Composers On Music: Eight Centuries of WritingsJosiah Fisk, Jeff Nichols UPNE, 1997 M01 30 - 512 pages This volume is a greatly expanded version of the classic 1956 anthology by Sam Morgenstern. The editor has added 30 composers to the roster, mostly in the pre-Baroque and contemporary eras, and has taken advantage of recent scholarship to prune and update the entries. The result is a glimpse into the writings of 103 major composers, from Marchetto of Paduo (14th century) on the definition of musician, to the contemporary British composer Oliver Knussen on much the same topic, and Bach's famous memorandum to the Town Council of Leipzig, as well as new discoveries, such as the elegant, cryptic prose of Toru Takemitsu. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | 8 |
Claudio Monteverdi | 15 |
CHAPTER | 22 |
CHAPTER THREE | 36 |
Wolfgang Amadè Mozart | 45 |
Ludwig van Beethoven | 54 |
Carl Maria von Weber | 63 |
CHAPTER NINE | 227 |
CHAPTER | 265 |
Igor Stravinsky | 276 |
Zoltán Kodály | 290 |
Edgard Varèse | 299 |
Arthur Honegger | 305 |
William Grant Still | 311 |
George Gershwin | 335 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 72 |
Mikhail Glinka | 79 |
Robert Schumann | 90 |
Franz Liszt | 109 |
Giuseppe Verdi | 121 |
CHAPTER | 129 |
Alexander Borodin | 136 |
Camille SaintSaëns | 142 |
Modest Musorgsky | 149 |
Nikolai RimskyKorsakov | 167 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 173 |
Giacomo Puccini | 182 |
Ferruccio Busoni | 218 |
Francis Poulenc | 341 |
Ruth Crawford Seeger | 351 |
Olivier Messiaen | 364 |
Milton Babbitt | 387 |
Leonard Bernstein | 398 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN | 405 |
Hans Werner Henze | 444 |
Karlheinz Stockhausen | 450 |
Sofia Gubaidulina | 460 |
Sources | 481 |
Acknowledgments | 499 |
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