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• Musical form in the age of Beethoven

  • Adolf Bernhard Marx

  • 213 stránok
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  A. B. Marx was one of the most important German music theorists of his time. Drawing on idealist aesthetics and the ideology of Bildung, he developed a holistic pedagogical method as well as a theory of musical form that gives pride of place to Beethoven. This volume offers a generous selection of the most salient of his writings, the majority presented here in English for the first time. It features Marx's oft-cited but little understood material on sonata form, his progressive program for compositional pedagogy and his detailed critical analysis of Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony. These writings thus deal with issues that fall directly among the concerns of mainstream theory and analysis in the last two centuries: the relation of form and content, the analysis of instrumental music, the role of pedagogy in music theory, and the nature of musical understanding.

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• Schenker's interpretive practice

  • Robert Snarrenberg

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  Schenker's Interpretive Practice is the first comprehensive study of this century's most influential music theorist, Heinrich Schenker. Since the 1960s, American theorists and musicologists have focused almost exclusively on analytical methods distilled from Schenker's writings. Breaking from that tradition, Robert Snarrenberg returns to Schenker's texts and to the humanist roots of his approach, situating Schenker's work in the broader context of his desire to portray the richness and particularity of musical experience. Snarrenberg concentrates on four aims that Schenker hoped to achieve: to present a theoretical account of musical effects encountered in European music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to represent the mindset shared among composers of that music, to convey the expressive interaction of musical effects in individual artwork, and to promote continued creative and re-creative participation in the musical tradition. Author recipient of the 1998 Young Scholar Award from the Society of Music Theory.

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• Mahler's sixth symphony

  • Robert Samuels

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  This study uses semiotic theory in order to investigate different kinds of musical communication.

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• Selected writings

  • Ernst Kurth

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  This book provides a selection of annotated translations from Ernst Kurth's three best-known publications: Grundlagen des linearen Kontrapunkts (1917), Romantische Harmonik und ihre Krise in Wagners 'Tristan' (1920), and Bruckner (1925). Kurth's contemporaries considered these books to be pioneering studies in the music of J. S. Bach, Wagner and Bruckner. Professor Rothfarb's extensive introductory essay discusses the intellectual and socio-cultural environment in which Kurth was writing, referring to aspects of the early twentieth-century cultural renewal movements and to intellectual developments of the day in phenomenology, aesthetics and psychology. By reading Kurth against the cultural-intellectual background provided in the essay and commentaries, today's music historians and theorists can round out their picture of music theory in the early twentieth century.

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• Aesthetics and the art of musical composition in the German Enlightenment

  • Johann Georg Sulzer

  • 222 stránok
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  The writings of Sulzer and Koch represent a significant confluence of philosophical and musical thought from the German Enlightenment. Koch creatively adapted many of Sulzer's abstract philosophical ideas to concrete questions of musical pedagogy, showing how they could be usefully applied to the teaching and analysis of musical composition. This collaborative study and translation of the texts will be of interest to all historians of music, music theory, and historians of eighteenth-century German aesthetic thought.

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• Mahler's Sixth Symphony

  A Study in Musical Semiotics

  • Robert Samuels

  • 192 stránok
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  Employing semiotic theory, this study explores musical communication within large orchestral works from the turn of the century, challenging conventional analysis. It defines musical meaning across various levels, including inherent structures, tradition, genre, and narrative parallels with contemporary non-musical texts. By integrating concepts from Eco, Barthes, and Derrida, the author combines analytical insights with cultural interpretation, offering a comprehensive examination of the symphony's significance within its historical and artistic context.

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• The musical dilettante

  • Johann Friedrich Daube

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  This English translation of Musical Dilettante offers a most comprehensive view of galant composition available in a single volume and serves not only as a theoretical treatise but a record of the aesthetic and musical values of the day.

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• Ernst Kurth

  Selected Writings

  • Ernst Kurth

  • 256 stránok
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  Featuring extensive annotated translations, this work delves into the writings of music theorist Ernst Kurth, who made significant contributions to music theory between 1886 and 1946. The annotations enhance understanding of Kurth's complex ideas, making them accessible to both scholars and enthusiasts. The book serves as a valuable resource for those interested in music theory and the historical context of Kurth's contributions.

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• Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment

  Selected Writings of Johann Georg Sulzer and Heinrich Christoph Koch

  • Heinrich Christoph Koch

  • 224 stránok
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  This collaborative study delves into the writings of Sulzer and Koch, exploring their philosophical and musical ideas. It examines the interplay between their thoughts, highlighting how their perspectives contribute to the understanding of music and philosophy. The analysis offers insights into their intellectual contributions and the broader implications of their work in the context of music theory and philosophy.

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• Chromatic Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Music

  • David Kopp

  • 292 stránok
  • 11 hodin čítania

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  The book presents a comprehensive model exploring chromatic chord relationships specifically within the context of nineteenth-century music. It delves into the complexities of harmonic structures and their evolution during this period, offering insights into how composers utilized chromaticism to enhance musical expression. Through detailed analysis, it aims to illuminate the intricate connections between chords and their significance in the broader landscape of music theory and history.

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• Haydn's "Farewell" symphony and the idea of classical style

  • James Webster

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  This volume offers a new view of Joseph Haydn's instrumental music. It argues that many of Haydn's greatest and most characteristic instrumental works are 'through-composed' in the sense that their several movements are bound together into a cycle. This cyclic integration is articulated, among other ways, by the 'progressive' form of individual movements, structural and gestural links between the movements, and extramusical associations. Central to the study is a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the 'Farewell' Symphony, No. 45 in F sharp minor (1772). The analysis is distinguished by its systematic use of different methods (Toveyan formalism, Schenkerian voice leading, Schoenbergian developing variation) to elucidate the work's overall coherence. The work's unique musical processes, in turn, suggest an interpretation of the entire piece (not merely the famous 'farewell' finale) in terms of the familiar programmatic story of the musicians' wish to leave Castle Eszterhaza. In a book which relates systematically the results of analysis and interpretation, Professor Webster challenges the concept of 'classical style' which, he argues has distorted our understanding of Haydn's development, and he stresses the need for a greater appreciation of Haydn's early music and of his stature as Beethoven's equal.

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