The Annotated Rhapsody In Blue

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George Gershwin The Annotated Rhapsody In Blue

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Author : George Gershwin
language : en
Publisher: Alfred Music
Release Date : 1997-01-31

George Gershwin The Annotated Rhapsody In Blue written by George Gershwin and has been published by Alfred Music this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-31 with Music categories.

Rhapsody in Blue has been restored to Gershwin's original manuscript by the talented Alicia Zizzo. This special edition includes an addendum to the two piano, four hands edition and the fully restored piano manuscript. When preparing the Rhapsody in Blue for publication, editors at Sam Harms Music Co. applied their own 19th century compositional conservatory training to the piece. With good intentions and due respect to Gershwin, they discreetly altered chords, phrases, dynamics, and accents, deleting whole passages to create a more concise work. Oddly, with the exception of four bars, all the deletions were from the piano solo sections, leaving the orchestration mostly undisturbed. Over 50 measures were deleted from the manuscript for the two-piano, four-hands publication, and the piece was shortened by several minutes. Approximately 80 measures were deleted from the original manuscript for the piano solo version and the editors used the second piano/orchestral reduction as a basis for it, further distancing the piano solo edition from Gershwin's original intent. After 70 years, the majesty of the complete Rhapsody in Blue as originally conceived and performed is finally available to future generations in this special annotated edition.

Jazz In Print 1859 1929

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Author : Karl Koenig
language : en
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Release Date : 2002

Jazz In Print 1859 1929 written by Karl Koenig and has been published by Pendragon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

This anthology was compiled to aid the scholar working on the origins and evolution of jazz. Covering materials published through 1929, it also begins with articles from 1856 which do not concern jazz directly, but will serve to present a solid foundation for understanding the American music scene from which jazz developed. Chronologically listed and well-indexed, the hundreds of articles comprise, in effect, a history of jazz as it evolved. Beginning with accounts of negro music in the pre-jazz era, continuing in an exploration of spirituals, followed by a description of ragtime, we finally learn about the development of jazz from its practitioners and informed audiences of the time.

The Annotated Rhapsody In Blue

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Author : George Gershwin
language : en
Publisher: Alfred Music
Release Date : 1996

The Annotated Rhapsody In Blue written by George Gershwin and has been published by Alfred Music this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Music categories.

Originally for piano and orchestra; arr. for piano solo./ "Includes the addendum to the 2 piano/4 hands edition and the fully restored piano manuscript"--Cover./ Includes foreword and commentary on the manuscript by Alicia Zizzo (p. [2]-15), and biographical notes on the editor

A Topical Guide To Schenkerian Literature

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Author : David Carson Berry
language : en
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Release Date : 2004

A Topical Guide To Schenkerian Literature written by David Carson Berry and has been published by Pendragon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

To the growing list of Pendragon Press publications devoted to the work of Heinrich Schenker, we wish to announce the addition of this much-needed bibliography. The author, a student of Allen Forte, has created a work useful to a wide range of researchers music theorists, musicologists, music librarians and teachers. The Guide is the largest Schenkerian reference work ever published. At nearly 600 pages, it contains 3600 entries (2200 principal, 1400 secondary) representing the work of 1475 authors. Fifteen broad groupings encompass seventy topical headings, many of which are divided and subdivided again, resulting in a total of 271 headings under which entries are collected.

Leonard Bernstein In Context

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Author : Elizabeth A. Wells
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-03-28

Leonard Bernstein In Context written by Elizabeth A. Wells and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

A wide-ranging introduction to one of the twentieth century's most famous cultural icons: pianist, conductor, composer and educator Leonard Bernstein.

Beyond Ethnicity Consent And Descent In American Culture

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Author : Werner Sollors Professor of American Literature and Afro-American Studies Harvard University
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1986-02-27

Beyond Ethnicity Consent And Descent In American Culture written by Werner Sollors Professor of American Literature and Afro-American Studies Harvard University and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-02-27 with Literary Criticism categories.

Nothing is "pure" in America, and, indeed, the rich ethnic mix that constitutes our society accounts for much of its amazing vitality. Werner Sollors's new book takes a wide-ranging look at the role of "ethnicity" in American literature and what that literature has said--and continues to say--about our diverse culture. Ethnic consciousness, he contends, is a constituent feature of modernism, not modernism's antithesis. Discussing works from every period of American history, Sollors focuses particularly on the tension between "descent" and "consent"--between the concern for one's racial, ethnic, and familial heritage and the conflicting desire to choose one's own destiny, even if that choice goes against one's heritage. Some of the stories Sollors examines are retellings of the biblical Exodus--stories in which Americans of the most diverse origins have painted their own histories as an escape from bondage or a search for a new Canaan. Other stories are "American-made" tales of melting-pot romance, which may either triumph in intermarriage, accompanied by new world symphonies, or end with the lovers' death. Still other stories concern voyages of self-discovery in which the hero attempts to steer a perilous course between stubborn traditionalism and total assimilation. And then there are the generational sagas, in which, as if by magic, the third generation emerges as the fulfillment of their forebears' dream. Citing examples that range from the writings of Cotton Mather to Liquid Sky (a "post-punk" science fiction film directed by a Russian emigre), Sollors shows how the creators of American culture have generally been attracted to what is most new and modern. About the Author: Werner Sollors is Chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department at Harvard University and the author of Amiri Baraka: The Quest for a Populist Modernism. A provocative and original look at "ethnicity" in American literature DTCovers stories from all periods of our nation's history DTRelates ethnic literature to the principle of literary modernism DT"Grave and hilarious, tender and merciless...The book performs a public service."-Quentin Anderson

Virgil Thomson Music Chronicles 1940 1954 Loa 258

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Author : Virgil Thomson
language : en
Publisher: Library of America
Release Date : 2014-10-16

Virgil Thomson Music Chronicles 1940 1954 Loa 258 written by Virgil Thomson and has been published by Library of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-16 with Music categories.

Revisit America’s Golden Age of classical music through the witty and wildly popular reviews of our greatest critic-composer For fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. An accomplished composer who knew music from the inside, Thomson communicated its pleasures and complexities to a wide readership in a hugely entertaining, authoritative style, and his daily reviews and Sunday articles set a high-water mark in American cultural journalism. Thomson collected his newspaper columns in four volumes: The Musical Scene, The Art of Judging Music, Music Right and Left, and Music Reviewed. All are gathered here, together with a generous selection of Thomson’s uncollected writings. The result is a singular chronicle of a magical time when an unrivaled roster of great conductors (Koussevitzky, Toscanini, Beecham, Stokowski) and legendary performers (Horowitz, Rubinstein, Heifetz, Stern) presented new masters (Copland, Stravinsky, Britten, Bernstein) and re-introduced the classics to a rapt American audience. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

I Got Rhythm Variations

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Author : George Gershwin
language : en
Publisher: Alfred Music
Release Date : 2003

I Got Rhythm Variations written by George Gershwin and has been published by Alfred Music this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Music categories.

For the first time, I Got Rhythm" Variations, which was formerly only available as a two-piano edition has been arranged for the solo pianist. Edited and transcribed by Dr. Alicia Zizzo, one of America's foremost Gershwin scholars."

The Analysis Of George Gershwin S Rhapsody In Blue For Piano Solo

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Author : Ting-Wei Lee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009

The Analysis Of George Gershwin S Rhapsody In Blue For Piano Solo written by Ting-Wei Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.

Clavier

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

Clavier written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Music categories.