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Books on: baroque composers

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Alan Rawsthorne: Portrait of a Composer

Book by John McCabe; Oxford University, 1999

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Composers--England--Biography, Rawsthorne, Alan--1905-1971

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...bass technique was one of the first . . . means whereby early baroque composers endeavoured to compose works built on a dance foundation which...16 "Alan Rawsthorne and the Baroque", Tempo Mar. 1946 .
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Conductors on Composers

Book by John L. Holmes; Greenwood Press, 1993

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Composers, Conductors (Music)--Quotations, Music--History And Criticism

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...profound melancholy are among its characteristics. 567 As a composer of the classical period, Mozart raises all the problems and controversies that attend the performance of the Baroque composers and of Haydn, particularly with the use of small orchestras...
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The Composer as Intellectual: Music and Ideology in France 1914-1940

Book by Jane F. Fulcher; Oxford University Press, 2005

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Composers--France, Music--France--20th Century--History And Criticism, Music--Political Aspects--France, Music--Social Aspects--France

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...were good and bad Germans, the former being those of the baroque and classical past (extending, for him, through Wagner), and the latter (the Boches ) being more recent German composers, or Prussians. His national loyalty re- mained without...
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Roger Sessions: How a "Difficult" Composer Got That Way

Book by Frederik Prausnitz; Oxford University Press, 2002

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Composers--United States--Biography, Sessions, Roger--1896-

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...a fair share of resident composers in the audience. Klemperers...attended not only by the composer but also by local colleagues...Berlins resident fraternity of composers. Schoenberg, in fact...same year to his quasi-Baroque Concerto for Orchestra...both of 1929, reflect the composers irreverent vein of social...
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Composers on Composers

Book by John L. Holmes; Greenwood Press, 1990

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Composers, Music--History And Criticism, Musicians As Authors

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...Italian Monteverdi stood midway between the Renaissance and the Baroque eras, but his music was scarcely known in the twentieth century...1930s. COPLAND wrote in 1953: "The first of the great opera composers was the Italian Claudio Monteverdi. Unfortunately, his works...

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Journal Articles on: baroque composers

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Rethinking Authorship through Women Composers: Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution

Journal article by Matthew Head; Women & Music, 2002

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Rethinking Authorship through Women Composers: Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution (Book)

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...anachronism the notion of a composers unmediated self-expression...the relationship between composer and text beyond the idea...stories we tell about women composers in history. Ideas of a...commonplace mentions in surveys of Baroque music but have not been...held by contemporary female composers on the label "woman composer" itself, views reported...
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The Baroque Solo Cantata: Infinite Possibilities, Part Ii

Journal article by Karen Bauer; Journal of Singing, Vol. 63, 2007

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...in performance. The composers possessed a common Baroque musical vocabulary...more so. For each composer, though, the text...are implicit to the Baroque style must be abandoned...in spirit with the composer even though separated...by tapping into the composers freedom, spontaneity...generalizations about standard Baroque performance practices...
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The Baroque Solo Cantata: Infinite Possibilities, Part I

Journal article by Karen Bauer; Journal of Singing, Vol. 63, 2007

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...dramatic entity. To be respected in the Baroque period, it was more important for composers to be erudite than to be emotionally...to remember that neither for the baroque poet, nor for the baroque composer was the sensuous or lyric value of...
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The Art of Bel Canto in the Italian Baroque. a Study of the Original Sources

Journal article by Debra Greschner; Journal of Singing, Vol. 64, 2008

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...limited usefulness to all but Baroque specialists. But the value in learning about Italian Baroque pedagogy, he insists...improvisation influenced composers to such an extent that...these singers invented Baroque music. While this thesis...
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Wind Bands in Towns, Courts, and Churches: Middle Ages to Baroque

Journal article by David M. Guion; Journal of Band Research, Vol. 42, 2007

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...in a small number of sacred works by composers in the Burgundian orbit are labeled...that did not catch on. Only the lesser composers tried it. The more prominent and influential Burgundian composers did not follow, and neither did anyone...

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Magazine Articles on: baroque composers

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Andrew Manze: Crazy for Baroque

Magazine article by Tom Pniewski; World and I, Vol. 14, January 1999

Subjects:

Baroque music--Criticism and interpretation, Conductors (Music)--Criticism and interpretation, Manze, Andrew--Criticism and interpretation, Music, Baroque--Criticism and interpretation

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...repertoire brought him close to composers in a way similar to what...interacting personally with the composer or was the composer himself--since most composers of the era were performers...instrument itself--the Baroque violin and bow. Strung...
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Succeeding with the Masters Student Activity Book, Baroque Era, Vol. One and Succeeding with the Masters Teacher's Handbook, Baroque Era, Vol. One

Magazine article by Ruth J. Holmes; American Music Teacher, Vol. 58, February 2009

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Succeeding with the Masters Student Activity Book, Baroque Era, vol. 1 (Nonfiction work), Succeeding with the Masters Teacher's Handbook, Baroque Era, vol. 1 (Nonfiction work)

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...Masters Teachers Handbook, Baroque Era, Vol. One. by Ruth J...Masters Student Activity Book, Baroque Era, Vol. One and Succeeding...Masters Teachers Handbook, Baroque Era, Vol. One, by Helen...includes biographies of the composers and a glossary from which the...
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Divine Artifice: Handel, That Powerhouse of Baroque Music, Has Become a 21st-Century Superstar, Writes Jonathan Keates

