Research Catalog

Title

Nicolas Slonimsky : the first hundred years / edited, with an introduction, by Richard Kostelanetz ; assistant editor, Joseph Darby.

Author

Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-1995.

Publication

New York : Schirmer Books, 1994.

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Additional Authors

Kostelanetz, Richard.

Description

xix, 393 pages; 26 cm

Summary

• Nicolas Slonimsky: The First Hundred Years celebrates America's leading musicologist, now approaching his centennial year. Still active at one hundred, Slonimsky is probably best known for his scholarly and voluminous writing, which has been indispensable to musicians worldwide. A tribute to his brilliant career as conductor, composer, teacher, and writer, The First Hundred Years reveals Slonimsky at his literary best.
• Slonimsky born April 27, 1894, in St. Petersburg, Russia, took his first piano lesson in 1900 and went on to study orchestration at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In 1937, after holding a number of musical jobs, and fourteen years after coming to America, Slonimsky published his first book, Music Since 1900. Since then, he has become the world's leading musical lexicographer, editing Baker's for over five decades.
• For The First Hundred Years the editors have gathered Slonimsky masterpieces including excerpts from his autobiographies, histories, biographies, musical concepts, and translations. The First Hundred Years is the only collection of Slonimsky's writings drawing together selections from Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Music Since 1900 Lexicon of Musical Invective, Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns, and his autobiographical work, Perfect Pitch.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

Works.

Subject

• Music > History and criticism

Note

• "Biographical notes": p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Autobiographies. Self-Entry from Eighth Edition of Baker's. Entry from Music Since 1900. Translator's Foreword, de Schloezer's Scriabin. Preface to 51 Minitudes for Piano. Paris, from Perfect Pitch. Preface to the Sixth Edition of Baker's. Entry from Music Since 1900. Charles Ives, from Perfect Pitch. Preface to the Seventh Edition of Baker's. Grossmutterakkord, from Perfect Pitch. Entry from Music Since 1900. The Age of Absurdity, from Perfect Pitch. Introduction to Thesaurus of scales and Melodic Patterns. Self-Review of Perfect Pitch, from Notes. Conclusion of Perfect Pitch -- Histories. "Non-Acceptance of the Unfamiliar," from Lexicon of Musical Invective. "Incidental Music" from A Thing or Two About Music. Sex and the Music Librarian. "A Formula for Musical Eligibility," from Music in Latin America. "Electronic, Concrete and Aleatoric Music," from The Road to Music. "The Beautiful Noises," from A Thing or Two About Music. Twentieth-Century Opera Summaries (Excerpts from Music Since 1900).
• "Conductorless Orchestras," from A Thing or Two About Music. Hidden History of Modern Music (Excerpts from Music Since 1900). "Star-Spangled Stravinsky," from A Thing or Two About Music. "Songs of World War II," from A Thing or Two About Music -- Biographies. Entries (mostly without documentation) from Baker's -- Concepts. Definitions (mostly from Music Since 1900) -- Translations. Down with the Tango and Parsifal! Futurist Manifesto of Aeromusic.

ISBN

0028718453 :

LCCN

93026110

OCLC

ocm28505138

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries