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Books on: renaissance composers

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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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...Kaminski introduced him to late-Renaissance composers such as Orlando Lasso, Giovanni...the pianist; Werner Egk, the composer and already a sometime student...festivals featuring mostly modern composers but, significantly and no doubt...
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The Composer as Intellectual: Music and Ideology in France 1914-1940

Book by Jane F. Fulcher; Oxford University Press, 2005

Subjects:

Composers--France, Music--France--20th Century--History And Criticism, Music--Political Aspects--France, Music--Social Aspects--France

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...an impunity not possible in other arts. Here Debussy is intractably locating his roots in the work of French Renaissance composers such as Janequin, whose realism previous re- publican spokesmen like Bruneau had identified as the true French...
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Roger Sessions: How a "Difficult" Composer Got That Way

Book by Frederik Prausnitz; Oxford University Press, 2002

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

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...as many works by regional composers. 9 See also the somewhat...The Musical Experience of Composer, Performer. Listener...careers of numerous young composers and performers, and her Renaissance Palazzo in Boston now the...paintings, and mementos of composers. Her musical receptions...
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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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...Our music moved from the monody of plain chant through organum and renaissance polyphony to a high point attained by Frescobaldi, Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel. These composers employed consummately and with great liberty a complete polyphony...
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Alan Rawsthorne: Portrait of a Composer

Book by John McCabe; Oxford University, 1999

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Composers--England--Biography, Rawsthorne, Alan--1905-1971

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...important as that of any composer working in England today...tribute from one distinguished composer to another indicates the...indeed, become regarded as a composers composer, though this summing-up...prominence at a time when the renaissance of British music was in full...

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Journal Articles on: renaissance composers

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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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...the concert music of black composers. (1) "It aint what you...an African-American composer, addresses a facet of this...antiphonal statements of the composers duet-style choral writing as "reminiscent of the Renaissance works of Josquin and Palestrina...music by African American composers. Composer Recordings CD 629. Compact...
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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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...much musicological work has been composer-centered, focusing on the life and works of individual composers through editions and biography...Romantic anachronism the notion of a composers unmediated self-expression, we...discussing the relationship between composer and text beyond the idea of form...views held by contemporary female composers on the label "woman composer" itself, views reported by Citron...
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Is the Renaissance an Aesthetic Category?

Journal article by Raphael Falco; Shakespeare Studies, Vol. 31, 2003

Subjects:

Cosmopoiesis: The Renaissance Experiment (Book)--Reviews, The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640 (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Is the Renaissance an aesthetic category? by...provocatively tied to the Renaissance in Giuseppe Mazzottas Cosmopoiesis...world-as-theater in the Renaissance, and the many authors (and composers) who used it, from Machiavelli...
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Recent Studies in the English Renaissance

Journal article by Alvin Snider; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 39, 1999

Subjects:

English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period)--Bibliography

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...studies in the English Renaissance by Alvin Snider The...studying "the English Renaissance" at a time when the...John Dowland and other composers "marks a unique musico...transformation of the Renaissance discourse of melancholic...
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On a Jewish Musical Renaissance

Journal article by Don Harran; Daedalus, Vol. 137, 2008

Subjects:

Italian Renaissance--Social aspects, Jewish history--History, Jewish music--History, Jewish music--Religious aspects, Jews--History, Music and society--History, Music and society--Religious aspects, Music, Jewish--History, Music, Jewish--Religious aspects

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...Nothing about them was Renaissance or artistic; rather they...glean evidence for a Jewish Renaissance in art music from two sources...astounding number for a Jewish composer, the more so since his...synagogues thereafter, but its composers were usually not Jews...with something specifically Renaissance, one must turn to earlier...

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Magazine Articles on: renaissance composers

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Meet the 2003 MTNA-Shepherd: Distinguished Composer of the Year

Magazine article by Deanna Walker; American Music Teacher, Vol. 54, August 2004

Subjects:

Composers--Achievements and awards, Composers--Interviews, Music Teachers National Association--Achievements and awards

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...Shepherd 2003 Distinguished Composer of the Year for Brazilian...from the Middle Ages and Renaissance) and Northeastern Brazilian...counterpoint lessons with composers Vanda Ribeiro Costa and Tarcisio...counterpoint with Argentinean-born composer Jos, Alberto Kaplan. These...and introduce the works of composers. When I was studying with...
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Chasing a Myth and a Legend: 'the British Musical Renaissance' in a 'land without Music'

