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Books on: romantic period composers

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The Romantic Composers

Book by Daniel Gregory Mason; Macmillan, 1906

Subjects:

Composers--Biography, Romanticism In Music

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...quarters of the nineteenth century as the Romantic Period in music, and of those composers who immediately follow Beethoven...Liszt, and some others, as the Romantic Composers. The word "romantic," as thus used, forms no doubt...
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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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...necessary because all composers, and possibly all...easier to credit composers of the Classical or Romantic period with such experiences...accounts of the composer at work; and although...process of older composers. He stipulates...
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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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...their careers during a period when New England composers had already brought...German in derivation, romantic in spirit, and classical...structure. These older composers John Knowles Paine...generations of native composers would ultimately modify...concert pianist and composer mainly of piano works...
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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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...tonally-based works of this period." 87 A serial work "with quasi...described as "modal counterpoint with Romantic-sounding harmonies added to the...stemmed from his early, post-Romantic period. In particular, he heaped scorn...
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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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Hogwood also defends the use of period instruments: "Because the assertion...have been interpreted since the Romantic period, but were played "really flowingly...conduct an orchestra playing with period instruments, but nevertheless thinks...

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Journal Articles on: romantic period composers

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The Smyth-Brewster Correspondence: A Fresh Look at the Hidden Romantic World of Ethel Smyth

Journal article by Amanda Harris; Women & Music, Vol. 14, 2010

Subjects:

Brewster, Harry--Records and correspondence, Composers--Records and correspondence, Philosophers--Records and correspondence, Romantic love--Analysis, Sex (Psychology)--Analysis, Sexuality--Analysis, Smyth, Ethel--Records and correspondence

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...at the Hidden Romantic World of Ethel...English composer and suffragette...insight into the composers views on music...contribution to a period of Smyths life...associations the composer made between...importance of romantic happiness to...her only as a composer of music, the...a sexual and romantic identity...
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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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...ABUSE OF "CLASSICAL " COMPOSERS IN NAZI PROPAGANDA...musicology, and composers biographies. Using...exaggerated the proto-Romantic components of eighteenth...music greats of the period for National Socialist...learn how specific composers and their compositions...reception given that composer by activists from 1870...
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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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...At one moment the composer finds her/himself...to take risks: for composers, their existence...characteristics of our period. The sense of an...minimal; now were again romantic. Those composers who get their exercise...and ending with the composer himself. The composers authence is in a general...
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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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...Eschewing as a Romantic anachronism the notion of a composers unmediated...relationship between composer and text beyond...that a female composer could stand...many women composers not only reflects...relates to the periods interest in...authorial desire in Romantic and masculine...Encyclopaedia of Women Composers, 2d ed...the `Woman Composer in Enlightenment and Romantic Contexts...
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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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...expressive concerns for a composer seeking to proclaim interracial...people, a point that the composer makes in his foreword. Several...Motherless Child," for which the composer develops a richly harmonized...from Porgy and Bess. The composers teacher, Stanford, who had...was not uncommon during this period. Research has shown that...

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Magazine Articles on: romantic period composers

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Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination

Magazine article by Peter Phillips; Musical Times, Vol. 144, Autumn 2003

Subjects:

Classical music, Composers, Garratt, James, Germany, History, Nonfiction, Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (1525?-94), Religious music, Romantic period

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination by Peter Phillips...think of Palestrina as a composer on a pedestal to whom musicians...sixteenth-century church composer, whose music in the first...musicians to allow so Catholic a composer to be heard in their services...reaction. The Protestant composers most touched by Palestrina...
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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...understanding of the great composers. "We need a revival of period strings as much as...emotional turbulence of the Romantics, was perpetuated by...than the style of the period. That soon began to...as an 18th-century composer growing out of the...clung longest to the Romantic style of performing...
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Hold on Loosely

Magazine article by James Reel; Strings, Vol. 20, May 2006

Subjects:

Composers, Franck, Cesar, Music education, Musicians & conductors, Romantic period, Skowronski, Vincent, String music

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...renfiarkable wedding gift from Belgian composer Cesar Franck: an innovative new...harmonically advanced and full of Romantic ardor. It was also a turbulent and...Stamina is one thing, but what about Romantic touches like portamento and rubato...
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Adam Guettel: Will His Lushly Romantic New Musical Win Him Mainstream Audiences?

