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7 ISBN 9780803212923
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"Beethoven Forum, Volume 7", "The essays in this volume grew out of an international Beethoven conference at Harvard University in the fall of 1996, convoked to honor Lewis Lockwood, and united under the theme "Rethinking Beethoven's Late Period: Sources, Aesthetics, and Interpretation". Mark Evan Bonds is professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of "After Beethoven: Imperatives of Originality in the Symphony" (Harvard, 1996), and "Wordless Rhetoric: Musical Form and the Metaphor of the Oration" (Harvard, 1991)."
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5 ISBN 9780803229211
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"The best of present-day Beethoven scholarship." - Stanley Sadie, editor of "New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians". "Since 1992, the University of Nebraska Press has published a Beethoven Forum, which is rich in information and knowledge. Fundamental research and topicality, once the domain of the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, are admirably combined in the Forum." - Der Spiegel.An annual of international Beethoven studies, Beethoven Forum promotes and sustains the high level of scholarship inspired by Beethoven's extraordinary works. Volume 5 presents studies on Beethoven's Fidelio, his piano sonatas, and his uses of form and dynamics, along with reviews of Theodor Adorno's Beethoven's Philosophie der Musik and of recent writings on the Ninth Symphony. The contributors are Michael C. Tusa, Lee Rothfarb, Miriam Sheer, Michael Spitzer, William Kinderman, Stephen Hinton, and Scott Burnham. Lewis Lockwood is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University. The recipient of the Einstein, Kinkeldey, and Marraro prizes, he is also the author of "Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process".
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1 ISBN 9780803239067
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"In this collection of ten articles and one review, there are offerings by leading Beethoven scholars. Particularly impressive are the thought-provoking and provocative articles with innovative approaches to Beethoven musicology, for example, the works of Richard Kramer, Scott Burnham, and Julia Moore on musical narrative, extramusical validations, and economic considerations, respectively. These invite critical dialogue. This debut should receive kudos, as it does shed more light on Beethoven...it fills a niche left by the last Beethoven-Jahrbuch." - "Choice." "A commanding debut which serious music collections should consider." - "Library Journal".
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2 ISBN 9780803239098
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Representing the wide range of approaches that enrich the understanding and appreciation of Beethoven and his interpreters, the second volume in this series features research, criticism, and performers' commentary by nine scholars including Michael C. Tusa, Tia Denora, Lawrence Earp, Lewis Lockwood, William Drabkin, and Kevin Korsyn. Additionally, independent appraisals of Carl Dahlhaus's important Ludwig van Beethoven und seine Zeit are provided by Hermann Danuser, John Daverio, and James Webster.
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4 ISBN 9780803239166
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Tia DeNora examines historical depictions of Beethoven's work in late eighteenth-century Vienna. K. M. Knittel also looks critically at traditional assumptions. Janet Schmalfeldt and Thomas Sipe discuss two of Beethoven's most beloved piano sonatas. Richard Taruskin identifies a potential borrowing in the "Fifth Symphony". Alain Frogley demonstrates subtle connections between rhythmic patterns and tonal plan in the "Pastoral Symphony". Christopher Reynolds clarifies how Romantic composers trod the narrow path between emulation and originality. William Rothstein contributes a precise analysis of one of Beethoven's complex compositional techniques.
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3 ISBN 9780803242463
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James Webster evaluates the critical tradition of dividing Beethoven's career into three periods and discusses its artificiality and its implications. Jurgen May's essay considers Beethoven's relations with one of the first of his most important patrons. Lewis Lockwood examines Beethoven's sketchbooks to describe how Beethoven composed with and against models from Mozart. Glenn Stanley surveys Beethoven's sets of piano variations written in his first decade in Vienna. Elaine R. Sisman provides a historical and aesthetic analysis of one of Beethoven's most popular piano sonatas. The composition of the "Spring" sonata is traced in the sketchbooks by Carl Schachter. Nicholas Marston discusses the composition of the "Second Symphony", and William E. Caplin defines "hybrid themes" and shows their variety in Beethoven's early compositions. William Kinderman concludes with a review of Klaus Kropfinger's "Wagner and Beethoven."
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6 ISBN 9780803242678
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'The best of present-day Beethoven scholarship' - Stanley Sadie, editor of "New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians". 'Since 1992, the University of Nebraska Press has published "A Beethoven Forum", which is rich in information and knowledge. Fundamental research and topicality, once the domain of the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, are admirably combined in the Forum' - Der Spiegel. Glenn Stanley opens "Beethoven Forum 6" with a consideration of the 'piano sonata culture' of the late eighteenth century and how Beethoven's sonatas influenced this culture. Lawrence Kramer explores the 'Tempest' sonata and the way it exemplifies one of the leading intellectual projects of the Enlightenment, the project of speculative anthropology or universal history. Elaine R. Sisman examines the 'lyrical', 'small-scale' sonatas of Beethoven's middle period in relation to his renewed preoccupation with the idea of 'fantasia'. Nicholas Marston concludes the volume's consideration of the piano sonatas with a study of the development of a musical idea in the 'Hammerklavier' sonata.
Birgit Lodes examines the relationship between the human and the divine as they are represented in the Gloria of Beethoven's great mass, the Missa solemnis. In a second article on this late masterpiece, Norbert Gertsch describes a subscription copy of the Missa solemnis - a copy that Beethoven had corrected - and its significance for a future scholarly edition of the work. Maynard Solomon offers a commentary, transcription, and translation of a papal document concerning the marriage of Beethoven's great-uncle Cornelius. In a review article, Nicholas Marston discusses the recent edition of "The Landsberg 5" sketchbook and future prospects for sketchbook editions. Robert Levin concludes the volume with a review of "Performing Beethoven", edited by Robin Stowell. Glenn Stanley, an associate professor of music at the University of Connecticut, organized the March 1996 conference at Carnegie Hall entitled "The Beethoven Piano Sonatas: The Works and Their Critical Reception", at which these papers were first presented. He is also the editor of "Beethoven Forum 3".
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8 ISBN 9780803261952
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Collecting the best of international Beethoven studies, "Beethoven Forum" promotes and sustains the high level of scholarship inspired by Beethoven's extraordinary works.
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