Author: James Anthony
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393303568
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Giovanni Battista Lulli, a young Florentine who settled in Paris, intrigued his way into all the major musical appointments at the court of Louis XIV and--as Jean-Baptiste Lully--created the essentials of what we recognize as French music of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. No one dared to rival Lully as a composer of operas or ballet. But in the chapels, the two most gifted French choral composers of the age, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Michel-Richard de Lalande, brought French sacred music to a new peak of excellence. The leading instrumental composer around Louis XIV's court was Francois Couperin-le-Grand, master of the keyboard miniature. All these traditions were drawn together in the next generation by Jean-Philippe Rameau, theorist, 'philosophe,' and supreme master of the lyric tragedy. Book jacket.
The New Grove French Baroque Masters
Author: James Anthony
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393303568
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Giovanni Battista Lulli, a young Florentine who settled in Paris, intrigued his way into all the major musical appointments at the court of Louis XIV and--as Jean-Baptiste Lully--created the essentials of what we recognize as French music of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. No one dared to rival Lully as a composer of operas or ballet. But in the chapels, the two most gifted French choral composers of the age, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Michel-Richard de Lalande, brought French sacred music to a new peak of excellence. The leading instrumental composer around Louis XIV's court was Francois Couperin-le-Grand, master of the keyboard miniature. All these traditions were drawn together in the next generation by Jean-Philippe Rameau, theorist, 'philosophe,' and supreme master of the lyric tragedy. Book jacket.
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393303568
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Giovanni Battista Lulli, a young Florentine who settled in Paris, intrigued his way into all the major musical appointments at the court of Louis XIV and--as Jean-Baptiste Lully--created the essentials of what we recognize as French music of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. No one dared to rival Lully as a composer of operas or ballet. But in the chapels, the two most gifted French choral composers of the age, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Michel-Richard de Lalande, brought French sacred music to a new peak of excellence. The leading instrumental composer around Louis XIV's court was Francois Couperin-le-Grand, master of the keyboard miniature. All these traditions were drawn together in the next generation by Jean-Philippe Rameau, theorist, 'philosophe,' and supreme master of the lyric tragedy. Book jacket.
The New Grove French Baroque Masters
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780333390214
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780333390214
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Music of the French Baroque
Author: James R. Anthony
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521352635
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This volume of essays on Jean-Baptiste Lully and his musical legacy honours the distinguished French baroque scholar James R. Anthony. Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV, served as the principal architect of what would become known as the French style of music in the baroque era. The style he created strongly influenced the great musical figures in England (Purcell and Handel) and Germany (Bach and Telemann), but Lully's music itself has received little attention. Recently, through the efforts of scholars and musicians concerned with the performance practices of Lully's time, Lully's own music has begun to come alive in performance and recording. These essays, all by important baroque specialists, cover significant aspects of Lully's life and works and the French tradition he influenced. They constitute the first post-war collection of studies centred on Lully and form a fitting tribute to Professor Anthony whose own French baroque music provided a stimulus for the work of an emerging generation of scholars.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521352635
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This volume of essays on Jean-Baptiste Lully and his musical legacy honours the distinguished French baroque scholar James R. Anthony. Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV, served as the principal architect of what would become known as the French style of music in the baroque era. The style he created strongly influenced the great musical figures in England (Purcell and Handel) and Germany (Bach and Telemann), but Lully's music itself has received little attention. Recently, through the efforts of scholars and musicians concerned with the performance practices of Lully's time, Lully's own music has begun to come alive in performance and recording. These essays, all by important baroque specialists, cover significant aspects of Lully's life and works and the French tradition he influenced. They constitute the first post-war collection of studies centred on Lully and form a fitting tribute to Professor Anthony whose own French baroque music provided a stimulus for the work of an emerging generation of scholars.
Italian Baroque Masters
Author: Denis Arnold
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393303605
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most up-to-date body of musical knowledge ever gathered together.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393303605
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most up-to-date body of musical knowledge ever gathered together.
A History of Song
Author: Denis Stevens
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393005363
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Story of almost a thousand years of song, from the time of the troubadours, to the present day.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393005363
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Story of almost a thousand years of song, from the time of the troubadours, to the present day.
