Choral Masterworks:A Listener's GuideOxford University Press, USA, 22.04.2005 - 336 Seiten Michael Steinberg's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony and The Concerto--have been universally praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now Steinberg follows these two greatly admired volumes with Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide, the only such guide available to this most popular of musical forms. Here are more than fifty illuminating essays on the classic choral masterworks, ranging from Handel's Messiah, Bach's Mass in B Minor, and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, to works by Haydn, Brahms, Mendelssohn, and many others. Steinberg spans the entire history of classical music, from such giants of the Romantic era as Verdi and Berlioz, to leading modern composers such as Elgar, Rachmaninoff, Vaughan Williams, and Stravinsky, to contemporary masters such as John Adams and Charles Wuorinen. For each piece, Steinberg includes a fascinating biographical account of the work's genesis, often spiced with wonderful asides, such as the true story of Mozart's Requiem--Salieri had nothing to do with the composition of it, nor did he poison Mozart, who most likely died of rheumatic fever. The author also includes an astute musical analysis of each piece, one that casual music lovers can easily appreciate and that musicians and more serious fans will find invaluable. The book also includes basic information such as the various movements of the work, the organization of the chorus and orchestra, and brief historical notes on early performances. More than twenty million Americans perform regularly in choirs or choruses. Choral Masterworks will appeal not only to concert goers and CD collectors, but also to this vast multitude of choral performers, an especially engaged and active community. |
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... Passion and Saint Matthew Passion; Beethoven's Missa solemnis; Brahms's Schicksalslied, Nänie, and Gesang der Parzen; Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius; the Handel-Mozart Messiah; Haydn's The Creation and The Seasons; Kodály's Psalmus ...
... Passion and Saint Matthew Passion; Beethoven's Missa solemnis; Brahms's Schicksalslied, Nänie, and Gesang der Parzen; Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius; the Handel-Mozart Messiah; Haydn's The Creation and The Seasons; Kodály's Psalmus ...
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... passion for clarity to bear on sometimes–unruly material as well as being generously helpful in a hun- dred ways. I am very grateful to Philip Brunelle and to Dean Streit at Frank Music (New York) for making some hard-to-get-hold-of ...
... passion for clarity to bear on sometimes–unruly material as well as being generously helpful in a hun- dred ways. I am very grateful to Philip Brunelle and to Dean Streit at Frank Music (New York) for making some hard-to-get-hold-of ...
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... Passions 16 Saint John Passion 18 Saint Matthew Passion 26 Magnificat 31 Mass in B Minor 34 BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis 45 BERLIOZ Requiem 61 BRAHMS A German Requiem 68 The Shorter Choral Works 75 Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) 76 Nänie ...
... Passions 16 Saint John Passion 18 Saint Matthew Passion 26 Magnificat 31 Mass in B Minor 34 BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis 45 BERLIOZ Requiem 61 BRAHMS A German Requiem 68 The Shorter Choral Works 75 Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) 76 Nänie ...
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... Passions have a significance and carry a meaning beyond the musical and the aesthetic. Which raises a multitude of ... Passion rather than a sermon? Also—and this is something I have been asked in all seriousness—do atheists, agnostics ...
... Passions have a significance and carry a meaning beyond the musical and the aesthetic. Which raises a multitude of ... Passion rather than a sermon? Also—and this is something I have been asked in all seriousness—do atheists, agnostics ...
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... Passion performances, but still, the appearance of these familiar tunes and mostly familiar words meant solid ground, home, reassurance amid Bach's thickets of counterpoint. 1Here I must resist the temptation to go on at length about ...
... Passion performances, but still, the appearance of these familiar tunes and mostly familiar words meant solid ground, home, reassurance amid Bach's thickets of counterpoint. 1Here I must resist the temptation to go on at length about ...
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BEETHOVEN | 45 |
BERLIOZ | 61 |
BRAHMS | 68 |
BRITTEN | 86 |
CHERUBINI | 97 |
JANÁCEK | 186 |
KODÁLY | 194 |
MENDELSSOHN | 200 |
MOZART | 210 |
ORFF | 230 |
RACHMANINOFF | 238 |
SCHMIDT | 243 |
SESSIONS | 252 |
DALLAPICCOLA | 104 |
DVORÁK | 113 |
ELGAR | 119 |
FAURÉ | 131 |
HANDEL | 138 |
HAYDN | 155 |
HONEGGER | 177 |
STRAVINSKY | 257 |
TIPPETT | 280 |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS | 288 |
VERDI | 301 |
WALTON | 311 |
WUORINEN | 317 |
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