Rethinking Mendelssohn

Herausgeber: Taylor, Benedict

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Produktbeschreibung

Building on the renaissance in Mendelssohn scholarship of the last two decades, Rethinking Mendelssohn critically engages with the composer's music and aesthetics, as well as the interpretation of his works in relation to contemporaneous culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 538
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 167mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 891g
• ISBN-13: 9780190611781
• ISBN-10: 0190611782
• Artikelnr.: 58452761

Autorenporträt

Benedict Taylor is Reader in Music at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests centre on nineteenth-century music, theory and analysis, and philosophy. Previous books include Mendelssohn, Time and Memory: The Romantic Conception of Cyclic Form (2011), The Melody of Time: Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era (2016), and Towards a Harmonic Grammar of Grieg's Late Piano Music (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

* Biographies of Contributors
* Preface
* Abbreviations
* Introduction: Rethinking Mendelssohn
* Benedict Taylor
* I Interpreting the Orchestral Music
* 1 Deformed Beauty? Narrative and Musical Form in Mendelssohn's
Overture to the Tale of the Fair Melusina, Op. 32
* Thomas Grey
* 2 Brass Topoi, Telescoped Recapitulations, and the Bildungsreise: A
New Approach to the First Movement of Mendelssohn's 'Italian'
Symphony
* Peter Mercer-Taylor
* 3 'Inner Necessity': Fabulation, Frame, and Musical Memory in
Mendelssohn's Lobgesang
* John Michael Cooper
* 4 An Epic Voice with Rhyme and Reason: On Rehearing Mendelssohn's
'Scottish' Symphony
* Scott Burnham
* II Historical and Aesthetic Contexts
* 5 Mendelssohn and the Idea of the North
* Sarah Clemmens Waltz
* 6 Sibling Love and the Daemonic: Contradictions in the Relationship
between Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn
* Angela Mace Christian
* 7 Mendelssohn and Droysen: Historicism in Practice and Theory
* Celia Applegate
* III Analysing Mendelssohn
* 8 Mendelssohn and Sonata Form: The Case of Op. 44 No. 2
* Benedict Taylor
* 9 Expansion and Recomposition in Mendelssohn's Symphonic Sonata Forms
* Steven Vande Moortele
* 10 Syntax and Process in the First Movement of Mendelssohn's Piano
Trio Op. 66
* Julian Horton
* 11 Form through Sound: Klangfarbe and Texture in Mendelssohn's
Instrumental Compositions
* Thomas Schmidt
* IV Art, Ethics, and Religion
* 12 The Philosophical Composer: The Influence of Moses Mendelssohn and
Friedrich Schleiermacher on Felix Mendelssohn
* Leon Botstein
* 13 Rethinking Kunstreligion in the Context of Mendelssohn's Life and
Work
* Sabine Koch
* 14 Sacred Sound and Secular Space in Mendelssohn's Instrumental Music
* Lawrence Kramer
* 15 Felix Mendelssohn's Deutsche Liturgie in the Context of the
Prussian Agende of 1829
* Laura K. T. Stokes
* V Mendelssohn and the Lied
* 16 Reassessing Felix Mendelssohn's Song Aesthetic through the Lens of
Religion: The Case of 'Entsagung'
* Jennifer Ronyak
* 17 Changes of Pace: Expressive Accelerations and Decelerations in
Mendelssohn's Vocal Rhythms
* Harald Krebs
* 18 'Time is, Time was, Time is past': The Phenomenology of Travel in
Mendelssohn's Songs
* Susan Youens
* 19 Fanny Hensel's Sechs Lieder Op. 9: A Brother's Elegy
* Stephen Rodgers
* Bibliography
* Index