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Choral Masterworks A Listener's Guide

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ISBN-10: 0195126440

ISBN-13: 9780195126440

Edition: 2005

Authors: Michael Steinberg

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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 volumes with Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide, the only such guide available to this most popular of musical forms. Here are more than fifty illuminating essays on the classic choral masterworks, ranging from Handel's Messiah, Bach's Mass in B Minor, and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, to works by Haydn, Brahms, Mendelssohn, and many others. Steinberg spans the entire history of classical music, from such giants of the Romantic era…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/22/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.30" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Michael Steinberg’s writing has been published in the Journal of the History of Ideas, the American Choral Review, and many law reviews, and he was the author of the Web site “Why This War.” He lives in Rochester, NY.

Sacred Texts in a Secular World: A Word to Nonbelievers-and Believers
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)
Nanie (Lament)
Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates)
Britten
War Requiem
Cherubini
Requiem in C Minor
Dallapiccola
Canti di prigonia (Songs of Captivity)
Dvorak
Stabat Mater
Elgar
The Dream of Gerontius
Faure
Requiem
Handel
Messiah
Der messias (arr. Mozart)
Haydn
Harmoniemesse (Wind-Band Mass)
Two Great Oratorios
Die Schopfung (The Creation)
Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons)
Honegger
Le Roi David (King David)
Janacek
Glagolitic Mass
Kodaly
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
Persephone
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