SKU: HL.49020804
ISBN 9783254001184. German.
Obwohl Charles Ives (1874-1954) eine grundliche musikalische Ausbildung an der Yale University genossen hatte, schlug er sehr bald eine erfolgreiche Laufbahn als Versicherungskaufmann ein und widmete sich seiner musikalischen Arbeit nur abends und an den Wochenenden. In fast volliger Isolation vom Musikgeschehen der Zeit schuf er ein umfangreiches OEuvre, dessen grosse Bedeutung erst in den 60er Jahren entdeckt wurde: Ives entpuppt sich darin als radikaler Neuerer, der sowohl mit der damals gangigen musikalischen Syntax als auch den auffuhrungspraktischen Bedingungen seiner Zeit weitgehend brach. Allerdings ware es verfehlt, ihn bloss zum musikalischen Enfant terrible abzustempeln, das sich dank seiner materiellen Unabhangigkeit uber die Grenzen des Musikbetriebes hinwegsetzen konnte. Dafur war Ives ein viel zu reflektierender, verantwortungsbewusster Mensch, der zudem fest in der denkerischen Tradition des neuenglischen Transzendentalismus verwurzelt war. So gesehen erstaunt es kaum, dass Ives sich ausser der Musik - und gewissermassen parallel dazu - noch eines andern Mediums, des literarisch-philosophischen Essays, bediente, um seinen Uberzeugungen Ausdruck zu verschaffen.Dies gilt insbesondere fur Ives' tiefsinnigsten und ausgereiftesten Text, die Essays before a Sonata (1920), der als Begleitschrift zur zweiten Klaviersonate (Concord, Mass., 1840-1860) des Komponisten konzipiert war. Allerdings sind die Essays keineswegs ein Werkkommentar im traditionellen Sinne: Sie gehen zwar von konkreten musikasthetischen Fragen (namlich der Problematik der Programmmusik) aus, weiten sich aber zu einer sehr subjektiv gefarbten Darstellung von vier hochbedeutenden amerikanischen Schriftstellern des 19. Jahrhunderts aus - die Rede ist von Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bronson Alcott und Henry David Thoreau. Die vier Hauptabschnitte der Essays, die den vier behandelten Autoren entsprechen, geben in ihrem innigen Konnex zu den vier Satzen der Concord-Sonata - er erstreckt sich von vagen inhaltlichen Vorstellungen und Bildern bis hin zu ganz konkreten syntaktischen und formalen Parallelen - Aufschluss uber die Kompositionsprinzipien nicht nur der Concord-Sonata, sondern der Musik Ives' ganz allgemein, so dass man die Essays before a Sonata als sehr gelungene und in ihrer Ausfuhrlichkeit wohl einmalige Paraphrase von Musik bezeichnen darf.Das Nachwort zu den 114 Liedern (1922) ist mit den Essays insofern verwandt, als es zwei langere Stellen aus ihnen zitiert. Diese Zitierpraxis - man begegnet ihr auch in Ives' Musik - ist bezeichnend fur Ives' Denkweise: Ives macht von seinem Stoff sehr flexiblen Gebrauch, er setzt ihn in der Art von Versatzstucken immer wieder neu zusammen und kommt so immer wieder zu einem neuen, anders gearteten Ganzen. So geht Ives im Nachwort weniger allgemein kunstphilosphischen Problemen als der ganz individuellen Frage nach, warum er die Musik nur als Nebenberuf ausuben wollte. Seine Antwort, die er mit seinem typischen Yankee-Humor vortragt, macht einerseits deutlich, wie sehr Ives von einem puritanischen Verantwortungsgefuhl gegenuber der Gesellschaft gepragt war, und zeigt andererseits Ives' tiefen Glauben an eine Musik, die fest im Alltagsleben verwurzelt und somit denkbar weit von der europaischen Tradition der art pour l'art entfernt war.Die Memos (ca. 1932-34) schliesslich sind ein Dokument ganz anderer Art: Weder sollten sie, wie die beiden andern hier vorgelegten Texte, ein bestimmtes musikalisches