Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 44
Author: Max Bruch
Publisher: Alfred Music
Published:
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9781457485749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Violin solo with Piano Accompaniment composed by Max Bruch.
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The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto
Author: Simon P. Keefe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-10-27
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780521834834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rare volume dedicated entirely to scholarship on the genre of the concerto.
Dvořák
Author: Kurt Honolka
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781904341529
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Berg: Violin Concerto
Author: Anthony Pople
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-06-24
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780521399760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribed by Aaron Copland as 'among the finest creations in the modern repertoire', Alban Berg's Violin Concerto has become a twentieth-century classic. In this authoritative and highly readable guide to the work the reader is introduced not only to the concerto itself but to all that surrounded and determined its composition. This is a book about musical culture in the 1930s, about the Second Viennese School, about tonality, atonality and serialism, about Berg's own musical development, compositional method and the private significance the Violin Concerto held for him. The book describes the genesis of the work, its performance history and critical reception and, in two detailed musical chapters, provides a section-by-section account of the book and a closer analysis of the musical language and structure. Anthony Pople's ability to combine musical anecdote with scholarly discussion makes this guide compelling reading for the amateur and the specialist alike.
Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Author: Stephen Downes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-05-30
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0429837410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a wide-ranging study of sentimentalism’s significance for styles, practices and meanings of music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a series of interpretations scrutinizes musical expressions of sympathetic responses to suffering and the longing to belong. The book challenges hierarchies of artistic value and the associated denigration of sentimental feeling in gendered discourses. Fresh insights are thereby developed into sentimentalism’s place in musical constructions of emotion, taste, genre, gender, desire, and authenticity. The contexts encompass diverse musical communities, performing spaces, and listening practices, including the nineteenth-century salon and concert hall, the cinema, the intimate stage persona of the singer-songwriter, and the homely ambiguities of ‘easy’ listening. Interdisciplinary insights inform discussions of musical form, affect, appropriation, nationalisms, psychologies, eco-sentimentalism, humanitarianism, consumerism, and subject positions, with a particular emphasis on masculine sentimentalities. Music is drawn from violin repertory associated with Joseph Joachim, the piano music of Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt, sentimental waltzes from Schubert to Ravel, concert music by Bartók, Szymanowski and Górecki, the Merchant-Ivory adaptation of The Remains of the Day, Antônio Carlos Jobim’s bossa nova, and songs by Duke Ellington, Burt Bacharach, Carole King, Barry Manilow and Jimmy Webb. The book will attract readers interested in both the role of music in the history of emotion and the persistence and diversity of sentimental arts after their flowering in the eighteenth-century age of sensibility.
Hans Von Bülow
Author: Kenneth Birkin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-07-07
Total Pages: 735
ISBN-13: 1107005868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed study of the life of one of the most important and influential musical figures of the nineteenth century.
Mendelssohn, Time and Memory
Author: Benedict Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-10-27
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1139501364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFelix 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.
Mendelssohn Essays
Author: R. Larry Todd
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1135866686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen R. Larry Todd’s biography, Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, appeared in 2003, it won acclaim from several critics as a definitive biography. In researching Mendelssohn’s life over the last two and a half decades, Todd uncovered much new information about the composer and his music, his family and his peers, and his complex reception history. Now, as we approach the 2009 bicentenary of Mendelssohn’s birth, the author has chosen and compiled fifteen essays written between 1980 and 2005, including five previously unpublished, that examine several aspects of the composer whom Goethe and Heine likened to a second Mozart. Mendelssohn Essays explores Mendelssohn’s precocity, his musical impressions of British culture, the role of the visual in his music, his compositional response to Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, and incomplete drafts from his musical estate of three instrumental works. In addition, a group of three essays focuses on the music of Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny Hensel, perhaps the most gifted woman composer of the century, and a significant, complex figure in the formation of the Mendelssohnian style.
An Encyclopedia of the Violin
Author: Alberto Bachmann
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-07-24
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 0486318249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1925, this renowned reference remains unsurpassed as a source of essential information, from construction and evolution to repertoire and technique. Includes a glossary and 73 illustrations.
Beethoven and His World
Author: H. P. Clive
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 9780198166726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing the author's acclaimed biographical dictionaries on Schubert and Mozart, 'Beethoven and His World' offers an extremely comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the composer's relations with a multitude of persons with whom he associated on a personal or professional basis: relatives,friends, acquaintances, librettists, poets, publishers, artists, patrons, and musicians. With more than 450 entries, the dictionary is the result of a wide-ranging examination of primary and secondary sources, and critically assesses the use which scholars have made of the considerabledocumentation now available. In particular, there are numerous references to Beethoven's correspondence and conversation books, which have recently been published in excellent new editions. The book places the composer and his music in a fuller context and a wider perspective than might bepossible in a traditional biography; it will appeal to all music lovers, both the scholar and the non-specilaist alike.
