Accompanied voices : poets on composers, from Thomas Tallis to Arvo Pärt / selected by John Greening.

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Book
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English
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Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2015.
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xx, 214 pages ; 24 cm

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    An anthology of poems about specific composers. The poems address composers from the Renaissance through the present, but they were all written since the advent of commercial recordings. The poems are arranged chronologically by composer. With an introduction and indices.
    Notes
    An anthology of poems about specific composers. The poems address composers from the Renaissance through the present, but they were all written since the advent of commercial recordings. The poems are arranged chronologically by composer. With an introduction and indices.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • Thomas Tallis (1505-85)
    • William Byrd (?1543-1623)
    • John Dowland (?1563-1626)
    • Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
    • Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)
    • Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
    • Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
    • Henry Purcell (1659-95)
    • François Couperin (1668-1733)
    • Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
    • Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
    • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
    • George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
    • Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
    • Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-87)
    • Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
    • Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
    • Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
    • Niccoló Paganini (1782-1840)
    • John Field (1782-1837)
    • Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
    • Hector Berlioz (1803-69)
    • Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47)
    • Fryderyk Chopin (1810-49)
    • Robert Schumann (1810-56)
    • Franz Liszt (1811-86)
    • Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
    • Richard Wagner (1813-83)
    • Anton Bruckner (1824-96)
    • Bedrich Smetana (1824-84)
    • Johannes Brahms (1833-97)
    • Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
    • Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-93)
    • Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904)
    • Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
    • Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
    • Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
    • Leos Janácek (1854-1928)
    • Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
    • Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
    • Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
    • Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
    • Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
    • Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
    • Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
    • Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
    • Erik Satie (1866-1925)
    • Amy Beach (1867-1944)
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
    • Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
    • Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
    • Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
    • Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
    • Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
    • Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
    • Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
    • Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
    • Arnold Bax (1883-1953)
    • Anton Webern (1883-1945)
    • Alban Berg (1885-1935)
    • George Butterworth (1885-1916)
    • Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959)
    • Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
    • Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) (1894-1930)
    • Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
    • Aaron Copland (1900-90)
    • Gerald Finzi (1901-56)
    • Michael Tippett (1905-98)
    • Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-75)
    • Olivier Messiaen (1908-92)
    • Samuel Barber (1910-81)
    • John Cage (1912-92)
    • Benjamin Britten (1913-76)
    • Witold Lutoslawski (1913-94)
    • György Ligeti (1923-2006)
    • Harrison Birtwistle (b.1934)
    • Peter Maxwell Davies (b.1934)
    • Arvo Pärt (b.1935)
    • Epilogue.
    ISBN
    • 9781783270156
    • 1783270152
    LCCN
    2015563669
    OCLC
    892462260
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