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Composers on Composers

Book by John L. Holmes; Greenwood Press, 1990

Subjects:

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

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Introduction Composers create worlds of their...world of every other composer. Often they are not...to the music of other composers, finding other styles...was perhaps the only composer, great or otherwise...Austrian genius. Some composers lived for part of their...
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Popular American Composers from Revolutionary Times to the Present: A Biographical and Critical Guide

Book by David H. Ewen; H. W. Wilson, 1962

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Composers--United States

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...first-hand sources--the composers themselves. Of the fifty-four living composers found in this volume, forty...dispatched to each living composer a first draft of his biography. Forty-five composers were kind enough to return...
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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

Subjects:

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

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...for the future of music. Composers who wish to continue writing...The public concludes that composers are a very strange kind of...nowadays. There are too many composers more interested in the problem...U.S.S.R. This theme composer and public has been considered...
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Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music

Book by Judith Tick; Oxford University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Composers--United States--Biography, Seeger, Ruth Crawford--1901-1953, Women Composers--United States--Biography

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...earlier generations of American composers to acknowledge Indian and...classically trained American composers had to immerse themselves...Grass Roots for American Composers" with a similar message...instruction: the American composer should return to rural America...
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The World of Great Composers

Book by David Ewen; Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1962

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Composers--Biography

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...thirty-seven great composers--from Palestrina in...threshhold of the 20th. Each composer is discussed in four...the basic facts of the composers life. This is followed...intimate portrait of the composer as a man, usually by...

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Journal Articles on: composer or composers

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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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...understanding divorces the composer from the performer. The composers creativity is seen...and hence the composers works are self-expressing. The composer is seen as sUghtly...ending with the composer himself. The composers authence is in a...
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Composer Rhian Samuel: The Female Viewpoint and Welsh Influences in Her Vocal Music

Journal article by Joyce Andrews; Women & Music, Vol. 8, 2004

Subjects:

Women composers--Criticism and interpretation

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...FOR THE BRITISH COMPOSER Rhian Samuel in...Dictionary of Women Composers states, "Samuels...only respected as a composer and a professor...new generation of composers, Samuel is also...promote the women composers she was discovering...her own work as a composer. She found the...
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Musical Washing Machines, Composer-performers, and Other Blurring Boundaries: How Women Make a Difference in Electroacoustic Music1

Journal article by Hannah Bosma; Intersections, Vol. 26, 2006

Subjects:

Composers, Electronic music, Musical criticism, Musicians & conductors, Theory, Women

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...studies of women composers in the field. But...the gender of the composer? Listeners response...the gender of the composer. But this could...of music by women composers. I propose to consider the composer not as an authority...
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A Pan-African Composer? Coleridge-Taylor and Africa

Journal article by Paul Richards; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 21, 2001

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African music--Influence, Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel--Works, Composers--Works

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...who was at the composers side when he died...snapshot of the composer, toward the end...she sang it to the composer from memory. Dr...would have known the composers father; the world...musical events), the composer clearly understood...message. That the composers efforts with the...
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The New Generation of Composers in Quebec

Journal article by Alan Belkin; Canadian University Music Review, Vol. 9, 1989

Subjects:

Composers, Music, Musicology, Quebec Canada

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...was chosen by the composer. The following composers responded.3 Raynald...up. We asked the composers about their musical education. No composer totally lacked performing...by how much these composers share. As a composer myself, 1 felt...

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Magazine Articles on: composer or composers

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Federico Mompou: Catalonian Composer Magnifico

Magazine article by Joseph Thomas Rawlins, Alberto Hernandez-Banuchi; American Music Teacher, Vol. 56, December 2006

Subjects:

Composers--Biography, Mompou, Federico--Biography

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...Rawlins Catalonian composer Federico Mompou...enigmatic Spanish composers of the 20th century...music, along with composers Cabezon, Victoria...independent Catalan composer, slightly alongside...In tribute to the composer Montsalvatge commented...from other great composers Albeniz and Granados...
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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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...popular--many other composers have done that...written only by a composer whose primary form...worked for the composer in Europe, and...lifetime European composers were far more sympathetic...a Tin Pan Alley composer, because the combination...rules that popular composers were obliged to...
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Franck after Franck: the Composer's Posthumous Fortunes

Magazine article by R. J. Stove; Musical Times, Vol. 152, Spring 2011

Subjects:

