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[print] Table of contents: Béla Bartók : a celebration / Bartók's fusion of national styles / Second string quartet : stylistic landmark / Impact of Italian baroque music on Bartók's music / History of Bartók's Mikrokosmos / Sixth string quartet : structure and concept / Genesis and development of the concerto for orchestra / Some observations on Bartók's third piano concerto / Folk-music sources in Bartḱ works / Ethnomusicological roots of Béla Bartók's musical language / Approaching Bartḱ's principles of composition / Preface to The Hungarian folk song / Bartḱ and Hungarian folk music / Slovak folk songs : music and politics / Bartók's Romanian folk music publication / Bartók and Yugoslav folk music / Preface to Turkish folk music from Asia Minor / Bartók as a man of letters / The Bartḱ-Kodály connection / Bartók in America / The New York Bartók archive : history and sources.

[print] Description from jacket: "Composer, pianist, author, television personality, Harvard lecturer, cultural icon and conductor without peer, Leonard Bernstein was one of the most flamboyant and multifaceted musical giants of the twentieth century. His versatility and boundless energy were legendary. He captivated Broadway with such smash hits as On the Town and West Side Story, wrested and cajoled out of the world's best orchestras some of the most inspired performances ever heard, and introduced several generations of Americans to classical music with his "Omnibus" and "Young People's Concerts" television shows."

[print] Table of Contents: Britten Minor : 1913-30 / Some college : 1930-34 / Most surprising days : 1935-39 / American overtures : 1939-42 / Where I belong : 1942-47 / A modest festival : 1947-55 / The poetry in the pity : 1955-64 / The building of the house : 1965-71 / As it is, plenty : 1971-76.

[print] Summary from Amazon.com: When the great avant-gardist John Cage died, just short of his eightieth birthday in 1992, he was already the subject of dozens of interviews, memoirs, and discussions of his contribution to music, music theory, and performance practice. But Cage never thought of himself as only (or even primarily) a composer; he was a poet, a visual artist, a philosophical thinker, and an important cultural critic.

[print] Table of Contents: Dvořák in focus / Symphonies and concertos / Operas / Chamber works / Choral music and songs / Miscellaneous orchestral works

[print] From Summary: "Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) is one of the best-loved French composers of his era: works such as his Requiem, Pavane, Dolly Suite and Cantique de Jean Racine are perennial favourites. At the Paris Conservatoire, Faure's composition teaching was vital to such figures as Maurice Ravel, Nadia Boulanger and Charles Koechlin..."

[print] Table of Contents: The fiery city / Franck's childhood / Parisian hubris / Parisian nemesis / Ruth and marriage / Years in the shadows / 'La bande à Franck' and resurrected music / Redemptions / The professor and Zuleika Dobson / The setting sun, and music at the close / Posthumous fortunes.

[print] From Amazon.com: Charles Francois Gounod, the composer of "Faust," who was derided in his time but influenced every French composer that followed him, is now before us in a book peopled by marvelous characters: Bizet, Berlioz, Wagner, Liszt, Saint-Saens, Turgenev, and the other illustrious inhabitants of his time.

[print] Table of Contents: List of musical examples / List of illustrations / Preface / Introduction / 1. National contexts : Grieg and folklorism in nineteenth-century Norway / 2. Landscape as ideology : nature, nostalgia and Grieg's 'culture of sound' / 3. Grieg, landscape and the Haugtussa project / 4. Modernism and Norwegian musical style : the politics of identity in the Slåtter, op. 72 / 5. Distant landscapes : the influence of Grieg's folk-music arrangements / Conclusion / Appendix : Haugtussa texts (songs 1, 2 and 8) / Bibliography / List of Grieg's works mentioned in the text / Index.

[print] From summary: Fanny Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1805-1847), like her younger brother Felix, demonstrated prodigious musical talent as a child.
This book, originally published in French in 1992, is the first and only authoritative biography of Fanny Mendelssohn and contains a complete list of her published compositions. Set against the backdrop of a privileged life in Berlin in the early nineteenth century, Francoise Tillard's vivid portrait describes an exceptional artist - she left behind four hundred works - who could have held her own among the greatest if she had not been prohibited from venturing into the professional world.

[print] translated from the German by William Mann
Subjects: Penderecki, Krzysztof, > 1933-
Composers > Poland > Biography.

[print] "It is traditional wisdom that a composer's popularity wanes for at least ten years after his death. Not so with Poulenc, whose music gained almost universal acceptance immediately after his death at the age of sixty-four. The present documented biography charts a new course in Poulenc scholarship by relying on thousands of primary sources, many of which have not been consulted by earlier Poulenc biographers. It is a detailed scrutiny of his day-to-day activities and his relationships with many friends and acquaintances. This study seeks not only to examine Poulenc as a composer, but to place proper emphasis on his extensive career as a pianist and recording artist. Lavishly illustrated, the volume includes a complete discography, and an exhaustive summary of Poulenc's concert tours, as well as a list of portraits and drawings."--Jacket.

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