Graphic Music Analysis

Graphic Music Analysis
Author: Eric Wen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2019-02-14
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1538104679

This book approaches Schenkerian analysis in a practical and accessible manner fit for the classroom, guiding readers through a step-by-step process. It is suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of musicology, music theory, composition, and performance, and it is replete with a wide variety of musical examples.

Nineteenth-Century Piano Music

Nineteenth-Century Piano Music
Author: R. Larry Todd
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1136731288

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Concerto in B Minor Op. 61

Concerto in B Minor Op. 61
Author: Edward Elgar
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486316343

This practice and performance edition of one of the most beloved pieces in the modern violin repertoire contains a piano reduction and a separate violin part.

Music as Philosophy

Music as Philosophy
Author: Michael Spitzer
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2021-08-31
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253060877

Beethoven's late style is the language of his ninth symphony, the Missa Solemnis, the last piano sonatas and string quartets, the Diabelli Variations, the Bagatelles, as well as five piano sonatas, five string quartets, and several smaller piano works. Historically, these works are seen as forging a bridge between the Classical and Romantic traditions: in terms of their musical structure, they continue to be regarded as revolutionary. Spitzer's book examines these late works in light of the musical and philosophical writings of the German intellectual Theodor Adorno, and in so doing, attempts to reconcile the conflicting approaches of musical semiotics and critical theory. He draws from various approaches to musical, linguistic, and aesthetic meaning, relating Adorno to such writers as Derrida, Benjamin, and Habermas, as well as contemporary music theorists. Through analyses of Beethoven's use of specific musical techniques (including neo-Baroque fugues and counterpoint), Spitzer suggests that the composer's last works offer a philosophical and musical critique of the Enlightenment, and in doing so created the musical language of premodernism.

Schenkerian Analysis

Schenkerian Analysis
Author: David Beach
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2019-03-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 042984378X

Schenkerian Analysis: Perspectives on Phrase Rhythm, Motive and Form, Second Edition is a textbook directed at all those—whether beginners or more advanced students—interested in gaining understanding of and facility at applying Schenker’s ideas on musical structure. It begins with an overview of Schenker’s approach to music, and then progresses systematically from the phrase and its various combinations to longer and more complex works. Unlike other texts on this subject, Schenkerian Analysis combines the study of multi-level pitch organization with that of phrase rhythm (the interaction of phrase and hypermeter), motivic repetition at different structural levels, and form. It also contains analytic graphs of several extended movements, separate works, and songs. A separate instructor’s manual provides additional advice and solutions (graphs) of all recommended assignments. This second edition has been revised to make the early chapters more accessible and to improve the pedagogical effectiveness of the book as a whole. Changes in musical examples have been carefully made to ensure that each example fully supports student learning. Informed by decades of teaching experience, this book provides a clear and comprehensive guide to Schenker’s theories and their applications.

The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
Author: Modeste Tchaikovsky
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 634
Release: 2018-09-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3734040787

Reproduction of the original: The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky by Modeste Tchaikovsky

Beethoven 1806

Beethoven 1806
Author: Mark Ferraguto
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2019-08-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190947209

Between early 1806 and early 1807, Ludwig van Beethoven completed a remarkable series of instrumental works. But critics have struggled to reconcile the music of this banner year with Beethoven's "heroic style," the paradigm through which his middle-period works have typically been understood. Drawing on theories of mediation and a wealth of primary sources, Beethoven 1806 explores the specific contexts in which the music of this year was conceived, composed, and heard. As author Mark Ferraguto argues, understanding this music depends on appreciating the relationships that it both creates and reflects. Not only did Beethoven depend on patrons, performers, publishers, critics, and audiences to earn a living, but he also tailored his compositions to suit particular sensibilities, proclivities, and technologies.

The Brahms-Keller Correspondence

The Brahms-Keller Correspondence
Author: George S. Bozarth
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 700
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780803212381

For two decades, beginning in the early 1870s, Robert Keller, music editor for N. Simrock Verlag in Berlin, worked with diligence and devotion to usher into print most of Johannes Brahms's major compositions, including all four of his symphonies, the Violin Concerto, the Double Concerto, the Second Piano Concerto, and numerous chamber, choral, and vocal works. This volume collects for the first time the complete extant correspondence between Brahms and Keller, as preserved in the collections of the Library of Congress and the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. To read their correspondence is to witness a relationship of mutual respect and increasing friendship and to gain an appreciation for the meticulous labor that went into the publication of Brahms's masterpieces. Keller’s admiration for the composer's genius was answered by Brahms's affection for Keller’s diligence and musical expertise. The vicissitudes of the publication process from composer’s manuscript to printed score are documented in fascinating detail. This edition includes a transcription of the letters in the original German.