Author: William Kinderman
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803212220
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Fresh perspectives on the symphonies and piano concertos of Ludwig van Beethoven are offered in the inaugural volume of North American Beethoven Studies. To be published under the joint auspices of the University of Nebraska Press and the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, the volumes in the new series will focus on the life and work, milieu and influence of the great composer. The first volume, edited by the noted music scholar and pianist William Kinderman, brings together recent studies by leading scholars on Beethoven?s major orchestral, including the first two piano concertos, the Egmont overture, the Missa Solemnis, and several of the symphonies, especially the Third, Fifth, and Ninth. They devote special attention to Beethoven?s creative process by analyzing, in some instances closely for the first time, his numerous surviving musical sketchbooks and loose sketch-leaves. The issues dealt with include Beethoven?s reinterpretation of the composition models of Haydn and Mozart, his working methods in composition, the structural expansion of his symphonic forms, the design of variation movements in his symphonies, and Beethoven?s musical symbolism. Four introductory essays probe the relation between Beethoven?s sketches and the analysis of his finished works; it is a fascinating and controversial undertaking. The first volume of North American Beethoven Studies illuminates critical issues and challenges traditional interpretations of some of Beethoven?s most celebrated works while avoiding the narrow specialization of some recent scholarship. Future volumes will focus on performance practices, composition, and recording history.
Beethoven's Compositional Process
Beethoven: The Music and the Life
Author: Lewis Lockwood
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393326381
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 621
Book Description
Written for the general reader, this book reveals how Beethoven's great works reflect both his artistic individuality and the deepest philosophical and political currents of his age.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393326381
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 621
Book Description
Written for the general reader, this book reveals how Beethoven's great works reflect both his artistic individuality and the deepest philosophical and political currents of his age.
The Beethoven Sketchbooks
Author: Douglas Johnson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520324161
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 693
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520324161
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 693
Book Description
Beethoven
Author: William Kinderman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195328256
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Combining musical insight and the most recent research, William Kinderman's Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music. In this new updated edition of his acclaimed study, Kinderman traces the composer's intellectual and musical development from the early works written in Bonn to the Ninth Symphony and the late quartets.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195328256
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Combining musical insight and the most recent research, William Kinderman's Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music. In this new updated edition of his acclaimed study, Kinderman traces the composer's intellectual and musical development from the early works written in Bonn to the Ninth Symphony and the late quartets.
Revision in Beethoven's Compositional Process and Their Effect on Rhythmic Organization for the Seventh Symphony in A Major, Opus 92, Presto, and the Ninth Symphony in D Minor, Opus 125, Molto Vivace
Author: Edward J. Kaczuk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concertos (Organ with chamber orchestra)
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
This study examines previously undocumented corrections, revisions and transformations of detail that are found in the autographs of the Scherzi of Beethoven's Seventh and Ninth Symphonies, thereby deducing a sequence for compositional process. Aside from the corrections that Beethoven made of mistakes in the writing of the score, the vast majority of corrections found affect the large-scale rhythmic structures of these two movements. Rhythmic analyses of the final version are informed by the details of the compositional process as well as knowledge of the prevailing rhythmic theory of the time.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concertos (Organ with chamber orchestra)
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
This study examines previously undocumented corrections, revisions and transformations of detail that are found in the autographs of the Scherzi of Beethoven's Seventh and Ninth Symphonies, thereby deducing a sequence for compositional process. Aside from the corrections that Beethoven made of mistakes in the writing of the score, the vast majority of corrections found affect the large-scale rhythmic structures of these two movements. Rhythmic analyses of the final version are informed by the details of the compositional process as well as knowledge of the prevailing rhythmic theory of the time.
From Beethoven to Shostakovich - The Psychology of the Composing Process
Author: Max Graf
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473384095
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
A fascinating book for any fan of classical music and the composers that have created some of the most marvelous symphonies, but how did certain people create these quantum leaps in music single handedly? With this classic text discover how people thought the mind of a musical genius worked.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473384095
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
A fascinating book for any fan of classical music and the composers that have created some of the most marvelous symphonies, but how did certain people create these quantum leaps in music single handedly? With this classic text discover how people thought the mind of a musical genius worked.
