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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...S.S.R. This theme composer and public has been considered...types of music are called modern music. What is modern music...
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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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INTRODUCTION Composers of Today is the first...devoted exclusively to modern composers. Approximately...them. Who are these composers? What is their history...bewildering world of modern music? Hitherto, there...of date so far as the modern composer is concerned, in that...
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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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...in the work of the most acutely modern composers, such as Stravinski, Schoenberg...chiefly in certain German and French composers, and there only. As regards...the work of the most prominent composers of Russia, we can see the truth...
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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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...Gustav Mahler as a young composer is captivated by old German...creative work of all three modern composers the dominating trait is solidarity...combined romanticism with other modern ideologies. It is the realism...the greatest impressionistic composer in the nervous era of Paul...
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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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...pianist; Werner Egk, the composer and already a sometime student of Orff ; Karl Marx, the composer and choir director and also...festivals featuring mostly modern composers but, significantly and no...Leo Hassler, sometimes in modern arrangements or stage settings...

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Journal Articles on: modern 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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...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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Jewish Sacred Music by Israeli Composers *

Journal article by Yuval Shaked; European Judaism, Vol. 35, 2002

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Composers--Criticism and interpretation, Israeli culture, Jewish music--Religious aspects, Music, Jewish--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...sacred Jewish music by Israeli composers have been heard, and which...synagogal music by Israeli composers would, as far as content...conditions established (by the composer). I will shortly talk about...present quite uninterested in modern liturgical music. To put...following Israeli religious composers (i.e., shomrei mitzvot...
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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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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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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 composers

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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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Federico Mompou: Catalonian Composer Magnifico

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

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Composers--Biography, Mompou, Federico--Biography

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...Federico Mompou: Catalonian Composer Magnifico. by Joseph Thomas...Joseph Rawlins Catalonian composer Federico Mompou (1893-1987...introverted and enigmatic Spanish composers of the 20th century. His...more than all the rest of modern Spanish music rolled together...9-years-old, he heard composer Gabriel Faure in concert...
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The Colour of Music: The Dissonance and Abstraction of 20th-Century Composers Influenced a Generation of Visual Artists, Writes Sholto Byrnes

Magazine article by Sholto Byrnes; New Statesman, Vol. 136, November 5, 2007

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Composers--Works, Kandinsky, Wassily--Works, Norwich, England--Exhibitions, Painters, Russian--Works, Russian painters--Works, Schoenberg, Arnold--Works

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...Abstraction of 20th-Century Composers Influenced a Generation of...relations of the euphonium). Composers began to abandon chordal resolution...generality that anything "modern" had important experiences...on the other hand, regarded modern composers with contempt. The...

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Newspaper Articles on: modern composers

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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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Maw Makes His Choice; eSophie"s" Composer Sides with Tradition

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 22, 2006

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Composers, Concerts

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

...hall whenever a living composer is on the menu. Yet...the British-born composer lives unobtrusively...about all artists, all composers of the past. But I...It is distinctly modern but does not reject...in academia. "Most composers and critics decided...taken seriously as a composer. That slowly began...
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MAN WITH THE GOLDEN TUNE; Bond Film Composer John Barry Dies at 77

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), February 1, 2011

Subjects:

Barry, John--Appreciation, Composers--Biography, Singers--Biography

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

...THE GOLDEN TUNE; Bond Film Composer John Barry Dies at 77. Byline...writing credit belonged to composer Monty Norman. The huge success...John Barry 1 of the greatest composers EVER. "Every time John Barry...write a score, he wrote a modern standard." Stephen Fry described...was a wonderful musician and composer". Barrys work found a new...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: modern composers

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Modern Dance

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...modern dance resembles modern art and music in being experimental and iconoclastic. Modern dance began at the turn...shared by all subsequent modern dancers. Early Dancers...from the works of serious composers including Beethoven, Wagner...
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Oistrakh, David Feodorovich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...in America (after 1955) and his celebrated recordings of works by Brahms, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and the modern Soviet composers met with great success. Oistrakh was internationally esteemed as one of the towering violinists of his day...
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Brubeck, Dave

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

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

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Poland). Masur is noted for his performances of the German composers whose works form the core of the traditional symphonic repertoire and of modern Eastern European and Russian composers. He studied piano, composition, and conducting at the...
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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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