Shostakovich Symphonies and Concertos

Shostakovich Symphonies and Concertos
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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 1574671316
ISBN-13 : 9781574671315
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Shostakovich Symphonies and Concertos by : David Hurwitz

SHOSTAKOVICH SYMPHONIES AND CONCERTOS: AN OWNER'S MANUAL - UNLOCKING THE MASTERS W/CD

The Music of Dmitri Shostakovich, the Symphonies

The Music of Dmitri Shostakovich, the Symphonies
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Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015007897336
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Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis The Music of Dmitri Shostakovich, the Symphonies by : Roy Blokker

Bespreking van de verschillende symphonieën van de Russische componist (1906-1975).

Dmitry Shostakovich Composer

Dmitry Shostakovich Composer
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Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 1410201112
ISBN-13 : 9781410201119
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Dmitry Shostakovich Composer by : D. Rabinovich

Dmitry Shostakovich has long been regarded as one of the leading modern composers, a reputation truly deserved. His talent is that of the bold explorer, the imaginative thinker, his individuality clear-cut and unmatched.His work covers practically every genre: operas and ballets, symphonies and concertos, orchestral suites and overtures, cantatas and oratorios, string quartets and chamber pieces with piano, incidental music for plays and films, popular songs and light music. His works exceed a hundred in number.

Story of a Friendship

Story of a Friendship
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 408
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ISBN-10 : 0801439795
ISBN-13 : 9780801439797
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Story of a Friendship by : Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich

This choice by the composer's close friend Isaak Glikman brought the tormented feelings of the musical genius into public view. Now those feelings resound in the first substantial collection of Shostakovich's letters to appear in English.

The Cambridge Companion to Schumann

The Cambridge Companion to Schumann
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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ISBN-10 : 9781139826372
ISBN-13 : 1139826379
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Schumann by : Beate Perrey

This Companion is an accessible introduction to Schumann: his time, his temperament, his style and his œuvre. An international team of scholars explores the cultural context, musical and poetic fabric, sources of inspiration and interpretative reach of key works from the Schumann repertoire ranging from his famous lieder and piano pieces to chamber, orchestral and dramatic works. Additional chapters address Schumann's presence in nineteenth- and twentieth-century composition and the fascinating reception history of his late works. Tables, illustrations, a detailed chronology and advice on further reading make it an ideally informative handbook for both the Schumann connoisseur and the music lover. An excellent textbook for the university student of courses on key composers of nineteenth-century Western Classical music, it is an invaluable guide for all who are interested in the thought, aesthetics and affective power of one of the most intriguing figures of a culturally rich and formative period.

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.

Music for Silenced Voices

Music for Silenced Voices
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 9780300171785
ISBN-13 : 0300171781
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Music for Silenced Voices by : Wendy Lesser

Most previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have focused on either his symphonies and operas, or his relationship to the regime under which he lived, or both, since these large-scale works were the ones that attracted the interest and sometimes the condemnation of the Soviet authorities. "Music for Silenced Voices" looks at Shostakovich through the back door, as it were, of his fifteen quartets, the works which his widow characterized as a "diary, the story of his soul." The silences and the voices were of many kinds, including the political silencing of adventurous writers, artists, and musicians during the Stalin era; the lost voices of Shostakovich's operas (a form he abandoned just before turning to string quartets); and the death-silenced voices of his close friends, to whom he dedicated many of these chamber works.Wendy Lesser has constructed a fascinating narrative in which the fifteen quartets, considered one at a time in chronological order, lead the reader through the personal, political, and professional events that shaped Shostakovich's singular, emblematic twentieth-century life. Weaving together interviews with the composer's friends, family, and colleagues, as well as conversations with present-day musicians who have played the quartets, Lesser sheds new light on the man and the musician. One of the very few books about Shostakovich that is aimed at a general rather than an academic audience, "Music for Silenced Voices" is a pleasure to read; at the same time, it is rigorously faithful to the known facts in this notoriously complicated life. It will fill readers with the desire to hear the quartets, which are among the most compelling and emotionally powerful monuments of the past century's music.

Rough Ideas

Rough Ideas
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 464
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ISBN-10 : 9780374721404
ISBN-13 : 0374721408
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Rough Ideas by : Stephen Hough

A collection of essays on music and life by the famed classical pianist and composer Stephen Hough is one of the world’s leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards, both for his concerts and his recordings. He is also a writer, composer, and painter, and has been described by The Economist as one of “Twenty Living Polymaths.” Hough writes informally and engagingly about music and the life of a musician, from the broader aspects of what it is to walk out onto a stage or to make a recording, to specialist tips from deep inside the practice room: how to trill, how to pedal, how to practice. He also writes vividly about people he’s known, places he’s traveled to, books he’s read, paintings he’s seen; and he touches on more controversial subjects, such as assisted suicide and abortion. Even religion is there—the possibility of the existence of God, problems with some biblical texts, and the challenges involved in being a gay Catholic. Rough Ideas is an illuminating, constantly surprising introduction to the life and mind of one of our great cultural figures.

Shostakovich

Shostakovich
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Total Pages : 550
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ISBN-10 : 0571174868
ISBN-13 : 9780571174867
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Shostakovich by : Elizabeth Wilson

Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great composer, drawn from the reminiscences and reflections of his contemporaries. Elizabeth Wilson sheds light on the composer's creative process and his working life in music, and examines the enormous and enduring influence that Shostakovich has had on Soviet musical life. 'The one indispensable book about the composer.' New York Times

Beethoven's Orchestral Music

Beethoven's Orchestral Music
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9781538135617
ISBN-13 : 1538135612
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Beethoven's Orchestral Music by : David Hurwitz

Veteran music critic David Hurwitz provides an accessible, comprehensive, and fresh survey of Beethoven’s symphonies, overtures, concertos, theatrical music, his single ballet and other music for the dance, and several short pieces worth getting to know. Beethoven’s orchestral works include some of the most iconic and popular pieces of classical music ever written. This book offers chapters on Beethoven’s handling of the symphony orchestra and his contributions to its evolution, as well as his approach to musical form in creating large, multi-movement works. The musical descriptions provide helpful strategies for listening that invite both beginners and experienced enthusiasts to treat even the best known pieces as something fresh, new and relevant. In addition, Hurwitz provides extensive lists of recommended recordings of all of the music surveyed, highlighting the wide range of issues in Beethoven interpretation and performance, as well as the history of his music. He encourages readers to listen actively and critically, as they build their own Beethoven discographies according to their personal tastes and preferences. The book is accompanied by online audio tracks of Beethoven works selected by Hurwitz.