Choral masterworks : a listener's guide / Michael Steinberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinberg, Michael, 1928-2009, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Choral music--Analysis, appreciation.

Choral music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 2005

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Michael Steinberg presents a volume of descriptive-analytical essays on the great masterpieces in the supremely inspiring repertoire for chorus & orchestra.

Contents:

Contents; Sacred Texts in a Secular World: A Word to Nonbelievers-and Believers; ADAMS; BACH; BEETHOVEN; BERLIOZ; BRAHMS; BRITTEN; CHERUBINI; DALLAPICCOLA; DVORÁK; ELGAR; FAURÉ; HANDEL; HAYDN; HONEGGER; JANÁCEK; KODÁLY; MENDELSSOHN; MOZART; ORFF; RACHMANINOFF; SCHMIDT; SESSIONS; STRAVINSKY; TIPPETT; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS; VERDI; WALTON; WUORINEN

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772764-6

0-19-983945-X

0-19-971262-X

1-280-47182-4

1-4237-8424-3

0-19-802921-7

1-60256-334-9

OCLC:

171572225