Werk begleiten, noch besitzen sie den hohen gedanklichen Ausspruch der Essays und des Nachworts. Es sind autobiographische Aufzeichnungen, die Ives ursprunglich diktierte, deren Manuskripte er aber danach mehrmals durchsah und korrigierte. Sie gliedern sich in drei lose aneinandergereihte Teile: Im Anlass betitelten Abschnitt nimmt Ives auf teils humoristische, teils sarkastische Weise zu den Anfeindungen Stellung, die ihm die damals sparlichen Auffuhrungen seiner Werke bescherten. Im Sammelalbum gibt er einen chronologischen Uberblick uber Entstehung und Gehalt seiner wichtigsten Werke. Und in den Erinnerungen verschafft Ives nochmals den Grundpositionen seiner idealistischen Musikasthetik, seiner Abneigung gegen jede Form von Kommerz und Routine und seiner Verachtung aller musikalischen Kleingeister Ausdruck. Uberdies sind die Memos - trotz ihrer defensiven Grundhaltung - so humorvoll, engagiert und bildreich verfasst, dass sie nicht nur die detaillierteste, sondern auch die wohl anregendste Primarquelle zum Leben und Werk dieses vielleicht eigenwilligsten Komponisten des fruhen 20. Jahrhunderts bilden.
SKU: HL.49015425
ISBN 9783795702410. German.
Die Kompositionen Gyorgy Ligetis haben mehr als einmal fur Uberraschung, ja Verbluffung gesorgt. In kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit den Spielarten zeitgenossischen Komponierens wie in der Aneignung unterschiedlichster musikalischer Traditionen ist ein Werk entstanden, das den Horer zu jener Freiheit der Assoziation, zu jener Entdeckerfreude und Offenheit animiert, wie sie sich der Komponist bis heute bewahrt hat.Die Essays dieses Buches widmen sich der Annaherung an Ligetis Musik, verfolgen aussere und innere Entstehungsanlasse, legen strukturelle und ideelle Verknupfungen frei, verweisen aber auch auf die vielfaltigen Anregungen durch Aussermusikalisches, die fur die Arbeit des Komponisten so wesentlich sind. Im Interview aussert sich Ligeti zu Lebensstationen, asthetischen Prinzipien und aktuellen Vorhaben.Ausgezeichnet mit dem Deutschen Musikeditionspreis 1994.
SKU: BT.WH31324
ISBN 9788759822555. English.
Improvised Music - Essays And Interviews by Jakob Thorkild Overgaard.
From the preface:
This book is the child of my extensive personal experienceas performerof musical improvisation. I havea large number of concerts, recordings and bands inmy baggage, and throughout my career as performerI have reflected much on the music as such, its origins,and its effects onperformer and listener alike.In addition to this, my M.A. in Music from CopenhagenUniversity provided me with a theoretical foundationwhich has sharpened my reflections on musicand fostered an interestinthe spoken word.As its point of departure, this book will attempt a discussionof improvised music after 1968, as a conceptand as an actual performing art. I shall use the terms‘freeimprovisation’ or ’ freely improvised music’ – as Ithink that they are the best, although I am of coursefully aware that there may be several other adequateterms for this music...
...There are sections solely based on my views and analyses as well as sections taking their starting point in the views of other writers and artists.
Besides, the book containsinterviews and communications with prominent performers of improvised music and theorists such as, inter alia, Danish Peter Ole Jørgensen, Swedish Raymond Strid, Danish Vagn E. Olsson and Torben Sangild, Postdoc at theDepartment of Arts and Cultural Studies, Copenhagen University.
SKU: HL.49008139
ISBN 9783795703349. German.
