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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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Cambridge University Press Brahms A German Requiem Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Berlioz Studies Cambridge Composer Studies
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Cambridge University Press Wagners Musical Prose Texts and Contexts 3 New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism Series Number 3
Book SynopsisThis book is a study of the prose writings of Richard Wagner and their relevance to an understanding of his music and drama, as well as their relation to music criticism and aesthetics in the nineteenth century in general. As a by-product of Wagner's many-faceted career as musician, conductor, cultural critic and controversial ideologue, the writings are documents of undisputed interpretative value. This study focuses on Wagner's words on music, and interprets them in the light of the musical, aesthetic and critical contexts that generated them. Professor Grey considers Wagner's ambivalence concerning the idea of 'absolute music' and the capacity of music to project meaning or drama from within its own system of referents. Particularly relevant are Wagner's appropriation of a Beethoven legacy, the metaphors of musical 'gender' and 'biology' in Opera and Drama and the critical background to ideas of 'motive' and 'leitmotif' in theory and practice.Trade Review"...we are very fortunate to have this new study, which deals with Wagner's writings in an intelligent, authoritative, and probing manner. Thomas S. Grey seems to have read not only everything Wagner wrote but everything written about him from his own day to the present and about the principle aesthetic issues relevant to the Wagner `case.'...the scope and command of Grey's book is...magisterial." The Opera Quarterly"This is a serious study that no Wagnerian scholar should ignore." Warren Darcy, NotesTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Wagner and the problematics of 'absolute music' in the nineteenth century; 2. Beethoven reception and the hermeneutic impulse: 'poetic ideas' and new forms; 3. Engendering music drama: Opera and Drama and its metaphors; 4. The 'poetic-musical period' and the 'evolution' of Wagnerian form; 5. Endless melodies; 6. Motive and motivations: leitmotif and 'symphonic' drama; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Schubert Die schne Mllerin Die Scheone Meullerin Cambridge Music Handbooks
Book SynopsisThis is a guide to both the music and the poetry of Schubert's much loved song cycle which was composed in 1823 and is considered one of the greatest masterpieces of the repertoire.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; 1. The poet of Die schöne Mullerin; 2. Schubert and the genesis of the music; 3. Romantic illusions: the poetic texts, nos. 1-12; 4. Disillusionment and death: the poetic texts continued; 5. The music of Die schöne Mullerin; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Mozart Cosi Fan Tutte Cos Fan Tutte Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Wagner and Russia Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
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Cambridge University Press Nielsen Symphony No 5 Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Britten War Requiem Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Chopin The Piano Concertos Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Purcell Studies Cambridge Composer Studies
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Cambridge University Press Nielsen Symphony No 5 Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Britten War Requiem Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Debussy La Mer Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Chopin The Piano Concertos Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Holst The Planets Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Beethoven The Pastoral Symphony Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Beethoven Violin Concerto Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Shostakovich Studies Cambridge Composer Studies
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Cambridge University Press Monteverdi Vespers 1610 Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Haydns Jews Representation and Reception on the Operatic Stage
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Cambridge University Press Camb Companion to Handel Cambridge Companions to Music
Handel is recognised as one of the principal creative figures in Baroque music. In this Companion acknowledged experts on Handel make their expertise accessible to the interested general reader and music lover. All the genres in which Handel composed are considered including oratorio, chamber cantata, opera, and church music, as well as works for the keyboard and orchestra. The wide-ranging, specially-commissioned essays cover topics from Handel's composing methods to his treatment of the Italian language and matters of performance practice. The background to Handel's musical career is a major theme of the volume. The opening chapters deal with his musical education in Germany and the circumstances in Italy during his time there. Most of Handel's career was based in London and important topics here include contemporary concert life and theatre management, the British and Italian musicians among whom he worked, and the librettists for the English oratorios.
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Cambridge University Press Holst The Planets Cambridge Music Handbooks
Book SynopsisThis book is the first comprehensive guide to Holst's popular orchestral suite The Planets. It considers the music in detail and places the work in its historical context, describing the circumstances of its composition and its meteoric rise to popular acclaim. Starting with Holst's particular interest in astrology, Professor Greene explores the plotting of the work's central melodic and harmonic gestures to reveal a profound statement of human character and Holst's own psychological journey toward the mystic state. Using parallels in the verbal arts Greene weaves a fascinating tale of musical communication. An understanding of The Planets is crucial to a full appreciation of Holst's profound late works, and Greene's systematic appraisal provides the first revealing light in this direction.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: musical character and a theory of musical rhetoric; 1. Holst and the two Londons; 2. Genesis; 3. Reception; 4. The character plots (1): Mars to Mercury; 5. The character plots (2): Jupiter to Neptune; 6. On becoming The Planets: the overall design; Epilogue; Appendices; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Beethoven Pastoral Symphony The Pastoral Symphony Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Monteverdi Vespers 1610 Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Debussy Studies Cambridge Composer Studies
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Cambridge University Press The Life of Mahler Musical Lives
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Cambridge University Press Liszt Sonata in B Minor Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press The Life of Mahler Musical Lives
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Cambridge University Press The Life of Bellini Musical Lives
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Cambridge University Press Liszt Sonata in B Minor Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press On Mozart
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Cambridge University Press Bach Studies 2
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Cambridge University Press Mahler Studies
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Cambridge University Press Mozart Clarinet Concerto Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Brahms Symphony No 1 Cambridge Music Handbooks
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Cambridge University Press Webern Studies
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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 On Mozart Woodrow Wilson Center Press
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Chopin Cambridge Companions to Music
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Cambridge University Press Mozart Clarinet Concerto Cambridge Music Handbooks
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