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Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 18th century, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional challenges. In his five-volume series The Symphonic Repertoire, the late A. Peter Brown explores the symphony from its 18th-century beginnings to the end of the 20th century. In Volume 1, The Eighteenth-Century Symphony, 22 of Brown's former students and colleagues collaborate to complete the work that he began on this critical period of development in symphonic history. The work follows Brown's outline, is organized by country, and focuses on major composers. It includes a four-chapter overview and concludes with a reframing of the symphonic narrative. Contributors address issues of historiography, the status of research, and questions of attribution and stylistic traits, and provide background material on the musical context of composition and early performances. The volume features a CD of recordings from the Bloomington Early Music Festival Orchestra, highlighting the largely unavailable repertoire discussed in the book.
Volume 1.Nos. 1 to 8 (February 1818 to March 1820) --Volume 2.Nos. 9 to 16 (March 1820 to September 1820) --Volume 3.Nos. 17 to 31 (May 1822 to May 1823).
Baroque composer George Frideric Handel easily ranks among the world's greatest composers. The first edition of this research guide on Handel appeared in 1988; since that time a great deal of scholarly work has been published on Handel and related areas, including the discovery of a hitherto unknown work. New general resources such as the New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), electronic resources such as the RISM libretto catalogue online, and the study of Handel's continuing popularity as evidenced by the new Handel House Museum in London and Handel practice around the world (e.g., Messiah and millennium celebrations in Tonga, singalong Messiahs etc.) are incorporated into this revised edition of the Handel guide.
One of the most original and engaging composers of the twentieth century, Leos Janáçek is now regarded as one of its major musical dramatists. His operas have become a regular part of the repertory, but a full understanding of their diverse subjects and backgrounds has been hampered by the lack of source materials in English. John Tyrrell has here selected and translated the chief literary documents relating to the genesis and early performances of each of the composer's nine operas and presented them in the form of a compelling documentary narrative. Janáçek was a vigorous letter-writer and kept every letter he received. A vast quantity of material on his life has survived, providing a ...
Dieser 20. Band des Jahrbuchs des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa ist erstmals als Themenband gestaltet: Alle Aufsatzbeiträge behandeln das Thema Musik, insbesondere in interkulturellen und interethnischen Kontexten. Der Band enthält 23 grundlegende und exemplarische Studien zur Musik- und Kulturgeschichte im östlichen Europa von der frühen Neuzeit bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, außerdem die festen Rubriken "Beiträge der Immanuel-Kant-Stipendiaten", "Beiträge der Preisträger des Immanuel-Kant-Forschungspreises" und "Annotationen. Neuerscheinungen aus Ostmitteleuropa".
In welchen jeweils zeit- und regionalspezifischen Formen, durch welche kulturellen Techniken und Kanale und mittels welcher Diskurse hat sich das im 19. Jahrhundert aufkommende Massenphanomen des deutschen Chorgesangs im ostmitteleuropaischen Raum herausgebildet? Diesen Fragen widmen sich 29 Beitrage, die aus der Projekt-Arbeit des Jahres 2006 hervorgegangen sind, auf sehr unterschiedliche Weise. Aus den variierenden Perspektiven einzelner Nationen heraus erschliessen sie 'Chorgesang' als vielschichtigen zeichenhaften Bedeutungstrager, der uber die Mentalitat jeweiliger Zeit-Raume ebenso Auskunft zu geben vermag wie uber die komplizierte, oft ideologisch geleitete Entwicklung von Fremd- und Selbstbildern oder uber die Konkurrenz zwischen mehreren, sich aneinander ausdifferenzierenden Identitatskonzepten.
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