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Books on: modern composer

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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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...the existing sounds. The modern composer must understand modern man. He must understand and...dangers can truly be called modern music. Only such types of...Periodically, panic arises amongst composers. When the wheel was invented...
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Composers of Today: A Comprehensive Biographical and Critical Guide to Modern Composers of All Nations

Book by David Ewen; H. W. Wilson, 1934

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Music--Bio-Bibliography

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...Whos Who" of modern composers; its scope is...material on each composer; he has not only...information about the composers personality, his...bibliography of modern music a list of...treatment of any composer. In marshalling the leading composers of our day to parade...movements thru which modern music has passed...
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Modern Music: Composers and Music of Our Time

Book by Max Graf, Beatrice R Maier; Philosophical Library, 1946

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Music--History And Criticism, Musicians

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...Russia stands the great realist; a composer who possesses the strength, the...unthinkable without his music. No composer affected modern musicians as deeply as this man...leading to the future. Upon no modern composer did Mussorgski have a...
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Modern Russian Composers

Book by Leonid Sabaneev, Judah A. Joffe; International Publishers, 1927

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Music--Soviet Union--History and criticism, Musicians--Russian

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...oddest combinations, the more so as the composers task is the creation of new sonorities...chamberness" that had seized the composer after his terrible experiments with...amusing, but in the biography of so modern a composer as Stravinski even such a detail must...
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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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...the most remarkable American composers, whose individual genius...Ives is the greatest American composer, his music the most important...of virtually every American composer who came after him. 390 Tilson...that Ives is not really a modern composer: The reputation that Ives has as a modern composer is all wrong: he...

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Journal Articles on: modern composer

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Signs, Symphonies, Signifyin(g): African-American Cultural Topics as Analytical Approach to the Music of Black Composers

Journal article by Horace J. Maxile Jr.; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 28, 2008

Subjects:

African American composers--Criticism and interpretation, African American composers--Practice, African American composers--Works, Black music--Authorship, Black music--Criticism and interpretation, Music, Black--Authorship, Music, Black--Criticism and interpretation

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...music of African-American composers. Although issues of history...listener, enabling the composer to enter into a contract...are compositions by black composers that do not employ African...recent work that uses a more modern compositional technique...music by African American composers. Composer Recordings CD 629. Compact...
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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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...Andrews THE ENTRY FOR THE BRITISH COMPOSER Rhian Samuel in the Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers states, "Samuels understanding...marketability. Not only respected as a composer and a professor of composition who...mentorship to a new generation of composers, Samuel is also highly regarded...she helping to promote the women composers she was discovering, but she was...fighting to justify her own work as a composer. She found the research to be exciting...
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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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...West African friend" who was at the composers side when he died (60). To this snapshot of the composer, toward the end of his life, well...century. Perhaps she sang it to the composer from memory. Dr. Randle certainly would have known the composers father; the world of Sierra Leonean...Coleridge-Taylor musical events), the composer clearly understood Du Bois message. That the composers efforts with the Negro Melodies hit...
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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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...and actions, and hence the composers works are self-expressing. The composer is seen as sUghtly removed...concept of progress: in it the composers actions are required to be...original but innovative, modern not derivative. However...patterns (Bateson 1972). The composer is therefore caught in the...
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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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...study of the librettist and composer Charriere that engages the...obstacles women faced as composers and librettists figures...paradigm of individualism in modern Europe, and hence as a historical...musicological work has been composer-centered, focusing on...held by contemporary female composers on the label "woman composer" itself, views reported...

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Magazine Articles on: modern composer

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Catan: A Tribute to Spanish-Language Opera's Lyrical Voice April 3, 1949-April 9, 2011: With Lush Orchestrations and Melodic Lines, the Neoromantic Style of Mexican Composer Daniel Catan Forever Changed the Repetoire of Modern Opera

Magazine article by Janet Crane; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 63, July 2011

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Catan, Daniel--Appreciation, Catan, Daniel--Works, Composers--Appreciation, Composers--Works

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...Neoromantic Style of Mexican Composer Daniel Catan Forever Changed the Repetoire of Modern Opera. by Janet Crane ILLUSTRATION OMITTED Composer Daniel Catan set a daunting...didnt set out to be an opera composer at all. He was a promising...
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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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...Movement Revealed a Composer Full of Grace, Lightness...Kenyon Celebrates a Truly Modern Master. by Nicholas Kenyon What keeps Mozart modern? A quarter of a millennium...understanding of the great composers. "We need a revival...as an 18th-century composer growing out of the conventions...Harnoncourt used a mixture of modern instruments and old...
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Bach to the Future: Violinist Anastasia Khitruk Is Using the Free Market and the Power of the Internet to Bring the Works of the Great Classical Composers to a Modern Audience

Magazine article by Scott J. Alberts; The New American, Vol. 18, January 14, 2002

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Khitruk, Anastasia--Behavior, Musicians--Behavior

