Available for download The British Piano Sonata, 1870-1945
The British Piano Sonata, 1870-1945 Lisa Hardy
- Author: Lisa Hardy
- Published Date: 20 Dec 2012
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Original Languages: English
- Format: Paperback::276 pages
- ISBN10: 1843837986
- Imprint: The Boydell Press
- Dimension: 156x 234x 14.73mm::394.63g
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The British Piano Sonata, 1870-1945 Lisa Hardy, 9780851158228, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. using our website you agree to our Get this from a library! The British piano sonata, 1870-1945. [Lisa Hardy] - "This book considers the way in which British composers took an established Austro-German form as a starting-point. Influences from late romantic music, French impressionism, Russian nationalism, From the start of the English musical renaissance, British composers were preoccupied with Germanic principles of sonata writing, despite their subsequent exposure to influences outside this tradition - late romantic music, French impressionism, Russian nationalism, Scriabin, British folk music, African-American music and neo-classicism. Regardless of education, or the climate at the Royal College and (He) was a key figure before World War I in helping Britain to break away from musical conservatism and the prevailing Germanic influences. (Lisa Hardy, The British Piano Sonata 1870-1945) There is a story that when Bernard Shaw commented to Elgar on the (then) daring harmonies of his Second Symphony Elgar replied "You mustn t forget, it was Cyril Scott started all that! Three Hundred Years of Composers' Instruments The Cobbe Collection Alec for example, is the piano on which Chopin played his final public concert; we learn of the strips of lead that Mahler had fixed to the hammers in the bass register and that Elgar's Broadwood was delivered to Worcester river. More than simply a catalogue of a collection, this volume will fascinate anyone with an interest in keyboard John Nicholson Ireland (13 August 1879 12 June 1962) was an English composer and teacher of music. The majority of his output consists of piano miniatures and of songs with piano. His best-known works include the short instrumental or orchestral work "The Holy Boy", a setting of the poem "Sea-Fever" John Masefield, a formerly much-played Piano Concerto, the hymn tune Love Unknown and the In an important but neglected book in the enterprising Boydell series, The British Piano Sonata 1870-1945, Lisa Hardy says that the Ireland can be claimed as the outstanding example of all British piano sonatas. The composer considered it his best work. There is melodic invention of a memorable kind that goes hand in glove with a rich harmonic palette and an idiomatic keyboard style. Technically the British composers produced a wealth of clarinet and piano literature over a relatively The number of clarinet sonatas composed Britons in the period from. The British Piano Sonata, 1870-1945 [Lisa Hardy] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. From the start of the English musical renaissance, British composers were preoccupied with Germanic principles of sonata writing ,The Sonata Since Beethoven (Chapel Hill, 1969), 10 11. For a recent repertoire study that locates its subject outside mainland Europe see Hardy, Lisa, The British Piano Sonata 1870 1945 (Woodbridge, 2001), which gives in its Introduction a serviceable if basic and somewhat simplified overview of the preceding period. Summer's Last Will and Testament is a choral masque or cantata Constant Lambert, written between 1932 and 1935, and premiered in 1936. It is scored for chorus and orchestra, with a baritone solo also featured in the last of its seven movements. Piano Sonata (Ireland, John) Marion M. Scott (pp. 359 366).) Described in The British Piano Sonata 1870 1945 (pp.84 91). Retrieved from To cut a long story short, Blackshaw gave a cycle of the Mozart sonatas in of the 'eternal perfectionist': pianist Christian Blackshaw The great British pianist's Howell was born in Birmingham, grew up in Handsworth, and received a convent education.She received private composition lessons from Granville Bantock before beginning her studies at the Royal Academy of Music, aged 15. Her teachers there included John Blackwood McEwen and Tobias Matthay. Howell achieved fame with her symphonic poem Lamia (inspired the Keats poem) which Sir Henry Wood The Society of British Composers was founded in 1905 to protect the interests of British composers and to provide publication, promotion and performance opportunities. The organization was disbanded in 1918. History. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a number of talented composers were graduating from the Royal Academy of Music without any avenue for publication and performance of their work. The Rhondda Gillespie (4 August 1941 30 December 2010) was an Australian-born classical pianist who resided primarily in the United Kingdom and Barbados. She was a specialist in the music of Franz Liszt and brought to light many of his lesser-known works. She was also renowned for her focus on contemporary music, and she gave many world premieres of British music. Buy The British Piano Sonata, 1870-1945 (0) Lisa Hardy (ISBN: 9780851158228) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Lisa Hardy has noticed in her book The British Piano Sonata 1870-1945 that Hurlstone makes use of cyclic themes, insofar as elements of the first two movements appear in the final allegro vivace. Interestingly she points out that Hurlstone s Piano Sonata is a showy piece, containing frequent changes of metre, cross rhythms, extended fast Born at 12 Richmond Gardens (now Empress Place) Fulham, on 7 January 1876, Hurlstone was the grandson of Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, president of the Royal Society of British Artists, and only son of the four children of Martin de Galway Hurlstone, a surgeon, his wife Maria Bessy Styche, a piano teacher. Hurlstone's earliest musical education was with his mother. Liszt's Ultimate Masterpiece the B Minor Piano Sonata created British pianist Stephen Hough, a noted Liszt interpreter, which attempts