D. Kern Holoman

Autor(a) de The Orchestra: A Very Short Introduction

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D. Kern Holoman is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of California Davis, where he conducted the UCD Symphony Orchestra for more than three decades. He is the author of Berlioz, Evening with the Orchestra; Masterwork; The Socit des Concerts du Conservatoire, 1828-1967; Charles Munch: mostrar mais and The Orchestra: A Very Short Introduction. mostrar menos

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Writing About Music: A Style Sheet from the Editors of 19th-Century Music (1988) 41 exemplares

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Masterworks: A Musical Discovery (2nd Edition) (1997) 18 exemplares

Charles Munch (2011) 9 exemplares

The Nineteenth Century Symphony (Studies in Musical Genres and Repertories) (1996) 8 exemplares

The Societ́e ́des concerts du conservatoire, 1828-1967 (2004) 3 exemplares

The creative process in the autograph musical documents of Hector Berlioz, c. 1818-1840 (1980) 2 exemplares

Musicology in the 1980s : methods, goals, opportunities (1982) 1 exemplar

Writing about Music: A Style Sheet. 2nd ed. 1 exemplar

Catalogue of the works of Hector Berlioz (1987) 1 exemplar

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Data de nascimento: 1947
Sexo: male
Nacionalidade: USA

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Berlioz: A musical biography of the creative genius… por D. Kern Holoman

The books subtitle 'A musical biography' accurately indicates the approach of this particular biography, and how it relates to the other great Berlioz biographies. Holoman is the man for this approach: he has made an extensive study of the musical practice of Berlioz, scrutinizing his manuscripts and analyzing the compositions. The book is illustrated with lots of musical examples, and although the theoretical paragraphs are sometimes hard to follow for non-musicologists they always manage to give an idea of what Berlioz was actually trying to do - and why he was so often misunderstood by his contemporaries.

The book has two kinds of chapter: the first kind narrates the life of Berlioz in the light of the society he lived in. The second kind, called 'portraits', goes deeper into his personal, musica life, with detailed analyses of his works.

Finally the book is marvelously printed and bound.… (mais)

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Steven_VI | Jan 18, 2009 |

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