Guide to Chamber Music
Guide to Chamber Music

Author: Melvin Berger

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 0486316726

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Authoritative guide presents 231 of the most frequently performed pieces by 55 composers. A must for music lovers and musicians alike. "No lover of chamber music should be without this Guide." — John Barkham Reviews.

Chamber Music
Chamber Music

Author: James M. Keller

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 019020639X

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Chamber Music: A Listener's Guide brings together acclaimed program annotator James Keller's essays on the essential chamber-music repertoire. Written to be meaningful to non-professional music-lovers while also providing enrichment for chamber-music professionals, these notes offer generous historical background for 193 works by 56 composers from the 18th century to the present.

Mendelssohn, Time and Memory
Mendelssohn, Time and Memory

Author: Benedict Taylor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-10-27

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139501364

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Felix Mendelssohn has long been viewed as one of the most historically minded composers in western music. This book explores the conceptions of time, memory and history found in his instrumental compositions, presenting an intriguing new perspective on his ever-popular music. Focusing on Mendelssohn's innovative development of cyclic form, Taylor investigates how the composer was influenced by the aesthetic and philosophical movements of the period. This is of key importance not only for reconsideration of Mendelssohn's work and its position in nineteenth-century culture, but also more generally concerning the relationship between music, time and subjectivity. One of very few detailed accounts of Mendelssohn's music, the study presents a new and provocative reading of the meaning of the composer's work by connecting it to wider cultural and philosophical ideas.