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Kenneth Leighton Carolyn J. Smith

Kenneth Leighton By Carolyn J. Smith

Kenneth Leighton by Carolyn J. Smith


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Anyone interested in 20th-century music as well as British and Scottish Cathedral music will find a wealth of works listed with a description of each.

Kenneth Leighton, best known for his organ and sacred choral music, was a composer of great depth and talent who wrote a significant body of works.

Kenneth Leighton Summary

Kenneth Leighton: A Bio-Bibliography by Carolyn J. Smith

Kenneth Leighton, best known for his organ and sacred choral music, was a composer of great depth and talent who wrote a significant body of works. Many of those works were written for large orchestras and a significant number of pieces of chamber music were composed for a variety of instrument groupings, as well as for instrumental solos. Anyone interested in 20th-century music as well as British and Scottish Cathedral music will find a wealth of works listed with a description of each.

Kenneth Leighton, best known for his organ and sacred choral music, was a composer of great depth and talent who wrote a significant body of works. Many of those works were written for large orchestras and a significant number of pieces of chamber music were composed for a variety of instrument groupings, as well as for instrumental solos. Anyone interested in 20th-century music as well as British and Scottish Cathedral music will find a wealth of works listed with a description of each.

This volume begins with a brief biography of Leighton and is followed by an alphabetical listing of works and performances. Also included is a discography and a bibliography of articles, reviews, books, and dissertations. The last section is a chronological list of compositions. Smith helps us to realize that Kenneth Leighton was an extraordinary composer of 20th-century music with a varied body of works and also a virtuoso pianist of some note.

About Carolyn J. Smith

CAROLYN J. SMITH is the Music Bibliographer and Head of the Gifts Department at Texas A&M University Libraries. Her previous publications include ^IWilliam Walton: A Bio-Bibliogrpahy (Greenwood, 1988) and ^IPeter Maxwell Davies: A Bio-Bibliogrpahy (Greenwood, 1995).

Table of Contents

Preface Biography Works and First Performances Discography Bibliography Chronological List of Compositions Index

Additional information

NPB9780313305153
9780313305153
0313305153
Kenneth Leighton: A Bio-Bibliography by Carolyn J. Smith
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2004-11-15
248
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