Magazine article by Jürgen Schaarwächter; Musical Times, Vol. 149, Autumn 2008

Subjects:

Conferences, Instrumental music, Musical performances, Opera, Renaissance period

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...Fullers dissertation on women composers?4 Harold JervisRead wrote...lecture entitled The musical renaissance in England , given by Morton...extend in his 1890 book, The renaissance of music. So it was not...XIXth century Before the renaissance and dealt in it with the...Maitland - indeed, Potter as a composer does not feature at all...
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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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...fortunate in matching the composers with the conductors for this...open with Simon Holt, our Composer in Association and our Principal...of the most exciting young composers at work in Germany today...Mantovani, a young Paris-based composer, who takes his inspiration...as diverse as the Italian Renaissance music of Gesualdo to the...
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Afm Musicians & Composers Receive Recognition for Video Game Recordings

Magazine article; International Musician, Vol. 108, May 2010

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Afm Musicians Composers Receive Recognition for...III?" Inspired by the Renaissance and the 15th and 16th...and Best Dialogue. Composer of Uncharted 2, Greg...Games Live says, "As composers, it is always our goal...
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Micro-works by Macro-composers Music of the Greats for Small Church Choirs

Magazine article by David Puderbaugh; The American Organist, Vol. 43, February 2009

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...types. In fact, virtually every major composer penned works that are suitable for small...liturgical year, and alphabetically by composer within each season. Each annotation...Although technically not by a major composer, this is a gorgeous and unique take...

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Newspaper Articles on: renaissance composers

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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 first...called English musical renaissance, which began towards the end of the 19th century with composers like Stanford and Parry...serious work by a classical composer, on the whole his music...criteria, the 15th century composer John Dun-staple achieved...it was usual for English composers to study in Leipzig or Frankfurt...
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Composer's 'Piece for Our Time' Is Highlight of Memorial Concert; CULTURE

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), November 6, 2008

Subjects:

Composers, Concerts

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

...by the Leicester-based composer Philip Herbert. "Its inspired...common denominator. "Its the composers duty to be in tune with whats...and goodwill." As a black composer Philip has much to speak...black classical musicians and composers. That tied in with a report...drawing on the Harlem Renaissance, with spirituals, jazz...
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Composer's Death Echoes throughout the Opera World

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 9, 2007

Subjects:

Camphor, Composers

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

Composers Death Echoes throughout...Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Gian Carlo Menotti...was great both as a composer and stage director...might call him a real Renaissance man." Domingo sang...20th-century opera composers, with "The Consul...as those of other composers. Menotti, life partner of American composer Samuel Barber (1910...
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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

...exploitation of "good" composers -- from Mozart to...Respighi, the foremost composer in fascist Italy...eminent among symphonic composers of the period was the...and Dances, based on Renaissance and baroque lute music...performers, Jewish composers and American black...fascist Hungarian composer Bela Bartok, British...
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Composer and Opera Singer Stars at Music Festival; Philip Key's 08 Culture Diary

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), April 23, 2008

Subjects:

Composers, Music festivals, Opera singers

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

Composer and Opera Singer Stars at...Key BRITISH saxophonist/composer John Harle and opera singer...Fagiolini, which specialises in Renaissance and contemporary music...voice had been "used by composers throughout the ages to express...concerti written for him by composers like John Tavener, Michael...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: renaissance composers

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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...madrigal composers of the Renaissance include Thomas Weelkes...
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Tuning Systems

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...specifically those utilizing the familiar diatonic scale. Chronologically, the conflict occurred in the early Renaissance when composers had an increasing desire to modulate from one key to another. Implicit in the concept of modulation is the...
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Mode , in Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...the works of some 20th-century composers such as Vaughan Williams. In the late Middle Ages and during the Renaissance certain other modes were adopted...The use of medieval modes by later composers is called modality in contrast to...
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Harmonica

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...instrument had a keyboard. Both Mozart and Beethoven, as well as a few lesser composers wrote works for it. The instrument and the music for it has enjoyed a minor renaissance since the 1980s. 3 Strips of metal or glass, played upon with hammers...
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OpÉra

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...The Paris Opera: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers (1984) and The Paris Opera (1990); C...Charles Garniers Paris Opera: Architectural Empathy and the Renaissance of French Classicism (1991...

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