The New Grove Masters of Italian Opera
Author: Philip Gossett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393303612
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
These five biographies provide the first complete survey of Italian opera from the early buffo operas of Rossini to Verdi's great masterpieces, Otello and Falstaff, and the verismo operas of Puccini. Andrew Porter has been highly praised for his original and enlightening account of Verdi, and Philip Gossett has received similar acclaim for his treatment of Rossini. Porter, Gossett, William Ashbrooke, Julian Budden, Mosco Carner, and Friedrich Lippmann, all acknowledged experts in the field of Italian opera, combine to offer insight into the traditions and workings of one of the most fascinating periods in the history of opera. Book jacket.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393303612
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
These five biographies provide the first complete survey of Italian opera from the early buffo operas of Rossini to Verdi's great masterpieces, Otello and Falstaff, and the verismo operas of Puccini. Andrew Porter has been highly praised for his original and enlightening account of Verdi, and Philip Gossett has received similar acclaim for his treatment of Rossini. Porter, Gossett, William Ashbrooke, Julian Budden, Mosco Carner, and Friedrich Lippmann, all acknowledged experts in the field of Italian opera, combine to offer insight into the traditions and workings of one of the most fascinating periods in the history of opera. Book jacket.
French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau
Author: James R. Anthony
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781574670219
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
First published in 1974, this landmark work quickly established itself as the definitive study of French music from 1581 to 1733, a period that included masters such as Marin Marais, Lully, Couperin, and Rameau. This expanded edition includes a bibliography of more than 1,300 works.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781574670219
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
First published in 1974, this landmark work quickly established itself as the definitive study of French music from 1581 to 1733, a period that included masters such as Marin Marais, Lully, Couperin, and Rameau. This expanded edition includes a bibliography of more than 1,300 works.
01 New Grove Russian Masters
Author: David Brown
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315851
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most up-to-date body of musical knowledge ever gathered together. The New Grove composer biographies have been selected from the dictionary to bring the finest of the biographies to a wider audience. Each has been expanded and updated for book publication and contains a comprehensive work-list, index, and fully revised bibliography, in addition to the definitive view of the subject's life and works. The great traditions of Russian music began in the mid-19th century with Mikhail Glinka—the father figure for the next generations of Russian composers. His direct heirs were 'The Five,' or 'The Mighty Handful,' drawn together by Mily Balakirev, the teacher of two leading figures in the group: Alexander Borodin, creator of Prince Igor and quartets of an unmistakably Russian flavor, and Modest Musorgsky, creator of the greatest Russian epics of the lyric stage. Slightly apart from this group because of his more cosmopolitan approach to his art stands the most-loved of all Russian composers, the ever-appealing Tchaikovsky.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315851
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most up-to-date body of musical knowledge ever gathered together. The New Grove composer biographies have been selected from the dictionary to bring the finest of the biographies to a wider audience. Each has been expanded and updated for book publication and contains a comprehensive work-list, index, and fully revised bibliography, in addition to the definitive view of the subject's life and works. The great traditions of Russian music began in the mid-19th century with Mikhail Glinka—the father figure for the next generations of Russian composers. His direct heirs were 'The Five,' or 'The Mighty Handful,' drawn together by Mily Balakirev, the teacher of two leading figures in the group: Alexander Borodin, creator of Prince Igor and quartets of an unmistakably Russian flavor, and Modest Musorgsky, creator of the greatest Russian epics of the lyric stage. Slightly apart from this group because of his more cosmopolitan approach to his art stands the most-loved of all Russian composers, the ever-appealing Tchaikovsky.
The New Grove Piano
Author: Edwin M. Ripin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393305180
Category : Pianists
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The New Grove Musical Instruments Series, a companion to the much acclaimed New Grove Composer Biography Series, presents in book form many of the lengthy and informative articles published in The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393305180
Category : Pianists
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The New Grove Musical Instruments Series, a companion to the much acclaimed New Grove Composer Biography Series, presents in book form many of the lengthy and informative articles published in The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments.
The New Grove Wagner
Author: John Deathridge
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315905
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Contains a concise . . . account of Wagner's life by John Deathridge and . . . a treatment of Wagner's music, aesthetics, and individual operas and music dramas by Carl Dahlhaus which is a tour de force. --Joseph Kerman, New York Review of Books
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315905
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Contains a concise . . . account of Wagner's life by John Deathridge and . . . a treatment of Wagner's music, aesthetics, and individual operas and music dramas by Carl Dahlhaus which is a tour de force. --Joseph Kerman, New York Review of Books