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Jules Massenet (1842-1912) is the author of twenty-five operas, oratorios, over two hundred eighty songs, and numerous instrumental works. When his descendant Anne Massenet was entrusted with the family archives, she discovered more than a thousand letters exchanged with his fami...ly, students, colleagues, friends, and even a few competitors! Anne Massenet's new biography, published in France in 2001, is now translated into English by Mary Dibbern. It reveals unknown aspects of Massenet's personality as documented by letters to his son-in-law Leon Alloend-Bessand who, even after his divorce from Juliette, the composer's only child, was his father-in-law's confident. Equally revealing are hundreds of other previously unpublished letters, mostly to his spouse Louise-Constance, nicknamed Ninon, whose long and frequent spa cures forced him to experience unbearable solitude. This is an intimate portrait of Massenet, seen through a unique collection of primary source documents.
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For 37 years, Ruth Watanabe served as head of the Sibley Library of the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, one of the most outstanding collections of music, books on music, and music recordings of any academic institution in the western world. This volume, publishe...d in association with Barenreiter Verlag, comprises essays devoted to the history, organization, administration, and innovations of the modern music library.
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Huemer (American Academy in Rome) and Petrobelli compile 14 essays in honor of musicologist and teacher Oliver Strunk (1901-1980) from a conference in 2002 at the American Academy in Rome and the Badia Greca of Grottaferrata. The essays, in addition to two chapters added after th...e conference, are by musicologists who discuss reminiscences, new scho
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A simple alphabet book that explores balls from around the world-and a few other round objects, as well. - Kirkus Reviews ABCs of Balls, an alphabet book for preschool children, makes learning ABCs fun for sports fans. From baseball to football, the alphabet book scores with both... boys and girls with a lively color scheme, as well as photos of animals and sports equipment. One of my son's first words was 'ball, ' and I wrote the book to make learning his ABCs fun for him, said author Nina Snyder. Note: ABCs of Balls uses American expressions such as S is for soccer ball. A is for Australian football B is for baseball... and basketball! D is for disco ball E is for Earth F is for football G is for golf ball H is for hamster ball I is for inflatable ball J is for juggling balls K is for kickball L is for lacrosse ball M is for marble N is for nine ball O is for origami ball P is for Ping-Pong ball Q is for quick ball R is for rugby ball S is for soccer ball T is for tennis ball U is for unhappy ball V is for volleyball W is for water polo ball X is for eXtra small ball Y is for yarn ball Z is for zoo ball
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Chronicles the life and work of a celebrated performer and teacher. This unique volume combines memoirs; tributes by friends, family and colleagues; and personal reflections on music by one who has been at the forefront of American chamber music, contemporary music and piano peda...gogy for more than a half-century.
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While interest in pantomime entertainments in eighteenth-century England has grown considerably over the past three decades, few studies among the many excellent ones that have appeared have paid concentrated attention to music and dancing. This book aims, among other things, to ...rectify that situation. It offers five interrelated studies in which the movement and sound of pantomimes is a central concern. The first chapter contextualizes the significant contributions of the pioneering dance theorist and historian, John Weaver. It pays particular attention to his long-lived interest in comic dancing, not only as practised by the "ancients," but in his own work for the London stages, as well, as both choreographer and performer. The second study of the book offers an in depth reading of John Thurmond's Harlequin Doctor Faustus (1723) at Drury Lane theatre. A close examination of the rival production at Lincoln's Inn Fields, Lewis Theobald's Harlequin Doctor Faustus; or, The Necromancer, is the task of the third essay. Because the two rival productions attracted enormous interest among audiences, commentators, and critics of the time, the fourth study of the book considers how disparate entertainment types-musical theatre, masquerades, and magic shows, for example-were significant elements in what the critics noticed about the Faustus pantomimes, and their unprecedented success. The final study of the book considers how a new comic pantomime by Theophilus Cibber, and a serious one by John Weaver became enmeshed at Drury Lane in 1733, and argues that the combination of these two entertainments in a single afterpiece was informed, in part, by the structure of Harlequin Doctor Faustus.
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This collection of essays explores topics of relevance to understanding Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) and his music.
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This book chronicles the rise to fame of acclaimed cellist Aldo Parisot, who has established himself as both an extraordinary soloist and teacher.
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After a Foreword by William Christie reflecting on a half-century of musical friendship with David Fuller, essays by an international roster of musicologists present new research about the music, theory, and organology of the harpsichord and the organ. Chronologically, the subjec...ts range from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, all the articles being written by colleagues and former students of the honoree. A closing section presents a survey of the career and writings of David Fuller with tributes from distinguished colleagues.
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A Dimension of Sound: Music in 'The Twilight Zone' focuses on the use of music within the series and offers multiple readings of the ways in which music is used in the series and offers an understanding of the ways in which music-both original and stock-can be used in an antholog...y television show, this book focuses not only on the ways in which newly composed scores and stock music were utilised in the series, but also how the music enhances and interacts with what we see and hear onscreen.
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