Author: David RowlandPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521479868
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A Companion to the piano, one of the world's most popular instruments.
The Cambridge Companion to the Piano
Author: David RowlandPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521479868
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A Companion to the piano, one of the world's most popular instruments.
The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven
Author: Glenn StanleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494044
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This Companion, first published in 2000, provides a comprehensive view of Beethoven and his work. The first part of the book presents the composer as a private individual, as a professional, and at the work-place, discussing biographical problems, Beethoven's professional activities when not composing and his methods as a composer. In the heart of the book, individual chapters are devoted to all the major genres cultivated by Beethoven and to the elements of style and structure that cross all genres. The book concludes by looking at the ways that Beethoven and his music have been interpreted by performers, writers on music, and in the arts, literature, and philosophy. The essays in this volume, written by leading Beethoven specialists, maintain traditional emphases in Beethoven studies while incorporating other developments in musicology and theory.
The Cambridge Companion to the Lied
Author: James ParsonsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521804714
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Beginning several generations before Schubert, the Lied first appears as domestic entertainment. In the century that follows it becomes one of the primary modes of music-making. By the time German song comes to its presumed conclusion with Richard Strauss's 1948 Vier letzte Lieder, this rich repertoire has moved beyond the home and keyboard accompaniment to the symphony hall. This is a 2004 introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre. In essays by eminent scholars, this Companion places the Lied in its full context - at once musical, literary, and cultural - with chapters devoted to focal composers as well as important issues, such as the way in which the Lied influenced other musical genres, its use as a musical commodity, and issues of performance. The volume is framed by a detailed chronology of German music and poetry from the late 1730s to the present and also contains a comprehensive bibliography.
The Cambridge Companion to Chopin
Author: Jim SamsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139824996
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Chopin provides the enquiring music-lover with helpful insights into a musical style which recognises no contradiction between the accessible and the sophisticated, the popular and the significant. Twelve essays by leading Chopin scholars make up three parts. Part 1 discusses the sources of Chopin's style in the music of his predecessors and the social history of the period. Part 2 profiles the mature music, and Part 3 considers the afterlife of the music - its reception, its criticism and its compositional influence in the works of subsequent composers.
The Cambridge Companion to Liszt
Author: Kenneth HamiltonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139825755
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This Companion provides an up-to-date view of the music of Franz Liszt, its contemporary context and performance practice, written by some of the leading specialists in the field of nineteenth-century music studies. Although a core of Liszt's piano music has always maintained a firm hold on the repertoire, his output was so vast, influential and multi-faceted that scholarship too has taken some time to assimilate his achievement. This book offers students and music lovers some of the latest views in an accessible form. Katharine Ellis, Alexander Rehding and James Deaville present the biographical and intellectual aspects of Liszt's legacy, Kenneth Hamilton, James Baker and Anna Celenza give a detailed account of Liszt's piano music - including approaches to performance - Monika Hennemann discusses Liszt's Lieder, and Reeves Shulstad and Dolores Pesce survey his orchestral and choral music.
The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto
Author: Simon P. KeefePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521834834
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A rare volume dedicated entirely to scholarship on the genre of the concerto.
The Cambridge Companion to Ravel
Author: Deborah MawerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521648561
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A comprehensive introduction to the life, music and compositional aesthetic of Maurice Ravel.
The Cambridge Companion to Mozart
Author: Simon P. KeefePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521001922
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
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The Cambridge Companion to Rossini
Author: Emanuele SeniciPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521001953
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
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The Cambridge Companion to French Music
Author: Simon TrezisePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521877946
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
This accessible Companion provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive introduction to French music from the early middle ages to the present.