The Life And Music Of Elizabeth Maconchy
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The Life And Music Of Elizabeth Maconchy
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Author : Erica Siegel
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2023-07-18
The Life And Music Of Elizabeth Maconchy written by Erica Siegel and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with Composers categories.
The first full-length biographical study of Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994). The British-born Irish composer (Dame) Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) is best known today for her cycle of thirteen string quartets, composed over five decades. And yet, her oeuvre ranges from large scale choral works, to ballets, operas, and symphonic scores. Having studied with Charles Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music, many of her compositions also garnered accolades from peers and established musical figures such as Gustav Holst, Donald Francis Tovey, and Henry Wood, among others. With access to a wealth of documentation previously unavailable, this book explores Maconchy's life and music within a greater consideration of the social and political context of the world in which she lived. While the influence of Bartók has been well documented, this book reveals the equally potent influence of Vaughan Williams on Maconchy's musical idiom. This book also discusses Maconchy's foray into administration and her advocacy of young composers through her work as the first woman to be elected Chairman of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain in 1959 and President of the Society for the Promotion of New Music following the death of Benjamin Britten in 1976. It will be required reading for those interested in the lives of women composers, twentieth-century British music, and musical modernism.
Music Life And Changing Times Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy And Grace Williams 1927 77
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Author : Sophie Fuller
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-09-23
Music Life And Changing Times Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy And Grace Williams 1927 77 written by Sophie Fuller and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-23 with Music categories.
At this book's core is a critical edition of letters exchanged over 50 years between Anglo-Irish composer Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and the Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-1977). These two innovative and talented women are highly regarded for their music, their professional activities, and their roles in British musical life. The edition comprises around 353 letters from 1927 to 1977, none of which have been published before, along with scholarly introductions and contextualisation. Interwoven commentaries, in tandem with carefully constructed appendices, frame the letter texts. Moreover, the commentaries and introductory essays highlight and track the development of important themes and issues that characterise the study of twentieth-century British music today. This edition presents a dialogue, through both sides of a unique correspondence, offering an alternative commentary on musical and cultural developments of this period.
Music Life And Changing Times Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy And Grace Williams 1927 77
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Author : Jennifer R. Doctor
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-06-30
Music Life And Changing Times Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy And Grace Williams 1927 77 written by Jennifer R. Doctor and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-30 with categories.
At this book's core is a critical edition of letters exchanged over 50 years between Anglo-Irish composer Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and the Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-1977). These two innovative and talented women are highly regarded for their music, their professional activities and their roles in British musical life. The edition comprises around 200 letters from 1927 to 1977, none of which have been published before, along with scholarly introductions and contextualizations. Interwoven commentaries, in tandem with carefully constructed appendices, frame the letter texts. Moreover, the commentaries and introductory essays highlight and track the development of important themes and issues that characterize the study of twentieth-century British music today. This edition presents a dialogue, through both sides of a unique correspondence, offering an alternative commentary on musical and cultural developments of this period.
Music Life And Changing Times Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy And Grace Williams 1927 77
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Author : Jenny Doctor
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-03-25
Music Life And Changing Times Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy And Grace Williams 1927 77 written by Jenny Doctor and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-25 with Music categories.
At this book's core is a critical edition of letters exchanged over 50 years between Anglo-Irish composer Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and the Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-1977). These two innovative and talented women are highly regarded for their music, their professional activities and their roles in British musical life. The edition comprises around 200 letters from 1927 to 1977, none of which have been published before, along with scholarly introductions and contextualizations. Interwoven commentaries, in tandem with carefully constructed appendices, frame the letter texts. Moreover, the commentaries and introductory essays highlight and track the development of important themes and issues that characterize the study of twentieth-century British music today. This edition presents a dialogue, through both sides of a unique correspondence, offering an alternative commentary on musical and cultural developments of this period.
Elizabeth Maconchy
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Author : Christa Brüstle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Elizabeth Maconchy written by Christa Brüstle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Music Life And Changing Times Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy And Grace Williams 1927 77
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Author : Fik Meijer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1992
Music Life And Changing Times Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy And Grace Williams 1927 77 written by Fik Meijer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Business & Economics categories.
