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Masterworks of 20th-century music : the modern repertory of the symphony orchestra
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ISBN: 1283964333 0203616944 1136066829 9781136066825 9780203616949 0415938465 9780415938464 0415938473 9780415938471 9781136066900 9781136066986 113606690X Year: 2002 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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""Masterworks of 20th-Century Music"" introduces more than one hundred of the greatest compositions by world-renowned composer that have entered the standard orchestral repertory. The author surveyed dozens of major American orchestras to focus on those works that an average audience member is most likely to hear. Concertgoers who are intimated by the modern repertoire finally have a single resource that will help them understand and enjoy it. Like an educated guide, he walks the listener through the piece, explaining how all the elements come together to form a unified whole. This

Anton Bruckner, Symphony no. 8
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ISBN: 9780511605918 9780521632263 9780521635370 0511605919 051101919X 9780511019197 0511035888 9780511035883 0511152426 9780511152429 051132751X 9780511327513 9786610432226 6610432228 0521632269 0521635373 1107115744 9781107115743 1280432225 9781280432224 0511173369 9780511173363 0511051115 9780511051111 0511089104 Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Anton Bruckner's Eighth Symphony (1890), one of the last of the great Romantic symphonies, is a grandly complex masterpiece. Its critical reception has been fascinatingly contentious. Its music, at once extensive and distilled, directly confronts the problem of the symphony after Beethoven and after Wagner. This book explores this many-faceted work from several angles. It documents the complicated and often misunderstood history of the symphony's composition and revision and offers an accessible guide to its musical design. It demonstrates, by means of a study of well-known recordings, how performance styles have evolved in this century. It also revisits the conventional wisdom about the various versions and editions of the symphony and comes to some provocative new conclusions.

Beethoven : the Ninth symphony
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ISBN: 1281729361 9786611729363 0300129033 9780300129038 9780300099645 0300099649 Year: 2003 Publisher: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press,

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Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, a masterpiece that has influenced virtually every Western composer since its premiere, has become associated with the marking of momentous public occasions. In 1989, Chinese students played its finale through loudspeakers in Tiananmen Square, and Leonard Bernstein led a performance in Berlin to celebrate the razing of the Berlin Wall. This lively and up-to-date book focuses on Beethoven's Ninth, exploring the cultural and musical meanings that surround this powerful work of genius. David B. Levy sets the scene with a brief survey of nineteenth-century Germanic culture and society, then analyzes the Ninth symphony in detail with special emphasis on the famous choral finale. He discusses the initial performances in 1824 under Beethoven's direction and traces the symphony's critical reception and legacy. In the final chapter of the book, Levy examines interpretations of the work by prominent conductors, including Wagner, Mahler, and Weingartner. A fully annotated discography of selected recordings completes this comprehensive volume.


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A Catalogue of 18th-Century Symphonies
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ISBN: 0253055490 Year: 1988 Publisher: Indiana University Press

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A Catalogue of 18th-Century Symphonies makes possible for the first time a comprehensive view of one of the largest and most significant repertories in the history of music. Until now, no one has known for certain who wrote what, and hundreds of symphonies have been attributed in manuscript and printed sources to two or more composers. Under these conditions no reliable history of the symphony could be written. Now, thanks to Jan LaRue·s indefatigable efforts, we know how many symphonies have survived from the eighteenth century, where they are, their composers, and how many each composer wrote; and we can see at a glance the favorite keys, movement sequences, and instrumental combinations that were used. Volume I, Thematic Identifier, enables the user to identify more than 13,000 symphonies by means of the note names of the opening bars of the first violin part. This powerful reference tool also tells whether a particular symphony exists anywhere under a different name and whether there are any anonymous sources for the work. Volume II, Composers' Worklists, will provide detailed information for all the symphonies attributed to a particular composer in Volume I. With this indispensable bibliographic resource, Jan LaRue has established a solid foundation for public reference, performance, recording, and future research.


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A pioneer songster
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ISBN: 1501717545 9781501717543 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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Folklorists and lovers of folk songs will delight in this collection of the lyrics of songs sung by settlers of western New York in the middle of the nineteenth century. The manuscript on which this book is based is the most important collection of traditional song-texts, British and American in origin, to survive from its period. Discovered in the 1930s in the attic of Harry S. Douglass in Arcade, New York, it was written by Julia S. and Volney O. Stevens, who transcribed nearly ninety of the songs with which their father, Artemas Stevens, so often entertained them. The Stevens family had come to Wyoming County, New York, from New England in 1836, bringing with them traditional songs and ballads. The Stevens-Douglass manuscript contains the texts of 89 songs. In A Pioneer Songster, these are organized first by their origins (36 are from the British Isles; 53 were composed in America) and then according to themes and subjects, including love, history, politics, the pioneering life, politics, murder and shipwrecks, minstrel songs, spirituals, Indian legends, temperance, and satire. The book features a general introduction and shorter introductions to each themed section. In addition, each song is accompanied by an informative headnote detailing its history, meaning, and significance.A Pioneer Songster, first published by Cornell University Press in 1958, has been edited for the enjoyment of the general reader, but in their annotation, the editors have aimed at assisting students and scholars of folklore, musicology, and American history. While preserving the manuscript's original punctuation and spelling, they have succeeded in creating a resource that will be of interest to all who care for the American folk tradition and the history of New York State.

