Mendelssohn perspectives / edited by Nicole Grimes and Angela R. Mace.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grimes, Nicole, editor.

Mace, Angela, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847--Criticism and interpretation.

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mendelssohn Perspectives presents valuable new insights into Mendelssohn's music, biography and reception. Critically engaging a wide range of source materials, the volume combines traditional musical-analytical studies with those that draw on other humanistic disciplines to shed new light on the composer's life, and on his contemporary and posthumous reputations. The volume offers essays on Mendelssohn's Jewishness, his vast correspondence, his music for the stage, and his relationship with music of the past and future, as well as the compositional process and handling of form in the music of

Contents:

pt. 1. Mendelssohn's Jewishness

pt. 2. Between tradition and innovation

pt. 3. Mendelssohn and the stage

pt. 4. Style and compositional process

pt. 5. Contemporary views and posthumous perspectives.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4094-8414-9

1-315-59498-6

1-317-09738-6

1-283-59108-1

9786613903532

1-4094-2826-5

9781315594989

OCLC:

817811697