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Experiencing Beethoven
Author | : Geoffrey Block |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2016-09-29 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781442245464 |
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The life and music of Beethoven still fascinate classical music lovers, new and old. His many symphonies, sonatas, concertos, string quartets, and his one opera enchant audiences, challenge performers, engage students, and support scholars in their work. In Experiencing Beethoven, music historian Geoffrey Block explores in layman’s terms a highly representative body of about two dozen Beethoven instrumental and vocal works, offering listeners who know him well, or are just discovering him, an opportunity to grasp the breadth and depth of his musical genius. Designed for those unversed in musical terminology or theory, Experiencing Beethoven places the composer’s works within the evolving context of his personal and professional life and social and cultural milieu. Block sheds light on the public and private audiences of Beethoven’s music, from the concerts for the composer’s own financial benefit to the debut of the “Eroica” Symphony at the palace of Prince Lobkowitz to the historic public premiere of his Ninth Symphony. Experiencing Beethoven paints a portrait of the composer’s youth in Bonn, his early triumphs and artistic maturation in Vienna, and—despite the challenges his music posed to his contemporaries— the recognition he received during his lifetime as the most acclaimed composer of the era. Block conveys the range and scope of Beethoven’s achievement, from his heroic style to his lyricism, grappling throughout with the composer’s power to communicate his idealistic musical vision to listeners in both his time and ours. Finally, Experiencing Beethoven explores why Beethoven’s music continues to enjoy an unwavering appeal in an age saturated with a range of musical styles.
Experiencing Beethoven
Author | : Geoffrey Holden Block |
Publsiher | : Listener's Companion |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 144224545X |
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Designed for those unversed in composition or music theory, this book places Beethoven's compositions within the context of his personal and professional life and social and cultural milieu. This volume offers readers an enhanced experience of key works by exploring Beethoven's lyricism, heroic style, and unwaveringly idealistic musical vision.
The Beethoven Sonatas and the Creative Experience
Author | : Kenneth Drake |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1994-04-22 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0253213827 |
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" . . . one of the most interesting, useful and even exciting books on the process of musical creation." —American Music Teacher " . . . noteworthy contribution . . . with plenty of insight into interpretation . . . remarkable as an insider's account of the works in an individual perspective." —European Music Teacher Drake groups the Beethoven piano sonatas according to their musical qualities, rather than their chronology. He explores the interpretive implications of rhythm, dynamics, slurs, harmonic effects, and melodic development and identifies specific measures where Beethoven skillfully employs these compositional devices.
Beethoven in German Politics 1870 1989
Author | : David B. Dennis |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300105290 |
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This absorbing book chronicles the exploitation of Beethoven's life and work by German political parties from the founding of the modern nation in 1870 to the peaceful East German Revolution of 1989. David Dennis taps a wealth of new archival resources to examine for the first time how propagandists of every persuasion have transformed Beethoven and his art into powerful, and varied, national symbols. In fascinating detail, Dennis introduces many 'Beethovens, ' each fashioned as part of a process that transformed the composer into the most protean, and widely abused, cultural-political symbol in modern German history.-David Large, Montana State University This book] should fascinate not only Beethoven devotees but also anyone interested in the elusiveness and malleability of historical evidence.-James R. Oestreich, New York Time
Beethoven Studies 4
Author | : Keith Chapin,David Wyn Jones |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2020-09-17 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781108428521 |
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A collection of ten chapters that approach Beethoven and his music from aesthetic, analytical, biographical, historical and performance perspectives.
Beethoven s String Quartet in C Sharp Minor Op 131
Author | : Nancy November |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780190059200 |
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Re-hearing Op. 131 -- Popular and early reception -- "A new kind of part writing" -- "Like an overly large fantasy" -- Op. 131 and the Rise of Attentive Listening.
Beethoven in America
Author | : Michael Broyles |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2011-10-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780253357045 |
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Examines America's early reception to Beethoven, the use of his work and image in American music, movies, stage works, and other forms of popular culture, and related topics.
From Beethoven To Shostakovich The Psychology Of The Composing Process
Author | : Max Graf |
Publsiher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781473384095 |
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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.