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Books on: classical composers

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Conductors and Composers of Popular Orchestral Music: A Biographical and Discographical Sourcebook

Book by Reuben Musiker, Naomi Musiker; Greenwood Press, 1998

Subjects:

Composers--Biography, Conductors (Music)--Biography, Orchestral Music--Bio-Bibliography, Orchestral Music--Discography, Popular Music--Bio-Bibliography, Popular Music--Discography

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...stepchildren in the eyes of many in the classical field, but he firmly believed...His prolific output ranged from classical composers such as P. I. Tchaikovsky...fea- tured popular and light classical music drawn from Spain, France...
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Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits

Book by Michael H. Kater; Oxford University Press, 2000

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Composers--Germany--Biography, Music--Germany--20th Century--History And Criticism, National Socialism

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...function as an advocate of composers rights. After Strauss had...through Stagma in 1934-35, a composer copyright for fifty years...ensure that serious-music composers would not starve, Goebbels...should be reserved for these classical composers. Although this...the "one third" favored classical composers disproportionately...
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The Modern Composer and His World: A Report from the International Conference of Composers, Held at the Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario, Canada, August 1960

Book by John Beckwith, Udo Kasemets; University of Toronto Press, 1961

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Composers, Music--Congresses, Music--History And Criticism--20th Cent

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...time, we are listeners to other composers works. While our listening may...audience there was not full of composers, I assure you. Hamilton: If...Why do many people think that classical composers were so concerned with subjective...
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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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...Stravinsky, particularly the works of his "neo-classical" period. This, he said, was nothing but the desire to write in as free a way as the true classical composers, and therefore it became trivial in itself. "Neo...
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Music of the Golden Age, 1900-1950 and beyond: A Guide to Popular Composers and Lyricists

Book by Arthur L. Iger; Greenwood Press, 1998

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Composers--United States, Lyricists--United States, Popular Music--United States--History And Criticism

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...Berlin tunes, including the title song. LEONARD BERNSTEIN, Composer 1918-1990 It has been argued by musicologists that had...and others. Leonard Bernstein is one of Americas foremost classical conductor/composers; an enormously versatile talent who wrote opera and symphony...

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Journal Articles on: classical composers

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"Honor Your German Masters": the Use and Abuse of "classical" Composers in Nazi Propaganda

Journal article by David B. Dennis; Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Vol. 30, 2002

Subjects:

Classical music, Composers, Germany-pre-1945, Nazi era, Propaganda

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...Use and Abuse of "classical" Composers in Nazi...USE AND ABUSE OF "CLASSICAL " COMPOSERS IN NAZI...learn how specific composers and their compositions...reception given that composer by activists from 1870...Beobachter reception of composers associated with the "classical" era of music history...
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From Composer to Audience: the Production of "serious" Music in Canada

Journal article by Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, Alan Lessem, John Beckwith, Alfred Fisher, Barry Truax; Canadian University Music Review, Vol. 9, 1989

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Canada, Classical music, Composers, Musicology

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...acknowledged, but the composer clearly aims at...performance is the classical concert, as the...locus for the composers unique, yet appropriate...attention in the composers consideration...larger forces as composer and authence...the traditional classical repertoire from...of the studio composer, thus enabling...symptomatic not of the composers actions - for...
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Yrjö Kilpinen: Finnish Composer and German Lieder in the 1930s1

Journal article by James Deaville; Intersections, Vol. 25, 2005

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Classical music, Composers, Composition, Finland, Germany-pre-1945, Kilpinen, Yrjo, Musical criticism, Nazi era, Personal profiles

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...be regarded as one of the leading composers of German Lieder during the 1930s...exhibited talent and fecundity as a composer of Lieder, but there was another...itself in the German activities of composers like Sibelius, Selim Palmgren, Toivo Kuula and Kilpinen. The Finnish composer is "the prophet of his surroundings...associations with National Socialism on the composers part (Makela 2003, 100).33 The...artistic memory of the great Finnish composer") does not have the same political...
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Their Paths, Her Ways: Comparison of Text Settings by Clara Schumann and Other Composers