Haydn's symphonic forms : essays in compositional logic
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ISBN: 0198163924 Year: 1995 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press


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Studien zu Franz Schuberts Orchestersatz : das obligate accompagnement in den Sinfonien
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ISBN: 3775114106 Year: 1988 Publisher: Neuhausen Hanssler

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The European symphony from ca. 1800 to ca. 1930 : Germany and the Nordic countries
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ISBN: 9780253348012 0253348013 Year: 2007 Volume: 3a Publisher: Bloomington ; Indianapolis Indiana University Press


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Wagner, Schumann, and the lessons of Beethoven's Ninth
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ISBN: 9780520285569 0520285565 0520960971 9780520960978 1336281073 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press,

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In this original study, Christopher Alan Reynolds examines the influence of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on two major nineteenth-century composers, Richard Wagner and Robert Schumann. During 1845-46 the compositional styles of Schumann and Wagner changed in a common direction, toward a style that was more contrapuntal, more densely motivic, and engaged in processes of thematic transformation. Reynolds shows that the stylistic advances that both composers made in Dresden in 1845-46 stemmed from a deepened understanding of Beethoven's techniques and strategies in the Ninth Symphony. The evidence provided by their compositions from this pivotal year and the surrounding years suggests that they discussed Beethoven's Ninth with each other in the months leading up to the performance of this work, which Wagner conducted on Palm Sunday in 1846. Two primary aspects that appear to have interested them both are Beethoven's use of counterpoint involving contrary motion and his gradual development of the "Ode to Joy" melody through the preceding movements. Combining a novel examination of the historical record with careful readings of the music, Reynolds adds further layers to this argument, speculating that Wagner and Schumann may not have come to these discoveries entirely independently of each other. The trail of influences that Reynolds explores extends back to the music of Bach and ahead to Tristan and Isolde, as well as to Brahms's First Symphony.

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Symphonies --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Rezeption. --- Analysis, appreciation. --- Beethoven, Ludwig van, --- Wagner, Richard, --- Schumann, Robert, --- Influence. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Symphonies (Beethoven, Ludwig van). --- 1800-1899. --- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 -- Influence. --- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Symphonies, no. 9, op. 125, D minor. --- Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856 -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Symphonies -- 19th century -- Analysis, appreciation. --- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Analysis, appreciation --- Sinfoniettas --- Symphonies (Orchestra) --- Symphoniettas --- Shuman, R. --- Shuman, Robert, --- Schumann, Robert Alexander, --- Wagner, Wilhelm Richard, --- Drach, Wilhelm, --- Fājner, Rītshārd, --- Vāgners, Richards, --- Vagner, Rikhard, --- Vagner, R. --- Wagner, R. --- Wagunā, R., --- Vagneri, Rihard, --- Wagner, Riccardo, --- ואגנר, ריכארד --- ואגנר, ריכרד, --- Bītʹhūfin, --- Beethoven, L. van --- Van Beethoven, Ludwig, --- Beethoven, Louis van, --- Beethoven, Ludvig van, --- Bethovenas, L., --- Betkhoven, Li︠u︡dvig van, --- Beṭhoṿn, Ludṿig ṿan, --- Beethoven, Ludwik van, --- Betkhoven, L. van --- Bētōven, Rūtovihhi van, --- בטהובן --- בעטהאָוון, לודוויג וואן --- ベートベン, ルートビッヒ, --- 贝多芬, --- van Beethoven, Louis --- von Beethoven, Ludwig --- Beethoven, Ludwig --- Beethoven, Ludwig van --- ואגנר, ריכארד, --- Shumann, Robert, --- 18th century composers. --- 19th century classical music. --- 19th century composers. --- bach. --- beethoven. --- beethovens influence on music. --- beethovens influence. --- beethovens ninth symphony. --- brahms. --- classical composers. --- classical music studies. --- classical music. --- classical. --- contrary motion in music. --- contrary motion. --- ludwig von beethoven. --- music composition. --- music history. --- music. --- musical theory. --- musicians. --- schumann. --- symphonies. --- symphony composers. --- symphony. --- the flying dutchman. --- wagner.

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