Free Download Analyzing the Music of Living Composers (and Others) By Jack Boss; Brad Osborn; Tim S. Pack; Stephen Rodgers
2013 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 1443842273 | PDF | 8 MB
Analyzing the Music of Living Composers (and Others) is a collection of essays that grew out of the 2010 annual meeting of the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis. The stated purpose was to apply traditional music-analytic techniques, as well as new, innovative techniques, to describing the music of composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The goal was to take steps toward making the music of our time a bit less impenetrable for our colleagues, students and other listeners by showing how it follows, varies, and sometimes controverts the organizational schemes of older music. This collection includes chapters analyzing music of older eras as well, including a number that throw light on the analysis of recent music in unexpected ways, and there are also several chapters that propose innovative analytic approaches to recent popular music and jazz.

Free Download DK, "Composers: Their Lives and Works"
English | 2020 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1465491368 | PDF | 117,6 mb
"The only love affair I have ever had was with music." Maurice Ravel

Free Download Paul Holmes, "Debussy (Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers)"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0711917523 | EPUB | pages: 136 | 8.4 mb
This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer s life.

Free Download David Morgan, "Knowing The Score: Film Composers Talk About the Art, Craft, Blood, Sweat, and Tears of Writing for Cinema"
English | 2000 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0380804824 | EPUB | 2,4 mb
This collection of interviews with Hollywood composers offers the most intimate look ever at the process of writing music for the movies. From getting started in the business to recording the soundtrack, from choosing a musical style to collaborating with directors, including Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, the Coen brothers, Terry Gilliam, Kenneth Branagh, and Ken Russell, from learning to deal with editing to writing with time-sensitive precision, the leading practitioners in the field share their views on one of the most important - and least understood - aspects of filmmaking: the motion picture art that's heard but not seen.

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Album: French Composers Flute and Piano
Artist: Seiya Ueno
Genre: Classique
Date/Year: 2023

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Album: The Monarch's Music
Artist: VA
Genre: Classique
Date/Year: 2023

Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States: Crossing the Line By Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner
2005 | 308 Pages | ISBN: 0754604616 | PDF | 19 MB
Featuring analytical discussions or descriptions of about 150 different pieces of electroacoustic music by women composers in the United States, this book is the most definitive attempt to date to discuss the achievements of women as composers of experimental and avant-garde music from the 1930s to the present day. Using a wealth of primary material such as interviews and personal correspondence, Women Composers and Music Technology also explores currently relevant issues in gender and technology. Drawing out the relationships between composers and their working environments, and between teachers and students, Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner discusses the contribution of women composers to electroacoustic music. Complete with a bibliography and discography covering the work of 90 composers, the book is a valuable resource for those wishing to learn more about particular composers and their works. Further volumes are planned which will cover composers from continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Mexico, South America and Australasia.

Russian Composers Abroad: How They Left, Stayed, Returned By Elena Dubinets
2021 | 388 Pages | ISBN: 0253057779 | PDF | 9 MB
As waves of composers migrated from Russia in the 20th century, they grappled with the complex struggle between their own traditions and those of their adopted homes. Russian Composers Abroad explores the self-identity of these émigrés, especially those who left from the 1970s on, and how aspects of their diasporic identities played out in their music. Elena Dubinets provides a journey through the complexities of identity formation and cultural production under globalization and migration, elucidating sociological perspectives of the post-Soviet world that have caused changes in composers' outlooks, strategies, and rankings. Russian Composers Abroad is an illuminating study of creative ideas that are often shaped by the exigencies of financing and advancement rather than just by the vision of the creators and the demands of the public.

Leonard Bernstein (20th Century Composers) By Paul Myers
1998 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0714837016 | PDF | 24 MB
This is an illustrated biography of the American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein. Despite international fame and success, he was a man constantly struggling with inner conflicts. The best loved and most successful conductor of his generation, also a virtuoso pianist, he was adored by an international public, but suffered years of hostile criticism from the New York press. An inspiration to fellow American musicians, he was the first native American to direct a major American orchestra, and the first to conquer Europe (conducting the Vienna Philharmonic and at La Scala, Milan). His conducting style was famously flamboyant, yet he possessed a rare ability to communicate his music to the listener, who was often held spellbound. But Bernstein often dismissed conducting for its temporary character, and declared himself to be primarily a composer. Among other musicals, Bernstein wrote the world-famous West Side Story (1957), and the moving score to the film On the Waterfront, but he never enjoyed unanimous critical acclaim for his serious classical works, such as Chichester Psalms and Mass. In later years he feared that he would be remembered solely for his musicals.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1419753568 | 392 pages | True EPUB | 8.61 MB
An alternative history of 20th-century composers—nearly all of them women or composers of color—by a leading international music critic