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CUL Keller Archive Catalogue
HANS KELLER ARCHIVE: working copy A1: Unpublished manuscripts, 1940-49 A1/1: Unpublished manuscripts, 1940-49: independent work This section contains all Keller’s unpublished manuscripts dating from the 1940s, apart from those connected with his collaboration with Margaret Phillips (see A1/2 below). With the exception of one pocket diary from 1938, the Archive contains no material prior to his arrival in Britain at the end of that year. After his release from internment in 1941, Keller divided himself between musical and psychoanalytical studies. As a violinist, he gained the LRAM teacher’s diploma in April 1943, and was relatively active as an orchestral and chamber-music player. As a writer, however, his principal concern in the first half of the decade was not music, but psychoanalysis. Although the majority of the musical writings listed below are undated, those which are probably from this earlier period are all concerned with the psychology of music. Similarly, the short stories, poems and aphorisms show their author’s interest in psychology. Keller’s notes and reading-lists from this period indicate an exhaustive study of Freudian literature and, from his correspondence with Margaret Phillips, it appears that he did have thoughts of becoming a professional analyst. At he beginning of 1946, however, there was a decisive change in the focus of his work, when music began to replace psychology as his principal subject. It is possible that his first (accidental) hearing of Britten’s Peter Grimes played an important part in this change, and Britten’s music is the subject of several early articles. -
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CHAN 10323 Booklet cover.qxd 15/9/06 11:55 am Page 1 CHANDOS CHAN 10323 RUMON GAMBA CHAN 10323 BOOK.qxd 15/9/06 12:02 pm Page 2 The Film Music of Francis Chagrin (1905–1972) premiere recordings (except track 1) 1 Overture from ‘Helter Skelter’ 6:34 From ‘An Inspector Calls’ (arranged and orchestrated by Philip Lane) 2 Portrait of Eva 3:25 Photograph courtesy of Nicolas Chagrin From ‘The Colditz Story’ 3:31 (arranged by Philip Lane) 3 Prelude 2:00 4 Finale 1:31 Suite from ‘Greyfriars Bobby’ 11:42 (arranged by Philip Lane) 5 Main Titles and Opening Scene 3:50 6 Bobby escapes to Edinburgh 5:22 7 Finale 2:30 From ‘The Four Just Men’ 3:05 (edited by Philip Lane) 8 Theme 1:28 9 Main Titles 1:37 10 ‘The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra’ 5:19 (arranged by Philip Lane) Francis Chagrin 3 CHAN 10323 BOOK.qxd 15/9/06 12:02 pm Page 4 Four Orchestral Episodes from ‘The Intruder’ 11:11 (edited by Philip Lane) The Film Music of Francis Chagrin 11 Preamble 1:48 12 Conflagration 3:21 Francis Chagrin described himself as ‘Rumanian popular songs. When he had saved enough, he 13 Pursuit at night 3:58 by birth, British by nationality and cosmopolitan enrolled in 1933 at the École normale for two 14 Vindication 2:04 by inclination’. He was born Alexander Paucker years, where his teachers included Paul Dukas in Bucharest on 15 November 1905 to wealthy and Nadia Boulanger. He began writing From ‘Easy Money’ Jewish parents who expected their son to take modest film scores, but sensing that war was (edited by Philip Lane) his rightful place in the family business. -
British Orchestral Music
BRITISH ORCHESTRAL MUSIC (Including Orchestral Poems, Suites, Serenades, Variations, Rhapsodies, Concerto Overtures etc) Written by Composers Born Between 1800 & 1910 A Discography Of CDs And LPs Prepared by Michael Herman Composers C-G WALTER CARROLL (1869-1955) Born in Manchester. He got his musical degrees at the Universities of Durham and Manchester and went on to an acdemic career at the University of Manchester and at the Royal Manchester College of Music. He became Music Dvisor to the City of Manchester and devoted himself to reforming and improving art education in the schools. With this goal in mind he composed piano music for children as well as instructional books. His enormous academic load precluded much time for other composing. Festive Overture (c. 1900) Gavin Sutherland/Royal Ballet Sinfonia ( + Blezard: Caramba, Black: Overture to a Costume Comedy, Langley: Overture and Beginners , Dunhill: Tantivy Towers, Chappel: Boy Wizard, Hurd: