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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... compositions intended for the concert hall but involv- ing biblical or liturgical texts—Handel's Messiah, for example, or the Verdi Requiem? But let us return to the Bach Passions and consider some of the differences between hearing one ...
... compositions intended for the concert hall but involv- ing biblical or liturgical texts—Handel's Messiah, for example, or the Verdi Requiem? But let us return to the Bach Passions and consider some of the differences between hearing one ...
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... compositions - the cantatas as much as the Passions deal with issues that go beyond matters of faith and dogma . To take just one obvious and dramatic example in the Passion story : be- trayal . There is the sad figure of Judas , of ...
... compositions - the cantatas as much as the Passions deal with issues that go beyond matters of faith and dogma . To take just one obvious and dramatic example in the Passion story : be- trayal . There is the sad figure of Judas , of ...
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... compositions were created by composers who never darkened the doors of a church unless to perform or listen to music , who subscribed to no orthodoxy , whose faith was shaky or outright nonexistent , who were engaged in an unceasing ...
... compositions were created by composers who never darkened the doors of a church unless to perform or listen to music , who subscribed to no orthodoxy , whose faith was shaky or outright nonexistent , who were engaged in an unceasing ...
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... composition; allowed him to get to know Kirchner's own teacher, Roger Sessions, a humane and compassionate presence at a time when Adams, like so many of us, was depressed by what was going on in Vietnam; brought him the practical ...
... composition; allowed him to get to know Kirchner's own teacher, Roger Sessions, a humane and compassionate presence at a time when Adams, like so many of us, was depressed by what was going on in Vietnam; brought him the practical ...
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... composition that in its dark complexity is characteristic of this profound composer. The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to the Evangelist John, BWV 245 Some of the music in the Saint John Passion goes back to Bach's years at ...
... composition that in its dark complexity is characteristic of this profound composer. The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to the Evangelist John, BWV 245 Some of the music in the Saint John Passion goes back to Bach's years at ...
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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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