Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : George Grove
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385474299
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486299242
Especially notable for the final movement's glorious chorale setting of Schiller's Ode to Joy, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is reproduced here in full in a convenient size for study.
Author : Claude Debussy
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486244415
Complete scores of three orchestral favorites by vastly influential modern composer. Innovation, texture, shimmering impressionism. Reprinted from early French editions. New Contents, Glossary of French musical terms.
Author : Jan Swafford
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 1992-12-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0679728058
The most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music -- from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, and beyond. The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is a lively -- and opinionated -- musical history and an insider's key to the personalities, epochs, and genres of the Western classical tradition. Among its features: -- chronologically arranged essays on nearly 100 composers, from Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) to Aaron Copland (1900-1990), that combine biography with detailed analyses of the major works while assessing their role in the social, cultural, and political climate of their times; -- informative sidebars that clarify broader topics such as melody, polyphony, atonality, and the impact of the early-music movement; -- a glossary of musical terms, from a cappella to woodwinds; -- a step-by-step guide to building a great classical music library. Written with wit and a clarity that both musical experts and beginners can appreciate, The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is an invaluable source-book for music lovers everywhere.
Author : Nicholas Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 1993-06-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521399241
Nicholas Cook's guide charts the dramatic transformation in the reception of Symphony No. 9.
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Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 1997-06
Category :
ISBN : 9780739009901
This nicely filled-out arrangement of the famous theme from Beethoven's 9th Symphony is especially appropriate as a performance piece for an intermediate level pianist, featuring elements of the symphonic work intertwined with the theme. It is presented in D major, has a wide keyboard range, and nice extremes in dynamics.
Author : Martin Geck
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 2017-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 022645388X
In the years spanning from 1800 to 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven completed nine symphonies, now considered among the greatest masterpieces of Western music. Yet despite the fact that this time period, located in the wake of the Enlightenment and at the peak of romanticism, was one of rich intellectual exploration and social change, the influence of such threads of thought on Beethoven’s work has until now remained hidden beneath the surface of the notes. Beethoven’s Symphonies presents a fresh look at the great composer’s approach and the ideas that moved him, offering a lively account of the major themes unifying his radically diverse output. Martin Geck opens the book with an enthralling series of cultural, political, and musical motifs that run throughout the symphonies. A leading theme is Beethoven’s intense intellectual and emotional engagement with the figure of Napoleon, an engagement that survived even Beethoven’s disappointment with Napoleon’s decision to be crowned emperor in 1804. Geck also delves into the unique ways in which Beethoven approached beginnings and finales in his symphonies, as well as his innovative use of particular instruments. He then turns to the individual symphonies, tracing elements—a pitch, a chord, a musical theme—that offer a new way of thinking about each work and will make even the most devoted fans of Beethoven admire the symphonies anew. Offering refreshingly inventive readings of the work of one of history’s greatest composers, this book shapes a fascinating picture of the symphonies as a cohesive oeuvre and of Beethoven as a master symphonist.
Author : Jan Swafford
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 1107 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 061805474X
The definitive book on the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, written by the acclaimed biographer of Brahms and Ives.
Author : Ludwig van Beethoven
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Page : pages
File Size : 19,49 MB
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Author : Jan Swafford
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,9 MB
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780465097548
A preeminent composer, music scholar, and biographer presents an engaging and accessible introduction to classical music For many of us, classical music is something serious--something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at fancy gatherings. In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible to all. Ranging from Gregorian chant to Handel's Messiah, from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons to the postmodern work of Philip Glass, Swafford is an affable and expert guide to the genre. He traces the history of Western music, introduces readers to the most important composers and compositions, and explains the underlying structure and logic of their music. Language of the Spirit is essential reading for anyone who has ever wished to know more about this sublime art.