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Les Écrits de Claude Ballif (1924-2004) réunissent dans les deux présents volumes les textes qui ont marqué leur temps : les spéculations théoriques du compositeur avec l'Introduction à la métatonalité (1956) et Voyage de mon oreille (1979), sa réflexion pédagogique sur la composition avec Souhait entre symbole (1988), jusqu'à la confession autobiographique faite dans L'Habitant du labyrinthe (1992). D'autres textes, articles, conférences, entretiens, lettres (dont certains inédits à ce jour), sur la composition, son oeuvre, ses maîtres du passé (de Machaut à Varèse) ou sur certains de ses contemporains. Derrière la réflexion théorique et esthétique, l'homme Claude Ballif se montre dans ces pages, avec son humour, sa singularité, sa poésie, avec sa foi aussi. Si son indépendance voulue et assumée a pu donner de lui l'impression d'un musicien en marge des courants officiels de son temps, ses écrits ainsi rassemblés permettent de redécouvrir l'originalité et la force de la pensée artistique de l'un des grands compositeurs français de la seconde moitié du XX e siècle.

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Over the Rainbow, "Stormy Weather," and "One for My Baby" are just a few of Harold Arlen's well-loved compositions. Yet his name is hardly known--except to the musicians who venerate him. At a gathering of songwriters George Gershwin called him "the best of us." Irving Berlin agreed. Paul McCartney sent him a fan letter and became his publisher. Bob Dylan wrote of his fascination with Arlen's "bittersweet, lonely world." A cantor's son, Arlen believed his music was from a place outside himself, a place that also sent tragedy. When his wife became mentally ill and was institutionalized he turned to alcohol. It nearly killed him. But the beautiful songs kept coming: "Blues in the Night," "My Shining Hour," "Come Rain or Come Shine," and "The Man That Got Away." Walter Rimler drew on interviews with friends and associates of Arlen and on newly available archives to write this intimate portrait of a genius whose work is a pillar of the Great American Songbook.

Composers --- Arlen, Harold,

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Claude Debussy was the father of the Modern era in classical music. His innovations liberated Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Bartâok to write their iconoclastic works, and is harmonic inventions are still heard in American jazz. Though he was among the most compelling figures of the Belle âEpoque, his life is little known to all but scholars; and of his considerable musical output, only Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun," La Mer, and "Clair de lune" are widely known. In [this book], Harvey Lee Snyder addresses this cultural neglect by presenting the composer and his music, without jargon or biographical trivia, in a richly detailed, accurate narrative that reads almost like a novel. Here is the story of a poor, unschooled Parisian boy swept by odd coincidences to the Paris Conservatory at age ten. Here is a brilliant man determined to end the long-standing Germanic domination of European music, struggling to invent a tonal language capable of expressing his unique musical vision, and finding inspiration not in Bach and Beethoven but in Mallarmâe's poetry and the paintings of Whistler and Turner. Here is a reclusive, gentle man whose misguided love affairs ended in scandal and scorn. His hard work failed to end decades of poverty and debt, but when he died in 1918, he was--and has remained--the foremost French composer of the twentieth century and one of music history's greatest pioneers. -- Inside jacket flap.

Composers --- Debussy, Claude,

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Evocation de la vie du pianiste et compositeur russe de la fin du XIXe siècle, dont l'oeuvre comporte plusieurs symphonies, un concerto et de nombreuses oeuvres pour piano. ©Electre 2015

Composers --- Compositeurs --- Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich,

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This book traces the development of music in the late 20th and early 21st centuries with regards to the work of six women composers: Sofia Gubaidulina, Joan Tower, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Libby Larsen, Chen Yi, and Judith Weir. The study integrates cultural contexts with the composers' biographies, their diverse compositional styles, and provides in-depth analyses of their musical works. The Kaleidoscope of Women's Sounds in Music of the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries offers a more detailed guide to not only these composers, but also their musical characters and styles, than previous studies

Women composers. --- Women composers --- Composers, Women --- Women as composers --- Composers --- Women musicians --- History --- Gubaidulina, Sofia, --- Tower, Joan, --- Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe, --- Larsen, Libby. --- Chen, Yi, --- Weir, Judith.