Overture to an Unwritten Comedy, Monckton: The Arcadians. Lane: A Spa Overture, Pitfield: Concert Overture and Lewis: Sussex Symphony Overture) WHITELINE CD WHL 2133 (2002) ADAM CARSE (1878-1958) Born in Newcastle-on-Tyne. He studied under Frederick Corder at the Royal Academy and later went on to teach at that school. He composed in various genres and his orchestral output includes 2 Symphonies, the symphonic poems "The Death of Tintagiles" and "In a Balcony," a Concert Overture and Variations for Orchestra. He also wrote musical textbooks that kept his name in print long after his compositions were forgotten. The Willow Suite for String Orchestra (1933) Gavin Sutherland/Royal Ballet Sinfonia ( +Purcell/Britten: Chacony, Lewis: Rosa Mundi, Warlock/Lane: Bethlehem Down, Holst: Moorside Suite, Carr: A Very English Music, W. -
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Francis CHAGRIN Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 BBC Symphony Orchestra • Martyn Brabbins Francis Chagrin (1905-72): Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 His friends remember him as incredibly industrious, particularly marked. The first is violent and passionate When Francis Chagrin arrived in Britain in 1936, he had studied Russian. but selfless, resourceful, urbane, and with a great with echoes of the recent hostilities, the second, slow and already left his native Romania, for largely family reasons, Soon after his move to Britain he took an Irish bride generosity of heart. His fellow composer, Benjamin very lyrical, while the third is a Presto scherzando that has and adopted France for political ones. However, he who presented him with two sons, Julian and Nicolas, Frankel, who wrote several obituaries of him, struck the a reflective section and also a quasi-Viennese waltz embraced his new found home totally, and became very both of whom would make their mark in the acting right tone when he wrote that Chagrin was ‘always able to passage, brutally interrupted by discordant brass – maybe much part of the British musical scene for the rest of his profession – Julian most famously as the white-faced see the lighter aspect of serious effort’. I met him just the war was not yet so far from the memory. The fourth life, summing up his personality makeup as ‘Romanian by mime artist in the park in Antonioni’s Blow-Up, and once when I was a student. He had come to an inner-city movement, Allegro, in addition to its own new material, birth, British by nationality, and cosmopolitan by Nicolas as Puck in the first Covent Garden production of Arts Centre to talk about writing for films. -
British and Commonwealth Symphonies from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
BRITISH AND COMMONWEALTH SYMPHONIES FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT A Discography of CDs and LPs Prepared by Michael Herman Composers A-G KATY ABBOTT (b. 1971) She studied composition with Brenton Broadstock and Linda Kouvaras at the University of Melbourne where she received her Masters and PhD. In addition to composing, she teaches post-graduate composition as an onorary Fellow at University of Melbourne.Her body of work includes orchestral, chamber and vocal pieces. A Wind Symphony, Jumeirah Jane was written in 2008. Symphony No. 1 "Souls of Fire" (2004) Robert Ian Winstin//Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra (included in collection: "Masterworks of the New Era- Volume 12") ERM MEDIA 6827 (4 CDs) (2008) MURRAY ADASKIN (1905-2002) Born in Toronto. After extensive training on the violin he studied composition with John Weinzweig, Darius Milhaud and Charles Jones. He taught at the University of Saskatchewan where he was also composer-in-residence. His musical output was extensive ranging from opera to solo instrument pieces. He wrote an Algonquin Symphony in 1958, a Concerto for Orchestra and other works for orchestra. Algonquin Symphony (1958) Victor Feldbrill/Toronto Symphony Orchestra ( + G. Ridout: Fall Fair, Champagne: Damse Villageoise, K. Jomes: The Jones Boys from "Mirimachi Ballad", Chotem: North Country, Weinzweig: Barn Dance from "Red Ear of Corn" and E. Macmillan: À Saint-Malo) CITADEL CT-601 (LP) (1976) Ballet Symphony (1951) Geoffrey Waddington/Toronto Symphony Orchestra (included in collection: “Anthology Of Canadian Music – Murray Adaskin”) RADIO CANADA INTERNATIONAL ACM 23 (5 CDs) (1986) (original LP release: RADIO CANADA INTERNATIONAL RCI 71 (1950s) THOMAS ADÈS (b. -
