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A Portrait of Mendelssohn
Clive Brown
Scholarly biography / reception study · 2003 · English
Clive Brown. A Portrait of Mendelssohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 9780300095395.
Brown’s biography reassesses Mendelssohn against a long history of condescension that portrayed him as merely polished, privileged or conservative. Drawing on letters, diaries, memoirs, reviews and contemporary reports, the book reconstructs the composer as pianist, conductor, organizer, teacher, family member and public intellectual as well as composer. It…
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Resonance in Singing and Speaking
Thomas Fillebrown
Voice pedagogy / resonance study · 1911 · English
Thomas Fillebrown. Resonance in Singing and Speaking. Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1911.
Fillebrown develops a pedagogical account of resonance, tone placement and the relation between speaking and singing. The text reflects the strong early twentieth-century interest in explaining vocal efficiency through resonating cavities and sensory images.
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Musorgsky: His Life and Works
David Brown
Scholarly biography / composer / works study · 2002 · English
David Brown. Musorgsky: His Life and Works. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
This expanded dossier treats Musorgsky: His Life and Works as a substantial source on Modest Musorgsky. It records the bibliographic identity of the volume and situates the narrative within the artist’s chronology, professional network, repertory, institutional environment and reception. Particular attention is paid to the difference between first-person…
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A Dictionary of Musical Biography
John D. Brown and Stephen S. Stratton
Historical biographical dictionary · 1897 · English
John D. Brown and Stephen S. Stratton. A Dictionary of Musical Biography. Paisley / London: James D. Brown, 1897.
A Dictionary of Musical Biography is treated here as a major reference work for Classical Archive. Its value lies in structured consultation rather than continuous reading: it supports identification of people, works, terminology, genres, instruments, institutions, repertory or recordings according to the scope of the publication. The dossier…
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