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Author: Jürgen Thym
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1580464742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines Mendelssohn's relationship to the past, shedding light on the construction of historical legacies that, in some cases, served to assert German cultural supremacy only two decades after the composer's death.
Author: R. Larry Todd
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-10-23
Total Pages: 748
ISBN-13: 9780195110432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor. Now, in the first major Mendelssohn biography to appear in decades, Todd offers a remarkably fresh account of this musical giant.
Author: Siegwart Reichwald
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008-09-25
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0253002613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring many aspects of Felix Mendelssohn's multi-faceted career as musician and how it intersects with his work as composer, contributors discuss practical issues of music making such as performance space, instruments, tempo markings, dynamics, phrasings, articulations, fingerings, and instrument techniques. They present the conceptual and ideological underpinnings of Mendelssohn's approach to performance, interpretation, and composing through the contextualization of specific performance events and through the theoretic actualization of performances of specific works. Contributors rely on manuscripts, marked or edited scores, and performance parts to convey a deeper understanding of musical expression in 19th-century Germany. This study of Mendelssohn's work as conductor, pianist, organist, violist, accompanist, music director, and editor of old and new music offers valuable perspectives on 19th-century performance practice issues.
Author: John Michael Cooper
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780198167235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince about 1970 there has been a veritable renaissance in scholarship and performances concerning the works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Fanny Hensel. The essays in this book, presenting the findings of three generations of members of the international community of Mendelssohn/Hensel scholars, constitute a compendium of cutting-edge research relating to these two important representatives of nineteenth-century musical culture.
Author: R. Larry Todd
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-11-25
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 0199884528
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGranddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847) was an extraordinary musician who left well over four hundred compositions, most of which fell into oblivion until their rediscovery late in the twentieth century. In Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn, R. Larry Todd offers a compelling, authoritative account of Hensel's life and music, and her struggle to emerge as a publicly recognized composer.
Author: Benedict Taylor Ph.D.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-04-15
Total Pages: 539
ISBN-13: 0190611804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs one of the foremost composers, conductors, and pianists of the nineteenth century, Felix Mendelssohn played a fundamental role in the shaping of modern musical tastes through his contributions to the early music revival and the formation of the Austro-German musical canon. His career allows for a remarkable meeting point for critical engagement with a host of crucial issues in the last two centuries of music history, including the relation between musical meaning and social function, programmatic and absolute music, notions of classicism and Romanticism, modernism and historicism. It also serves as a pertinent case-study of the roles political ideology, racism, and musical ignorance may play in creating and perpetuating a composer's posthumous reception. Fittingly, Rethinking Mendelssohn focuses on critical engagement with the composer's music and aesthetics, and on the interpretation of his works in relation to contemporaneous culture. Building on the renaissance in Mendelssohn scholarship of the last two decades, Rethinking Mendelssohn sets a fresh and exciting tone for research on the composer. Opening new ways of understanding Mendelssohn and setting the future direction of Mendelssohn studies, the contributing scholars pay particular attention to Mendelssohn's contested views on the relationship between art and religion, analysis of Mendelssohn's instrumental music in the wake of recent controversies in Formenlehre, and the burgeoning interest in his previously neglected contribution to the German song.
Author: Wm. A. Little
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-06-10
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 0199741832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMendelssohn and the Organ is the first comprehensive historical-critical study in any language to examine the role of the organ in Mendelssohn's personal and professional career. It examines his entire oeuvre for the instrument, including the Berlin-Krakow manuscripts, and presents for the first time Mendelssohn's complete correspondence with his English publisher, Charles Coventry.
Author: Colin Hand
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781840035698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sylvia Woods
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Published: 2014-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780936661506
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Harp). Felix Mendelssohn composed the "Wedding March" in 1842 as a part of his suite for Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream . It is most commonly played as a wedding recessional. This sheet music includes two harp arrangements. The first is for intermediate to advanced lever harp players, or pedal harpists. The second is a bit easier. It can be played on small harps with 22 or more strings, from C to C.
