John Simon on Music

John Simon on Music
Author: John Ivan Simon
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2005
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781557835062

This provocative collection and major publishing event brings together the critical highlights of the well-known New York cultural critic John Simon. Covering a span of more than three decades, it includes previously published work from New York, The Hudson Review, National Review, Opera News, The New Leader, and other notable publications. This music volume is the most varied and contains both music reviews and essays on opera and classical performances and recordings, even Brazilian music, with CD references, that reflect Simon's most up-to-date views on the topic. A SAMPLE: Simon on Erik Satie: "The preferred word for Satie's music is depouillement, meaning stripping down, sobriety, concision, or bareness. 'The artist does not have the right to dispose needlessly of the hearer's time,' Satie proclaimed. But no one else's bareness, save that of a Greek statue or Renaissance nude, seems so fully, sensuously self-sufficient."

Othmar Schoeck

Othmar Schoeck
Author: Chris Walton
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1580463002

Places the Swiss composer Schoeck, master of a late-Romantic style both sensuous and stringent, in context and gives insight into his increasingly popular musical works.

Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000

Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000
Author: D. J. Hoek
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total 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.

Heinrich von Kleist: Style and Concept

Heinrich von Kleist: Style and Concept
Author: Dieter Sevin
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2013-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110270501

The impact of Heinrich von Kleist unfolds between precise depictions and moral extremes. Crystallized in words, his characters appear as paradigms of human fallibility. Their passions and obsessions, their inadequacies and longings are captured in a writing style that reveals its influence even in novels and plays of the twentieth century. This volume takes the literary reception of Kleist as one of its focal points and, furthermore, considers the author's oeuvre and his life on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his death.

The Song Cycle

The Song Cycle
Author: Laura Tunbridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2010
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0521896444

Investigates how other types of music have influenced the scope of the song cycle, from operas and symphonies to popular song --

Derrick Puffett on Music

Derrick Puffett on Music
Author: KathrynBailey Puffett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 854
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351569732

'I listen to a piece and ask myself what has made the greatest impression on me. What has moved me the most about it, what has excited me the most, what it is I want to write about, what sets my mind working, what sets off my imagination.' Derrick Puffett's description to a group of Cambridge graduate students of his approach to listening and writing about music is clearly evident in the articles reprinted in this collection. For the first time, the book makes available in one place writings previously widely dispersed amongst many journals and symposia. Resonances emerge that cross from essay to essay, with the result that a larger, coherent project is revealed. Insistent on the need of music analysis to be accompanied by a wider historical knowledge, Puffett believed strongly that the methods to be adopted on each occasion must be dictated by the music at hand. His work on Bruckner, Strauss, Webern, Zemlinsky, Delius and Debussy is of enduring importance to the study of music. With a prose style distinguished for its elegance and clarity, Puffett's writings will enhance the understanding and enjoyment of the music that he discusses amongst students and teachers alike.

Bronze by Gold

Bronze by Gold
Author: Sebastian D.G. Knowles
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2014-01-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135656460

The contributors to this volume investigate several themes about music's relationship to the literary compositions of James Joyce: music as a condition to which Joyce aspired; music theory as a useful way of reading his works; and musical compositions inspired by or connected with him.

James Joyce in Zurich

James Joyce in Zurich
Author: Andreas Fischer
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2021-01-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3030512835

This book offers a comprehensive account of James Joyce and Zurich, one of the four cities (including Dublin, Trieste and Paris) in which he spent significant parts of his life. As a refugee during World War I, Joyce wrote a substantial part of Ulysses in Zurich and subsequently visited the city regularly during the 1930s. Finally, a refugee for the second time, he died there on 13 January 1941 and is buried in Fluntern Cemetery. This guide is conceived both as a book that may be read in its entirety or consulted selectively for specific information. An introduction and three chapters, Joyce in Zurich, Zurich in Joyce and Zurich after Joyce, are followed by sixty alphabetically ordered articles on people, places, institutions and events relevant to Joyce during his time in Zurich. Linked by cross-references and an index, they provide a rich, kaleidoscopic view of Joyce’s Zurich.

Operas in German

Operas in German
Author: Margaret Ross Griffel
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 1046
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1442247975

With nearly three thousand new entries, the revised edition of Operas in German: A Dictionary is the most current encyclopedic treatment of operas written specifically to a German text from the seventeenth century through 2016. Musicologist Margaret Ross Griffel details the operas’ composers, scores, librettos, first performances, and bibliographic sources. Four appendixes then list composers, librettists, authors whose works inspired or were adapted for the opera librettos, and a chronological listing of the entries in the A–Z section. The bibliography details other dictionaries and encyclopedias, performance studies, collections of plot summaries, general studies on operas, sources on locales where opera premieres took place, works on the history of operas in German, and selective volumes on individual opera composers, librettists, producers, directors, and designers. Finally, two indexes list the main characters in each opera and the names of singers, conductors, producers, composers, directors, choreographers, and arrangers. The revised edition of Operas in German provides opera historians, musicologists, performers, and opera lovers with an invaluable resource for continued study and enjoyment. As the most current encyclopedic collection of German opera from the seventeenth century through the twenty-first, Operas in German is an invaluable resource for opera historians, musicologists, performers, and opera lovers.