Revisions in Beethoven's Compositional Process and Their Effect on Rhythmic Organization for the Seventh Symphony in A Major, Opus 92, Presto, and the Ninth Symphony in D Minor, Opus 125, Molto Vivace
Author: Edward J. Kaczuk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musical meter and rhythm
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This study examines previously undocumented corrections, revisions and transformations of detail that are found in the autographs of the Scherzi of Beethoven's Seventh and Ninth Symphonies, thereby deducing a sequence for compositional process. Aside from the corrections that Beethoven made of mistakes in the writing of the score, the vast majority of corrections found affect the large-scale rhythmic structures of these two movements. Rhythmic analyses of the final version are informed by the details of the compositional process as well as knowledge of the prevailing rhythmic theory of the time.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musical meter and rhythm
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This study examines previously undocumented corrections, revisions and transformations of detail that are found in the autographs of the Scherzi of Beethoven's Seventh and Ninth Symphonies, thereby deducing a sequence for compositional process. Aside from the corrections that Beethoven made of mistakes in the writing of the score, the vast majority of corrections found affect the large-scale rhythmic structures of these two movements. Rhythmic analyses of the final version are informed by the details of the compositional process as well as knowledge of the prevailing rhythmic theory of the time.
Beethoven and the Creative Process
Author: Barry A. R. Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beethoven, Ludwig van
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Beethoven's habit of composing by making large numbers of preliminary drafts and sketches was sufficiently unusual to attract attention even during his lifetime, and his creative process has attracted a good deal more attention since. The present book incorporates the findings of recentstudies on this fascinating subject as well as providing many additional new insights. Cooper examines Beethoven's underlying creative motivation and there is and introduction to his compositional methods in general. The final part of the book is a detailed study of particular compositional problemsin six different works, selected to provide a wide range of genres, dates, and types of problem. The book as a whole adds considerably to our understanding of one of the greatest figures in the history of our culture.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beethoven, Ludwig van
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Beethoven's habit of composing by making large numbers of preliminary drafts and sketches was sufficiently unusual to attract attention even during his lifetime, and his creative process has attracted a good deal more attention since. The present book incorporates the findings of recentstudies on this fascinating subject as well as providing many additional new insights. Cooper examines Beethoven's underlying creative motivation and there is and introduction to his compositional methods in general. The final part of the book is a detailed study of particular compositional problemsin six different works, selected to provide a wide range of genres, dates, and types of problem. The book as a whole adds considerably to our understanding of one of the greatest figures in the history of our culture.
Beethoven
Author: Lewis Lockwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
It is well known that Mozart developed his works in his head and then simply transcribed them onto paper, while Beethoven labored assiduously over sketches and drafts--"his first ideas," in Stephen Spender's words, "of a clumsiness which makes scholars marvel at how he could, at the end, have developed from them such miraculous results." Indeed Beethoven's extensive sketchbooks (which total over 8,000 pages) and the autograph manuscripts, covering several stages of development, reveal the composer systematically exploring and evolving his musical ideas. Through close investigation of individual works, Lewis Lockwood traces the creative process as it emerges in Beethoven's sketches and manuscripts. Four studies address the composition of the Eroica Symphony from various viewpoints. The chamber works discussed include the Cello Sonata in A Major, Opus 69 (of which the entire autograph manuscript of the first movement is published here in facsimile), the string quartet Opus 59 No. 1, and the Cavatina of the later quartet Opus 130. Lockwood's lucid analysis enhances our understanding of Beethoven's musical strategies and stylistic developments as well as the compositional process itself In a final chapter the author outlines the importance of Beethoven's autographs for the modern performer.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
It is well known that Mozart developed his works in his head and then simply transcribed them onto paper, while Beethoven labored assiduously over sketches and drafts--"his first ideas," in Stephen Spender's words, "of a clumsiness which makes scholars marvel at how he could, at the end, have developed from them such miraculous results." Indeed Beethoven's extensive sketchbooks (which total over 8,000 pages) and the autograph manuscripts, covering several stages of development, reveal the composer systematically exploring and evolving his musical ideas. Through close investigation of individual works, Lewis Lockwood traces the creative process as it emerges in Beethoven's sketches and manuscripts. Four studies address the composition of the Eroica Symphony from various viewpoints. The chamber works discussed include the Cello Sonata in A Major, Opus 69 (of which the entire autograph manuscript of the first movement is published here in facsimile), the string quartet Opus 59 No. 1, and the Cavatina of the later quartet Opus 130. Lockwood's lucid analysis enhances our understanding of Beethoven's musical strategies and stylistic developments as well as the compositional process itself In a final chapter the author outlines the importance of Beethoven's autographs for the modern performer.
Louis Van Beethoven's Studies in Thorough-bass, Counterpoint and the Art of Scientific Composition
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher: Leipzic ; New York : Schuberth and comp.
ISBN:
Category : Composition (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher: Leipzic ; New York : Schuberth and comp.
ISBN:
Category : Composition (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description