Heinrich Schenker and Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heinrich Schenker and Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata write by Nicholas Marston. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Heinrich Schenker and Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1912 Heinrich Schenker contracted with the Viennese publisher Universal Edition to provide an 'elucidatory edition' (Erl erungsausgabe) of Beethoven's last five piano sonatas. Each publication would comprise a score, newly edited by Schenker and using the composer's autograph manuscript as principal source, together with a substantial commentary combining analytical, text-critical and performance-related matter. Four of the five editions appeared between 1913 and 1921, but that of the 'Hammerklavier' Sonata, op. 106, was never published. It has generally been assumed that this was simply because Schenker was unable to locate the autograph manuscript, which remains missing to this day. But as Nicholas Marston shows in a detailed history of the Erl erungsausgabe project, other factors were involved also, including financial considerations, Schenker's health concerns, and his broader theoretical ambitions. Moreover, despite the missing autograph he nevertheless developed a voice-leading analysis of the complete sonata during the years 1924-1926, a crucial period in the development of his mature theory of tonal music. Marston's book provides the first in-depth study of this rich analysis, which is reproduced in full in high-quality digital images. The book draws on hundreds of letters and documents from Schenker's Nachla it both adds to our biographical knowledge of Schenker and illuminates for the first time the response of this giant of music theory to one of the most significant masterworks in all music.
The Creation of Beethoven's 35 Piano Sonatas
The Creation of Beethoven's 35 Piano Sonatas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Creation of Beethoven's 35 Piano Sonatas write by Barry Cooper. This book was released on 2017-04-05. The Creation of Beethoven's 35 Piano Sonatas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beethoven’s piano sonatas are a cornerstone of the piano repertoire and favourites of both the concert hall and recording studio. The sonatas have been the subject of much scholarship, but no single study gives an adequate account of the processes by which these sonatas were composed and published. With source materials such as sketches and correspondence increasingly available, the time is ripe for a close study of the history of these works. Barry Cooper, who in 2007 produced a new edition of all 35 sonatas, including three that are often overlooked, examines each sonata in turn, addressing questions such as: Why were they written? Why did they turn out as they did? How did they come into being and how did they reach their final form? Drawing on the composer’s sketches, autograph scores and early printed editions, as well as contextual material such as correspondence, Cooper explores the links between the notes and symbols found in the musical texts of the sonatas, and the environment that brought them about. The result is a biography not of the composer, but of the works themselves.
From the Ruins of Enlightenment
From the Ruins of Enlightenment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From the Ruins of Enlightenment write by Richard Kramer. This book was released on 2022-10-20. From the Ruins of Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Richard Kramer follows the work of Beethoven and Schubert from 1815 through to the final months of their lives, when each were increasingly absorbed in iconic projects that would soon enough inspire notions of “late style.” Here is Vienna, hosting a congress in 1815 that would redraw national boundaries and reconfigure the European community for a full century. A snapshot captures two of its citizens, each seemingly oblivious to this momentous political environment: Franz Schubert, not yet twenty years old and in the midst of his most prolific year—some 140 songs, four operas, and much else; and Ludwig van Beethoven, struggling through a midlife crisis that would yield the song cycle An die ferne Geliebte, two strikingly original cello sonatas, and the two formidable sonatas for the “Hammerklavier,” opp. 101 and 106. In Richard Kramer’s compelling reading, each seemed to be composing “against”—Beethoven, against the Enlightenment; Schubert, against the looming presence of the older composer even as his own musical imagination took full flight. From the Ruins of Enlightenment begins in 1815, with the discovery of two unique projects: Schubert’s settings of the poems of Ludwig Hölty in a fragmentary cycle and Beethoven’s engagement with a half dozen poems by Johann Gottfried Herder. From there, Kramer unearths previously undetected resonances and associations, illuminating the two composers in their “lonely and singular journeys” through the “rich solitude of their music.”
Harmony in Beethoven
Harmony in Beethoven - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harmony in Beethoven write by David Damschroder. This book was released on 2016-03-31. Harmony in Beethoven available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. David Damschroder's new analytical perspective sheds fresh light on Beethoven's harmonic structures.
The String Quartets of Beethoven
The String Quartets of Beethoven - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The String Quartets of Beethoven write by William Kinderman. This book was released on 2010-10-01. The String Quartets of Beethoven available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "We do not understand music--it understands us." This aphorism by Theodor W. Adorno expresses the quandary and the fascination many listeners have felt in approaching Beethoven's late quartets. No group of compositions occupies a more central position in chamber music, yet the meaning of these works continues to stimulate debate. William Kinderman's The String Quartets of Beethoven stands as the most detailed and comprehensive exploration of the subject. It collects new work by leading international scholars who draw on a variety of historical sources and analytical approaches to offer fresh insights into the aesthetics of the quartets, probing expressive and structural features that have hitherto received little attention. This volume also includes an appendix with updated information on the chronology and sources of the quartets and a detailed bibliography.