Composers at the Savile Notes
Notes on the music and composers of the sesquicentennial CD Composers at the Savile Jeremy Barlow Sasha Karpeyev’s piano recital (tracks 2-13) celebrates the Club’s rich musical heritage with works by twelve Savilian composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the programme takes a circular path chronologically, from late romanticism to twentieth-century modernism and back again. Two Savilian trumpet fanfares (tracks 1 and 14) frame the recital. Corrections and recollections are welcome and will be incorporated. Please contact Jeremy Barlow at [email protected] . The notes are in four sections: i. The music ii. The composers iii. Sasha Karpeyev iv. Sources consulted i. The music 1. Julian Anderson Fanfare: SC-GH (Savile Club-Gavin Henderson), (2018) Sam Pierce, Bradley Jones (trumpets) Savilian Julian Anderson composed ‘SC-GH’ for the Savile’s 150th anniversary. The letters stand for Savile Club and Gavin Henderson; translated into notes, they form the opening musical motifs: ‘S’ = E flat (from the German Es), and ‘H’ = B natural, again from German nomenclature. At the end, Anderson alludes to Malcolm Arnold’s ‘Savile Centenary Fanfare’ (track 14). 2. Sir Charles Hubert Parry (1848-1918, member 1886-1918) Prelude (from the suite Hands Across the Centuries, 1918) Composed near the end of his life, the suite Hands Across the Centuries reflects Parry’s scholarly interest in music of the past. The movements following the Prelude have the titles of a baroque suite, but with whimsical additions: The Passionate Allemande, The Wistful Courant and so on. The musical style throughout belongs to the late nineteenth century. -
Translating Music Intelligibly: Musical Paraphrase in the Long 20Th Century
Translating Music Intelligibly: Musical Paraphrase in the Long 20th Century A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BY Jeremy White Orosz IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Advised by Matthew P. Bribitzer-Stull December 2013 Copyright © 2013 Jeremy White Orosz All rights reserved Table of Contents List of Tables ii List of Examples iii Chapter 0: What is Paraphrase? 1 Chapter 1: On the Musically Translatable 19 Chapter 2: On the Musically Forge(t)able: 56 Television Cartoons and the Paraphrase of Popular Music Chapter 3: On the Musically Caricaturable 97 Chapter 4: John Williams: Paraphraser or Plagiarist? 141 Chapter 5: Berg the Wagnerian: Tristan and Lulu 185 Bibliography 215 i List of Tables Table 1.1: MOD-9 Pentachords (in Prime Form) 44 Table 2.1: The “Mapple” logo vs. the Apple Computers logo 56 Table 3.1: Techniques of Caricature (1) 112 Table 3.2: Techniques of Caricature (2) 121 Table 3.3: Techniques of Caricature (3) 124 Table 3.4: Caricature and its counterparts 135 ii List of Examples EXAMPLE 1-1: The Simpsons Theme 32 EXAMPLE 1-2: Tristan und Isolde, mm. 1-4 33 EXAMPLE 1-3: “Golliwogg’s Cakewalk,” Children’s Corner (excerpt) 33 EXAMPLE 1-4: Last Tango at Bayreuth (excerpt) 33 EXAMPLE 1-5: Comparison of the diatonic collection to Messiaen’s modes 38 EXAMPLE 1-6: Hypothetical Mode 3 Scalar Subset 39 EXAMPLE 1-7: Lee’s “Theme” (top line, transposed to C major) compared 40 to the first sixteen measures of the “Messiaen” variation EXAMPLE 1-8: The resultant WT+1 Scale (with “chromatic” B-natural) 40 when the diatonic collection is mapped onto Mode 3 EXAMPLE 1-9: Pitch classes correspondences between the diatonic theme 41 melody and the Mode 6 portion of “Messiaen.” EXAMPLE 1-10: Mode 3 portion of “Messiaen” Variation (mm. -
History and Development of British Secular Song for Solo Voice and Clarinet
