ISBN: 0571119980
Godina izdanja: 1991
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Muzika
Autor: Strani

Harold Barlow, Sam Morgenstern - A Dictionary of Musical Themes
Faber and Faber, 1991
643 str.
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A Dictionary of Musical Themes (New York: Crown, 1949) is a music reference book by Sam Morgenstern and Harold Barlow.

Contents
The book collects 10,000 musical themes (mostly classical works) and indexes them using a notation index based on transposing the pitches to C major or C minor (so that God Save the Queen/America, for instance, would come out as CCDBCDEEFE). It was followed a year later by A Dictionary of Vocal Themes (1950), including themes from songs and opera.

Authors
Sam Morgenstern (1906-1989) was a teacher at Mannes College of Music in Greenwich Village, New York, and the conductor of Lower Manhattan`s Lemonade Opera Company, which gave the US premiere of Prokofiev’s Duenna in 1948. He composed two short operas, along with Warsaw Ghetto (setting a spoken word poem by Harry Granick to background music), which premiered at Carnegie Hall on February 10, 1946. He composed a choral cantata The Common Man, and the Latin-tinged piano piece Toccata Guatemala. Although no recordings of his work exist, a radio disk transcription of the second performance of Warsaw Ghetto exists, made in the studio a week after the premiere. Morgenstern’s other books included the anthology Composers on Music (1956).

Harold Barlow (1915-93) devised the notation scheme. He was a popular song composer who studied violin at Boston University and became a bandleader during World War II. He wrote the comedy song I’ve Got Tears in My Ears in 1949 (recorded by Homer and Jethro), and the lyrics to the 1960 Connie Francis hit Mama. Barlow became better known later in his career as a consultant on plagiarism, most famously defending George Harrison’s `My Sweet Lord` against accusations that it was copied from the Chiffons’ hit He’s So Fine. (Harrison lost the case). Barlow also worked on cases involving Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Elton John, Dolly Parton, and Billy Joel.

John Erskine (Introduction)

Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction / John Erskine
Preface
Themes
Transposition key
How to use the notation index
Notation index
Index of titles


Nonfiction, 0571119980