The New Beethoven: Evolution, Analysis, Interpretation

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The New Beethoven

Evolution, Analysis, Interpretation

Edited by: Jeremy Yudkin
With contributions by: Alan Gosman , Barbara Barry , Barry Cooper , Bruce Adolphe , Christopher Reynolds , David Levy , David Wyn Jones , Elaine Sisman , Erica Buurman , Federica Rovelli , Jeremiah McGrann , Jeremy Yudkin , M. Lucy Turner , Mark Evan Bonds , Michael Ladenburger , Nicholas Kitchen , Richard Kramer , Robin Wallace , Scott Burnham , Steven Moore Whiting , Theodore Albrecht and William Kinderman

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2020

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Volume 172 | Eastman Studies in Music

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Marking the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, this volume presents twenty-one completely new essays on aspects of Beethoven's personal life, his composing process, his manuscripts, and his greatest works.

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Yudkin Jeremy :

JEREMY YUDKIN is Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at Boston University.Yudkin Jeremy :

JEREMY YUDKIN is Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at Boston University.Albrecht Theodore :

THEODORE ALBRECHT, Professor Emeritus of Music at Kent State University, Ohio, is an award-winning Beethoven scholar. He has authored many important articles on the composer and is the editor of Letters to Beethoven and Other Correspondence (1996) as well as translator and editor of Beethoven's Conversation Books (Boydell Press).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Chronological Bibliography of Books, Articles, Book Chapters, and Musical Editions by Lewis Lockwood Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xxi
Introduction Jeremy Yudkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One A Creative Life
1 Of Deserters and Orphans: Beethoven’s Early Exposure to the Opéras-Comiques of Monsigny Steven M. Whiting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
2 “A Really Excellent and Capable Man”: Beethoven and Johann Traeg David Wyn Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3 A Four-Leaf Clover: A Newly Discovered Cello, the Premiere of the Ninth Symphony, Beethoven’s Circle of Friends in Bonn, and a Corrected Edition of the Song “Ruf vom Berge,” WoO 147 Michael Ladenburger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
4 “Where Thought Touches the Blood”: Rhythmic Disturbance as Physical Realism in Beethoven’s Creative Process Bruce Adolphe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
5 The Sanctification of Beethoven in 1827–28 Christopher Reynolds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Part Two Prometheus / Eroica
6 The Prometheus Theme and Beethoven’s Shift from Avoidance to Embrace of Possibilities Alan Gosman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
7 Beethoven at Heiligenstadt in 1802: Deconstruction, Integration, and Creativity William Kinderman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
8 “Mit Verstärkung des Orchesters”: The Orchestra Personnel at the First Public Performance of Beethoven’s Eroica Theodore Albrecht Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Part Three Masses
9 “Aber lieber Beethoven, was haben Sie denn wieder da gemacht?” Observations on the Performing Parts for the Premiere of Beethoven’s Mass in C, Opus 86 Jeremiah W. McGrann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
10 Heart to Heart: Beethoven, Archduke Rudolph, and the Missa solemnis Mark Evan Bonds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
11 God and the Voice of Beethoven Scott Burnham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Part Four Quartets
12 “So Here I Am, in the Middle Way”: The Autograph of the “Harp” Quartet and the Expressive Domain of Beethoven’s Second Maturity M. Lucy Turner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
13 Meaningful Details: Expressive Markings in Beethoven Manuscripts, with a Focus on Opus 127 Nicholas Kitchen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
14 The Autograph Score of the Slow Movement of Beethoven’s Last Quartet, Opus 135 Barry Cooper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
15 Early German-Language Reviews of Beethoven’s Late String Quartets Robin Wallace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Part Five Explorations
16 Three Movements or Four? The Scherzo Movements in Beethoven’s Early Sonatas Erica Buurman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
17 Utopia and Dystopia Revisited: Contrasted Domains in Beethoven’s Middle-Period F-Major and F-Minor Works Barbara Barry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
18 Schooling the Quintjäger David B. Levy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
19 Cue-Staff Annotations in Beethoven’s Piano Works: Reflections and Examples from the Autograph of the Piano Sonata, Opus 101 Federica Rovelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	448
20 Another Little Buck Out of Its Stable Richard Kramer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	466
21 Beethoven’s Cavatina, Haydn’s Seasons, and the Thickness of Inscription Elaine Sisman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	529
Index of Works by Beethoven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	533
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	539

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September 1, 2020

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9781787448124

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University of Rochester Press

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572

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94 b/w, 104 line illus.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781787448124

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Beethoven's music; composer's legacy; musical analysis; musicology; Ludwig van Beethoven; musical evolution; music interpretation; music history

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Professional and scholarly;

The New Beethoven

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