Composers, Musical recordings, Organ music

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...him: Numbers of composers who would have believed...when many a young composer who had ventured...readers, the composers name had become...special favourite composer was Franck, whose...Franck as organ composer). Lieges Ricercar...event of either the composers own life or the...
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Honoring the Commissioned Composer

Magazine article by Thomas Ediger; American Music Teacher, Vol. 51, February 2002

Subjects:

Composers--Management, Education and state--Standards, Education policy--Standards, Music industry--Standards

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Consider asking the composer to submit program...the work. Often a composers comments can provide...At this event the composer and performers can...state commissioned composers. Try to maintain...the commissioned composer to recommend the program to other composers. Let me know if...
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Threepenny Composer

Magazine article by David Schiff; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, June 2000

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Composers--Biography, Weill, Kurt--Biography

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Threepenny Composer. by David Schiff...in front of the composers face. Weill seems...music. Like other composers of the 1920s, Weill...becoming a "popular" composer. We tend to forget...to the theater. Composers may speak of reaching...Schiff ("Threepenny Composer") is a composer...

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Newspaper Articles on: composer or composers

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Composer Portrait Sheds Light on the Dark Heart of Jost's Music; the Work of Contemporary Composers Is Being Introduced to Audiences inWales through a Series of Special Concerts. Karen Price Finds out about Them

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), November 21, 2009

Subjects:

Composers, Concerts, Television programs

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

...Orchestra of Wales. Composer Portraits aims...of contemporary composers who may not often...renowned living composers. The composer in question attends...lesser-known composers. "Now its time...adds Thorne. Composer Portraits: Christian...
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ANALYSIS: Composer a Child at Heart; ELGAR 150 YEARS Launching a Week of Features Celebrating the 150th Birthday of One of the Region's Greatest Artists, Edward Elgar, Terry Grimley Offers a Beginner's Guide to a Composer Who Was Far More Complex Than the Stereotype of a Bombastic Edwardian Might Suggest

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), May 28, 2007

Subjects:

Composers

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

...Elgar Englands greatest composer? He was certainly the...the 19th century with composers like Stanford and Parry...work by a classical composer, on the whole his music...criteria, the 15th century composer John Dun-staple achieved...was usual for English composers to study in Leipzig...
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ESO to Salute Composers Who Escaped Hitler

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 27, 2010

Subjects:

Composers, Concerts

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

...lives of 31 European composers and musicians who ended...work as a radio host, composer and teacher gave her...families. "Most of these composers came out of need, and...influences, German composer Richard Strauss. But...hall works of these composers, many of whom were...
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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

Subjects:

Ballet, Ballets, Composers

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

...generous John McCabe is to his fellow-composers, attending their premieres and even...study of the life and music of that composer. The recent SOMM double-CD release...with some notable exceptions - composers get on pretty well together. "I...
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Music: Composer in Residence Is Set on Creating Great Music with Something of a Flourish

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), September 14, 2007

Subjects:

Composers, Concerts

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

...the Liverpool-born composer Kenneth Hesketh: the...Philharmonic Orchestra as "Composer in the House". It...Britains most in-demand composers, writing commissions...our more accessible composers. Tonights concert opening...another Liverpool-bom composer, John McCabe, as well...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: composer or composers

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Adams, John , American Composer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

ADAMS, JOHN , American composer (John Coolidge Adams), 1947 , American composer, b. Worcester, Mass. A clarinetist, he studied...outstanding, technically adept, and influential composer of his generation, Adams has written in numerous...
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Ireland, John , English Composer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

IRELAND, JOHN , English composer 1879 1962, English composer. Inspired by visits to the Channel Islands, he wrote music of a simple, rugged beauty. His many songs include the cycle Songs of a Wayfarer (1903) and Sea Fever (1913), to the...
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Byrd, William , English Composer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

BYRD, WILLIAM , English composer 1543 1623, English composer, organist at Lincoln Cathedral and, jointly with Tallis, at the Chapel Royal. Although Roman Catholic, he composed anthems and services for the English Church in addition to his...
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Hastings, Thomas , American Composer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

HASTINGS, THOMAS , American composer 1784 1872, American composer, b. Washington, Conn. Of his hymns, Rock of Ages is most famous. He compiled several books of hymns, including Musica Sacra (1815) and Spiritual Songs (with Lowell Mason...
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Renaissance

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...he was one of the first composers to use imitation, or repetition...di Lasso was also a noted composer whose work included motets...Swan, was by the Flemish composer Jacob Arcadelt . English composers rivaled the Flemish; leading...

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