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Books on: italian composers

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Ivory, Apes, and Peacocks: Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, Jules Laforgue, Dostoievsky and Tolstoy, Schoenberg, Wedekind, Moussorgsky, Cezanne, Vermeer, Matisse, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Italian Futurists, Various Latter-Day Poets, Painters, Composers, and Dramatists

Book by James Huneker; Charles Scribners Sons, 1915

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Art, Biography, Literature, Modern--19th Century, Music

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...SCHOENBERG, WEDEKIND, MOUSSORGSKY, CEZANNE, VERMEER, MATISSE, VAN GOGH, GAUGUIN, ITALIAN FUTURISTS, VARIOUS LATTER-DAY POETS, PAINTERS, COMPOSERS AND DRAMATISTS BY JAMES HUNEKER NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS 1915
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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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...admired association with Italians and learned contrapuntalists...the time when the Italians sang well. 353 Asked...opinion about the great Italian composers, Rossini replied...the most famous composer," but Brahms interposed...TCHAIKOVSKY was another composer who adored Mozart...Mozart above all other composers. He saw Mozart as...
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Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits

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

Subjects:

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

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...and beauty of form really Italian characteristics , in Bach...Pfitzner, the only other composer in our group who came close...dislike of many French and Italian composers, especially Puccini. And...specifically modern "German" composers. 19 Like Strausss, their...
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Roger Sessions: How a "Difficult" Composer Got That Way

Book by Frederik Prausnitz; Oxford University Press, 2002

Subjects:

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

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...that is at its root, and that its benefits to the Italian people are largely material ones. About Mussolini...Sessions. In his unsympathetic portrayal of certain Italian composers self-image as artistic evangelists for their regime...
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The English Madrigal Composers

Book by Edmund Horace Fellowes; The Clarendon Press, 1921

Subjects:

Composers--England, Madrigals--History And Critism

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...International Music Society, 127 . Intervals, 98 , 118 , 194 , 280 . Inversion, 107 , 183 . Italian composers, 12 , 20 , 36 , 37 , 43 , 58 . Italian influence, 36 , 38 , 39 , 42 , 54 , 56 , 57 , 182 , 324 . Jackson, A., 49 . James I, 159...

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Journal Articles on: italian composers

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Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen, Eighteenth-Century Composer, Violinist, and Businesswoman

Journal article by Helen H. Metzelaar; Women & Music, Vol. 10, 2006

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Books--Book reviews, Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen: Eighteenth Century Composer, Violinist, and Businesswoman (Book)--Book reviews

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...overview in Dutch of women composers, and in the recent publication...Concert Hall: A Guide to Women Composers. (32) In addition, Jane...on the emergence of early Italian women composers. (33) That Sirmen composed...nineteenth century the roles of composer and performer were totally...
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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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...think you would have become a composer had your parents stayed in...over there, especially for composers. To give an example, theres an Italian woman in Rome who has chosen...is married to an Italian composer-but shes English originally...International Festival of Women Composers last year. The one whom...
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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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...music history, musicology, and composers biographies in Weimar and then Nazi...this process was consistent: the composer was first demonstrated to have been...reported on specific uses to which a composers works were put in National Socialist pageantry. No German composer was immune to these procedures of...applications of forms" associated with the Italian style, "radiating the fire of a...such as one finds nowhere among the Italians themselves, even the best of them...
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'In the Midst of Many Peoples' - Some Nineteenth-Century Jewish Composers and Their Jewishness

Journal article by David Conway; European Judaism, Vol. 36, 2003

Subjects:

Alkan, Valentin--Biography, Composers--History, European Jews--Biography, Halevy, Jacques--Biography, Jewish musicians--History, Jews, European--Biography, Mendelssohn, Felix--Biography, Meyerbeer, Giacomo--Biography, Musicians, Jewish--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...loved everything he wrote. Composers vied for the right to set...single mention is made of the composers obvious religious origins...himself as the leading French composer of his day (as opposed to...regarded as a German, and the Italian Rossini). During the Second...married, first, his pupil the composer Georges Bizet, and then...
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The Negation of a Negation Fixed in a Form: Luigi Nono and the Italian Counter-culture 1964-1979

Journal article by Timothy S. Murphy; Cultural Studies Review, Vol. 11, 2005

Subjects:

Composers, History, Italy, Nono, Luigi, Personal profiles, Subcultures

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Form: Luigi Nono and the Italian Counter-culture 1964-1979...extent): the avant-garde composer Luigi Nono, whose career...he describes as an ally: composer Luigi Nono. Nono is largely...most prominent avant-garde composers of the postwar period, generally...graduation, upon meeting the young composer and conductor Bruno Maderna...

