10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FRENCH OVERTURE»
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French overture in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
French overture and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Short History of Opera
The French overture was a creation of the late Baroque, having a rich texture of
sound, some quasi-contrapuntal independence of the inner voices, and a
musical momentum bound to the non-periodic progression of the bass and
harmonies.
Donald Grout, Donald Jay Grout, Hermine Weigel Williams, 2013
Soon, however, because of the need for audience preparation for the musical
work, introductions acquired greater length and more definite form, culminating in
the French overture of Lully and the Italian overture of A. Scarlatti in the ...
3
Anthology of Musical Forms -- Structure & Style: The Study ...
Examples of the French overture are Gluck's overture to Iphigenie en A ulide and
Bach's overture to Suite in B minor for flute and strings. Extension of the French
overture into a suite is illustrated in Handel's overtures to Rinaldo and Theodora
...
4
A Student's Guide to GCSE Music for the AQA Specification
The baroque French overture began with a majestic slow section, usually in
common time, and nearly always dotted rhythms (see page 85). The most famous
example is the overture to Handel's Messiah (Example 4a). Example 4 (a
) ...
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CRITICAL ENTERTAINMENTS
In the works of Volume II, a double-keyboard harpsichord is used for a contrast
between solo and tutti sections in concerto style, for echo effects in the French
Overture, and for imitating the sound of a solo line over accompanying
instruments in ...
6
A History of the Oratorio: The oratorio in the nineteenth ...
Handel's use of the French overture to open Messiah and other oratorios, for
instance, was adopted by a number of nineteenth-century composers of
historicist bent. Long obsolete in both opera and oratorio, the French overture
appears early ...
7
Early Keyboard Instruments: A Practical Guide
J. S. Bach: French Overture Bach's Ouverture nach Franzosischer Art (Overture in
the French style) was published with the Italian Concerto in 1735. The two works
form the second part of his Clavier-Ubung, a large compendium of keyboard ...
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The Harvard Dictionary of Music
Id., "A Reconsideration of French Over- dotting," ML 50 (1969): 1 1 1-23.
Frederick Neumann, "The Question of Rhythm in Two Versions of Bach's French
Overture, BWV 831," Mendel, 1974, pp. 183-94. David Fuller, "Dotting, the '
French Style,' ...
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The New Cambridge Modern History: The rise of Great Britain ...
By the 1730s there were firmly established throughout Europe three types of
purely instrumental composition, all derived from the genre of opera but
independent of the operatic stage: Lully's French overture, Scarlatti's Italian
overture, and ...
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Performance Practice: A Dictionary-Guide for Musicians
Since Corelli had himself written a French overture with explicit overdotting in his
trio sonatas of 1689, his uneasiness about Handel's overture may have been
because of its imprecise notation, in which the overdotting was not written out ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FRENCH OVERTURE»
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French overture is used in the context of the following news items.
Baroque Orchestra Conquers Tanglewood
Following the traditional French overture, the suite consists of five movements, each of which is a pictorial piece based on an image or section ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Jul 15»
US Chopin winner Lu shows talent and tenderness in New York debut
... to that question of “potential”—his musical sense was no less acute here, but his balance was problematic in the French Overture (BWV 831). «New York Classical Review, Jun 15»
The Universal Applause of Mount Parnassus in the Royal Chapel …
Following a Lullian-style French overture, tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen, in the role of Apollo the Greek god of music and poetry, calls upon the ... «Goldenplec Music News, Jun 15»
LINER NOTES: Afiara Quartet and Skratch Bastid's Spin Cycle is a …
Had Bach not done that, we wouldn't have the French overture, we wouldn't have the English sonatas, we wouldn't have our cello suites with ... «ChartAttack, May 15»
American harpsichordist Jory Vinikour makes DC recital debut
The concluding work on the program was Bach's “French Overture,” which also could have benefited from sharper contrasts. Here a more vivid ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»
Baroque rocks the house
This rarely heard work, which consists of a French overture and a suite of dances, exists only because Johann Sebastian Bach had ... «AsiaOne, Apr 15»
Concert review: NAFA Orchestra and Chorus shows fire and …
This rarely-heard work, which consists of a French overture and a suite of dances, only exists because the latter had hand-copied the parts for ... «The Straits Times, Apr 15»
American Bach Soloists wrap up season with vocal and instrumental …
Unlike his fellow German composers who wrote dozens of works based on the model of the French Overture followed by a series of dance ... «Davis Enterprise, Apr 15»
Mozart and Mendelssohn by Widmann
Mozart's C Fugue was first composed for two pianos but re-arranged for strings, with an introductory Adagio reminiscent of a French overture. «Limerick Post, Mar 15»
Review: Piotr Anderszewski Goes for Dim Lights and Intimacy at …
In performing Bach's French Overture (written for the harpsichord) on the piano, Mr. Anderszewski made full use of the modern instrument's ... «New York Times, Mar 15»
