Antonio Vivaldi, bekannt als der „rote Priester“ von Venedig, war mehr als nur ein Komponist – er war ein visionärer Musiker, der die Barockmusik revolutionierte.
With step-by-step, photo-illustrated crafting instructions, Native American Flute: A Comprehensive Guide ~ History & Craft presents a thorough, documented history and guide to crafting the native flute, ancient to modern, in wood, bamboo, PVC, and more, updating and combining into one volume The Native American Flute: Myth, History, Craft and Native American Flute Craft.
Sigismund von Neukomm war weit mehr als nur ein Schüler von Joseph Haydn – er war ein musikalischer Weltbürger, dessen Kompositionen von Europa bis Südamerika reichten und Kulturen miteinander verbanden.
Edvard Grieg, der bedeutendste Komponist Norwegens, schuf eine einzigartige Verbindung zwischen den Klängen seiner Heimat und den Idealen der europäischen Romantik.
Niccolò Paganini – ein Name, der bis heute mit unvergleichlicher Virtuosität, mystischen Legenden und der Faszination des Übernatürlichen verbunden ist.
Whenhe was a young seminarian, the teacher in Luigi Giussanis singing class playeda recording of an aria from a Donizetti opera, Spirto gentil (Gentle spirit,you once shone in my dreams, but after, I lost you forever.
Barocke Musik – geistliche wie weltliche – wurde im Zuge der Kolonialisierung von Europäern nach Südamerika gebracht und verbreitete sich dort in verschiedenen Kontexten.
Martha Feldman's exploration of sixteenth-century Venetian madrigals centers on the importance to the Venetians of Ciceronian rhetorical norms, which emphasized decorum through adherence to distinct stylistic levels.
El rastro es un texto en donde se habla de un entierro, y los sentimientos de la protagonista al contemplar el cuerpo de un hombre con el que vivio un tiempo largo, al que ha dejado de ver y al que vuelve a ver ya exangue, y el recuerdo de ese cuerpo cuando estuvo vivo y compartio con quien lo mira una relacion amorosa muy intensa.
Renowned for his literary style as well as his musical scholarship, Nicolas Slonimsky wrote many program notes and articles for newspapers and other periodicals, in addition to his well-known books.
The New Illustrated Lives of Great Composers: Ludwig van Beethoven brings to life the works, the key performances and the personal story of one of the world's greatest composers with rich illustrations.
First published in 1957, European Music in the Twentieth Century includes chapters by Everett Helm on Bartok, Eric Walter White on Stravinsky, Norman del Mar on Hindemith, and Walter Goehr on Schonberg; followed by various critics on musical development during the twentieth century in Austria, the Scandinavian countries, England, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Russia, France, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Greece.
Ir has been said that no music amplifies the french ideals of precision and good taste better than the work of Maurice Ravel, yet his background could scarecly have been more cosmopolitan.
The Technique of Orchestration, Seventh Edition, is the definitive textbook on the study of orchestration, offering a concise, straight-to-the-point approach that prepares students to score their own compositions with confidence.
The Technique of Orchestration, Seventh Edition, is the definitive textbook on the study of orchestration, offering a concise, straight-to-the-point approach that prepares students to score their own compositions with confidence.
From Gregorian chant to Bach's Brandenburg Concerti, the music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods is both beautiful and intriguing, expanding our horizons as it nourishes our souls.
From Gregorian chant to Bach's Brandenburg Concerti, the music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods is both beautiful and intriguing, expanding our horizons as it nourishes our souls.
This book traces the remarkable course of a creative career which spanned the drawing rooms of the Imperial Russia and the social ferment of 1960s America, and serve to establish Stravinsky not only as the most celebrated composer of his time but also as one of the defining forces of twentieth-century culture.