Mendelssohn The Hebrides And Other Overtures

Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521407649
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mendelssohn: The Hebrides and Other Overtures written by R. Larry Todd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-24 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concert overtures A Midsummer Night's Dream, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, and The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), conceived by Mendelssohn before the age of twenty, have ranked amongst the most enduring of the nineteenth-century orchestral repertoire. R. Larry Todd offers a historical, stylistic, and analytical guide to these three remarkable works which secured for Mendelssohn no small measure of his fame. After placing the overtures in the context of Mendelssohn's astonishing compositional development during the 1820s, the volume disentangles the complex history of their creation and considers in turn their style and formal structure, their contents as programme music, aspects of their orchestration and their reception and influence. All this is supported by a wealth of primary documents, including Mendelssohn's correspondence, memoirs of his friends, and nineteenth-century critical reviews.

Author : John Michael Cooper
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815315131
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy written by John Michael Cooper and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an annotated reference guide to the life and works of this important German composer. It opens with a historical overview of Mendelssohn's reception by contemporary and posthumous audiences and scholars, tracing the interactions between his reception and political and cultural events. It contains a complete annotated bibliography of the literature about Mendelssohn, including biographies, reviews, scholarly articles and interpretations, and reference material. It also offers important information on the Mendelssohn family, including Fanny Hensel, Felix's sister who was also a composer and musician. Cooper's work is the most up-to-date and thorough resource for students of Mendelssohn and his times.

Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195179889
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mendelssohn written by R. Larry Todd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the distinguished composer, musician, and artist draws on his correspondence, diaries, and creative works to analyze his most distinctive achievements as well as his lesser-known pieces, exploring his religious heritage, role as a Jewish performer, and complex relationship with his sister. (Biography)

Author : Steven Vande Moortele
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107163196
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner written by Steven Vande Moortele and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of musical form in operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850.

Author : Benedict Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135155851X
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mendelssohn written by Benedict Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays brings together a selection of the most significant and representative writings on Mendelssohn from the last fifty years. Divided into four main subject areas, it makes available twenty-two essays which have transformed scholarly awareness of this crucial and ever-popular nineteenth-century composer and musician; it also includes a specially commissioned introductory chapter which offers a critical overview of the last half century of Mendelssohn scholarship and the direction of future research. The addition of new translations of two influential essays by Carl Dahlhaus, hitherto unavailable in English, adds to the value of this volume which brings back in to circulation important scholarly works and constitutes an indispensable reference work for Mendelssohn scholars.

Author : Peter Mercer-Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521533423
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Mendelssohn written by Peter Mercer-Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys the life, work, and posthumous reception of nineteenth-century German-Jewish composer Felix Mendelssohn.

Author : Benedict Taylor Ph.D.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190611804
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Mendelssohn written by Benedict Taylor Ph.D. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the foremost composers, conductors, and pianists of the nineteenth century, Felix Mendelssohn played a fundamental role in the shaping of modern musical tastes through his contributions to the early music revival and the formation of the Austro-German musical canon. His career allows for a remarkable meeting point for critical engagement with a host of crucial issues in the last two centuries of music history, including the relation between musical meaning and social function, programmatic and absolute music, notions of classicism and Romanticism, modernism and historicism. It also serves as a pertinent case-study of the roles political ideology, racism, and musical ignorance may play in creating and perpetuating a composer's posthumous reception. Fittingly, Rethinking Mendelssohn focuses on critical engagement with the composer's music and aesthetics, and on the interpretation of his works in relation to contemporaneous culture. Building on the renaissance in Mendelssohn scholarship of the last two decades, Rethinking Mendelssohn sets a fresh and exciting tone for research on the composer. Opening new ways of understanding Mendelssohn and setting the future direction of Mendelssohn studies, the contributing scholars pay particular attention to Mendelssohn's contested views on the relationship between art and religion, analysis of Mendelssohn's instrumental music in the wake of recent controversies in Formenlehre, and the burgeoning interest in his previously neglected contribution to the German song.

Author : Felix Mendelssohn
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457475535
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songs without Words (Complete) and Six Children's Pieces, Op. 72 written by Felix Mendelssohn and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expertly arranged Piano music by Felix Mendelssohn from the Kalmus Editions series. These Romantic era songs were written for advanced players. This collection contains all fifty Songs Without Words and the Six Children's Pieces

Author : Siegwart Reichwald
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253002613
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mendelssohn in Performance written by Siegwart Reichwald and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring many aspects of Felix Mendelssohn's multi-faceted career as musician and how it intersects with his work as composer, contributors discuss practical issues of music making such as performance space, instruments, tempo markings, dynamics, phrasings, articulations, fingerings, and instrument techniques. They present the conceptual and ideological underpinnings of Mendelssohn's approach to performance, interpretation, and composing through the contextualization of specific performance events and through the theoretic actualization of performances of specific works. Contributors rely on manuscripts, marked or edited scores, and performance parts to convey a deeper understanding of musical expression in 19th-century Germany. This study of Mendelssohn's work as conductor, pianist, organist, violist, accompanist, music director, and editor of old and new music offers valuable perspectives on 19th-century performance practice issues.

Author : Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hebrides Overture, Op. 26 written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and published by . This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: