Boydell Brewer: 336 books
Unmasking Ravel
New Perspectives on the Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Unmasking Ravel: New Perspectives on the Music fills a unique place in Ravel studies by combining critical interpretation and analytical focus. From the premiere of his works up to the present, Ravel has been associated with masks and the related notions of artifice and imposture. This has led scholars...
by S. Andrew Granade
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Harry Partch (1901-74) was one of the most distinctive and influential American composers of the mid-twentieth century. During the Great Depression, Partch rode the railways, following the fruit harvest across the country. Although he is renowned for his immense stage works, such as Delusion of the...
by Grigory Kogan, Svetlana Belsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
Ferruccio Busoni is most widely known today as the composer of such works as the Second Violin Sonata, the incidental music for Gozzi's Turandot, and the most monumental piano concerto in the repertory (some eighty minutes long, with male chorus in the finale). But Busoni was also renowned in his...
Claude Vivier
A Composer's Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Claude Vivier's haunting and expressive music has captivated audiences around the world. But the French-Canadian composer is remembered also because of the dramatic circumstances of his death: he was found murdered in his Paris apartment at the age of thirty-four. Given unrestricted access to Vivier's...
by Christopher Seaman
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
What does a conductor actually do? How much effect does he or she have? Can the orchestra manage without one? Why don't the players look at the conductor more? Is it necessary for the conductor to play every instrument? What about interpretation? What happens at rehearsals? Why do some conductors...
Star Turns and Cameo Appearances
Memoirs of a Life among Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Star Turns and Cameo Appearances is the entertaining and insightful memoir by veteran music critic Bernard Jacobson. Its pages are populated by eminent composers ranging from Hans Werner Henze to Andrzej Panufnik and by renowned performers, including Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim, Sviatoslav Richter,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The American Academy in Rome launched its Rome Prize in Musical Composition in 1921, a time in the United States of rapidly changing ideas about national identity, musical values, and the significance of international artistic exchange. Music and Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome...
I Sang the Unsingable
My Life in Twentieth-Century Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
American soprano Bethany Beardslee rose to prominence in the postwar years when the modernist sensibilities of European artists and thinkers were flooding American shores and challenging classical music audiences. With her light lyric voice, her musical intuition, and her fearless dedication to new...
Reading Mahler
German Culture and Jewish Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Gustav Mahler's music is more popular than ever, yet few are aware of its roots in German literary and cultural history in general, and in fin-de-siècle Viennese culture in particular. Taking as its point of departure the many references to literature, philosophy, and the visual arts that Mahler...
Looking for the "Harp" Quartet
An Investigation into Musical Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2011
This book is a philosophical tour through the experience of beauty: what it is, and how the composer, performer, and listener all contribute. It explores -- with insight, patience, and humor -- profound issues at the essence of our experience. A student performance of Beethoven's String Quartet No....
Dear Dorothy
Letters from Nicolas Slonimsky to Dorothy Adlow
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
In the mid-twentieth century renowned musicologist, conductor, and lexicographer Nicolas Slonimsky traveled to cities throughout the world to play and conduct music of the American avant-garde. From trips to Paris, Berlin, Havana, New York, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, and Moscow, Slonimsky...
Scoring Race
Jazz, Fiction, and Francophone Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
What are the cultural implications of Louis Armstrong's 1960 visit to Africa? Why are so many postcolonial novels in French fascinated with jazz? In defining jazz as "black music", France's "jazzophilia" has had wide-reaching effects on contemporary perceptions of the artistic...
Maurice Duruflé
The Man and His Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2008
Maurice Duruflé: The Man and His Music is a new biography of the great French organist and composer (1902-86), and the most comprehensive in any language. James E. Frazier traces Duruflé's musical training, his studies with Tournemire and Vierne, and his career as an organist, church musician, composer,...
The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste
Reflections on New Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Bálint András Varga is perhaps the world's most respected interviewer of living composers. For The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste: Reflections on New Music, Varga has confronted thirty-three composers with quotations carefully chosen to elicit their thoughts about an issue that is...