Author : Caryl Leslie Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 2005-11-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521833479
An introduction to the musical work and cultural world of Joseph Haydn.
Author : Julian Horton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 39,91 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521884985
A comprehensive guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding one of the major genres of Western music.
Author : Glenn Stanley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107494044
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.
Author : Robin Stowell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 34,89 MB
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139826549
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.
Author : Mary Kathleen Hunter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107015146
Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation: this book explores fresh approaches to his music and the cultural forces affecting it.
Author : Edward Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316194132
Duke Ellington is widely held to be the greatest jazz composer and one of the most significant cultural icons of the twentieth century. This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to survey, in depth, Ellington's career, music, and place in popular culture. An international cast of authors includes renowned scholars, critics, composers, and jazz musicians. Organized in three parts, the Companion first sets Ellington's life and work in context, providing new information about his formative years, method of composing, interactions with other musicians, and activities abroad; its second part gives a complete artistic biography of Ellington; and the final section is a series of specific musical studies, including chapters on Ellington and song-writing, the jazz piano, descriptive music, and the blues. Featuring a chronology of the composer's life and major recordings, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Ellington's enduring artistic legacy.
Author : Nicholas Temperley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 16,87 MB
Release : 1991-05-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521378659
Haydn's Creation is one of the great masterpieces of the classical period. In this absorbing and original account the author places the work within the oratorio tradition, contrasting the theological and literary character of the English libretto with the Viennese milieu of the first performances. The complete text is provided in both English and German versions as a reference point for discussion of the design of the work and the musical treatment of the words. A more detailed musical chapter examines the work through the movement types it employs - arias and ensembles, recitative and choruses - distinguishing the Handelian model from Haydn's own classical idiom. Nicholas Temperley also discusses the changing performance traditions of this work, surveys the critical reception throughout its history and quotes from the most signifcant critical literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author : Nicholas Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 48,71 MB
Release : 2009-11-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521865824
Featuring fascinating accounts from practitioners, this Companion examines how developments in recording have transformed musical culture.
Author : W. Dean Sutcliffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,84 MB
Release : 1998-10-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521580526
The advances in Haydn scholarship would have been unthinkable to earlier generations, who honoured the composer more in word than in deed. Haydn Studies deals with many aspects of a composer who is perennially fresh, concentrating principally on matters of reception, style and aesthetics and presenting many interesting readings of the composer's work. Haydn has never played a major role in accounts of cultural history and has never achieved the emblematic status accorded to composers such as Beethoven, Debussy and Stravinsky, in spite of his radical creative agenda: this volume broadens the base of our understanding of the composer.
Author : James Parsons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 2004-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521804714
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.