Magazine article by David Savran; American Theatre, Vol. 21, January 2004

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Artistic collaboration--Analysis, Composers, Composers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Composers--Travel, Composers--Works, Guettel, Adam--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Guettel, Adam--Travel, Guettel, Adam--Works, Lucas, Craig--Works, Musical theater, Musical theater--Personalities, The Light in the Piazza (Play)--Analysis, The Light in the Piazza (Play)--Authorship

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...Will His Lushly Romantic New Musical Win...theatre today, composer/lyricist Adam...intense early music period: Gesualdo and Josquin...musical theatre composers--and I include...times, after a period of high exposure...accolade, I have had a period of anguishing paralysis...fabulous theatre composer. You said the Golden...
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The Narrative of a Composer's Biography: Some Aspects of Szymanowski Reception

Magazine article by Durval Cesetti; Musical Times, Vol. 150, Autumn 2009

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Music, Musical performances, Musicians & conductors

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...of how a great composer should look, and...manipulation of a composers biography for public...found in his middle period) that keep his...many. While other composers are also known...output into three periods:10 the earlier period was heavily influenced...expected of a young composer, as Szymanowskis...apex of his neo-romantic idiom,25 is highly...

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Newspaper Articles on: romantic period composers

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Composers' Great Works the Result of Two Trips

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), March 14, 2011

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Composers, Concerts

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

Composers Great Works the...Dvorszk was a Czech composer born in a village...wing of German composer Johannes Brahms...thunderously, forcing the composer to stand and bow...works of the early Romantic period (reckoned to be...
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THE MAN WHO MAKES CHARLES WEEP (and His Spine Tingle); Westminster Abbey Resounded to a Stirring Hymn by a Victorian Composer as William and Kate Signed the Register. Now a New Documentary by the Prince of Wales Reveals the Extraordinary Story of the Man Behind It

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 21, 2011

Subjects:

Composers

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

...earlier, about the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams...this great Victorian composer his due. The Prince...bowled over by how romantic it was - gloriously...music. For a brief period, however, he was the doyen of British composers. Then he was overtaken...The Prince And The Composer, will help that process...
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Dedicated to a True Legend; Composer the Focus of Next {lsquo}Simply Classical'

Newspaper article; The Gympie Times (Gympie, Australia), May 14, 2009

Subjects:

Composers, Concerts, Haydn, Joseph

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

...to a True Legend; Composer the Focus of Next...respected and admired composer of his time. Haydns...contemporary and following composers was profound. He was...of Europes greatest composers, and I shall be proud...composers of the classical period, Joseph Haydn stands...written by a German romantic poet - ended up to...
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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

...Written over a lengthy period of time, the 96...1992. Meanwhile, the composer already had begun to...libretto but gave the composer a free hand to use...WNO worked with the composer to tighten things a...championing modern composers. I believe she will...beautiful, in the Romantic tradition," she said...
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The Composer, the Wife, the Music and His Lovers

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 28, 2006

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Composers

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

...Kamila, over the composers dead body. Kamila...ravishing beauty of the composers fervour against the...the story in cloche period, borrowing copiously...has no truck with romantic cliches that depict...Kamila as a myth of the composers invention, a necessary...unstimulating. What the composer saw in her was a template...into angry camps of romantics and rationalists...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: romantic period composers

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Romanticism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Less totally romantic composers usually placed in the middle period of romanticism...Sibelius . Many romantic composers...program music . Romantic opera began...of the Czech composers Bedrich Smetana...the Norwegian composer Grieg also expressed...the romantic period frequently described...
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Chamber Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...instruments were at hand. During the baroque period the chief type was the trio sonata . About...whose quartets are the last of the classical period, and by the chief composers of the romantic period Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorak...
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Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...1770 1827, German composer. He is universally...one of the greatest composers of the Western European...crowned the classical period and also effectively initiated the romantic era in music. He is...three fairly distinct periods. The works of the first period include the First...the disillusioned composer renamed his work the...
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Bach, Johann Sebastian

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...1685 1750, German composer and organist, b...and most influential composers of the Western world...musical form known in his period. Life Born into a...some certainty in the periods of his life. At Arnstadt...works of the Weimar period: the Passacaglia and...organist than as a composer. For decades after...recognized, particularly by romantic composers such as Mendelssohn...
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Fugue

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...canzone. In Germany in the 17th cent. composers such as Sweelinck, Froberger, and Buxtehude...the classical style. Brahms was the chief composer to make use of the fugue in the romantic period. A contemporary volume of preludes and...

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