The Farewell Symphony
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Author | : Anna Harwell Celenza |
Publisher | : Charlesbridge Publishing |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1570914060 |
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CD recording of Haydn's Symphony No. 45 ("Farewell") and Symphony No. 31 included.
Author | : Edmund White |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1998-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0679754768 |
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Following A Boy's Own Story (now a classic of American fiction) and his richly acclaimed The Beautiful Room Is Empty, here is the eagerly awaited final volume of Edmund White's groundbreaking autobiographical trilogy. Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one after another until only a single violin remains playing, this is the story of a man who has outlived most of his friends. Having reached the six-month anniversary of his lover's death, he embarks on a journey of remembrance that will recount his struggle to become a writer and his discovery of what it means to be a gay man. His witty, conversational narrative transports us from the 1960s to the near present, from starkly erotic scenes in the back rooms of New York clubs to episodes of rarefied hilarity in the salons of Paris to moments of family truth in the American Midwest. Along the way, a breathtaking variety of personal connections--and near misses--slowly builds an awareness of the transformative power of genuine friendship, of love and loss, culminating in an indelible experience with a dying man. And as the flow of memory carries us across time, space and society, one man's magnificently realized story grows to encompass an entire generation. Sublimely funny yet elegiac, full of unsparingly trenchant social observation yet infused with wisdom and a deeply felt compassion, The Farewell Symphony is a triumph of reflection and expressive elegance. It is also a stunning and wholly original panorama of gay life over the past thirty years--the crowning achievement of one of our finest writers.
Author | : Anna Harwell Celenza |
Publisher | : Charlesbridge |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2016-04-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1632895013 |
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Anna Harwell Celenza's engaging fictionalized telling of the story behind Franz Joseph Haydn's famous symphony is a perfect introduction to classical music and its power. THE FAREWELL SYMPHONY brings to life a long summer spent at Esterháza, the summer palace of Prince Nicholas of Esterházy. The blustering, bellowing prince entertained hundreds of guests at his rural retreat and demanded music for every occasion. As the months passed, Haydn was kept very busy writing and performing music for parties, balls, dinners, and even walks in the gardens. His orchestra members became homesick and missed their families. The anger, frustration, and longing of the musicians is expressed beautifully in the symphony born of the clever mind of Joseph Haydn who used it to convince Prince Nicholas that it was time to go home. Wonderfully expressive illustrations by JoAnn E. Kitchel capture all the comedy and pathos of this unique symphony. Beautifully interpretive motifs and borders convey the setting and emotion of the story mirroring the structure of the symphony with the repetitive use of sets of four. Making classical music and history come alive with color and character, THE FAREWELL SYMPHONY ensures a place for the arts in the hearts and minds of children.
Author | : James Webster |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2004-11-11 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521612012 |
Download Haydn's 'Farewell' Symphony and the Idea of Classical Style Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume offers a new view of Joseph Haydn's instrumental music. It argues that many of Haydn's greatest and most characteristic instrumental works are 'through-composed' in the sense that their several movements are bound together into a cycle. This cyclic integration is articulated, among other ways, by the 'progressive' form of individual movements, structural and gestural links between the movements, and extramusical associations. Central to the study is a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the 'Farewell' Symphony, No. 45 in F sharp minor (1772). The analysis is distinguished by its systematic use of different methods (Toveyan formalism, Schenkerian voice leading, Schoenbergian developing variation) to elucidate the work's overall coherence. The work's unique musical processes, in turn, suggest an interpretation of the entire piece (not merely the famous 'farewell' finale) in terms of the familiar programmatic story of the musicians' wish to leave Castle Eszterhaza. In a book which relates systematically the results of analysis and interpretation, Professor Webster challenges the concept of 'classical style' which, he argues has distorted our understanding of Haydn's development, and he stresses the need for a greater appreciation of Haydn's early music and of his stature as Beethoven's equal.
Author | : Anna Harwell Celenza |
Publisher | : Charlesbridge |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2004-02-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1607344459 |
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After learning that he is going deaf, Beethoven is determined to write a great symphony using the heroic deeds of Napoleon as his initial inspiration.
Author | : Edmund White |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 1994-10-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0679755403 |
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When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising--and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink--The Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age. "With intelligence, candor, humor--and anger--White explores the most insidious aspects of oppression.... An impressive novel."--Washington Post book World
Author | : William Henry Channing |
Publisher | : Andrews McMeel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1997-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780836236743 |
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An 18th century poem about living a virtuous life and real satisfaction coming from contentment. 4-8 yrs.
Author | : Anna Harwell Celenza |
Publisher | : Charlesbridge |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2012-07-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1607344629 |
Download Vivaldi's Four Seasons Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Depicts the story of how Antonio Vivaldi composed and wrote his famous Four Seasons concertos and the accompanying sonnets.
Author | : Anna Harwell Celenza |
Publisher | : Charlesbridge Publishing |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2016-10-18 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1580895301 |
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Discover the little-known story of Beethoven's beloved masterwork. As the best pianist in Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven had everything: talent, money, fame. But he also had a terrible secret. He was slowly going deaf. Though his hearing deserted him, the maestro never lost his music. Seeking inspiration for his compositions, Beethoven hit upon Napoleon Bonaparte, then considered a liberator and a folk hero. Soon after Beethoven completed the work, Napoleon declared himself Emperor of France; betrayed and enraged, Beethoven tore his copy of the score to pieces. But his friend Ferdinand rescued a copy, and in time, Beethoven renamed it Eroica: the Heroic Symphony, dedicated to hero in each and every one of us.
Author | : Julian Horton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2013-05-02 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1107469708 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Few genres of the last 250 years have proved so crucial to the course of music history, or so vital to public musical experience, as the symphony. This Companion offers an accessible guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding this major genre of Western music, discussing an extensive variety of works from the eighteenth century to the present day. The book complements a detailed review of the symphony's history with focused analytical essays from leading scholars on the symphonic music of both mainstream composers, including Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven and lesser-known figures, including Carter, Berio and Maxwell Davies. With chapters on a comprehensive range of topics, from the symphony's origins to the politics of its reception in the twentieth century, this is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the history, analysis and performance of the symphonic repertoire.