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Cambridge University Press Liszt as Transcriber
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Cambridge University Press Lully Studies Cambridge Composer Studies
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Cambridge University Press Webern Studies Cambridge Composer Studies
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Cambridge University Press Beethoven the Pianist Musical Performance and Reception
Book SynopsisPresenting a picture of Beethoven's formative years and early career, this study shows how the composer was influenced by teachers, theorists and instruments. Skowroneck pays special attention to Beethoven's trills and legato, and thoroughly revises the idea that Beethoven treated his pianos roughly and with impatience throughout his career.Trade Review'This book is essential reading for anyone who wants the latest research on Beethoven's piano playing, plus a comprehensive collection of all the significant documentation relating to this subject. There should be a copy in every major library and on the bookshelves of all pianists who wish to play Beethoven's music in the way he envisaged.' Barry Cooper, University of ManchesterTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Beethoven, his Playing and his Instruments: 1. Beethoven's early training; 2. Beethoven the pianist; 3. Beethoven's first decade in Vienna; 4. The 1803 Érard Grand Piano; Part II. Sound Ideal and Performance: 5. The builder's influence; 6. The player's influence; Part III. Sound Ideal, Notation and Stylistic Change: 7. Common touch and legato; 8. The performance of Beethoven's trills; Epilogue; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Debussy Studies Cambridge Composer Studies
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Cambridge University Press The Musical World of a Medieval Monk Admar de Chabannes in Eleventhcentury Aquitaine
Book SynopsisJames Grier documents the musical activities of AdÃmar de Chabannes, eleventh-century monk, historian, homilist and tireless polemicist for the apostolic status of Saint Martial, patron saint of the abbey that bore his name in Limoges. AdÃmar left behind some 451 folios of music with notation in his autograph hand, a musical resource without equal before the seventeenth century. He introduced, at strategic moments, pieces familiar from the standard liturgy for an apostle and items of his own composition. These reveal AdÃmar to be a supremely able designer of liturgies and a highly original composer. This study analyses his accomplishments as a musical scribe, compiler of liturgies, editor of existing musical works and composer; it also offers a speculative consideration of his abilities as a singer; and finally, it places AdÃmar's musical activities in the context of liturgical, musical and political developments at the abbey of Saint Martial in Limoges.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'To have identified a substantial body of music composed by and copied in the hand of this eleventh-century monk represents a breathtaking synthesis of research that few medievalists would have deemed possible several decades ago. To be able to date much of the music and its copying to a six-month period in the year 1029 is simply stunning. And to have such a musical œuvre accessible from someone in the first half of the eleventh century is unprecedented. If anyone doubts that real history can be as captivating as the best fiction, come meet Adémar and read this book.' Journal of the American Musicological SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction. Adémar de Chabannes and Saint Martial de Limoges; Music scribe; Compiler; Editor; Composer; Singer; Conclusion. The success of the Apostolic Campaign; Appendix A. Manuscripts with Adémar's music hand; Appendix B. Adémar's original compositions; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Wagner and the Romantic Hero
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Cambridge University Press Gretry and the Growth of OperaComique
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Cambridge University Press Stravinskys Piano Genesis of a Musical Language Music since 1900
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams Cambridge Companions to Music
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Cambridge University Press Mozarts Requiem Reception Work Completion Music in Context
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Cambridge University Press Hanns Eisler Political Musician
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Cambridge University Press New Mattheson Studies
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Cambridge University Press J S Bach A Life in Music