At this book's core is a critical edition of letters exchanged over 50 years between Anglo-Irish composer Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and the Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-1977). These two innovative and talented women are highly regarded for their music, their professional activities and their roles in British musical life. The edition comprises around 200 letters from 1927 to 1977, none of which have been published before, along with scholarly introductions and contextualizations. Interwoven commentaries, in tandem with carefully constructed appendices, frame the letter texts. Moreover, the commentaries and introductory essays highlight and track the development of important themes and issues that characterize the study of twentieth-century British music today. This edition presents a dialogue, through both sides of a unique correspondence, offering an alternative commentary on musical and cultural developments of this period.
The Cambridge Companion To Women In Music Since 1900
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Author : Laura Hamer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-06
The Cambridge Companion To Women In Music Since 1900 written by Laura Hamer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-06 with Music categories.
An overview of women's work in classical and popular music since 1900 as performers, composers, educators and music technologists.
Music In Edwardian London
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Author : Simon McVeigh
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2024-05-21
Music In Edwardian London written by Simon McVeigh and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-21 with History categories.
Traversing London's musical culture, this book boldly illuminates the emergence of Edwardian London as a beacon of musical innovation. The dawning of a new century saw London emerge as a hub in a fast-developing global music industry, mirroring Britain's pivotal position between the continent, the Americas and the British Empire. It was a period of expansion, experiment and entrepreneurial energy. Rather than conservative and inward-looking, London was invigorated by new ideas, from pioneering musical comedy and revue to the modernist departures of Debussy and Stravinsky. Meanwhile, Elgar, Holst, Vaughan Williams, and a host of ambitious younger composers sought to reposition British music in a rapidly evolving soundscape. Music was central to society at every level. Just as opulent theatres proliferated in the West End, concert life was revitalised by new symphony orchestras, by the Queen's Hall promenade concerts, and by Sunday concerts at the vast Albert Hall. Through innumerable band and gramophone concerts in the parks, music from Wagner to Irving Berlin became available as never before. The book envisions a burgeoning urban culture through a series of snapshots - daily musical life in all its messy diversity. While tackling themes of cosmopolitanism and nationalism, high and low brows, centres and peripheries, it evokes contemporary voices and characterful individuals to illuminate the period. Challenging issues include the barriers faced by women and people of colour, and attitudes inhibiting the new generation of British composers - not to mention embedded imperialist ideologies reflecting London's precarious position at the centre of Empire. Engagingly written, Simon McVeigh's groundbreaking book reveals the exhilarating transformation of music in Edwardian London, which laid the foundations for the century to come.
Interwar Symphonies And The Imagination
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Author : Emily MacGregor
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-01-31
Interwar Symphonies And The Imagination written by Emily MacGregor and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-31 with Music categories.
The symphony has long been entangled with ideas of self and value. Though standard historical accounts suggest that composers' interest in the symphony was almost extinguished in the early 1930s, this book makes plain the genre's continued cultural dominance, and argues that the symphony can illuminate issues around space/geography, race, and postcolonialism in Germany, France, Mexico, and the United States. Focusing on a number of symphonies composed or premiered in 1933, this book recreates some of the cultural and political landscapes of an uncertain historical moment-a year when Hitler took power in Germany, and the Great Depression reached its peak in the United States. Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination asks what North American and European symphonies from the early 1930s can tell us about how people imagined selfhood during a period of international insecurity and political upheaval, of expansionist and colonial fantasies, scientised racism, and emergent fascism.
The Woman Composer
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Author : Jill Halstead
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Woman Composer written by Jill Halstead and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Music categories.
Unlike previous anthologizing examinations of women and musical composition, this book concentrates on the reasons why there have been, and continue to be, so few women composers. Jill Halstead focuses on the experiences of nine composers born in the twentieth century (Avril Coleridge Taylor, Grace Williams, Elizabeth Maconchy, Minna Keal, Ruth Gipps, Antoinette Kirkwood, Enid Luff, Judith Bailey and Bryony Jagger) to explore the physiological, social and political factors that have inhibited women from pursuing careers as composers. Is there a biological argument for inferior female creativity? Do social structures, such as marriage, serve to restrict potential women composers? Is the gender of a composer reflected in the music they write? If so, how would this manifest itself? The conclusions that are reached are as complex and challenging as the questions that are raised. This powerful and provocative book aims to open up debate on these issues, which have all too often be avoided by critics and musicologists whose writings have perpetuated arguments that denigrate women's ability to compose. By confronting these arguments, this study will hopefully begin a reassessment of attitudes towards women and music, so that women composers are less of a rarity by the end of the next century.