The Cambridge Companion to Ravel
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Ravel PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Mawer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2000-08-24 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780521648561 |
A comprehensive introduction to the life, music and compositional aesthetic of Maurice Ravel.
The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Hulme |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 2002-11-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521786522 |
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Ravel
Title | Ravel PDF eBook |
Author | Arbie Orenstein |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 1991-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780486266336 |
The standard Ravel biography by the world's foremost authority — brilliantly detailed and documented, filled with quotations from letters, interviews with the composer's friends, an illuminating analysis of each of his works, a study of his musical esthetics and language, a complete catalog of his works, and a discography. "Highly recommended" — Choice. Includes 48 illustrations.
The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams PDF eBook |
Author | Alain Frogley |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 361 |
Release | 2013-11-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0521197686 |
A comprehensive reassessment of this towering figure of twentieth-century music, examining works, cultural context and reception in Britain and beyond.
The Cambridge Companion to Haydn
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Haydn PDF eBook |
Author | Caryl Clark |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2005-11-24 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1139827227 |
This Companion provides an accessible and up-to-date introduction to the musical work and cultural world of Joseph Haydn. Readers will gain an understanding of the changing social, cultural, and political spheres in which Haydn studied, worked, and nurtured his creative talent. Distinguished contributors provide chapters on Haydn and his contemporaries, his working environments in Eisenstadt and Eszterháza, and humor and exoticism in Haydn's oeuvre. Chapters on the reception of his music explore keyboard performance practices, Haydn's posthumous reputation, sound recordings and images of his symphonies. The book also surveys the major genres in which Haydn wrote, including symphonies, string quartets, keyboard sonatas and trios, sacred music, miscellaneous vocal genres, and operas composed for Eszterháza and London.
The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Harwell Celenza |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 333 |
Release | 2019-08-22 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1108423531 |
Explores how Gershwin's iconic music was shaped by American political, intellectual, cultural and business interests as well as technological advances.
The Cambridge Companion to French Music
Title | The Cambridge Companion to French Music PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Trezise |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 441 |
Release | 2015-02-19 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0521877946 |
This accessible Companion provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive introduction to French music from the early middle ages to the present.