[PDF] Beethoven The Complete Symphonies Vol 2 eBook

Author : Wayne M. Senner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780803212510

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The volumes in The Critical Reception of Beethoven's Compositions by His German Contemporaries bring to light contemporary perceptions of Beethoven's music, including matters such as audience, setting, facilities, orchestra, instruments, and performers as well as the relationship of Beethoven's music to theoretical and critical ideas of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These documents, most of which appear in English for the first time, have been compiled from German-language periodicals published between 1783 and 1830. They present a wide spectrum of insights into the perceptions that Beethoven's contemporaries had of his monumental music. This is the second in a projected four-volume series. It begins with Opus 55, the Eroica, and ends with Opus 72, Fidelio.

Author : Franz Liszt
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 1985-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780769241692

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Volume II of Beethoven's Symphonies (Nos. 6-9) as transcribed for piano solo by Franz Liszt. 228 pages. Contents: No. 6, Opus 28 in F Major * No. 7, Opus 92 in A Major * No. 8, Opus 93 in F Major * No. 9, Opus 125 in D Minor.

Author : Andrew Snedden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 1000369188

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Historically Informed Performance, or HIP, has become an influential and exciting development for scholars, musicians, and audiences alike. Yet it has not been unchallenged, with debate over the desirability of its central goals and the accuracy of its results. The author suggests ways out of this impasse in Romantic performance style. In this wide-ranging study, pianist and scholar Andrew John Snedden takes a step back, examining the strengths and limitations of HIP. He proposes that many problems are avoided when performance styles are understood as expressions of their cultural era rather than as simply composer intention, explaining not merely how we play, but why we play the way we do, and why the nineteenth century Romantics played very differently. Snedden examines the principal evidence we have for Romantic performance style, especially in translation of score indications and analysis of early recordings, finally focusing on the performance styles of Liszt and Chopin. He concludes with a call for the reanimation of culturally appropriate performance styles in Romantic repertoire. This study will be of great interest to scholars, performers, and students, to anyone wondering about how our performances reflect our culture, and about how the Romantics played their own culturally-embedded music.

Author : Nancy November
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108923879

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Early nineteenth-century composers, publishers and writers evolved influential ideals of Beethoven's symphonies as untouchable masterpieces. Meanwhile, many and various arrangements of symphonies, principally for amateur performers, supported diverse and 'hands-on' cultivation of the same works. Now mostly forgotten, these arrangements served a vital function in nineteenth-century musical life, extending works' meanings and reach, especially to women in the home. This book places domestic music-making back into the history of the classical symphony. It investigates a largely untapped wealth of early nineteenth-century arrangements of symphonies by Beethoven - for piano, string quartet, mixed quintet and other ensembles. The study focuses on three key agents in the nineteenth-century culture of musical arrangement: arrangers, publishers and performers. It investigates significant functions of those musical arrangements in the era: sociability, reception and canon formation. The volume also explores how conceptions of Beethoven's symphonies, and their arrangement, changed across the era with changing conception of musical works.