Journal article by L. Poundie Burstein; Women & Music, 2002

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Classical music--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Classical music--History, Composers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Composers--Works, Gender identity--Influence, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Schumann, Clara--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Schumann, Clara--Works

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...creations. The same is true when composers deal with literary texts. Of all the areas in which the gender of a composer can affect a work of music, perhaps...Reichardt (1783), and even a woman composer, Duchess Anna Amalia (1776). (9) The settings by these other composers are each in strophic or modified strophic...Clara Schumann, another celebrated composer who set this text after Mozart was...
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Dead Composers, Living Audiences: the Situation of Classical Music in the Twenty-first Century

Journal article by Debra Greschner; Journal of Singing, Vol. 68, 2011

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Dead Composers, Living Audiences: the Situation of Classical Music in the Twenty-first...Audiences: The Situation of Classical Music in the Twenty-First...investigates the role and state of classical music in contemporary society...

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Magazine Articles on: classical composers

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Misunderstanding (George) Gershwin: The Composer Mixed Popular and Classical Idioms like No One before or since, and Performers Are Still Baffled

Magazine article by David Schiff; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 282, October 1998

Subjects:

Composers, Gershwin, George, Music criticism

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...many other composers have done that...the two. His classical pieces could...written only by a composer whose primary...performers, and other composers. We might categorize...not really a classical composer; and those that...if he were a classical composer. Wrong...worked for the composer in Europe, and...lifetime European composers were far more...
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Little Women's Big Man: As His Hit Opera Little Women Debuts in New York, Composer Mark Adamo Talks about Bringing Theatrical Spice to the Classical World and Living Happily Ever after with His Partner, Composer John Corigliano

Magazine article by Joseph Dalton; The Advocate, April 1, 2003

Subjects:

Adamo, Mark--Authorship, Alcott, Louisa May May--Works, Composers--Authorship, Gay musicians--Interviews, Little Women (Opera)--Authorship, Little Women (Opera)--Performances

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...Bringing Theatrical Spice to the Classical World and Living Happily...Stephen Sondheim. Like many classical musicians, Adamo becomes...he moved into the world of classical music at Catholic University...one of his strengths as a composer. "Mark has a lyric gift...tradition of 20th-century composers who came before him," says...
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An Adventurous Life: Remembering out Composer Lou Harrison, a Man Undaunted by Musical Dogma, the Classical Closet, or the Hard Knocks of Old Age

Magazine article by Joseph Dalton; The Advocate, March 18, 2003

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Composers, Gay musicians, Harrison, Lou

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...Adventurous Life: Remembering out Composer Lou Harrison, a Man Undaunted by Musical Dogma, the Classical Closet, or the Hard Knocks...Joseph Dalton When American composer Lou Harrison died at age...a generation of American composers that included many prominent...other items drawn from the composers sizeable art collection...name a new model after the composer. "Scenes" has been recorded...
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Other Mahler, Other Schumanns: Women Composers Get a Hearing of Their Own

Magazine article by Tina Pamintuan; Humanities, Vol. 22, March 2001

Subjects:

Classical music, Composers, Feldman, Ann, Mentzer, Susanne, Radio programming, Women

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...wife of the Romantic composer, Gustav Mahler...of women creating classical music continues into...first centuries with composers such as Lili Boulanger...Three hundred years of classical music by women is...nineteenth-century female classical composer felt hemmed in by...expectations of female composers. According to Christopher...
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Finnish Composer Kaija Saariaho: Uncovering Beauty in Ordinary Noise

Magazine article by Cori Ellison; Scandinavian Review, Vol. 87, Winter 2000

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Classical music, Composers, Personal profiles, Saariaho, Kaija

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...Saariahos schoolmates included the composers Jouni Kaipainen and Magnus Lindberg...to be labeled right away `the woman composer, because there were no others." Resettling...studies in Freiburg with the English composer Brian Ferneyhough, a disciple of Pierre...Stockhausen, and a guru for young modernist composers. "I was all of a sudden on very international...

