Beethovens Choral Symphony

Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Thoughts on Beethoven's Choral Symphony with Writings on Other Musical Subjects written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1981-07-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the bulk of Dr. Vaughan Williams' writings on music. The topics of the paper range from Bach to Holst, and all are illuminated by the author's comments.

Author : George Grove
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385474299
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (Choral) written by George Grove and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : George Grove
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385474280
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (Choral) written by George Grove and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : George Grove
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (choral) written by George Grove and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. Vaughan Williams
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Download or read book Some Thoughts on Beethoven's Choral Symphony with Writings on Other Musical Subjects written by R. Vaughan Williams and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Benjamin Levy
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300099645
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beethoven written by David Benjamin Levy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, a masterpiece that has influenced virtually every Western composer since its premiere, has become associated with the marking of momentous public occasions. In 1989, Chinese students played its finale through loudspeakers in Tiananmen Square, and Leonard Bernstein led a performance in Berlin to celebrate the razing of the Berlin Wall. This lively and up-to-date book focuses on Beethoven's Ninth, exploring the cultural and musical meanings that surround this powerful work of genius. David B. Levy sets the scene with a brief survey of nineteenth-century Germanic culture and society, then analyzes the Ninth symphony in detail with special emphasis on the famous choral finale. He discusses the initial performances in 1824 under Beethoven's direction and traces the symphony's critical reception and legacy. In the final chapter of the book, Levy examines interpretations of the work by prominent conductors, including Wagner, Mahler, and Weingartner. A fully annotated discography of selected recordings completes this comprehensive volume.

Author : Esteban Buch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226078243
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beethoven's Ninth written by Esteban Buch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who hasn't been stirred by the strains of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony? That's a good question, claims Esteban Buch. German nationalists and French republicans, communists and Catholics have all, in the course of history, embraced the piece. It was performed under the direction of Leonard Bernstein at a concert to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall, yet it also serves as a ghastly and ironic leitmotif in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Hitler celebrated his birthdays with it, and the government of Rhodesia made it their anthem. And played in German concentration camps by the imprisoned, it also figured prominently at Mitterand's 1981 investiture. In his remarkable history of one of the most popular symphonic works of the modern period, Buch traces such complex and contradictory uses—and abuses—of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony since its premier in 1824. Buch shows that Beethoven consciously drew on the tradition of European political music, with its mix of sacred and profane, military and religious themes, when he composed his symphony. But while Beethoven obviously had his own political aspirations for the piece—he wanted it to make a statement about ideal power—he could not have had any idea of the antithetical political uses, nationalist and universalist, to which the Ninth Symphony has been put since its creation. Buch shows us how the symphony has been "deployed" throughout nearly two centuries, and in the course of this exploration offers what was described by one French reviewer as "a fundamental examination of the moral value of art." Sensitive and fascinating, this account of the tangled political existence of a symphony is a rare book that shows the life of an artwork through time, shifted and realigned with the currents of history.

Author : George Grove
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781104622015
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beethoven's Ninth Symphony written by George Grove and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : George Grove
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483175525
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beethoven's Ninth Symphony written by George Grove and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: Choral The Symphony starts in an entirely different man ner from any other of the nine, with a prologue which is not an introduction, properly speaking, and yet introduces the principal subject of the move ment. The tempo is the same from the beginning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457480881
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symphony No. 9 (The Choral Symphony - Last Movement, Opus 125) written by Ludwig van Beethoven and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beethoven�۪s symphonic masterpiece, written between 1818 and 1824, actually had sources dating from earlier in his life. For example, many years earlier, Beethoven had expressed wishes to set Schiller�۪s poem, the "Ode to Joy," to music, and the realization of this desire finally took place in the final movement of the 9th Symphony, also known as the "Choral Symphony." This score presents the choral portion of the symphony, beginning with the baritone recitative that precedes the choir�۪s entrance. This score presents the soloist and choir parts on separate lines over a piano reduction of the orchestral parts.