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1.
The Critical Composer: The Musical Writings of Berlioz, Wagner, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, and Others
Contributors:
Publisher:
Howell, Soskin 1940
Subjects:
Musical Criticism
Music--History And Criticism--Modern
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...estab­lishment of most worthwhile literary works in his little book.. who held a contrary view, thegreatest composer of modern times would most likelybe scarce known to us even yet. The mere fact, there­fore, of the execution even...
2.
The Composer as Intellectual: Music and Ideology in France 1914-1940
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2005
Subjects:
Music--France--20th Century--History And Criticism
Composers--France
Music--Social Aspects--France
Music--Political Aspects--France
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...restrictions and ardently embraced the modern. His startingpoint was tradition...hisgift was for conveying the modern within this framework, making...Honegger the [model] of the modern musician. Coeuroycites the composer's declaration of his abiding...
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Dmitri Shostakovich; the Life and Background of a Soviet Composer
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Publisher:
Alfred A Knopf 1947
Subjects:
Shostakovich, Dmitri Dmitrievich, 1906-1975
Composers--Russian--Biography
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...and was drowned in the attitude of"Soviet composer gives hot stuff." The narrator whoexplained...the article appearing inthe November issue of Modern Music, all failed tomention the composer's idea of the whole plan of thework -- a...
4.
Roger Sessions: How a "Difficult" Composer Got That Way
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2002
Subjects:
Sessions, Roger, 1896-
Composers--United States--Biography
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...ROGER SESSIONSBooksThe Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, Listener. Published version...Letter to an Imaginary Colleague. ” Modern Music 20, no. 1(1942).“The Composer and his Message. ” Originally delivered...
5.
Reflections of an American Composer
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Publisher:
University of California Press 2002
Subjects:
Music--United States--History and Criticism
Berger, Arthur, 1912-
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...preface to The Wings of the Dove (Modern Library,1930), xxvii—xxviii.11Norman Schlenoff, Art in the Modern World (New York: BantamBooks, 1965...12Judith Tick, Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for AmericanMusic (New...
6.
Alan Rawsthorne: Portrait of a Composer
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University 1999
Subjects:
Rawsthorne, Alan, 1905-1971
Composers--England--Biography
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...0028a first broadcast for both Alan the composer andGordon Green the pianist)...as against the formidable tone of the modern piano. His phrasingis to the point and he grasps the proper style of a given composer.' Anticipat­ing a career as a...
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Bartok Perspectives: Man, Composer, and Ethnomusicologist
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2000
Subjects:
Bartok, Bela, 1881-1945--Criticism and Interpretation--Congresses
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...which then included the changesthat the composer decided after the first performances...(Example 15.15).28A modern reading of the final articulation does...Sonata no. 1 for Bartók, and the composer was satisfied with the per­formance...
8.
Chopin the Composer: His Structural Art and Its Influence on Contemporaneous Music
Contributors:
Publisher:
G. Schirmer 1913
Subjects:
Chopin, Frederic, 1810-1849
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...Dante, Alighieri, combined classi­ cal training with modern knowl­ edge, 176, 177.Darwin, Charles, on influence...Ehlert, Ludwig, 107, 118, 119.Elsner, Joseph, a prolific composer, 6; generous solicitude for his pupil, C., 6; warns him...
9.
The Ideals and Tendencies of Modern Art
Contributors:
Publisher:
Smith and Sale 1917
Subjects:
Free Verse
Music--History And Criticism--Modern
Impressionism (Art)
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...were afterwards accepted without a murmur.On no modern composer had this conviction pressedso heavily as on Wagner when...establish among thetwenty-four keys, possible to the modern scale, a largergrouping than the most radical musician...
10.
Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey
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Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press 2002
Subjects:
Modern Dance--United States--History
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...201D she concluded.20For modern dancers sustenance came from...201Cintricately interrelated.”21 Modern dancers involved them­selves...their works. Otto Luening, a composer and conductor who hadworked in Europe, commented that the modern dancers he knew were notat...
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