University of Northern Colorado Scholarship & Creative Works @ Digital UNC Dissertations Student Research 12-2019 History and Development of British Secular Song for Solo Voice and Clarinet Nancy Williams Follow this and additional works at: https://digscholarship.unco.edu/dissertations Recommended Citation Williams, Nancy, "History and Development of British Secular Song for Solo Voice and Clarinet" (2019). Dissertations. 648. https://digscholarship.unco.edu/dissertations/648 This Text is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Research at Scholarship & Creative Works @ Digital UNC. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Scholarship & Creative Works @ Digital UNC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. © 2019 NANCY WILLIAMS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO Greeley, Colorado The Graduate School HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH SECULAR SONG FOR SOLO VOICE AND CLARINET A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Arts Nancy Williams College of Performing and Visual Arts School of Music Clarinet Performance December 2019 This Dissertation by: Nancy Williams Entitled: History and Development of British Secular Song for Solo Voice and Clarinet has been approved as meeting the requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Arts in College of Performance and Visual Arts in School of Music, Program of Clarinet Performance Accepted by the Doctoral Committee ___________________________________________________________ Michael Oravitz, Ph.D., Chair ___________________________________________________________ Lauren Jacobson, D.M.A., Committee Member ___________________________________________________________ Deborah Kauffman, D.M.A., Committee Member ___________________________________________________________ Michael Welsh, Ph.D., Faculty Representative Date of Dissertation Defense__________________________________________ Accepted by the Graduate School ______________________________________________________________ Linda L. -
The Foreign Composer in Britain After World War II Ivan Moody1 Како Живети У Туђини
DOI https://doi.org/10.2298/MUZ2130135M UDC 78.071.1:929 Раут Ф. 78.071.1(410)"1945-1970" Ways of Living Abroad: The Foreign Composer in Britain after World War II ______________________________ Ivan Moody1 CESEM – Universidade Nova, Lisbon, Portugal Како живети у туђини: инострани композитори у Великој Британији после Другог светског рата ____________________________ Иван Муди CESEM – Universidade Nova, Лисабон, Португал Received: 21 April 2021 Accepted: 1 May 2021 Original scientific paper Abstract The situation for émigré composers in Britain during World War II and after- wards was extremely complicated. British attitudes towards foreigners were high- ly ambivalent, and this was reflected institutionally, as the policies of the BBC at the time clearly show. This article reflects on the lives and legacy of five foreign composers, all very different from each other, who were, remarkably, discussed by Francis Routh in a book on British music he published in 1972. I attempt to situate these composers over the course of a longer period of time and ask wheth- er such attitudes have in fact truly changed. Keywords: Émigré composers, British attitudes, Francis Routh, BBC. Апстракт Ситуација у којој су се нашли емигрантски композитори у Великој Британији током Другог светског рата и после њега била је изузетно сложена. Британски ставови према странцима били су врло амбивалентни и то се одразило институционално, као што то јасно показује ондашња политика Би-Би-Сија. Овај чланак говори о животу и наслеђу петорице иностраних композитора, 1 [email protected] 136 МУЗИКОЛОГИЈА / MUSICOLOGY 30-2021 међусобно веома различитих, о којима је изванредно писао Франсис Раут у књизи о британској музици коју је објавио 1972. -
Tristram Cary: Scenes from a Composer’S Life
1 University of Adelaide Elder Conservatorium of Music Tristram Cary: scenes from a composer’s life by Gabriella Joy Smart Dissertation submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music November 2009 2 In Memoriam Tristram Ogilvie Cary 14 May 1925 – 24 April 2008 3 Tristram Cary: scenes from a composer’s life Contents Abstract 4 Declaration 5 Acknowledgements 6 List of music examples 7 Introduction 8 Chapter 1 Formative Years: (1925–1946) 14 Chapter 2 Early Career (1947–1954) 28 Chapter 3 Film (1954–74) 44 Chapter 4 Electronics and EMS (1967–74) 68 Chapter 5 The Rhyme of The Flying Bomb 84 Chapter 6 Australia and Academic Life (1974–2008) 103 Chapter 7 Migration and Dislocation 112 List of Sources 136 Appendix A: List of Works and Discography 146 Appendix B: The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (sound recording) 192 Appendix C: The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (full score) 193 4 Abstract Tristram Cary (1925-2008) had a varied and successful life as a composer, spanning sixty years and two continents. He was a highly respected and prolific composer of film, radio, concert and electronic music in England before he took up a position at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, Adelaide, in 1974 at the age of 49. Cary produced a significant body of work that enjoys public attention through performances, recordings and intelligent criticism, but it remains outside the music canon. He is half remembered in England, and not fully valued in Australia; as it were, each country sees only half the picture. -
Composers at the Savile Club
Composers at the Savile Club Composers at the Savile Club Charles Hubert Parry (1848-1918), Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) SOMMCD 0601 Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950) Roger Quilter (1877-1953), Herbert Howells (1892-1983), Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960) Céleste Series Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), William Walton (1902-83), William Alwyn (1905-85) Francis Chagrin (1905-72), Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006), Julian Anderson (b.1967) Alexander Karpeyev piano Sam Pierce, Bradley Jones trumpets* 1 Julian Anderson Fanfare: SC-GH* 2:08 bn Singing a Song (Christopher Cox) 1:10 bo 2 Charles Hubert Parry Wide Awake (Bill Katz) 0:58 Prelude from Hands Across the Centuries 2:13 bp William Walton 3 Roger Quilter Popular Song (Façade, arr. Roy Douglas) 2:27 In a Gondola (Two Impressions, Op.19) 3:14 bq Henry Balfour Gardiner 4 Herbert Howells Procession, Op.36 3:56 Shepherd Fennel’s Dance 5:08 br Francis Chagrin Suite Roumaine [4:45] Edward Elgar In Smyrna 4:28 5 Allegro con spirito 1:05 bs Edward Elgar Serenade in G 2:14 6 Moderato 2:16 Charles Villiers Stanford 7 Allegro 1:21 Four Irish Dances, Op.89, arr. Percy Grainger 8 Malcolm Arnold bt A Reel 4:44 Variations on a Ukrainian Folk Song, Op.9 14:52 bu Leprechaun’s Dance 3:40 9 Arthur Benjamin Scherzino 2:21 cl Malcolm Arnold bl William Alwyn Night Thoughts 4:51 Savile Centenary Fanfare* 1:15 A piano recital by Virgil Thomson Nineteen Portraits, 1981 [3:01] Total duration: 65:17 bm Round and Round (Dominique Nabokov) 0:53 First commercial release ALEXANDER KARPEYEV Recorded at Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London on July 12 (trumpet fanfares) and August 21-22 (piano) 2018 of music by 12 Savilian composers Producer: Jeremy Barlow Recording Engineer: Oliver Glynn Cover illustration: Staircase of the Savile Club, London Design: Andrew Giles Booklet Editor: Michael Quinn framed by two trumpet fanfares composed for the club DDD © & 2019 SOMM RECORDINGS · THAMES DITTON · SURREY · ENGLAND Sam Pierce, Bradley Jones (trumpets) Made in the EU and Arthur Benjamin. -
RVW Final Oct 05 19/10/05 9:32 AM Page 1
RVW Final Oct 05 19/10/05 9:32 AM Page 1 Journal of the No.34 October 2005 EDITOR RVW William Hedley Society Rejoice at new In this issue... RVW’s Concertos RVW Recordings G Richard Sandland on playing the Tuba Concerto Many exciting new recordings are being produced which will introduce some works of RVW that most members will not have heard before. These include On Christmas page 5 Night, The First Nowell, Willow Wood and – most importantly – the complete music to G The Wasps. These recordings have been stimulated by the RVW Society, although Simona Pakenham on the none would have been possible without the superb financial help of RVW Ltd. Our concertos warm thanks to the directors, Michael Kennedy, Hugh Cobbe and Adrian Lea. page 11 G Stephen Lloyd on Constant The Wasps Lambert and RVW RVW’s music of 1909 was for a staged production of the Aristophanes play in page 12 Cambridge. The premiere recording of the complete incidental music, by Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra on the Hallé's own label, has a new spoken text by David Pountney. G Fantasia on a theme by This has been devised to give a dramatic context to the musical numbers as the plot unfolds. The narration has been shortened and tightened. The Wasps has much humour and Vaughan Williams vividness of expression and, of course, wonderful lyrical music. It is an exciting prospect Page 19 to be able to hear RVW’s original creation after almost 100 years, rather than the familiar Overture or Suite.