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Two-dimensional sonata form : form and cycle in single-movement instrumental works by Liszt, Strauss, Schoenberg, and Zemlinsky
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ISBN: 9789058677518 9058677516 9789461660145 Year: 2009 Publisher: Leuven : Leuven University Press

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Two-Dimensional Sonata Form is the first book dedicated to the combination of the movements of a multimovement sonata cycle with an overarching single-movement form that is itself organized as a sonata form. Drawing on a variety of historical and recent approaches to musical form (e.g., Marxian and Schoenbergian Formenlehre, Caplin's theory of formal functions, and Hepokoski and Darcy's Sonata Theory), it begins by developing an original theoretical framework for the analysis of this type of form that is so characteristic of the later nineteenth and early twentieth century. It then offers an in-depth examination of nine exemplary works by four Central European composers: the Piano Sonata in B minor and the symphonic poems Tasso and Die Ideale by Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss's tone poems Don Juan and Ein Heldenleben, the symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande, the First String Quartet and the First Chamber Symphony by Arnold Schoenberg, and Alexander Zemlinsky's Second String Quartet.


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Music as discourse : semiotic adventures in romantic music.
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ISBN: 9780195370249 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press


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The sounds and sights of performance in early music : essays in honour of Timothy J. McGee.
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ISBN: 9780754654834 0754654834 9781315085227 9781351540445 9781138264984 Year: 2009 Publisher: Surrey Ashgate

Eisenstein on the audiovisual : the montage of music, image and sound in the cinema.
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ISBN: 9781845118396 1845118391 Year: 2009 Publisher: London Tauris Academic Studies

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The pioneering film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein is known for the unequalled impact his films have had on the development of cinema. Less is known about his remarkable and extensive writings, which present a continent of ideas about film._x000D__x000D_Robert Robertson presents a lucid and engaging introduction to a key area of Eisenstein's thought: his ideas about the audiovisual in cinema, which are more pertinent today than ever before. With the advent of digital technology, music and sound now act as independent variables combined with the visual medium to produce a truly audiov


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Brahms and his world
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ISBN: 1282665804 9786612665806 1400833620 0691143447 0691143439 9781400833627 9780691143446 9780691143439 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey

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Since its first publication in 1990, Brahms and His World has become a key text for listeners, performers, and scholars interested in the life, work, and times of one of the nineteenth century's most celebrated composers. In this substantially revised and enlarged edition, the editors remain close to the vision behind the original book while updating its contents to reflect new perspectives on Brahms that have developed over the past two decades. To this end, the original essays by leading experts are retained and revised, and supplemented by contributions from a new generation of Brahms scholars. Together, they consider such topics as Brahms's relationship with Clara and Robert Schumann, his musical interactions with the "New German School" of Wagner and Liszt, his influence upon Arnold Schoenberg and other young composers, his approach to performing his own music, and his productive interactions with visual artists. The essays are complemented by a new selection of criticism and analyses of Brahms's works published by the composer's contemporaries, documenting the ways in which Brahms's music was understood by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century audiences in Europe and North America. A new selection of memoirs by Brahms's friends, students, and early admirers provides intimate glimpses into the composer's working methods and personality. And a catalog of the music, literature, and visual arts dedicated to Brahms documents the breadth of influence exerted by the composer upon his contemporaries.


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August Halm : a critical and creative life in music
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ISBN: 9781580463294 1580463290 9781580467131 9786612895111 158046713X 1282895117 Year: 2009 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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'August Halm: A Critical and Creative Life in Music' begins by setting the cultural stage and examining Halm's life with rich details from unpublished personal letters, diaries, notebooks, and lecture notes. Further chapters explore Halm's notion of musical logic and his proposal that the evolution of compositional technique had, by his day, culminated in three successive musical 'cultures' epitomized in Bach (fugue), Beethoven (sonata), and Bruckner (symphony). Another chapter examines, for the first time anywhere, Halm's own compositions, their motivating aesthetic premises, and their connection with late twentieth-century postmodernism. The volume closes with an assessment of Halm's significance for present-day music theory, including its branches that deal with narrativity, plot theory, embodiment, and semiotics. Halm's subject matter and creative activities ranged widely, and he aimed at maintaining a style that would be accessible and intriguing to music amateurs and music educators at all levels. Lee Rothfarb's book-written in the same spirit-will interest not only music theorists and musicologists but also composers and classroom and private music teachers. Lee Rothfarb is professor of music at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His previous publications include 'Ernst Kurth as Theorist and Analyst' and 'Ernst Kurth: Selected Writings'.


