Abraham, Gerald 1904-1988

Overview

Works:	750 works in 2,733 publications in 9 languages and 39,376 library holdings
Genres:	Criticism, interpretation, etc Music Biography Songs and music Reference works Biographies History
Roles:	Author, Editor, Translator, Author of introduction, Writer of accompanying material, Other, wpr, Creator, Honoree, Director, Compiler, Illustrator, Adapter, Annotator, Composer
Classifications:	ML160, 780.9

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Gerald Abraham

Essays on Russian and East European music by Gerald Abraham( Book )
Gerald Abraham papers by Gerald Abraham( )

Most widely held works by Gerald Abraham

The concise Oxford history of music by Gerald Abraham( Book )

35 editions published between 1979 and 1999 in English and Chinese and held by 1,887 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Concise Oxford History of Music, written by one of the world's most respected musicologists, remains the one-volume history for anyone seriously interested in the subject. This comprehensive work covers the whole history of music by genre from its first recorded emergence in Egypt to the death of Stravinsky

A hundred years of music by Gerald Abraham( Book )

71 editions published between 1938 and 1982 in 3 languages and held by 1,638 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Mozart companion by H. C. Robbins Landon( Book )

57 editions published between 1956 and 1990 in English and French and held by 1,511 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mussorgsky by M. D Calvocoressi( Book )

30 editions published between 1946 and 1978 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,211 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Masters of Russian music by M. D Calvocoressi( Book )

41 editions published between 1936 and 2013 in English and held by 1,138 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Biographical studies of the great Russian composers: Rimsky-Korsakof -- Tchaikovsky -- Mussorgsky -- Scriabin -- Borodin -- Taneief -- Glinka -- Cui -- Serof -- Balakiref -- Glazunof -- Liapunof -- Liadof -- Daromyjsky

Chopin's musical style by Gerald Abraham( Book )

62 editions published between 1939 and 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,056 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The legacy which Chopin left to the world constitutes something unique in the literature of music--unique not only in its scope, but in its extraordinary variety and its range of colour and feeling. In the great corpus of his compositions for the piano (he wrote nothing of significance for any other medium) he expressed thoughts and feelings that had not previously found expression in music and on all he wrote he left the clear mark of his own personality. In this book Gerald Abraham has analysed the factors and circumstances which go to make up Chopin's musical style; he demonstrates clearly the past models on which Chopin built and traces the growth and development of his highly individual keyboard forms

Slavonic and Romantic music; essays and studies by Gerald Abraham( Book )

17 editions published between 1968 and 2013 in English and held by 1,047 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The tradition of Western music by Gerald Abraham( Book )

20 editions published in 1974 in English and held by 1,045 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The music of Schubert by Gerald Abraham( Book )

14 editions published between 1946 and 1969 in English and German and held by 996 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The age of humanism, 1540-1630 by Gerald Abraham( Book )

31 editions published between 1953 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 971 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Covers this golden age of church music with such masters as Palestrina, Lassus, Victoria and Byrd, as well as the secular vocal music and purely instrumental music, exemplified by the madrigal in Italy and England, the solo song and opera

The Age of Beethoven, 1790-1830 by Gerald Abraham( Book )

34 editions published between 1958 and 2007 in English and held by 947 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Covers forty years which saw profound changes in music, most of them dominated by Beethoven. Provides a detailed, scholarly critical survey of the music of the period with chapters on French, Italian and German opera and on opera in other countries, on Beethoven's orchestral and chamber music and of his contemporaries on the concerto, on piano music, on solo song and on choral music, as well as an introductory chapter on general musical conditions of the time

Ars nova and the Renaissance, 1300-1540 by Anselm Hughes( Book )

29 editions published between 1960 and 2007 in English and Latin and held by 935 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Introduces the Ars nova at the beginning of the fourteenth century to the full flood of Renaissance music in the mid-sixteenth century. Named composers with an undisputed corpus of surviving works emerged during this period - Machaut, Landini, Dunstable, Dufay, Ockeghem, Josquin and many others of lesser fame

The music of Sibelius by Gerald Abraham( Book )

17 editions published between 1947 and 1975 in English and held by 913 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Eight Soviet composers by Gerald Abraham( Book )

52 editions published between 1900 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 902 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains essays on Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Knipper, Shebalin, Kabalevsky, Dzerzhinsky and Shaporin

Schumann : a symposium by Gerald Abraham( Book )

27 editions published between 1951 and 1994 in 4 languages and held by 899 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Critical essays on the music of the German composer Schumann. Also includes "Chronological list of compositions."

Studies in Russian music; critical essays on the most important of Rimsky-Korsakov's operas, Borodin's Prince Igor, Dargomizhky's Stone guest, etc., with chapters on Glinka, Mussorgsky, Balakirev and Tchaikovsky by Gerald Abraham( Book )

24 editions published between 1935 and 1970 in English and held by 871 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Although this is a book of separate essays, it is, I hope, given a certain unity by the fact that each chapter deals with some product or aspect of the "classical" period of Russian music: the music of Glinka and, more particularly, that written in the half-century following his death. I have almost ignored Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky, preferring to concentrate on the less discussed members of the "mighty handful," above all on Rimsky-Korsakov who has hitherto been unaccountably neglected by non-Russian critics. But in these studies of some of Korsakov's operas I have concerned myself only with certain aspects of them -- perhaps too exclusively -- in the attempt to investigate the working of the composer's musical mind. - Preface

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4 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 799 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Handel : a symposium by Gerald Abraham( Book )

13 editions published in 1954 in English and held by 761 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Concert music, 1630-1750( Book )

18 editions published between 1985 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 749 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Concerned with ode and oratorio in English, secular song in Europe, and the whole range of baroque instrumental music from keyboard music to the solo sonata to orchestral suite and concerto grosso. Offers an overall view of a period which witnessed a proliferation of music in all genres, highlighting and discussing musical landmarks and masterpieces of the age

Romanticism (1830-1890)( Book )

18 editions published between 1900 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 698 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Provides a comprehensive overview of this most diverse of musical periods "the Romantic", sixty years between these two dates which harvested an astonishingly rich crop of great music, much of which has entered the standard instrumental, orchestral, and operatic repertoire. It gives due weight to the masterpieces of the period, but also reassesses lesser known works and placing them firmly in their historical perspective