Virtuosity And The Musical Work
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Virtuosity And The Musical Work
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Author : Jim Samson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Virtuosity And The Musical Work written by Jim Samson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Music categories.
This book considers the nature of nineteenth-century instrumental music by investigating three sets of etudes by Liszt. It explores central concerns such as a composer-performer culture, the concept of virtuosity, the significance of recomposition, music and the poetic, and the consolidation of a musical work-concept.
Virtuosity And The Musical Work
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Author : Jim Samson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-04-23
Virtuosity And The Musical Work written by Jim Samson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-23 with Music categories.
This book is about three sets of etudes by Liszt: the Etude en douze exercices (1826), its reworking as Douzes grandes études (1837), and their reworking as Douzes études d'exécution transcendante (1851). At the same time it is a book about nineteenth-century instrumental music in general, in that the three works invite the exploration of features characteristic of the early Romantic era in music. These include: a composer-performer culture, the concept of virtuosity, the significance of recomposition, music and the poetic, and the consolidation of a musical work-concept. A central concern is to illuminate the relationship between the work-concept and a performance- and genre-orientated musical culture. At the same time the book reflects on how we might make judgements of the 'Transcendentals', of the Symphonic Poem Mazeppa (based on the fourth etude), and of Liszt's music in general.
The Virtuoso As Subject
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Author : Zarko Cvejić
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2016-06-22
The Virtuoso As Subject written by Zarko Cvejić and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-22 with Music categories.
This book offers a novel interpretation of the sudden and steep decline of instrumental virtuosity in its critical reception between c. 1815 and c. 1850, documenting it with a large number of examples from Europe’s leading music periodicals at the time. The increasingly hostile critical reception of instrumental virtuosity during this period is interpreted from the perspective of contemporary aesthetics and philosophical conceptions of human subjectivity; the book’s main thesis is that virtuosity qua irreducibly bodily performance generated so much hostility because it was deemed incompatible with, and even threatening to, the new Romantic philosophical conception of music as a radically disembodied, abstract, autonomous art and, moreover, a symbol or model – if only a utopian one – of a similarly autonomous and free human subject, whose freedom and autonomy seemed increasingly untenable in the economic and political context of post-Napoleonic Europe. That is why music, newly reconceived as radically abstract and autonomous, plays such an important part in the philosophy of early German Romantics such as E. T. A. Hoffmann, Schelling, and Schopenhauer, with their growing misgivings about the very possibility of human freedom, and not so much in the preceding generation of thinkers, such as Kant and Hegel, who still believed in the (transcendentally) free subject of the Enlightenment. For the early German Romantics, music becomes a model of human freedom, if freedom could exist. By contrast, virtuosity, irredeemably moored in the perishable human body, ephemeral, and beholden to such base motives as making money and gaining fame, is not only incompatible with music thus conceived, but also threatens to expose it as an illusion, in other words, as irreducibly corporeal, and, by extension, the human subject it was meant to symbolise as likewise an illusion. Only with that in mind, may we begin to understand the hostility of some early to mid-19th-century critics to instrumental virtuosity, which sometimes reached truly bizarre proportions. In order to accomplish this, the book looks at contemporary aesthetics and philosophy, the contemporary reception of virtuosity in performance and composition, and the impact of 19th-century gender ideology on the reception of some leading virtuosi, male and female alike.
Exploring Virtuosities Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst Nineteenth Century Musical Practices And Beyond
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Author : Christine Hoppe
language : de
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
Release Date : 2018-05-02
Exploring Virtuosities Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst Nineteenth Century Musical Practices And Beyond written by Christine Hoppe and has been published by Georg Olms Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-02 with Music categories.
Over the last decade, musicological interest in both the composing virtuoso of the nineteenth century and the phenomenon of virtuosity has increased. Moving beyond approaches to music solely in terms of works allowed for a range of perspectives on concepts of virtuosity to emerge. Such cultural theory-based approaches crucially put the traditional musicological image of the virtuoso into a broader context. Recent advances in performance studies, furthermore, emphasise the need to include factors such as staging, the audience, sound and space, and musical practices, in our understanding of the complex phenomenon of virtuosity. The present volume tries to meet the challenges raised by these multi-layered perspectives by varying the foci on virtuosity – from specific attention to individual virtuosi and considerations of virtuosity’s historical and social context to broader questions regarding innovations in the current landscape and future virtuoso phenomena. The broad range of topics centres on the composer and virtuoso Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst and his immediate sphere of influence. The contributions in the present volume not only reveal the complexity of the research field of virtuosity but also liberate Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst from the shadow of fixed, mainly non-musical, discourses on virtuosity around Paganini. The enclosed CD with recordings by Guillaume Tardif, Philippe Borer, Clive Brown and Friederike Spangenberg enriches these texts by including the dimension of sound.
Schumann S Virtuosity
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Author : Alexander Stefaniak
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2016-09-19
Schumann S Virtuosity written by Alexander Stefaniak and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-19 with Music categories.
