The Age of Beethoven, 1790-1830
The Age of Beethoven, 1790-1830

Author: Gerald Abraham

Publisher:

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 774

ISBN-13: 9780193163089

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Covers forty years which saw profound changes in music, most of them dominated by Beethoven. Provides a detailed, scholarly critical survey of the music of the period with chapters on French, Italian and German opera and on opera in other countries, on Beethoven's orchestral and chamber music and of his contemporaries on the concerto, on piano music, on solo song and on choral music, as well as an introductory chapter on general musical conditions of the time.

The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini
The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini

Author: Nicholas Mathew

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 0521768055

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Leading scholars re-evaluate the opposition between Beethoven and Rossini, the great symbolic duo of early nineteenth-century music.

Beethoven 1806
Beethoven 1806

Author: Mark Ferraguto

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-08-27

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0190947209

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Between early 1806 and early 1807, Ludwig van Beethoven completed a remarkable series of instrumental works. But critics have struggled to reconcile the music of this banner year with Beethoven's "heroic style," the paradigm through which his middle-period works have typically been understood. Drawing on theories of mediation and a wealth of primary sources, Beethoven 1806 explores the specific contexts in which the music of this year was conceived, composed, and heard. As author Mark Ferraguto argues, understanding this music depends on appreciating the relationships that it both creates and reflects. Not only did Beethoven depend on patrons, performers, publishers, critics, and audiences to earn a living, but he also tailored his compositions to suit particular sensibilities, proclivities, and technologies.

Sourcebook for Research in Music
Sourcebook for Research in Music

Author: Phillip Crabtree

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780253213235

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This bibliography of bibliographies lists and describes sources, from basic references to highly specialized materials. Valuable as a classroom text and as a research tool for scholars, librarians, performers, and teachers.

Choral Music
Choral Music

Author: James Michael Floyd

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 0429012632

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Choral Music: A Research and Information Guide, Third Edition, offers a comprehensive guide to the literature on choral music in the Western tradition. Clearly annotated bibliographic entries guide readers to resources on key topics within choral music, individual choral composers, regional and sacred choral traditions, choral techniques, choral music education, genre studies, and more, providing an essential reference for researchers and practitioners. Covering monographs, bibliographies, selected dissertations, reference works, journals, electronic databases, and websites, this research guide makes it easy to locate relevant sources. Comprehensive indices of authors, titles, and subjects keep the volume user-friendly. The new edition has been brought up to date with entries encompassing the latest scholarship, and updated references and annotations throughout, capturing the continued growth of literature on choral music since the publication of the second edition.

A Companion to European Romanticism
A Companion to European Romanticism

Author: Michael Ferber

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 1405154535

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This companion is the first book of its kind to focus on the whole of European Romanticism. Describes the way in which the Romantic Movement swept across Europe in the early nineteenth century. Covers the national literatures of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and Spain. Addresses common themes that cross national borders, such as orientalism, Napoleon, night, nature, and the prestige of the fragment. Includes cross-disciplinary essays on literature and music, literature and painting, and the general system of Romantic arts. Features 35 essays in all, from leading scholars in America, Australia, Britain, France, Italy, and Switzerland.

Music, Performance, Meaning
Music, Performance, Meaning

Author: Nicholas Cook

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 135155705X

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This selection of sixteen of Nicholas Cook's essays covers the period from 1987 to 2004 and brings out the development of the author's ideas over these years. In particular the two keywords of the title -Meaning and Performance- represent critical directions that expand to the point that, by the end of the book, they become coextensive: music is seen as social action and meaning as created by that action. Within this overall direction, a wide variety of topics is explored, ranging from Beethoven to Schenker, from Chinese qin music to jazz and rock, from perceptual psychology to sketch studies and analysis of record sleeves. A substantial introduction draws out the links (and differences) between the essays, sometimes critiquing them and always setting them into the developing context of the author's work as a whole.

2000 Lectures and Memoirs
2000 Lectures and Memoirs

Author: British Academy

Publisher: Proceedings of the British Aca

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 736

ISBN-13: 9780197262597

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Volume 111 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 12 British Academy lectures and 17 obituaries of Fellows of the British Academy.

National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume II
National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume II

Author: Michael C. Tusa

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1351915827

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This volume offers a cross-section of English-language scholarship on German and Slavonic operatic repertories of the "long nineteenth century," giving particular emphasis to four areas: German opera in the first half of the nineteenth century; the works of Richard Wagner after 1848; Russian opera between Glinka and Rimsky-Korsakov; and the operas of Richard Strauss and Janácek. The essays reflect diverse methods, ranging from stylistic, philological, and historical approaches to those rooted in hermeneutics, critical theory, and post-modernist inquiry.

Reader's Guide to Music
Reader's Guide to Music

Author: Murray Steib

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-02

Total Pages: 2624

ISBN-13: 1135942692

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The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).