Life of Mozart: Volume 3

Life of Mozart: Volume 3
Author: Otto Jahn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1108064841

The 1882 three-volume English translation of the 1867 second edition of a landmark biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91).

The Art of the Violin

The Art of the Violin
Author: Pierre Baillot
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 658
Release: 1991-06-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0810133016

Never before available in English, this classic work is a major contribution to the art and technique of violin playing and an important document in the history of performance practice. A contemporary of Kreutzer and Rode, Pierre Marie Francois de Sales Baillot provides in his treatise many insights into the style of nineteenth-century fingering, bowing, ornamentation, and expressiveness that are not apparent from the directions and markings found in scores of that time. Such information will be invaluable for performers interested in understanding the intentions of composers such as Viotti, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn. This complete, unabridged translation, which includes an extensive introduction by the translator, Louise Goldberg, and a foreword by Zvi Zeitlin, will be indispensable for musicologists, performers, and lovers of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century classical music.

Library of Congress Catalog

Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages: 822
Release: 1973
Genre: Audio-visual materials
ISBN:

A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.

An Encyclopedia of the Violin

An Encyclopedia of the Violin
Author: Alberto Bachmann
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2013-07-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486318249

First 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

Beethoven
Author: Barry Cooper
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2008-10-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 019046349X

The connections between a great artist's life and work are subtle, complex, and often highly revealing. In the case of Beethoven, however, the standard approach has been to treat his life and his art separately. Now, Barry Cooper's new volume incorporates the latest international research on many aspects of the composer's life and work and presents these in a truly integrated narrative. Cooper employs a strictly chronological approach that enables each work to be seen against the musical and biographical background from which it emerged. The result is a much closer confluence of life and work than is usually achieved, for two reasons. First, composition was Beethoven's central preoccupation for most of his life: "I live entirely in my music," he once wrote. Second, recent study of his many musical sketches has enabled a much clearer picture of his everyday compositional activity than was previously possible, leading to rich new insights into the interaction between his life and music. This volume concentrates on Beethoven's artistic achievements both by examining the origins of his works and by expert commentary on some of their most striking and original features. It also reexamines virtually all the evidence--from fictitious anecdotes right down to the translations of individual German words--to avoid recycling old errors. And it offers numerous new details derived from sketch studies and a new edition of Beethoven's correspondence. Offering a wealth of fresh conclusions and intertwining life and work in illuminating ways, Beethoven will establish itself as the reference on one of the world's greatest composers.

Women and Music in Ireland

Women and Music in Ireland
Author: Laura Watson
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2022-12-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1783277556

Explores the world of women's professional and amateur musical activity as it developed on and beyond the island of Ireland.