Memento mori : a guide to contemporary memorial music / Robert Chase.
| Author/creator |
Chase, Robert, 1938- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007. |
| Description | xviii, 341 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | James Adler -- Roberto Allegro -- Antonio Anichini -- Gus Anton -- Malcom Archer -- Khachatoor Avedissian -- Osvaldas Balakauskas -- Vidmantis Bartulis -- Viktors Baštiks -- Hampartzoum Berberian -- Jean Marie Bernard -- Boris Blacher -- Alfred Bruneau --Javier Busto --Nan-Chang Chien --Nancy Hill Cobb -- Eleanor Daley -- Richard Danielpour --Agostino Donini -- Dev Dosaj -- Hans Eklund -- Marc Eychenne -- Guido Guerrini -- Gabriella Gullin -- John Harbison -- Marc Hardy -- William Harper -- Max Helfman -- Robert Hugill -- Andrew Imbrie -- Désire-Emile Inghelbrecht -- Max Janowski -- Wilfrid Josephs -- Volker David Kirchner -- Ståle Kleiberg -- Cyrillus Kreek -- Christopher Lacy -- Morten Johannes Lauridsen -- John Leavitt -- Nils Lindberg -- Oskar Lindberg -- George Lloyd -- Zdenek Lukaš -- Paweł Łukaszewski -- Roman Maciejewski -- Arturs Maskats -- Colin Mawby --Emilis Melngailis -- Jón Nordal -- Lloyd Pfautsch -- Craig Phillips -- Teresa Procaccini -- Licinio Refice -- Rolf Schweizer -- Jean-Pierre Sciau -- Peter Sculthorpe -- Remigijus Šileika -- Richard Smith -- James Stevens -- Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul -- John Tavener -- Helen Tobias-Duesberg -- Raymond Torres-Santos -- Toby Twining -- Mindaugas Urbaitas -- Gareth Valentine -- Patricia Van Ness --Amaral Vieira -- Robert Wittinger. |
| Abstract | This book lists modern settings of the requiem and other forms of memorial music. Robert Chase brings an unexplored territory of musical repertoire to public attention, offering descriptions of previously unfamiliar or little-known contemporary choral works devoted to the memorial theme. Through discussions of seventy-one composers with compositions from six continents, this book offers a general historical record of twentieth- and twenty-first-century memorial composition and shows a variety of musical styles representing various religious and secular traditions. Presented alphabetically by composer, each entry contains a brief biography emphasizing the composer's choral output and a description of the work, including its origin, edition(s) of the music, length of the composition, structure and orchestration of the piece, and any known recordings. Memento Mori also provides numerous poetic texts, such as Armenian, Latvian, and German poetry, translated into English for the first time. A bibliography, a list of more than 400 additional contemporary composers and their works, and appendixes of English translations of Latin texts of the Roman Catholic requiem mass conclude this invaluable reference. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-335), discographies, and index. |
| LCCN | 2007017057 |
| ISBN | 9780810857452 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0810857456 (alk. paper) |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML128.F8 C53 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |