Mendelssohn The Hebrides And Other Overtures

Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993-09-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521407648

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Mendelssohn: The Hebrides and Other Overtures by R. Larry Todd Pdf

The 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.

Author : John Michael Cooper
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0815315139

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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy by John Michael Cooper Pdf

This book offers an annotated reference guide to the life and works of this important German composer. It opens with a historical overview of Mendelssohn's reception by contemporary and posthumous audiences and scholars, tracing the interactions between his reception and political and cultural events. It contains a complete annotated bibliography of the literature about Mendelssohn, including biographies, reviews, scholarly articles and interpretations, and reference material. It also offers important information on the Mendelssohn family, including Fanny Hensel, Felix's sister who was also a composer and musician. Cooper's work is the most up-to-date and thorough resource for students of Mendelssohn and his times.

Author : Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Publisher : Eulenburg
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783795714000

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The Hebrides by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Pdf

Over 200 works of the well-known Edition Eulenburg series of scores from orchestral and choral literature, chamber music and music theatre are now available in digital format. You can now enjoy the yellow study scores digitally with one click in excellent reproduction quality. Über 200 Werke der berühmten Edition Eulenburg Partiturreihe für Orchester- und Chorliteratur, Kammermusik und Musiktheater sind nun auch in einer digitalen Aufbereitung erhältlich. In optisch hervorragender Darstellung kann man die gelben Studienpartituren mit einem Klick jetzt auch digital genießen.

Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Steven Vande Moortele
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107163195

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The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner by Steven Vande Moortele Pdf

The first comprehensive study of musical form in operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850.

Author : Benedict Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351558518

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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 : Peter Mercer-Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521533422

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The Cambridge Companion to Mendelssohn by Peter Mercer-Taylor Pdf

This book surveys the life, work, and posthumous reception of nineteenth-century German-Jewish composer Felix Mendelssohn.

Author : Benedict Taylor Ph.D.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Overtures
ISBN : OCLC:1100401573

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The Hebrides Overture, Op. 26 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004298750

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Shipwreck and Island Motifs in Literature and the Arts by Anonim Pdf

The motifs of island and shipwreck have been present in literature and the arts from ancient times. The essays in this volume explore shipwreck and island figures together in literary texts, films, Reality TV, music, and art.

Author : Siegwart Reichwald
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Peter Mercer-Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521639727

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The Life of Mendelssohn by Peter Mercer-Taylor Pdf

This biography traces Mendelssohn's development from dazzling child prodigy to renowned composer and conductor.

Author : Jürgen Thym
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781580464741

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Mendelssohn, the Organ, and the Music of the Past by Jürgen Thym Pdf

Examines Mendelssohn's relationship to the past, shedding light on the construction of historical legacies that, in some cases, served to assert German cultural supremacy only two decades after the composer's death.

Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135866693

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Mendelssohn Essays by R. Larry Todd Pdf

When R. Larry Todd’s biography, Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, appeared in 2003, it won acclaim from several critics as a definitive biography. In researching Mendelssohn’s life over the last two and a half decades, Todd uncovered much new information about the composer and his music, his family and his peers, and his complex reception history. Now, as we approach the 2009 bicentenary of Mendelssohn’s birth, the author has chosen and compiled fifteen essays written between 1980 and 2005, including five previously unpublished, that examine several aspects of the composer whom Goethe and Heine likened to a second Mozart. Mendelssohn Essays explores Mendelssohn’s precocity, his musical impressions of British culture, the role of the visual in his music, his compositional response to Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, and incomplete drafts from his musical estate of three instrumental works. In addition, a group of three essays focuses on the music of Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny Hensel, perhaps the most gifted woman composer of the century, and a significant, complex figure in the formation of the Mendelssohnian style.

Author : John Michael Cooper
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 1580462529

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Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night by John Michael Cooper Pdf

Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night is a book about tolerance and acceptance in the face of cultural, political, and religious strife. Its point of departure is the Walpurgis Night. The Night, also known as Beltane or May Eve, was supposedly an annual witches' Sabbath that centered around the Brocken, the highest peak of the Harz Mountains. After exploring how a notoriously pagan celebration came to be named after the Christian missionary St. Walpurgis (ca. 710-79), John Michael Cooper discusses the Night's treatments in several closely interwoven works by Goethe and Mendelssohn. His book situates those works in their immediate personal and professional contexts, as well as among treatments by a wide array of other artists, philosophers, and political thinkers, including Voltaire, Lessing, Shelley, Heine, Delacroix, and Berlioz. In an age of decisive political and religious conflict, Walpurgis Night became a heathen muse: a source of inspiration that was neither specifically Christian, nor Jewish, nor Muslim. And Mendelssohn's and Goethe's engagements with it offer new insights into its role in European cultural history, as well as into issues of political, religious, and social identity -- and the relations between cultural groups -- in today's world. John Michael Cooper (Southwestern University) is the author of Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony (Oxford University Press).