Samuel Barber
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Samuel Barber: A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works is the first publication to list the entire musical output of Samuel Barber, one of the most beloved and frequently performed American composers. In this exhaustive study, renowned Barber biographer Barbara Heyman chronologically lists and details hundreds of core repertory and the most recently published works, as well as numerous works previously unknown and unpublished.Each entry includes information about first performances, commissions, and the circumstances and inspiration of the composition; the texts of songs; a musical extract containing the opening measures of each work, movement, or major aria; duration, revisions, editions, arrangements, and a select discography of historical and contemporary performances. The descriptions of manuscript sources provide details about the hundreds of holograph manuscripts, sketches, drafts, and significant publisher's proofs with Barber's corrections. Entries are enhanced by Heyman's extensive commentary, which draws from Barber's correspondence, interviews, and diaries. Useful appendices to the catalogue comprise a register of works by genre; an alphabetical directory of works; an index of first lines of vocal works; a listing by nationality of authors and translators of texts set by Barber; and a comprehensive discography.
This thematic catalogue is an invaluable guide for musicians, scholars, and students, providing an essential foundation for any serious study of Barber and his music.
Features
- Includes information on works thought to be lost which have recently been located in private collections
- Early entries enhanced by quotations from a newly discovered diary
- Indispensable tool for musicologists, conductors, composers, performers, and students and scholars of twentieth-century and/or American music
Reviews
"This catalogue of themes with copious additional notes, covering 'all published and unpublished' works of Samuel Barber culminates years of extraordinary labor. Adding to her earlier definitive biography, Barbara Heyman here makes another gigantic contribution to our knowledge of a major American composer." --Thomas L. Riis, Director, American Music Research Center, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Barber's acclaimed biographer now gives us a catalog which is a panoply of information packed with exactingly researched detail. Everything needed by enthusiasts, performers and scholars now and into the future is punctiliously laid out--a magisterial centenary tribute." --Peter Dickinson, Emeritus Professor, University of London
About the Author(s)
Barbara B. Heyman, musicologist and editor, has written and lectured extensively about Samuel Barber. Her book Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music (Oxford University Press, 1992, 1994) won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and is considered the definitive biography of the composer.
