Author: Paul Henry Lang
Publisher: New York : G. Schirmer
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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A comprehensive report on every aspect of American musical life, written by seventeen specialists in various fields.

Author: Gerald Abraham
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Category : Music
Languages : en
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Author: Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Gerald Abraham
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135150164X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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One Hundred Years of Music provides a full account of the history of music from the death of Beethoven to the modern era. It covers a period of exceptional interest. The last hundred years coincide roughly with the rise and decline of Romanticism, include the various nationalist movements, and extend to the advent of "neo-classicism," the twelve-tone system, and still more modern techniques. Abraham devotes ample space to modernist and avant garde music, in which he explains the difficulties we experience in listening to the work of such composers as Schnberg, Bart k, and Berg. He also throws new light on many more familiar topics.In its earlier editions, One Hundred Years of Music became a standard work on this subject; it has since been brought updated to include coverage of later developments. Abraham approaches his subject as an historian of style rather than an esthetic critic. Rather than pass judgment on particular works or composers, he shows how music has developed, and thus provides a clear and connected history that is more substantial than most books of musical appreciation. An extensive chronology and a full bibliography and index add to the usefulness of the book for students, professionals and musical laymen alike.This third edition incorporates some corrections of fact, further enlarges the bibliography and chronology, and adds commentary on developments in music techniques. In order to correct the historical perspective, the author has included a "prelude" and three "interludes," giving rough sketches of general conditions in the musical world at intervals of thirty years. As the reader's sense of chronology is very apt to get confused when a number of simultaneous streams of development have to be described, the author has inserted the date of composition or performance (both if they are widely separated) of each work at the first mention of it.

Author: Ann E. Lucas
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520972031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Iran’s particular system of traditional Persian art music has been long treated as the product of an ever-evolving, ancient Persian culture. In Music of a Thousand Years, Ann E. Lucas argues that this music is a modern phenomenon indelibly tied to changing notions of Iran’s national history. Rather than considering a single Persian music history, Lucas demonstrates cultural dissimilarity and discontinuity over time, bringing to light two different notions of music-making in relation to premodern and modern musical norms. An important corrective to the history of Persian music, Music of a Thousand Years is the first work to align understandings of Middle Eastern music history with current understandings of the region’s political history.

Author: Michael Musgrave
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198164012
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Michael Musgrave presents a contemporary view of Brahms 150 years after his birth, seeing him not simply as the "conservative" figure so often stressed in the past, but as one who creatively reinterpreted a wider range of historical elements than any composer of his time. Brahms absorbed his studies directly into his music making and composition and in so doing helped to evolve not merely a personal language which was regarded as progressive and sometimes difficult by a range of contemporaries and successors, but also helped to establish an ethos of historical reference which anticipates the twentieth century. The Music of Brahms concentrates on the music, with Brahms's life discussed briefly in the introduction. The works are considered in four phases according to genre, with an emphasis on connection and on the development and elaboration of a unified language. The list of works includes recent discoveries and a calendar outlines the pattern of his musical life, including relevant information concerning performances.

Author: Eve Keane
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Omnibus Press
Publisher: Omnibus Press
ISBN: 1783235659
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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From Sir Edward Elgar to Adele, great composers and songwriters have been at the heart of the musical landscape for the last 100 years. 100 Years Of British Music is a lavish photo book, specially commissioned by PRS for Music in commemoration of a century of support for music’s creators. Showcased here are composers of film music, opera, symphonies and stage shows, as well as the writers behind the greatest hits of rock and pop, in superb new photographs by Lucy Sewill together with rare and unseen pictures from the archives. The result is a unique ‘living history’ of the PRS and its members that celebrates their vital contribution to British culture.

Author: William Smythe Babcock Mathews
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 728

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Excerpt from A Hundred Years of Music in America: An Account of Musical Effort in America During the Past Century Together With Historical and Biographical Sketches of Important Personalities Musical Societies, its Leaders, Composers, Teachers, Educational Institutions, the enormous extension of the Music Trade, and the manu facture and sale of. Musical instruments of all finds. Third, To gather from the results of these two lines of investigation a fair forecast of the future of American music, especially as it regards the likelihood of the creation here of an original school of American Music. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.