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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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composers should assume an eclectic...believe it desirable that all composers assembled here should find...no pretext for organizing composers conferences, at Stratford...Barraud, one of our best contemporary composers, has devoted...
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Mainstream Music of Early Twentieth Century America: The Composers, Their Times, and Their Works

Book by Nicholas E. Tawa; Greenwood Press, 1992

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Composers--United States, Music--United States--20th Century--History And Criticism

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...Isaac. "An American Composer." The American Mercury...Hanson Howard. Music in Contemporary American Civilization...American Opera and Its Composers . Philadelphia: Presser...Studies in Contemporary Composers 5. New York: C...Contemporary American Composers . Boston: Page, 1900...Stillman Kelley: American Composer, Author, and Teacher...
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A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers - Vol. 1
Includes: Composers Born before 1900

Book by Pamela Youngdahl Dees; Greenwood Press, 2002

Subjects:

Music By Women Composers--Bio-Bibliography, Piano Music--Bibliography

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...Aug 9, 1955 Marion Bauer, composer, critic, writer, and educator...next generation of American composers. 21 Bauer spent many summers...met other important women composers: Beach, Daniels, Howe...champion of American music and contemporary composers, she was one of the founders...
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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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...Norwegian flavor as well as the composers own bold personal touch. There...difficulties as those facing contemporary composers abroad. His music arrived at...lines already pioneered by other composers. He was like a breath of fresh...
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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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...will yet find the great composer who will mold from a mixture...revitalizing synthesis for contemporary music still challenges contemporary composers. The underscored word...How could an American composer on a Guggenheim Fellowship...

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Journal Articles on: contemporary 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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...context within which the contemporary composer operates...understanding divorces the composer from the performer. The composers creativity is seen...appropriate to the contemporary composer in his own right, especially the composer of electro-acoustic...as a means for the composers communicating with...
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The New Generation of Composers in Quebec

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

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Composers, Music, Musicology, Quebec Canada

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...its record on contemporary music. Several composers spoke of it as...can do.4 Most composers appreciate the...competence of the composer that count, but...group of young contemporary composers. This was one...
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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

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Women composers--Criticism and interpretation

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...nine hundred women composers in this pivotal reference...it is her work as a composer that places her squarely...Britains most illustrious contemporary musicians. Samuels...technical skill as a composer and her sensitivity...outstanding. (6) Among contemporary composers, Samuel is certainly...reluctant to contact the composer of the works they...
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The Composer's Voice: "what Women Can Do"

Journal article by Brenda Dalen; Canadian University Music Review, Vol. 16, 1995

Subjects:

Archer, Violet, Careers, Composers, Montreal Quebec Canada, Traditions, Women

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...1993 is clearly that of a composer who has long since arrived...artists, scholars, and composers remained as appallingly unenlightened...in the extreme. The woman composer stands where the actress...in Western music for women composers, Violet Archer had no authentic...generally promoting the cause of contemporary music to which she remains...
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With a Song in Her Heart: a Celebration of Canadian Women Composers through Performance and Discussion

Journal article by Edward Kovarik; Canadian University Music Review, Vol. 15, 1995

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Composers, Concerts, Conferences, Windsor Ontario Canada, Women

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...Symphony for Ten Parts and the contemporary, but lesser-known, Concerto...and a second by practising composers. The opening session was...number of younger Quebec women composers. While noting that music...there). The handful of composers listed are all hyphenated: "pianist-composer," "soprano-composer...

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Magazine Articles on: contemporary composers

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Good Vibrations: A Former Pogue Is Defying His Critics to Show the Way Forward for Contemporary Composers, Writes Suzy Klein

Magazine article by Suzy Klein; New Statesman, Vol. 135, June 5, 2006

Subjects:

Acoustic equipment--Forecasts and trends, Acoustic equipment--Usage, Composers--Works, Finer, Jem--Works

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...Show the Way Forward for Contemporary Composers, Writes Suzy Klein. by...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED This is the composer Jem Finers latest sonic adventure...natural environment. Many composers would baulk at the idea of...wood near Faversham and its composer is more Kentish Town than...
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Carl Czerny: Composer of the Biedermeier Age

Magazine article by Iwo Zaluski, Pamela Zaluski; Contemporary Review, Vol. 281, November 2002

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Composers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Czerny, Carl--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...John Field, the Irish pianist and composer stayed with him in 1835, and described...wealthy man, one of the most successful composers of the century, and undoubtedly the...would be wrong to dismiss Czerny the composer outright, even though it is very difficult...across a century is very apt. Neither composers mainstream output achieves the Elysian...
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An Overview of Pedagogical Piano Repertoire by Contemporary Korean Composers

Magazine article by Jeongsoo Kim; American Music Teacher, Vol. 55, December 2005

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Korean musicians--Directories, Korean musicians--Works, Musicians, Korean--Directories, Musicians, Korean--Works, Piano music--Directories, Piano music--Study and teaching, Piano music--Works

