Author: R. Larry Todd
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135866694
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
When 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birth, the author has chosen and compiled fifteen essays written between 1980 and 2005, including five previously unpublished, that examine several aspects of the composer whom Goethe and Heine likened to a second Mozart.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.
Mendelssohn Essays
Author: R. Larry Todd
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135866694
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
When 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birth, the author has chosen and compiled fifteen essays written between 1980 and 2005, including five previously unpublished, that examine several aspects of the composer whom Goethe and Heine likened to a second Mozart.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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135866694
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
When 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.
The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description
British Organ Music of the Twentieth Century
Author: Peter Hardwick
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810844483
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This is the first book-length survey of 20th -century British music for solo organ. Beginning with a discussion of British organ music in the last decades of the Victorian era, the book focuses on the pieces that the composers wrote, their musical style, possible influences on the composition of specific works, and the details of their composition. Arranged in chronological order according to date of birth are detailed studies on important composers that made especially significant contributions to organ music including Parry, Stanford, Healey Willan, Herbert Howells, Percy Whitlock, Francis Jackson, Peter Racine Fricker, Arthur Wills, and Kenneth Leighton. Composers' biographies, the role of organs and organ building developments, influential political and sociological events, and aesthetic aspects of British musical life are also discussed in detail. In the concluding chapter, the author discusses the major phases and achievements of the century and gauges what may lie ahead in the new millennium. A comprehensive Catalog of Works provides titles of works, dates of composition, details of publishers, and the dates of publication. More than 60 music examples, 12 black and white photos, and an up-to-date bibliography are included.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810844483
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This is the first book-length survey of 20th -century British music for solo organ. Beginning with a discussion of British organ music in the last decades of the Victorian era, the book focuses on the pieces that the composers wrote, their musical style, possible influences on the composition of specific works, and the details of their composition. Arranged in chronological order according to date of birth are detailed studies on important composers that made especially significant contributions to organ music including Parry, Stanford, Healey Willan, Herbert Howells, Percy Whitlock, Francis Jackson, Peter Racine Fricker, Arthur Wills, and Kenneth Leighton. Composers' biographies, the role of organs and organ building developments, influential political and sociological events, and aesthetic aspects of British musical life are also discussed in detail. In the concluding chapter, the author discusses the major phases and achievements of the century and gauges what may lie ahead in the new millennium. A comprehensive Catalog of Works provides titles of works, dates of composition, details of publishers, and the dates of publication. More than 60 music examples, 12 black and white photos, and an up-to-date bibliography are included.
The Compleat Brahms
Author: Leon Botstein
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393047080
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The 1997 centennial of Brahms's death has intensified interest among concertgoers and music lovers in the composer's prodigious body of work.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393047080
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The 1997 centennial of Brahms's death has intensified interest among concertgoers and music lovers in the composer's prodigious body of work.
St. Mary Magdalen
Author: John Stainer
Publisher:
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Category : Cantatas, Sacred
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Cantatas, Sacred
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Organ
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Publisher:
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Category : Organ (Musical instrument)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Organ (Musical instrument)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Musical Times & Singing-class Circular
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Catalogs
Author: Harold Reeves (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Bach The Borrower
Author: Norman Carrell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040223990
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Originally published in 1967, in this book the author delves deeply into the fascinating field of Bach’s music and the reasons for his ‘borrowing’, and adaptation within his oeuvre. This book, scrupulously uncontroversial in its manner, contains evidence which upends many established judgements. Whether concerned with Bach’s artistic personality or with details of his performance, this voluminous record, with commentary, of his adaptations, recompositions or transcriptions is an essential work of reference. When it was first published much of the information on the Choralgesänge and the chorals contained in or intended for the Orgelbüchlein was available for the first time in English.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040223990
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Originally published in 1967, in this book the author delves deeply into the fascinating field of Bach’s music and the reasons for his ‘borrowing’, and adaptation within his oeuvre. This book, scrupulously uncontroversial in its manner, contains evidence which upends many established judgements. Whether concerned with Bach’s artistic personality or with details of his performance, this voluminous record, with commentary, of his adaptations, recompositions or transcriptions is an essential work of reference. When it was first published much of the information on the Choralgesänge and the chorals contained in or intended for the Orgelbüchlein was available for the first time in English.
Unfoldings
Author: Carl Schachter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195125908
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Introduction: A Dialogue between Author and Editor I: Rhythm and Linear Analysis.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195125908
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Introduction: A Dialogue between Author and Editor I: Rhythm and Linear Analysis.