Film and Television Composer's Resource Guide
... composer's assistant usually involves doing a wide range of work . While many assis- tant positions involve clerical and maintenance work ( everything from doing the bookkeeping to washing the composer's car ) , some positions offer ...
The Author, Playwright and Composer
... composer hereby agrees to sell and assign to the publishers the exclusive licence for the mechanical reproduction of the work . " The Composers ' Sub - Committee wrote to Messrs . Curwen & Sons in the following terms : " The Composers ...
The Composer in Hollywood
Christopher Palmer discusses the life and work of eleven great Hollywood composers -- Steiner, Korngold, Newman, Waxman, Tiomkin, Webb, Rozsa, Herrmann, North, Bernstein, and Rosenman -- analyzing the scores of many well-known films.
The Monthly Musical Record
... composer's direction , with a chorus of 350 vocalists . The work is more like an orchestral symphony than an ... composer Umberto Giordano . Genoa . By a resolution of the Municipality Verdi's bust was to be placed in the vestibule ...
The Indispensable Composers
Now, in The Indispensable Composers, Tommasini offers his own personal guide to what the mercurial concept of greatness really means in classical music.
A Dictionary of Pianists and Composers for the Pianoforte
... Composer of- Concerto , Op . 34 ; Trios , Op . 48 , 58 , and 76 ; Sonatas for 4 hands ; Solo Sonatas ( 6 ) ; Sonate dans le style dramatique , Op . 12 . Anderson , Lucy ( née Philpot ) , daughter of Philpot , the Prof. and Musicseller ...
Famous Composers and Their Works
... composer . The mental malady which finally destroyed the composer was beginning to show itself , although Schumann still had the physical vigor to shake off the melancholia which tried to settle down upon him . Through all the work we ...
Composition in the Digital World
In a series of intimate conversations with some of the most influential composers of concert music currently working on the American music scene, composer and educator Robert Raines covers subjects ranging from the source of inspiration to ...
Reflections of an American Composer
In this engrossing collection of essays, distinguished composer, theorist, journalist, and educator Arthur Berger invites us into the vibrant and ever-changing American music scene that has been his home for most of the twentieth century.
Irving Fine
Ramey, a composer and pianist, discusses Fine's brief teaching career in the 1940s at his alma mater, Harvard University - shadowed, Fine was convinced, by a malign tradition of tacit anti-Semitism - and his subsequent years at the newly ...
Musical Composers and Their Works
... composer of the " Lustspiel " overture ; Reinecke , the composer of King Manfred ; Von Holstein , the writer of the opera of Der Haidesschacht , and with regard to whom Moscheles in his age wrote , " I think this composer has a great ...
The Etude Music Magazine
... composer who was the personification of the domestic virtues as was Bach . It were easy to continue with a catalogue of contrasts - the dreamy languor of Rob- ert Schumann with the gentlemanly vivac- ity of Mendelssohn ; the egregious ...
Famous Composers and Their Music
... composer's name down to our day with the glory that now surrounds it . Some portions of " The Creation " however , are noble music , and these will always be listened to with delight . Never was the human voice treated in a more ...
The History of Music
... composer , 1079 De la Croix , Pierre , 297 De la Guerre , Marin , 602 De la Hale , Adam , 591 , 1076 Delibes , Leo , French opera composer , 1243 Demantius , Christoph . , theorist , 619 Derabukkeh , Islamitic drum , 109 Desaides , 1077 ...
Famous Composers
... composer went on giving piano - lessons in order to earn his daily macaroni . But Puccini had the gift of winning loyal friends who believed in him , and the unfortunate and disreputable - look- ing manuscript was deciphered at the ...
The Composer's Voice
Music, we are often told, is a language. But if music is a language, then who is speaking? The Composer's Voice tries to answer this obvious but infrequently raised question.
Roger Sessions
As the story is told, often in the composer's own words, the complex picture emerges of a remarkable man who, gradually and not very willingly, learned to accept his unexpected lot as a "difficult" composer.
Music Glocalization and the Composer
Music Glocalization and the Composer: The Case of Franz Xaver Scharwenka (1850–1924) examines the life, milieu, and music of composer Franz Xaver Scharwenka.
George Rochberg, American Composer
The book significantly expands our understanding of Rochberg's creative work by reconstructing and examining the earliest seeds of his aesthetic thinking--which took root while he served in Patton's Third Army--and following their ...