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Algorithmic Composition : Paradigms of Automated Music Generation
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ISBN: 321175539X 3211755403 Year: 2009 Publisher: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer,

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Algorithmic composition – composing by means of formalizable methods – has a century old tradition not only in occidental music history. This is the first book to provide a detailed overview of prominent procedures of algorithmic composition in a pragmatic way rather than by treating formalizable aspects in single works. In addition to an historic overview, each chapter presents a specific class of algorithm in a compositional context by providing a general introduction to its development and theoretical basis and describes different musical applications. Each chapter outlines the strengths, weaknesses and possible aesthetical implications resulting from the application of the treated approaches. Topics covered are: markov models, generative grammars, transition networks, chaos and self-similarity, genetic algorithms, cellular automata, neural networks and artificial intelligence are covered. The comprehensive bibliography makes this work ideal for the musician and the researcher alike.

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Algorithms. --- Composition (Music). --- Computer composition. --- Music --20th century --History and criticism. --- Music --20th century --Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Music theory --Mathematics. --- Musical analysis. --- Pattern formation (Physical sciences). --- Soft computing. --- Computer composition --- Composition (Music) --- Music theory --- Musical analysis --- Pattern formation (Physical sciences) --- Algorithms --- Soft computing --- Music --- Computer Science --- Music Instruction & Study --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Mathematics --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- History and criticism --- Mathematics. --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- History and criticism. --- Algorism --- Analysis, Musical --- Analytical guides (Music) --- Hermeneutics (Music) --- Music analysis --- Composing (Music) --- Music composing --- Music composition --- Musical composition --- Analysis, appreciation --- Analytical guides --- Composition --- Computer composition (Music) --- Music. --- Application software. --- Applied mathematics. --- Engineering mathematics. --- Computer mathematics. --- Applications of Mathematics. --- Mathematics, general. --- Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities. --- Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis. --- Algebra --- Arithmetic --- Foundations --- Concertante style --- Cognitive computing --- Electronic data processing --- Computational intelligence --- Chaotic behavior in systems --- Music appreciation --- Instruction and study --- Information systems. --- Computer science --- Computer mathematics --- Discrete mathematics --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Math --- Science --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Engineering --- Engineering analysis --- Mathematical analysis


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György Kurtág : three interviews and Ligeti homages
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ISBN: 1282895109 9786612895104 1580467245 1580463282 Year: 2009 Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press,

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Uniquely revealing interviews with one of the world's greatest living composers. Gy©œrgy Kurt©Łg (b. 1926) is widely regarded as one of the foremost composers in the second half of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first. Born in Romania, he received crucial training in Paris from Olivier Messiaen and Marianne Stein. He was also shaped by his broadening contact there with the music of Webern and such challenging literary works as the plays of Samuel Beckett. After many years in Hungary, teaching at the Budapest Academy of Music,Kurt©Łg settled near Bordeaux with his wife M©Łrta. The two regularly perform duo-recitals of his music. In 2006, his . . . concertante . . . (2003, for violin, viola and orchestra) won the coveted Grawemeyer Award for MusicComposition. This unique set of interviews with Kurt©Łg, alone or with his wife, gives a fascinating insight into the composer's personality, which is marked by shyness but also an unquenchable thirst for impressions of every kind [artistic, natural and human]. The two speak with disarming openness about their lives -- the background against which masterpieces like Messages of the Late Miss R. V. Troussova (1976-80, for soprano and chamber orchestra) or Stele (1994, for orchestra) were written. The analysis of certain of Kurt©Łg's works, especially of . . . concertante . . ., shows the way that his mind works: no system, no dogma, no formulae -- rather, basic human emotions expressed through means that speak directly to the listener's innermost feelings. The Hungarian music publisher B©Łlint Andr©Łs Varga has spent nearly forty years working for and with composers.He has published several books, including extensive interviews with Lutoslawski, Berio, and Xenakis.

