The Classical Music Book

279 Movement Overt meaning Possible meaning A folk tune setting, glorifying the Slavic people and their struggle against oppress ...

280 MY MUSIC IS NATURAL, LIKE A WATERFALL BACHIANAS BRASILEIRAS (1930–1945), HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS B razilian classical composer He ...

281 American soprano Lucy Shelton performs Bachianas brasileiras No. 5, which is scored for soprano and cellos, at the Symphony ...

282 NEVER WAS I LISTENED TO WITH SUCH RAPT ATTENTION AND COMPREHENSION QUARTET FOR THE END OF TIME (1940), OLIVIER MESSIAEN E ar ...

283 Guards patrol a German POW camp in World War II. Messiaen composed Quartet for the End of Time while a prisoner at Camp Stal ...

284 I n the 18th century, frequent performances of Handel’s oratorios in Britain established a nationwide tradition of amateur c ...

285 See also: St. Matthew Passion 98–105 ■ Dvorˇ ák’s Symphony No. 9 212–215 ■ The Dream of Gerontius 218–219 ■ Peter Grimes 288 ...

286 I n August 1944, the dancer and choreographer Martha Graham first heard the music that Aaron Copland had created for her bal ...

287 See also: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune 228–231 ■ Le Sacre du printemps 246–251 ■ Les Biches 262 ■ Romeo and Juliet 272 ...

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290 A fter Purcell’s death in 1695 and on through the 18th and 19th centuries, British music was dominated by European composers ...

291 The soprano Joan Cross plays the schoolmistress, Peter Pears is Peter Grimes (center), and Leonard Thompson is the apprentic ...

292 20TH-CENTURY BRITISH OPERA The main characters in Peter Grimes Foes Friends Mrs. Sedley (mezzo soprano) Town gossip Peter Gr ...

293 Britten is memorialized in a window by John Piper in Aldeburgh Parish Church. The Burning Fiery Furnace, depicted here, evok ...

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I n the wake of World War II, classical music became increasingly experimental, as composers searched for more adventurous ways ...

and his contemporaries, eventually finding inspiration in chaos theory and fractal mathematics. As restrictions on the arts lift ...

298 SOUND IS THE VOCABULARY OF NATURE SYMPHONIE POUR UN HOMME SEUL ( 1949 −19 50 ), PIERRE SCHAEFFER/ PIERRE HENRY IN CONTEXT FO ...