ISBN: 9780195124484

Something to Live For investigates and analyzes the entire oeuvre of Billy Strayhorn. Nearly seventy musical examples, drawn directly from his original autograph scores, provide insight i… Mehr…

Something to Live For investigates and analyzes the entire oeuvre of Billy Strayhorn. Nearly seventy musical examples, drawn directly from his original autograph scores, provide insight into the development of his style, in his unique and often advanced harmonic language, and in hisauthoritative orchestral technique. The book traces the origin of Strayhorn''s music, with its roots in European and American idioms, and uncovers hitherto unknown works that cast a new light on his development as a composer and orchestrator. Musicologist Walter van de Leur addresses the mythical, 30-year collaboration of Strayhorn and Ellington. Through ground breaking research on the surviving autograph scores of the two composers, Van de Leur redefines their unequalled musical partnership. The author argues that, as opposed togenerally accepted views, Ellington and Strayhorn were not musical alter-egos who composed in a telepathic way. On the contrary, they were two distinctly individual composers who worked from different musical perspectives. This book details how those distinctions stem from the respective musicalbackground of the two composers and how that affected their collaboration. According to the author, the differences between Ellington''s and Strayhorn''s music are clearly audible. Yet, because Ellington, the main interpreter of his collaborator''s music, has played such a crucial role in our perception of Strayhorn''s work, those differences have eluded most listeners. Something to Live For untangles Strayhorn from Ellington''s shadow, identifies all of his contributions to the Ellington repertory, and points listeners to the most salient features that distinguish Strayhorn''s musical style from Ellington''s. Revelatory appendices, including a chronological listing of over five hundred different Strayhorn compositions and arrangements recorded by Ellington, a detailed listing of all of Strayhorn''s compositions in manuscript and on record, complete the book. This book contains unique photographs as wellas reproductions of autograph scores in Strayhorn''s and Ellington''s hand. | Something to Live for by Walter van de Leur Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Biography & Memoirs > Artists P10122, Walter van de Leur<

ISBN: 9780195124484

Something to Live For investigates and analyzes the entire oeuvre of Billy Strayhorn. Nearly seventy musical examples, drawn directly from his original autograph scores, provide insight i… Mehr…

Something to Live For investigates and analyzes the entire oeuvre of Billy Strayhorn. Nearly seventy musical examples, drawn directly from his original autograph scores, provide insight into the development of his style, in his unique and often advanced harmonic language, and in hisauthoritative orchestral technique. The book traces the origin of Strayhorn''s music, with its roots in European and American idioms, and uncovers hitherto unknown works that cast a new light on his development as a composer and orchestrator.Musicologist Walter van de Leur addresses the mythical, 30-year collaboration of Strayhorn and Ellington. Through ground breaking research on the surviving autograph scores of the two composers, Van de Leur redefines their unequalled musical partnership. The author argues that, as opposed togenerally accepted views, Ellington and Strayhorn were not musical alter-egos who composed in a telepathic way. On the contrary, they were two distinctly individual composers who worked from different musical perspectives. This book details how those distinctions stem from the respective musicalbackground of the two composers and how that affected their collaboration.According to the author, the differences between Ellington''s and Strayhorn''s music are clearly audible. Yet, because Ellington, the main interpreter of his collaborator''s music, has played such a crucial role in our perception of Strayhorn''s work, those differences have eluded most listeners.Something to Live For untangles Strayhorn from Ellington''s shadow, identifies all of his contributions to the Ellington repertory, and points listeners to the most salient features that distinguish Strayhorn''s musical style from Ellington''s.Revelatory appendices, including a chronological listing of over five hundred different Strayhorn compositions and arrangements recorded by Ellington, a detailed listing of all of Strayhorn''s compositions in manuscript and on record, complete the book. This book contains unique photographs as wellas reproductions of autograph scores in Strayhorn''s and Ellington''s hand. Books > Biography & Memoirs > Artists List_Books, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

ISBN: 9780195124484

Duke Ellington was one of jazz's greatest figures, a composer and bandleader of unparalleled importance and influence. But little attention has been given to his chief musical collaborato… Mehr…

Duke Ellington was one of jazz's greatest figures, a composer and bandleader of unparalleled importance and influence. But little attention has been given to his chief musical collaborator, Billy Strayhorn, who created hundreds of compositions and arrangements for his musical partner, and without whom the sound of Ellington's orchestra would be very different. Now, in Walter van de Leur's new book, Something to Live For, Billy Strayhorn steps out from Ellington's shadow and into the spotlight. Van de Leur argues that far from being merely a follower of Ellington or his alter ego, Strayhorn brought a radically new and visionary way of writing to the Ellington orchestra. Making extensive use, for the first time, of over 3,000 autograph scores, Van de Leur separates Strayhorn from Ellington, establishes who wrote what, and clearly distinguishes between their distinctive musical styles. "Both Strayhorn's and Ellington's oeuvres," writes Van de Leur, "though historically intertwined, nevertheless form coherent, separate musical entities, especially in terms of harmonic, melodic, and structural design." Indeed, Something to Live For allows us to see the characteristic features of Strayhorn's compositions and arrangements, his "musical fingerprints," and to analyze and evaluate his music on its own terms. The book also makes clear that Strayhorn's contribution to the band was much larger, and more original, than has been previously acknowledged. Based on a decade of research and offering detailed analyses of over 70 musical examples, Something to Live For casts new light - and will surely arouse intense debate - on two of the most important composers in the history of jazz. Books, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

2002, ISBN: 9780195124484

The Music of Billy Strayhorn, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Oxford University Press Inc], Oxford University Press Inc, 2002