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Isham [Isum], John
(b c1680; d London, bur. 12 June 1726). English organist and composer. He served for some years as deputy organist for William Croft in London, and on 22 January 1711 was elected organist of St Anne’s, Soho, on Croft’s resignation. In July 1713 he graduated BMus at Oxford, and on 3 April 1718, in succession to Maurice Greene, he was elected organist of St Andrew’s, Holborn, with a stipend of £50 per annum, upon which he resigned his place at St Anne’s. Shortly afterwards he was chosen organist of St Margaret’s, Westminster, a post he held in conjunction with that at St Andrew’s until his death. In 1706 he and William Morley (who was also to take an Oxford BMus in 1713) published A Collection of New Songs (six of which are by Isham). One two-part song, Bury delights my roving eye, became so popular it was included by Hawkins in his History. Isham wrote at least ten other songs, which were published singly. The words of two anthems (O sing unto the Lord and Unto thee, O Lord) are included in Divine Harmony (London, 1712), the first Chapel Royal wordbook. His most substantial work is the ode O tuneful God and all ye Sacred Nine, which, though not actually identified as such, must have been his BMus exercise (score and parts in GB-Ob). A recently discovered receipt shows that, while organist of St Margaret's, he also copied music for Westminster Abbey.
HawkinsH
D. Hunter: English Opera and Song Books 1703–1726: their Contents, Publishing, Printing and Bibliographical Description (diss., U. of Illinois, 1989)
T. Trowles: The Musical Ode in Britain c.1670–1800 (diss., U. of Oxford, 1992)
H. DIACK JOHNSTONE
Issāq al-Mawsilā.
See al-Mawsilā, (2).
Ishchenko, Yury Yakovlevich
(b Kherson, 5 May 1938). Ukrainian composer. He graduated from Shtoharenko's class in the Kiev Conservatory (1960), and also undertook postgraduate work with him (1961–4). From 1964 he taught in the department of composition at the conservatory (from 1981 as senior lecturer and from 1991 as professor), lecturing on orchestration, the study of musical instruments, and taking composition classes. His students include the Ukrainian composers Zagaykevych, Ovcharenko and Runchak in addition to composers from Abkhazia, Lebanon, Mongolia, Russia and Vietnam. In 1969 he was a laureate of the All-Union young composers' competition, then in 1977 he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Science on the subject of the dramatic use of timbre in the symphonies of Lyatoshyns'ky. In 1991 he was awarded the title of Honoured Representative of the Arts of Ukraine. His work is broad and varied in terms of themes and genres; it leans on the traditions of Lyatoshyns'ky, Revuts'ky and Shostakovich.
WORKS
(selective list)
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Ops: Verochka (1, after A.P. Chekhov), 1971; Vodevil' [The Vaudeville] (2, 3 scenes, after A. P. Chekhov), 1990; Mï otdokhnyom [We Shall Rest] (4, after Chekhov: Dyadya Vanya [Uncle Vanya]), 1996
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5 syms.: 1963, 1968, 1971, 1976, 1985
