The key to Beethoven : connecting tonality and meaning in his music
Author : Paul Martin Ellison
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Tonality
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Author : Paul Martin Ellison
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Tonality
ISBN :
Author : Paul M. Ellison
Publisher : North American Beethoven Studi
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781576472026
Frontcover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Beethoven and the Background to Key Symbolism -- 2 Beethoven and Meaning in Primary Keys -- 3 Beethoven and Meaning in Secondary Keys -- 4 Songs and the Affective Implications of Primary Tonality -- 5 Songs Containing Significant Affective Modulations -- 6 Songs Containing Affective Modulations to More Distant Keys -- 7 Vocal and Choral Music with Orchestra: 299 Five Case Studies -- 8 The Tempest Sonata: An Instrumental Case Study -- Conclusion: A Key to Beethoven -- Select Bibliography
Author : Jan Swafford
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 1107 pages
File Size : 44,11 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 : Matthew Guerrieri
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 0804170193
A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012 A New Yorker Best Book of the Year Los Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the Year This revelatory book of music history examines what is perhaps the best known and most-popular symphony ever written—and its famous four-note opening. Reaching back before Beethoven’s time, Matthew Guerrieri uncovers premonitions of the opening notes in the rhythms of ancient Greek poetry and the music of the French Revolution. He discusses the Fifth’s impact when it premiered, tracing the artistic, philosophical, and political reverberations across Europe to China, Russia, and the United States, from Romanticism to ring tones, from propaganda to pop. This fascinating piece of musical detective work is a treat for music lovers of every stripe.
Author : Alessandra Comini
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 2008
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ISBN : 0865346615
In this unique study of the myth-making process across two centuries, Comini examines the contradictory imagery of Beethoven in contemporary verbal accounts, and in some 200 paintings, prints, sculptures, and monuments.
Author : Harvey Sachs
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812969073
The premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year—and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compositions in the history of music. Described in vibrant detail by eminent musicologist Harvey Sachs, this symbol of freedom and joy was so unorthodox that it amazed and confused listeners at its unveiling—yet it became a standard for subsequent generations of creative artists, and its composer came to embody the Romantic cult of genius. In this unconventional, provocative book, Beethoven’s masterwork becomes a prism through which we may view the politics, aesthetics, and overall climate of the era. Part biography, part history, part memoir, The Ninth brilliantly explores the intricacies of Beethoven’s last symphony—how it brought forth the power of the individual while celebrating the collective spirit of humanity.
Author : Bruce Edward Clausen
Publisher :
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 22,96 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : William Kinderman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 2009-04-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198043953
Combining musical insight with the most recent research, William Kinderman's Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music. Kinderman traces the composer's intellectual and musical development from the early works written in Bonn to the Ninth Symphony and the late quartets, looking at compositions from different and original perspectives that show Beethoven's art as a union of sensuous and rational, of expression and structure. In analyses of individual pieces, Kinderman shows that the deepening of Beethoven's musical thought was a continuous process over decades of his life. In this new updated edition, Kinderman gives more attention to the composer's early chamber music, his songs, his opera Fidelio, and to a number of often-neglected works of the composer's later years and fascinating projects left incomplete. A revised view emerges from this of Beethoven's aesthetics and the musical meaning of his works. Rather than the conventional image of a heroic and tormented figure, Kinderman provides a more complex, more fully rounded account of the composer. Although Beethoven's deafness and his other personal crises are addressed, together with this ever-increasing commitment to his art, so too are the lighter aspects of his personality: his humor, his love of puns, his great delight in juxtaposing the exalted and the commonplace.
Author : Jeremy Yudkin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Music
ISBN : 1580469930
Marking the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, this volume presents twenty-one completely new essays on aspects of Beethoven's personal life, his composing process, his manuscripts, and his greatest works.
Author : Max Graf
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 1473384095
A fascinating book for any fan of classical music and the composers that have created some of the most marvelous symphonies, but how did certain people create these quantum leaps in music single handedly? With this classic text discover how people thought the mind of a musical genius worked.