[PDF] The Century Of Bach And Mozart eBook

Author : Sean Gallagher
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,97 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN :

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For many today Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stand as towering representatives of European music of the eighteenth century, composers whose works reflect intellectual, religious, and aesthetic trends of the period. Research on their compositions continues in many ways to shape our broader understanding of eighteenth-century musical thought and its contexts. This collection of essays by leading authorities in the field offers a variety of new perspectives on the two composers, as well as some of their important contemporaries, Haydn in particular. Addressing topics as diverse as the historiography of eighteenth-century music, concepts of time and musical form, the idea of the musical work and its relation to publishing practices, compositional process, and performance practice, these essays together constitute a major contribution to eighteenth-century studies. This book had its origin in a conference that took place at the Music Department of Harvard University on September 23-25, 2005, to honor Professor Christoph Wolff, Adams University Professor at Harvard University.

Author : Robert Lewis Marshall
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 2019
Category : MUSIC
ISBN : 1580469620

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Interpretive and biographical essays by a major authority on Bach and Mozart probe for clues to the driving forces and experiences that shaped the character and the extraordinary artistic achievements of these iconic composers.

Author : Karol Berger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520250915

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Uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to support the claims that it was only in the later eighteenth century that music began to take the flow of time from the past to the future seriously.

Author : Heinz GŠrtner
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 15,86 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780931340796

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Chronicles the life of John Christian, the youngest surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach, focusing on his musical training, preferences, and accomplishments as the organist of Milan Cathedral, composer to the King's Theater in London, and music master to the Queen.

Author : Daniel Heartz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393066340

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A vivid portrait of Mozart and Haydn's greatest achievements and young Beethoven's works under their influence.

Author : Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781574670233

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(Amadeus). This collection of lectures, talks, and essays focuses on three major composers of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Author : Karol Berger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520257979

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Karol Berger uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven to support two claims: first that it was only in the later 18th century that music began to take the flow of time from the past to the future seriously; and second that this change in structure was an aspect of a larger transformation towards modernity.

Author : Karol Berger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 23,37 MB
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520933699

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In this erudite and elegantly composed argument, Karol Berger uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to support two groundbreaking claims: first, that it was only in the later eighteenth century that music began to take the flow of time from the past to the future seriously; second, that this change in the structure of musical time was an aspect of a larger transformation in the way educated Europeans began to imagine and think about time with the onset of modernity, a part of a shift from the premodern Christian outlook to the modern post-Christian worldview. Until this historical moment, as Berger illustrates in his analysis of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, music was simply "in time." Its successive events unfolded one after another, but the distinction between past and future, earlier and later, was not central to the way the music was experienced and understood. But after the shift, as he finds in looking at Mozart's Don Giovanni, the experience of linear time is transformed into music's essential subject matter; the cycle of time unbends and becomes an arrow. Berger complements these musical case studies with a rich survey of the philosophical, theological, and literary trends influencing artists during this period.

Author : Patrick Kavanaugh
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 27,70 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0310208068

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This is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.