Beethovens Anvil

Author : William Benzon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198605577
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beethoven's Anvil written by William Benzon and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¿7FWhy does the brain create music? This text argues that the key to music's function lies in the very complexity of musical experience. As well as being both personal and social, the creation of music taps into the whole spectrum of human skills, both physical and mental."

Author : Martin Geck
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022645391X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beethoven's Symphonies written by Martin Geck and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years spanning from 1800 to 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven completed nine symphonies, now considered among the greatest masterpieces of Western music. Yet despite the fact that this time period, located in the wake of the Enlightenment and at the peak of romanticism, was one of rich intellectual exploration and social change, the influence of such threads of thought on Beethoven’s work has until now remained hidden beneath the surface of the notes. Beethoven’s Symphonies presents a fresh look at the great composer’s approach and the ideas that moved him, offering a lively account of the major themes unifying his radically diverse output. Martin Geck opens the book with an enthralling series of cultural, political, and musical motifs that run throughout the symphonies. A leading theme is Beethoven’s intense intellectual and emotional engagement with the figure of Napoleon, an engagement that survived even Beethoven’s disappointment with Napoleon’s decision to be crowned emperor in 1804. Geck also delves into the unique ways in which Beethoven approached beginnings and finales in his symphonies, as well as his innovative use of particular instruments. He then turns to the individual symphonies, tracing elements—a pitch, a chord, a musical theme—that offer a new way of thinking about each work and will make even the most devoted fans of Beethoven admire the symphonies anew. Offering refreshingly inventive readings of the work of one of history’s greatest composers, this book shapes a fascinating picture of the symphonies as a cohesive oeuvre and of Beethoven as a master symphonist.

Author : Alessandra Comini
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865346615
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Image of Beethoven written by Alessandra Comini and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique study of the myth-making process across two centuries, Comini examines the contradictory imagery of Beethoven in contemporary verbal accounts, and in some 200 paintings, prints, sculptures, and monuments.

Author : Keith Chapin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108428525
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beethoven Studies 4 written by Keith Chapin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ten chapters that approach Beethoven and his music from aesthetic, analytical, biographical, historical and performance perspectives.

Author : George Grove
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beethoven's Fifth Symphony written by George Grove and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Grove
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beethoven's Nine Symphonies written by George Grove and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Nettl
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504067630
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beethoven Encyclopedia written by Paul Nettl and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive A-to-Z reference is comprised of detailed and authoritative entries on every aspect of the great composer’s life. Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most famous and revered composers in classical music. His instantly recognizable concertos and symphonies continue to be among the most performed by symphonies across the globe. In this definitive reference volume, eminent musicologist Paul Nettl provides students and researchers with an in-depth biographical resource organized in alphabetical entries. The Beethoven Encyclopedia covers the German composer’s music, personal life, and patrons, among other topics, such as the forces that inspired his genius.

Author : William Henry Hadow
Publisher : London : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beethoven's Op. 18 Quartets written by William Henry Hadow and published by London : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1926 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robin Wallace
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226815366
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearing Beethoven written by Robin Wallace and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We're all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethoven continued to play and compose for more than a decade after he lost his hearing is often seen as an act of superhuman heroism. But the truth is that Beethoven's response to his deafness was entirely human. And by demystifying what he did, we can learn a great deal about Beethoven's music. Perhaps no one is better positioned to help us do so than Robin Wallace, who not only has dedicated his life to the music of Beethoven but also has close personal experience with deafness. One day, at the age of forty-four, Wallace's late wife, Barbara, found she couldn't hear out of her right ear-the result of radiation administered to treat a brain tumor early in life. Three years later, she lost hearing in her left ear as well. Over the eight and a half years that remained of her life, despite receiving a cochlear implant, Barbara didn't overcome her deafness or ever function again like a hearing person. Wallace shows here that Beethoven didn't do those things, either. Rather than heroically overcoming his deafness, as we're commonly led to believe, Beethoven accomplished something even more difficult and challenging: he adapted to his hearing loss and changed the way he interacted with music, revealing important aspects of its very nature in the process. Creating music became for Beethoven a visual and physical process, emanating from visual cues and from instruments that moved and vibrated. His deafness may have slowed him down, but it also led to works of unsurpassed profundity.

Author : Heribert Rau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beethoven written by Heribert Rau and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: