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Proof through the night : music and the Great War / Glenn Watkins.
LIBRA CD 00446 1 disc
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LIBRA ML197 .W436 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watkins, Glenn, 1927-2021.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Music and the war.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Music--20th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Genre:
- Songs.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 598 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm + 1 CD (4 3/4 in.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- An entertaining cultural history of music during World War I, covering all the major European nations as well as the United States, in both classical and popular genres. The book is lavishly illustrated and includes a CD.
- Contents:
- Contents of the compact disc: To women : from The spirit of England / Edward Elgar
- Chant du départ / Etienne-Nicolas Méhul
- Berceuse héroïque ; En blanc et noir. 2nd movement. excerpt ; Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maisons / Claude Debussy
- March : from Trois pièces faciles ; Souvenir d'une marche boche / Igor Stravinsky
- Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis ; Toccata : from Tombeau de Couperin / Maurice Ravel
- O toi qui le premier osas quitter la terre : from Icare / Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe
- Der verlorene Haufen / Arnold Schoenbert
- Der Tag ist vergangen / Anton Webern
- On patrol in No Man's Land / Noble Sissle ; Eubie Blake ; James Reese Europe
- The home road / Johan Alden Carpenter
- In Flanders Fields ; Tom sails away / Charles Ives
- Frontispice / Maurice Ravel.
- Notes:
- "Roth Family Foundation, music in America imprint"--P. [i].
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-573) and index.
- Contains:
- Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934. Spirit of England. To women
- Méhul, Etienne Nicolas, 1763-1817. Chant du départ.
- Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Berceuse héroïque.
- Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. En blanc et noir. Lent, sombre. Selections.
- Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maison.
- Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Pièces faciles (1915). March.
- Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Souvenir d'une marche boche.
- Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937. Chansons, mixed voices. Trois beaux oiseaux de paradis.
- Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937. Tombeau de Couperin. Toccata
- Deutsch de la Meurthe, Henry, 1846-1919. Icare. O toi qui le premier osas quitter la terre; arranged.
- Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951. Ballades, voice, piano, op. 12. Verlorene Haufen.
- Webern, Anton, 1883-1945. Lieder, op. 12. Tag ist vergangen.
- Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983. On patrol in no man's land.
- Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951. Home road.
- Ives, Charles, 1874-1954. In Flanders fields.
- Ives, Charles, 1874-1954. Tom sails away.
- Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937. Frontispice.
- ISBN:
- 0520231589
- OCLC:
- 49619116
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