Mendelssohn Time And Memory

Author : Benedict Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139501364
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mendelssohn, Time and Memory written by Benedict Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felix Mendelssohn has long been viewed as one of the most historically minded composers in western music. This book explores the conceptions of time, memory and history found in his instrumental compositions, presenting an intriguing new perspective on his ever-popular music. Focusing on Mendelssohn's innovative development of cyclic form, Taylor investigates how the composer was influenced by the aesthetic and philosophical movements of the period. This is of key importance not only for reconsideration of Mendelssohn's work and its position in nineteenth-century culture, but also more generally concerning the relationship between music, time and subjectivity. One of very few detailed accounts of Mendelssohn's music, the study presents a new and provocative reading of the meaning of the composer's work by connecting it to wider cultural and philosophical ideas.

Author : Benedict Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190206055
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Melody of Time written by Benedict Taylor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music has been seen since the Romantic era as the quintessentially temporal art, possessing a unique capacity to invoke the human experience of time. This book explores the multiple ways in which music may provide insight into the problematics of time, spanning the dynamic century between Beethoven and Elgar.

Author : Benedict Taylor Ph.D.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190611790
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( 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 : 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
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190611782
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Mendelssohn written by Benedict Taylor and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Rethinking Mendelssohn offers a new perspective on Mendelssohn's music and aesthetics, arguing for a fresh critical understanding of the composer, his music, and its central relationship to nineteenth-century culture. Building on the renaissance in Mendelssohn scholarship of the last two decades, the present book sets a new tone for research on Mendelssohn, challenging the traditional modes of discourse about this composer in moving beyond rehabilitation and source studies to engage in rigorous criticism and analysis. In a word, it seeks to rethink the issues that shaped Mendelssohn, his music and its reception from his own day down to the present. This volume includes contributions from younger, emerging scholars as well as from some of the most prominent figures outside specialist Mendelssohn circles in order to open up new ways of understanding the composer and set out future directions in Mendelssohn studies. Particular attention is given here to Mendelssohn's contested views on the relationship between art and religion, the analysis of his instrumental music in the wake of recent controversies in Formenlehre and his historical importance in this field, and the burgeoning interest in his previously neglected contribution to the German song tradition, besides offering new accounts of some of this composer's most familiar orchestral pieces. ""--

Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199884528
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fanny Hensel written by R. Larry Todd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847) was an extraordinary musician who left well over four hundred compositions, most of which fell into oblivion until their rediscovery late in the twentieth century. In Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn, R. Larry Todd offers a compelling, authoritative account of Hensel's life and music, and her struggle to emerge as a publicly recognized composer.

Author : Franoise Tillard
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780931340963
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fanny Mendelssohn written by Franoise Tillard and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the life and music of the composer Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn's older sister, who created important music in spite of her family's lack of support

Author : David Damschroder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108418031
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harmony in Mendelssohn and Schumann written by David Damschroder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A creative and accessible harmonic analysis of major works by key composers, demonstrating innovative methods in harmonic theory with sound examples.

Author : David M. Bynog
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190916125
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes for Violists written by David M. Bynog and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces for the instrument, making it an essential resource for professional, amateur, and student violists alike. With engaging prose supported by fact-filled analytical charts, the book offers rich biographical information and insightful analyses that help violists gain a more complete understanding of pieces like Béla Bartók's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, Rebecca Clarke's Sonata for Viola and Piano, Robert Schumann's Märchenbilder for Viola and Piano, op. 113, Carl Stamitz's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra in D Major, Igor Stravinsky's Élégie for Viola or Violin Unaccompanied, and thirty other masterpieces. This comprehensive guide to key pieces from the viola repertoire from the eighteenth through the twentieth century covers concertos, chamber pieces, and works for solo viola by a wide range of composers, including Bach, Telemann, Mozart, Hoffmeister, Walton, and Hindemith. Author David M. Bynog not only offers clear structural analyses of these compositions but also situates them in their historical contexts as he highlights crucial biographical information on composers and explores the circumstances of the development and performance of each work. By connecting performance studies with scholarship, this indispensable handbook for students and professionals allows readers to gain a more complete picture of each work and encourages them to approach other compositions in a similarly analytical manner.