Elgar, Britten und Tippett sind die bekanntesten englischen Komponisten des 20. Jahrhunderts.Als Kunstler, der bis ins hohe Alter schopferisch tatig ist, und als wacher Zeitzeuge kommentiert Michael Tippett in dieser Auswahl seiner Schriften ebenso kenntnisreich wie nachdenklich die Musik der Gegenwart, aussert sich uber Komponisten-Kollegen wie Strawinsky, Hindemith oder Ives, reflektiert uber die Asthetik der Kunst und die moralische Verantwortung des Kunstlers in unserer Zeit und wagt einen Ausblick auf die Rolle des Komponisten im kommenden Jahrhundert. Erlauterungen seines eigenen Schaffens und Hinweise zur Interpretation und Auffuhrungspraxis vor allem seiner musikdramatischen Werke machen diese Ausgabe zu einer unentbehrlichen Lekture fur alle, die sich mit der Musik und der Kunstanschauung dieses bedeutenden britischen Komponisten beschaftigen wollen.
SKU: HL.49005577
ISBN 9783795723507. UPC: 073999545739. 4.25x8.5x0.51 inches. German.
Die Essays, ein Buch von bezwingender Vielfalt, decken dem Musikfreund die Grundzuge von Henzes kunstlerischer Haltung auf: in einer von Spannung vibrierenden Sprache, die, reich an Bildern und oft uberreich an Zeichen, auch wo sie direkt und hart zugreift, sehr nobel bleibt und sehr vornehm. (Neue Zuricher Zeitung).
SKU: HL.49006807
ISBN 9783492026154. UPC: 073999542431. 6.75x9.5x0.908 inches. German.
SKU: MN.90-65
UPC: 688670900655.
The latest book from revered church musician Paul Westermeyer offers insight and perspective applicable to anyone working in a church or church music setting. This volume contains collected reflections, essays, and articles previously published in journals such as The Hymn and CrossAccent, along with entirely new chapters. To quote the foreword by Zebulon Highben: This is Westermeyer at his most pastoral, offering a word of solace, support, and inspiration.
SKU: HL.49000720
ISBN 9783795701437. UPC: 884088407834. 6.0x8.0x0.729 inches. German.
This new Hindemith annual focuses on Hindemith's work in the 1920s. The contents include essays on the 1922 Suite Op. 26, on the opera Cardillac (1926) and on Hindemith's output as a film composer. Music theatre enthusiasts may be particularly interested in the piece about Hindemith's influence on Stephen Sondheim (lyricist for works including West Side Story).
SKU: MN.90-50
UPC: 688670900501.
A collection of 25 essays by colleagues, students, and friends of Harry Eskew, who taught music history and hymnology at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary for 36 years. Broad range of topics with focus on hymnody. Paperback. 407 pages.
SKU: BA.BVK02090
ISBN 9783761820902. 21.5 x 15.5 cm inches. Language: German. Preface: Mosch, Stephan.
This book is in German.,,Weil jede Note zahlt(Because Every Note Counts) - this is the credo regarding interpretation which Alfred Brendel formulates in this book. It is an invitation to reflect about how to deal with Mozart's music, about what we generally call ,,interpretationand what has undergone fundamental changes again and again in the course of the last 100 years. Famous Mozart interpreters and world-renowned musicologists share their experiences and insights in conversations and essays: What did it mean and what does it mean to perform Mozart?From the contents:- How does Mozart compose? About his scores and compositional procedures- Why spontaneity and risk are so important: on performance practice- Mozart's theatre of diversity: questions about the human existence on stage- From Richard Strauss to Nikolaus Harnoncourt: on the artistic physiognomy of great Mozart conductors- How did composers of the 20th century respond to Mozart?- Music festival history is German history: a documentary on the Mozartfest WurzburgConversations by Markus Thiel with Alfred Brendel, John Eliot Gardiner, Christian Gerhaher, Brigitte Fassbaender, Hartmut Haenchen, Markus Hinterhauser, Rene Jacobs, Frank Peter Zimmermann and Tabea ZimmermannAuthors of the EssaysUlrich Konrad, Robert D. Levin, Stephan Mosch, Wolfgang Rathert and Thomas SeedorfDocumentary PartHansjorg Ewert, Christian Lemmerich, Dimitra Will, Renate UlmThe EditorStephan Mosch is Professor for Aesthetics, History and Artistic Practice at the Hochschule fur Musik Karlsruhe. Barenreiter already published his books ,,Komponieren fur Stimme. Von Monteverdi bis Rihm. Ein Handbuch(BVK 2379) as well as ,,Weihe, Werkstatt, Wirklichkeit. Wagners ,,Parsifalin Bayreuth 1882-1933(BVK 2326).In collaboration with the Mozartfest Wurzburg which celebrates its 100th Anniversary in 2021.
