wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber
ISBN: 9780195384000 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This new second edition of Enchanted Evenings offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals.
Readers will find such all-time favorites as Show Boat, Carousel, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Phantom of the Opera. Geoffrey Block provides a documentary history of each of the musicals, showing how each work took shape and revealing, at the same time, how the American musical evolved from the 1920s... This new second edition of Enchanted Evenings offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best loved, m...
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198,26 zł |
The Richard Rodgers Reader
ISBN: 9780195313437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Richard Rodgers was one of America's most prolific and best-loved composers. A world without "My Funny Valentine," "The Lady is a Tramp," "Blue Moon," and "Bewitched," to name just a few of the songs he wrote with Lorenz Hart, is scarcely imaginable, and the musicals he wrote with his second collaborator, Oscar Hammerstein--Oklahoma , Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music--continue to enchant and entertain audiences. Arranged in four sections, Rodgers and Hart (1929-1943), Rodgers and Hammerstein (1943-1960), Rodgers After Hammerstein...
Richard Rodgers was one of America's most prolific and best-loved composers. A world without "My Funny Valentine," "The Lady is a Tramp," "Blue Moon,"...
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316,48 zł |
Ives: Concord Sonata
ISBN: 9780521496568 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Charles Ives' massive Concord Sonata, his second sonata for piano, named after the town of Concord in Massachusetts, is central to his output and clearly reflects his aesthetic perspective. Geoffrey Block's wide-ranging account of the work thus provides an ideal introduction to this fascinating composer. This handbook discusses the Sonata's reception history and its compositional genesis, as well as providing a detailed account of the work's thematic content, its use of borrowed material, and the degree to which the program is influenced by the Concord Transcendentalists.
Charles Ives' massive Concord Sonata, his second sonata for piano, named after the town of Concord in Massachusetts, is central to his output and clea...
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375,56 zł |
Charles Ives: A Bio-Bibliography
ISBN: 9780313254048 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 437 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This comprehensive work reflects the renewed interest and recognition of Charles Ives's music, and it gathers into one volume previously scattered and hard-to-find material by and about the composer. The musical and historical significance of one of America's most famous twentieth-century composers is represented in a substantively annotated, discerning and critical bibliography that includes a foreword by the noted Ives scholar, J. Peter Burkholder. The book begins with an explanation of the scope, organization, and rationale of the material presented and provides an overview and... This comprehensive work reflects the renewed interest and recognition of Charles Ives's music, and it gathers into one volume previously scattered ... |
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328,23 zł |
Experiencing Beethoven: A Listener's Companion
ISBN: 9781442245457 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The life and music of Beethoven still fascinate classical music lovers, new and old. His many symphonies, sonatas, concertos, string quartets, and his one opera enchant audiences, challenge performers, engage students, and support scholars in their work. In Experiencing Beethoven, music historian Geoffrey Block explores in layman s terms a highly representative body of about two dozen Beethoven instrumental and vocal works, offering listeners who know him well, or are just discovering him, an opportunity to grasp the breadth and depth of his musical genius. Designed for those unversed in...
The life and music of Beethoven still fascinate classical music lovers, new and old. His many symphonies, sonatas, concertos, string quartets, and his...
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262,58 zł |
Ives: Concord Sonata: Piano Sonata No. 2
ISBN: 9780521498210 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Charles Ives' massive Concord Sonata, his second sonata for piano, named after the town of Concord in Massachusetts, is central to his output and clearly reflects his aesthetic perspective. Geoffrey Block's wide-ranging account of the work thus provides an ideal introduction to this fascinating composer. This handbook discusses the Sonata's reception history and its compositional genesis, as well as providing a detailed account of the work's thematic content, its use of borrowed material, and the degree to which the program is influenced by the Concord Transcendentalists.
Charles Ives' massive Concord Sonata, his second sonata for piano, named after the town of Concord in Massachusetts, is central to his output and clea...
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139,19 zł |
Richard Rodgers
ISBN: 9780300217605 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Richard Rodgers was an icon of the musical theater, a prolific composer whose career spanned six decades and who wrote more than a thousand songs and forty shows for the American stage. In this absorbing book, Geoffrey Block examines Rodgers's entire career, providing rich details about the creation, staging, and critical reception of some of his most popular musicals. Block traces Rodgers's musical education, early work, and the development of his musical and dramatic language. He focuses on two shows by Rodgers and Hart (A Connecticut Yankee and The Boys from Syracuse) and two by Rodgers...
Richard Rodgers was an icon of the musical theater, a prolific composer whose career spanned six decades and who wrote more than a thousand songs and ...
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274,72 zł |
Schubert's Reputation from His Time to Ours
ISBN: 9781576472767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 425 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was not bereft of early advocates, from Schumann, Liszt, and Mahler to Sir George Grove. Brahms famously heralded Schubert as "the true successor to Beethoven." Nevertheless, it was not until the end of the twentieth century that Schubert's major instrumental works finally and fully emerged from Beethoven's shadow. Critics and scholars began to reinterpret Schubert's departures from Beethoven's formal and stylistic characteristics, and to see these departures not as flaws but as strengths and hallmarks of a new paradigm. Schubert's alternate...
The composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was not bereft of early advocates, from Schumann, Liszt, and Mahler to Sir George Grove. Brahms famously heral...
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259,85 zł |
The Richard Rodgers Reader
ISBN: 9780195139549 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Excellent."--John Lahr, The New Yorker "A useful and informative anthology of essays, interviews, and criticism drawn from a diversity of published and unpublished sources.... The Richard Rodgers Reader is like surfing the Internet. One can dip into it or read it section by section." --Mel Gussow, New York Times Richard Rodgers was one of America's most prolific and best-loved composers. A world without "My Funny Valentine," "The Lady is a Tramp," "Blue Moon," and "Bewitched," to name just a few of the songs he wrote with Lorenz Hart, is scarcely imaginable, and the musicals he wrote with...
"Excellent."--John Lahr, The New Yorker "A useful and informative anthology of essays, interviews, and criticism drawn from a diversity of published a...
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131,80 zł |
Jerome Kern
ISBN: 9780300217612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A founding father of the modern American musical, Jerome Kern (1885-1945) was the composer of legions of popular songs, including such standards as "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "Ol' Man River." His 1927 Show Boat with Oscar Hammerstein II helped to set a new standard for musical theater. This book is the first to provide a critical overview of Kern's musical accomplishments throughout his career. Stephen Banfield ranges from Broadway, to Hollywood, and to London's West End, drawing on unpublished manuscripts and scores to assess the composer's extraordinary oeuvre. Kern's life, personality,...
A founding father of the modern American musical, Jerome Kern (1885-1945) was the composer of legions of popular songs, including such standards as "S...
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317,43 zł |
Charles Ives and the Classical Tradition
ISBN: 9780300105278 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Although Charles Ives has long been viewed as the quintessential American composer, he was also closely linked to the European classical tradition, say the Ives scholars in this book. Contributors explore the influences on Ives of his musical predecessors and the parallels between Ives and his European contemporaries, revealing him as culturally unique and yet reliant on the classical tradition for aesthetic philosophy and musical techniques. "A stimulating and important contribution to Ives scholarship and to the understanding of twentieth-century music."-Larry Starr, University of...
Although Charles Ives has long been viewed as the quintessential American composer, he was also closely linked to the European classical tradition, sa...
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286,92 zł |