Berio's Sequenzas
Title | Berio's Sequenzas PDF eBook |
Author | Janet K. Halfyard |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1351574213 |
Between 1958 and 2002, Luciano Berio wrote fourteen pieces entitled Sequenza, along with several versions of the same work for different instruments, revisions of the original pieces and also the parallel Chemins series, where one of the Sequenzas is used as the basis for a new composition on a larger scale. The Sequenza series is one of the most remarkable achievements of the late twentieth century - a collection of virtuoso pieces that explores the capabilities of a solo instrument and its player, making extreme technical demands of the performer whilst developing the musical vocabulary of the instrument in compositions so assured and so distinctive that each piece both initiates and potentially exhausts the repertoire of a new genre. The Sequenzas have significantly influenced the development of composition for solo instruments and voice, and there is no comparable series of works in the output of any other composer. Series of pieces tend to be linked by the instruments for which the composer writes, but this is a series in which the pieces are linked instead by the variety of instruments for which Berio composed. The varied approaches taken by the contributors in discussing the pieces demonstrate the richness of this repertoire and the many levels on which Berio and these landmark compositions can be considered. Contributions are arranged under three main headings: Performance Issues; Berio's Compositional Process and Aesthetics; and Analytical Approaches.
Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000
Title | Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000 PDF eBook |
Author | D. J. Hoek |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2007-02-15 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1461700795 |
This new volume incorporates all entries from the previous editions by Arthur Wenk, expanding to cover writings drawn from periodicals, theses, dissertations, books, and Festschriften from 1940 to 2000. Over 9,000 references to analyses of works by over 1,000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are included.
All Music Guide to Classical Music
Title | All Music Guide to Classical Music PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Woodstra |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Pages | 1620 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780879308650 |
Offering comprehensive coverage of classical music, this guide surveys more than eleven thousand albums and presents biographies of five hundred composers and eight hundred performers, as well as twenty-three essays on forms, eras, and genres of classical music. Original.
Transformations of Musical Modernism
Title | Transformations of Musical Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Erling E. Guldbrandsen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2015-10-26 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1107127211 |
This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.
Sweet Thunder
Title | Sweet Thunder PDF eBook |
Author | Vivienne Suvini-Hand |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2017-12-02 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1351196219 |
"Italian music of the 1960s is one of the most unjustly neglected areas in the arena of twentieth-century classical music. This volume pays tribute to the astounding complexity of the music and libretti of five vocal compositions by leading experimental composers of the decade: Luigi Dallapiccola, Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio, Giacomo Manzoni, and Armando Gentilucci. It highlights how the 'difficult' and unconventional methods of composition employed by these artists - dodecaphony, total serialism, Webernian minimalist techniques, aleatory and electronic music - displayed a refusal to compete with the market-place values of Italy's new capitalist society. At the same time, the libretti's collage arrangement of a plethora of European and Oriental literary sources dating from the sixteenth century BC onwards, reflected the contemporary Neo-avant-garde rejection of conventional literary practice, and their preference for 'organised disorder', in Umberto Eco's phrase."
Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Music, 1940-2000
Title | Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Music, 1940-2000 PDF eBook |
Author | David J. Hoek |
Publisher | MLA Index and Bibliography Series |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
"Features over 9000 references to analyses of the works of more than 1000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These references address form, harmony, melody, rhythm and other structural elements of musical composition."--Cover.
Technology and the Diva
Title | Technology and the Diva PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Henson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2016-09-12 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0521198062 |
Focuses on the operatic soprano as the diva and her relationships with technology from the 1820s to the digital age.