Bartók, Hungary, and the renewal of tradition : case studies in the intersection of modernity and nationality by Schneider, David E., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Tradition rejected : Bartók's polemics and the nineteenth-century Hungarian musical inheritance -- Tradition maintained : nationalism, verbunkos, Kossuth and the Rhapsody, op. 1 -- Tradition transformed : "The night's music" and the pastoral roots of a modern style -- Tradition challenged : confronting Stravinsky -- Tradition transcribed : the Rhapsody for violin no. 1, the politics of folk-music research and the artifice of authenticity -- Tradition restored : the Violin concerto, verbunkos and Hungary on the eve of World War II.…”
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Allusion as narrative premise in Brahms's instrumental music by Sholes, Jacquelyn

Table of Contents: “…: re-examining allusion and extramusical -- Meaning in the B-major piano trio, op. 8 -- Musical memory and the D-major serenade, op. 11 -- An historical model, an emerging soloist, a young composer in turmoil: the piano -- Concerto in D minor, op. 15 -- A later example: tragic antiquarianism in Brahms's fourth symphony.…”
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After the Rite : Stravinsky's path to neoclassicism (1914-1925) by Carr, Maureen A.

Table of Contents: “…Pulcinella (1919-20) ; Les cinq doigts (1921) : "Larghetto" (January 31, 1921) ; Mavra (1921-22) -- Octet (1919-23), Cinq pieces monométriques (frags. 192?), Concerto for piano and winds (1923-24). Introduction ; Concerto pour piano suivi d'orchestra d'harmonie (Concerto for piano and winds) (1923-24) ; Conclusion -- Piano sonata (1924) and Serenade in A (1925). …”
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""Composition, Chromaticism and the Developmental Process "" : a New Theory of Tonality. by Burnett, Henry

Table of Contents: “…Alessandro Stradella: Tonality and the Emerging Concertino/Concerto Grosso Technique; VI. Corelli and the Advent of Common-Practice Tonality.…”
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Musical composition awards 1943-1999 : from Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber to Gian-Carlo Menotti and Melinda Wagner

Table of Contents: “…S OPENING PASSAGE -- 1959 AWARD: ABOUT THE COMPOSITION CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA…”
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Riccardo Chailly and Helene Grimaud perform works by Ravel and Mahler. Symphony no. 4 in G major by Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911

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Musica Vitae & Andreas Brantelid. Souvenir de Florence by Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893

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Riccardo Chailly and Helene Grimaud perform works by Ravel and Mahler. Orfeo ed Euridice by Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787

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Musica Vitae & Andreas Brantelid. From a Jewish life : Prayer by Bloch, Ernest, 1880-1959

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Eyes upside down : visionary filmmakers and the heritage of Emerson by Sitney, P. Adams

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Introduction: Emersonian Poetics; 1 Marie Menken and the Somatic Camera; 2 Ian Hugo and Superimposition; 3 Stan Brakhage's Autobiography as a Cinematic Sequence; 4 Jonas Mekas and the Diary Film; 5 Hollis Frampton and the Specter of Narrative; 6 Robert Beavers's Winged Distance/Sightless Measure: The Cycle of the Ephebe; 7 Beavers's Second Cycle: The Past in the Present--the Present in the Past; 8 Andrew Noren and the Open-Ended Cinematic Sequence; 9 Ernie Gehr and the Axis of Primary Thought; 10 Warren Sonbert's Movements in a Concerto; 11 Brakhage and the Tales of the Tribes.…”
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A wayfaring stranger Ernst von Dohnányi's American years, 1949-1960 by Kusz, Veronika, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…From the "ramparts" of Hungarian music to emigration : Dohnányi's career -- Life as an émigré : the American period -- Representative works : Stabat Mater and American rhapsody -- Independent compositions : works for piano and flute -- Two concertos, two stories -- Epilogue : spontaneity, flexibility, adaptation -- Appendix 1. …”
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George Gershwin : an intimate portrait by Rimler, Walter

Table of Contents: “…From street kid to Wunderkind -- Falling in love with Kay -- A piano concerto -- Ira takes a wife -- Porgy -- Paris -- "That long drip of human tears" -- The losing streak begins -- "Something big" -- "Don't make it too good, George!" …”
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Lettura e Conversazione. by Bancheri, Salvatore

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Indice -- Unità 1 Conosciamoci -- Unità 2 Dal medico -- Unità 3 La casa -- Unità 4 II tempo -- Unità 5 All'aeroporto -- Unità 6 Al bar -- Unità 7 A scuola -- Unità 8 Dalla chiaroveggente -- Unità 9 Alia Rinascente -- Unità 10 Al mercato -- Unità 11 Al concerto -- Unità 12 Alla banca -- Unità 13 Dal meccanico -- Unità 14 Lo sport -- Unità 15 La lettera.…”
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Music divided : Bartók's legacy in cold war culture by Fosler-Lussier, Danielle, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Bartók's Concerto for orchestra and the demise of Hungary's "third road" -- A compromised composer : Bartók's music and Western Europe's fresh start -- "Bartók is ours" : the Voice of America and Hungarian control over Bartók's legacy -- Bartók and his publics : defining the "modern classic" -- Beyond the folk song; or, what was Hungarian socialist realist music? …”
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Ercole Amante.