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Other orch: Vc Conc. no.1, 1968; Vn Conc. no.1, 1970; Conc. Suite, fl, str orch, 1972; Zacharovana Desna [The Enchanted Desna], sym. poem after A. Dovzhenko, 1972; Conc., ob, pf, str orch, 1978; Sinfonietta, 1981; Vn Conc. no.2, 1981; Vc Conc. no.2, 1982; Prelude, Fugue, Chorale and Aria, chbr orch, 1985 [on a theme of DSCH]; Conc., hp, hpd, str orch, 1986; Little Partita no.2, vc, str orch, 1986; Vn Conc. no.3, 1986; Dar Vedelyu [A Gift to Vedel'], sym. poem, 1991; Lento doloroso, pf, str, 1994; Cl Conc., 1996; Topolya [The Poplar], sym. poem after T. Shevchenko, 1999
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Vocal: Chbr Cant. (M. Tsvetayeva), S, chbr orch, 1970; Kobzarevi dumy [Kobzar's Players Dumy] (chbr cant., Shevchenko), B, chbr orch, 1984; Sud'ba poėta [The Fate of the Poet] (chbr cant., A.S. Pushkin), T/Bar, chbr ens, 1987; U prosviti khmar [Into the Gaps in the Clouds] (cant., L. Kostenko), S, Mez, chorus, chbr orch, 1987; Chtob vïrvat'mïsl' iz kamennïkh ob' 'yatiy [In Order to Tear Away a Thought From the Embraces of Stone] (cant., Michelangelo), T, orch, 1988; Skorbotna maty [A Sorrowful Mother] (cant., P. Tïchina), S, chorus, children's chorus, orch, 1990; other vocal works incl.: song cycles (A. Akhmatova, A. Blok, J. Keats and K. Vala), romances and unacc. choral works
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7 str qts: 1967, 1968, 1973, 1981, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1997, 1997
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Other chbr and solo inst: Pf Sonata nos.1 and 2, 1962; Qnt, fl, ob, cl, bn, hn, 1969; Pf Sonata no.3, 1971; Qnt, 2 vn, va, vc, hp, 1974; Pf Sonata no.4, 1975; Pf Trio no.1, 1975; Pf Qt, 1977; Qt, cl, vn, vc, pf, 1981; Qt, fl, ob, bn, hn, 1982; Str Trio, 1982; Trio, 2 vn, va, 1984; Pf Trio no.2, 1986; Qt, ob, cl, bn, a sax, 1989; Pf Qnt, 1991; Sax Qt, 1994; Trio, vn, va, pf, 1994; Trio, 2 vn, vc, 1995; 24 Preludes, pf, 1996; Trio, fl, vc, pf, 1996; Pf Sonata no.5, 1999; 15 sonatas for 2 insts, works for 2 pf, solo org and many inst works for children
| WRITINGS
‘Pryntsypy melodiynikh dublyuvan' v orkestrovykh tvorakh B.M. Lyatoshyns'kogo’ [The principles of melodic doubling in the orchestral works of Lyatoshyns'ky], Ukraïns'ke muzykoznavstvo, v (1969), 40–49
‘Traktuvanny disonansu v orkestrovykh tvorakh B. Lyatoshyns'kogo’ [Interpretation of dissonance in the orchestral works of Lyatoshyns'ky], Ukraïns'ke muzykoznavstvo, vii (1972), 144–64
‘Tembrovi ekspozitsii v simfoniyakh B.M. Lyatoshyns'kogo’ [Timbre expositions in the symphonies of Lyatoshyns'ky], Ukraïns'ke muzykoznavstvo, x (1975), 3–11
‘Deyaki osoblyvosti formotvorchoï roli tembru v “Partizans'kikh kartinakh” dlya simfonichnogo orkestru i fortepiano A. Shtogarenka’ [Certain peculiarities in the shape-forming role of timbre in the ‘Partisan Pictures’ for symphony orchestra and piano by Shtoharenko], Tvorchist' A. Shtogarenka, ed. T. Kravtsova (Kiev, 1979), 182–97
‘Tembrove integruvannya v orkestrovykh tvorakh M.I. Glinki’ [Timbre integration in the orchestral works of Glinka], Ukraïns'ke muzykoznavstvo, xviii (1983), 80–93
‘O Borise Nikolayeviche Lyatoshinskom’ [On Lyatoshyns'ky], Boris Lyatoshinskiy: vospominaniya, pis'ma, materialï, ed. L.N. Grisenko and N.I. Matusevich, i (Kiev, 1985), 73–7
BIBLIOGRAPHY
G. Kon'kova: Yury Ishchenko (Kiev, 1975)
Ye. Zin'kevich: ‘Yury Ishchenko’, Kompozitorï soyuznïkh respublik, ed. M.I. Nest'yeva, ii (Moscow, 1977), 117–60
Ye. Zin'kevich: Dinamika obnovleniya [The dynamics of renewal] (Kiev, 1986) [incl. pp.40–55 on the third symphony]
YELENA ZIN'KEVICH
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