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Piano music of the Czech romantics : a performer's guide

by Yeomans, David, 1938-

Format: Print Book 2006
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CLP - Main Library Second Floor - Music - Open Stacks q ML742.C94 Y46 2006
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Summary

Piano Music of the Czech Romantics is an anthology of forty compositions for piano by eighteen composers representing two centuries of Czech musical history. Drawing upon well-known composers--Smetana, Dvorák, Janácek, and Martinu--to ones lesser known--Benda, Fibich, and Suk--these examples, many of them out of print, are accompanied by biographical information, analyses, interpretive suggestions for each piece, as well as listings of recommended repertoire, editions, recordings, and source material for each composer. An attached CD of sixteen of the pieces in the anthology, recorded by Dr. Yeomans, is also included.

Contents
Georg Anton (Jíří Antonín) Benda (1722-1795) : the Prussian connection
Leopold Koželuh (1747-1818) : the Viennese connection
Jan Ladislav Dusík (1760-1812) : the London connection
Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek (1774-1850) : the musical patriarch of Prague
Jan Václav (Hugo) Voříšek (1791-1825) : the Bohemian Schubert
Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884) : an icon of nationalism
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) : Humoresques and beyond
Zdeňěk Fibich (1850-1900) : an intimate life's journey
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) : the Moravian connection
Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859-1951) : a lifetime of lyricism
Ví́tězslav Novák (1870-1949) : the Slovakian connection
Josef Suk (1874-1935) : the Dvořák legacy transformed
Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959) : from tower dweller to cosmopolite
Alois Hába (1893-1973) : master of microtones
Ervín Schulhoff (1894-1942) : the Berlin connection
Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944) : the hero of Terezín
Klement Slavický (1910-1999) : the Janá́ček legacy transformed
Petr Eben (b. 1929) : folklore, antiquity, spirituality. CD contents: Sonata no. 1 in B-flat major (c. 1780-1787). Mvt. 2, Larghetto / Georg Anton Benda
Sonata in E-flat major, op. 26, no. 3 (1788). Mvt. 1, Allegro / Leopold Koželuch
Sonata in F minor, op. 77 : L'invocation : 1812. Mvt. 2, Tempo di minuetto con moto / Jan Ladislav Dusík
Six eclogues : op. 51 (1815). No. 1 in A minor, Allegro moderato / Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek
Six impromptus, op. 7 (publ. 1822). No. 4 in A major, Allegretto / Jan Václav Vořísek
Sketches : op. 5 (1849). No. 3 in D-flat major : Přívětivá krajina = Friendly landscape ; Three poetic polkas : op. 8 (1855). No. 1 in E-flat major ; Souvenirs of Bohemia in the form of polkas : op. 12 (1859). No. 1 in A minor / Bedřich Smetana
12 silhouettes : op. 8 (1879). No. 11, Allegro moderato ; 13 poetical tone pictures : op. 89 (1889). No. 3, Na starém hradé = At the old castle ; 8 humoresques, op. 101 (1894). No. 3 in A-flat major (Poco andante e molto cantabile) / Antonín Dvořák
Nádaly, dojmy a upominky = Moods, impressions, and reminiscences : 1892-1899. No. 221, op. 47, no. 17 in F minor ; No. 232, op. 47, no. 28 in E-flat major / Zdeněk Fibich
Po zarostlém chodničku = On the overgrown path : 1902-1908. Series I, no. 1 : Our evenings ; Series I, no. 10 : The barn owl has not flown away / Leoš Janáček
Osenická suita = Oscenča suite : op. 129 (1927). No. 2, Tranquillo e moderato, ma non troppo lento / Josef Bohuslav Foerster.
Additional Information
Subjects Piano music -- Czech Republic -- History and criticism.
Piano music -- Czech Republic.
Piano music -- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
Publisher Bloomington :Indiana University Press,2006
Language English
Description viii, 225 pages : music ; 28 cm + 1 CD (4 3/4 in.)
Bibliography Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-220), discography (pages [207]-214), and index.
ISBN 0253218454 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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