- •Music in the Modern World western music of the twentieth century (general survey)
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Discussion Points
- •Additional Assignments
- •Some twentieth-century composers arnold schoenberg (1874-1951)
- •The composer speaks: arnold schoenberg
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Discussion Points
- •Bela bartok (1881-1945)
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Questions about Bartok
- •Discussion Points
- •Paul hindemith: his life and work (1895-1963)
- •The composer speaks: paul hindemith
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Discussion Points
- •Electronic music
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Questions about Stravinsky
- •Additional Assignments
- •Britten's operas
- •The composer speaks: benjamin broten
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Questions about Britten
- •Additional Assignments
- •Menotti. The opera composer
- •The composer speaks: gian carlo menotti
- •Discussion Activities Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •Additional Assignments
- •Michael tippett: a child of our time
- •30 Questions on the Text
- •Experimental (avant-garde) music
- •Olivier messiaen
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Discussion Points
- •Additional Assignments
- •George ligeti (b. 1923)
- •Karlheinz stockhausen
- •35 Discussion Activities Questions on the Text about Ligeti
- •About Stockhausen and Experimental Composers
- •Questions about Western Music of the 20th Century
- •Points for Discussion and Written Compositions
- •Popular music rock
- •Points about rock
- •Discussion Activities Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •Additional Assignments
- •Elvis presley - story of a superstar
- •Discussion Activities Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •The beatles
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •English and American Musical History english music (general survey)
- •1. Opera.
- •2. Performing groups.
- •3. Festivals.
- •4. Education.
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •The golden age in england
- •The english virginal school
- •Virginal music composers. William Byrd (1542-1623)
- •Byrd in his time and ours
- •English madrigalists
- •"The british orpheus"
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •56 American music (general survey)
- •61 Charles ives, the first truly american composer (1874-1954)
- •Charles ives and american folk music
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •The relation of jazz to american music
- •Louis armstrong
- •The swing era (duke ellington)
- •Spirituals
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •The Art of Musical Interpretation the problem of interpretation
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Questions for Discussion
- •Additional Assignments
- •Conducting
- •The art of conducting
- •Questions on the Text
- •Some musical encounters
- •Questions on the Text
- •86 Leonard bernstein
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •Herbert von karajan
- •Interview with herbert von karajan
- •The art of piano playing: glenn gould
- •Interview with glenn gould
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •The art of violin playing: eugene ysaye
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •The world of opera handel in performance
- •Franco zeffirelli: the romantic realist
- •La divina: maria callas
- •Callas remembered
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •Peter pears: ronald crichton speaks
- •Discussion Activities Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
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- •Sources
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score - партитура
Lied (Lieder) (Germ.) - song (songs). The word is applied to a distinctive type of German solo vocal composition that came into being at an outcome of the late 18th and early 19th c. Some great names in the history of the Lied are Schubert, Schumann, Franz, Brahms, Wolf, Mahler, and Richard Strauss.
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Curlew River-parable for church performance by Britten to the
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text by W. Plomer after a Japanese Noh play Sumidagawa (parable - story, esp. in the Bible told to illustrate a moral or spiritual truth («притча»)
Elgar's Gerontius - The Dream of Gerontius, an oratorio by El-gar, first performed in 1900. The text is a poem of Cardinal Newman.
CBE - Commander (of the order) of the British Empire (кавалер ордена Британской империи 2-й степени)
knight - рыцарь, личное дворянское звание, обычно присваивается за особые заслуги (перед именем ставится титул «сэр» - sir)
Sources
1. American Negro Songs and Spirituals/Ed, by John Work. N.Y., 1974.
2. American Composers on American Music (A Symposium)/Ed. By Henry Cowell. N.Y., 1933.
3. Apel W., Daniel R. The Harvard Brief Dictionary of Music. N.Y., 19th printing.
4. Ardoin, John. The Callas Legacy. G. Duckworth & Co Ltd. 1977.
5. Bernstein, Leonard. The Joy of Music. N.Y., 1959.
6. Boroff E. Music in Europe and the United States: A History. New Jersey, 1971.
7. The Complete Book of Twentieth-Century Music/Ed, by David Ewen, 1959.
8. Collins Encyclopedia of Music/Ed, by J. Westrup, 1978.
9. Chase, Gilbert America's Music: From the Piligrims to the Present. N.Y., Toronto, London, 1955.
10. Composers on Music (An Anthology of Composer's Writings)/Ed. by S. Morgenstern. N.Y., 1956.
11. Conversations with Igor Stravinsky (by I. Stravinsky and Robert Caft). Faber, L., 1979.
12. Dorian, Frederick. The History of Music in Performance (The Art of Musical Interpretation from the Renaissance to Our Day). N.Y., 1942.
13. The Dictionary of Composers/Ed, by Ch. Osborne. N.Y., 1978.
14. Ertich, Lilian. What Jazz Is All About? N.Y., 1972.
15. Ginsburg, Lev. Ysaye/Ed. by Dr. H.R. Axelrod. Paganiniana Publications, 1980.
16. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London, N.Y., 1980.
17. Gillespie, John. Five Centuries of Keyboard Music. Belmont, California, 1966.
18. Hindemith, Paul. A Composer's World. N.Y., 1952.
19. Kennedy, Michael. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Oxford Univ. Press, 1980.
20. The Larousse Encyclopedia of Music/Ed, by Geoffrey Hindley, 1977.
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21. Mach, Elyse. Great Pianists Speak for Themselves. N.Y., 1980.
22. Manoff, Tom. Music: A Living Language. N.Y., 1982.
23. The New Harvard Dictionary of Music/Ed, by D.M. Randel. Cambridge, Mass., L., 1986.
24. The New Book of Modern Composers/Ed, by D. Ewen. N.Y., 1961.
25. The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll, 1983.
26. Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans (A History). N.Y., 1983.
27. Streamline English, Oxford, 1979.
28. Twentieth-Century Views of Music History/Ed, by W. Hay. N.Y., 1972.
29. The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. I-IV vls./Ed. by H.W. Hitchcock and S. Sadie. Macmillan Publ, 1986.
Журналы: High Fidelity (1983), Gramophone (1987, 1988), Music Teacher (1986), Opera (1986), Opera News (1982).