New Mozart Documents
Author: Cliff Eisen
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780804719551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Stanford University Press classic.
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Free Composition
Author: Heinrich Schenker
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781576470749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first two volumes of Heinrich Schenker's masterwork Neue musikalische Theorien und Phantasien, Harmonielehren (1906), and Kontrapunkt (1910 and 1922), laid the foundations for the harmonic aspect of his theory. The specific voice-leading component was a later development, progressing with brilliance over the last 15 years of his life. It is in Free Composition (Freie Satz, 1935) that the idea of voice-leading receives its most detailed and precise formulation. Pendragon Press is honored to make this distinguished reprint available once again, with a new preface by Carl Schacter.
Thorough-bass Accompaniment According to Johann David Heinichen
Author: George J. Buelow
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1966-01-01
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780803261068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohann David Heinichen (1683-1729) was a distinguished composer, a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, and Cappellmeister at the court of August I in Dresden. His tratise, Der General-Bass in der Composition, is one of the most comprehensive sources for the late Baroque practice of figured-bass, or thorough-bass, accompaniment. It is a fund of information about many complex problems confronting musicians in the performance and interpretation of Baroque music, including meters, embellishments, dissonance, particular complications for recitative, and use of the figured bass. With a judicious combination of translation, interpretation, and commentary George J. Buelow makes Heinichen's famous treatise accessible for contemporary scholars and performers. Buelow provides translations of key sections of the treatise, explains its historical significance, clarifies Heinichen's obscurities, and relates the treatise to other musical theories and practices of the Baroque, including those of Gasparini, Mattheson, and the Bachs. Buelow, one of the world's premier experts on Baroque music, is a professor of musicology at Indiana University.
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Music
Author: John Smith
Publisher:
Published: 1853
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKContinuo Playing According to Handel
Author: George Frideric Handel
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780193184336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an edition, with commentary, of Handel's exercises for continuo playing, which he wrote for the daughters of George II. The exercises, which until now have not been readily available, are supplemented by clear and concise commentary. Remaining faithful to his source, Ledbetter, who lectures in keyboard studies, has prepared an edition that will prove invaluable to students and performers of the music of Handel and his contemporaries.
The Science of Music in Britain, 1714-1830
Author: Jamie Croy Kassler
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub.
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 744
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFantasies of Improvisation
Author: Dana Gooley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 019063359X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first history of keyboard improvisation in European music in the postclassical and romantic periods, Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century Music documents practices of improvisation on the piano and the organ, with a particular emphasis on free fantasies and other forms of free playing. Case studies of performers such as Abbé Vogler, J. N. Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles, Robert Schumann, Carl Loewe, and Franz Liszt describe in detail the motives, intentions, and musical styles of the nineteenth century's leading improvisers. Grounded in primary sources, the book further discusses the reception and valuation of improvisational performances by colleagues, audiences, and critics, which prompted many keyboardists to stop improvising. Author Dana Gooley argues that amidst the decline of improvisational practices in the first half of the nineteenth century there emerged a strong and influential "idea" of improvisation as an ideal or perfect performance. This idea, spawned and nourished by romanticism, preserved the aesthetic, social, and ethical values associated with improvisation, calling into question the supposed triumph of the "work."
Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment
Author: Thomas Christensen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-12-16
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 052161709X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Ranging widely over the musical and intellectual thought of the eighteenth century, Thomas Christensen orients Rameau's accomplishments in the light of contemporaneous traditions of music theory as well as many of the scientific ideas current in the French Enlightenment. Rameau is revealed to be an unsuspectedly syncretic and sophisticated thinker, betraying influences ranging from neoplatonic thought and Cartesian mechanistic metaphysics to Locke's empirical psychology and Newtonian experimental science. Additional primary documents and manuscripts (many revealed here for the first time) help clarify Rameau's fascinating and stormy relationship with the Encyclopedists: Diderot, Rousseau, and d'Alembert." "This book will be of value to all music theorists concerned with the foundations of harmonic tonality and it should also be of interest to scholars of eighteenth-century science, the Enlightenment, and the general history of ideas."--BOOK JACKET.
