Women & music: a history
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Rethinking Britten
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Over the Rainbow, "Stormy Weather," and "One for My Baby" are just a few of Harold Arlen's well-loved compositions. Yet his name is hardly known--except to the musicians who venerate him. At a gathering of songwriters George Gershwin called him "the best of us." Irving Berlin ag…
In The Art of Partimento, performer and historian Giorgio Sanguinetti provides students and scholars of composition and music theory an historical chronicle as well as a practical guide, offering them the opportunity not only to understand the life of this fascinating tradition,…
Biography offering a vivid portrait that goes well beyond the habitual cliches of repression and suffering. Featuring quotations from previously unpublished letters as well as rarely-seen photographs, the author provides a fresh insight into the music and life of a composer whos…
Featuring analytical discussions or descriptions of about 150 different pieces of electro acoustic music by women composers in the United States, this book attempts to discuss the achievements of women as composers of experimental and avant-garde music from the 1930s. It has a b…
Traces the life and career of the classical composer from his humble origins as a self-taught court musician to his role as kapellmeister and cantor of St. Thomas's Church, in an account that explores his relationship with the German aristocracy, his religious beliefs, and his r…
Collection of letters, notes, and miscellanea from the archives of the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum
In 1921, Charles Ives sent out copies of the so-called Concord sonata and an accompanying book, Essays before a sonata. This book merges research with the author's own experience as a composer to reveal the Concord sonata and the essays in full. It also provides a movement-by-mo…