SKU: MN.90-51
UPC: 688670090516. 8 1/2 x 11 inches.
A delightful second volume of brief essays by revered professor of church music, Carl Schalk. Carl’s wit, charm, and wisdom shine through each of these essays. Some may make you uncomfortable while others will make you laugh. As with the original book, First Person Singular, these essays are refreshing and remarkable insights into our work as church musicians. Ultimately, all will make you think. Paperback. 60 pages.
SKU: BR.BV-247
ISBN 9783765102479. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. German.
Lachenmann's central essays such as Klangtypen der Neuen Musik (Types of Sound in New Music), Die gefahrdete Kommunikation (Endangered Communication), Zum Problem des musikalisch Schonen heute (The Problem of Beauty in Music Today), and his essays on Mahler, Schoenberg and Nono are among the most important testimonies of autonomous musical thought in our time. In addition to Lachenmann's major essays, this volume of writings also contains all of the composer's work introductions as well.The reprint 2004 is essentially the result of an intensive and critical reading of the previous text by Lachenmann himself. The text was generally only slightly altered, with passages rewritten and the language occasionally lightened. Only the analysis of the Second String Quartet Dance of the Blessed Spirits, which was very topical back in 1996, was newly conceived and substantially changed. The editor's observations, work catalogue and discography have been revised and updated.Dieses Buch kann weder einfach nur benutzt oder gelesen werden. Dieses Buch muss wahrlich studiert werden. Dem Verlag ist zu danken fur eine derart kompakte und hervorragend gemachte Buchausgabe. (Bettina von Seyfried, Forum Musikbibliothek) Ein durchreflektiertes Buch, ja geradezu ein Kompendium zeitgenossischen Musikdenkens. (Opernwelt).
SKU: UT.APS-6
ISBN 9788881094790. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
Essays by Gregory Barnett, Barra Boydell, Enrico Careri, Cheryll Duncan, Christopher Hogwood, Peter Holman, Clare Hornsby, Mark Kroll, Sandra Mangsen, Andrew Pink, Rudolf Rasch, Robin Stowell, Michael Talbot, Wiebke Thormahlen, Peter Walls, Neal ZaslawSixteen essays by international scholars celebrate the 250th anniversary of Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762), star pupil of Corelli and composer, performer and teacher in Paris, London and Dublin, who for many years was ranked as the equal of Handel.His compositions moved far beyond Corelli's model (to include theatre music, sonatas for cello and keyboard works) and later in his life he supported his aesthetic style with treatises on violin and guitar playing, good taste, accompaniment and composition. He published all his output in the most elegant style via engravers and music sellers in Paris, Amsterdam and London, and constantly revised and rewrote earlier works in new and often expanded formats. This legacy is analysed and placed in context within the various national styles current in Europe, and the enormous influence of his treatise The Art of Playing on the Violin is positioned in a continuum which extends to Ivan Galamian.Outside music these studies examine the effect of Freemasonry on Geminiani's career, and his frequent recourse to law to defend his rights. On his own admission, Geminiani preferred dealing in fine art to playing the violin -- a claim always derided by earlier writers, but in fact easily defended by newly available evidence of his highly successful sales.The reception of Geminiani's music is also re-assessed and his apparent decline in public favour is explained; many new sources contradict the accepted and dismissive opinions of Charles Burney and John Hawkins, and the supportive enthusiasm of his main British advocate, Charles Avison, is given its rightful position. Questions of present-day performance values are also contrasted with Geminiani's philosophy, and many leads presented for the future investigation of this enigmatic but individual genius.
