it heralded intense political dynamics relating to Europe's East-West border that have extended to the present. This story of the violin concerto points to the notion of Sibelius - and the virtuoso more generally - as a political figure.
Author |
: Stephen Downes |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2017-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351218368 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351218360 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Muse as Eros by : Stephen Downes
The Muse has long been figured as a divine or erotically alluring consort to the virile male artist, who may inspire him or lead him to the edge of madness. This book explores the changing cultural expressions of the relationship between the male artist with a beloved, imagined or desired Muse, to offer new and penetrating perspectives on musical representations and transformations of creative masculine subjectivity, and important aspects of the shift from the styles and aesthetics of Romantic Idealism to Modernist Anxiety in music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each of the chapters begins with explorations into male artists' relationships with their Muse, and moves to analysis and interpretation which uncovers cultural constructions of masculine artistic inspiration and production, and their association with creatively inspiring and erotically charged relationships with a Muse. New insights are offered into the musical meaning and cultural significance of selected works by Rossini, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Wagner, Sibelius, Mahler, Bartók, Scriabin, Szymanowski, Debussy, Berg, Poulenc and Weill.
Author |
: James Hepokoski |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 128 |
Release |
: 1993-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521409586 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521409582 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 by : James Hepokoski
Sibelius's Fifth is one of the great late-Romantic symphonies. In this searching account, based on a wealth of new information, James Hepokoski takes a fresh look at the work and its composer. His findings have implications beyond Sibelius himself into the entire repertory of Post-Wagnerian symphonic composition. The early chapters place the Fifth Symphony squarely within the general culture of European musical 'modernism' and focus in particular on the problem of the clash of that culture with the more radical 'New-Music' experiments of an emerging younger generation of composers. Subsequent chapters include a probing consideration of Sibelius's style and meditative aesthetic; an account of how the symphony was composed; and a descriptive analysis of the final, familiar version. The book concludes with a discussion of the composer's own prescribed tempos for the Fifth Symphony, along with a comparison of several different recordings.
Author |
: Tomi Mäkelä |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 538 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781843836889 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1843836882 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jean Sibelius by : Tomi Mäkelä
Mäkelä's study brings together German, Nordic and Anglo-American work on Sibelius, and synthesizes these various strands of Sibelius reception into a single coherent critical narrative. This acclaimed study, available in English for the first time, looks at the music of Jean Sibelius in its biographical context. Myths have surrounded Sibelius [1865-1957] and his work, for more than 100 years, often diverting attention away from his creative output. Drawing on many unpublished sources, Mäkelä's study leads us back to Sibelius as a musician and a 'poet' of universal validity. Chapters examine the composer's creativity, inspiration, influence, aspects of genre, as well as the relationship of the artist with nature and homeland. Those who knew Sibelius at an early age tell of a youthful bohemian in the midst of European decadence. This 'age of Carmen'[Eduard Munch] marked Sibelius's formative years. The composer's most important works, dating from a time between his third symphony and Tapiola, reflect the modernistic mainstream. Sibelius's last three decades, known asthe 'Silence of Ainola', have inspired the masculine clichés that this book deconstructs. Sibelius was one of the least political artists of his time who nevertheless became heavily politicized. The first supreme musical talent in the region, he gave his nation a genuine sound. Europeans of the late nineteenth century showed increasing affinity with Nordic culture. Aino, Sibelius's wife, was instrumental in creating the image of her husband as a Nordic icon. The book closely scrutinizes this popular image. In an Anglo-American artistic context his mix of regionalism and modernity remained attractive even when these elements went out of fashion in the art movement of continental Europe. Ideas of Finland and the North vastly influenced the interpretation of meaning in Sibelius's music, a music that until this day remains enigmatic.