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Choral masterworks : a listener's guide /

Michael Steinberg's highly successful listener's guides - "The Symphony" and "The Concerto"--Have been universally praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now Steinberg follows these two greatly admired vol...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Steinberg, Michael, 1928-2009
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:OUP E-Books.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Adams: Harmonium
  • Bach: The passions (Saint John Passion, Saint Matthew Passion); Magnificat; Mass in B minor
  • Beethoven: Missa solemnis
  • Berlioz: Requiem
  • Brahms: A German requiem; The shorter choral works (Schicksalslied = Song of destiny, Nänie = Lament, Gesang der Parzen = Song of the fates)
  • Britten: War requiem
  • Cherubini: Requiem in C minor
  • Dallapiccola: Canti di prigonia = Songs of captivity
  • Dvořák: Stabat Mater
  • Elgar: The dream of Gerontius
  • Fauré: Requiem
  • Handel: Messiah, Der Messias (arr. Mozart)
  • Haydn: Harmoniemesse (wind-band mass); Two great oratorios (Die Schöpfung = The creation; Die Jahreszeiten = The seasons)
  • Honegger: Le Roi David = King David
  • Janáček: Glagolitic Mass
  • Kodály: Psalmus hungaricus
  • Mendelssohn: Elias = Elijah
  • Mozart: The shorter choral works; Mass in C minor; Requiem
  • Orff: Carmina burana
  • Rachmaninoff: The bells
  • Schmidt: Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln = The book With seven seals
  • Sessions: When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd
  • Stravinsky: The wedding, Perséphone, Symphony of Psalms, Mass, Canticum sacrum = Sacred canticle, Requiem canticles
  • Tippett: A child of our time
  • Vaughan Williams: A sea symphony, Sancta civitas
  • Verdi: Requiem
  • Walton: Belshazzar's feast
  • Wuorinen: Genesis.