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Cambridge University Press Beethovens Critics Aesthetic Dilemmas and Resolutions during the Composers Lifetime
Book SynopsisThis 1990 book is a survey of the critical reaction to Beethoven's music as it appeared in the major musical journals, French as well as German, of his day, and represents the first published history of Beethoven reception. The author discusses the philosophical and analytical implications of these reviews and reassesses what has come to be the accepted view of a nineteenth-century musical aesthetics rooted in Romantic Idealism. Wallace sees Beethoven's critics as in fact providing a link between two apparently antithetical approaches to music: the eighteenth-century emphasis on expression and extra-musical interpretation and the nineteenth-century emphasis on 'absolute' music and formal analysis. This book thus provides, in addition to a carefully documented study of Beethoven's critical reception, a re-evaluation of his oeuvre and its significance in music history. An index of all reviews cited is provided, and a further appendix contains the quoted material in its original language.Trade Review'Robin Wallace's book is an important addition to the literature in the field, providing a detailed, yet concisely presented examination of the critical reception of Beethoven in contemporary musical periodicals.' Music and Letters'Beethoven's Critics contains a wealth of fascinating information about the ways in which the composer's contemporaries and the following generation performed, heard, studied and evaluated his music.' Classical MusicTable of ContentsList of abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Leipzig Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung; 2. Berlin and A. B. Marx; 3. Other German sources: the controversy over the late music; 4. French Beethoven criticism; 5. The Fifth Symphony; Conclusion; Appendixes; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Bach Brandenburg Concertos The Brandenburg Concertos Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Berg Violin Concerto Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Haydn String Quartets Op 50 Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Handels Oratorios and EighteenthCentury Thought
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Cambridge University Press Russians on Russian Music 18301880 An Anthology 18301880 An Anthology in Translation
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Cambridge University Press Vivaldi The Four Seasons and Other Concertos Op 8 Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Vivaldi Four SeasonsConcertos Op8 The Four Seasons and Other Concertos Op 8 Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Mendelssohn Studies Cambridge Composer Studies
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Cambridge University Press American Experimental Music 18901940
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Cambridge University Press Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs
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Cambridge University Press Music in the German Renaissance Sources Styles and Contexts
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Cambridge University Press Music and Victorian Philanthropy The Tonic SolFa Movement
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Cambridge University Press Haydns Jews Representation and Reception on the Operatic Stage
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Cambridge University Press Beethoven Violin Concerto Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Mahler Das Lied von der Erde The Song of the Earth Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Mahler Das Lied von der Erde Das Lied Von Der Erde the Song of the Earth Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Beethoven Eroica Symphony Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Haydn The Paris Symphonies Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Bartk Concerto for Orchestra Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Vaughan Williams Studies Cambridge Composer Studies
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Cambridge University Press The Life of Berlioz Musical Lives
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Cambridge University Press Music in Spain during the Eighteenth Century
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Cambridge University Press Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 20 and 21 Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Mozart Piano Concertos Nos 20 21 Piano Concertos Nos 20 and 21 Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Bartok Concerto for Orchestra Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press The Life of Berlioz Musical Lives
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Cambridge University Press The BoulezCage Correspondence
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Cambridge University Press Hugo Wolf and the Wagnerian Inheritance
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Cambridge University Press New Musical Resources
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Cambridge University Press New Musical Resources
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Cambridge University Press Musical Modernism at the Turn of the TwentyFirst Century Music in the Twentieth Century Series Number 26
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Cambridge University Press The Lure and Legacy of Music at Versailles Louis XIV and the Aix School
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Cambridge University Press The Life of Bach Musical Lives
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Mahler Cambridge Companions to Music
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Cambridge University Press Music from the Tang Court Some Ancient Connections Explored
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Cambridge University Press The Motet in the Age of Du Fay
Book SynopsisTraces the evolution and transformation of the Latin-texted motet during the lifetime of the leading composer of the age, Guillaume Du Fay. The book includes an account of internal and external forces that influenced the transformation of the motet and of fifteenth-century music more generally.Trade Review' … a marvellous lesson in how to appreciate what remains for most modern music lovers an unfamiliar form.' BBC Music Magazine'Cumming has provided us with a highly useful and workable map of stylistic change for the motet.' The Times Literary Supplement' … Cumming writes extremely clearly and is an excellent guide.' The SingerTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Models and Methods: 1. Approaches and analogies; 2. Subgenre, interpretation, and the generic repertoire; 3. Fifteenth-century uses of the term 'motet'; Part II. Motets in the Early Fifteenth Century: The Case of Bologna Q15: 4. The motet section of Bologna Q15 and its ramifying roots; 5. A new hybrid subgenre: the cut-circle motet; 6. Other new hybrid subgenres; 7. The motet in the early fifteenth century: evolution and interpretation; Part III. Motets in the Mid-Fifteenth Century: The Case of the Trent Codices: 8. Motets in the Trent codices: establishing the boundaries; 9. English and continental cantilena-style motets; 10. Motets with a tenor cantus firmus c. 1430–1450; 11. Freely composed four-voice writing in transition; 12. The four-voice motet c. 1450–1475.
