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Five Lives in Music
Representing a historical cross-section of performance and training in Western music since the seventeenth century, Five Lives in Music brings to light the private and performance lives of five remarkable women musicians and composers. Elegantly guiding readers through the Thirty Years War in central Europe, elite courts in Germany, urban salons in Paris, Nazi control of Germany and Austria, and American musical life today, as well as personal experiences of marriage, motherhood, and widowhood, Cecelia Hopkins Porter provides valuable insights into the culture in which each woman was active._x000B__x000B_Porter begins with the Duchess Sophie-Elisabeth of Braunschweig-Lueneberg, a harpsichordist who also presided over seventeenth-century North German court music as an impresario. At the forefront of French Baroque composition, composer Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre bridged a widening cultural gap between the Versailles nobility and the urban bourgeoisie of Paris. A century later, Josephine Lang, a prodigiously talented pianist and dedicated composer, participated at various times in the German Romantic world of lieder through her important arts salon. Lastly, the book profiles two exceptional women of the twentieth century: Baroness Maria Bach, a composer and pianist of twentieth-century Vienna's upper bourgeoisie and its brilliant musical milieu in the era of Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, and Erich Korngold; and Ann Schein, a brilliant and dauntless American piano prodigy whose career, ongoing today though only partially recognized, led her to study with the legendary virtuosos Arthur Rubinstein and Myra Hess._x000B__x000B_Mining autograph manuscripts, unpublished letters, press reviews, interviews, and music archives in the United States and Europe, Porter probes each musician's social and economic status, her education and musical training, the cultural expectations, traditions, and restrictions of each woman's society, and other factors. Throughout the lively and focused portraits of these five women, Porter finds common threads, both personal and contextual, that extend to a larger discussion of the lives and careers of female composers and performers throughout centuries of music history.
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And Harmony Abound
Morley Calvert's Suite from the Monteregian Hills is cherished by brass players globally and performed hundreds of times annually, making Calvert perhaps the most performed Canadian composer outside the country. And Harmony Abound is a fascinating picture of Calvert's contribution to musical composition, education, and cultural fabric.
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Dwight Yoakam
From his formative years playing pure, hardcore honky-tonk for mid-’80s Los Angeles punk rockers through his subsequent surge to the top of the country charts, Dwight Yoakam has enjoyed a singular career. An electrifying live performer, superb writer, and virtuosic vocalist, he has successfully bridged two musical worlds that usually have little use for each other—commercial country and its alternative/Americana/roots-rocking counterpart. Defying the label “too country for rock, too rock for country,\" Yoakam has triumphed while many of his peers have had to settle for cult acceptance. Four decades into his career, he has sold more than 25 million records and continues to tour regularly, with an extremely loyal fan base. In Dwight Yoakam, award-winning music journalist Don McLeese offers the first musical biography of this acclaimed artist. Tracing the seemingly disparate influences in Yoakam’s music, McLeese shows how he has combined rock and roll, rockabilly, country, blues, and gospel into a seamless whole. In particular, McLeese explores the essential issue of “authenticity\" and how it applies to Yoakam, as well as to country music and popular culture in general. Drawing on wide-ranging interviews with Yoakam and his management, while also benefitting from the perspectives of others closely associated with his musical success (including producer-guitarist Pete Anderson, Yoakam’s partner throughout his most popular and creative decades), Dwight Yoakam pays tribute to the musician who has established himself as a visionary beyond time, an artist who could title an album Tomorrow’s Sounds Today and deliver it.
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Reckless daughter : a portrait of Joni Mitchell
A biography of Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell.
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Mojo Hand
In a career that took him from the cotton fields of East
Texas to the concert stage at Carnegie Hall and beyond,
Lightnin' Hopkins became one of America's greatest bluesmen,
renowned for songs whose topics effortlessly ranged from his
African American roots to space exploration, the Vietnam War,
and lesbianism, performed in a unique, eccentric, and
spontaneous style of guitar playing that inspired a whole
generation of rock guitarists. Hopkins's music directly and
indirectly influenced an amazing range of artists, including
Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Miles Davis, John Coltrane,
Tom Waits, and Bob Dylan, as well as bands such as the Grateful
Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and ZZ Top, with whom Hopkins
performed.
Mojo Hand follows Lightin' Hopkins's life and music
from the acoustic country blues that he began performing in
childhood, through the rise of 1950s rock 'n' roll, which
nearly derailed his career, to his reinvention and
international success as a pioneer of electric folk blues from
the 1960s to the 1980s. The authors draw on 130 vivid oral
histories, as well as extensive archival and secondary sources,
to provide the fullest account available of the development of
Hopkins's music; his idiosyncratic business practices, such as
shunning professional bookers, managers, and publicists; and
his durable and indelible influence on modern roots, blues,
rock 'n' roll, singer-songwriter, and folk music.
Mojo Hand celebrates the spirit and style,
intelligence and wit, and confounding musical mystique of a
bluesman who shaped modern American music like no one else.
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Stravinsky and his world
Stravinsky and His Worldbrings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in new intellectual and musical contexts, the essays in this volume shed valuable light on one of the most important composers of the twentieth century.
Contributors examine Stravinsky's interaction with Spanish and Latin American modernism, rethink the stylistic label \"neoclassicism\" with a section on the ideological conflict over his lesser-known opera buffaMavra, and reassess his connections to his homeland, paying special attention to Stravinsky's visit to the Soviet Union in 1962. The essays also explore Stravinsky's musical and religious differences with Arthur Lourié, delve into Stravinsky's collaboration with Pyotr Suvchinsky and Roland-Manuel in the genesis of his groundbreakingPoetics of Music, and look at how the movement within stasis evident in the scores of Stravinsky'sOrpheusandOedipus Rexreflected the composer's fierce belief in fate. Rare documents--including Spanish and Mexican interviews, Russian letters, articles by Arthur Lourié, and rarely seen French and Russian texts--supplement the volume, bringing to life Stravinsky's rich intellectual milieu and intense personal relationships.
The contributors are Tatiana Baranova, Leon Botstein, Jonathan Cross, Valérie Dufour, Gretchen Horlacher, Tamara Levitz, Klára Móricz, Leonora Saavedra, and Svetlana Savenko.
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