Schubert's Late Music

Schubert's Late Music
Author: Lorraine Byrne Bodley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2016-04-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1316453758

Schubert's late music has proved pivotal for the development of diverse fields of musical scholarship, from biography and music history to the theory of harmony. This collection addresses current issues in Schubert studies including compositional technique, the topical issue of 'late' style, tonal strategy and form in the composer's instrumental music, and musical readings of the 'postmodern' Schubert. Offering fresh approaches to Schubert's instrumental and vocal works and their reception, this book argues that the music that the composer produced from 1822–8 is central to a paradigm shift in the history of music during the nineteenth century. The contributors provide a timely reassessment of Schubert's legacy, assembling a portrait of the composer that is very different from the sentimental Schubert permeating nineteenth-century culture and the postmodern Schubert of more recent literature.

Handel: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks

Handel: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks
Author: Christopher Hogwood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2005-11-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521836364

A study of Handel's best-known public music: Water Music, and Music for the Royal Fireworks.

Four-Handed Monsters

Four-Handed Monsters
Author: Adrian Daub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199981809

In the course of the nineteenth century, four-hand piano playing emerged across Europe as a popular pastime of the well-heeled classes and of those looking to join them. Nary a canonic work of classical music that was not set for piano duo, nary a house that could afford not to invest in them. Duets echoed from the student bedsit to Buckingham Palace, resounded in schools and in hundreds of thousands of bourgeois parlors. Like no other musical phenomenon, it could cross national, social, and economic boundaries, bringing together poor students with the daughters of the bourgeoisie, crowned heads with penniless virtuosi, and the nineteenth century often regarded it with extreme suspicion for that very reason. Four-hand piano playing was often understood as a socially acceptable way of flirting, a flurry of hands that made touching, often of men and women, not just acceptable but necessary. But it also became something far more serious than that, a central institution of the home, mediating between inside and outside, family and society, labor and leisure, nature and nurture. And writers, composers, musicians, philosophers, journalists, pamphleteers and painters took note: in the art, literature, and philosophy of the age, four-hand playing emerged as a common motif, something that allowed them to interrogate the very nature of the self, the family, the community and the state. In the four hands rushing up and down the same keyboard the nineteenth century espied, or thought to espy, an astonishing array of things. Four-Handed Monsters tells not only the story of that practice, but also the story of the astonishing array of things the nineteenth century read into it.

The Essential Early Romantic Collection

The Essential Early Romantic Collection
Author: Chester Music
Publisher: Chester Music
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2006-05-14
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1783239980

The Essential Early Romantic Collection presents a sumptuous selection of the very best Keyboard music of the early Romantic era by composers ranging from Schubert to Chopin and beyond, all presented in one superb volume for intermediate level solo piano. The music of the Romantic era is characterised by progressive innovations in both tonal and formal expression. The works of Chopin, Liszt and Schubert form an absolutely essential repertoire for any serious Piano student, forever pushing the boundaries of diatonic harmony, timing and texture into evermore complex worlds of emotion. Every piece in this anthology is rich in heritage, and familiar to the ears of music lovers the world over. Take this opportunity to transform your repertoire - the music has been expertly adapted to appeal to the intermediate soloist whilst retaining all the beauty and character of the original works. There's simply no better way to discover the music of the masters. Songlist: - Ave Maria [Schubert] - Au Fond Du Temple Saint (Duet From ‘The Pearl Fishers’) [Bizet] - Barcarolle (from The Tales Of Hoffmann) [Offenbach] - The Can-Can (from La Gaîté Parisienne) [Offenbach] - Casta Diva (from Norma) [Bellini] - Consolation No.3 [Liszt] - Eintritt (from Waldszenen) [Schumann] - Fantasie - Impromptu, Op.66 (Largo And Moderato Sections) [Chopin] - Flower Duet (from Lakmé) [Delibes] - Gopak (from Sorotchinsky Fair) [Moussorgsky] - Habañera: L’amour Est Un Oiseau Rebelle (from Carmen) [Bizet] - Impromptu, Op.90 No.2 [Schubert] - Impromptu No.3 In Gb Major [Schubert] - Liebesträume No.3 In Ab Major (Dream Of Love) [Liszt] - March To The Scaffold (from Symphonie Fantastique) [Berlioz] - Moment Musical, Op.94 No.3 [Schubert] - Nocturne (from String Quartet No.2) [Borodin] - Nocturne In Eb, Op.9 No.2 [Chopin] - Octet For Strings (1st Movement) [Mendelssohn] - O For The Wings Of A Dove [Mendelssohn] - Panis Angelicus [Franck] - Piano Concerto In A Minor (2nd Movement: Intermezzo) [Schumann] - Polonaise In A Major, Op.40 No.1 (‘Military Polonaise’) [Chopin] - Prelude (from L’arlésienne) [Bizet] - Prélude In Db Major, Op.28 No.15 (‘Raindrop Prelude’) [Chopin] - Prélude In E Minor, Op.28 No.4 [Chopin] - Promenade (from Pictures At An Exhibition) [Moussorgsky] - Radetsky March [Strauss I] - Rakoczy March [Liszt] - The Ride Of The Valkyries (from Die Walküre) [Wagner] - Sailor’s Chorus (from The Flying Dutchman) [Wagner] - Scherzo, D.593 No.1 [Schubert] - Song Without Words, Op.19 No.1 (‘Sweet Remembrance’) [Mendelssohn] - Song Without Words, Op.38 No.6 (‘Duetto’) [Mendelssohn] - To The Evening Star (from Tannhäuser) [Wagner] - Träumerei (from Kinderszenen) [Schumann] - Trout Quintet Op.114 (4th Movement: Andantino) [Schubert] - Valse In Db Major, Op.64 No.1 (‘Minute Waltz’) [Chopin] - Valse Lente (from Coppélia) [Delibes]

Catalogs

Catalogs
Author: Harold Reeves (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 620
Release: 1919
Genre: Music
ISBN:

A Player's Guide to Chamber Music

A Player's Guide to Chamber Music
Author: Paul Jeffery
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2017-09-14
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0719825075

Chamber music includes some of the world's greatest music. It is widely played in homes, without an audience, by players who are mostly amateurs, and much of the repertoire is playable even by those of quite moderate ability. A Player's Guide to Chamber Music gives advice on what music is available and helps the player to identify what is suitable. It covers chamber music from the seventeenth to the later twentieth century and all instrumental combinations including strings, piano, wind instruments, duet sonatas and baroque ensembles. All the significant composers and musical aspects of playing are covered along with works suitable for inexperienced players. Illustrated with 63 black & white illustrations.