UID:
almafu_9960117443702883
Format:
1 online resource (xx, 214 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78204-554-6
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1-78204-502-3
Content:
〈I〉Accompanied Voices〈/I〉 is a unique book: not only is it a highly readable anthology of some of the most memorable and accessible international writing about classical music, and a moving commentaryby one set of practising artists on the work of another. There have been several anthologies of 'music poems', but never one which follows the story of western music through from the Renaissance tothe twenty-first century. This is in effect a chronological guide to the major composers of the last four hundred years, written in the language which comes closest to music itself - poetry. 〈BR〉〈BR〉Readers will find in 〈I〉Accompanied Voices〈/I〉 the same pleasure that they might find in simply putting on a CD and listening. Every page brings something to arrest or transport and there is extraordinary diversity of response. Anecdote, epiphany, portrait, meditation... but many of these poets offer intellectual insights too and even critiques - there is far more variety here than any straightforward music essay can manage. These poems move beyond the mere names of composers and their works, reaching for more universal concerns. 〈BR〉〈BR〉 Major poets represented include Geoffrey Hill,Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Michael Longley, Andrew Motion, Peter Porter, Siegfried Sassoon, Jo Shapcott, Anne Stevenson and Charles Tomlinson among a total of nearly a hundred writers.〈BR〉 JOHN GREENING is a poet and received a Cholmondeley Award in 2008. He is also a Hawthornden Fellow and a Fellow of the English Association. He has published studies of the Poets of the First World War,Yeats, Hardy, Edward Thomas and Elizabethan Love Poets.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 May 2021).
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Introduction -- Thomas Tallis (1505-85) -- William Byrd (?1543-1623) -- John Dowland (?1563-1626) -- Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) -- Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) -- Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) -- Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) -- Henry Purcell (1659-95) -- François Couperin (1668-1733) -- Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) -- Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) -- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) -- George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) -- Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) -- Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-87) -- Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) -- Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) -- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) -- Niccoló Paganini (1782-1840) -- John Field (1782-1837) -- Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
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Hector Berlioz (1803-69) -- Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47) -- Fryderyk Chopin (1810-49) -- Robert Schumann (1810-56) -- Franz Liszt (1811-86) -- Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) -- Richard Wagner (1813-83) -- Anton Bruckner (1824-96) -- Bedrich Smetana (1824-84) -- Johannes Brahms (1833-97) -- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) -- Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-93) -- Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) -- Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) -- Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) -- Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) -- Leos Janácek (1854-1928) -- Edward Elgar (1857-1934) -- Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) -- Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) -- Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) -- Frederick Delius (1862-1934) -- Claude Debussy (1862-1918) -- Richard Strauss (1864-1949) -- Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) -- Erik Satie (1866-1925) -- Amy Beach (1867-1944) -- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) -- Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) -- Gustav Holst (1874-1934) -- Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) -- Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) -- Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) -- Béla Bartók (1881-1945) -- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) -- Percy Grainger (1882-1961) -- Arnold Bax (1883-1953) -- Anton Webern (1883-1945) -- Alban Berg (1885-1935) -- George Butterworth (1885-1916) -- Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) -- Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953) -- Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) (1894-1930) -- Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
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Aaron Copland (1900-90) -- Gerald Finzi (1901-56) -- Michael Tippett (1905-98) -- Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-75) -- Olivier Messiaen (1908-92) -- Samuel Barber (1910-81) -- John Cage (1912-92) -- Benjamin Britten (1913-76) -- Witold Lutoslawski (1913-94) -- György Ligeti (1923-2006) -- Harrison Birtwistle (b.1934) -- Peter Maxwell Davies (b.1934) -- Arvo Pärt (b.1935) -- Epilogue.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78327-015-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781782045021
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782045021/type/BOOK
