Catalogue raisonné as memoir : a composer's life / Dominick Argento.
| Author/creator |
Argento, Dominick |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2004. |
| Description | xviii, 230 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Songs about Spring -- Sicilian limes -- Divertimento for piano and strings -- The resurrection of Don Juan -- Ode to the west wind -- String quartet -- The boor -- Six Elizabethan songs -- Colonel Jonathan the saint -- Christopher Sly -- The masque of angels -- Royal invitation, or homage to the Queen of Tonga -- Variations for orchestra (the mask of night) -- The revelation of Saint John the divine -- The shoemakers' holiday -- Letters from composers -- A nation of cowslips -- Bravo Mozart! -- Tria Carmina Paschalia -- Postcard from Morocco -- A ring of time -- Jonah and the whale -- To be sung upon the water -- A water bird talk -- From the diary of Virginia Woolf -- The voyage of Edgar Allan Poe -- In praise of music -- Miss Havisham's fire -- A thanksgiving to God, for his house -- Let all the world in every corner sing -- Miss Havisham's wedding night -- Peter Quince at the clavier -- Fire variations -- I hate and I love (Odi et Amo) -- The Andree exposition -- Prelude for Easter dawning -- Casa Guidi -- Casonova's homecoming -- Le Tombeau d'Edgar Poe -- Capriccio for clarinet and orchestra -- Te Deum (Verba Domini Cum Verbis Populi) -- The aspern papers -- Easter day -- The angel Israfil -- A Toccata of Galuppi's -- Everyone sang -- The dream of Valentino -- To God "in memoriam M. B. 1994" -- Valentino dances -- Spirituals and Swedish chorales -- Miss Havisham's fire (revised) -- Valse triste -- Walden pond -- A few words about Chekhov -- Reverie (reflections on a hymn tune) -- Miss manners on music -- The vision -- The Bremen town musicians -- Sonnet 64 (in memoriam 9/11/01) -- Orpheus -- From a composer's journal. |
| Abstract | The Pulitzer-winning American composer Dominick Argento is known for the care with which he selects the subjects for his works and for the personal involvement that shines through his music. Each chapter of this memoir is based on a particular composition, surrounded by Argento's reflections on the period in his life when the piece was written and its opening performance. Songs about Spring stirs memories of his instructor Nicholas Nabokov (friend of Stravinsky and cousin to Vladimir), with whom he learned to drink martinis, and also of his first collaboration with Carolyn Bailey, the soprano who would later become his wife. In the chapter on Casa Guidi, the 2004 Grammy-winning piece based on letters from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to her sister Henrietta, Argento reveals that the physical Casa Guidi, where Browning lived, was a few blocks from his own apartment in Florence. Providing insight into his compositional process, he also shares the private diary he kept while composing The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe. |
| Bibliography note | Includes discography (pages 211-216) and index. |
| LCCN | 2004006910 |
| ISBN | 0816645051 (hc : alk. paper) |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML410.A687 A3 2004 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |