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Beethoven: Eroica Symphony

Author : Thomas Sipe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521475627

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The Eroica Symphony is perhaps Beethoven's most provocative work. Its unprecedented design and its powerful emotional impact forever redefined the potential of musical expression. The work was conceived as a homage to Napoleon Bonaparte, but understood for over a century as a passionate rejection of the tyranny he came to represent. This book traces the compositional process and puts the Eroica in precise historical and aesthetic perspective: the political situations that brought about both the dedication to Napoleon and its withdrawal show that Beethoven followed diplomatic developments astutely. Early interpretations by Beethoven's contemporaries show that they understood the work's import clearly. This study focuses on Beethoven's unique ability to imbue traditional symphonic forms with the idealism of his philosophical mentor, Friedrich Schiller.

Beethoven's Eroica

Author : James Hamilton-Paterson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781541697546

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Beethoven's Eroica by James Hamilton-Paterson Pdf

An ode to Beethoven's revolutionary masterpiece, his Third Symphony In 1805, the world of music was startled by an avant-garde and explosive new work. Intellectually and emotionally, Beethoven's Third Symphony, the "Eroica," rudely broke the mold of the Viennese Classical symphony and revealed a powerful new expressiveness, both personal and societal. Even the whiff of actual political revolution was woven into the work-it was originally inscribed to Napoleon Bonaparte, a dangerous hero for a composer dependent on conservative royal patronage. With the first two stunning chords of the "Eroica," classical music was transformed. In Beethoven's Eroica, James Hamilton-Paterson reconstructs this great moment in Western culture, the shock of the music and the symphony's long afterlife.

The Cambridge Companion to the ‘Eroica' Symphony

Author : Nancy November
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108422581

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The Cambridge Companion to the ‘Eroica' Symphony by Nancy November Pdf

A stimulating, up-to-date overview of the genesis, analysis, and reception of this landmark symphony.

Adult Piano Adventures Classics Book 2 - Symphony Themes, Opera Gems and Classical Favorites

Author : Nancy Faber,Randall Faber
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781616779191

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Adult Piano Adventures Classics Book 2 - Symphony Themes, Opera Gems and Classical Favorites by Nancy Faber,Randall Faber Pdf

(Faber Piano Adventures ). In this inspiring collection, late-elementary to early-intermediate pianists will find appealing arrangements that advance skills while exploring masterworks of Western music. The famous orchestral, keyboard, and operatic repertoire here spans four periods of music history. In the Baroque & Classical section, discover the elegance of Bach, the beauty of Mozart and the passion of Beethoven. Through the pages of the Romantic & Impressionistic section, sample the lyricism of Chopin, the drama of Grieg, and the atmosphere of Debussy. May the melodies of these and many other composers open an enduring world of expression and sound.

Beethoven's Heroic Symphony

Author : Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781580895309

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Beethoven's Heroic Symphony by Anna Harwell Celenza Pdf

Discover the little-known story of Beethoven's beloved masterwork. As the best pianist in Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven had everything: talent, money, fame. But he also had a terrible secret. He was slowly going deaf. Though his hearing deserted him, the maestro never lost his music. Seeking inspiration for his compositions, Beethoven hit upon Napoleon Bonaparte, then considered a liberator and a folk hero. Soon after Beethoven completed the work, Napoleon declared himself Emperor of France; betrayed and enraged, Beethoven tore his copy of the score to pieces. But his friend Ferdinand rescued a copy, and in time, Beethoven renamed it Eroica: the Heroic Symphony, dedicated to hero in each and every one of us.

Symphony no. 3 in E-flat major, op. 55

Author : Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486297969

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Symphony no. 3 in E-flat major, op. 55 by Ludwig van Beethoven Pdf

This dynamic and expressive work initiated an irrevocable change in the course of symphonic music, marking the end of the classical era and the beginning of romanticism. Authoritative source.

