| Series | Studies in the history and interpretation of music ; 75a-75b Studies in the history and interpretation of music ; 75a-75b. ^A231525 |
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v. 1. Avshalomov, Jacob. The taking of T'ung Kuan -- Balakirev, Mili. Thamar: symphonic poem for orchestra -- Bantock, Granville. Comedy overture: the frogs ; The Cyprian goddess ; Fifine at the fair ; Overture to a Greek tragedy: Oedipus at Colonus ; Pagan symphony ; The Pierrot of the minute: comedy overture ; The witch of Atlas -- Barber, Samuel. Music for a scene from Shelley ; Overture to The School for Scandal -- Bax, Arnold. The garden of Fand ; The happy forest ; In the faery hills ; Spring fire -- Beethoven, Ludwig van. Coriolan overture -- Berlinski, Herman. Symphonic variations for orchestra ; Berlioz, Hector. Harold in Italy ; King Lear overture ; Rob Roy overture ; Waverley overture -- Bernier, Rene. Ode to a Madonna -- Bernstein, Leonard. The age of anxiety, Symphony no. 2 for piano and orchestra -- Bloch, Ernest. Schelomo -- Borgstrom, Hjalmar. Hamlet: symphonic poem for piano and orchestra -- Bridge, Frank. There is a willow grows aslant a brook -- Butterworth, George. A shropshire lad -- Caggiano, Nestore. Three orchestral pieces. Adelchi ; Alla citta di Ferrara ; La tomba nel Busento -- Caplet, Andre. Legende -- Carpenter, John Alden. Sea drift -- Castillo, Ricardo. La Doncella Ixquic -- Catalani, Alfredo. Ero e Leandro -- Chadwick, George Whitefield. Rip Van Winkle overture ; Tam O'Shanter -- Chausson, Ernest. Poeme ; Viviane -- Coates, Eric. Cinderella: a phantasy ; The selfish giant: a phantasy ; The three bears: phantasy -- Converse, Frederick. Endymion's narrative: romance for orchestra ; The mystic trumpeter, orchestral fantasy -- Creston, Paul. Out of the cradle ; Symphony no. 3 (three mysteries) -- Debussy, Claude. Prelude a l'apres-midi d'une faune -- Delius, Frederick. Eventyr ; In a summer garden -- Diamond, David. The enormous room ; Music for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ; Timon of Athens: a symphonic portrait after Shakespeare -- D'Indy, Vincent. The enchanted forest ; Istar ; Saugefleurie ; Three symphonic overtures (Wallenstein) -- Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von. Six symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Dukas, Paul. Polyeucte ; The sorcerer's apprentice -- Duparc, Henri. Lenore: symphonic poem for orchestra after the ballad of Burger -- Dvorak, Antonin. Four symphonic poems based on ballads by Erben. The golden spinning wheel ; The noon witch ; The water goblin ; The wood dove ; Othello overture -- Dyson, George. Children's suite after Walter de la Mare -- Elgar, Edward. Falstaff, symphonic study for orchestra ; Froissart -- Emmanuel, Maurice. Le poeme du Rhone ; Symphony no. 2 (Bretonne) -- Fibich, Zdenek. Toman and the wood nymph ; Zaboj, Slavoj, and Ludek -- Foerster, Josef Bohuslav. Cyrano de Bergerac ; Shakespeare suite for large orchestra -- Foote, Arthur. Symphonic prologue, Francesca da Rimini -- Franck, Cesar. Ce q'on entend sur la montagne ; Le chasseur maudit ; Les djinns ; Les eolides -- Fuchs, Robert. Overture to Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen -- Gade, Niels. Echoes of ossian overture ; Hamlet overture ; Holbergiana -- Ginastera, Alberto. Overture to the Creole Faust -- Glass, Louis. Symphony no. 6 (Skjoldungeoet) -- Gliere, Reinhold. Symphony no. 3 (Ilya Murometz) -- Goldmark, Karl. Penthesilia overture ; Prometheus bound overture ; Sakuntala overture -- Griffes, Charles Tomlinson. The pleasure dome of Kubla Khan -- Grofe, Ferde. Mississippi suite: Huckleberry Finn -- Guridi, Jesus. Una aventura de Don Quijote -- Hadley, Henry. Salome -- Hall, Pauline. Verlaine suite -- Harris, Clement. Paradise Lost, symphonic poem after John Milton -- Hartmann, Johan Peder Emilius. Axel and Valborg overture ; Correggio overture -- Harty, Hamilton. With the wild geese, poem for orchestra -- Haydn, Franz Joseph. The seven last words -- Herberigs, Robert. Cyrano de Bergerac ; The song of Hiawatha -- Herbert, Victor. Hero and Leander -- Hill, Edward Burlingame. Stevensonia: suite no. 1 -- Holbrooke, Joseph. Poems for orchestra. The raven ; Ulalume -- Holst, Gustav. Egdon Heath -- Honegger, Arthur. Pastoral d'ete ; Prelude to Aglavaine et Selysette -- Horneman, Christian Frederick Emil. Fairy-tale overture: Aladdin -- Huber, Hans. Symphony no. 5 (Romantic: The fiddler of Gmund) -- Hurlstone, William. The magic mirror -- Hurum, Alf. Bendik og Aarolilja -- Ibert, Jacques. Ballad of reading gaol -- Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail. Three musical tableaux from ossian -- Ireland, John. Overture: Satyricon ; Symphonic rhapsody: Mai-Dun -- Janacek, Leos. The ballad of Blanik ; The fiddler's child ; Taras Bulba -- Joachim, Joseph. Overture to a comedy by Gozzi ; Overture to Hamlet ; Overture to Henry IV -- Johansen, David Monrad. Pan, symphonic music. |
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v. 2. Kalinnikov, Vasily. The cedar and the palm -- Klami, Uuno. The cobblers on the heath overture ; Kalevala suite ; The adventures of Lemminkainen on the island of Saari -- Koechlin, Charles. Ballade for piano and orchestra ; Le Buisson ardent ; The jungle book -- Leifs, Jon. Symphony no. 1 (Saga heroes) -- Lekeu, Guillaume. Second etude symphonique: I-Hamlet, II-Ophelie -- Liadov, Anatol. Baba Yaga ; From the apocalypse -- Liapunov, Sergei. Hashish: oriental symphonic poem -- Liszt, Franz. Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne ; Dante symphony ; Die Ideale ; Festklange ; From the cradle to the grave ; Hamlet ; Heroide funebre ; Hungaria ; Die Hunnenschlacht ; Les preludes ; Mazeppa ; Orpheus ; Prometheus ; Tasso, lamento e trionfo ; Le triomphe funebre du Tasse ; Two episodes from Lenau's Faust. Mephisto waltz #1 ; The procession by night -- Locatelli, Pietro. The plaint of Ariadne -- Loeffler, Charles Martin. Mort de Tintagiles ; A pagan poem ; Poem ; La villanelle du diable -- MacCunn, Hamish. The land of the mountain and the flood -- MacDowell, Edward. Hamlet and Ophelia ; Lamia ; Lancelot and Elaine ; Second (Indian) suite: Legend ; Two fragments after the Song of Roland -- Mackenzie, Alexander. Twelfth night overture -- Mason, Daniel Gregory. Chanticleer: a festive overture -- Massenet, Jules. Phedre overture ; Scenes dramatiques -- McEwen, John Blackwood. The demon lover -- Mendelssohn, Felix. Calm sea and prosperous voyage overture ; Overture to a A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Merikanto, Aarre. Lemminkainen -- Miaskovsky, Nikolai. Silence ; Symphony no. 10 -- Moscheles, Ignaz. Overture to Schiller's tragedy The Maid of Orleans -- Mussorgsky, Modest. Night on bald mountain -- Nielsen, Carl. Pan and Syrinx ; Saga-drom for orchestra -- Novak, Viteslav. De profundis ; Eternal longing ; Marysa overture ; Toman and the wood nymph -- Paine, John Knowles. Overture to Shakespeare's As You Like It ; Symphonic poem, The Tempest -- Parry, Hubert. Overture to an unwritten tragedy -- Persichetti, Vincent. The hollow men -- Pierne, Gabriel. Paysages franciscains -- Pierson, Heinrich Hugo. Romeo and Juliet -- Pingoud, Ernest. Le prophete -- Powell, John. Rhapsodie negre -- Rabaud, Henri Benjamin. La procession nocturne -- Rachmaninov, Sergei. The crag ; Prince Rostislav, poem for orchestra -- Raff, Joachim. Overture to Shakespeare's Macbeth ; Overture to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ; Symphony no. 5 (Lenore) -- Raitio, Vaino. Antigone ; Fantasia poetica ; The swans -- Rangstrom, Ture. Dithyramb -- Rheinberger, Josef. Overture to Schiller's Demetrius ; Wallenstein -- Riisager, Knudage. Erasmus Montanus overture -- Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai. Symphony no. 2 (Antar) ; Sadko ; Scheherazade, symphonic suite ; Skazka -- Rogers, Bernard. Once upon a time: five fairy tales -- Roussel, Albert. Resurrection -- Rubinstein, Anton. Don Quixote ; Faust, musical picture after Goethe -- Saint-Saens, Camille. Danse macabre ; Le jeunesse d'Hercule ; Phaeton ; Le rouet d'Omphale -- Schillings, Max von. Seemorgen ; Symphonic prologue to Sophocles' Konig Oedipus -- Schmitt, Florent. Etude pour palais hante d'Edgar Poe ; Reves -- Schoenberg, Arnold. Pelleas and Melisande -- Schumann, Robert. The bride of Messina overture ; Hermann und Dorothea overture ; Julius Caesar overture ; Manfred overture -- Sibelius, Jean. The bard ; Lemminkainen suite ; The oceanides ; Pohjola's daughter ; Tapiola -- Skalkottas, Nikos. Symphony, the return of Odysseus -- Smetana, Bedrich. Hakon Jarl ; Richard III ; Wallenstein's camp -- Sowerby, Leo. Piece for orchestra after Sandburg's theme in yellow -- Prairie -- Spohr, Ludwig. Symphony no. 4 (Die Weihe der Tone) -- Stanford, Charles Villiers. Symphony no. 5 (L'allegro ed il pensieroso) -- Stenhammar, Wilhelm. Excelsior! -- Strauss, Johann (Jr.). Mephistos Hollenrufe -- Strauss, Richard. Also sprach Zarathustra ; Don Juan ; Don Quixote ; Macbeth ; Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks -- Strong, George Templeton. Symphony no. 2 (Sintram) -- Suk, Josef. Ripening -- Svendsen, Johan. Romeo and Juliet ; Zorahayda -- Szymanowski, Karol. Concert overture -- Taylor, Deems. Through the looking glass -- Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich. Francesca da Rimini: symphonic fantasy ; Hamlet: overture fantasia after Shakespeare for orchestra ; Manfred, symphony after Byron ; Romeo and Juliet, overture-fantasia ; The storm overture ; The Tempest: symphonic fantasia ; The voyevede: symphonic ballad -- Tcherepnin, Nikolai. The enchanted kingdom ; La princesse lointaine -- Telemann, Georg Philipp. Don Quixote suite -- Tinel, Edgar. Polyeucte overture -- Tobias, Eudolf. Julius Caesar overture -- Toch, Ernst. Pinocchio: a merry overture -- Vaughan Williams, Ralph. Flos campi ; The lark ascending -- Villa-Lobos, Heitor. Erosao ; Symphony no. 4 (Victoria) -- Vitols, Jazeps. Spriditis -- Volkmann, Robert. Overture to Shakespeare's Richard III -- Wagenaar, Johann. Overture: Cyrano de Bergerac -- Wagner, Richard. A Faust overture -- Wagner, Siegfried. Sehnsucht -- Wallace, William. Creation symphony ; Pelleas and Melisande suite ; Prelude to the Eumenides of Aeschylus ; Sister Helen ; Villon -- Wolf, Hugo. Penthesilia -- Ysaye, Eugene. Chant d'hiver ; Les neiges d'Antan! -- Zemlinsky, Alexander. Die Seejungfrau. |
| Abstract |
Based on specific literary resouces, this book provides information on over 260 pieces of orchestral program music up to 1950. Each entry consists of: an account of relevant aspects of the author's and composer's life and about the relationship between the music and it's source. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 00054617 |
| ISBN | 0773474897 (v. 1) |
| ISBN | 0773474919 (v. 2) |