Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (132 p.))
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511597299
Series Statement:
Cambridge Music Handbooks
Content:
The concert overtures A Midsummer Night's Dream, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, and The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), conceived by Mendelssohn before the age of twenty, have ranked amongst the most enduring of the nineteenth-century orchestral repertoire. R. Larry Todd offers a historical, stylistic, and analytical guide to these three remarkable works which secured for Mendelssohn no small measure of his fame. After placing the overtures in the context of Mendelssohn's astonishing compositional development during the 1820s, the volume disentangles the complex history of their creation and considers in turn their style and formal structure, their contents as programme music, aspects of their orchestration and their reception and influence. All this is supported by a wealth of primary documents, including Mendelssohn's correspondence, memoirs of his friends, and nineteenth-century critical reviews
Content:
Background -- Genesis -- Musical influences -- Formal considerations: a synoptic overview -- The Overture as programmatic music -- Some thoughts on Mendelssohn's orchestration -- Influence and reception of the overtures
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521404198
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521407649
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Todd, R. Larry, 1952 - Mendelssohn: The Hebrides and other overtures Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 1993 ISBN 0521404193
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521407648
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521404198
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix MWV P 7 1809-1847 Konzert-Ouvertüre
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Ouvertüre
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Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix 1809-1847 Musik zu Ein Sommernachtstraum
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Ouvertüre
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Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix MWV P 5 1809-1847 Konzert-Ouvertüre
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Ouvertüre
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511597299
URL:
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Author information:
Todd, R. Larry 1952-
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