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A conductor's guide to choral-orchestral works, twentieth century, part II : the music of Rachmaninov through Penderecki / Jonathan D. Green.

Author/creator Green, Jonathan D., 1964-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1998.
Descriptionxii, 300 pages ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Contents I. Developments and trends -- II. Survey of works. Bartók, Béla (1881-1945), Cantata profana (1930) ; Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990), Chichester psalms (1965) ; Bloch, Ernest (1880-1959), Avodath hakodesh (sacred service) (1932-4) ; Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976), Cantata academica (1959), Cantata misericordium (1963) ; Copland, Aaron (1900-1990), Canticle of freedom (1955) ; Debussy, Claude (1862-1918), Nocturnes (1892-99) ; Diamond, David (b. 1915), This sacred ground (1963) ; Duruflé, Maurice (1902-1986), Requiem, op. 9 (1947) ; Finzi, Gerald (1901-1956), Intimations of immortality (1950) ; Henze, Hans Werner (b. 1926), Novae de infinito laudes (1962), Die Muzen Siziliens (1966), Das Floss der Medusa (1968) ; Hindemith, Paul (1895-1963), Das Unaufhörliche (1931), Ite, angeli veloces, Triumphgesang Davids (1955), Custos quid de nocte (1955), Cantique de l'espérance (1953) ; Holst, Gustav (1974-1934), The planets (1914-16) ; Honegger, Arthur (1892-1955), Le roi David (1921), Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (1934-37) ; Janácek, Leos (1854-1928), Glagolithic mass (1926), Ridalka (1925, rev. 1927) ; Kodály, Zoltán (1882-1967), Psalmus Hungaricus (1923), Budavári te deum (1936), Missa brevis (1944) ; Ligeti, György (b. 1923), Requiem (1963-65), Uhren und Wolken (1972-73) ; Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911), Das klagende Lied (1878-1902), Symphony no. 2 (1884-94, revised 1910), Symphony no. 3 (1895-6), Symphony no. 8 (1906-7) ; Martin, Frank (1890-1974), Le vin herbé (1938-41), In terra pax (1944), Golgotha (1945-48) ; Nielsen, Carl (1865-1931), Hymnus amoris (1896), Søvnen (1904), Fynsk foraar (1921) ; Orff, Carl (1895-1982), Carmina burana (1935-36), Catulli carmina (1942), Trionfo di Afrodite (1950-51), Die Sänger der Vorwelt (1955), Nänie und Dithyrambe (1956) ; Penderecki, Krsysztof (b. 1933), Wymiary cazu i cizy (Dimensions of time and silence) (1960), Cantata in honorem Almae Matris Universitatis lagellonicae (1964), St. Luke passon (1963-66), Dies irae (1967), Utrenja, I. The entombment of Christ (1969-71), II. The resurrection of Christ (1970-71), Kosmogonia (1970), Canticum canticorum salomonis (1971-72) ; Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963), Sécheresses (1937), Stabat mater (1950), Gloria (1959) ; Prokofieff, Sergei (1891-1953), Cantata on 20th anniversary of October Revolution, op. 74 (1937), Songs of our days, op. 77 (1937), Alexander Nevsky, op. 78 (1938-39), Zdravitsa, op. 85 (1937), Ballad of a boy who remained unknown, op. 93 (1944), Ivan the terrible, op. 116 (1942-45, 1961), Flourish our mighty land, op. 114 (1947), On guard for peace, op. 124 (1950) ; Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943), Vesna (Spring), op. 20 (1902), Kolokola (The Bells), op. 35 (1913) ; Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937), Daphnis and Chloe (1909-12) ; Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951), Gurrelieder (1900-11), Die Jakobslieder (1917-22), Kol Nidre, op. 39 (1938), Survivor from Warsaw, op. 46 (1947), Moderne Psalmen, op. 50c (1950) ; Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975), Symphony no. 2, op. 14 (1927), Symphony no. 3, op. 20 (1929), The song of the forests, op. 81 (1949), The sun shines o'er our country, op. 90 (1952), Symphony no. 13, op. 113 (1962) ; The execution of Stephan Razin, op. 119 (1964) ; Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971), Les Noces (1914-17, orchestrated 1921-23), Oedipus Rex (1926-7), Symphony of Psalms (1930), Perséphone (1933-34), Mass (1944-48), Cantata (1951-52), Canticum sacrum ad honorem sancti marci nominis (1955), Threni (1957-58), A sermon, a narrative and a prayer (1960-61), Introitus: in memoriam T.S. Eliot (1965), Requiem canticles (1965-66) ; Thompson, Randall, (1899-1984), Testament of freedom (1943) ; Webern, Anton (1883-1945), Das Augenlicht, op. 26 (1935), Erste cantata, op. 29 (1938-39), Zweite cantata, op. 31 (1941-43) ; Weill, Kurt (1900-1950), Das Berliner requiem (1928), Der Lindberghflug (1929) -- Appendix I. Sources, authors, and translators of text -- Appendix II. A list of music publishers and distributors.
General noteRevision of the author's thesis (D.M.A.) -- University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [295]-300) and discographies.
LCCN 00519442
ISBN081083376X (acid-free paper)
ISBN9780810833760 (acid-free paper)

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