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Newspaper Articles on: classical composers

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Liszt Was the Elvis of Classical Music; as the RLPO Marks 10 Years of Its Partnership with Classic FM, Laura Davis Discovers the Strange Stories Behind Some of History's Most Famous Composers

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), September 1, 2010

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Classical music, Composers

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Liszt Was the Elvis of Classical Music; as the RLPO Marks...So goes the history of classical music, according to Tim...who are relatively new to classical music, or those who want...When you see the names of composers written down, they come...in the month. Hungarian composer Franz Liszt gets his moment...
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Roll over Beethoven! He's Deaf, Almost Blind and from a Working-Class Family That Knows Nothing about Music. but That Hasn't Stopped Musical Prodigy Lloyd Coleman Becoming a Brilliant Composer Whose Work Has Taken the World of Classical Music by Storm

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 20, 2010

Subjects:

Classical music, Composers, Deaf, Deaf persons

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

...Coleman Becoming a Brilliant Composer Whose Work Has Taken the World of Classical Music by Storm. Just imagine...and composer of exquisite classical music and an accomplished...superstar status in the world of classical music is extraordinary...
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CLASSICAL: A Composer Who Puts in the Leg Work for His Music; John McCabe, Composer of the Score for David Bintley's Edward II, Talks to Christopher Morley about Writing for Ballet and Other Recent Projects

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 20, 2007

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Ballet, Ballets, Composers

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CLASSICAL: A Composer Who Puts in...working, John McCabe is a composer who must have strolled many...McCabe is to his fellow-composers, attending their premieres...the life and music of that composer. The recent SOMM double...advocacy of a colleague composer, playing as he does all...some notable exceptions - composers get on pretty well together...
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Alexandria Symphony a 'Dream'; Shakespearean Draft Fuses Classical, Pop Composers

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 5, 2007

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Britten, Benjamin, Composers, Concerts--Concert reviews, Costello, Elvis

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

...Shakespearean Draft Fuses Classical, Pop Composers. Byline: T.L. Ponick...by an unexpected trio of composers: Benjamin Britten, Elvis...of German-American film composer Erich Korngold. The orchestral...archivist and violinist-composer Gary Dov Gertzweig, the...
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A Fanfare for the Forgotten Hero of Italian Composers; CLASSICAL

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), August 23, 2009

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Composers

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...Forgotten Hero of Italian Composers; CLASSICAL. Byline: by David Mellor...of American light music composer and arranger Leroy Anderson...surprising that the young composer, having written it to perform...2, was premiered by the composer in 1904 and regularly performed...widely performed in the composers lifetime. Its a big piece...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: classical composers

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Stockhausen, Karlheinz

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...houz n, 1928 2007, German composer, music theorist, and teacher...inventive of avant-garde composers. He frequently employed...influential with many younger classical composers. His wide-ranging influence...larger world of contemporary classical music. In all, Stockhausen...
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Theremin

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...The theremins sound has been described as like that of a violin but more spooky and otherworldly. While some classical composers have written for the instrument, e.g., Henry Cowell and Edgard Varese , it has been used more frequently in...
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Brubeck, Dave

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Warren Brubeck)broo bek, 1920 , American pianist and composer, b. Concord, Calif. Brubeck began studying piano at...saxaphonist Paul Desmond. His music, influenced by modern classical composers, is distinguished by complex harmony and the use of meters...
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Chamber Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Schubert, whose quartets are the last of the classical period, and by the chief composers of the romantic period Mendelssohn, Schumann...percussive rhythms, and serial techniques by such composers as Schoenberg, Bartok, Webern, Berg, Stravinsky...
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Serkin, Rudolf

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...a noted concert pianist. The younger Serkin is known for his performances of the standard classical repertoire and of pieces by contemporary composers. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with...

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