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The Twisted Muse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

The Twisted Muse

Is music removed from politics? To what ends, beneficent or malevolent, can music and musicians be put? In short, when human rights are grossly abused and politics turned to fascist demagoguery, can art and artists be innocent? These questions and their implications are explored in Michael Kater's broad survey of musicians and the music they composed and performed during the Third Reich. Great and small--from Valentin Grimm, a struggling clarinetist, to Richard Strauss, renowned composer--are examined by Kater, sometimes in intimate detail, and the lives and decisions of Nazi Germany's professional musicians are laid out before the reader. Kater tackles the issue of whether the Nazi regime, ...

The Twisted Muse : Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

The Twisted Muse : Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich

Is music removed from politics? To what ends, beneficent or malevolent, can music and musicians be put? In short, when human rights are grossly abused and politics turned to fascist demagoguery, can art and artists be innocent? These questions and their implications are explored in Michael Kater's broad survey of musicians and the music they composed and performed during the Third Reich. Great and small--from Valentin Grimm, a struggling clarinetist, to Richard Strauss, renowned composer--are examined by Kater, sometimes in intimate detail, and the lives and decisions of Nazi Germany's professional musicians are laid out before the reader. Kater tackles the issue of whether the Nazi regime, ...

An American Romantic-realist Abroad
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 458

An American Romantic-realist Abroad

Chronicles the work of George Templeton Strong, an American composer and painter.

Catalogue
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 438

Catalogue

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Sibley Muse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 78

The Sibley Muse

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1981
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1106

Dictionary of Music and Musicians

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1954
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Historical Dictionary of the Music and Musicians of Finland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 492

Historical Dictionary of the Music and Musicians of Finland

Presenting information heretofore difficult or impossible to find in English, this work opens a window on the colorful panorama of Finnish music. The 500-plus entries present historical and modern composers, the accomplishments of hundreds of internationally acclaimed performing artists, as well as more general articles on folk music, early manuscripts and publications, cantors and hymnals, early Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Lutheran music, leading orchestras and choral groups, festivals, and much more. No other such extensive and comprehensive work on Finnish music exists in any language other than Finnish and Swedish. This English-language dictionary makes the subject available to...

List of Members
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 548

List of Members

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1936
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Music Reference and Research Materials
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 744

Music Reference and Research Materials

This text has been the standard guide to source literature of music and contains critically annotated listings of over 3,500 key sources. This comprehensive guide to reference sources is organized into chapters by category of source. The text's organization introduces students to a vast array of sources to include: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias; Histories and Chronologies; Sources of Systematic and Historical Musicology; Bibliographies of Music, Music Literature, and Music Business; Reference Works on Individual Composers and Their Music; Catalogs of Libraries and Musical Instrument Collections; Discographies; Yearbooks; Directories; Electronic Resources.