Beethoven's Chamber Music in Context

Beethoven's Chamber Music in Context
Author: Angus Watson
Publisher: Boydell Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1843837161

A noted violinist and conductor, Watson is particularly well suited for his chosen task: outlining the historical context and character of more than 50 of the chamber works that Beethoven composed during his years in Vienna. Avoiding the pitfalls of becoming too critical or "academic," the author characterizes each composition in general terms only, and does not discuss changing styles of performance. Instead, Watson provides information on a work's historical background and character, and on the musical points of interest in each movement. He pays special attention to the influence of Beethoven's large-scale compositions on his chamber music, and on the composer's increasing mastery of improvisation. Filling a hole in scholarship on Beethoven's compositions, this book will be greatly appreciated by professional and amateur musicians.

Looking for the Harp Quartet

Looking for the Harp Quartet
Author: Markand Thakar
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2011
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1580463460

This book is a philosophical tour through the experience of beauty: what it is, and how the composer, performer, and listener all contribute. It explores -- with insight, patience, and humor -- profound issues at the essence of our experience. A student performance of Beethoven's String Quartet No. 10 in E-Flat Major, known as the "Harp," serves as a point of departure and a recurring theme. For the layperson the core of the book is five dialogues between Icarus, an inquiring student intensely concerned with fulfilling his highest potential as a musician, and Daedalus, a curmudgeonly, iconoclastic teacher who guides Icarus's search. Three technical articles, geared to the music professional and academic, treat the issues in greater depth. Supplementary online audio files and musical examples. Markand Thakar is Music Director of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, and a member of the graduate conducting faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University.

Middle string quartets

Middle string quartets
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780486419053

"An unabridged republication of five works from Volumes 1 and 2 of Serie 6: Quartette feur 2 Violinen, Bratsche und Violoncell of Ludwig van Beethoven's Werke. Vollsteandige kritisch durchgesehene euberall berechtigte Ausgabe. Mit Genehmigung aller Originalverleger, originally published by Breitkopf & Heartel, Leipzig, [1864-90]."

A Basic Classical and Operatic Recordings Collection on Compact Discs for Libraries

A Basic Classical and Operatic Recordings Collection on Compact Discs for Libraries
Author: Kenyon C. Rosenberg
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1990
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780810823228

Lists classical and operatic recordings that are specifically available in the new (and desirable) compact disc format. Individual titles are graded for their appropriateness to specific types and sizes of libraries. The main portion covers some 160 composers whose works are important in constituting a nuclear library collection of "serious" music. There are over 1,200 titles included and individually numbered (and fully cross-referenced) and graded. For numerous works, two or more performances are cited in order to provide the librarian with greater choices; monophonic works are specifically indicated. Many of the works are annotated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Hero's Destiny

Hero's Destiny
Author: Ning Zhang
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2024-05-17
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1639851291

This is a monograph on Western classical music written by a Chinese American. It contains the results of the author's years of work, i.e., more than two hundred thousand words of Beethoven-themed essays in the form of poems, essays, prose, and reviews. The book covers all aspects of the great composer Beethoven's life and career from his birth experience to his emotional life, from the background of the times to his ideology, from the review of his works to the analysis of music appreciation. The book is rich in historical information, rigorous in argumentation, incisive in commentary, and fluent in sentiment and reason. As a nonacademic scholar of Beethoven, this book is characterized by a distinctive personality, free from the constraints of traditional rules and regulations. Based on a comprehensive and profound understanding of the historical figure and his works, the author presents his original arguments and opinions on some important professional topics and fields.

Musical Practice as a Form of Life

Musical Practice as a Form of Life
Author: Eva-Maria Houben
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2019-09-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 3839445736

How is musical practice connected with everyday life? Eva-Maria Houben shows that performing music as an activity - indeed, as playing - is a meaningful shift from an approach based on structural analysis. Musical practice, Eva-Maria Houben contends, can be understood as open and never finished. Such an emphasis on repetition offers freedom from perfection, productivity, and purpose, thus allowing meaning to unfold in specific situations, places, and relationships. Musical practice can become a form of life and a reality in its own right. The study includes musical examples from the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries as well as contemporary music.

The Essential Canon of Classical Music

The Essential Canon of Classical Music
Author: David Dubal
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 796
Release: 2003-10-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780865476646

Identifies almost two hundred forty composers whose works are most important to an understanding of classical music, with essays on sixty of the most significant. Presented in chronological order for the Medieval, Renaissance, and Elizabethan ages, the age of the Baroque, the age of Classicism, the Romantic age, and the age of Modernism.

Hensel: String Quartet in E flat

Hensel: String Quartet in E flat
Author: Benedict Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2023-11-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1009084399

The String Quartet in E flat major (1834) by Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn, is one of the most important works by a female composer written in the nineteenth century. Composed at a turning point in her life (as Hensel was not only grappling with her own creative voice but also coming to terms with her identity as a married woman, and the role her family expected of her), the quartet is significant in showing a woman composing in a genre that was then almost exclusively the domain of male artists. Benedict Taylor's illuminating book situates itself within developing scholarly discourse on the music of women composers, going beyond apologetics – or condemnation of those who hindered their development – to examine the strength and qualities of the music and how it responded to the most progressive works of the period.

The Hal Leonard Pocket Music Dictionary

The Hal Leonard Pocket Music Dictionary
Author: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780793516544

(Book). Here's the most contemporary music dictionary on the market! Conveniently divided into three main sections: The Dictionary of Music Terms defines over 2,000 music terms concisely, including notation and theory terms, instruments and terms used in pop music, electronic music and the music business; The Dictionary of Musicians provides more than 400 capsule biographies of composers and other musicians; and Reference Charts give instant, at-a-glance summaries of the essentials of music, encompassing instrumental and vocal ranges, notation signs and symbols, and scales, modes and key signatures.