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Memento Mori: A Guide to Contemporary Memorial Music
Robert Chase
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Description for Memento Mori: A Guide to Contemporary Memorial Music
Hardback. Memento Mori is a follow-up to the author's previous book, Dies Irae, and is devoted to the modern settings of memorial music. Included is a wide variety of music from various religious and secular music traditions. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: AVG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 730.
Memento Mori: A Guide to Contemporary Memorial Music presents a useful reference listing of modern settings of the requiem and other forms of memorial music. It is a follow up to the author's previous work, Dies Irae: A Guide to Requiem Music. Robert Chase brings a relatively unexplored territory of musical repertoire to public attention, offering descriptions of previously unfamiliar or little known contemporary choral works devoted to the memorial theme. Through discussions of 71 composers with compositions from six continents, the book offers a general historical record of 20th and 21st century memorial composition and shows a variety of ... Read more
Memento Mori: A Guide to Contemporary Memorial Music presents a useful reference listing of modern settings of the requiem and other forms of memorial music. It is a follow up to the author's previous work, Dies Irae: A Guide to Requiem Music. Robert Chase brings a relatively unexplored territory of musical repertoire to public attention, offering descriptions of previously unfamiliar or little known contemporary choral works devoted to the memorial theme. Through discussions of 71 composers with compositions from six continents, the book offers a general historical record of 20th and 21st century memorial composition and shows a variety of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
360
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
730g
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810857452
SKU
V9780810857452
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Ref
99-15
About Robert Chase
Robert Chase, formerly professor of music at Pace University in New York, is a pianist, organist, and choral conductor. He is the author of Dies Irae: A Guide to Requiem Music (Scarecrow Press, 2003).
Reviews for Memento Mori: A Guide to Contemporary Memorial Music
... a unique resource...Music libraries as well as libraries that support advanced music programs should have this title.
American Reference Books Annual, March 2008
...useful...
The American Organist
American Reference Books Annual, March 2008
...useful...
The American Organist