Beethoven Hero

Author : Scott Burnham
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780691215884

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Bringing together reception history, music analysis and criticism, the history of music theory, and the philosophy of music, Beethoven Hero explores the nature and persistence of Beethoven's heroic style. What have we come to value in this music, asks Scott Burnham, and why do generations of critics and analysts hear it in much the same way? Specifically, what is it that fosters the intensity of listener engagement with the heroic style, the often overwhelming sense of identification with its musical process? Starting with the story of heroic quest heard time and again in the first movement of the Eroica Symphony, Burnham suggests that Beethoven's music matters profoundly to its listeners because it projects an empowering sense of self, destiny, and freedom, while modeling ironic self-consciousness. In addition to thus identifying Beethoven's music as an overarching expression of values central to the age of Goethe and Hegel, the author describes and then critiques the process by which the musical values of the heroic style quickly became the controlling model of compositional logic in Western music criticism and analysis. Apart from its importance for students of Beethoven, this book will appeal to those interested in canon formation in the arts and in music as a cultural, ethical, and emotional force--and to anyone concerned with what we want from music and what music does for us.

Beethoven's Symphonies

Author : Martin Geck
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226453880

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Beethoven's Symphonies by Martin Geck Pdf

In the years spanning from 1800 to 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven completed nine symphonies, now considered among the greatest masterpieces of Western music. Yet despite the fact that this time period, located in the wake of the Enlightenment and at the peak of romanticism, was one of rich intellectual exploration and social change, the influence of such threads of thought on Beethoven’s work has until now remained hidden beneath the surface of the notes. Beethoven’s Symphonies presents a fresh look at the great composer’s approach and the ideas that moved him, offering a lively account of the major themes unifying his radically diverse output. Martin Geck opens the book with an enthralling series of cultural, political, and musical motifs that run throughout the symphonies. A leading theme is Beethoven’s intense intellectual and emotional engagement with the figure of Napoleon, an engagement that survived even Beethoven’s disappointment with Napoleon’s decision to be crowned emperor in 1804. Geck also delves into the unique ways in which Beethoven approached beginnings and finales in his symphonies, as well as his innovative use of particular instruments. He then turns to the individual symphonies, tracing elements—a pitch, a chord, a musical theme—that offer a new way of thinking about each work and will make even the most devoted fans of Beethoven admire the symphonies anew. Offering refreshingly inventive readings of the work of one of history’s greatest composers, this book shapes a fascinating picture of the symphonies as a cohesive oeuvre and of Beethoven as a master symphonist.

Adult Piano Adventures - Classics, Book 1

Author : Nancy Faber,Randall Faber
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781616779153

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Adult Piano Adventures - Classics, Book 1 by Nancy Faber,Randall Faber Pdf

(Faber Piano Adventures ). Adult Piano Adventures Classics Book 1 celebrates great masterworks of Western music, including symphony themes, opera gems, and classical favorites. The melodies of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and other master composers are arranged at just the right level for adult beginners and for those who are returning to the keyboard. Section 1 features piano arrangements with minimal hand position changes, and many selections include an optional duet part. Section 2 introduces the I, IV, and V7 chords in the key of C major, harmonizing themes such as Sibelius's Finlandia, Schubert's The Trout, and Mendelssohn's Spring Song. Section 3 presents the primary chords in the key of G major, with arrangements of Vivaldi's Autumn (from The Four Seasons), Mozart's theme from The Magic Flute, Lizst's Liebestraum, and more.

