[PDF] The Cambridge Companion To Schubert eBook

Author : Christopher H. Gibbs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 1997-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521484244

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This Companion to Schubert examines the career, music, and reception of one of the most popular yet misunderstood and elusive composers. Sixteen chapters by leading Schubert scholars make up three parts. The first seeks to situate the social, cultural, and musical climate in which Schubert lived and worked, the second surveys the scope of his musical achievement, and the third charts the course of his reception from the perceptions of his contemporaries to the assessments of posterity. Myths and legends about Schubert the man are explored critically and the full range of his musical accomplishment is examined.

Author : Marjorie W. Hirsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108832849

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An accessible multi-disciplinary exploration of Franz Schubert's haunting late song cycle Winterreise (1827) that combines context and different analytical approaches.

Author : James Parsons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 2004-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521804714

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Beginning several generations before Schubert, the Lied first appears as domestic entertainment. In the century that follows it becomes one of the primary modes of music-making. By the time German song comes to its presumed conclusion with Richard Strauss's 1948 Vier letzte Lieder, this rich repertoire has moved beyond the home and keyboard accompaniment to the symphony hall. This is a 2004 introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre. In essays by eminent scholars, this Companion places the Lied in its full context - at once musical, literary, and cultural - with chapters devoted to focal composers as well as important issues, such as the way in which the Lied influenced other musical genres, its use as a musical commodity, and issues of performance. The volume is framed by a detailed chronology of German music and poetry from the late 1730s to the present and also contains a comprehensive bibliography.

Author : Christopher Howard Gibbs
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781139815475

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This Companion to Schubert examines the career, music, and reception of one of the most popular yet misunderstood and elusive composers. Sixteen chapters by leading Schubert scholars make up three parts. The first seeks to situate the social, cultural, and musical climate in which Schubert lived and worked, the second surveys the scope of his musical achievement, and the third charts the course of his reception from the perceptions of his contemporaries to the assessments of posterity. Myths and legends about Schubert the man are explored critically and the full range of his musical accomplishment is examined.

Author : Raymond Erickson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300070804

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The Vienna in which Franz Schubert lived for the thirty-one years of his life was not just a city of music, dance, and coffeehouses - a centre of important achievements in the arts. It was also the capital of an empire that was constantly at war in the composer's youth and that became a police state during his maturity.

Author : Christopher H. Gibbs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 25,79 MB
Release : 2000-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521595124

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This searching biography takes a fresh look at this elusive and misunderstood genius.

Author : Beate Perrey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 2007-06-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139826379

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This Companion is an accessible introduction to Schumann: his time, his temperament, his style and his œuvre. An international team of scholars explores the cultural context, musical and poetic fabric, sources of inspiration and interpretative reach of key works from the Schumann repertoire ranging from his famous lieder and piano pieces to chamber, orchestral and dramatic works. Additional chapters address Schumann's presence in nineteenth- and twentieth-century composition and the fascinating reception history of his late works. Tables, illustrations, a detailed chronology and advice on further reading make it an ideally informative handbook for both the Schumann connoisseur and the music lover. An excellent textbook for the university student of courses on key composers of nineteenth-century Western Classical music, it is an invaluable guide for all who are interested in the thought, aesthetics and affective power of one of the most intriguing figures of a culturally rich and formative period.

Author : Benedict Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1108475434

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A stimulating new approach to understanding the relationship between music and culture in the long nineteenth century.

Author : Robin Stowell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 23,16 MB
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139826549

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This Companion offers a concise and authoritative survey of the string quartet by eleven chamber music specialists. Its fifteen carefully structured chapters provide coverage of a stimulating range of perspectives previously unavailable in one volume. It focuses on four main areas: the social and musical background to the quartet's development; the most celebrated ensembles; string quartet playing, including aspects of contemporary and historical performing practice; and the mainstream repertory, including significant 'mixed ensemble' compositions involving string quartet. Various musical and pictorial illustrations and informative appendixes, including a chronology of the most significant works, complete this indispensable guide. Written for all string quartet enthusiasts, this Companion will enrich readers' understanding of the history of the genre, the context and significance of quartets as cultural phenomena, and the musical, technical and interpretative problems of chamber music performance. It will also enhance their experience of listening to quartets in performance and on recordings.

Author : Peter E. Pormann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108593607

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Hippocrates is a towering figure in Greek medicine. Dubbed the 'father of medicine', he has inspired generations of physicians over millennia in both the East and West. Despite this, little is known about him, and scholars have long debated his relationship to the works attributed to him in the so-called 'Hippocratic Corpus', although it is undisputed that many of the works within it represent milestones in the development of Western medicine. In this Companion, an international team of authors introduces major themes in Hippocratic studies, ranging from textual criticism and the 'Hippocratic question' to problems such as aetiology, physiology and nosology. Emphasis is given to the afterlife of Hippocrates from Late Antiquity to the modern period. Hippocrates had as much relevance in the fifth-century BC Greek world as in the medieval Islamic world, and he remains with us today in both medical and non-medical contexts.