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Repertoire by Contemporary Korean Composers. by JeongSoo...tone. Many contemporary Korean composers have attempted...ornamentation in a contemporary musical language...instruments. The composer also brings...after the composers three years...
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Composer Portraits - Contemporary Music in the Picture

Magazine article by Tim Thorne; Musical Opinion, Vol. 132, September 2009

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Composer Portraits - Contemporary Music in the Picture...contemporary music, living composers have always been an...focuses on a particular composer, in collaboration...opportunity to talk with the composer and artists in the...fortunate in matching the composers with the conductors...
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A Singing Faith - Composer John Tavener

Magazine article by Herb Greer; World and I, Vol. 18, April 2003

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Composers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Composers--Criticism and interpretation, Religion and music--Criticism and interpretation, Religious music--Criticism and interpretation, Tavener, John--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Tavener, John--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...special place in contemporary devotional music...other Western composer, he has developed...standard for any composer who wished to...symphonists and composers of familiar...of some of his contemporaries, such as Cage...most popular of contemporary composers. Svyati...two kinds of composers in the contemporary...second sort of composer, however, who...

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Newspaper Articles on: contemporary 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

Composer Portrait...the Work of Contemporary Composers Is Being...well-known composers or to familiar...lesser-known composers. "Now its...focus on contemporary music," adds Thorne. Composer Portraits...
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The Reich Stuff; A Prom and Barbican Season Mark the 70th Birthday of Composer Steve Reich, and a Premiere of His New Work about a Reporter Murdered in Pakistan Confirms He Is Still at the Cutting Edge STEVE Reich Is Preoccupied These Days with Contemporary

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 9, 2006

Subjects:

Composers, Journalists

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

...Mark the 70th Birthday of Composer Steve Reich, and a Premiere...Preoccupied These Days with Contemporary. Byline: NORMAN LEBRECHT...my mind." At the time, composers who wanted to be taken seriously...died. More than any living composer, Steve Reich transformed the image of contemporary classical music from painfully...
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Festival Singers to Perform Work by Composer of YouTube Hit; with a Mix of Medieval and Contemporary Music, the Gregynog Festival Attracts Audiences from All over the Country. as This Year's Event Opens, Karen Price Talks to Artistic Director Rhian Davies

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 18, 2011

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

...with a Mix of Medieval and Contemporary Music, the Gregynog Festival...generations. Now one of American composer Eric Whitacres latest works...include a focus on 19th century composer and performer John Orlando...parents and she once met the composer Benjamin Britten there...aware of the heritage of the composers at Gregynog - some amazing...
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Fact and Fantasy of Composition; A Concert by Birmingham Contemporary Music on Saturday Celebrates the 60th Birthday of Composer Vic Hoyland. Terry Grimley Went to Meet Him

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 7, 2006

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

...Concert by Birmingham Contemporary Music on Saturday Celebrates...Hoylands output as a composer is relatively small...Hoyland was the first composer to be commissioned...these days. But the contemporary music world thats come...Chinese, South American composers." Spending part of...
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Innovative Sound for Your Pound; Why Would Anyone Want to Invest Their Hard-Earned Cash in a New Piece of Music? Terry Grimley Finds out from Some of the People Who Have Helped Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Raise Pounds 100,000 over the Past 12 Years Composers Mark-Anthony Turnage and Philip Cashian

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), May 27, 2004

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

...Simon started to introduce contemporary music into CBSO programmes...rehearsal but meeting the composers has been a really good...She adds that British composers tend to be mutually supportive...story that when a German composer was asked if he could recommend any contemporaries, the response was Why...the scheme receives from composers, either by attending colleagues...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: contemporary 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...adept, and influential composer of his generation, Adams...of fun and a decidedly contemporary aura of grief and horror...
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Opera

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...reigning "English" composer was a German who had...best known as the composer of the oratorio Messiah...sometimes forcing composers to write around them...Italian opera and contemporary politics. German...all by the American composer Philip Glass . Other...a new work, many composers in the latter part...presenting operas by contemporary composers. Bibliography...
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Glass, Philip

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...PHILIP 1937 , American composer, b. Baltimore. Considered...of the most innovative of contemporary composers, he was a significant figure...for a wider acceptance of contemporary opera. The meditative Einstein...development of a new generation of composers. See his Music by Philip...
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Symphony

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Stamitz , who was leader of the Mannheim group of composers, was one of the first to add a second lyrical theme...symphony has been treated with unprecedented freedom by contemporary composers, as illustrated by Stravinsky s Symphony of Psalms...
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Szigeti, Joseph

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...in 1912. Thereafter he achieved worldwide recognition for his musicianship and his interest in the music of contemporary composers. Szigeti made his American debut in 1925 and became a United States citizen in 1951. He made more than 100...

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