Geoffrey Block

Experiencing Beethoven

A Listener's Companion

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Designed for those unversed in composition or music theory, this book places Beethoven's compositions within the context of his personal and professional life and social and cultural milieu. This volume offers readers an enhanced experience of key works by exploring Beethoven's lyricism, heroic style, and unwaveringly idealistic musical vision.

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Produktdetails

• Listener's Companion
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9781442245457
• ISBN-10: 144224545X
• Artikelnr.: 43758476

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Block is distinguished professor of music history at the University of Puget Sound. He is the author of Ives: "Concord" Sonata (1996), Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from "Show Boat" to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber (1997; 2nd ed. 2009), and Richard Rodgers (2003), a co-editor and contributor to Charles Ives and the Classical Tradition (1996), the editor of The Richard Rodgers Reader (2002), and the editor of two series of books on the American musical.

Inhaltsangabe

1. "The Spirit of Mozart" (1770
1792) 2. "From the Hands of Haydn" (1792
1801) 3. The "Heroic" Style (1802
1806) 4. Fidelio: Beethoven's One and Only Opera (1805
06 and 1814) 5. Symphonic Alternatives to the Heroic Style (1807
1814) 6. Beethoven and Song 7. The Late Piano Music (1816
1824) 8. Daiku: The Big Ninth 9. The String Quartet in C# Minor, Op. 131 Glossary Selected Reading Selected Listening