Author: Patrick Zuk
Publisher: Field Day Publications
Keywords: composers, day, field, deane, raymond
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 2006-10-02
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0946755299
ISBN-13: 9780946755295
Author: David Mason Greene
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Keywords: composers, important, over, ancient, greeks, present, achievements, day, lives, encyclopedia, biographical, music, lover, greene, treasury, musical
Number of Pages: 1348
Published: 1985-09-25
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0385142781
ISBN-13: 9780385142786
中文参考译名:克劳德德彪西（20世纪作曲家）（20世纪作曲家）
Author: Paul Roberts
Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc.
Keywords: composers, century, debussy, claude
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-04-23
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0714835129
ISBN-13: 9780714835129
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was a great harmonic innovator and one of the most original musical voices of the twentieth century. He created fresh, new tonal perspectives without abandoning tonality itself. With a revolutionary sense of instrumental color and a fleeting, atmospheric sound world, he is often described, rightly or wrongly, as an ’Impressionist’ composer. This book presents a clear narrative history of Debussy s life, work, and cultural context along with essential reference material and striking illustrations, making it a vital purchase for anyone interested in the com
Author: Ates Orga
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Keywords: composers, lives, illustrated, series, chopin
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1983-12-31
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 071190247X
ISBN-13: 9780711902473
This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer s life.
Author: Gerald Abraham
Publisher: Abraham Press
Keywords: composers, soviet, eight
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 1406765198
ISBN-13: 9781406765199
Text extracted from opening pages of book: Gerald Abraham EIGHT SOVIET COMPOSERS GEOFFREY CTJMBERLEGE Oxford University Press LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AMEN HOUSE, E. C. 4 I/ ondon Edinburgh Glasgow New York Toronto Melbourne Cape Town Bombay Calcutta Madras GEOFFREY CUMBERI, EGE PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY First published - 1943 Second impression r 944 Third impression 1 944 Fourth impression 1 946 Printed in Great Britain CONTENTS 1. Introduction . page 7 2. Dmitry Shostakovich 13 3. Sergey Prokofiev . . . . . . .32 4. Aram Khachaturyan ...... 43 5. Lev Knipper 52 6. Vi
Author: Frank Greene
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: record, composers
Number of Pages: 636
Published: 1995-06-06
List price: $62.70
ISBN-10: 0810818167
ISBN-13: 9780810818163
This index includes mainly composers of "serious" music who are not to be found in any reference work, and others whose names have not appeared in any reference work since the last century.
Author: N. Lee Orr
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: composers, american, buck, dudley
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-06-25
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0252032799
ISBN-13: 9780252032790
Dudley Buck (1839-1909) was a composer, conductor, and music teacher who helped establish the organ in American musical life. N. Lee Orr’s introduction to Buck’s life and career details his stint as teacher to Charles Ives, organ recital tours around the Midwest, and work composing music for church organs. His Grand Sonata in E Flat became a great hit wherever he played it, and his Variations and Fugue on the "Star-Spangled Banner" remains a standard in organ repertoire. Intended for practical use, his music was challenging, sometimes full of romantic flourishes, counterpoint, and
