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Weinzweig : essays on his life and music
Title
Weinzweig : essays on his life and music / John Beckwith and Brian Cherney, editors.
ISBN
9781554582563
1554582563
Published
Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2011.
Physical Description
xiii, 402 p. : ill., music, ports. ; 24 cm + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Notes
"Supplementing the volume is an audio CD of extracts from Weinzweig compositions, ranging from a 1937 student work to a song cycle of 1994"--Cover, p. [4].
On accompanying CD: The whirling dwarf (1937) (3:15) -- Of time and the world (1947) (5:51) -- Violin concerto (1951-4), first movement (10:51) -- String quartet no. 3 (1962), first movement (5:38) ; second movement (6:47) -- Trialogue (1971), first six sections (5:35) -- Eighteen pieces for guitar (1980), four excerpts (3, 8, 18, and 10) (5:22) -- Divertimento no. 8 (1980) (14:10) -- Prisoner of conscience (1985) (4:04) -- Duologue (1990), last section (4:25) -- Journey out of night (1994), three excerpts (6, 7, and 14) (9:41).
Format
Audio / Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 30, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-390), discography (p. 373-388) and index.
Contents
A self-made composer / John Beckwith and Brian Cherney
Toronto : the social and artistic content / Robin Elliot
The activist / Brian Cherney
The teacher / John Rea
Music for radio and film / Elaine Keillor
The first Canadian serialist / Catherine Nolan
"Naked and unashamed": the instrumental practice / Clark Ross
Works with texts ; Jazz swing and jazz blues / John Beckwith
The story of my life : the divertimento series / James K. Wright
In his own words / Alan Gillmore
Critical and scholarly views / J. Drew Stephen
Ear-dreaming : a study in listeners / Eleanor V. Stubley
How to play Weinzweig / Robert Aitken
Wienzweig as I knew him / John Beckwith.
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