1993
The AB Guide to Music Theory, Part 1
The Basics of Rhythm and Tempo Time values Time signatures Tempo Rhythm Introduction to Pitch Pitch names and notation The major scale Key signatures Accidentals Continuing with Rhythm Rests Ties and Dots Triplets and compound time The basis of simple and compound time notation More Scales, Keys and Clefs Major scales and the circle of …
Burma: The Turning Point
The Reason Why The Tiddim Road Fighting in the Chin Hills Withdrawal from Tiddi The Battle of Tonzang The Battle of Singgel The Battle of Sakawng The Final Breakthrough The First Battle of Bishenpur The Battle of Torbung The Second Battle of Bishenpur The Third Battle of Bishenpur Victory and Pursuit Retrospect
Touched with Fire
That Fine Madness: Introduction Ednless Night, Fierce Fires and Shramming Cold: Manic-Depressive Illness Could It Be Madness—This?: Controversy and Evidence Their Life a Storm Whereon They Ride: Temperament and Imagination The Mind’s Canker in Its Savage Mood: George Gordon, Lord Byron Genealogies of These High Mortal Miseries: The Inheritance of Manic-Depressive Illness This Net Throwne …
Die Walküre
Hardback Programmheft accompoanying 1993 Neuinszenierung at Staatsoper Unter den Linden directed by Harry Kupfer with designs by Hans Schavernoch. Das Monstrum Deems Taylor Der Mensch gefährdet die Schöpfung Gespräch mit Harry Kupfer Die Emanzipation der Walküre Manuela Schwartz Wotans Doppelgänger Walter Rösler «Zertrümmert liegt, was sie getrennt … »: Siegmund und Sieglinde oder die Macht …
Rossini
Preface The formative years (1792-1810) Venice and Milan (1810-14) Arrival in Naples Rome and Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816) Naples, Rome, and Milan (1816-17) Mosè in Egitto and return to Pesaro (1818) 1819-21 Vienna, Verona, Venice (1822-3) Paris and London (1823-4) Paris (1824-9) Retirement from operatic composition Bologna, Paris, Madrid (1829-35) Paris, the Rhineland, and …
Vivaldi
Preface Preface to the 1993 edition The path to rediscovery Venice The red-haired priest Years of travel Vivaldi’s musical style The instrumental music Sonatas Concertos The vocal music Cantatas Serenatas Operas Sacred vocal music
Britten
Preface Preface to the 1993 edition Life Suffolk childhood Frank Bridge At the College Auden & Co. America The return The Borough Aldeburgh Gloriana Gamelan War Requiem Noh-play in Orford Moscow and Maltings The fire Death in Suffolk Pride and prejudice Music 1923-35 1936-39 1939-42 1942-45 1945-48 1949-54 1955-60 1961-71 1970-73 1973-76 Epilogue After 1976
Brahms
Preface Prelude, in canon Young Kreisler (1833-54) The Romantic foreground Storm and stress (1854-60) Fully armed like Minerva: the music to 1860 Not quite a Viennese (1860-72) The sense of the past The music of the middle years, 1860-75 ‘Frei aber froh’ The music of the middle years, 1876-82 The final phase The later music, …