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Believe Your Ears : Life of a Lyric Composer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (225 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442250772
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Believe Your EarsDDC classification:
  • 780.92 B
LOC classification:
  • ML410.M4547 A3 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Prelude -- 1 Exposition -- 2 Military Music -- 3 Key Change -- 4 Counterpoint -- 5 Development -- 6 Vienna, con Tutta Forza -- 7 Major / Minor -- 8 Vienna, Recapitulation -- 9 Choral Cycles -- 10 Sinfonia Giubilante -- 11 Lento, Molto Sostenuto -- 12 Unresolved Dissonance -- 13 London -- 14 Professor Nontroppo to the Jayhawk -- 15 Opera 101 -- 16 Opera 102 -- 17 The Life and Death of John Brown -- 18 Everyone Sang -- 19 John Brown's Resurrection -- 20 Intermezzo -- 21 Russian Extravaganza -- 22 Tartuffe Spricht Deutsch -- 23 The Rivals -- 24 Darcy Sings -- 25 Coda -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: Believe Your Ears is the memoir of composer Kirke Mechem, whose unorthodox path to music provides a fascinating narrative. Along the way, readers will meet Dimitri Shostakovich, Wallace Stegner, Billie Jean King, The Grateful Dead, Benjamin Britten, Bill Tilden, and Aaron Copland--a who's who of talent in Mechem's storied career.
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Intro -- Contents -- Prelude -- 1 Exposition -- 2 Military Music -- 3 Key Change -- 4 Counterpoint -- 5 Development -- 6 Vienna, con Tutta Forza -- 7 Major / Minor -- 8 Vienna, Recapitulation -- 9 Choral Cycles -- 10 Sinfonia Giubilante -- 11 Lento, Molto Sostenuto -- 12 Unresolved Dissonance -- 13 London -- 14 Professor Nontroppo to the Jayhawk -- 15 Opera 101 -- 16 Opera 102 -- 17 The Life and Death of John Brown -- 18 Everyone Sang -- 19 John Brown's Resurrection -- 20 Intermezzo -- 21 Russian Extravaganza -- 22 Tartuffe Spricht Deutsch -- 23 The Rivals -- 24 Darcy Sings -- 25 Coda -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Author.

Believe Your Ears is the memoir of composer Kirke Mechem, whose unorthodox path to music provides a fascinating narrative. Along the way, readers will meet Dimitri Shostakovich, Wallace Stegner, Billie Jean King, The Grateful Dead, Benjamin Britten, Bill Tilden, and Aaron Copland--a who's who of talent in Mechem's storied career.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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