Louise Talma: a life in composition
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1. Verfasser: Leonard, Kendra Preston 1974- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham, Surrey Ashgate 2014
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Myth and meaning in Talma's early life and career -- 'The face of all the world is changed' : Boulanger and secular tonality -- Conversion and sublimation -- 'A solitude ten thousand fathoms deep' : independence -- Serialism -- The Alcestiad -- 'Til the shadows lengthen' : composing against time -- Final works and afterlife
Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards, the first American woman to have an opera premiered in Europe, the first female winner of the Sibelius Award for Composition, and the first woman composer elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. This book analyses Talma's works in the context of her life, focusing on the effects on her work of two major changes she made during her adult life: her conversion to Catholicism, and her adoption of serial compositional techniques. Employing approaches from traditional musical analys
Beschreibung:276 pages
ISBN:9781472416445
1472416449

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