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Slonimsky: Perfect Pitch, an Autobiographyby Nicolas Slonimsky The Listener's Companion: Great Composers and Their Worksby Nicolas Slonimsky, Electra Yourke Slonimsky's Book of Musical Anecdotesby Nicolas Slonimsky, Robert Bonotto (Illustrator) Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers
Since Beethoven's Time Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patternsby Nicolas Slonimsky Writings on Music: Volume One Writings on Music: Volume Two Writings on Music: Volume Three Writings on Music: Volume Four Bakers's Biographical Dictionary of Muscians Baker's Dictionary of Musicby Nicolas Slonimsky, Richard Kassel (Editor) Music Since 1900 Nicolas Slonimsky: The First Hundred Years Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical
Musicians A Thing or Two About Music Lectionary of Music The Portable Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians Webster's New World Dictionary of Music The Road to Music Music of Latin America
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Slonimsky: Perfect Pitch, an Autobiographyby Nicolas Slonimsky Book DescriptionThe life of pianist, composer, conductor, and musical lexicographer Nicolas Slonimsky encompassed nearly all of 20th-century music history. His 1988 autobiography, newly expanded by his daughter Electra Yourke, tells the fascinating story of his journey from his native Russia to France and the United States, where he became known as a champion of modern music.
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The Listener's Companion: Great Composers and Their WorksNicolas Slonimsky, Electra Yourke
Book DescriptionRenowned for his literary style as well as his musical scholarship, Nicolas Slonimsky wrote many program notes and articles for newspapers and other periodicals, in addition to his well-known books. These shorter writings, edited by Slonimsky's daughter, Electra Yourke, are collected for the first time in this excellent introduction to the classical repertoire, from Bach to Shostakovich. Arranged chronologically by composer, the chapters begin with biographical sketches and go on to describe some of each composer's most popular and imporant works. |
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Slonimsky's Book of Musical Anecdotesby Nicolas Slonimsky, Robert Bonotto (Illustrator)
Book DescriptionQuirky anecdotes and observations abound in this volume now published by Routledge. Enter a surreal and humorous world of medicinal music, musical schizophrenia, conductorless orchestras, suing seals, cat operas, musical beds and more. Let Slonimsky regale you with tales of Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini and the other expected Classical Music figures, the ugly ducking of Russian music, the Kafka of modern music and other sublime misfits. First published in 1948, this book has earned well-deserved acclaim for being insightful, witty and enthralling. Charming illustrations by Robert Bonotto complete this superb collection of musical vignettes.
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Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Timeby Nicolas Slonimsky Book Description"A supermarket tabloid of classical music criticism."--from the new foreword by Peter Schickele. A snakeful of critical venom aimed at the composers and the classics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. Who wrote advanced cat music? What commonplace theme is very much like Yankee Doodle? Which composer is a scoundrel and a giftless bastard? What opera would His Satanic Majesty turn out? Whose name suggests fierce whiskers stained with vodka? And finally, what third movement begins with a dog howling at midnight, then imitates the regurgitations of the less-refined or lower-middle-class type of water-closet cistern, and ends with the cello reproducing the screech of an ungreased wheelbarrow? For the answers to these and other questions, readers need only consult the "Invecticon" at the back of this inspired book and then turn to the full passage, in all its vituperation. Among the eminent reviewers are George Bernard Shaw, Virgil Thomson, Hans von Bulow, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eduard Hanslick, Olin Downes, Deems Taylor, Paul Rosenfeld, and Oscar Wilde. Itself a classic, this collection of nasty barbs about composers and their works, culled mostly from contemporaneous newspapers and magazines, makes for hilarious reading and belongs on the shelf of everyone who loves--or hates--classical music. With a new foreword by Peter Schickele ("P.D.Q. Bach"). |
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Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patternsby Nicolas Slonimsky
Book DescriptionSince its publication in 1947, great musicians and composers of all genres - from Arnold Schoenberg and Virgil Thomson to John Coltrane and Freddie Hubbard - have sworn by this legendary volume and its comprehensive vocabulary of melodic patterns for composition and improvisation. |
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Writings on Music: Volume Two
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Writings on Music: Volume Three
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Writings on Music: Volume Four
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Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musiciansby Nicolas Slonimsky |
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Baker's Dictionary of Musicby Nicolas Slonimsky, Richard Kassel (Editor)
Amazon.com Book DescriptionIt's sad but nonetheless true that Nicolas Slonimsky died in 1995, yet the 1997 Dictionary of Music is thoroughly Slonimsky. It includes all the material written for his Lectionary of Music (that was expunged by editors), and then some. After Slonimsky's death, Schirmer Book editors reconstructed his work (using original manuscripts) and added hundreds of Slonimsky articles for a new, comprehensive, mostly Slonimsky dictionary of music. The result is that most deadly of dictionaries: the text that can't be put down. From Slonimsky's highly entertaining introduction to the A to Z itself--1,171 pages of musical definitions, biographies, and Slonimsky storytelling--this is a rare volume that both instructs and amuses. |
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Music Since 1900by Nicolas Slonimsky
Amazon.com Book DescriptionNicolas Slonimsky's first edition of Music Since 1900 came out in 1937--his entry into the world of lexicography--and this fifth edition, published in 1994, was the last book he wrote. But that's only one reason why this book should be acquired, cherished, and continually browsed. The "Descriptive Chronology" begins January 1, 1900, with the publication of Hector Berlioz's first volume of collected works, wends its way through Gershwin's first performance of "Rhapsody in Blue" (February 12, 1924) and the founding of the Polish Music Publishing Society (April 15, 1945), and ends with the death of Ernst Krenek, composer of "Jonny spielt auf," (December 23, 1991). With letters (such as those to Slonimsky from Charles Ives) and documents (such as the transcript of the House Un-American Activities Committee hearing on Hanns Eisler), a Dictionary of Terms (abecedarianism to Zen), and a comprehensive index, the result is a scrupulous, eccentric, irresistible music reference.
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Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musiciansby Nicolas Slonimsky
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A Thing or Two About Musicby Nicolas Slonimsky
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Lectionary of Musicby Nicolas Slonimsky |
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The Portable Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musiciansby Nicolas Slonimsky |
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Webster's New World Dictionary of Musicby Nicolas Slonimsky
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The Road to Musicby Nicolas Slonimsky |
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Music of Latin Americaby Nicolas Slonimsky
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