Magazine article by Jonathan Keates; New Statesman, Vol. 138, April 13, 2009

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Composers--Works, Handel, George Frideric--Works

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...Powerhouse of Baroque Music, Has Become...Faramondo, the composers least successful...rivals Mozart as composer of choice for...spell as court composer for the Elector...being, like many Baroque composers, so astonishingly...Museums current "Baroque: Style in the...material from other composers, he made recycling...Handels fellow composer at the Kings Theatre...
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Bullish on Baroque

Magazine article by Richard Turp; Opera Canada, Vol. 47, January 2006

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Canada, Composers, Opera, Trends

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Bullish on Baroque by Richard Turp I SUPPOSE ITS A QUESTION...Mozart and Rossini revivals, the world of Baroque opera today represents one of the areas...understand the importance and viability of Baroque opera. Today, there is hardly a major...
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Keeping Time: Fifty Years Ago, Orchestras Performed Mozart's Music as If He Were Another Brahms or Beethoven. Then the Early Music Movement Revealed a Composer Full of Grace, Lightness and Passion. Nicholas Kenyon Celebrates a Truly Modern Master

Magazine article by Nicholas Kenyon; New Statesman, Vol. 135, January 16, 2006

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Composers--Appreciation, Composers--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus--Appreciation, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Orchestra--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Salzburg, Austria, Symphony orchestras--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations

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...Music Movement Revealed a Composer Full of Grace, Lightness...understanding of the great composers. "We need a revival of period...soon moved on to the late baroque, revealing Bach and Handel...showed him as an 18th-century composer growing out of the conventions of the baroque. The first sign of this was...

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Newspaper Articles on: baroque composers

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Baroque around the Clock; DVORAK: Genius and Trainspotter NOTEWORTHY: A Statue of Composer Smetana near Pragues Charles Bridge and, Inset, Chamber Music at the Dvorak Museum

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 13, 2008

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Composers, Museums

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Baroque around the Clock; DVORAK...Trainspotter NOTEWORTHY: A Statue of Composer Smetana near Pragues Charles...thought police told Russian composers what to write, and banned...Prague, Europes sumptuous baroque capital, jazz continued to...of Pragues great musiciansa composer who wrote for the world and...
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A Revival of Composers

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), July 18, 2008

Subjects:

Composers, Concerts

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...local North East composers once forgotten but...famous through the Baroque groups highly-successful...recordings. Durham composer John Garth was the...the countrys best composers." The concerts...work in the field of baroque music, Tunnicliffe...
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Yet Another Classic Year; GET Set for a New Round of Composer Anniversaries, Says RICHARD YATES

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), January 22, 2010

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Anniversaries, Composers, Concerts

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...GET Set for a New Round of Composer Anniversaries, Says RICHARD...drawing up another list of composer anniversaries to flag up performances...include all of the German composers concertos. The first is next...rhythmic zest to all things Baroque". In 1985 he was appointed...Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and is artistic...
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MUSIC AND MUSSOLINI; with Three Pieces by Ottorino Respighi, the Italian Dictator's Favourite Composer, Receiving Their Proms Premieres This Week, William Ward Examines the Cultural Legacy of Fascism

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 5, 2009

Subjects:

Composers, Proms (Parties)

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...exploitation of "good" composers -- from Mozart to...Respighi, the foremost composer in fascist Italy...eminent among symphonic composers of the period was the...on Renaissance and baroque lute music -- they...performers, Jewish composers and American black...fascist Hungarian composer Bela Bartok, British...
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Enjoy a Double Celebration; Birthday Tribute to Our State's Composers

Newspaper article; Tweed Daily News (Tweed Heads, Australia), July 16, 2009

Subjects:

Composers--Appreciation, Composers--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Concerts--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Singers--Appreciation, Singers--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations

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...Tribute to Our States Composers. Byline: Nadine Fisher...Queenslands own music, composers, musicians and talented...Queensland connections. Composer Colin Brumby refers...contemporary American composer now living in Brisbane...the group from the baroque, romantic and classical...our own musicians, composers and music whenever...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: baroque composers

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Ornament , in Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...reached its height in the baroque era. Treatises were written...solo performer often the composer himself. Since the baroque era, composers have attempted to indicate...possible the performance of baroque music in the manner of the...
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Bach, Johann Sebastian

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...bakh, 1685 1750, German composer and organist, b. Eisenach...greatest and most influential composers of the Western world. He brought polyphonic baroque music to its culmination...as an organist than as a composer. For decades after his death...particularly by romantic composers such as Mendelssohn and Schumann...
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Sonata

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...characteristics during the baroque period, the term began to...merged into the outstanding baroque chamber music form, the trio...the works of rococo Italian composers such as Galuppi, G. B. Sammartini...Newman, The Sonata in the Baroque Era (3d ed. 1972), The...
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Concerto

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...slow movements. These three composers were active in the development...forms of the concerto in the baroque period. J. S. Bachs six...fullest development of the baroque type. Toward the end of the...has been manifested by such composers as Hindemith, Bartok, and...
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Opera

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...considered the first opera. The Baroque in Rome and Venice Development of earlier baroque opera occurred at Rome and...Monteverdi in Venice that baroque opera reached its peak, and...next generation of Venetian composers, headed by Marcantonio Cesti...The reigning "English" composer was a German who had completely...

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