Author: Publisher: Edition Peters
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Trout Quintet Op. 114 (Arranged for Piano)
Author: Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1504
Book Description
Four-Handed Monsters
Author: Adrian DaubPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199981809
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In the course of the nineteenth century, four-hand piano playing emerged across Europe as a popular pastime of the well-heeled classes and of those looking to join them. Nary a canonic work of classical music that was not set for piano duo, nary a house that could afford not to invest in them. Duets echoed from the student bedsit to Buckingham Palace, resounded in schools and in hundreds of thousands of bourgeois parlors. Like no other musical phenomenon, it could cross national, social, and economic boundaries, bringing together poor students with the daughters of the bourgeoisie, crowned heads with penniless virtuosi, and the nineteenth century often regarded it with extreme suspicion for that very reason. Four-hand piano playing was often understood as a socially acceptable way of flirting, a flurry of hands that made touching, often of men and women, not just acceptable but necessary. But it also became something far more serious than that, a central institution of the home, mediating between inside and outside, family and society, labor and leisure, nature and nurture. And writers, composers, musicians, philosophers, journalists, pamphleteers and painters took note: in the art, literature, and philosophy of the age, four-hand playing emerged as a common motif, something that allowed them to interrogate the very nature of the self, the family, the community and the state. In the four hands rushing up and down the same keyboard the nineteenth century espied, or thought to espy, an astonishing array of things. Four-Handed Monsters tells not only the story of that practice, but also the story of the astonishing array of things the nineteenth century read into it.
Clara Wieck Schumann as Pianist and Composer
Author: Pamela Gertrude SusskindPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The Strad
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bowed stringed instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The Theosophical Path
Author: Katherine Augusta Westcott TingleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
The National Union Catalog
Author: The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760-1850
Author: Derek CarewPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351542680
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
This book charts the piano's accession from musical curiosity to cultural icon, examining the instrument itself in its various guises as well as the music written for it. Both the piano and piano music were very much the product of the intellectual, cultural and social environments of the period and both were subject to many influences, directly and indirectly. These included character (individualism), the vernacular ('folk/popular') and creativity (improvisation), all of which are discussed generally and with respect to the music itself. Derek Carew surveys the most important pianistic genres of the period (variations, rondos, and so on), showing how these changed from their received forms into vehicles of Romantic expressiveness. The piano is also looked at in its role as an accompanying instrument. The Mechanical Muse will be of interest to anyone who loves the piano or the period, from the non-specialist to the music postgraduate.
Chamber Music of Haydn and Schubert
Author: Franz Joseph HaydnPublisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457471186
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A collection of chamber ensembles, composed by Franz Joseph Haydn and Franz Schubert.
Author: