Author: Cliff Eisen
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0895794179
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Author: Simon P. Keefe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107116716
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 719

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Comprehensive and engaging exploration of Mozart's greatest works, focussing on his dual roles as performer and composer in Vienna.

Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486223728
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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This single volume study score contains all of Mozart's string quartets: the little-known early quartets in an Italianate manner; the six quartets dedicated to Haydn; the D Major Quartet; and the last three quartets written for the King of Prussia. In addition to the 23 string quartets, the alternate slow movement to the G Major Quartet, K.156, is included.

Author: Mara Parker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351540270
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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The second half of the eighteenth century witnessed a flourishing of the string quartet, often represented as a smooth and logical progression from first violin-dominated homophony to a more equal conversation between the four voices. Yet this progression was neither as smooth nor as linear as previously thought, as Mara Parker illustrates in her examination of the string quartet during this period. Looking at a wide variety of string quartets by composers such as Pleyel, Distler and Filtz, in addition to Haydn and Mozart, the book proposes a new way of describing the relationships between the four instruments in different works. Broadly speaking, these relationships follow one of four patterns: the 'lecture', the 'polite conversation', the 'debate', and the 'conversation'. In focusing on these musical discourses, it becomes apparent that each work is the product of its composer's stylistic choices, location, intended performers and intended audience. Instead of evolving in a strict and universal sequence, the string quartet in the latter half of the eighteenth century was a complex genre with composers mixing and matching musical discourses as circumstances and their own creative impulses required.

Author: John M. Gingerich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139952080
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Why couldn't Schubert get his 'great' C-Major Symphony performed? Why was he the first composer to consistently write four movements for his piano sonatas? Since neither Schubert's nor Beethoven's piano sonatas were ever performed in public, who did hear them? Addressing these questions and many others, John M. Gingerich provides a new understanding of Schubert's career and his relationship to Beethoven. Placing the genres of string quartet, symphony, and piano sonata within the cultural context of the 1820s, the book examines how Schubert was building on Beethoven's legacy. Gingerich brings new understandings of how Schubert tried to shape his career to bear on new hermeneutic readings of the works from 1824 to 1828 that share musical and extra-musical pre-occupations, centering on the 'Death and the Maiden' Quartet and the Cello Quintet, as well as on analyses of the A-minor Quartet, the Octet, and of the 'great' C-Major Symphony.

Author: Giovanni Battista Sammartini
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0895795213
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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xv + 186 pp.

Author: George Grove
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1042

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Author: John Williamson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521008785
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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This Companion provides an overview of the composer Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). Sixteen chapters by leading scholars investigate aspects of his life and works and consider the manner in which critical appreciation has changed in the twentieth century. The first section deals with Bruckner's Austrian background, investigating the historical circumstances in which he worked, his upbringing in Upper Austria, and his career in Vienna. A number of misunderstandings are dealt with in the light of recent research. The remainder of the book covers Bruckner's career as church musician and symphonist, with a chapter on the neglected secular vocal music. Religious, aesthetic, formal, harmonic, and instrumental aspects are considered, while one chapter confronts the problem of the editions of the symphonies. Two concluding chapters discuss the symphonies in performance, and the history of Bruckner-reception with particular reference to German Nationalism, the Third Reich and the appropriation of Bruckner by the Nazis.

Author: William Henry Hadow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Author: Gale Group
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780783892139
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 932

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