Edward Dusinberre

Gebundenes Buch

Distant Melodies

Music in Search of Home

Beschreibung

"A combination of memoir and music history, Distant Melodies: Music in Search of Home is a journey of exploration by a member of one of the world's leading string quartets into the related ideas of home, displacement, and retreat in the lives and chamber music of four composers: Antonâin Dvoérâak, Edward Elgar, Bâela Bartâok and Benjamin Britten. Dvâorãak, Bartâok, and Britten's American experiences, and Elgar's Piano Quintet and the English landscapes that inspired it, provide the author with a means for exploring the ways in which a piece of music may affirm or alter one's sense of home. The life experiences and notions of development and recapitulation in the music of these composers are the subject of a book that grapples with the universal human predicament of how best to balance past, present, and future, to remember faithfully and yet to move forward. Distant Melodies explores the experience of living with a piece of music over time and the ways in which engaging more closely with these composers has changed the author's own perception of home. This is a book for a wide and diverse audience: professional and amateur musicians, musicologists, and those who follow the careers of modern performing musicians, but more broadly for anyone for whom music provides solace and companionship. It helps us to understand how a piece of music and its associations can help us navigate our daily lives"--

Autor

A Grammy Award-winning musician, Edward Dusinberre has been the first violinist of the Takács Quartet since 1993. He is an artist-in-residence and the Ralph E. and Barbara L. Christoffersen Faculty Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also a faculty member of the Music Academy of the West and a visiting fellow at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Dusinberre is the author of Beethoven for a Later Age: Living with the String Quartets, winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's 2016 Creative Communication Award. He has also won awards from Gramophone Magazine, the Japanese Recording Academy, and Chamber Music America. Outside of the quartet, he has made a recording of Beethoven's violin sonatas nos. 9 (Kreutzer) and 10 on the Decca label.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780226823430
• ISBN-10: 0226823431
• Artikelnr.: 63626608