Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven
Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven

Author: Adolf Bernhard Marx

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-12-04

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0521452740

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A. B. Marx was one of the most important German music theorists of his time. Drawing on idealist aesthetics and the ideology of Bildung, he developed a holistic pedagogical method as well as a theory of musical form that gives pride of place to Beethoven. This volume offers a generous selection of the most salient of his writings, the majority presented here in English for the first time. It features Marx's oft-cited but little understood material on sonata form, his progressive program for compositional pedagogy and his detailed critical analysis of Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony. These writings thus deal with issues that fall directly among the concerns of mainstream theory and analysis in the last two centuries: the relation of form and content, the analysis of instrumental music, the role of pedagogy in music theory, and the nature of musical understanding.

The Virtuoso Conductors
The Virtuoso Conductors

Author: Raymond Holden

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780300093261

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An expert's guide to the skills of the greatest conductors

The Creation of Beethoven's 35 Piano Sonatas
The Creation of Beethoven's 35 Piano Sonatas

Author: Barry Cooper

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-04-05

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1317037081

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Beethoven’s piano sonatas are a cornerstone of the piano repertoire and favourites of both the concert hall and recording studio. The sonatas have been the subject of much scholarship, but no single study gives an adequate account of the processes by which these sonatas were composed and published. With source materials such as sketches and correspondence increasingly available, the time is ripe for a close study of the history of these works. Barry Cooper, who in 2007 produced a new edition of all 35 sonatas, including three that are often overlooked, examines each sonata in turn, addressing questions such as: Why were they written? Why did they turn out as they did? How did they come into being and how did they reach their final form? Drawing on the composer’s sketches, autograph scores and early printed editions, as well as contextual material such as correspondence, Cooper explores the links between the notes and symbols found in the musical texts of the sonatas, and the environment that brought them about. The result is a biography not of the composer, but of the works themselves.