The Cambridge Companion To Bruckner

Author : John Williamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521008786

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The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner by John Williamson Pdf

This Companion provides an overview of the composer Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). Sixteen chapters by leading scholars investigate aspects of his life and works and consider the manner in which critical appreciation has changed in the twentieth century. The first section deals with Bruckner's Austrian background, investigating the historical circumstances in which he worked, his upbringing in Upper Austria, and his career in Vienna. A number of misunderstandings are dealt with in the light of recent research. The remainder of the book covers Bruckner's career as church musician and symphonist, with a chapter on the neglected secular vocal music. Religious, aesthetic, formal, harmonic, and instrumental aspects are considered, while one chapter confronts the problem of the editions of the symphonies. Two concluding chapters discuss the symphonies in performance, and the history of Bruckner-reception with particular reference to German Nationalism, the Third Reich and the appropriation of Bruckner by the Nazis.

Author : Julian Horton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521884983

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The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony by Julian Horton Pdf

A comprehensive guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding one of the major genres of Western music.

Author : Benjamin M. Korstvedt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521635373

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 by Benjamin M. Korstvedt Pdf

This book explores Bruckner's Eighth Symphony (1890) from several angles, offering an accessible guide to its musical design.

Author : Julian Horton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139455695

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Bruckner's Symphonies by Julian Horton Pdf

Few works in the nineteenth-century repertoire have aroused such extremes of hostility and admiration, or have generated so many scholarly problems, as Anton Bruckner's symphonies. In this 2004 book, Julian Horton seeks fresh ways of understanding the symphonies and the problems they have accrued by treating them as the focus for a variety of inter-disciplinary debates and methodological controversies. He isolates problematic areas in the works' analysis and reception, and approaches them from a range of analytical, historical, philosophical, literary, critical and psychoanalytical viewpoints. The symphonies are thus explored in the context of a number of crucial and sometimes provocative themes, including the political circumstances of the works' production, Bruckner and post-war musical analysis, issues of musical influence, the problem of editions, Bruckner and psychobiography, and the composer's controversial relationship to the Nazis.

Author : Michael Musgrave
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-05-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139825306

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The Cambridge Companion to Brahms by Michael Musgrave Pdf

This Companion gives a comprehensive view of the German composer Johannes Brahms (1833–97). Twelve specially-commissioned chapters by leading scholars and musicians provide systematic coverage of the composer's life and works. Their essays represent recent research and reflect changing attitudes towards a composer whose public image has long been out-of-date. The first part of the book contains three chapters on Brahms's early life in Hamburg and on the middle and later years in Vienna. The central section considers the musical works in all genres, while the last part of the book offers personal accounts and responses from a conductor (Roger Norrington), a composer (Hugh Wood), and an editor of Brahms's original manuscripts (Robert Pascall). The volume as a whole is an important addition to Brahms scholarship and provides indispensable information for all students and enthusiasts of Brahms's music.

Author : Timothy L. Jackson,Paul Hawkshaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997-11-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 052157014X

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Bruckner Studies by Timothy L. Jackson,Paul Hawkshaw Pdf

This 1997 book presents musicological and theoretical research on the life and music of Anton Bruckner.

Author : Jeremy Barham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139827201

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The Cambridge Companion to Mahler by Jeremy Barham Pdf

In the years approaching the centenary of Mahler's death, this book provides both summation of, and starting point for, an assessment and reassessment of the composer's output and creative activity. Authored by a collection of leading specialists in Mahler scholarship, its opening chapters place the composer in socio-political and cultural contexts, and discuss his work in light of developments in the aesthetics of musical meaning. Part II examines from a variety of analytical, interpretative and critical standpoints the complete range of his output, from early student works and unfinished fragments to the sketches and performing versions of the Tenth Symphony. Part III evaluates Mahler's role as interpreter of his own and other composers' works during his lifelong career as operatic and orchestral conductor. Part IV addresses Mahler's fluctuating reception history from scholarly, journalistic, creative, public and commercial perspectives, with special attention being paid to his compositional legacy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Anton Bruckner by Anonim Pdf

