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Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story

By: Nigel Simeone

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Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story

By: Nigel Simeone

One of the Broadway musicals that can genuinely claim to have transformed the genre, West Side Story has been featured in many books on Broadway, but it has yet to be the focus of a scholarly monograph. Nigel Simeone begins by exploring the long process of creating West Side Story, including a discussion of Bernstein's sketches, early drafts of the score and script, as well as cut songs. The core of the book is a commentary on the music itself. West Side Story is one of the very few Broadway musicals for which there is a complete published orchestral score, as well as two different editions of the piano-vocal score. The survival of the original copied orchestral score, and the reminiscences of Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal, reveal details of the orchestration process, and the extent to which Bernstein was involved in this. Simeone's commentary considers: musical characteristics and compositional techniques used to mirror the drama (for example, the various uses of the tritone), motivic development, the use and reinvention of Broadway and other conventions, the creation of dramatic continuity in the score through the use of motifs and other devices, the unusual degree of dissonance and rhythmic complexity (at least for the time), and the integration of Latin-American dance forms (Mambo, Huapango and so on). Simeone also considers the reception of West Side Story in the contemporary press. The stir the show caused included the response that it was the angular, edgy score that made it a remarkable achievement. Not all reviews were uncritical. Finally, the book looks in detail at the making of the original Broadway cast recording, made in just one day, included on the accompanying CD.

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Routledge

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1351560379

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9781351560375

Janáček's Works

A Catalogue of the Music and Writings of Leoš Janáček

By: Nigel Simeone,John Tyrrell,Alena Němcová

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Janáček's Works

A Catalogue of the Music and Writings of Leoš Janáček

By: Nigel Simeone,John Tyrrell,Alena Němcová

This is the fullest catalogue in any language of the works of the great Czech composer Leo%s Jan %cek. The entry for each work includes detailed information on date of composition, source of texts, performing forces, duration, manuscript locations, publication, performances and production, dedication, and literature. The catalogue also includes a complete annotated edition of the composer's writings.

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Oxford University Press

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0198164467

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9780198164463

Olivier Messiaen

Music, Art and Literature

By: Nigel Simeone

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Olivier Messiaen

Music, Art and Literature

By: Nigel Simeone

When Olivier Messiaen died in 1992, the prevailing image was of a man apart; a deeply religious man whose only sources of inspiration were God and Nature and a composer whose music progressed along an entirely individual path, artistically impervious to contemporaneous events and the whims both of his contemporaries and the critics. Whilst such a view contains a large element of truth, the past ten years has seen an explosion of interest in the composer, and the work of a diverse range of scholars has painted a much richer, more complex picture of Messiaen. This volume presents some of the fruits of this research for the first time, concentrating on three broad, interrelated areas: Messiaen's relationship with fellow artists; key developments in the composer's musical language and technique; and his influences, both sacred and secular. The volume assesses Messiaen's position as a creative artist of the twentieth century in the light of the latest research. In the process, it identifies some of the key myths, confusions and exaggerations surrounding the composer which often mask equally remarkable truths. In attempting to reveal some of those truths, the essays elucidate a little of the mystery surrounding Messiaen as a man, an artist, a believer and a musician.

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135155591X

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Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story

By: Nigel Simeone

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1351560387

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Messiaen

By: Peter Hill,Nigel Simeone,Special Lecturer in Music Bibliography Nigel Simeone

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Messiaen

By: Peter Hill,Nigel Simeone,Special Lecturer in Music Bibliography Nigel Simeone

With access to Messiaen's private archive, the authors have been able to trace the origins of many of his greatest works and place them in the context of his life. --book jacket.

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Yale University Press

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0300109075

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9780300109078

Guide to Ecstacity

By: Nigel Coates

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Guide to Ecstacity

By: Nigel Coates

In this encyclopedic book, British architectural visionary Nigel Coates asks us to reimagine the city as a dynamic hybrid of inventive design and cross-cultural political empowerment. His innovative view of the contemporary metropolis is presented in the form of Ecstacity, a hypothetical place that collapses the real into the imaginary, with fragments of cities from around the world woven together into one multifaceted urban fabric. With streetscapes, buildings, and plans appropriated from Tokyo, Cairo, London, New York, Rome, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro, Ecstacity constructs an urban kaleidoscope marked by cultural diversity and suggests that pluralism, and not uniformity, is the best response to the multiplication of modern lifestyles and revolutions in global communication"--Bookjacket.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568984243

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Paris--a Musical Gazetteer

By: Nigel Simeone,Special Lecturer in Music Bibliography Nigel Simeone

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Paris--a Musical Gazetteer

By: Nigel Simeone,Special Lecturer in Music Bibliography Nigel Simeone

This guidebook is aimed at all travellers interested in exploring the historical musical sights of Paris - in person or from an armchair. It features biographical portraits of such lumineries as Chopin, Liszt and Satie, venue information and listings of libraries, museums and galleries.

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0300080549

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9780300080544

Olivier Messiaen

Music, Art and Literature

By: Nigel Simeone

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Messiaen

By: Peter Hill,Nigel Simeone,Special Lecturer in Music Bibliography Nigel Simeone

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By: Peter Hill,Nigel Simeone,Special Lecturer in Music Bibliography Nigel Simeone

With access to Messiaen's private archive, the authors have been able to trace the origins of many of his greatest works and place them in the context of his life. --book jacket.

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Olivier Messiaen

Oiseaux Exotiques

By: Peter Hill

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Oiseaux Exotiques

By: Peter Hill

Olivier Messiaen's Oiseaux exotiques is arguably the first of Messiaen's major works to create a successful synthesis between his music and his passion for ornithology. Messiaen regarded birdsong as music--a belief that led for a time to an obsession with truth-to-nature. Here, Peter Hill and Nigel Simeone provide the background to Oiseaux exotiques, discussing Messiaen's relations with the 1950s avant garde and his involvement with the concerts of the Domaine musical, for which Oiseaux exotiques was composed. The authors analyse Messiaen's compositional methods in unprecedented detail and trace step-by-step the evolution of musical ideas from first notation to finished score.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754656306

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Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story

Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story

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Janáček's Works

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Olivier Messiaen

Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story

Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story

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Guide to Ecstacity

Guide to Ecstacity

Paris--a Musical Gazetteer

Paris--a Musical Gazetteer

Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen

Messiaen

Messiaen

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Olivier Messiaen

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