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, USA
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2014
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199981779

Four-Handed Monsters surveys the cultural perception of four-hand piano playing in the nineteenth century. As the piano became a central institution of the bourgeois household and as piano transcriptions created a stable canon of classic works, four-hand playing became a ubiquitous and structurally important buttress of domestic life, provoking reflections in the literature, philosophy, journalism and the visual arts of the age.

The Pro Arte Quartet

The Pro Arte Quartet
Author: John W. Barker
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2017
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 158046906X

An engaging window into a century of musical life, as seen in the history of the Pro Arte String Quartet, first organized in 1912 and still performing today.

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.

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.