A Rebecca Clarke Reader
Published on 1. April 2004
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-253-34395-6 (ISBN)
Description
The first complete book in English on this significant and popular composer A Rebecca Clarke Reader considers the life, works, and career of the English composer Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979). Leading scholars present original research on Clarke's songs, chamber music, and contemporary musical milieu, supplemented with new editions of rare writings by Clarke herself. Readers will particularly enjoy transcriptions of four interviews with the composer herself, where Clarke speaks candidly about her fascinating life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 154 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-253-34395-6 (9780253343956)
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Content
I. Introduction: Recent Essays About Clarke 1. Nancy Reich: "Rebecca Clarke: An Uncommon Woman"; 2. Liane Curtis: "Rebecca Clarke and the British Musical Renaissance"; 3. Deborah Stein: "'Dare Seize the Fire': An Introduction to the Songs of Rebecca Clarke"; 4. Bryony Jones: "'But do not quite forget': The Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (1921) and the Viola Sonata (1919) Compared" II. Clarke's Published Writings About Music (1923-1931) 5. "The History of the Viola in Quartet Writing." Music and Letters IV (1923); 6. "The Beethoven Quartets as a Player Sees Them." Music and Letters VIII (1927); 7. "Viola." Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music; 8. "Bloch, Ernest." Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey; 9. "La Semaine Anglaise at the Paris Colonial Exhibition." The B.M.S. [British Music Society] Bulletin, New Series 1 (Autumn, 1931) III. My Mini-Revivall Clarke Rediscovered - The Interviews and a Program Note 10. With Robert Sherman, of WQXR Radio, 1976, on Dame Myra Hess; 11. With Robert Sherman, 1976, about Clarke; 12. With violist Nancy Uscher, 1978; 13. With musicologist Ellen D. Lerner, 1978 and 1979; 14. Clarke's 1977 Program Note on the Viola Sonata