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Analyzing classical form : an approach for the classroom by Caplin, William Earl, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Slow-movement forms ; Minuet/trio form ; Rondo forms ; Concerto form.…”
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Stravinsky & Balanchine : a journey of invention by Joseph, Charles M.

Table of Contents: “…: assembling a visual complement to the music of Agon -- Television, the Flood, and beyond -- After Stravinsky -- Unity and balance in Stravinsky's Violin concerto.…”
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The art of partimento : history, theory, and practice by Sanguinetti, Giorgio

Table of Contents: “…Lesson, Prelude, Modular Etude ; Tutti/solo: Concerto and Toccata ; Sonata ; Fantasia, Variation, Dance ; Imitative Genres ; Fugue.…”
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L'Orfeo : favola in musica

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In rehearsal, Valéry Gergiev

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Daughter of history : traces of an immigrant girlhood by Suleiman, Susan Rubin, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Fraternity Pin -- 10. Beethoven Concerto -- 11. Wooden Bench, Lake Michigan -- 12. …”
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Le Sacre du printemps.

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Itzhak Perlman : virtuoso violinist

Table of Contents: “…Carmen fantasy (Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg) / Bizet/Sarasate ; Concerto no. 5 (Chou Liang Lin) / Vieuxtemps -- Partita in E major (BWV 1006) / J.S. …”
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Music in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / The Oxford History of Western Music. Vol. 2 by Taruskin, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Opera from Monteverdi to Monteverdi -- Chapter 2 Fat times and lean -- Chapter 3 Courts resplendent, overthrown, restored -- Chapter 4 Class and Classicism -- Chapter 5 The Italian concerto style and the rise of tonality-driven form -- Chapter 6 Class of 1685 (I) -- Chapter 7 Class of 1685 (II) -- Chapter 8 The comic style -- Chapter 9 Enlightenment and reform -- Chapter 10 Instrumental music lifts off -- Chapter 11 The composer's voice -- Chapter 12 The first romantics -- Chapter 13 C-Minor moods -- Notes -- Art credits -- Further reading.…”
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Mandela the spear and other poems by Okai, Atukwei

Table of Contents: “…Cover page; title page; copyright page; dedication; contents; foreword; i; the rosetta stone in the meantime of eternity; the bond-oath of ubuntu; still life: lilly lawns ... little legon ... moonlight ballet; a concerto for the black satellites: in the stoolroom of the soul; ii; the guillotine of time: fanfare for the uncommon woman; fanfare for cabral; watu wazuri; evensong at soweto; mandela the spear; a somersault of the midnight: nelson mandela, the african warrior; iii; on the soulscape of the bullet train; a tea ceremony for the neutron bomb; birds: regina and betty.…”
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She can bring us home : Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, civil rights pioneer by Kiesel, Diane

Table of Contents: “…Push, pluck, prominence and merit -- Among the favored few -- As if I had thrown a bomb into the room -- The count -- Petunia Ticklebritches -- Everything was precise -- We went, we saw, we were stunned -- Stupid, vacant, and void of hope -- As the moonlight turned barn roofs to silver -- Tell Claude Ferebee to keep his shirt on -- Madeline, my concerto -- The skipper -- Some stuff -- Every bone in the body -- A matter for grave concern -- One of the coldest winters we ever had -- As good as I could -- You were grand as ever -- A bad bitter pill -- A citizen concerned with international affairs -- Woman power -- I should not be here but I had to come -- Epilogue: going home.…”
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The sonata by Schmidt, Thomas (Musicologist)

Table of Contents: “…Sonata and canzona ; Sonata and sinfonia ; Sonata and concerto ; Sonata and suite/partita ; The sonata and free instrumental genres : toccata, ricercar, capriccio. fantasia -- Chapter 2 : Form. …”
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Three ballets by Kenneth Macmillan. About 'The Judas tree'

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Carnegie Hall 120th Anniversary Concert.

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Crossing paths : Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms by Daverio, John

Table of Contents: “…7. brahms, the schumann circle, and the style hongrois: contexts for the double concerto, op. 102epilogue: crossing paths and modes of experiance -- notes -- index -- a -- b -- c -- d -- e -- f -- g -- h -- i -- j -- k -- l -- m -- n -- o -- p -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w…”
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Nulla in mundo pax sincera RV 630 en mi majeur by Vivaldi, Antonio, 1678-1741

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Symphonie Fantastique. by Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869

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Three ballets by Kenneth Macmillan. About 'Elite syncopations'

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A Lesson by Pierre Boulez. by (1925), Pierre Boulez

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Art's emotions : ethics, expression and aesthetic experience by Freeman, Damien

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Alun Hoddinott : a Source Book. by Craggs, Stewart R.

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Fractured Destinies : a Novel. by al-Madhoun, Rabai

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Edward Elgar and his world

Table of Contents: “…Thomson -- Charles Sanford Terry and Elgar's Violin concerto / transcribed and introduced by Alison I. …”
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Four Scraps of Bread. by Hollander-Lafon, Magda

Table of Contents: “…; The Call ; The Good Guard ; Auschwitz Concerto ; To Live.…”
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Music to Delight the Spirit Volume 1 : 1695-1717. by Jones, Richard D. P.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 2. The concerto and other genres -- Concerto transcriptions: BWV 972â€?…”
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