Sir Arthur Bliss

Author : Stewart R. Craggs
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 0313257396
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arthur Bliss written by Stewart R. Craggs and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1988-06-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Arthur Bliss was one of England's most renowned twentieth-century composers. This bio-bibliography provides a brief biography prepared with the assistance of the composer's widow. It then presents a complete list of works and performances, classified by genre and arranged alphabetically by title of composition. Each entry contains a list of premiere performances, with references to commentaries from performance reviews cited in the bibliography. Brief details are also given concerning original manuscripts and their location. The next section contains a discography of commercially and privately produced sound recordings. An annotated bibliography of writings by the composer and about him and his music follows. Annotations are often in the form of quotations from performance reviews. The bibliography concludes with appendices providing alphabetical and chronological listings of Bliss's works and a complete index of names and titles.

Author : Stewart R. Craggs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351765051
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arthur Bliss: Music and Literature written by Stewart R. Craggs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002. This volume of essays seeks to reflect aspects of the life and work of Arthur Bliss, Master of the Queen's Music. Though each is self-contained, the editor has attempted to keep a theme running throughout. Looking beyond surface impressions is an attitude constantly expressed.

Author : Stewart R. Craggs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351765051
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arthur Bliss: Music and Literature written by Stewart R. Craggs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002. This volume of essays seeks to reflect aspects of the life and work of Arthur Bliss, Master of the Queen's Music. Though each is self-contained, the editor has attempted to keep a theme running throughout. Looking beyond surface impressions is an attitude constantly expressed.

Author : Paul Spicer
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 071983158X
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Arthur Bliss written by Paul Spicer and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Bliss (1891–1975) was one of the most important British musicians of his age. Born into a family where music played a highly significant role, his talent emerged early. He served with distinction in the Great War, in which he was both injured and gassed. After the War he set the musical world alight with ultra-modern works, earning himself the soubriquet enfant terrible and leading to his first major work, the Colour Symphony. His dual American/British birthright led to a close connection with the USA and marriage to an American girl, Trudy Hoffman, who would be a mainstay of his life. Before long he became the most performed British composer abroad and his portfolio of works included ballet, film (H.G. Wells's Things to Come remains one of the finest film scores), opera, orchestral, chamber, choral works and song. He was a diplomat, a skill that was recognized in many appointments from the Government to travel using music as soft power, notably to Russia in 1956. He served as Director of Music at the BBC from 1942–4, was knighted and soon after appointed Master of the Queen's Music. Bliss was a private figure who stated that the only way to get to know him was through his music. Paul Spicer takes this as his starting point for this pioneering biography, which underlines the timely importance of a complete reappraisal of this important composer's music.

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Download or read book Arthur Bliss written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handwritten note partial envelope England Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, CH, KCVO (2 August 1891 - 27 March 1975) was an English composer and conductor. Bliss's musical training was cut short by the First World War, in which he served with distinction in the army. In the post-war years he quickly became known as an unconventional and modernist composer, but within the decade he began to display a more traditional and romantic side in his music. In the 1920s and 1930s he composed extensively not only for the concert hall, but also for films and ballet. In the Second World War, Bliss returned to England from the US to work for the BBC and became its director of music. After the war he resumed his work as a composer, and was appointed Master of the Queen's Music. In Bliss's later years, his work was respected but was thought old-fashioned, and it was eclipsed by the music of younger colleagues such as William Walton and Benjamin Britten. Since his death, his compositions have been well represented on record, and many of his better-known works remain in the repertoire of British orchestras.

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Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arthur Bliss written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master of the Queen's Music from 1953 to 1975, Arthur Bliss is now recognized as one of the most important figures in English music this century. This source book, the result of 20 years of research, provides a detailed reference work for all those interested in Bliss's life and music. It contains the most complete and up-to-date bibliography of references both by and about Bliss and features details of the composer's letters which have never before been published. Also included are a discography, a chronology and a special section on the manuscripts and first editions. In bringing all this information together for the first time, Stewart Craggs's volume will prove invaluable to music librarians and scholars alike.

Author : Lewis Foreman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arthur Bliss, Catalogue of the Complete Works written by Lewis Foreman and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Sugden
Publisher : Omnibus Press& Schirmer Trade Books
ISBN 13 : 9780711965270
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Arthur Bliss written by John Sugden and published by Omnibus Press& Schirmer Trade Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of biographies of great composers which present the subjects against a social background of their times. Each book draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings - and - where they exist - photographs, to build up a complete picture of the composer's life.

Author : Arthur Bliss
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bliss on Music written by Arthur Bliss and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) was a leading figure in British music for five decades, and one of the foremost British composers to emerge after the First World War. His early works such as the symphony Morning Heroes, the ballet Checkmate, and the opera The Olympians show the influence of Stravinsky and the French group "Les Six." He gained prominence in the British musical establishment and was made Master of the Queen's Musick in 1953. Bliss was also a prolific writer of articles, reviews, lectures, and broadcasts, which provide a vivid commentary on twentieth-century music, the English Musical Renaissance in particular, and display the characteristic vigor and vitality in keeping with his enfant terrible image of the 1920s. Arranged chronologically with biographical lists, the material ranges from self-analysis to a consideration of the place of music in modern society, and this collection forms a valuable source for the study of his own music and the music of his contemporaries.

Author : Kevin Crossley-Holland
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192835475
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anglo-Saxon World written by Kevin Crossley-Holland and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossley-Holland--the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts--introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and poetry, with many of the greatest surviving poems printed in their entirety.