Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521001922
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Author : Gerald Abraham
Publisher :
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 1956
Category :
ISBN : 9780571065059
Author : Howard Chandler Robbins Landon
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 1956
Category :
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Author : Glenn Stanley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,70 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 : Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,11 MB
Release : 1991-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 0374522987
In this definitive biography, Wolfgang Hildesheimer demythologizes Mozart, revealing him as a flawed and puzzling human being, but a matchless artist. Hildesheimer's fresh approach to the music itself, his telling quotations from Mozart's letters (Mozart was one of the greatest and most outrageous of letter writers), and his sympathetic but unsentimental insights make this a remarkably readable portrait of one of the most popular composers of all time. Book jacket.
Author : Arthur Hutchings
Publisher :
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Concerto (Piano)
ISBN : 9780198167082
Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2005-10-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521834834
A rare volume dedicated entirely to scholarship on the genre of the concerto.
Author : Julian Horton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 42,60 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 : John Butt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 1997-06-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521587808
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.
Author : Peter Bloom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 2000-08-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107494060
Still chiefly known as the extravagant composer of the Symphonie fantastique, Berlioz was an artist caught in the crossfire between the academic classicism of the French musical establishment and the romantic modernism of the Parisian musical scene. He was a thinker in an age that invented both the religion of art and the notion of the 'genius' who preached and practised it. This Companion contains essays by eminent scholars on Berlioz's place in nineteenth-century French cultural life, on his principal compositions (symphonies, overtures, operas, sacred works, songs), on his major writings (a delightful volume of memoires, a number of short stories, large quantities of music criticism, an orchestration treatise), on his direct and indirect encounters with other famous musicians (Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner), and on his legacy in France. The volume is framed by a detailed chronology of his life and a usefully annotated bibliography.
