Kategoria BISAC: Music >> Genres & Styles - Classical

Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale settings have been vital to the teaching of music ever since they were composed. His four-voiced harmonisations represent a Baroque composer's approach to melodies that are often centuries older. As musical styles continued to evolve, each succeeding generation of teachers and students brought their own viewpoint to bear on this small corpus of music. Consequently, during the three centuries since their composition and a quarter of a millennium since their first publication, a range of contrasting ideas and approaches has tended to obscure the fundamental...

The International Who s Who in Classical Music 2016 is a vast source of biographical and contact information for singers, instrumentalists, composers, conductors, managers and more. Each entrant has been given the opportunity to update his or her information for the new improved 2016 edition.

Each biographical entry comprises personal information, principal career details, repertoire, recordings and compositions, and full contact details where available. Appendices provide contact details for national orchestras, opera companies, music festivals, music organizations and major...

This edition of Messa da Requiem is based on Verdi's autograph score and other original sources. The appendices include two pieces from the compositional history of the Requiem an early version of the Libera me, composed in 1869 as part of a collaborative work planned as a memorial to Rossini; and the Liber scriptus, which in the...

Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (I'm lost now for the world) I chose the figure of Gustav Mahler as my study and Mahler's extraordinary epigraph is amongst the best written. The highlight of the entire collection is the wonderful Ruckertlieder. This quotation summarise and reflects the personal anxieties of Gustav Mahler: I'm lost now for the world, where before I had wasted a lot of time; for a long time no one has heard of me, and maybe they even believe that I'm dead But if the world thinks I'm dead I don't give a damn. Because you really are dead to the world. And finally resting...

First published in 1985, this book draws together the author's artistic with analytical practices which had been developed over many years of sociological enquiry. It interprets a 'work of art' as a site on which a viewer or critic is invited to share in questioning celebration of the painting itself. The author reassesses modern painting's relation to its own origins and to tradition in light of the emergence of 'postmodern' practice -- exploring its engagement of fundamental questions about language and being. Also assessed is the relevance of the metaphors of writings and Reading to an...