Great Musicians

Great Musicians
Author: Robert Ziegler
Publisher: Dk Pub
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780756637743

Highlights the lives and accomplishments of musicians from Palestrina to Youssou N'Dour.

Great Musicians from Our First Nations

Great Musicians from Our First Nations
Author: Vincent Schilling
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Indian musicians
ISBN: 9781897187760

Follow the journeys of ten talented musicians from the Native community as they make their way to the top. All of them bring their own cultural traditions to their music.

First Nights

First Nights
Author: Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780300091052

This lively book takes us back to the first performances of five famous musical compositions: Monteverdi's Orfeo in 1607, Handel's Messiah in 1742, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1824, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique in 1830, and Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps in 1913. Thomas Forrest Kelly sets the scene for each of these premieres, describing the cities in which they took place, the concert halls, audiences, conductors, and musicians, the sound of the music when it was first performed (often with instruments now extinct), and the popular and critical responses. He explores how performance styles and conditions have changed over the centuries and what music can reveal about the societies that produce it. Kelly tells us, for example, that Handel recruited musicians he didn't know to perform Messiah in a newly built hall in Dublin; that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was performed with a mixture of professional and amateur musicians after only three rehearsals; and that Berlioz was still buying strings for the violas and mutes for the violins on the day his symphony was first played. Kelly's narrative, which is enhanced by extracts from contemporary letters, press reports, account books, and other sources, as well as by a rich selection of illustrations, gives us a fresh appreciation of these five masterworks, encouraging us to sort out our own late twentieth-century expectations from what is inherent in the music.

Stories of Great Musicians

Stories of Great Musicians
Author: Kathrine Lois Scobey
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2022-07-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Stories of Great Musicians" by Kathrine Lois Scobey, Olive Brown Horne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Lives of the Musicians

Lives of the Musicians
Author: Kathleen Krull
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1993
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780152480103

What are musicians really like?

Alfred's Great Music & Musicians, Bk 1: An Overview of Music History, Book & Online Audio [With CD (Audio)]

Alfred's Great Music & Musicians, Bk 1: An Overview of Music History, Book & Online Audio [With CD (Audio)]
Author: Nancy Bachus
Publisher: Premier Piano Course
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780739087602

This book provides a foundation for understanding the major cultural periods, musical styles, and the development of music through the ages. There are art and listening examples to encourage discussions. Book 1 of "Great Music & Musicians" is appropriate for piano students in various levels of Premier Piano Coarse (based on the individual student's reading level). It also may be used with other piano methods or in group lessons.