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The Cambridge companion to Beethoven / edited by Glenn Stanley.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.B4 C24 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge companions to music
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827--Criticism and interpretation.
- Beethoven, Ludwig van.
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 373 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- A survey of Beethoven's music and the personal and historical contexts in which it was composed.
- Contents:
- Some thoughts on biography and a chronology of Beethoven's life and music / Glenn Stanley
- Beethoven at work : musical activist and thinker / Glenn Stanley
- The compositional act : sketches and autographs / Barry Cooper
- "The spirit of Mozart from Haydn's hands" : Beethoven's musical inheritance / Elaine Sisman
- Phrase, period, theme / Roger Kamien
- "The sense of an ending" : goal-directedness in Beethoven's music / Nicholas Marston
- The piano music : concertos, sonatas, variations, small forms / William Kinderman
- Beethoven's chamber music with piano : seeking unity in mixed sonorities / Mark Kaplan
- Manner, tone and tendency in Beethoven's chamber music for strings / John Daverio
- Sound and structure in Beethoven's orchestral music / Leon Botstein
- Beethoven's essay in opera : historical, text-critical and interpretative issues in Fidelio / Michael C. Tusa
- Probing the sacred genres : Beethoven's religious songs, oratorio and masses / Birgit Lodes
- "With a Beethoven-like sublimity" : Beethoven in the works of other composers / Margaret Notley
- Beethoven's music in performance : historical perspectives / Alain Frogley
- The four ages of Beethoven : critical reception and the canonic composer / Scott Burnham
- Beethoven at large : reception in literature, the arts, philosophy and politics / David B. Dennis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-362) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0521580749
- 0521589347
- OCLC:
- 40298303
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