SKU: HL.49007761
ISBN 9783795718688. German.
Diese Auswahl von Vortragen, Essays und Kritiken, die anlasslich des 70. Geburtstags des Autors erscheint, versammelt nicht nur Beitrage zur Musik der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, sondern bietet daruber hinaus gedankenreiche Reflexionen uber die Rolle von Musikkritik und Musikwissenschaft in unserer Zeit sowie Beobachtungen zum Musikleben in der Schweiz und insbesondere zum Werk Paul Hindemiths.
SKU: GI.G-7314
ISBN 9781579997212. English.
Every great thinker and innovator, no matter the depth and breadth of his work, has moments of reflection on the business of living. Although the level of commitment required to take an insight from an “ah-ha!” moment to a fully realized groundbreaking concept is high (some would say, even life-consuming), even in the midst of such an endeavor, there is time to think on the small (and not so small) aspects of what it means to be human, what it means to get along in the world.Edwin E. Gordon is perhaps the world’s principal thinker and researcher in music education. But, as with other great thinkers, Gordon has had many moments of reflection on the business of living. In Whittled Wordscapes, he shares his thoughts on a wide variety of topics, from Money, Athletics, and the Arts, to Mazeltov, from What Is Intelligence? To Yellow Pads and Computers. In this collection of 54 brief essays Gordon shares thoughts and insights that are inspiring, challenging, and always thought-provoking.Whittled Wordscapes is a rare glimpse of a great thinker’s mind as he considers what makes the world tick. As you read, you will discover your own “ah-ha!” moments, and will find yourself pondering what Gordon says long after putting down this fascinating book.
SKU: UT.APS-8
ISBN 9788881094967. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
Saggi di Giacomo Albert, Nicola Bernardini, Remy Campos, Michael Dias, Mylene Gioffredo, Jonathan Goldman, Robert Hasegawa, Joel V. Hunt, Anna Stoll Knecht, Benjamin M. Korstvedt, Federico Lazzaro, Alessandra Carlotta Pellegrini, Camille Rondeau, Friedemann SallisA growing number of music scholars have lately shifted their attention from musical works to the creative processes that produced them. The study of these processes serves as a springboard for interdisciplinary research that goes beyond the traditional boundaries of musical philology. These recent orientations adopt a heuristic approach to musical craft in the composer's workshop and build on the rich heritage of sketch studies, while incorporating psychological, anthropological, sociological, historical and analytical methods. The study of the creative process in music also seeks to adapt the apparatus of literary critique genetique. Scholars of creative process also regularly turn their attention to artistic situations in which sketches and scores may not be available as loci of investigation and seek to adapt the tools of creativity studies to research not only on composers, but also performers, improvisers, and even artistic directors, recording engineers, radio producers, commissioners or any other actor in the musical field.Texts and Beyond offers new orientations in the study of the creative process in music. The essays included here show a particular interest in unfinished works and in the logic of their completion, as well as in the creative interaction of music coupled with other arts. In twelve chapters and an Afterword, this volume explores a wide variety of topics, including compositions by Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler, Charles Koechlin, Giacinto Scelsi, Henry Brant, Luciano Berio, Brian Ferneyhough, Jacques Hetu and Jose Evangelista, as well as extending to the realm of ballet staging, composing for the cinema and video art.
SKU: BR.BV-381
50 Jahren nach Erscheinen des Operntexts 1952. Symposion
ISBN 9783765103810. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
The series of writings by Eisler begins with a theme that is just as timely and engrossing today as it was fifty years ago: Hanns Eisler's abortive opera project Johann Faustus. The essays of the 2002 Berlin Congress shed light on various aspects of Eisler's ambitious plan, from his text montage and musical conception to the controversy of the Faustus debate. The essays present Faustus in the context of the cultural-political vision of a German national opera and the political situation shortly before the uprisings in East Germany in 1953.
SKU: HL.49020772
ISBN 9783254000323. German.
Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann, zu ihren Lebzeiten eine der hervorragenden Gesangspadagoginnen und in ihrem Fach eine europaische Autoritat, behandelt das schwierige Gebiet der Stimmbildung so interessant, weitgreifend und witzig, mit solcher Prazision und Fasslichkeit der Sprache, dass das Buch - als Standardwerk unentbehrlich fur Sanger und Sangerinnen, fur Padagogen, Opernvorstande, Chorleiter, Komponisten und Kritiker - auch von jedem am Gesang Interessierten mit Gewinn gelesen werden kann. In 312 alphabetisch geordneten Essays beantwortet das Nachschlagewerk mit wissenschaftlicher Grundlichkeit die Fragen, die im Laufe eines Gesangstudiums, im Berufsleben von Sanger und Sangerin, in Opern-Engagement und Konzerttatigkeit auftauchen.
SKU: GI.G-001709
English or Spanish Bilingual.
Certainly one of the most notable liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council was a renewal of the place of god's word in the liturgy. In the newest of the Worship Works series, a bilingual collection of essays explores different facets of this renewed role for the scriptures. Each article is offered both in English and Spanish. Clergy who preach, liturgists, musicians, worship committees, scripture study groups, and catechists will all benefit from these brief and accessible essays about the word of God, living and active in our prayer.
SKU: FP.FPT06
ISBN 9780951479544.
Endless Fascination brings together Thomas Pitfield’s most significant autobiographical writings, new critical essays reappraising his work, and the recollections of family, friends, pupils and colleagues. It is illustrated with portraits, musical examples and over 100 reproductions of his art and craft works, supplemented by a CD of music by the composer and his acquaintances.Thomas Pitfield (1903-1999) was born in Bolton, Lancashire, into a conventional and narrow-minded working-class family. Drawn to music and driven by a compelling urge to compose, he overcame initial setbacks and lived according to principles he worked out for himself, maintaining a modest and honest lifestyle directed by the precepts of vegetarianism and pacifism, and keeping faith with his innate gifts to make a living and a home for himself and his like-minded wife Alice. He became a notable and prolific composer who enjoyed numerous performances and broadcasts of his works, especially in the North West region of England, some by leading artists such as John Barbirolli, Vilém Tauský, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, John McCabe, and Ronald Stevenson. His music, often written for specific occasions or performers, was typically light-hearted and small-scale, with frequent reference to folk-music; larger-scale pieces included two piano concertos, concertos for violin, cello and recorder, and more than a dozen stage works. He was also an artist, craftsman and poet (with an enthusiasm for nonsense verse), whose work reflects the revival of interest in the arts and crafts during the first half of the 20th century. Running as a thread though everything he did was his unswerving love for the natural world and in particular the beauty of trees.
SKU: UT.APS-7
ISBN 9788881094912. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
Saggi di Mathias Auclair, Jean-Christophe Branger, Simone Ciolfi, Matthew Franke, Vincent Giroud, Stephanie Klauk, Hugh Macdonald, Jürgen Maehder, Claire Paolacci, Jann Pasler, Marco Pollaci, Alban Ramaut, Manuela Rita, Tommaso Sabbatini, Sabine Teulon LardicThe Mediterranean world represented an inspiring cultural and social environment Jules Massenet. It provided him, in his operas and instrumental music, with characters and scenes that enabled him to interpret the spiritual and psychological tensions of the late Romantic period. For Massenet the Mediterranean world had broad boundaries in both time and place; it included Roman history, the antique Orient, and also the South of Spain, Italy and France, with their magical, sometimes sinful, nuances. Consequently, Massenet’s engagement with Mediterranean culture is dual-faceted, encompassing antique Roman and Oriental societies, with their mysterious, sensual suggestions useful for passionate opera plots, and contemporary Mediterranean societies, suitable for a more picturesque approach.This book reflects these two tendencies. The essays analyse the basic duality, but also introduce an additional viewpoint: the reception of Massenet’s music in his contemporary Mediterranean world. The analytical approaches represent an enquiry into the reception of Mediterranean compositional theory in Massenet’s training.The figure of Massenet and his music has been neglected by scholarship over the last two decades. This book aims to fill this gap with a subject not tied exclusively to music but encompassing the impact of a specific cultural dimension on the composer and his music. This dimension is broad in time and place, but no less specific for this breadth. This novel approach is one we have tried to maintain throughout the contributions. Although the enquiry is never-ending, the contributors hope that their combined effort as embodied in this book might provide a basis for further research.
