The composer's point of view : essays on twentieth-century choral music by those who wrote it / edited by Robert Stephan Hines.
| Author/creator | Hines, Robert Stephan |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©1963. |
| Description | xiii, 342 pages : music ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | United States composers. The Prairie, A Parable of Death, and Psalms / Lukas Foss -- The Lament for Beowulf / Howard Hanson -- Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae / Ernst Krenek -- Symphony no. 4, "The cycle" / Peter Mennin -- Hymns and responses for the church year / Vincent Persichetti -- The Passion / Bernard Rogers -- The Throne of God / Leo Sowerby -- English composers. The Vision of Judgement / Peter Racine Fricker -- The Water and the Fire / Anthony Milner -- Missa in Honorem Sancti Dominici / Edmund Rubbra -- A Child of Our Time / Michael Tippett -- Continental European composers. Der Tod zu Basel / Conrad Beck ; translated by Anna K. Neufeld -- In the Hall of Mirrors and Anabase / Karl-Birger Blomdahl -- My choral music / Luigi Dallapiccola ; translated by Madeleine M. Smith -- L'Apocalypse selon Saint Jean / Jean Francaix ; translated by Madeleine M. Smith -- Missa Salve Regina / Jean Langlais ; translated by Madeleine M. Smith -- Golgotha / Frank Martin ; translated by Madeleine M. Smith -- Triptychon / Hermann Reutter ; translated by Ralph S. Fraser -- Musical examples. Music representative of the composers' essays. |
| Abstract | This book is a collection of essays by 20th-century American, English, and European composers in which each composer discusses a large choral work or works they have written, along with the principles that guided the composition. The book includes contributions from some of the most important composers of the 20th century and features musical analysis of their works. |
| Abstract | "This collection of essays by twentieth-century composers, in which each composer discusses a large choral work or works that he has written, along with the principles that guided the composition, is unique in the history of music and publication. It is the first volume in which composers of a particular period have shared their views about their music and creative processes in a collection specifically devoted to this concept. The composers represented here exemplify the majority of the styles of composition practiced in the first half of this century. Lukas Foss, Howard Hanson, Ernst Krenek, Peter Mennin, Vincent Persichetti, Bernard Rogers, Leo Sowerby, Peter Racine Fricker, Anthony Milner, Edmund Rubbra, Michael Tippett, Conrad Beck, Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Luigi Dallapiccola, Jean Françaix, Jean Langlais, Frank Martin, and Hermann Reutter have written on such forms as the mass, secular and sacred oratorio, symphonic-choral tone poem, cantata, symphony with voices, a setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and hymns and responses for the church year. These composers have expressed themselves freely, and often in an outspoken manner, about their art. In addition to the essays, which give a deep insight into the 'correct' interpretation of the music represented here, there are examples of each man's music and catalogues of all their choral works. These insights into the creative act of choral-music composition will be invaluable to the performer and teacher concerned with re-creating works by the composers, to the young musician learning and understanding the magnitude of the disciplines involved in music, and to the listener-reader seeking a wider knowledge of contemporary choral music and its new forms."--Dust jacket. |
| General note | "Catalogues of composers' works": pages 319-335. |
| Biographical note | "Robert Stephan Hines, who collected and edited this volume, is himself a widely known director of choral groups. He is a member of the faculty of the School of Music in the University of Wichita, Kansas."--Dust jacket. |
| LCCN | 63018073 |