Book SynopsisPeter Williams approaches afresh the life and music of arguably the most studied of all composers, interpreting both Bach's life by deconstructing his original obituary in the light of more recent information and his music by evaluating his priorities and irrepressible creative energy. How, even though belonging to musical families on both his parents' sides, did he come to possess so bewitching a sense of rhythm and melody and a mastery of harmony that established nothing less than a norm in Western culture? In considering that the works of a composer are his biography, the book's title A Life in Music means both a life spent making music and one revealed in the music as we know it. A distinguished scholar and performer, Williams re-examines Bach's life as an orphan and family man, as an extraordinarily gifted composer and player and as an ambitious artist who never suffered fools gladly.Trade Review'Peter Williams is a master of putting question marks where they belong. He is wise enough to admit that definite answers are rarely possible. Nevertheless, guided by the 1754 Obituary, he gives splendid food for thought with his penetrating insights and truly erudite suggestions.' Gustav LeonhardtReview of the hardback: '… its freshness of approach and practical knowledge of the music are enthralling.' The Herald'… it is in this combination of musicology, common-sense psychology and an almost Shakespearean sense of drama that I find Williams at his best.' Newsletter of the American Bach SocietyReview of the hardback: '… Williams is a writer both erudite and compelling … this is a biography unafraid to raise awkward questions and make a gallant attempt to answer them … William's study, a substantial read, fills an important place in English language Bach literature.' BBC Music MagazineReview of the hardback: 'Peter Williams' observations in this … well-written volume add an imaginative and fresh dimension that will keep the 'little grey cells' charged … [This] volume could be a useful 'precursor' and we are the beneficiaries as a result.' The Journal of the London Bach SocietyReview of the hardback: 'Williams's book is dense and challenging … a rewarding read, certain to enthral equally any lover of Bach's music and admirer of the techniques of forensic enquiry.' Musical Times'… a biography that inspires engagement …' Choir and OrganTable of Contents1. Early years, 1685–1703; 2. First appointments, 1703–8; 3. Weimar, 1708–17; 4. Cöthen, 1717–23; 5. Leipzig, the first years; 6. Leipzig, the middle years; 7. Leipzig, the final years; 8. Observations, descriptions, criticisms; Epilogue; Postscript.
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Cambridge University Press brahms2
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Cambridge University Press Song on Record Volume 2
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Cambridge University Press Schoenberg and the New Music Essays by Carl Dahlhaus
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Cambridge University Press Alban Berg Master of the Smallest Link
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Cambridge University Press Wagner and Beethoven Richard Wagners Reception of Beethoven
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Cambridge University Press Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet
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Cambridge University Press Berlioz Romeo et Juliette Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Beethoven Missa Solemnis
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Cambridge University Press Haydn The Creation Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Mahler Symphony No 3 Cambridge Music Handbooks
Book SynopsisMahler's Third Symphony was conceived as a musical picture of the natural world. This handbook describes the composition of Mahler's grandiose piece of philosophical programme music in the context of the ideas that inspired it and the artistic debates and social conflicts that it reflects. In this original and wide ranging account, Peter Franklin takes the Third Symphony as a representative modern European symphony of its period and evaluates it as the culmination of Mahler's early symphonic style and a as work whose contradictory effects mirror the complexity of contemporary social and musical manners. The music is described in detail, movement by movement, with chapters on the genesis, early performance and subsequent reception of the work.Trade Review"...the writing is so engaging and insightful that many nonspecialists are likely to be inspired to study this work in depth." ChoiceTable of ContentsList of plates; Preface; Part I. The Symphony in its World: 1. Background: progress, tradition and ideas; 2. Reception: the early performances; Part II. The World in the Symphony: 3. Genesis and design; 4. The music; Appendices; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Jancek Glagolitic Mass Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Chopin The Four Ballades Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Chopin The Four Ballades Cambridge Music Handbooks
Book SynopsisChopin's four ballades are widely regarded as being amongst the most significant extended works for solo piano of the nineteenth century. In an illuminating discussion, Jim Samson combines history and analysis to provide the reader with a comprehensive picture of these popular piano works. He begins by investigating the social and musical background to Chopin's unique style. He describes the manuscript sources and evaluates the many subsequent printed editions, then considers the critical reception of the ballades and the differing interpretations of well-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century pianists. The final two chapters examine the music of all four works analytically. There is a clearly presented formal synopsis of each ballade in turn, followed by a discussion of the works collectively which explores Chopin's own conception of the title 'ballade' and how it may be understood as a musical genre.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Background; 2. Genesis and reception; 3. Form and design; 4. Genre; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Music of Britten and Tippett Studies in Themes and Techniques
