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The Last Waltz by
Captured in a beautiful package, including more than fifty color photographs, The Last Waltz tells the intriguing story of of the Viennese Strauss family known for producing some of the best known, best loved music of the nineteenth century. Johann and Josef Strauss, the Waltz Kings, composed hundreds of instantly recognizable and enduring melodies, including The Blue Danube Waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Voices of Spring and The Radetzky March. Their iconic music has been featured on the scores of nearly a thousand films. Yet despite their success, this was a family riven with tension, feuds and jealousy, living in a country that was undergoing seismic upheaval. Through the personal and political chaos, the Strauss family continued to compose music to which the Viennese - anxious to forget their troubles - could dance and drank champagne, even as their country hurtled towards oblivion at the hands of the First World War. Classical music expert and radio host John Suchet skillfully portrays this gripping story, capturing the family dramas, the tensions, triumphs and disasters against the turbulent backdrop of Austria in the nineteenth century, from revolution to regicide.
Call Number: ML410.S89 S85 2015
Mozart in Vienna by
Mozart's greatest works were written in Vienna in the decade before his death (1781-1791). This biography focuses on Mozart's dual roles as a performer and composer and reveals how his compositional processes are affected by performance-related concerns. It traces consistencies and changes in Mozart's professional persona and his modus operandi and sheds light on other prominent musicians, audience expectations, publishing, and concert and dramatic practices and traditions. Giving particular prominence to primary sources, Simon P. Keefe offers new biographical and critical perspectives on the man and his music, highlighting his extraordinary ability to engage with the competing demands of singers and instrumentalists, publishing and public performance, and concerts and dramatic productions in the course of a hectic, diverse and financially uncertain freelance career. This comprehensive and accessible volume is essential for Mozart lovers and scholars alike, exploring his Viennese masterpieces and the people and environments that shaped them.
Call Number: ML410.M9 K24 2017
Music in Eighteenth-Century Austria by
The music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven forms a cornerstone of the modern repertoire, but very little is known about the context in which these composers worked. Beginning with the early decades of the eighteenth century, the essays in this volume consider some of the musical traditions and practices of this little understood period of music history. Four main areas are covered: orchestral music, sacred music, opera and keyboard music.
Call Number: ML246.3 .M86 1996
Popular Viennese Electronic Music, 1990-2015 by
Mazierska presents a cultural history of popular Viennese electronic music from 1990 to 2015, from the perspectives of production, scene and national and international reception. To illustrate this history in depth, a number of case studies of the most successful and distinguished musicians are explored, such as Kruder and Dorfmeister, Patrick Pulsinger, Tosca, Electric Indigo and Sofa Surfers. The author draws on research about electronic music, the relationship between music and the urban environment, the history of Austria and Vienna, music scenes and fandom, the digital shift , stardom in popular music (especially electronic music), as well as theories of postmodernism.
Call Number: ML3499.A98 V52 2019
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Austria, land of music by Call Number: ML246.1 .G597- Vienna's golden years of music, 1850-1900 by Call Number: ML246.8.V6 H242
Local fusions : folk music experiments in Central Europe at the millennium by Call Number: ML3580 .L36 2018
Facts in Brief
Capital: Wien
Official Language: German
Location: The Republic of Austria lies in central Europe, bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic (Czechia) to the north, by Slovakia and Hungary to the east, by Italy and Slovenia to the south, and by Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west.
Area: 83,871 sq km (32,383 sq miles)
Current Population: Current Estimate- 8,901,064
Climate: Monthly temperatures range from −3.4°C (26°F) in January to 15.5°C (60°F) in July.
Money: Euro
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Austrian Folk Music
Ballads
The epic and stichic forms of the Gottschee ballad tradition derived from older, medieval styles of song and continued into the 20th century. This tradition was first ‘discovered’ by German scholars who found relics of the Kudrun epic and the old dialect in the texts, and eventually Walter Wiora pointed out its specific musical character. The typical series of descending, closely graduated lines is well illustrated by the ballad Der ausgeweidete Jäger (‘The Disembowelled Huntsman’).
Almschrei
Alpine vocal forms are marked by wide-ranging melodies in natural notes still played on trumpets made of wood, cowhorns, other animal horns and the more recent alphorn. They include the Almschrei (calls for gathering cattle together or summoning people to work). These forms are primarily concerned with acoustic communication: signals between people, between people and animals, or between people and gods.
Kärntnerlied (‘Carinthian song’)
The Kärntnerlied (‘Carinthian song’), has retained some individuality, particularly through the five-part polyphony with a high upper part performed only by men (Wildsänger), and especially in its further development as the Neues Kärtner Volkslied. Carinthia is notable among the provinces of Austria in that its vocal traditions are stronger than those of instrumental music.
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