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1 online resource (1 score (xiii, 143 pages, 4 pages of plates)) : facsimiles. |
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notated music ntm rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Recent researches in the music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ; 43 |
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Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573 |
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Recent researches in the music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ; 43.
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Recent researches in music online. 2577-4573
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Based on the spiritual "I'm troubled in mind". |
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Edited from the holograph in the Royal College of Music Library (MS 4866) and other sources. |
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Includes introduction and critical report. |
| Summary |
"Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was in his time among the foremost figures in British music. He burst onto the Victorian concert stage in 1898 with Hiawatha-temporarily eclipsing even Elgar-and remained in the public eye the rest of his short life. His orchestral work, Symphonic Variations on an African Air, composed in 1906, is based on an African-American song, "I'm troubled in mind." The work is interestingly structured, achieving a unity and direction rarely found in variation forms. More than eighty years ago the British musicologist Herbert Antcliffe lamented "the infrequency of ... performances" of the work that "in size ... and ... demand for orchestral resources, is the biggest of all Coleridge-Taylor's purely orchestral works." The piece is engaging, with enchanting melodic invention, a harmonic language that is both characteristically chromatic and modally tinged, and a fine sense of orchestral color. As Antcliffe says, "To those who really wish to know Coleridge-Taylor ... no single work of his will reveal him more fully." -- Provided by publisher. |
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Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed May 16, 2019). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
Spirituals (Songs) -- Instrumental settings.
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Variations (Orchestra) -- Scores.
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Variations (Orchestre) -- Partitions.
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Spirituals (Songs) -- Instrumental settings
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Variations (Orchestra) -- Scores
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| Genre/Form |
Scores
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Scores.
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Partitions (Musique)
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| Added Author |
Snyder, John L., 1950- editor.
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| Added Title |
Based on (work): I'm troubled in mind.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel, 1875-1912. Symphonic variations on an African air. Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2007. (OCoLC)136941916 9780895795977 |
| ISBN |
9781987202069 (online) |
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1987202066 |
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9780895795977 (print) |
| Standard No. |
10.31022/N043 doi |
| Music No. |
N043 A-R Editions, Inc. |
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