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Program music
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ISBN: 9781107657250 9781107032521 9781139506397 1139506390 1316234177 1316236064 1107032520 1107657253 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Program music was one of the most flexible and contentious novelties of the long nineteenth century, covering a diverse range that included the overtures of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, the literary music of Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's symphonic poems, the tone poems of Strauss and Sibelius, and compositions by groups of composers in Russia, Bohemia, the United States, and France. In this accessible Introduction, Jonathan Kregor explores program music's ideas and repertoire, discussing both well-known and less familiar pieces by an array of nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers. Setting program music in the context of the intellectual debates of the period, Kregor presents the criticism of writers like A. B. Marx and Hanslick to reveal program music's growth, dissemination, and reception. This comprehensive overview features numerous illustrations and music examples and provides detailed case studies of battle music, Shakespeare settings, and Goethe's Faust.


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La musique de Liszt et les arts visuels : essai d'analyse comparée d'après Panofsky, illustrée d'exemples, Sposalizio, Totentanz, Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe
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ISBN: 9782705668150 2705668152 Year: 2010 Publisher: Paris: Hermann,

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La passion de Liszt pour les arts est essentielle : il ne peut regarder certaines oeuvres sans les mettre en musique. Ses écrits, lettres et articles révèlent sa culture et sa connaissance de l'art et du milieu artistique. Son texte sur la "Sainte Cécile" de Raphaël, par exemple, dévoile ses talents de critique et d'observateur méthodique. Son regard semble procéder à l'instar de celui de Panofsky un siècle plus tard. Grâce à ce rapprochement, l'auteur de ce livre a pu présenter l'ensemble des oeuvres de Liszt inspirées d'arts visuels, notamment "Sposalizio", "Totentanz", "Von der Wieger bis zum Grabe", qui reflètent ses préoccupations principales que sont l'art, la religion et la mort.

Le poème symphonique et la musique à programme
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ISBN: 2213029954 9782213029955 Year: 1993 Volume: *42 Publisher: Paris: Fayard,


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Les relations franco-allemandes et la musique à programme, 1830-1914
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ISSN: 19650299 ISBN: 9782914373432 Year: 2009 Publisher: Lyon : Symétrie,

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Le présent ouvrage traite de l'apparent paradoxe selon lequel le nationalisme puisse se cristalliser dans la musique instrumentale qui semble se soustraire par excellence au discours de l'idéologie. Mais la musique constitue un enjeu politique déterminant à l'époque où se constituent et s'affrontent les nations comme entités culturelles. La musique à programme est un cas exemplaire de cette rivalité dans la construction de deux écoles nationales, l'une allemande, l'autre française : la Neudeutsche Schule et la Société nationale de musique. Entre 1830 et 1914, les innovations dans le domaine de la musique à programme suivent un cheminement entre Paris et Weimar. Les œuvres musicales deviennent progressivement des objets identitaires alors qu'elles sont le produit d'un transfert culturel ; la musique à programme se développe par un système d'échanges permanents entre la France et l'Allemagne. Celle-ci est analysée historiquement à partir de ses institutions, de ses genres et de ses œuvres, dont celles de Berlioz, Liszt, Chausson, d'Indy et Debussy.


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Form, program, and metaphor in the music of Berlioz
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ISBN: 9781107404687 9780521884044 0521884047 9780511576409 0511576404 9780511508639 0511508638 110720027X 1282058754 0511507976 9786612058752 0511505124 0511509294 0511507267 1107404681 9781282058750 9780511507977 6612058757 9780511505126 9780511509292 9780511507267 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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Few aspects of Berlioz's style are more idiosyncratic than his handling of musical form. This book, the first devoted solely to the topic, explores how his formal strategies are related to the poetic and dramatic sentiments that were his very reason for being. Rodgers draws upon Berlioz's ideas about musical representation and on the ideas that would have influenced him, arguing that the relationship between musical and extra-musical narrative in Berlioz's music is best construed as metaphorical rather than literal - 'intimate' but 'indirect' in Berlioz's words. Focusing on a type of varied-repetitive form that Berlioz used to evoke poetic ideas such as mania, obsession, and meditation, the book shows how, far from disregarding form when pushing the limits of musical evocation, Berlioz harnessed its powers to convey these ideas even more vividly.

The characteristic symphony in the age of Haydn and Beethoven
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ISBN: 0521802016 0521057175 0511101422 1107130549 0511177593 0511041500 0511148003 0511325789 0511481896 1280433175 0511047746 9780511041501 9780511481895 0511032471 9780511032479 9780511047749 9786610433179 6610433178 9780521802017 9780521057172 9781107130548 9781280433177 9780511177590 9780511148002 9780511325786 Year: 2002 Volume: *7 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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Associated through descriptive texts with literature, politics, religion, and other subjects, 'characteristic' symphonies offer an opportunity to study instrumental music as it engages important social and political debates of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This first full-length study of the genre illuminates the relationship between symphonies and their aesthetic and social contexts by focussing on the musical representation of feeling, human physical movement, and the passage of time. The works discussed include Beethoven's Pastoral and Eroica Symphonies, Haydn's Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's symphonies on Ovid's Metamorphoses, and orchestral battle reenactments of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. A separate chapter details the aesthetic context within which characteristic symphonies were conceived, as well as their subsequent reception, and a series of appendixes summarises bibliographic information for over 225 relevant examples.


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Die Sprache der Natur : Natur in der Musik des 18. Jahrhunderts
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ISBN: 3476012808 Year: 1998 Publisher: Stuttgart ; Weimar Metzler


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Understanding the Leitmotif : from Wagner to Hollywood film music
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ISBN: 9781107098398 9781316161678 9781107485464 1316161676 9781316320686 1316320685 1107098394 9781316324042 1316324044 1107485460 1316310663 1316330729 1316327388 1316334066 1316290026 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : University Press,

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The musical leitmotif, having reached a point of particular forcefulness in the music of Richard Wagner, has remained a popular compositional device up to the present day. In this book, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull explores the background and development of the leitmotif, from Wagner to the Hollywood adaptations of The Lord of The Rings and the Harry Potter series. Analyzing both concert music and film music, Bribitzer-Stull explains what the leitmotif is and establishes it as the union of two aspects: the thematic and the associative. He goes on to show that Wagner's Ring cycle provides a leitmotivic paradigm, a model from which we can learn to better understand the leitmotif across style periods. Arguing for a renewed interest in the artistic merit of the leitmotif, Bribitzer-Stull reveals how uniting meaning, memory, and emotion in music can lead to a richer listening experience and a better understanding of dramatic music's enduring appeal.

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