The Cambridge Companion To Richard Strauss
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Author | : Charles Youmans |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2010-11-18 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1139828525 |
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Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars, who considered his commercial success and his continued reliance on the tonal system to be liabilities. However, the past two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in the composer. This Companion surveys the results, focusing on the principal genres, the social and historical context, and topics perennially controversial over the last century. Chapters cover Strauss's immense operatic output, the electrifying modernism of his tone poems, and his ever-popular Lieder. Controversial topics are explored, including Strauss's relationship to the Third Reich and the sexual dimension of his works. Reintroducing the composer and his music in light of recent research, the volume shows Strauss's artistic personality to be richer and much more complicated than has been previously acknowledged.
Author | : Steven B. Smith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2009-05-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1139828258 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Leo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss's work. These include his revival of the great 'quarrel between the ancients and the moderns,' his examination of tension between Jerusalem and Athens, and most controversially his recovery of the tradition of esoteric writing. The volume also examines Strauss's complex relation to a range of contemporary political movements and thinkers, including Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Gershom Scholem, as well as the creation of a distinctive school of 'Straussian' political philosophy.
Author | : Jennifer Shaw |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 655 |
Release | : 2010-05-13 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 113982807X |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Arnold Schoenberg – composer, theorist, teacher, painter, and one of the most important and controversial figures in twentieth-century music. This Companion presents engaging essays by leading scholars on Schoenberg's central works, writings, and ideas over his long life in Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles. Challenging monolithic views of the composer as an isolated elitist, the volume demonstrates that what has kept Schoenberg and his music interesting and provocative was his profound engagement with the musical traditions he inherited and transformed, with the broad range of musical and artistic developments during his lifetime he critiqued and incorporated, and with the fundamental cultural, social, and political disruptions through which he lived. The book provides introductions to Schoenberg's most important works, and to his groundbreaking innovations including his twelve-tone compositions. Chapters also examine Schoenberg's lasting influence on other composers and writers over the last century.
Author | : James Parsons |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2004-07 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521804714 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to the Lied Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Beginning several generations before Schubert, the Lied first appears as domestic entertainment. In the century that follows it becomes one of the primary modes of music-making. By the time German song comes to its presumed conclusion with Richard Strauss's 1948 Vier letzte Lieder, this rich repertoire has moved beyond the home and keyboard accompaniment to the symphony hall. This is a 2004 introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre. In essays by eminent scholars, this Companion places the Lied in its full context - at once musical, literary, and cultural - with chapters devoted to focal composers as well as important issues, such as the way in which the Lied influenced other musical genres, its use as a musical commodity, and issues of performance. The volume is framed by a detailed chronology of German music and poetry from the late 1730s to the present and also contains a comprehensive bibliography.
Author | : Derrick Puffett |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1989-10-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521359702 |
Download Richard Strauss: Salome Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This first full-length study of Salome in English since Lawrence Gilman's (1907) moves from historical and literary analysis to critical appraisal and includes a synopsis, bibliography and discography.
Author | : Colin James Lawson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2003-04-24 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521001328 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This guide to the orchestra and orchestral life is unique in its breadth of coverage. It combinesorchestral history and repertory with a practical bias offering critical thought about the past, present and future of the orchestra. Including topics such as the art of orchestration, scorereading, conducting, international orchestras, recording, as well as consideration of what it means to be an orchestral musician, an educator, or an informed listener, it will be of interest to a wideranging readership of music historians and professional or amateur performers.
Author | : Colin James Lawson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1995-12-14 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521476683 |
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Written for students, performers, and music lovers.
Author | : Christopher H. Gibbs |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1997-04-17 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1139825321 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Schubert Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This Companion to Schubert examines the career, music, and reception of one of the most popular yet misunderstood and elusive composers. Sixteen chapters by leading Schubert scholars make up three parts. The first seeks to situate the social, cultural, and musical climate in which Schubert lived and worked, the second surveys the scope of his musical achievement, and the third charts the course of his reception from the perceptions of his contemporaries to the assessments of posterity. Myths and legends about Schubert the man are explored critically and the full range of his musical accomplishment is examined.
Author | : Simon Frith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2001-08-16 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521556606 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This Companion maps the world of pop and rock, pinpointing the most significant moments in its history and presenting the key issues involved in understanding popular culture's most vital art form. Expert writers chart the changing patterns in the production and consumption of popular music, the emergence of a vast industry with a turnover of billions and the rise of global stars from Elvis to Public Enemy, Nirvana to the Spice Girls. They trace the way new technologies - from the amplifier to the internet - have changed the sounds and practices of pop and they analyse the way maverick entrepreneurs have given way to multimedia corporations. In particular they focus on the controversial issues concerning race and ethnicity, politics, gender and globalisation. Contains full profiles of a selection of figures from the pop and rock world.
Author | : Michael A. Flower |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107050065 |
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Introduces Xenophon's writings and their importance for Western culture, while explaining the main scholarly controversies.