Proceedings of the Musical Association; Volume 6
Proceedings of the Musical Association; Volume 6

Author: Musical Association (Great Britain)

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781022709508

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This book contains the proceedings of the Musical Association, a society dedicated to the study and promotion of music. It includes papers on various aspects of music, ranging from historical to theoretical, and provides a forum for scholars and practitioners to exchange ideas and information. The proceedings serve as an important resource for anyone interested in the study of music. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Chopin in Britain
Chopin in Britain

Author: Peter Willis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-14

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1317166868

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In 1848, the penultimate year of his life, Chopin visited England and Scotland at the instigation of his aristocratic Scots pupil, Jane Stirling. In the autumn of that year, he returned to Paris. The following autumn he was dead. Despite the fascination the composer continues to hold for scholars, this brief but important period, and his previous visit to London in 1837, remain little known. In this richly illustrated study, Peter Willis draws on extensive original documentary evidence, as well as cultural artefacts, to tell the story of these two visits and to place them into aristocratic and artistic life in mid-nineteenth-century England and Scotland. In addition to filling a significant hole in our knowledge of the composer’s life, the book adds to our understanding of a number of important figures, including Jane Stirling and the painter Ary Scheffer. The social and artistic milieux of London, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh are brought to vivid life.

Bulletin ...
Bulletin ...

Author: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)

Publisher:

Published: 1917

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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The Musical Thought and Spiritual Lives of Heinrich Schenker and Arnold Schoenberg
The Musical Thought and Spiritual Lives of Heinrich Schenker and Arnold Schoenberg

Author: Matthew Arndt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-11

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 135197579X

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This book examines the origin, content, and development of the musical thought of Heinrich Schenker and Arnold Schoenberg. One of the premises is that Schenker’s and Schoenberg’s inner musical lives are inseparable from their inner spiritual lives. Curiously, Schenker and Schoenberg start out in much the same musical-spiritual place, yet musically they split while spiritually they grow closer. The reception of Schenker’s and Schoenberg’s work has sidestepped this paradox of commonality and conflict, instead choosing to universalize and amplify their conflict. Bringing to light a trove of unpublished material, Arndt argues that Schenker’s and Schoenberg’s conflict is a reflection of tensions within their musical and spiritual ideas. They share a particular conception of the tone as an ideal sound realized in the spiritual eye of the genius. The tensions inherent in this largely psychological and material notion of the tone and this largely metaphysical notion of the genius shape both their musical divergence on the logical (technical) level in theory and composition, including their advocacy of the Ursatz versus twelvetone composition, and their spiritual convergence, including their embrace of Judaism. These findings shed new light on the musical and philosophical worlds of Schenker and Schoenberg and on the profound artistic and spiritual questions with which they grapple.