Beethoven's Theatrical Quartets

Beethoven's Theatrical Quartets
Author: Nancy November
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2013
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1107035457

The first detailed contextual study of Beethoven's middle-period quartets, encompassing reception history, early performance practices, aesthetic contexts and theatrical impetus.

String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1

String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1
Author:
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1985-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780757911040

inch....this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken inch. (Oliver James, Contact Magazine) A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two parts), country dance tunes and excerpts from the standard treble repertoire ofBach, Barsanti, Corelli, Handel, Telemann, etc. An outstanding feature of the book has proved to be Brian Bonsor's brilliantly simple but highly effective practice circles and recognition squares designed to give, in only a few minutes, concentrated practice on the more usual leaps to and from each new note and instant recognition of random notes. Quickly emulating the outstanding success of the descant tutors, these books are very popular even with those who normally use tutors other than the Enjoy the Recorder series.

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.

The Four and the One

The Four and the One
Author: David Rounds
Publisher:
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Spotlighting the four women of the Lafayette Quartet, a leading Canadian ensemble, Rounds offers both a comprehensive history of the beloved instrumental form and an inside view of the complex world of professional quartet players, revealing the exultation and heatache that are the performing artists' daily fare. A treat for every music lover, whether player, listener or composer.

The Strad

The Strad
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 724
Release: 1923
Genre: Bowed stringed instruments
ISBN:

Brahms's Elegies

Brahms's Elegies
Author: Nicole Grimes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2019-01-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1108474497

A unique insight into the relationship between Brahms's music and his philosophical and literary context from a modernist perspective.

Beethoven 1806

Beethoven 1806
Author: Mark Ferraguto
Publisher:
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2019
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0190947187

Beethoven 1806 examines a banner year in the creative life of Ludwig van Beethoven. Drawing on theories of mediation and a wealth of primary sources, it explores the specific contexts in which the music of this year was conceived, composed, and heard.

Ukrainian Musical Elements in Classical Music

Ukrainian Musical Elements in Classical Music
Author: I︠A︡kov Lʹvovich Soroker
Publisher: CIUS Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1995-06-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781895571066

The first comprehensive account of the influence of Ukrainian motifs on the classical music of Europe.

Musical Composition

Musical Composition
Author: Alan Belkin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2018-06-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0300218990

An invaluable introduction to the art and craft of musical composition from a distinguished teacher and composer This essential introduction to the art and craft of musical composition is designed to familiarize beginning composers with principles and techniques applicable to a broad range of musical styles, from concert pieces to film scores and video game music. The first of its kind to utilize a style-neutral approach, in addition to presenting the commonly known classical forms, this book offers invaluable general guidance on developing and connecting musical ideas, building to a climax, and other fundamental formal principles. It is designed for both classroom use and independent study.

The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast

The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast
Author: Roy Johnston
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351542117

Roy Johnston and Declan Plummer provide a refreshing portrait of Belfast in the nineteenth century. Before his death Roy Johnston, had written a full draft, based on an impressive array of contemporary sources, with deep and detailed attention especially to contemporary newspapers. With the deft and sensitive contribution of Declan Plummer the finished book offers a telling view of Belfast‘s thriving musical life. Largely without the participation and example of local aristocracy, nobility and gentry, Belfast‘s musical society was formed largely by the townspeople themselves in the eighteenth century and by several instrumental and choral societies in the nineteenth century. As the town grew in size and developed an industrial character, its townspeople identified increasingly with the large industrial towns and cities of the British mainland. Efforts to place themselves on the principal touring circuit of the great nineteenth-century concert artists led them to build a concert hall not in emulation of Dublin but of the British industrial towns. Belfast audiences had experienced English opera in the eighteenth century, and in due course in the nineteenth century they found themselves receiving the touring opera companies, in theatres newly built to accommodate them. Through an energetic groundwork revision of contemporary sources, Johnston and Plummer reveal a picture of sustained vitality and development that justifies Belfast‘s prominent place the history of nineteenth-century musical culture in Ireland and more broadly in the British Isles.