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Antony Hopkins CBE (born Ernest William Antony Reynolds; 21 March 1921 – 6 May 2014) was a composer, pianist, and conductor, as well as a writer and radio broadcaster.He was widely known for his books of musical analysis and for his radio programmes Talking About Music, broadcast by the BBC from 1954 for approaching 40 years, first on the Third Programme, later Radio 3, and then on Radio 4.
Originally the Notenbuch was a bound volume comprising forty-eight pages of blank music paper, with eight staves on each page. Inscribed with the words Pour le clavecin (French: For the harpsichord), it was presented to Nannerl on the occasion of her eighth name day on 26 July 1759 (or possibly her eighth birthday, which fell on the 30th or 31st day of the same month).
Morris has written music for a wide variety of musical forms and media. He has composed over 200 works including computer and improvisational music. [5] Much of his output from the 1970s is influenced by non-Western music and uses structural principles from Arabic, Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, and early Western musics.
Jon Burlingame, the leading journalist in the nation on film and television music, [9] writers in an article for The Film Music Society that A Composer’s Guide to Game Music is a "beautifully organized, intelligently written book about music for games," going on to say that "gamers as well as composers may be fascinated by her thorough ...
Silence: Lectures and Writings is a book by American experimental composer John Cage (1912–1992), first published in 1961 by Wesleyan University Press. Silence is a collection of essays and lectures Cage wrote during the period from 1939 to 1961.
My Ladye Nevells Booke consists of 42 pieces for keyboard by William Byrd, widely considered [1] one of the greatest English composers of his time. Although the music was copied by John Baldwin, a singing man from St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, who was also paid for copying music at the chapel in the 1580s, [2] the pieces seem to have been selected, organised and even edited and corrected ...
He was the director for the Center for New Music and the college's first full-time faculty member. He was the Director of Orchestral Studies at Scuola Europea d'Orchestra Jazz in Palermo , Italy. Besides writing for jazz ensembles, Russo composed classical music, including symphonies and choral works, and works for the theater, often mixing ...
Ezequiel Viñao (born 1960): first book of études in 1993 Marc-André Hamelin (born 1961): twelve études in minor keys, and an étude after Rimsky-Korsakov (which was the previous 1st piece of the 12 études set, but it was replaced by the Triple Étude after Chopin-Godowsky)