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Guide to symphonic music / by Edward Downes Professor of Music History, Queens College and Graduate School, City University of New York.
LIBRA - Rare MT125 .D68 1981 Frost copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Downes, Edward, 1911-2001.
- Standardized Title:
- New York Philharmonic guide to the symphony
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orchestral music--Analysis, appreciation.
- Orchestral music.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xxix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1058 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Walker and Company, [©1981]
- Summary:
- A collection of essays, most of which were written as program notes for the symphonies played at New York Philharmonic concerts.
- Contents:
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Johann Christian Bach
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Samuel Barber
- Bela Bartok
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Alban Berg
- Hector Berlioz
- Leonard Bernstein
- Georges Bizet
- Ernest Bloch
- Pierre Boulez
- Johannes Brahms
- Benjamin Britten
- Earle Brown
- Max Bruch
- Anton Bruckner
- John Cage
- Elliott Carter
- Alfredo Casella
- Emmanuel Chabrier
- Ernest Chausson
- Frédéric Chopin
- Aaron Copland
- Arcangelo Corelli
- Henry Cowell
- Paul Creston
- George Crumb
- Luigi Dallapiccola
- Claude Debussy
- Norman Dello Joio
- David Diamond
- Jacob Druckman
- Paul Dukas
- Antonin Dvořák
- - Edward Elgar
- Manuel De Falla
- Lukas Foss
- César Franck
- George Gershwin
- Alberto Ginastera
- Mikhail Glinka
- Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Edvard Grieg
- George Frideric Handel
- Roy Harris
- Joseph Haydn
- Paul Hindemith
- Arthur Honegger
- Vincent D'Indy
- Charles Ives
- Leoš Janáček
- Dmitri Kabalevsky
- Leon Kirchner
- Edouard Lalo
- György Ligeti
- Franz Liszt
- Witold Lutoslawski
- Edward MacDowell
- Gustav Mahler
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Peter Mennin
- Gian Carlo Menotti
- Olivier Messiaen
- Darius Milhaud
- Modest Moussorgsky
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Otto Nicolai
- Carl Nielsen
- Niccoló Paganini
- Walter Piston
- Francis Poulenc
- Sergei Prokofieff
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Maurice Ravel
- Max Reger
- Ottorino Respighi
- Wallingford Riegger
- Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakoff
- George Rochberg
- Gioacchino Rossini
- Albert Roussel
- Carl Ruggles
- Camille Saint-Saens
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Franz Schubert
- William Schuman
- Robert Schumann
- Alexander Scriabin
- Roger Sessions
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Jan Sibelius
- Bedrich Smetana
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Richard Strauss
- Igor Stravinsky
- Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Virgil Thomson
- Edgard Varése
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Richard Wagner
- William Walton
- Ben Weber
- Carl Maria Von Weber
- Anton Webern
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann.
- Notes:
- "First published in the United States of America in 1976 by Walker Publishing Company, Inc., as 'The New York Philharmonic guide to the symphony'."
- "First U.S. paperback edition published in 1981 by Walker Publishing Company, Inc."
- Includes index.
- "Cover design by Barbara Huntley."
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- ISBN:
- 0802771777 :
- 9780802771773
- OCLC:
- 7464722
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