SKU: UT.APS-4
ISBN 9788881094677. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
Essays by Tomasz Baranowski, Andrzej Chwalba, Stephen Downes, Peter Franklin, Stefan Keym, Ryszard D. Golianek, Agata Mierzejewska, Michael Murphy, Jadwiga Paja-Stach, Luca Sala, Renata Suchowiejko, Emma Sutton, Andrzej Tuchowski, Alistair Wightman, James L. ZychowiczIn this volume I aim to examine the figure of Mieczyslaw Karlowicz in the broader sociocultural context which fostered his work. The attempt to contextualize an immense intellectual patrimony -- despite being restricted to a tiny number of works when compared to more prolific authors, especially in the context of the xix and the xx centuries -- is always a complex and hazardous task. My primary intention in organizing the volume has been to explicate Karlowicz the man as well as Karlowicz the composer, against the complex background of the European fin-de-siecle. The various essays aim to present the reader with an exhaustive reconstruction of Karlowicz's intellectual work. Karlowicz's oeuvre offers a broad artistic portrayal of Poland at the end of the nineteenth century as a fast-evolving country, politically divided and filled with contradictions. Hence the necessity to investigate the fin-de-siecle context with its social and historical implications, showing the influence of the European cultural milieu on the composer's poetics and on his thought. We shall examine the spectrum of relationships and affinities linking Karlowicz's works to the Polish cultural world (on the wave of the rising 'autochthonous' avant-garde movements) and to the wider cultural life pulsating beyond its borders, with special reference to German Wagnerism and Symphonism. Essentially, we are striving to define the uniqueness of his oeuvre, which -- in relation to the manifold influences co-existing in Poland, an insubstantial nation from the political viewpoint and divided along three socio-cultural fronts -- could be defined as distinctively Polish, yet ultimately European. (Luca Sala).
SKU: BR.MN-717
ISBN 9783765199158. 6 x 9 inches.
In sieben Vortragen und Essays thematisiert der Autor die eigentlich untrennbare, im musikalischen Alltag aber fast vergessene Beziehung zwischen klassischer Musik und Improvisation. Arnold Schonberg bezeichnete seine eigenen Kompositionen als verlangsamte Improvisation, viele Jazzmusiker bezeichnen ihr musikalisches Tun als Instant Composing. Der Dirigent Wilhelm Furtwangler erinnerte in seinen Aufzeichnungen uber Musik immer wieder daran, dass auch komplexe musikalische Strukturen wie Fuge oder klassische Sonatenform letztlich aus der Improvisation heraus entstanden sind und daher improvisatorischen (d.i. organisch aus dem Ganzen heraus sich entfaltenden) Gesetzmassigkeiten gehorchen.Volker Biesenbender argumentiert, dass aus diesem Grund auch das Erlernen und Uben eines Musikinstrumentes zum guten Teil aus einem improvisierenden Zugang heraus, namlich vor allem uber das Ohr und das Horen erfolgen sollte.
SKU: BR.BV-487
ISBN 9783765104879. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
The book by Constantin Floros is an expanded new issue of his 1979 Mozart-Studien I. The collection of papers and essays from 1963 to 1978 published at that time has been augmented by several more recent studies. Whereas the earlier texts concern Mozart's overtures, operas, and symphonies, together with especially the stylistic levels of his opera music and church music in general, the more recent articles deal with topics such as merriment and melancholy, tragedy and comedy or cantabile qualities, including stage aesthetics or questions of reception as well. The collected works document the Greco-German author's lifelong engagement with Mozart's music.