Arthur Sullivan A Victorian Musician

Author : Arthur Jacobs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arthur Sullivan written by Arthur Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revised, enlarged edition of a book which on its original appearance in 1984 was hailed as a landmark in the study of Victorian musical life. It presents the figure of Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) not only as the celebrated co-creator of light operas with W.S. Gilbert, but as a composer of all sorts of music from symphony and concerto to ballads such as The Lost Chord and hymns such as Onward Christian Soldiers. A prominent public life, with a knighthood in 1883, is contrasted with an unconventional private life with a liaison of almost 30 years with an American living in London, Mary Frances Ronalds. The author had access to Sullivan's diary at Yale University and to letters and other documents at the Peirpont Morgan Library in New York. An additional chapter updates research to the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, 1992, and incorporates music examples.

Author : Benedict Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317178262
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arthur Sullivan written by Benedict Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) was Victorian Britain’s most celebrated and popular composer, whose music to this day reaches a wider audience than that of any of his contemporaries. Yet the comic operas on which Sullivan’s reputation is chiefly based have been consistently belittled or ignored by the British musicological establishment, while his serious works have until recently remained virtually unknown. The time is thus long overdue for scholarly re-engagement with Sullivan. The present book offers a new appraisal of the music of this most notable nineteenth-century British composer, combining close analytical attention to his music with critical consideration of the wider aesthetic and social context to his work. Focusing on key pieces in all the major genres in which Sullivan composed, it includes accounts of his most important serious works – the music to The Tempest, the ‘Irish’ Symphony, The Golden Legend, Ivanhoe – alongside detailed examination of the celebrated comic operas created with W.S. Gilbert to present a balanced portrayal of Sullivan’s musical achievement.

Author : Arthur Jacobs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429872259
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arthur Sullivan: A Victorian Musician written by Arthur Jacobs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1992. This is a revised, enlarged edition of a book which on its original appearance in 1984 was hailed as a landmark in the study of Victorian musical life. It presents the figure of Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1990) not only as the celebrated co-creator of light operas with W.S Gilbert, but as a composer of all kinds of music from symphony and concerto to ballads such as ‘The Lost Chord’ and hymns such as ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’. A prominent public life, with a knighthood in 1883, is contrasted with an unconventional private life involving a liaison of almost thirty years with an American living in London, Mary Frances Ronalds. The author’s access to Sullivan’s diary held by Yale University and to letters and other documents at the Pierpont Morgan library in New York gives this book both a unique authority and a deep human understanding. A new chapter updates research to the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth, 1992, and incorporates music examples.

Author : Arthur Lawrence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Arthur Sullivan written by Arthur Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ian Bradley
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0334044219
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Chords and Christian Soldiers written by Ian Bradley and published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Sullivan is best known as W. S. Gilbert's collaborator in the Savoy Operas, However, Sullivan was far from being simply a composer of light operettas. At the height of his fame and popularity in late Victorian Britain, Sullivan was regarded as the nation's leading composer of sacred oratorios on a par with Mendelssohn and Brahms. Yet despite his contemporary popularity and enduring legacy, little attention has been given to Sullivan's sacred work. The last twenty years have seen a considerable revival of interest in and critical appreciation for this aspect of Sullivan's work. Lost Chords and Christian Soldiers provides the first detailed, comprehensive, critical study and review of Sullivan's church and sacred music. As well as exploring issues of repertoire and ecclesiology involved in these and other formative influences and experiences, consideration will be given to how far Sullivan's own personal beliefs and faith influenced his settings of sacred texts and the extent to which his own spiritual and theological leaning are expressed in his choice of material and style of setting. Sullivan's motivation in setting religious texts will be probed and comparison will be made with the motivation, output and approach of his closest contemporaries in this field, most notably Stainer.

Author : Benjamin William Findon
Publisher : London : J. Nisbet
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Arthur Sullivan, His Life and Music written by Benjamin William Findon and published by London : J. Nisbet. This book was released on 1904 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Reginald Allen
Publisher : New York : Pierpont Morgan Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Presenting in Word & Song, Score & Deed the Life and Work of Sir Arthur Sullivan, Composer for Victorian England written by Reginald Allen and published by New York : Pierpont Morgan Library. This book was released on 1975 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : B. W. Findon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780243619924
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Arthur Sullivan written by B. W. Findon and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Saxe Wyndham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arthur Sullivan written by Henry Saxe Wyndham and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gervase Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
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Download or read book The Music of Arthur Sullivan written by Gervase Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: