If anyone wants to make similarĬompositions around Heidi Klum or Claudia Schiffer, feel free. If you don’t want to go web surfing, you can findĪ picture of the lady herself on the front of the score. Research, I checked out this site, and it works. More information about Gabriela is available at Gabriela Skrabakova is a model and actress who lives inīratislava, Slovakia. Through the entire piece, as though one were saying over and over: ‘Gabriela, Gabriela, Skrabakova, Gabriela Skrabakova, I made these pitches into a melodic phrase which is essentially repeated In order to pay tribute to Boris’s infatuation with Musicalizing the letters of a person’s name in aĬomposition is a time-honored tradition of musical dedication, and this idea inspired Boris toĭerive pitches both from Gabriela’s first and last name: G, A, B flat, E, A, for Gabriela, and Eįlat, E, A, B flat, A for her last name…. Skrabakova, the Slovakian model and actress. “In January, 1999, violinist Boris Kucharsky asked me toĬompse a short piece that was to be inspired by a young woman he had recently met, Gabriela Here’s some material from the score/part, published New York London: Written for a Slovakian model andĪctress, Gabriela Skrabakova. Tango for Gabriela, for violin and piano. Source of reference: ASCAP symphonic catalogue 1977, 3rd edition. In memoriam Ossip Mandelstam, for speaking voice, tape and orchestra. Reference: recording on NONESUCH 7559-79607-2. 38, for orchestra with optional chorusĪSCAP symphonic catalogue 1977, 3rd edition. One day I’ll getĪround to adding all his references to this site…maybe.Įpitaph in memory of Scriabine, op. Scarecrow Press and the Music Library Association, 2001 ISBN 08108401308). Musical Memorials for Musicians: a Guide to Selected Compositions (Lanham, MD and London: Par excellence of this sort of information is R. Many works have been written to honour, imitate, or parody the work of other composers.
Wonderful source of quirkiness and trivia, some of whose best bits are likely to appear on this The book of world-famous music: classical, popular and folk. The Guinness book of musical facts and feats. Robert and Celia DEARLING, and Brian RUST, There areĮven sections given over to songs about particular German emperors. (German) dialects and about certain countries, student song, funeral music, etc. Occasions (Gelegenheiten) – for example, wedding music, patriotic songs, songs in particular A fascinating book that lists music for particular Giessen: Ernst Challier’s Selbstverlag, 1897. Gelegenheiten aller Art der Vocal- und Instrumental-Musik in den verschiedenen Besetzungen. Katalog der Gelegenheits-Musik: ein classificirtes Verzeichniss von Compositionen fur Neglected music: a repertoire handbook for orchestras and choirs. They couldn’t make this up…some surprising facts and feats.Works employing the Hammond Organ, or other unusual instruments.Unusual tempo and expressive indications.Head of Music and Performing Arts Library On the site: in the meantime, I hope you enjoy the information available here, as well as finding As soon as I can I will organise a search facility Itself is likely to grow and develop over time. The amount of information that could, potentially, appear on this site is infinite, and the site Contributions from others are invited: it is certainly not my
The difference between other sites and this one is, I hope, that the *source* of the informationĬited will be given, to enable librarians, information workers and other researchers to assess the It is, of course, possible to gather much “quirky” information from the Internet/World Wide Web. Promoted as a useful resource for reference librarians who encounter unusual music questions Since its inception, however, the site has grown sufficiently to justify - I hope - its being Suggestion, its implementation would fall to me… I should have known that, having made the Other such sources, or itself list unusual information. Information, and suggested that someone ought to start a Web site that could contain details of There I identified a number of reference sources that contained unusual or unexpected International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres, UK Branch (IAML The idea for this site came out of a talk I gave to the 2000 Annual General Meeting of the
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