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Symphony in A major
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Symphony in A major

xx + 200 pp.

The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Listening Well
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Listening Well

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

The twelve essays in Listening Well illuminate aesthetic, educative, and evaluative strategies utilized by writers in Paris, Boston, and New York to guide listeners in confronting the challenges of musical modernity between 1764 and 1890. They interpret criticism from treatises, journals, and newspapers for its importance in cultural history and consider the reception of major works by Beethoven and by Berlioz. The essays explore contrasting responses to new operas and symphonies by composers, librettists, authors, critics, and conductors as well as by writers including Chabanon, Lacépède, Berlioz, Urhan, D'Ortigue, Dwight, Fuller, Watson, and Hassard. Readers interested in perceptions of Classicism and Romanticism in music as they relate to French, German, and American literature and criticism will discover how audiences on both sides of the Atlantic were encouraged to listen attentively to the new and controversial in music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Authorial Divinity in the Twentieth Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

Authorial Divinity in the Twentieth Century

"Whatever a writer's religious assumptions and histories, the literary device of omniscient narration traps a writer into a pose as God, at least some sort of God, be it one the writer eschews, avows, or longs for. In this study, Barbara K. Olson examines the relationship between both the writer and the omniscient narrator to God." "Olson explains how modernists Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf both illustrate how authors' particular styles of omniscience bear a reliable though variable relation to their own or their culture's particular conceptions of God." "The experience of novelists generally attests to perennial theological conundrums into which their creating and narrating have cast...

Music Festival Under the Direction of Walter Damrosch for the Inauguration of Music Hall Founded by Andrew Carnegie
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 88
The Damrosch Dynasty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 568

The Damrosch Dynasty

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1983
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Describes the lives of three generations of the Damrosch family and examines their influence on music in the United States.

Opening Carnegie Hall
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 251

Opening Carnegie Hall

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-05
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  • Publisher: McFarland

Carnegie Hall is recognized worldwide, associated with the heights of artistic achievement and a multitude of famous performers. Yet its beginnings are not so well known. In 1887, a chance encounter on a steamship bound for Europe brought young conductor Walter Damrosch together with millionaire philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and his new wife, Louise. Their subsequent friendship led to the building of this groundbreaking concert space. This book provides the first comprehensive account of the conception and building of Carnegie Hall, which culminated in a five-day opening festival in May 1891, featuring spectacular music, a host of performers and Tchaikovsky as a special guest conductor.

American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 504

American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century

Studies of concert life in nineteenth-century America have generally been limited to large orchestras and the programs we are familiar with today. But as this book reveals, audiences of that era enjoyed far more diverse musical experiences than this focus would suggest. To hear an orchestra, people were more likely to head to a beer garden, restaurant, or summer resort than to a concert hall. And what they heard weren’t just symphonic works—programs also included opera excerpts and arrangements, instrumental showpieces, comic numbers, and medleys of patriotic tunes. This book brings together musicologists and historians to investigate the many orchestras and programs that developed in ni...

St. Nicholas Songs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

St. Nicholas Songs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1885
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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An Index to Articles Published in The Etude Magazine, 1883-1957, Part 2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 672

An Index to Articles Published in The Etude Magazine, 1883-1957, Part 2

Annotation: The Index is published in two physical volumes and sold as a set for $250.00. As America's geography and societal demands expanded, the topics in The Etude magazine (first published in 1883) took on such important issues as women in music; immigration; transportation; Native American and African American composers and their music; World War I and II; public schools; new technologies (sound recordings, radio, and television); and modern music (jazz, gospel, blues, early 20th century composers) in addition to regular book reviews, teaching advice, interviews, biographies, and advertisements. Though a valued source particularly for private music teachers, with the de-emphasis on the...