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Magazine Articles on: italian composers

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Facing the Music; throughout History, Musicians and Composers Have Battled Rampant Piracy, Unscrupulous Publishers and Dubious Employment Practices. the Problems of Today's Recording Industry Pale in Comparison, Writes Time Blanning

Magazine article by Time Blanning; New Statesman, Vol. 137, December 15, 2008

Subjects:

Composers--Analysis, Copyright infringement--Analysis, Copyright--Analysis, Copyrights--Analysis, Recording industry--Analysis, Sound recording industry--Analysis

Collections: History, Entire Library

...to cosset their star composers. Whether the music...Never again would a composer of Mozarts stature...complaints from serious composers that the public did...simple orchestration of Italian ice-cream opera...never believed it". Composers have responded in all...Eldorado, it was the composer-performers who did...
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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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...libretto translated into Italian by Gui himself. The Melodram...began within a decade of the composers passing. The 31-year...being meant to adorn the composers new tomb; Francks remains...readily to him: Numbers of composers who would have believed themselves...the time when many a young composer who had ventured to the Boulevard...
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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

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Joseph Rawlins Catalonian composer Federico Mompou (1893...introverted and enigmatic Spanish composers of the 20th century. His...the group of young French composers Francis Poulenc, Darius...simplicity of the works of composer Erik Satie and by the artistic...Music. (23.) From the Italian rubato (robbed) is a frequent...during this instance the composer authorizes the player to...
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Joseph Haydn and the German Nation: A Subject and Servant of Europe's Most Cosmopolitan Empire, the Composer Joseph Haydn Played an Important Role in the Emergence of German Cultural Nationalism during the 18th and 19th Centuries

Magazine article by Tim Blanning; History Today, Vol. 59, May 2009

Subjects:

Composers--Appreciation, Composers--Works, Haydn, Joseph--Appreciation, Haydn, Joseph--Works

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Cosmopolitan Empire, the Composer Joseph Haydn Played an Important...training was suffused with Italian music. In an autobiographical...Porpora, the Neapolitan composer. But Vienna was also a city...of 18th-century German composers born before Haydn: Johann...German music: Must not the Italians, who previously were the...hear a Frenchwoman singing Italian arias. I can forgive her...
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Composer of Spiritual Communions: Argentine-Born Composer Osvaldo Golijov Creates a Movable, Musical Feast, Spanning a Range of Styles and Themes Rooted in the Human Spirit

Magazine article by Caleb Bach; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 55, March 2003

Subjects:

Composers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Golijov, Osvaldo--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Music, Latin-American--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Spirituality--Influence

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...communions: Argentine-born composer Osvaldo Golijov creates a...works of Argentine-born composer Osvaldo Golijov have not suffered...photographs of heroes, not just composers like Mahler and Stravinsky...soundtrack, both are performed by Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra...and Nuevo (2002). The composer and chamber group first met...

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Newspaper Articles on: italian composers

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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

Subjects:

Composers

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

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

...Ottorino Respighi, the Italian Dictators Favourite Composer, Receiving Their Proms...exploitation of "good" composers -- from Mozart to...Respighi, the foremost composer in fascist Italy...popular Florentine composer Mario Castelnuovo...enforce ideology onto composers of the time, he certainly...was the quality of Italian symphonic and opera...
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My Country Strife; Lady to the Manor Born Feuds with Italian Composer over Access to Kirk

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 14, 1996

Subjects:

Menotti, Gian Carlo

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

...Country Strife; Lady to the Manor Born Feuds with Italian Composer over Access to Kirk. Byline: ALISON HARDIE SURROUNDED...crippling debt, she warmed to the new residents, Italian composer Gian-Carlo Menotti and his wife. Lady Marioth...
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Composer 'Died Twice'

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 18, 2010

Subjects:

Albinoni, Tomaso, Composers

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

Composer Died Twice. Byline: Compiled...sources varied over the composers death date. Was there...answer stated that the Italian composer Tomaso Albinoni died in...correspondence. Date confusion: Composer Tomaso Albinoni, famed...
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Lost Work Is Aired; MUSIC That's a Horn-Player's Dream Come True, and a Composer's Second Take on His Most Popular Symphony, Are among Next Week's Classical Treats. RICHARD YATES Has the Details

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), March 12, 2010

Subjects:

Composers, Concerts

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

...Players Dream Come True, and a Composers Second Take on His Most Popular...symphonies - No.4, the Italian - by Mendelssohn in a version...the capital in 1833 with the composer conducting. Mendelssohn left...almost complete before the composers unexpected death in 1847...a rare chance to hear the Italian Symphony in the way Mendelssohn...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: italian composers

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Sonata

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...keyboard sonata was developed in the works of rococo Italian composers such as Galuppi, G. B. Sammartini (1701 75...Minor of Franz Liszt. See critical studies of the composers mentioned; W. S. Newman, The Sonata in the Baroque...
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Renaissance

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...fact, in about 1330 an Italian school of musical composition...vernacular; its primary composers, thinkers such as Leonardo...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...influenced by the work of Italians. The main Italian madrigal...
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Aria

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...instrumental music was continued by such composers as Froberger, Pachelbel, and...1602. Later in the 17th cent. Italian opera composers developed the aria da capo, a...form continued to be preferred by Italian opera composers, however, and...
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Arcadelt, Jacob

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...ARCADELT, JACOB ya kop ar kadelt, c.1505 1568, Flemish composer, b. Liege. He spent much of his time at the Papal court...the duke of Guise. Arcadelt was one of many Netherlander composers who worked in Italy. He wrote Italian madrigals, French chansons, masses, and motets...
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Handel, George Frideric

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Friedrich Zachow, an organist and composer at Halle, for three years...other masters and absorbed the Italian style and forms. In 1710...Handel as primarily a church composer. Other outstanding oratorios...subsequent coronations. While composer to the duke of Chandos (1715...strongly influenced English composers for a century after his death...

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