Mendelssohn Perspectives

Author : Nicole Grimes,Angela Mace
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317097396

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If the invective of Nietzsche and Shaw is to be taken as an endorsement of the lasting quality of an artist, then Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy takes pride of place beside Tennyson and Brahms in the canon of great nineteenth-century artists. Mendelssohn Perspectives presents valuable new insights into Mendelssohn’s music, biography and reception. Critically engaging a wide range of source materials, the volume combines traditional musical-analytical studies with those that draw on other humanistic disciplines to shed new light on the composer’s life, and on his contemporary and posthumous reputations. Together, these essays bring new historical and interpretive dimensions to Mendelssohn studies. The volume offers essays on Mendelssohn's Jewishness, his vast correspondence, his music for the stage, and his relationship with music of the past and future, as well as the compositional process and handling of form in the music of both Mendelssohn and his sister, the composer Fanny Hensel. German literature and aesthetics, gender and race, philosophy and science, and issues of historicism all come to bear on these new perspectives on Mendelssohn.

Author : Dr Angela Mace,Dr Nicole Grimes
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781409484141

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Mendelssohn Perspectives by Dr Angela Mace,Dr Nicole Grimes Pdf

If the invective of Nietzsche and Shaw is to be taken as an endorsement of the lasting quality of an artist, then Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy takes pride of place beside Tennyson and Brahms in the canon of great nineteenth-century artists. Mendelssohn Perspectives presents valuable new insights into Mendelssohn’s music, biography and reception. Critically engaging a wide range of source materials, the volume combines traditional musical-analytical studies with those that draw on other humanistic disciplines to shed new light on the composer’s life, and on his contemporary and posthumous reputations. Together, these essays bring new historical and interpretive dimensions to Mendelssohn studies. The volume offers essays on Mendelssohn's Jewishness, his vast correspondence, his music for the stage, and his relationship with music of the past and future, as well as the compositional process and handling of form in the music of both Mendelssohn and his sister, the composer Fanny Hensel. German literature and aesthetics, gender and race, philosophy and science, and issues of historicism all come to bear on these new perspectives on Mendelssohn.

Author : Benedict Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351558525

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Mendelssohn by Benedict Taylor Pdf

This volume of essays brings together a selection of the most significant and representative writings on Mendelssohn from the last fifty years. Divided into four main subject areas, it makes available twenty-two essays which have transformed scholarly awareness of this crucial and ever-popular nineteenth-century composer and musician; it also includes a specially commissioned introductory chapter which offers a critical overview of the last half century of Mendelssohn scholarship and the direction of future research. The addition of new translations of two influential essays by Carl Dahlhaus, hitherto unavailable in English, adds to the value of this volume which brings back in to circulation important scholarly works and constitutes an indispensable reference work for Mendelssohn scholars.

Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195179880

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Mendelssohn by R. Larry Todd Pdf

A portrait of the distinguished composer, musician, and artist draws on his correspondence, diaries, and creative works to analyze his most distinctive achievements as well as his lesser-known pieces, exploring his religious heritage, role as a Jewish performer, and complex relationship with his sister. (Biography)

Author : Benedict Taylor Ph.D.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190611804

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Rethinking Mendelssohn by Benedict Taylor Ph.D. Pdf

As one of the foremost composers, conductors, and pianists of the nineteenth century, Felix Mendelssohn played a fundamental role in the shaping of modern musical tastes through his contributions to the early music revival and the formation of the Austro-German musical canon. His career allows for a remarkable meeting point for critical engagement with a host of crucial issues in the last two centuries of music history, including the relation between musical meaning and social function, programmatic and absolute music, notions of classicism and Romanticism, modernism and historicism. It also serves as a pertinent case-study of the roles political ideology, racism, and musical ignorance may play in creating and perpetuating a composer's posthumous reception. Fittingly, Rethinking Mendelssohn focuses on critical engagement with the composer's music and aesthetics, and on the interpretation of his works in relation to contemporaneous culture. Building on the renaissance in Mendelssohn scholarship of the last two decades, Rethinking Mendelssohn sets a fresh and exciting tone for research on the composer. Opening new ways of understanding Mendelssohn and setting the future direction of Mendelssohn studies, the contributing scholars pay particular attention to Mendelssohn's contested views on the relationship between art and religion, analysis of Mendelssohn's instrumental music in the wake of recent controversies in Formenlehre, and the burgeoning interest in his previously neglected contribution to the German song.

Author : Elias Sacks
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253023872

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Moses Mendelssohn's Living Script by Elias Sacks Pdf

Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) is often described as the founder of modern Jewish thought and as a leading philosopher of the late Enlightenment. One of Mendelssohn's main concerns was how to conceive of the relationship between Judaism, philosophy, and the civic life of a modern state. Elias Sacks explores Mendelssohn's landmark account of Jewish practice--Judaism's "living script," to use his famous phrase--to present a broader reading of Mendelssohn's writings and extend inquiry into conversations about modernity and religion. By studying Mendelssohn's thought in these dimensions, Sacks suggests that he shows a deep concern with history. Sacks affords a view of a foundational moment in Jewish modernity and forwards new ways of thinking about ritual practice, the development of traditions, and the role of religion in society.

