Beethoven Symphonies Revisited: Performance, Expression and Impact
Autor David Youngen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 2021
Beethoven Symphonies Revisited guides the reader music student, concert goer, or general music lover through the movements in a way that renews the novelty and excitement that listeners must have felt at the first performances. Stylistic discussion concentrates on the unusual features of each symphony, placing each individual work in the context of Beethoven's musical advancement and circumstances. His musical innovations are explored, and his contribution to the genre assessed. Thirty author-annotated musical pages elaborate and exemplify. The essential building blocks of key, tonality, metre, rhythm and instrumentation are discussed in detail.
The author's purpose is twofold: to bring together major research findings and at the same time offer detailed descriptive analyses of all nine symphonies. The approach is singular in its emphasis on the symphonies in the context of performance practice of the time, especially musical direction; the importance of the wind instruments (especially horns) and kettle drums; how counterpoint features in various passages in all the symphonies except the Sixth and Eighth, and how this was influenced by Beethoven's strict training in spec
The author's purpose is twofold: to bring together major research findings and at the same time offer detailed descriptive analyses of all nine symphonies. The approach is singular in its emphasis on the symphonies in the context of performance practice of the time, especially musical direction; the importance of the wind instruments (especially horns) and kettle drums; how counterpoint features in various passages in all the symphonies except the Sixth and Eighth, and how this was influenced by Beethoven's strict training in spec
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ISBN-13: 9781789761238
ISBN-10: 1789761239
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Sussex Academic Press
Colecția Sussex Academic Press
ISBN-10: 1789761239
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Sussex Academic Press
Colecția Sussex Academic Press
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