Performing Beethoven

Performing Beethoven
Title Performing Beethoven PDF eBook
Author Robin Stowell
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 272
Release 1994-09-08
Genre Music
ISBN 9780521416443

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The ten essays in this volume explore different aspects of the performance of instrumental works by Beethoven. Each essay discusses performance issues from Beethoven's time to the present, whether the objective be to realise a performance in an historically appropriate manner, to elucidate the interpretation of Beethoven's music by conductors and performers, to clarify transcriptions by editors or to reconstruct the experience of the listener in various different periods. Four contributions focus on the piano music while another group concentrates on Beethoven's music for strings. These chapters are complemented by an examination of Beethoven's exploitation of the developing wind choir, an evaluation of early twentieth-century recordings as pointers to early nineteenth-century performance practice and an historical survey of rescorings in Beethoven's symphonies.

Mr. Beethoven

Mr. Beethoven
Title Mr. Beethoven PDF eBook
Author Paul Griffiths
Publisher New York Review of Books
Pages 313
Release 2021-10-26
Genre Fiction
ISBN 168137580X

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Shortlisted for the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize Based on the German composer's own correspondence, this inventive, counterfactual work of historical fiction imagines Beethoven traveling to America to write an oratorio based on the Book of Job. It is a matter of historical record that in 1823 the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston (active to this day) sought to commission Beethoven to write an oratorio. The premise of Paul Griffiths’s ingenious novel is that Beethoven accepted the commission and traveled to the United States to oversee its first performance. Griffiths grants the composer a few extra years of life and, starting with his voyage across the Atlantic and entry into Boston Harbor, chronicles his adventures and misadventures in a new world in which, great man though he is, he finds himself a new man. Relying entirely on historically attested possibilities to develop the plot, Griffiths shows Beethoven learning a form of sign language, struggling to rein in the uncertain inspiration of Reverend Ballou (his designated librettist), and finding a kindred spirit in the widowed Mrs. Hill, all the while keeping his hosts guessing as to whether he will come through with his promised composition. (And just what, the reader also wonders, will this new piece by Beethoven turn out to be?) The book that emerges is an improvisation, as virtuosic as it is delicate, on a historical theme.

A First Book of Ragtime

A First Book of Ragtime
Title A First Book of Ragtime PDF eBook
Author David Dutkanicz
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 50
Release 2012-10-16
Genre Music
ISBN 0486171671

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These rollicking, easy-to-play ragtime favorites include "Maple Leaf Rag," "The Entertainer," "Tiger Rag," and other melodies by such favorites as Scott Joplin, James Scott, Joseph Lamb, and Eubie Blake. All songs available as downloadable MP3s.

Performance Practice

Performance Practice
Title Performance Practice PDF eBook
Author Roland Jackson
Publisher Routledge
Pages 552
Release 2013-10-23
Genre Music
ISBN 113676769X

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Performance practice is the study of how music was performed over the centuries, both by its originators (the composers and performers who introduced the works) and, later, by revivalists. This first of its kind Dictionary offers entries on composers, musiciansperformers, technical terms, performance centers, musical instruments, and genres, all aimed at elucidating issues in performance practice. This A-Z guide will help students, scholars, and listeners understand how musical works were originally performed and subsequently changed over the centuries. Compiled by a leading scholar in the field, this work will serve as both a point-of-entry for beginners as well as a roadmap for advanced scholarship in the field.

Beethoven: The 'Moonlight' and Other Sonatas, Op. 27 and Op. 31

Beethoven: The 'Moonlight' and Other Sonatas, Op. 27 and Op. 31
Title Beethoven: The 'Moonlight' and Other Sonatas, Op. 27 and Op. 31 PDF eBook
Author Timothy Jones
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 164
Release 1999-10-21
Genre Music
ISBN 9780521598590

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Even in Beethoven's day the 'Moonlight' Sonata was a popular favourite. This 1999 book provides an accessible introduction to the Sonatas Opp. 27 and 31 (including The 'Moonlight' and 'The Tempest'), aimed at pianists, students, and music lovers. It begins with the works' historical background - the emergence of a 'piano culture' at the end of the eighteenth century, Beethoven's aristocratic milieu in Vienna, and his oft-quoted intention to follow a new compositional path. An account of the sonatas' genesis is followed by a discussion of their reception history, including a survey of changing performing styles since the mid-nineteenth century. The concept of the Sonata quasi una Fantasia is examined in relation to the cult of artistic sensibility in early-nineteenth-century Vienna. The study concludes with a critical introduction to each sonata.

Beethoven on Beethoven

Beethoven on Beethoven
Title Beethoven on Beethoven PDF eBook
Author William S. Newman
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 344
Release 1988
Genre Music
ISBN 9780393307191

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"'Must' reading for any pianist concerned with Beethoven's music, which is to say almost every pianist alive." --William Rothstein, Musical Times

Performing by the Book?

Performing by the Book?
Title Performing by the Book? PDF eBook
Author Bruno Forment
Publisher Leuven University Press
Pages 213
Release 2024-10-15
Genre Music
ISBN 9462704147

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To perform a musical score implies the transformation of a symbolically coded text into vibrant sound. In Performing by the Book? a carefully selected cadre of artist-researchers dissects this delicate act in critical ways. Offering first-hand insights into the notational, structural and interpretative challenges faced by musicians in dealing with texts of all kinds, the chapters traverse the spectrum between the Middle Ages and the age of Stockhausen. In a harmonious blend of scholarly allure and individual artistry, free from academic obfuscation, the contributors keep a keen eye on the limits of interpretation, both in terms of the interpretative process itself and of the balance between textual faithfulness and artistic autonomy. This comprehensive volume is an indispensable guide for everyone interested in the relationship between musical performance and texts.