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Cambridge University Press E. T. A. Hoffmanns Musical Writings
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Cambridge University Press Faure and French Musical Aesthetics 13 Music in the Twentieth Century Series Number 13
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Cambridge University Press English Choral Practice 14001650 Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice Series Number 5
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to survey the performing practices in English choral music in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including the period of the English Reformation. The essays, all written by specialists in the field, consider in depth such areas as the growth and development of the 'church' choir, related issues of vocal tessitura, performing pitch, the systems of pronunciation appropriate for Latin- and English-texted music, and the day-to-day training of choristers. There is also an investigation of the local circumstances under which many of the important manuscripts of the period were compiled, which reveals an unsuspectedly close interrelationship between domestic music and music for the church. In addition, a study of surviving sources reveals that they give little more than a general guide as to their composers' and copyists' intentions.Trade Review'... it is useful indeed to have so much information gathered into one volume.' Musical TimesTable of Contents1. To chorus from quartet: the performing resource for English church polyphony, c. 1390–1559; 2. Editing and performing musica speculativa; 3. The sound of Latin in England before and after the Reformation; 4. English pronunciation c. 1500–c. 1625; 5. Byrd, Tallis and Ferrabosco; 6. John Baldwin and changing concepts of text underlay; 7. Sacred songs in the chamber; 8. The education of choristers in England during the sixteenth century; 9. The 'burden of proof': the editor as detective.
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Cambridge University Press Schoenberg and Redemption
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Cambridge University Press Chromatic Beauty in the Late Medieval Chanson
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Cambridge University Press Bruckner Studies Cambridge Composer Studies
Book SynopsisBruckner Studies, first published in 1997, presents musicological and theoretical research on the life and music of Anton Bruckner. It is one of the most important English-language books on the composer since Robert Simpson's The Essence of Bruckner. The essays provide fresh biographical insights into his enigmatic personality, working procedures, and circle of students and friends; consider the fascinating history of the dissemination of his music during his lifetime and in this century, including its reception in Nazi Germany; and provide analytical perspectives on his musical style and its origins. The volume challenges the reader to reassess the man and his music in a fresh light, unencumbered by decades of special interest and propaganda which have coloured perceptions of Bruckner for more than a century.Trade Review'… its influences could well be salutary.' BBC Music Magazine'This is, undoubtedly, the most important book on Bruckner to emerge in the English language since the publication, more than a decade ago, of Robert Simpson's The Essence of Bruckner and it adds immeasurably to our knowledge of the subject.' ScenariaTable of ContentsList of plates; Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I. Historical Studies: 1. An anatomy of change: Anton Bruckner's revisions to the Mass in F Minor Paul Hawkshaw; 2. A hidden personality: access to an 'inner biography' of Anton Bruckner Elisabeth Maier; 3. Bruckner and Viennese Wagnerism Margaret Notley; 4. The annexation of Anton Bruckner: Nazi revisionism and the politics of appropriation Bryan Gilliam; 5. 'Return to the pure sources': the ideology and text-critical legacy of the first Bruckner Gesamtausgabe Benjamin Marcus Korstvedt; 6. Bruckner and the Bayreuthians; or, Das Geheimnis der Form bei Anton Bruckner Stephen McClatchie; 7. Josef Schalk and the theory of harmony at the end of the nineteenth century Robert W. Wason; Part II. Analytical Studies: 8. The finale of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony and tragic reversed sonata form Timothy L. Jackson; 9. Some aspects of prolongation procedures in the Ninth Symphony (Scherzo and Adagio) Edward Laufer; 10. Bruckner's sonata deformations Warren Darcy; 11. Phrase rhythm in Bruckner's early orchestral Scherzi Joseph C. Kraus; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Life of Richard Strauss Musical Lives
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Cambridge University Press The Life of Debussy Musical Lives
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Cambridge University Press Jancek Studies Cambridge Composer Studies
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten
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Cambridge University Press The Life of Webern
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