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Cambridge University Press Bach Brandenburg Concertos The Brandenburg Concertos Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Bach Mass in B Minor Cambridge Music Handbooks
Book SynopsisThe Mass in B Minor is arguably Bach's greatest single work. In this short guide John Butt considers the work from many angles offering the reader basic information in a concise and accessible form. The Mass in B Minor is fraught with difficulties regarding its origin, and ambiguities concerning its function. John Butt looks again at the historical sources and provides an up-to-date summary of existing research and opinions together with new insights of his own. He gives a vivid account of the work's genesis, its historical context, and its reception by later generations. One chapter considers the work movement by movement providing the text in both Latin and English. The final group of chapters on the music itself suggests some new approaches to the work - its forms, style and overall structure - which are both critically and historically based. This is an informative and lucid guide, valuable for student and music lover alike.Trade Review'… outstanding. Into a mere 100 lucid pages, this most stimulating of our younger Bach scholar-performers has managed to pack accounts of the work's background, composition and reception history … this little book serves to illuminate not only the Mass itself, but the entire sweep of current thinking about Bach.' Bayan Northcott, BBC Music Magazine' … this little book serves to illuminate not only the Mass itself, but the entire sweep of current thinking about Bach.' Bayan Northcott, BBC Music Magazine'John Butt's handbook (116 pp inc. Index) on the Mass in B minor is an absolute MUST for anyone who wants to know about this remarkable piece in every particular.' London Bach SocietyTable of ContentsList of illustrations; List of abbreviations; Preface; 1. The musical genre of the mass ordinary; 2. Genesis and purpose; 3. Reception history; 4. Text and music: the process of adaptation and composition; 5. Ritornello forms; 6. The influence of the dance; 7. Counterpoint; 8. Figurae and the motivic texture; 9. Patterns and proportions: large-scale structuring and continuity in the Mass in B Minor; Afterword.
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Cambridge University Press Janacek Glagolitic Mass Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Verdi Requiem Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Schumann Fantasie Op17 Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Georges Bizet Carmen Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Beethoven Symphony No 9 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 Mozart The Jupiter Symphony Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra Cambridge Music Handbooks
Book SynopsisThis guide examines the intellectual background of Strauss's tone poem and considers ways in which it has been received by composers and writers, notably Romain Rolland and Bartok.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. 'Freely after Nietzsche'; 2. The Straussian tone poem as drama; 3. Strauss's individualism; 4. Composition and first performances; 5. Reception; 6. Narratives; 7. Structures; 8. Rhetoric; 9. Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Byrd Studies
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Cambridge University Press Sibelius Symphony No 5 Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Stravinsky Oedipus Rex Cambridge Music Handbooks
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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 Hebrides Overtures The Hebrides and Other Overtures Cambridge Music Handbooks
Book SynopsisThe concert overtures A Midsummer Night's Dream, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, and The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), conceived by Mendelssohn before the age of twenty, have ranked amongst the most enduring of the nineteenth-century orchestral repertoire. R. Larry Todd offers a historical, stylistic, and analytical guide to these three remarkable works which secured for Mendelssohn no small measure of his fame. After placing the overtures in the context of Mendelssohn's astonishing compositional development during the 1820s, the volume disentangles the complex history of their creation and considers in turn their style and formal structure, their contents as programme music, aspects of their orchestration and their reception and influence. All this is supported by a wealth of primary documents, including Mendelssohn's correspondence, memoirs of his friends, and nineteenth-century critical reviews.Trade Review'R. Larry Todd's slim volume about Mendelssohn's overtures is packed through with fascinating detail …' Newsletter, Ipswich Arts AssociationTable of Contents1. Background; 2. Genesis; 3. Musical influences; 4. Formal considerations: a synoptic overview; 5. The Overture as programmatic music; 6. Some thoughts on Mendelssohn's orchestration; 7. Influence and reception of the overtures.
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Cambridge University Press Stravinsky Oedipus Rex Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Mozart The Jupiter Symphony Cambridge Music Handbooks
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