Compositions by Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings, Agnus Dei (Barber), Capricorn Concerto, Cello Concerto (Barber), Cello Sonata (Barber), Essay for...

ISBN-10: 1230554971
ISBN-13: 9781230554976
Pages: 26
Language: English
Published: 2013-09
Publisher: University-Press.org
Author: Source Wikipedia

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Adagio for Strings, Agnus Dei (Barber), Capricorn Concerto, Cello Concerto (Barber), Cello Sonata (Barber), Essay for Orchestra (Barber), Excursions (Barber), Hermit Songs, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, List of compositions by Samuel Barber, Medea's Dance of Vengeance, Medea (ballet), Piano Concerto (Barber), Piano Sonata (Barber), Prayers of Kierkegaard, Second Essay for Orchestra (Barber), String Quartet (Barber), Summer Music for Wind Quintet, Symphony in One Movement (Barber), The School for Scandal (Barber), Violin Concerto (Barber). Excerpt: Excursions, Op. 20, is the first published solo piano piece by Samuel Barber. Barber himself explains: "These are 'Excursions' in small classical forms into regional American idioms. Their rhythmic characteristics, as well as their source in folk material and their scoring, reminiscent of local instruments are easily recognized." This is typical of neo-Romantic composers such as Barber. As Susan Carter explains in her Dissertation, The Piano Music of Samuel Barber, that "neo-Romantic composers returned to a style characterized by broad lyricism and dramatic expression." She also states that the traditional structures of form from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were conserved while drawing upon a "contemporary technical vocabulary." From a Boogie-woogie style of a five-part Rondo to a theme and variations of a well known cowboy ballad, and even to a barn yard dance with a fiddler, Barber uses each style effectively and accurately, according to the neo-Romantic ideas. Before composing his Piano Sonata, Samuel Barber was asked by Jeanna Behrend, a personal friend of his and an accomplished pianist, to write a longer, more involved piece for piano that "would be appropriate to perform on one of her programs of American music." Barber obliged, and in June...

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