This is the first major set of essays on the Czech composer Leos Janá^Dvcek, widely considered one of the most important composers of the early twentieth century. The essays deal with a range of subjects relating to opera, symphonic poem, instrumental music, cultural context, reception, and Janá^Dvcek as music theorist and analyst. Some topics, such as the sources of his musical expressivity, narrative, and Jan^Dvacek as musical analyst and realist have hitherto received little attention, while other, more conventional topics, such as "speech melody" and Janá^Dvcek's ethnographic activities, are reappraised.
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'After reading this volume, even those sceptical about Roger Scruton's recent claim that Janácek is the greatest of all twentieth-century composers should find it more difficult to ignore his music, and the interpretative challenges it poses, than they might have done before.' Arnold Whittall, Music and Letters
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This is the first major set of essays on the Czech composer Leos Janá^Dvcek, widely considered one of the most important composers of the early twentieth century. The essays deal with a range of subjects relating to opera, symphonic poem, instrumental music, cultural context, reception, and Janá^Dvcek as music theorist and analyst. Some topics, such as the sources of Janá^Dvcek's musical expressivity, narrative, Janá^Dvcek as musical analyst and realist have hitherto received little attention, whilst other, more conventional topics, such as 'speech melody' and Janá^Dvcek's ethnographic activities, are reappraised.
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Broadly speaking either composers want primarily to make shapes, patterns, forms, journeys, buildings, tables, gardens, mud-pies, or they want primarily to utter what wells up from within themselves, or from what is suggested within themselves by the impact of things from around them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
motivic dimension, motivic returns, pivotal motives, mer analysis, harmonic motives, dynamic paragraph, final semiquaver, acoustic scale, motivic fragmentation, plot archetype, passion hymn, speech melody, diatonic collection, speech melodies, harmonic reduction, rehearsal number, melodic motives, cor anglais, musical analysis, direct discourse, symphonic poems, key motives, chromatic alteration Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Taras Bulba, Australian Opera, John Tyrrell, The Fiddler's Child, Claude Debussy, Cambridge University Press, New York, Emilia Marty, Michael Beckerman, Universal Edition, Complete Harmony Manual, David Gyger, Uncollected Essays, Ron Stevens, Czech Philharmonic, Emil Solc, Gregory Dempsey, Jan Racek, Paul Wingfield, Sydney Opera House, The Adventures of the Vixen Bystrouska, The Makropulos Affair, Charles Mackerras, Festival Theatre, Lighting Designer New!
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Broadly speaking either composers want primarily to make shapes, patterns, forms, journeys, buildings, tables, gardens, mud-pies, or they want primarily to utter what wells up from within themselves, or from what is suggested within themselves by the impact of things from around them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
motivic dimension, motivic returns, pivotal motives, mer analysis, harmonic motives, dynamic paragraph, final semiquaver, acoustic scale, motivic fragmentation, plot archetype, passion hymn, speech melody, diatonic collection, speech melodies, harmonic reduction, rehearsal number, melodic motives, cor anglais, musical analysis, direct discourse, symphonic poems, key motives, chromatic alteration Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Taras Bulba, Australian Opera, John Tyrrell, The Fiddler's Child, Claude Debussy, Cambridge University Press, New York, Emilia Marty, Michael Beckerman, Universal Edition, Complete Harmony Manual, David Gyger, Uncollected Essays, Ron Stevens, Czech Philharmonic, Emil Solc, Gregory Dempsey, Jan Racek, Paul Wingfield, Sydney Opera House, The Adventures of the Vixen Bystrouska, The Makropulos Affair, Charles Mackerras, Festival Theatre, Lighting Designer New!
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- The House of the Dead (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky on 18 pages
- Taras Bulba (Modern Library Classics) by Nikolai Gogol on 4 pages
- Taras Bulba by Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol on 4 pages
- Theory, Analysis and Meaning in Music by Anthony Pople on page 184, page 200, and page 263
- Intimate Letters by Leos Janacek on page 123, page 205, and page 270
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