Author : Benedict Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190611781

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Rethinking Mendelssohn by Benedict Taylor Pdf

""Rethinking Mendelssohn offers a new perspective on Mendelssohn's music and aesthetics, arguing for a fresh critical understanding of the composer, his music, and its central relationship to nineteenth-century culture. Building on the renaissance in Mendelssohn scholarship of the last two decades, the present book sets a new tone for research on Mendelssohn, challenging the traditional modes of discourse about this composer in moving beyond rehabilitation and source studies to engage in rigorous criticism and analysis. In a word, it seeks to rethink the issues that shaped Mendelssohn, his music and its reception from his own day down to the present. This volume includes contributions from younger, emerging scholars as well as from some of the most prominent figures outside specialist Mendelssohn circles in order to open up new ways of understanding the composer and set out future directions in Mendelssohn studies. Particular attention is given here to Mendelssohn's contested views on the relationship between art and religion, the analysis of his instrumental music in the wake of recent controversies in Formenlehre and his historical importance in this field, and the burgeoning interest in his previously neglected contribution to the German song tradition, besides offering new accounts of some of this composer's most familiar orchestral pieces. ""--

Author : Siegwart Reichwald
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253002617

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Mendelssohn in Performance by Siegwart Reichwald Pdf

Exploring many aspects of Felix Mendelssohn's multi-faceted career as musician and how it intersects with his work as composer, contributors discuss practical issues of music making such as performance space, instruments, tempo markings, dynamics, phrasings, articulations, fingerings, and instrument techniques. They present the conceptual and ideological underpinnings of Mendelssohn's approach to performance, interpretation, and composing through the contextualization of specific performance events and through the theoretic actualization of performances of specific works. Contributors rely on manuscripts, marked or edited scores, and performance parts to convey a deeper understanding of musical expression in 19th-century Germany. This study of Mendelssohn's work as conductor, pianist, organist, violist, accompanist, music director, and editor of old and new music offers valuable perspectives on 19th-century performance practice issues.

Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992-11-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521417761

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Mendelssohn Studies by R. Larry Todd Pdf

The life and works of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy are enjoying a considerable resurgence of interest. This volume presents the most recent trends in Mendelssohn research, covering three broad categories - reception history, historical and critical essays, and case studies of particular compositions. Much of the book depends on a wealth of primary nineteenth-century documents, including little-known autograph manuscripts, letters, and sketches of the composer. Four studies consider various facets of Mendelssohn reception in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Friedhelm Krummacher considers the abiding popularity of Mendelssohn's music in England, while Peter Ward Jones reviews Mendelssohn's business dealings with English publishers; Donald Mintz examines the composer's posthumous reputation from the perspective of the revolutionary agenda of mid-nineteenth-century Germany; and Lawrence Kramer considers dynamic multiple layers of meaning in the Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture and The First Walpurgisnacht. Four essays, by Judith Silber-Ballan, J. Rigbie Turner, Wm. A. Little, and David Brodbeck, treat Mendelssohn's relationships with A. B. Marx, E. Devrient, Franz Liszt, and Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Finally, two studies by R. Larry Todd and Christa Jost focus on two major piano works, the Preludes and Fugues op. 35 and the Variations serieuses op. 54.

Author : Eftychia Papanikolaou,Markus Rathey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781666906059

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Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century by Eftychia Papanikolaou,Markus Rathey Pdf

Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century: Church, Stage, and Concert Hall explores interconnections of the sacred and the secular in music and aesthetic debates of the long nineteenth century. The essays in this volume view the category of the sacred not as a monolithic attribute that applies only to music written for and performed in a religious ritual. Rather, the “sacred” is viewed as a functional as well as a topical category that enhances the discourse of cross-pollination of musical vocabularies between sacred and secular compositions, church and concert music. Using a variety of methodological approaches, the contributors articulate how sacred and religious identities coalesce, reconcile, fuse, or intersect in works from the long nineteenth century that traverse an array of genres and compositional styles.

Author : Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,Karl Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Publisher : London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Composers
ISBN : UIUC:30112057627322

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Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, from 1833 to 1847 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,Karl Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Pdf

Author : Elise Polko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Jews
ISBN : BCUL:1094192872

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Reminiscences of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy by Elise Polko Pdf

Author : Benedict Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139501361

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Mendelssohn, Time and Memory by Benedict Taylor Pdf

Felix Mendelssohn has long been viewed as one of the most historically minded composers in western music. This book explores the conceptions of time, memory and history found in his instrumental compositions, presenting an intriguing new perspective on his ever-popular music. Focusing on Mendelssohn's innovative development of cyclic form, Taylor investigates how the composer was influenced by the aesthetic and philosophical movements of the period. This is of key importance not only for reconsideration of Mendelssohn's work and its position in nineteenth-century culture, but also more generally concerning the relationship between music, time and subjectivity. One of very few detailed accounts of Mendelssohn's music, the study presents a new and provocative reading of the meaning of the composer's work by connecting it to wider cultural and philosophical ideas.

Author : John Michael Cooper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198166532

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Mendelssohn's 'Italian' Symphony by John Michael Cooper Pdf

This study of the composition, reception, extramusical implications and stylistic eclecticism of Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony devotes extensive attention to the differences between the posthumously published familiar version of the work and the composer's revision, which remained unpublised until 2001.

Author : Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy,Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy,Carl Mendelssohn Bartholdy,Julius Rietz
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375005870

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Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy,Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy,Carl Mendelssohn Bartholdy,Julius Rietz Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.