Martinu and the Symphony Michael Crump,
Publisher: Toccata Press
ISBN: 0907689655
DDC: 780
Edition: Hardcover; 2009-11-19
Summary:
Over the past few decades the music of the Czech composer Bohuslav
Martinu (1890-1959) has enjoyed a slow but steady rise in popularity,
and his six symphonies, written between 1942 and 1953, have now been
recorded many times; concert performances are on the increase, too.
But Martinu and the Symphony is not only the first book in English
intended to help the music-lover to a deeper understanding of these
glorious works - it is by far the most comprehensive work on the
subject in any language. Each Symphony is examined in turn, the
analyses revealing what makes each creation so individual yet also so
clearly part of a close-knit family of works and identifying the
elements of his melodic, harmonic and instrumental style which
produce Martinu's very personal vibrant and organic symphonic
manner.Martinu and the Symphony is illustrated with almost 200
musical examples, taken not only from the Symphonies but also from
Martinu's other works for large orchestra. His path to symphonic
mastery is examined in unprecedented detail: attention is at last
paid to the early orchestral works which, although largely
unperformed and unpublished even now, afford fascinating glimpses of
the composer to come. A study of the late triptychs The Frescoes of
Piero della Francesca and The Parables rounds out this appraisal of
Martinu's enthralling symphonic and orchestral legacy.
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