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...legendary Italian violinist and composer Niccolo Paganini. In 1809...establishment itself. Whereas composers traditionally wrote music...listener feels left out. Like modern art, many modern musical compositions need...ever written, including the modern and the inaccessible, her...
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Leos Janacek: A Master Czech Composer

Magazine article by Thomas J. Pniewski; World and I, Vol. 19, October 2004

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Composers--Appreciation, Janacek, Leos, Janacek, Leos--Appreciation

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...in 1930, after the composers death. While he produced...of Czech violinist/composer Josef Suk, also come...the world of earlier composers. Janaceks musical...most "cutting edge" composers of the West. English...yet internationally modern composer.
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Meet the 2001 MTNA-Shepherd: Distinguished Composer of the Year

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

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Associations, institutions, etc.--Officials and employees, Associations--Officials and employees, Composers--Behavior, Mullikin, David--Behavior, Music Teachers National Association--Officials and employees

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...MTNA-Shepherd: Distinguished Composer of the Year. by Thomas Ediger David Mullikin exemplifies the modern performer/composer. When the Colorado Music Teachers...MTNA-Shepherd Distinguished Composer of the Year. Born in Lexington...

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Newspaper Articles on: modern composer

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Was Our Greatest Modern Composer a Paedophile; Battle of Britten's Reputation as Protege Launches Astonishing Attack

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 27, 1996

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

Was Our Greatest Modern Composer a Paedophile; Battle...Elgar - a much greater composer - had to wait 50 years after...in, whos out. He and the composer of Peter Grimes and the mighty...bathed together. When the composer eventually kissed him on the...another of Britains acclaimed composers, Sir Michael Tippett, who...
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A Composer Who Spread Nothing but Happiness; a Tribute to Vivian Ellis by a Master of Modern Musicals

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 22, 1996

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

...Vivian Ellis by a Master of Modern Musicals. Byline: ANDREW...he death on Wednesday of composer Vivian Ellis after a short...edge to rise above fellow composers. This wit got him into...usual for songs by one composer to be inserted into another composers musical. Sherrin opined that composers like me or Sondheim today...he couldnt imagine any composer allowing a Sondheim song...
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CULTURE: A Blaze of Modern Music; Does Contemporary Classical Music Need to Add a Touch of Theatre to Excite Today's Audiences? Composer Deirdre Gribbin Thinks So, Writes Terry Grimley

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 22, 2005

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

CULTURE: A Blaze of Modern Music; Does Contemporary...Excite Todays Audiences? Composer Deirdre Gribbin Thinks So...evocative view of Iona. The composers recorded voice introduces...Blazing. This will feature the composer herself, introducing the...UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers, and won a prestigious Arts...
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Who Says He's Elgar the Great? Elgar's 150th Birthday Concerts Begin Tomorrow at the South Bank - but He's Not the Only Composer Worth Celebrating

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 11, 2007

Subjects:

Banks (Finance), Composers, Concerts

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

...the first British composer in two centuries to...template that serves composers up to our own time...the very model for a modern British composer. William Waltons publisher...in his polemic on modern music, called Sibelius...music than any other composers, Elgar included. The...
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Heart of Glass; Hands of Stone Mark Renowned Composer's Rare Recital

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), October 4, 2011

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Composers, Concerts, Glass, Philip

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

...Hands of Stone Mark Renowned Composers Rare Recital. Byline: Stephen...of the most famous names in modern music, a composer whose minimalist, hypnotically...debate over his importance as a composer continues to rage. More fuel...extraordinary event. To hear any composer play his or her own works...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: modern composer

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Gruenberg, Louis

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...1884 1964, American composer, b. Russia; pupil...the United States as a composer in 1919. A champion of modern music, he helped found (1923) the League of Composers and was one of the first American composers to incorporate jazz...
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Balinese Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...flourish, their archaic forms preserved, in modern Bali. The gamelans of the princes are no longer...popularity in the West, mainly sponsored by the composer Lou Harrison , founder of the modern American gamelan movement. See D. A. Lentz...
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Stravinsky, Igor Fedorovich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...1971, Russian-American composer. Considered by many the greatest and most versatile composer of the 20th cent., Stravinsky...helped to revolutionize modern music. Stravinskys father...landmark and masterpiece of modern music. At the beginning...
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Hindemith, Paul

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...mith, 1895 1963, German-American composer and violist, b. Hanau, Germany...traditional techniques into a distinctively modern style. After studying at the Frankfurt...to establish closer contact between composer and public. Included in this group...Composition (1937, tr. 1942) and A Composers World (1952). See studies by I...
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Schoenberg, Arnold

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD ar nolt shon berkh, 1874 1951, Austrian composer, b. Vienna. Before he became a U.S. citizen in 1941 he spelled his name Schonberg. He revolutionized modern music by abandoning tonality and developing a twelve-tone...

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