- •Music in the Modern World western music of the twentieth century (general survey)
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Discussion Points
- •Additional Assignments
- •Some twentieth-century composers arnold schoenberg (1874-1951)
- •The composer speaks: arnold schoenberg
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Discussion Points
- •Bela bartok (1881-1945)
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Questions about Bartok
- •Discussion Points
- •Paul hindemith: his life and work (1895-1963)
- •The composer speaks: paul hindemith
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Discussion Points
- •Electronic music
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Questions about Stravinsky
- •Additional Assignments
- •Britten's operas
- •The composer speaks: benjamin broten
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Questions about Britten
- •Additional Assignments
- •Menotti. The opera composer
- •The composer speaks: gian carlo menotti
- •Discussion Activities Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •Additional Assignments
- •Michael tippett: a child of our time
- •30 Questions on the Text
- •Experimental (avant-garde) music
- •Olivier messiaen
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Discussion Points
- •Additional Assignments
- •George ligeti (b. 1923)
- •Karlheinz stockhausen
- •35 Discussion Activities Questions on the Text about Ligeti
- •About Stockhausen and Experimental Composers
- •Questions about Western Music of the 20th Century
- •Points for Discussion and Written Compositions
- •Popular music rock
- •Points about rock
- •Discussion Activities Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •Additional Assignments
- •Elvis presley - story of a superstar
- •Discussion Activities Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •The beatles
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •English and American Musical History english music (general survey)
- •1. Opera.
- •2. Performing groups.
- •3. Festivals.
- •4. Education.
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •The golden age in england
- •The english virginal school
- •Virginal music composers. William Byrd (1542-1623)
- •Byrd in his time and ours
- •English madrigalists
- •"The british orpheus"
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •56 American music (general survey)
- •61 Charles ives, the first truly american composer (1874-1954)
- •Charles ives and american folk music
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •The relation of jazz to american music
- •Louis armstrong
- •The swing era (duke ellington)
- •Spirituals
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •The Art of Musical Interpretation the problem of interpretation
- •Discussion Activities Questions on the Text
- •Questions for Discussion
- •Additional Assignments
- •Conducting
- •The art of conducting
- •Questions on the Text
- •Some musical encounters
- •Questions on the Text
- •86 Leonard bernstein
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •Herbert von karajan
- •Interview with herbert von karajan
- •The art of piano playing: glenn gould
- •Interview with glenn gould
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •The art of violin playing: eugene ysaye
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •The world of opera handel in performance
- •Franco zeffirelli: the romantic realist
- •La divina: maria callas
- •Callas remembered
- •Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •Peter pears: ronald crichton speaks
- •Discussion Activities Comprehension Questions and Points for Discussion
- •Notes Page 5
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- •Sources
- •Contents
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Established song forms, like the 32-bar chorus-cum-bridge, have given way to new forms characterized by odd-numbered formations, shifting meters, radical stanza patterns and changing time signatures. - Устоявшиеся песенные формы, подобные 32-тактовому куплету со связкой, уступили место новым формам, которые характеризуются построениями из нечетного числа тактов с метрическими смещениями, радикальными строфическими схемами и меняющимися обозначениями метра.
"wall-of-sound" density - плотность «стены звучания»
LP - long-playing record (33 1/3)
liner - (here) removable plastic lining on records
a melange of vibrating colors, blinding images and deafening sound - смесь вибрирующих цветов, слепящих бликов и оглушающих звуков
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as after-hour pads for teenagers - в качестве мест для сборищ подростков после занятий или работы
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Simon, Paul (b. 1941) - singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Formed with Garfunkel a popular duo.
bluegrass - a style of country music that grew in the 1940s from the music of Bill Monroe and his group, the Blue Grass Boys
hippie - person who rejects organized society and established social habits. Hippies adopt an unconventional way of life, style of dress, etc.
yippie-youth movement, popular in the 1960s, known for their aggressiveness (stands for Young International Party)
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gospel - religious music of black American origin in a popular or folk style
went gold - (зд.) были распроданы в количестве более миллиона копий; в этом случае фирмы звукозаписи выпускают золотую пластинку
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single - a record with only one short song on each side
EP - extended play record (45)
LP - see note to p. 39
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Sadler's Wells Opera Company (also English National Opera) dates from 1931. It took its name from the theatre in which it was originally housed. In 1968 the much-expanded company moved to the London Coliseum, leaving the Sadler's Wells Theatre available to house visiting companies for short seasons. In 1974 the company's name was changed from Sadler's Wells Opera to English National Opera.
Camden Festival (London) - performances of all kinds, concerts, recitals, chamber' music, solo, choral, dance; poetry readings, exhibitions, lectures, but most especially, rarities from the operatic archives, and the choicest repertory in all of Great Britain.
Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts (Suffolk) - a festival started in 1948 by B. Britten and Peter Pears with fellow musicians, writers, and artists. They have turned the fishing village of Aldeburgh on the North Sea into an international centre for music and musical theatre. The English Opera Group is the performing organization for theatrical presentations. The names of Rostropovich,
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Richter, and Dietrich-Fischer-Dieskau are often associated with this festival.
Glyndebourne Festival Opera (Sussex) - founded in 1934 as a private venture by John Christie and his wife, the opera singer Audrey Mildmay. They built an opera house in the grounds of their Sussex manor house in which they could give opera performances of a standard that was unknown at that time in England. Glyndebourne remains the prestige opera festival of Europe, and a social event.
the Halle Orchestra of Manchester - one of the finest professional orchestras in the world, which achieved international recognition under the direction of Charles Halle and John Barbirolli. Charles Halle (1819-1895), German-born pianist and conductor, settled in England in 1848; champion of new works, especially those of Berlioz.