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Composers --- Kurtág, György --- Songwriters --- Musicians --- Hungary. --- Dēmokratia tēs Oungarias --- Gweriniaeth Hwngari --- Hanekeria --- Hangarī --- Hongaarse Republiek --- Hongaria --- Hongarije --- Hongarye --- Hŏnggari --- Hongria --- Hongrie --- Honharije --- Hunakalia --- Hungara Respubliko --- Hungari --- Hungaria --- Hungariako Errepublika --- Hungarian Republic --- Hungariar Errepublika --- Hungario --- Hungarujo --- Hungaryah --- Hungría --- Hungrii --- Hwngari --- Jamhuri ya Hungaria --- Lepulika o Hungary --- Lýðveldið Ungverjaland --- Macaristan --- Macaristan Cumhuriyeti --- Macarıstan Respublikası --- Mađarska --- Mad̕arská republika --- Maďarsko --- Madi︠a︡rshchyna --- Madjaristan --- Madžarska --- Madźary --- Madzhar --- Madzhar Respublika --- Magyar Köztársaság (Republic) --- Magyar Népköztársaság --- Magyar Republic --- Magyar Tanácsköztársaság --- Magyarország (Republic) --- Majarstan Jȯmḣu̇rii︠a︡te --- Majoriston --- Mazharstan --- Mazharstan Respublikasy --- Ohorsʹka Respublika --- Ongaria --- Ongiri --- Ongria --- Oonguri --- Oungaria --- Pobblaght ny h-Ungaar --- Poblacht na hUngáire --- Republic of Hungary --- República da Hungria --- República de Hungría --- República d'Hongria --- Republica d'Ongria --- Republica Ungară --- Republica Ungaria --- Republica Ungrese --- Republiek van Hongarye --- Republik bu Oonguri --- Republik Hongaria --- Republik Ungarn --- Republika e Hungarisë --- Republika Mađarska --- Republika Madžarska --- Republika ng Unggarya --- Republika Ungarija --- Republika Węgierska --- Republikang Unggaro --- Republiken Ungern --- Republikken Ungarn --- République de Hongrie --- Repúvlika de Madjaristan --- Respublica Hungarica --- Tjóðveldið Ungarn --- Tlācatlahtohcāyōtl Hungria --- Uhorshchyna --- Uhorsʹka Respublika --- Ungaar --- Ungaïa --- Ungáir --- Ungar --- Ungari --- Ungari Vabariik --- Ungaria --- Ungarii︠a︡ --- Ungārija --- Ungārijas Republika --- Ungarn --- Ungarskata republika --- Ungerija --- Ungern --- Unggarya --- Unggriya --- Ungheria --- Unghirìa --- Ungri --- Ungverjaland --- Unkari --- Unkarin tasavalta --- V.N.R. --- Vengerskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Vengerskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Vengrėjė --- Vengrėjės Respoblėka --- Vengrii︠a︡ --- Vengrii︠a︡ Respublikasy --- Vengrija --- Vengrijos respublika --- Vengriya --- Vengriya Respublikasi --- Venhryi︠a︡ --- VNR --- Węgry --- Xiongyali --- Xiongyali gong he guo --- Xiongyali Gongheguo --- Composers. --- Cultural Influences. --- Emotions. --- György Kurtág. --- Interviews. --- Modern Music. --- Music Analysis. --- Music Composition. --- Samuel Beckett. --- Kurt́ag, György

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