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The Cambridge Companion to Brahms

Author : Michael Musgrave

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 352 pages

File Size : 37,30 MB

Release : 1999-05-27

Category : Music

ISBN : 1139825305

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This Companion gives a comprehensive view of the German composer Johannes Brahms (1833–97). Twelve specially-commissioned chapters by leading scholars and musicians provide systematic coverage of the composer's life and works. Their essays represent recent research and reflect changing attitudes towards a composer whose public image has long been out-of-date. The first part of the book contains three chapters on Brahms's early life in Hamburg and on the middle and later years in Vienna. The central section considers the musical works in all genres, while the last part of the book offers personal accounts and responses from a conductor (Roger Norrington), a composer (Hugh Wood), and an editor of Brahms's original manuscripts (Robert Pascall). The volume as a whole is an important addition to Brahms scholarship and provides indispensable information for all students and enthusiasts of Brahms's music.



The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven

Author : Glenn Stanley

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 268 pages

File Size : 42,32 MB

Release : 2000-05-11

Category : Music

ISBN : 1107494044

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This Companion, first published in 2000, provides a comprehensive view of Beethoven and his work. The first part of the book presents the composer as a private individual, as a professional, and at the work-place, discussing biographical problems, Beethoven's professional activities when not composing and his methods as a composer. In the heart of the book, individual chapters are devoted to all the major genres cultivated by Beethoven and to the elements of style and structure that cross all genres. The book concludes by looking at the ways that Beethoven and his music have been interpreted by performers, writers on music, and in the arts, literature, and philosophy. The essays in this volume, written by leading Beethoven specialists, maintain traditional emphases in Beethoven studies while incorporating other developments in musicology and theory.



The Cambridge Companion to the Lied

Author : James Parsons

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 446 pages

File Size : 47,59 MB

Release : 2004-07

Category : Music

ISBN : 9780521804714

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Beginning several generations before Schubert, the Lied first appears as domestic entertainment. In the century that follows it becomes one of the primary modes of music-making. By the time German song comes to its presumed conclusion with Richard Strauss's 1948 Vier letzte Lieder, this rich repertoire has moved beyond the home and keyboard accompaniment to the symphony hall. This is a 2004 introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre. In essays by eminent scholars, this Companion places the Lied in its full context - at once musical, literary, and cultural - with chapters devoted to focal composers as well as important issues, such as the way in which the Lied influenced other musical genres, its use as a musical commodity, and issues of performance. The volume is framed by a detailed chronology of German music and poetry from the late 1730s to the present and also contains a comprehensive bibliography.



The Cambridge Companion to Bach

Author : John Butt

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 348 pages

File Size : 50,16 MB

Release : 1997-06-26

Category : Music

ISBN : 9780521587808

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The Cambridge Companion to Bach, first published in 1997, goes beyond a basic life-and-works study to provide a late twentieth-century perspective on J. S. Bach the man and composer. The book is divided into three parts. Part One is concerned with the historical context, the society, beliefs and the world-view of Bach's age. The second part discusses the music and Bach's compositional style, while Part Three considers Bach's influence and the performance and reception of his music through the succeeding generations. This Companion benefits from the insights and research of some of the most distinguished Bach scholars, and from it the reader will gain a notion of the diversity of current thought on this great composer.



The Cambridge Companion to Mendelssohn

Author : Peter Mercer-Taylor

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 13,97 MB

Release : 2004-10-21

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780521533423

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Book Description

This book surveys the life, work, and posthumous reception of nineteenth-century German-Jewish composer Felix Mendelssohn.



The Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra

Author : Colin James Lawson

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 316 pages

File Size : 17,67 MB

Release : 2003-04-24

Category : Music

ISBN : 9780521001328

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Book Description

This guide to the orchestra and orchestral life is unique in its breadth of coverage. It combinesorchestral history and repertory with a practical bias offering critical thought about the past, present and future of the orchestra. Including topics such as the art of orchestration, scorereading, conducting, international orchestras, recording, as well as consideration of what it means to be an orchestral musician, an educator, or an informed listener, it will be of interest to a wideranging readership of music historians and professional or amateur performers.



Brahms: A German Requiem

Author : Michael Musgrave

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 116 pages

File Size : 25,96 MB

Release : 1996-10-28

Category : Music

ISBN : 9780521409957

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A detailed study examining The German Requiem, Brahms's controversial, and his largest, masterpiece.



Performing Brahms

Author : Michael Musgrave

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 436 pages

File Size : 45,88 MB

Release : 2003-10-02

Category : Music

ISBN : 9780521652735

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A great deal of evidence survives about how Brahms and his contemporaries performed his music. But much of this evidence - found in letters, autograph scores, treatises, publications, recordings, and more - has been hard to access, both for musicians and for scholars. This book brings the most important evidence together into one volume. It also includes discussions by leading Brahms scholars of the many issues raised by the evidence. The period spanned by the life of Brahms and the following generation saw a crucial transition in performance style. As a result, modern performance practices differ significantly from those of Brahms's time. By exploring the musical styles and habits of Brahms's era, this book will help musicians and scholars understand Brahms's music better and bring fresh ideas to present-day performance. The value of the book is greatly enhanced by the accompanying CD of historic recordings - including a performance by Brahms himself.



The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony

Author : Julian Horton

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 469 pages

File Size : 15,13 MB

Release : 2013-05-02

Category : Music

ISBN : 1107469708

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Few genres of the last 250 years have proved so crucial to the course of music history, or so vital to public musical experience, as the symphony. This Companion offers an accessible guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding this major genre of Western music, discussing an extensive variety of works from the eighteenth century to the present day. The book complements a detailed review of the symphony's history with focused analytical essays from leading scholars on the symphonic music of both mainstream composers, including Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven and lesser-known figures, including Carter, Berio and Maxwell Davies. With chapters on a comprehensive range of topics, from the symphony's origins to the politics of its reception in the twentieth century, this is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the history, analysis and performance of the symphonic repertoire.



The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet

Author : Robin Stowell

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 394 pages

File Size : 18,66 MB

Release : 2003-11-13

Category : Music

ISBN : 9780521000420

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This Companion offers a concise and authoritative survey of the string quartet by eleven chamber music specialists. Its fifteen carefully structured chapters provide coverage of a stimulating range of perspectives previously unavailable in one volume. It focuses on four main areas: the social and musical background to the quartet's development; the most celebrated ensembles; string quartet playing, including aspects of contemporary and historical performing practice; and the mainstream repertory, including significant 'mixed ensemble' compositions involving string quartet. Various musical and pictorial illustrations and informative appendixes, including a chronology of the most significant works, complete this indispensable guide. Written for all string quartet enthusiasts, this Companion will enrich readers' understanding of the history of the genre, the context and significance of quartets as cultural phenomena, and the musical, technical and interpretative problems of chamber music performance. It will also enhance their experience of listening to quartets in performance and on recordings.