Conducting Favourite Concert Pieces
Title | Conducting Favourite Concert Pieces PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Del Mar |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Conducting |
ISBN | 9780198165583 |
This collection of essays on the interpretation of twenty-two unusual concert pieces was assembled partly with a view to more imaginative program planning. There are many composers who may have written only one or two masterpieces, yet failed to leave a worthy oeuvre; these sadly are often forgotten or overlooked when conductors assemble programs. This compilation spans a little over a hundred years from the 19th and 20th centuries and all the works are colorful and attractive. Once again Norman Del Mar brings his expertise in handling the orchestra to a wide variety of styles. His infectious enthusiasm and broad knowledge make him an invaluable guide to the aspiring conductor, the expert, and the music-loving listener. The essays range from Russia to Spain, from Schoenberg to Kodály, from Wolf to Poulenc, with such established favorites as the overture to La Forza del Destino with its unexpected tricky moments and the Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes for which Del Mar offers suggestions from Britten himself, with whom he worked for many years.
Concert Piece
Title | Concert Piece PDF eBook |
Author | Georges Enesco |
Publisher | Alfred Music |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1996-02-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781457478321 |
Expertly arranged Viola and Piano Duet by Georges Enesco from the Kalmus Edition series. This is from the 20th Century era.
Catalog of Published Concert Music by American Composers
Title | Catalog of Published Concert Music by American Composers PDF eBook |
Author | United States Information Agency |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Composers |
ISBN |
Color drawings accompany a collection of well-known nursery rhymes.
Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1960-2000
Title | Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1960-2000 PDF eBook |
Author | Laurel Parsons |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2016-03-18 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0190236876 |
Over the past 30 years, musicologists have produced a remarkable new body of research literature focusing on the lives and careers of women composers in their socio-historical contexts. But detailed analysis and discussion of the works created by these composers are still extremely rare. This is particularly true in the domain of music theory, where scholarly work continues to focus almost exclusively on male composers. Moreover, while the number of performances, broadcasts, and recordings of music by women has unquestionably grown, these works remain significantly underrepresented in comparison to music by male composers. Addressing these deficits is not simply a matter of rectifying a scholarly gender imbalance: the lack of knowledge surrounding the music of female composers means that scholars, performers, and the general public remain unfamiliar with a large body of exciting repertoire. Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1960-2000 is the first to appear in a groundbreaking four-volume series devoted to compositions by women across Western art music history. Each chapter opens with a brief biographical sketch of the composer before presenting an in-depth critical-analytic exploration of a single representative composition, linking analytical observations with questions of meaning and sociohistorical context. Chapters are grouped thematically by analytical approach into three sections, each of which places the analytical methods used in the essays that follow into the context of late twentieth-century ideas and trends. Featuring rich analyses and critical discussions, many by leading music theorists in the field, this collection brings to the fore repertoire from a range of important composers, thereby enabling further exploration by scholars, teachers, performers, and listeners.
Film Music in Concert
Title | Film Music in Concert PDF eBook |
Author | Emilio Audissino |
Publisher | |
Pages | 87 |
Release | 2021-12-16 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1009009095 |
Explores film music's role in the concert repertoire, highlighting how the Boston Pops under John Williams pioneered its inclusion.
Arranging for the Concert Band
Title | Arranging for the Concert Band PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Erickson |
Publisher | Alfred Music |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1999-11-27 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781457493782 |
Arranging for the Concert Band and the separately available workbook are intended to introduce students to basic techniques of arranging for the concert band. Arranging can be divided into two separate processes. The first deals with scoring and transcribing. Scoring is concerned with such things as voicing, doubling, balance and color. The term scoring also means the actual writing of notes on the score paper. Transcribing is scoring music written for one kind of musical instrument or group -- say a piano or orchestra -- for a different kind of group. This text deals with those matters. The second part of arranging is the more creative process of writing introductions, modulations, endings, background figures and so on.
Contest and Concert Pieces for Oboe and Piano
Title | Contest and Concert Pieces for Oboe and Piano PDF eBook |
Author | James R. Briscoe |
Publisher | A-R Editions, Inc. |
Pages | 109 |
Release | 2015-03-20 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0895798085 |
The Paris Conservatoires rigorous curriculum for training both singers and instrumentalists led to a wealth of musical treasures in the form of pieces composed specifically for the end-of-year examinations, which culminated in a public prize competition, the Concours du Conservatoire. The solos composed for these examinations, both the sight-reading works and the longer contest pieces (morceaux de concours), constitute the first extended series of compositions for woodwinds, brass, and harp in music history, being composed nearly annually for each instrument beginning in the 1830s. The wealth of musical treasures resulting from this systematic accumulation of works represents the historical core of these instrumental repertories today. The present volume contains a selection ofmorceaux de concours and other pieces written in a similar style, representing some of the most influential flutists and composers associated with the Conservatoire.