Beethoven

Author : Jan Swafford
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571312573

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Beethoven by Jan Swafford Pdf

Sunday Times Classical Music Book of the Year 'Magisterial, warm, and engaging . . . A triumph of scholarship and musical affinity . . . Jan Swafford is to be saluted.' Independent Jan Swafford's biographies of composers Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the world's most iconic music. Swafford mines sources never before used in English-language biographies to reanimate the revolutionary ferment of Enlightenment-era Bonn, where Beethoven grew up and imbibed the ideas that would shape all of his future work. Swafford then tracks his subject to Vienna, capital of European music, where Beethoven built his career in the face of critical incomprehension, crippling ill health, romantic rejection, and 'fate's hammer', his ever-encroaching deafness. At the time of his death he was so widely celebrated that over ten thousand people attended his funeral. This book is a biography of Beethoven the man and musician, not the myth, and throughout, Swafford - himself a composer - offers insightful readings of Beethoven's key works. More than a decade in the making, this will be the standard Beethoven biography for years to come.

Beethoven

Author : John Suchet
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780802192912

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“An ideal ‘first book’ on Beethoven” from one of the world’s most eminent classical music aficionados (Booklist). Beethoven scholar and classical radio host John Suchet has had a lifelong, ardent interest in the man and his music. Here, in his first full-length biography, Suchet illuminates the composer’s difficult childhood, his struggle to maintain friendships and romances, his ungovernable temper, his obsessive efforts to control his nephew’s life, and the excruciating decline of his hearing. This absorbing narrative provides a comprehensive account of a momentous life, as it takes the reader on a journey from the composer’s birth in Bonn to his death in Vienna. Chronicling the landmark events in Beethoven’s career—from his competitive encounters with Mozart to the circumstances surrounding the creation of the well-known “Für Elise” and Moonlight Sonata—this book enhances understanding of the composer’s character, inspiring a deeper appreciation for his work. Beethoven scholarship is constantly evolving, and Suchet draws on the latest research, using rare source material (some of which has never before been published in English) to paint a complete and vivid portrait of the legendary prodigy. “A gripping and thought-provoking read.” —Howard Shelley, pianist and conductor “By exercising a genuine authority in identifying how Beethoven, the man, manifests himself in our appreciation of the music, Suchet brings an incisive freshness to an extraordinary life.” —Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music

Beethoven: Grosse Fuge

Author : Ludwig Van Beethoven
Publisher : Performer's Edition
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781450518659

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Beethoven: Grosse Fuge by Ludwig Van Beethoven Pdf

Originally written as the finale of Beethoven's 13th Quartet (Op. 130), the Grosse Fuge was later published as a separate work following the poor reception of that quartet by the public. In its current form, the Grosse Fuge (Op. 134), has become much loved among Beethoven afficianados and is seen as one of his most "contemporary" works.

Beethoven

Author : Nicholas Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993-06-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521399246

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Beethoven by Nicholas Cook Pdf

Nicholas Cook's guide charts the dramatic transformation in the reception of Symphony No. 9.

Beethoven's Symphonies

Author : John Bell Young
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 1574671693

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Beethoven's Symphonies by John Bell Young Pdf

Ludwig Van Beethoven's nine symphonies stand as towering masterworks at the core of the classical canon. In Beethoven's hands, the symphony expanded dramatically in scope and power in a way that would revolutionise both the form itself and music in general. The impact of Beethoven's nine was such that composers long after him would write their own symphonies in his shadow. In this book, acclaimed Pianist and critic John Bell Young explores each of the nine symphonies, always looking beneath the surface for what makes the music so compelling. He places them in their historical and cultural context, and he describes how the Russian concept of intonatsiia, a way of perceiving relationships "between the notes," can help deepen our appreciation of these pieces. The accompanying CD contains selections from all of the symphonies, each performance conducted by the legendary Wilhelm Furtwangler.

Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements

Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393350166

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Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements by Anthony Burgess Pdf

Anthony Burgess draws on his love of music and history in this novel he called “elephantine fun” to write. A grand and affectionate tragicomic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte that teases and reweaves Napoleon’s life into a pattern borrowed—in liberty, equality, and fraternity—from Beethoven’s Third “Eroica” Symphony, in this rich, exciting, bawdy, and funny novel Anthony Burgess has pulled out all the stops for a virtuoso performance that is literary, historical, and musical.