Schubert

Author : David Montgomery
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1576470253

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Franz Schubert's Music in Performance by David Montgomery Pdf

In Franz Schubert's Music in Performance David Montgomery challenges many operative myths about the music of this great, but often misunderstood, Viennese master. Chief among them is the lingering notion that Schubert was poorly-trained but still managed to turn out brilliant, if often flawed, scores. Modern adherents of this view believe that Schubert could not notate his own musical wishes accurately, and that he was principally a creature of intuition. Accordingly, musicians might allow themselves wide intuitive leeway in the interpretation of his music. Another myth challenged by Montgomery is that Schubert was a conservative, or perhaps even a chronological throwback. Opposing recent attempts to legitimize performer-generated embellishment of Schubert's music in the style of the eighteenth century, He clarifies Schubert's contributions to the radical intellectualism of nineteenth-century romanticism. The book offers six informative chapters ranging from aesthetics and acoustics to the specifics of tempo and expression, plus an appendix of pertinent Viennese pedagogical sources. In addition to many years of musicological research, Montgomery brings long experience as a concertizing pianist and conductor to this engaging and controversial work.

Author : Christopher H. Gibbs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521595126

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The Life of Schubert by Christopher H. Gibbs Pdf

This searching biography takes a fresh look at this elusive and misunderstood genius.

Author : Elizabeth Norman McKay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015037283549

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Franz Schubert by Elizabeth Norman McKay Pdf

In his short, tumultuous life, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) produced an astonishing amount of music. Symphonies, chamber music, opera, church music, and songs (more than 600 of them) poured forth in profusion. His "Trout" Quintet, his "Unfinished" Symphony, the last three piano sonatas, and above all his song cycles Die Schone Mullerin and Winterreise have come to be universally regarded as belonging to the very greatest works of music? Who was the man who composed this amazing succession of masterpieces, so many of which were either entirely ignored or regarded as failures during his lifetime? In this new biography, Elizabeth McKay paints a vivid portrait of Schubert and his world. She explores his family background, his education and musical upbringing, his friendships, and his brushes and flirtations with the repressive authorities of Church and State. She discusses his experience of the arts, literature, and theater, and his relations with the professional and amateur musical world of his day. She traces the way Schubert's manic-depression became an increasingly significant influence in his life, responsible at least in part for social inadequacies, professional ineptitude, and idiosyncrasies in his music. And she examines Schubert's decline after he contracted syphilis, looking at its effect on his music and emotional life.

Author : Julian Horton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351549967

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Schubert by Julian Horton Pdf

The collection of essays in this volume offer an overview of Schubertian reception, interpretation and analysis. Part I surveys the issue of Schubert‘s alterity concentrating on his history and biography. Following on from the overarching dualities of Schubert explored in the first section, Part II focuses on interpretative strategies and hermeneutic positions. Part III assesses the diversity of theoretical approaches concerning Schubert‘s handling of harmony and tonality whereas the last two parts address the reception of his instrumental music and song. This volume highlights the complexity and diversity of Schubertian scholarship as well as the overarching concerns raised by discrete fields of research in this area.

Author : Christopher H. Gibbs,Morten Solvik
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691163802

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Franz Schubert and His World by Christopher H. Gibbs,Morten Solvik Pdf

The life, times, and music of Franz Schubert During his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797–1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, from intimate songs and dances to ambitious chamber pieces, symphonies, and operas. The essays and translated documents in Franz Schubert and His World examine his compositions and ties to the Viennese cultural context, revealing surprising and overlooked aspects of his music. Contributors explore Schubert's youthful participation in the Nonsense Society, his circle of friends, and changing views about the composer during his life and in the century after his death. New insights are offered about the connections between Schubert’s music and the popular theater of the day, his strategies for circumventing censorship, the musical and narrative relationships linking his song settings of poems by Gotthard Ludwig Kosegarten, and musical tributes he composed to commemorate the death of Beethoven just twenty months before his own. The book also includes translations of excerpts from a literary journal produced by Schubert’s classmates and of Franz Liszt’s essay on the opera Alfonso und Estrella. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Leon Botstein, Lisa Feurzeig, John Gingerich, Kristina Muxfeldt, and Rita Steblin.

Author : Julie Bovasso
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 057362450X

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Schubert's Last Serenade by Julie Bovasso Pdf

Author : Lindsey V. Sharman
Publisher : Art in Profile: Canadian Art a
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 1552389499

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The Writing on the Wall by Lindsey V. Sharman Pdf

The Writing on the Wall tells the story of the art and life of Siksika (Blackfeet) artist, curator, writer and activist Dr. Joane Cardinal-Schubert, RCA.

Author : Heinrich von Kreissle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015007895876

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The Life of Franz Schubert by Heinrich von Kreissle Pdf

Author : Lorraine Byrne Bodley,Julian Horton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107111295

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Schubert's Late Music by Lorraine Byrne Bodley,Julian Horton Pdf

A thematic exploration of Schubert's style, applied in readings of his instrumental and vocal literature by international scholars.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780521650878

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Schubert's Beethoven Project by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351755344

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Schubert's Song Sets by Michael Hall Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. From 1821 until his death, Schubert compiled or specially composed for publication 42 song sets, yet during his own lifetime, and until now, their integrity and importance as sets have been virtually ignored. In this book, Michael Hall asserts that these songs sets are not arbitrary collections, as so often assumed, but highly integrated works in their own right. Approaching these songs as sets the book throws light on Schubert's largely undiscussed intellectual preoccupations. They reveal that he was au fait with most of the philosophical concerns of his time, especially those which touched on Romanticism. But although the sets reflect Romanticism in their topics, Hall maintains that they are the epitome of classical balance. In encouraging students and performers to approach these songs as sets, this study aims to alter perceptions of this important repertory.

Author : René Rusch
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253067418

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Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation by René Rusch Pdf

Music scholarship's views of Franz Schubert's instrumental works continue to evolve. How might aesthetic values, historiographies, revisions to the composer's biography, and disciplinary commitments affect how we interpret his music? Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation explores the aesthetic positions and operations that underlie critical assessments of Schubert's instrumental works. In six chapters, each devoted to one or two of Schubert's pieces, René Rusch examines the conditions that have prompted scholarship to reevaluate the composer's music and legacy, considers how different conclusions about his music may be reflective of certain aesthetic values, investigates the role of narrative in both music analysis and constructions of history, and explores alternative forms of coherence through updated analyses of the composer's instrumental works. Rusch's observations and comparative analyses address four significant areas of scholarly focus in Schubert studies, including his approach to chromaticism, his unique musical forms, the relationship between his music and biography, and the influence of Beethoven. Drawing from a range of philosophical, hermeneutic, historical, biographical, theoretical, and analytical sources, Schubert's Instrumental Music and Poetics of Interpretation offers readers a unique and innovative foray into the poetics of contemporary analyses of Schubert's instrumental music and develops new ways to engage with his repertoire.

Author : Susan Wollenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317059165

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Schubert's Fingerprints: Studies in the Instrumental Works by Susan Wollenberg Pdf

As Robert Schumann put it, 'Only few works are as clearly stamped with their author's imprint as his'. This book explores Schubert's stylistic traits in a series of chapters each discussing an individual 'fingerprint' with case studies drawn principally from the piano and chamber music. The notion of Schubert's compositional fingerprints has not previously formed the subject of a book-length study. The features of his personal style considered here include musical manifestations of Schubert's 'violent nature', the characteristics of his thematic material, and the signs of his 'classicizing' manner. In the process of the discussion, attention is given to matters of form, texture, harmony and gesture in a range of works, with regard to the various 'fingerprints' identified in each chapter. The repertoire discussed includes the late string quartets, the String Quintet, the E flat Piano Trio and the last three piano sonatas. Developing ideas which she first proposed in a series of journal articles and contributions to symposia on Schubert, Professor Wollenberg takes into account recent literature by other scholars and draws together her own researches to present her view of Schubert's 'compositional personality'. Schubert emerges as someone exerting intellectual control over his musical material and imbuing it with poetic resonance.

Author : Brian Newbould
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000640946

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Schubert's Workshop: Volume 1 by Brian Newbould Pdf

Schubert’s Workshop offers a fresh study of the composer’s compositional technique and its development, rooted in the author’s experience of realising performing versions of Franz Schubert’s unfinished works. Through close examination of Schubert’s use of technical and structural devices, Brian Newbould demonstrates that Schubert was much more technically innovative than has been supposed, and argues that the composer’s technical discoveries constitute a rich legacy of specific influences on later composers. Providing rich new insights into the creative practice of one of the major figures of classical music, this two-volume study reframes our understanding of Schubert as an innovator who constantly pushed at the frontiers of style and expression.

Author : Ian Bostridge
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571282821

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Schubert's Winter Journey by Ian Bostridge Pdf

Franz Schubert's Winterreise is at the same time one of the most powerful and one of the most enigmatic masterpieces in Western culture. In his new book, Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession, Ian Bostridge - one of the work's finest interpreters - focusses on the context, resonance and personal significance of a work which is possibly the greatest landmark in the history of Lieder. Drawing equally on his vast experience of performing this work (he has performed it more than a hundred times), on his musical knowledge and on his training as a scholar, Bostridge unpicks the enigmas and subtle meaning of each of the twenty-four songs to explore for us the world Schubert inhabited, bringing the work and its world alive for connoisseurs and new listeners alike. Originally intended to be sung to an intimate gathering, performances of Winterreise now pack the greatest concert halls around the world. Though not strictly a biography of Schubert, Schubert's Winter Journey succeeds in offering an unparalleled insight into the mind and work of the great composer. 'Usually great singers cannot explain what they do. Ian Bostridge can. Whether or not you know Schubert's 'Winter Journey', the book is gripping because it explains, in probing, simple words, how a doomed love is transformed into art.' Richard Sennett