Bohuslav Martinu: An Examination of Selected Chamber Music Involving the Clarinet: Searching Inside

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... musical environment in history. His encounters with the music of Stravinsky, jazz, his teacher Albert... for new ways to express himself through composing. In his chamber music for clarinet, one can see... the evolution of the composer's development brought about by his exposure to music during the different periods... of his life. For many reasons, except for a small percentage of Martinu's music, these works receive too... this distinguished composer presents us in his music.

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... in his homeland during the most fruitful and mature compositional years of his life, his music..., compositions for piano and other keyboard instruments, songs, cantatas, opera, ballet, stage and film music..., and chamber music.2 While experts view Martinu's most important works as his operas and symphonies..., the abundance of chamber music written for strings and wind instruments is a testament not only to his ability...," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie (London: MacMillan, 1980), Vol

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... and problems.39 During the 1920s, Paris was the world center for contemporary music. Even though he had almost... to learn that the music of Debussy and other Impressionists had gone out of vogue and was not performed... with any regularity. Music was in the process of changing in a way it had never done before. Compositions... of the Neo-classicists were winning favor in Parisian concert halls, and twelve-tone music of Schoenberg and other...; at venues such as the Concerts Koussevtzky, he experienced the music of not only young French composers

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..., and Manuel de Falla. Also, music from America was becoming quite fashionable, particularly ragtime... articles Martinu wrote about music in Paris that he enthusiastically embraced Stravinsky's LTiistoire du... soldat and Les noces. Martinu compliments Stravinsky's music as: ... positive and spontaneous... life... beauty of individual things... His music is complicated but not subtle. It coalesces with life and avoids

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... 27 Sextet is the next piece of chamber music for winds written by Martinu. It was composed..., and Martinu's good friend.53 Like La revue de cuisine. Sextet is also influenced by jazz and popular music... of the publisher, sole representative U.S.A., General Music Publishing Company. The influence of jazz in the Sextet.... It is crafted by the skillful blend of chamber music and popular elements. There is no record of a performance

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... I am always more myself in pure chamber music. I cannot express what pleasure it gives me when I... This document is not intended to reveal any new information or develop any new judgments on the music... of Bohuslav Martinu. Instead, through the discussion of chamber music involving clarinet within the contexts... of information regarding this music and recordings, it is hoped that clarinetists will become more aware

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... this time, Martinu became particularly fond of the music of Claude Debussy, and in many of his early... compositions there are heard unmistakable influences from the music of other composers. Brian Large, BBC... the music he heard around him, and occasionally his youthful efforts move from Debussy-like Impressionism... of Music anrl Musicians. 732. 28Large, Martinu. 16. 29Ibid.. 21.

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... purchased a three-quarter-size violin at the annual fair and enrolled his son in music lessons... to teaching music,10 was an "all-round musician." Although he did not play any keyboard instrument, Cernovsky... there is no one who can replace him. Even though he had no diploma or anything like that, he had a love of music... and art of which he himself was possibly unaware. It was he who showed me the way to appreciate both music

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... of the year by The New York Music Circle.77 Despite these successes and numerous commissions, Martinu never... Music Center during the summer of 1942.78 Others followed at Princeton University, the Mannes School... of Music, and the Curtis Institute. Also, upon leaving America in 1956, he accepted a teaching position... at the American Academy in Rome. It was while teaching at the Berkshire Music Center in 1946 that the composer

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... and political move away from German influences, played a great deal of new music. Included was an abundance... was Dvofak's favorite student, and eventually married his mentor's daughter. His earliest music is strongly...: John Tyrell, "Josef Suk," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie... of Music and Musicians. 732.

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... LIFETIMES OF GREAT MUSIC Saturday, February 22,1997,8:00 p.m. Hemmle Recital Hall Quintet in 8..., bassoon Anthony Brittin, horn Ushers are provided through the courtesy of Mu Phi Epsilon, Music Fraternity.... Hemmle Recital Hall is maintained by Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Music Fraternity. IX

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... for the work, five short movements of music in a lighter vein, conforms to that of divertimenti... music compositions. These include suites and serenades. Martinu's Growing Popularity Through his success... Dictionary of Music. Second Edition, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1972

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... Century Music: An Introduction. Prentire Hall History of Music Series. 6 vols., edited by Wiley Hitchcock.... Englewood, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1974. Vol. VI. Tyrell, John. "Josef Suk," The New Grove Dictionary of Music

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... Walzel, Robert L., Jr., Bohuslav Martinu: An Eyflmination of Selected Chamber Music Involving... influences, compositional techniques, and performance considerations of chamber music involving clarinet... growth of the composer through the three periods of his life in which he composed chamber music which

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... might just as well have a block of wood for a head! Why, he does not even know what music is!! I've... given my life and everything to music and such a person as he ignores my efforts. Yes, I'm bitter. What... know nothing about music at all. They have spoiled everything for me, but I am not to be easily beaten

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... 45 \iuur ^ «/» / Figure 12—mvt. I, measures 73-6. © 1960 BAERENREITER MUSIC CORPORATION, 224 King... Street, Englewood, N.J. 07631, used by permission of the publisher. The spirit of this music is much more

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... 23 Written in 1927, the work is intended as entertainment music. La revue de cuisine, like many... The influence of jazz and popular music is easily seen in the following examples from the Tango and Charleston

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... SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Books and Periodicals Apel, Willi. Harvatrd Dictionary of Music. Second... Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 20 vols., edited by Stanley Sadie. London: MacMillan, 1980. Vol

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... Roussel's music in Prague—to be parallel with that of Martinu. In Roussel, Martinu sensed a like mind... glory—that will be Martinu!" Upon examination of music Martinu wrote during this time, there are no passages

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.... © 1975 Panton, used by permission of the publisher, sole representative U.S.A., General Music... in Paris, he introduced himself to Albert Roussel,46 the composer whose music Martinu had so admired during