“A valuable resource for musicologists, theorists, pianists, and aestheticians interested in reading about Schumann’s views on virtuosity.” —Notes Considered one of the greatest composers—and music critics—of the Romantic era, Robert Schumann (1810–1856) played an important role in shaping nineteenth-century German ideas about virtuosity. Forging his career in the decades that saw abundant public fascination with the feats and creations of virtuosos (Liszt, Paganini, and Chopin among others), Schumann engaged with instrumental virtuosity through not only his compositions and performances but also his music reviews and writings about his contemporaries. Ultimately, the discourse of virtuosity influenced the culture of Western “art music” well beyond the nineteenth century and into the present day. By examining previously unexplored archival sources, Alexander Stefaniak looks at the diverse approaches to virtuosity Schumann developed over the course of his career, revealing several distinct currents in nineteenth-century German virtuosity and the enduring flexibility of virtuosity discourse.
Liszt And Virtuosity
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Author : Robert Doran
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2020
Liszt And Virtuosity written by Robert Doran and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A new and wide-ranging collection of essays by leading international scholars, exploring the concept and practices of virtuosity in Franz Liszt and his contemporaries.
Virtuosity And Composer Performer Collaboration In The Viola Works Of Darius Milhaud And Paul Hindemith
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Author : Irina Andreeva
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Virtuosity And Composer Performer Collaboration In The Viola Works Of Darius Milhaud And Paul Hindemith written by Irina Andreeva and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Concertos (Viola) categories.
This thesis considers the position of Darius Milhaud's Viola Concerto No. 1, op. 108 (1929-30), and Viola Concerto No. 2, op. 340 (1955), in the modern viola repertoire. Milhaud's understanding of the viola as a solo virtuoso instrument is displayed particularly clearly in his two Concertos, which were specifically inspired by his relationships with two influential virtuoso violists of the twentieth century - Paul Hindemith and William Primrose. A further, related issue that is explored, is the direct and indirect impact of Paganini's compositions on these two works. Milhaud's virtuosic writing for the viola was strongly influenced by his friendships with these two musicians - Hindemith and Primrose - each of whom played a critical role in the emergence of a new breed of viola virtuosos during the course of the twentieth century. Milhaud's friendship with the first of these men, Paul Hindemith, produced not one, but two important pieces of the virtuoso viola repertoire: Milhaud's first Viola Concerto and Hindemith's Konzertmusik. Aspects of the cross--influence between composers and virtuoso performers are addressed here through a comparison of the technical and musical elements, as well as the structure of these two works. Another prominent violist of the twentieth century, William Primrose, who was nicknamed the 'Paganini of the Viola', commissioned Milhaud's second Viola Concerto. Primrose's desire for new concert repertoire for his instrument, together with his unequalled technical prowess, both impressed and inspired Milhaud, who wrote the Viola Concerto No. 2 with Primrose's technical virtuosity in mind. Strikingly, however, unlike the first Concerto, this work has been largely neglected for almost fifty years. Significantly, both Milhaud's viola concertos display very strong technical similarities with Paganini's music written for the violin.
Clementi And The Woman At The Piano
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Author : Erin Helyard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-06-13
Clementi And The Woman At The Piano written by Erin Helyard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-13 with categories.
This book takes as its historical point of departure the radical appearance in 1779 of technically difficult keyboard music in a set of six sonatas (Op. 2) by Muzio Clementi. The difficult passages contained in this opus are unique amongst keyboard music published for a market that was understood at the time to consist almost entirely of female amateur keyboardists. Previously actively discouraged from practicing or improving their skills due to the restrictive ideologies in place, Clementi's music increasingly affords female pianists a new kind of musical expression. Clementi and the woman at the piano: Virtuosity and the market for music in eighteenth-century London maps the social, musical, and gendered implications of technically difficult music and helps to underline important changes in Enlightenment culture and keyboard practice. Clementi's activities initiated the now familiar and modern concepts of repetitive musical practice, the work-concept, virtuosity itself, and the division between amateur and professional. Additionally, Clementi promotes a radical new mode of expression for female pianists that is at first highly controversial but slowly gains acceptance due to a widespread promotion of his music, instruments, and methods. Clementi's career is in many respects a perfect case study for the tensions between Enlightenment thinking and new Romantic ideologies.
Clementi And The Woman At The Piano
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Author : Erin Helyard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Clementi And The Woman At The Piano written by Erin Helyard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Piano music categories.
Life Of Chopin
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Author : Franz Liszt
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-12-01
Life Of Chopin written by Franz Liszt and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-01 with History categories.
The biographical piece titled "Life of Chopin" was authored by Franz Liszt, a renowned Hungarian composer and pianist. The book functions as a sincere homage to the life and musical heritage of the esteemed Polish composer Frédéric Chopin. In the realm of musical history, Franz Liszt emerges as a prominent figure who not only shared the temporal context with Chopin but also maintained a close companionship with him. Through his literary works, Liszt provides readers with a distinctive lens through which to observe the lives and experiences of the renowned composer, imbuing the narrative with a sense of personal connection and intimacy. Liszt's tale not only emphasizes Chopin's musical prowess but also explores the complexities of his personality, his interpersonal connections, and the cultural context of the Romantic period. In the biography, Liszt adeptly conveys the intrinsic qualities of Chopin's music, employing articulate and fervent language. The author offers valuable perspectives on Chopin's formative years in Poland, his artistic progression in Paris, and the significant impact of his musical creations on the realm of classical music. The work titled "Liszt's Life of Chopin" transcends the boundaries of a mere biography, as it serves as a deeply sincere tribute from one eminent musical virtuoso to another.