George Frederick Bristow

Author : Katherine K. Preston
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052307
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Frederick Bristow written by Katherine K. Preston and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As American classical music struggled for recognition in the mid-nineteenth century, George Frederick Bristow emerged as one of its most energetic champions and practitioners. Katherine K. Preston explores the life and works of a figure admired in his own time and credited today with producing the first American grand opera and composing important works that ranged from oratorios to symphonies to chamber music. Preston reveals Bristow's passion for creating and promoting music, his skills as a businessman and educator, the respect paid him by contemporaries and students, and his tireless work as both a composer and in-demand performer. As she examines Bristow against the backdrop of the music scene in New York City, Preston illuminates the little-known creative and performance culture that he helped define and create. Vivid and richly detailed, George Frederick Bristow enriches our perceptions of musical life in nineteenth-century America.

Author : Delmer Dalzell Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth Century Music in New York City as Reflected in the Career of George Frederick Bristow written by Delmer Dalzell Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gregory Fried
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A study of the orchestral music of George Frederick Bristow written by Gregory Fried and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brandon L. Moss
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George F. Bristow' S Praise to God written by Brandon L. Moss and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Frederick Bristow (1825-1898) was a prolific American composer of the mid-19th Century, writing symphonies, oratorios, an opera, a mass, sacred choral music, and a wealth of piano literature. Yet his music today—much of which remains unpublished—has been almost completely forgotten. Among these works is his first oratorio, Praise to God (1860), one of the earliest grand-scale choral-orchestral works ever to be produced in the United States. This piece is unique among much of Bristow’s major output in that its piano-vocal score was published. However, after its initial performances, the piece seems to have fallen into obscurity. Still available today in its published piano-vocal score through online printing sources, this work is very accessible to choirs and deserves to be performed as a representative of important American choral literature. This document first aims to provide a historical context for Praise to God and then offers a detailed musical analysis of the piece—complete with considerations for keyboard-vocal rehearsals and performances—in the hope that it may be performed and become more familiar among American musicians, scholars, and audiences.

Author : Delmer Dalzell Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth Century Music in New York City as Reflected in the Career of George Frederick Bristow written by Delmer Dalzell Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Theodore Thomas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famous Composers and Their Music written by Theodore Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. Douglas Bomberger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313032432
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brainard's Biographies of American Musicians written by E. Douglas Bomberger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-11-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series of biographical sketches published by Brainard's Musical World between 1877 and 1889 is notable for the diversity of the musicians profiled and for the entertaining personal information provided. This period witnessed the establishment of musical institutions and attitudes toward music that have shaped American music to the present day. The biographies present a cross-section of American musicians in the late 19th century, including singers, instrumentalists, writers, teachers, and composers. Among the musicians included are some of America's most prominent conductors, such as Theodore Thomas and Leopold Damrosch; composers, such as John Knowles Paine and George F. Root; writers, such as John S. Dwight and Amy Fay; teachers, such as William Mason and Erminia Rudersdorff; and performers, such as Emma Abbott and Maud Powell. Scores of less familiar musicians who were also instrumental in shaping America's music are included as well. Originally intended for general readers, the biographical sketches not only shed light on musical topics but also include personal information that is seldom found in a traditional dictionary and which speaks to the attitudes and concerns of the late 19th century society. This work will be of value to scholars and researchers of 19th-century American music and to those interested in the development of popular song. Entries are alphabetically arranged and include select bibliographies. A general bibliography and index are also included.

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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book String Chamber Music Performance in New York City, 1842-1852: The Social and Cultural Context of Representative Works by George Frederick Bristow written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kira Lynn Horel
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Total Pages : 142 pages
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Download or read book The Overture to George Frederick Bristow's Rip Van Winkle written by Kira Lynn Horel and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation centers on creating a new critical edition of the Rip Van Winkle overture. One of America's earliest opera composers, George Frederick Bristow (1825-1898), completed the opera Rip Van Winkle in 1855. When he revised it twenty-five years later in 1880, the composer omitted the original overture which was then thought to be lost. A concert version of this overture exists today only in manuscript form, located at the New York Public Library. Rip Van Winkle is significant to the history of American Music because it is one of the earliest operas composed by an American, and the first to be written on American subject matter (in this case, Washington Irving's story of the same name). Adding to the work's considerable historical significance is that the overture was one of the first American pieces performed by the New York Philharmonic Society, in which Bristow was a violinist. There is currently no scholarly edition of the overture, and thus this edition will fill a significant gap in the understanding of nineteenth-century American music. This critical edition of the overture to George Frederick Bristow's Rip Van Winkle was created in order to be published and available for performance and study, shedding light on the often under-represented American opera in the United States.

Author : New York Public Library. Reference Department
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Music Collection written by New York Public Library. Reference Department and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: