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By Percy A. Scholes, John Owen Ward
Whilst The Oxford Dictionary of song first seemed, it was once hailed via track and Musicians as "without query the main complete, particular, trustworthy one-volume reference paintings on track now on hand within the English language." totally revised and up to date for this re-creation, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of tune, Fourth version is a wealthy mine of data for fanatics of tune of all classes and types, supplying over 10,000 entries on musical phrases, works, composers, librettists, musicians, singers, and orchestras. The dictionary's insurance is outstanding, supplying entire work-lists for significant composers, exact entries on residing composers and performers, very important ballets and operas, in addition to descriptions of musical tools and their histories. Written to entice normal readers, musicians and musicologists alike, this quantity is an essential addition to the reference shelf of the live performance goer, the opera buff, the list client, or an individual inquisitive about tune, even if beginner or expert.
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From the Preface :
This e-book illustrates a set of tune manuscripts which was once made in recent times to learn the root for modern functionality Arts. the gathering was resolute by way of conditions instead of any technique of choice. therefore it exhibits the various instructions during which song notation is now going. The manuscripts aren't prepared in accordance with types of track, yet alphabetically based on the composer's identify. No explanatory details is given.
The textual content for the booklet is the results of a strategy making use of I-Ching likelihood operations. those decided what number phrases concerning his paintings have been to be written by means of or approximately which of 2 hundred and sixty-nine composers. the place those passages (never greater than sixty-four phrases, occasionally just one) were specifically written for this publication, they're preceded through a paragraph signal and by way of the author's identify. different feedback have been selected or written by means of the editors - John Cage and Alison Knowles. not just the variety of phrases and the writer, however the typography too - letter measurement, depth, and typeface - have been all made up our minds by accident operations. This procedure used to be on the way to reduce the variation among textual content and illustrations. The composition of the pages is the paintings of Alison Knowles.
A precedent for the textual content is the Questionnaire. (The composers have been requested to put in writing approximately notation or some· factor correct to it. ) A precedent for the absence of knowledge which characterizes this publication is the modern aquarium (no longer a depressing hallway with every one species in its personal illuminated tank separated from the others and named in Latin): a wide glass residence with all of the fish in it swimming as in an ocean. the gathering of manuscripts constitutes an archive, the contents of that are indexed on the finish of this booklet. The editors are thankful to the various composers and track publishers who've made this presentation of mid-twentieth century tune notation attainable.
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Amer. pianist and teacher. Schubert memorial award, 1938. Professional début Philadelphia 1938. Toured Eur. 1951. Taught at Juilliard Sch. 1934–8, at Oklahoma Coll. for Women, Chickasha, 1955–60, and at Toronto Royal Cons. of Mus. from 1960. Back - New Search Abravanel , Maurice (b Salonika, 1903; d Salt Lake City, 1993). -born Amer. conductor. Début Berlin 1924. Cond. at Zwickau and in opera houses in Berlin and Rome. Toured Australia 1934–6. Cond. at NY Met 1936–8 (début Samson et Dalila). Cond.
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Eng. tenor. Début London 1984. From 1985 with Taverner Consort, New London Consort, and London Baroque. Amer. début NY; ENO 1989; GTO 1991; Glyndebourne 1992; WNO 1991. Back - New Search air. 1 Melody. 2 Comp. of melodious character. Top Back - New Search Airborne Symphony. Sym. , and orch. by Blitzstein to composer's text on evolution of flying. Comp. p. NY 1946 cond. Bernstein . ) . In ballet, mus. for ‘characteristic’ occasions, such as an entry of warriors. Back - New Search Air on the G String.