Choral Music In Nineteenth Century America

Author : N. Lee Orr
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810836648
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choral Music in Nineteenth-century America written by N. Lee Orr and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choral music represented an important part of American cultural life during the nineteenth century, whether integral to worship or merely for entertainment. Despite this history, choral music remains one of the more neglected studies in the scholarly community. In an effort to fill this gap, N. Lee Orr and W. Dan Hardin offer a new approach to the study of choral music by mapping out and bringing bibliographical control to this expansive and challenging field of study. Their unique guide focuses on literature related to choral music in the United States from the end of the second decade of the nineteenth century through the earlier part of the twentieth century. Choral Music in Nineteenth-Century America explores the entire range of choral music conceived, written, published, rehearsed, and performed by an ensemble of singers gathered specifically to present the music before an audience or congregation. The guide expertly sifts through the extensive literature to cite the most notable sources for study and provides individual chapters on the leading nineteenth-century composers who were instrumental in the development of choral music.

Author : Donna M. Di Grazia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136294090
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Choral Music written by Donna M. Di Grazia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-Century Choral Music is an in-depth examination of the rich repertoire of choral music and the cultural phenomenon of choral music making throughout the period. The book is divided into three main sections. The first details the attraction to choral singing and the ways it was linked to different parts of society, and to the role of choral voices in the two principal large-scale genres of the period: the symphony and opera. A second section highlights ten choral-orchestral masterworks that are a central part of the repertoire. The final section presents overview and focus chapters covering composers, repertoire (both small and larger works), and performance life in an historical context from over a dozen regions of the world: Britain and Ireland, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latin America, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia and Finland, Spain, and the United States. This diverse collection of essays brings together the work of 25 authors, many of whom have devoted much of their scholarly lives to the composers and music discussed, giving the reader a lively and unique perspective on this significant part of nineteenth-century musical life.

Author : Nick Strimple
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574671544
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choral Music in the Nineteenth Century written by Nick Strimple and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the critically acclaimed "Choral Music in the Twentieth Century" comes an indispensable resource for choral conductors, choral singers, and other music lovers, and an essential text for educators and their students. Strimple covers repertory by Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, and lesser figures.

Author : David P. DeVenney
Publisher : Fallen Leaf Reference Books in Music
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-century American Choral Music written by David P. DeVenney and published by Fallen Leaf Reference Books in Music. This book was released on 1987 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lowell Mason, Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Charles Ives, Edward MacDowell, and Arthur Foote are but some of the American composers featured in this guide.

Author : Nick Strimple
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574671223
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choral Music in the Twentieth Century written by Nick Strimple and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical works for chorus are among the great masterpieces of 20th-century art. This guide, the first truly comprehensive volume on the choral music of the last century, covers the spectacular range of music for vocal ensembles, from Saint-Saens to Tan Dun. The book will be essential to every choral conductor and a valuable resource for choir members, choral societies and choruses.

Author : Donna Marie Di Grazia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415988527
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-century Choral Music written by Donna Marie Di Grazia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-Century Choral Music is a collection of essays studying choral music making as a cultural phenomenon, one that had an impact on multiple parts of society. Rather than merely offering a collection of raw descriptions of works, the contributors focus their discussions on what these pieces reveal about their composers as craftsmen/women. Major works as well as other equally rich parts of the repertoire are discussed, including smaller choral works and contributions by composers such as Fanny Mendelssohn, Amy Beach, Charles Stanford,

Author : Judah M. Cohen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025304023X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America written by Judah M. Cohen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of synagogue music in the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century “sets a high standard for historical musicology” (Musica Judaica). In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a robust religious musical conversation in the United States during the mid- to late-nineteenth century. While previous studies of American Jewish music history have looked to Europe as a source of innovation during this time, Cohen’s careful analysis of primary archival sources tells a different story. Far from seeing a fallow musical landscape, Cohen finds that Central European Jews in the United States spearheaded a major revision of the sounds and traditions of synagogue music during this period of rapid liturgical change. Focusing on the influences of both individuals and texts, Cohen demonstrates how American Jewish musicians sought to balance artistry and group singing, rather than “progressing” from solo chant to choir and organ. Congregations shifted between musical genres and practices during this period in response to such factors as finances, personnel, and communal cohesiveness. Cohen concludes that the “soundtrack” of nineteenth-century Jewish American music heavily shapes how we look at Jewish American music and life in the first part of the twenty-first century, arguing that how we see, and especially hear, history plays a key role in our understanding of the contemporary world around us. Supplemented with an interactive website that includes the primary source materials, recordings of the music discussed, and a map that highlights the movement of key individuals, Cohen’s research defines more clearly the sound of nineteenth-century American Jewry.

Author : Jon W. Finson
Publisher : Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-century Music written by Jon W. Finson and published by Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This up-to-date view of nineteenth-century classical music places a strong emphasis on the history of opera and on schematic representations of musical structure and form. The book presents a highly concise survey of nineteenth-century music tailored for the increasingly limited amount of time available to readers for the study of any one period, and focuses specifically on the central repertory heard today in the concert hall and at the opera house. The volume provides an overview and background information on nineteenth-century music including the Viennese ascendancy, musical drama in the first part of the nineteenth century, the styling of the avant-garde, operatic development from mid century, the life of the concert hall after mid century, the diversity of nationalism and the new language at century's end. For musicians and music lovers interested in an introduction to classical music.

Author : Carl Dahlhaus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520076440
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Music written by Carl Dahlhaus and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent survey of the most popular period in music history is an extended essay embracing music, aesthetics, social history, and politics, by one of the keenest minds writing on music in the world today. Dahlhaus organizes his book around "watershed" years--for example, 1830, the year of the July Revolution in France, and around which coalesce the "demise of the age of art" proclaimed by Heine, the musical consequences of the deaths of Beethoven and Schubert, the simultaneous and dramatic appearance of Chopin and Liszt, Berlioz and Meyerbeer, and Schumann and Mendelssohn. But he keeps us constantly on guard against generalization and clich . Cherished concepts like Romanticism, tradition, nationalism vs. universality, the musical culture of the bourgeoisie, are put to pointed reevaluation. Always demonstrating the interest in socio-historical influences that is the hallmark of his work, Dahlhaus reminds us of the contradictions, interrelationships, psychological nuances, and riches of musical character and musical life. Nineteenth-Century Music contains 90 illustrations, the collected captions of which come close to providing a summary of the work and the author's methods. Technical language is kept to a minimum, but while remaining accessible, Dahlhaus challenges, braces, and excites. This is a landmark study that no one seriously interested in music and nineteenth-century European culture will be able to ignore.

Author : Nick Strimple
Publisher : Amadeus Press
ISBN 13 : 1574673785
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choral Music in the Twentieth Century written by Nick Strimple and published by Amadeus Press. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Amadeus). Nick Strimple's all-encompassing survey ranges from 19th-century masters, such as Elgar, to contemporary composers, such as Tan Dun and Paul McCartney. Repertory of every style and level of complexity is critically surveyed and described. This book is an essential resource for choral conductors and a valuable guide for choral singers and other music lovers.