The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner - 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 Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner write by Steven Vande Moortele. This book was released on 2017-04-27. The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive study of musical form in operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850.
Rethinking Brahms
Rethinking Brahms - 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 Rethinking Brahms write by Nicole Grimes. This book was released on 2022-10-28. Rethinking Brahms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As one of the most significant and widely performed composers of the nineteenth century, Brahms continues to command our attention. Rethinking Brahms counterbalances prevailing scholarly assumptions that position him as a conservative composer (whether musically or politically) with a wide-ranging exploration and re-evaluation of his significance today. Drawing on German- and English-language scholarship, it deploys original approaches to his music and pursues innovative methodologies to interrogate the historical, cultural, and artistic contexts of his creativity. Empowered by recent theoretical work on form and tonality, it offers fresh analytical insights into his music, including a number of corpus studies that interrogate the relationships between Brahms and other composers, past and present. The book brings into sharp focus the productive tension that exists between the perceived fixedness of musical texts and the ephemerality of performance by considering how historical and modern performers shape established understandings of Brahms and his music. Rethinking Brahms invites the reader to hear familiar pieces anew as they are refracted through historical, artistic, and philosophical prisms. Bringing us up to the present day, it also gives sustained attention to the resounding impact of Brahms's compositions on new music by exploring works by recent composers who have engaged deeply with his oeuvre. Combining awareness of overarching contexts with perceptive insights into Brahms's music, this book enlivens our understanding of Brahms, providing a dynamic, multifaceted, complex, and invigoratingly fresh portrait of the composer.
Music in the Present Tense
Music in the Present Tense - 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 Music in the Present Tense write by Emanuele Senici. This book was released on 2019-11-13. Music in the Present Tense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early 1800s, Rossini’s operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and private. But after Rossini stopped composing, a sharp decline in popularity drove most of his works out of the repertory. In the past half century, they have made a spectacular return to operatic stages worldwide, but this recent fame has not been accompanied by a comparable critical reevaluation. Emanuele Senici’s new book provides a fresh look at the motives behind the Rossinian furore and its aftermath by examining the composer’s works in the historical context in which they were conceived, performed, seen, heard, and discussed. Situating the operas firmly within the social practices, cultural formations, ideological currents, and political events of early nineteenth-century Italy, Senici reveals Rossini’s dramaturgy as a radically new and specifically Italian reaction to the epoch-making changes witnessed in Europe at the time. The first book-length study of Rossini’s Italian operas to appear in English, Music in the Present Tense exposes new ways to explore nineteenth-century music and addresses crucial issues in the history of modernity, such as trauma, repetition, and the healing power of theatricality.
The Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850-1950
The Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850-1950 - 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 Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850-1950 write by Michael Allis. This book was released on 2020. The Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850-1950 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Symphonic Poem in Britain 1850-1950 aims to raise the status of the genre generally and in Britain specifically. The volume reaffirms British composers' confidence in dealing with literary texts and takes advantage of the contributors' interdisciplinary expertise by situating discussions of the tone poem in Britain in a variety of historical, analytical and cultural contexts. This book highlights some of the continental models that influenced British composers, and identifies a range of issues related to perceptions of the genre. Richard Strauss became an important figure in Britain during this time, not only in terms of the clear impact of his tone poems, but the debates over their value and even their ethics. A focus on French orchestral music in Britain represents a welcome addition to scholarly debate, and links to issues in several other chapters. The historical development of the genre, the impact of compositional models, issues highlighted in critical reception as well as programming strategies all contribute to a richer understanding of the symphonic poem in Britain. Works by British composers discussed in more detail include William Wallace's Villon (1909), Gustav Holst's Beni Mora(1909-10), Hubert Parry's From Death to Life (1914), John Ireland's Mai-Dun (1921), and Frank Bridge's orchestral 'poems' (1903-15).
Schubert's String Quartets
Schubert's String Quartets - 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 Schubert's String Quartets write by Anne Hyland. This book was released on 2023-04-20. Schubert's String Quartets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fresh analytical and musicological exploration of Schubert's incorporation of lyric elements into sonata form by way of his string quartets.
