Roger Sessions On Music

Author : Roger Sessions
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400871042
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, Listener written by Roger Sessions and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's foremost contemporary composers, professor of music at the University of California, Roger Sessions here discusses the musical experience of the composer, the performer, the listener. He believes this experience to be shared, on in which all three participants play vital roles, and in this book he speaks especially to the listener. Mr. Sessions finds that the artist-public relationships has been shifted to that of producer and consumer in big business. But his reply to his own question about a threat to the future of music is both a challenge and an expression of hope. A fascinating little book that will be read with pleasure by people at all levels of musical education. Originally published in 1950. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Frederik Prausnitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195355208
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roger Sessions written by Frederik Prausnitz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-22 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half of his long life, composer Roger Sessions was a commanding figure on the American musical scene. He enjoyed the solid respect of his peers, and as a teacher of a generation of composers and author of compelling writings on his craft, his influence on musical thought remains profound. Yet, even in his lifetime, his music endured vastly disrespectful neglect. He was a "difficult" composer. Sessions was well aware of it. In a New York Times article, he wrote, "I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener. There are those who consider this as praise, those who consider it a reproach. For my part I regard it as, in itself, neither one or the other...it is the way the music comes, the way it has to come." The way Sessions's music "had to come" is a recurrent focus of this biography. As the story is told, often in the composer's own words, the complex picture emerges of a remarkable man who, gradually and not very willingly, learned to accept his unexpected lot as a "difficult" composer. Frederik Prausnitz, an acquaintance of Sessions and conductor of his work, combines personal and musical insights to present this fascinating portrait of an influential, yet often overlooked, modernist composer.

Author : Roger Sessions
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400871050
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roger Sessions on Music written by Roger Sessions and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past fifty years Roger Sessions has developed, in articles, lectures, and addresses, various themes that reflect the stages of his own musical and intellectual growth. These themes form the basis of the present collection of essays. Many of the essays deal with specific problems that musicians, especially composers, have faced during the past five decades: problems related to new musical styles and techniques, to the position of composers in society, to their responsibilities as teachers, to their role during the period of the world wars, to the mutual reactions of composer and audience, and to the basic questions of musical form and expression. The collection also includes a set of critical essays on such seminal figures as Bloch, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky. Roger Sessions is the composer of a recently recorded cantata on Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" as well as numerous other works. He is the author of The Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, and Listener (Princeton). Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Andrea Olmstead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roger Sessions and His Music written by Andrea Olmstead and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognized as the primary American symphonist of the 20th century, Roger Sessions (1896-1985) was one of the leading representatives of high modernism. His stature among American composers rivals Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, and Elliott Carter. Sessions was awarded two Pulitzer prizes, election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, winning the Brandeis Creative Arts Award, the Gold Medal of the American Academy, and a MacDowell Medal, in addition to 14 honorary doctorates. This book brings together considerable previously unpublished archival material, such as letters, lectures, interviews, and articles, to shed light on the life and music of this major American composer. The author, a teaching colleague of Sessions at Juilliard and the leading scholar on his music, has written a complete biography charting five touchstone areas through Sessions's eighty-eight years: music, religion, politics, money, and sexuality.

Author : Roger Sessions
Publisher : New York : Harcourt, Brace & World
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harmonic Practice written by Roger Sessions and published by New York : Harcourt, Brace & World. This book was released on 1951 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On traditional harmony, with over 800 exercises.

Author : Roger Sessions
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393005714
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Questions about Music written by Roger Sessions and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1971 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's distinguished composers discusses the fundamental questions of musical hearing, performance, and composition.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Roger Sessions written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Sessions
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Roger Sessions written by Roger Sessions and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sessions also touches on the world of professional music, and on his relations with such luminaries as Arnold Schoenberg, Ernest Bloch, Otto Klemperer, Nadia Boulanger, and Igor Stravinsky. He proves himself here to be a superb raconteur whose charming anecdotes consistently surprise and instruct. Sessions tells us, for instance, how his misreading of a poem by James Joyce led to a piece for solo soprano--and an embarrassing encounter with the great writer's daughter-in-law. He also comments wryly on the critical reception of his more controversial works; in another instance he describes an unlikely fistfight between Sarah Caldwell's mother and an unsympathetic concertgoer at the world premiere of Montezuma.

Author : Roger Sessions
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From My Diary written by Roger Sessions and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Sessions
Publisher : Microsoft Press
ISBN 13 : 0735646058
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises written by Roger Sessions and published by Microsoft Press. This book was released on 2008-05-07 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dismantle the overwhelming complexity in your IT projects with strategies and real-world examples from a leading expert on enterprise architecture. This guide describes best practices for creating an efficient IT organization that consistently delivers on time, on budget, and in line with business needs. IT systems have become too complex—and too expensive. Complexity can create delays, cost overruns, and outcomes that do not meet business requirements. The resulting losses can impact your entire company. This guide demonstrates that, contrary to popular belief, complex problems demand simple solutions. The author believes that 50 percent of the complexity of a typical IT project can and should be eliminated—and he shows you how to do it. You’ll learn a model for understanding complexity, the three tenets of complexity control, and how to apply specific techniques such as checking architectures for validity. Find out how the author’s methodology could have saved a real-world IT project that went off track, and ways to implement his solutions in a variety of situations.