Harry Somers / / Brian Cherney.
Harry Somers is one of Canada's leading composers, and one of the most original. In the 1950s he experimented with contrapuntal writing, serialism, and style juxtaposition; in more recent years he has been concerned with the development of new vocal resources and improvisation.Harry Somers, a d...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©1975 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (206 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General foreword/Avant-propos général
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The early years
- 2. The apprenticeship
- 3. Paris 1950
- 4. Consolidation, recognition 1951-9
- 5. Paris 1960-1 and the orchestral works of the late fifties and early sixties
- 6. New directions: the vocal works of the sixties
- 7. Louis Riel
- 8. Rome 1969-71 and the early seventies
- Appendix 1. Compositions by Harry Somers
- Appendix 2. Discography
- Appendix 3. Synopsis of Louis Kiel
- Selected bibliography
- Index