Author : Simon Gaunt,Sarah Kay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827871

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature by Simon Gaunt,Sarah Kay Pdf

Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in the medieval period and beyond. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to literature composed in medieval French from its beginnings in the ninth century until the Renaissance. The essays are grounded in detailed analysis of canonical texts and authors such as the Chanson de Roland, the Roman de la Rose, Villon's Testament, Chrétien de Troyes, Machaut, Christine de Pisan and the Tristan romances. Featuring a chronology and suggestions for further reading, this is the ideal companion for students and scholars in other fields wishing to discover the riches of the French medieval tradition.

Author : Stephen Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : 0571170951

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Bruckner Remembered by Stephen Johnson Pdf

Over a century after his death, Bruckner the man remains an enigma. Popular anecdotes represent him as a visionary simpleton, his life dominated exclusively by music and religion. And yet this same bizarre figure is widely held to have produced some of the most original and sophisticated music written in the second half of the nineteenth century. The reminiscences collected here allow insights into a much more complicated, sometimes tormented mind. Dark obsessions are revealed, and there are hints of acute sexual frustration, as well as indications that Bruckner's faith was not unclouded by doubt. Students and colleagues describe how Bruckner composed and record some of the extra-musical ideas behind the music. The composer's battles with the would-be 'improvers' of his scores are illustrated, and there are tantalising accounts of Bruckner's organ improvisations, which gained him international recognition even when his major works were misunderstood or simply ignored. Alongside these are memories of a Bruckner who, despite his striking eccentricities, could be excellent company: high-spirited, humorous - even witty: a good dancer and a natural children's entertainer. Inevitably, there are several stories about Bruckner's disastrous infatuations with teenage girls, some funny, others sad - loneliness was evidently an abiding problem for Bruckner. But this was also a man who could inspire deep feelings of loyalty, even devotion, in those who knew him. Taken together, these accounts offer the first fully rounded portrait in the English language of this popular but misunderstood composer.

Author : Donna Marie Di Grazia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780415988520

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Nineteenth-century Choral Music by Donna Marie Di Grazia Pdf

Nineteenth-Century Choral Music is a collection of essays studying choral music making as a cultural phenomenon, one that had an impact on multiple parts of society. Rather than merely offering a collection of raw descriptions of works, the contributors focus their discussions on what these pieces reveal about their composers as craftsmen/women. Major works as well as other equally rich parts of the repertoire are discussed, including smaller choral works and contributions by composers such as Fanny Mendelssohn, Amy Beach, Charles Stanford,

Author : Robin Stowell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521000424

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The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet by Robin Stowell Pdf

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Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521780098

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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera by Mervyn Cooke Pdf

A collection of specially commissioned essays investigating the extraordinary diversity of twentieth-century opera.

Author : James Parsons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 052180471X

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The Cambridge Companion to the Lied by James Parsons Pdf

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Author : Mr Dermot Gault
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781409494218

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The New Bruckner by Mr Dermot Gault Pdf

The New Bruckner provides a valuable study of Bruckner's music, focusing on the interaction of biography, textual scholarship, reception history and analysis. Dr Dermot Gault conveys a broad chronological narrative of Bruckner's compositional development, interpolating analytical commentaries on the works and critical accounts of the notoriously complex and editorial issues. Gault corrects longstanding misconceptions about the composer's revision process, and its relationship with the early editions and widely-held critical opinions. Bruckner's constantly evolving engagement with symphonic form is traced by taking each revision in due order, rather than by taking each symphony on its own, and by relating the symphonies to other mature works such as the Te Deum, the three great Masses, and the Quintet, and argues that Bruckner's music became more organic and less schematic as the result of his revisions. The book will be essential reading for those studying Bruckner's compositions, the complex history of their reception, and late Romantic music in general.