Beethoven

Name: Beethoven
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521598590
Price: 4500 KES
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ISBN: 9780521598590

by Timothy Jones

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Music Handbooks

ISBN-10 0521598591

ISBN-13 9780521598590

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 21st, 1999

Print length 160 Pages

Weight 216 grams

Dimensions 20.00 x 21.60 x 1.30 cms

Product Classification: Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups Composers and songwriters Keyboard instruments

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This 1999 book is a comprehensive introduction to Beethoven's most popular piano sonata, together with the four other sonatas in Opp. 27 and 31. Aimed at pianists, students and music-lovers, it gives an account of the sonatas' historical background, their changing performance styles, and offers an accessible critical introduction to the music.

Even in Beethoven's day the 'Moonlight' Sonata was a popular favourite. This 1999 book provides an accessible introduction to the Sonatas Opp. 27 and 31 (including The 'Moonlight' and 'The Tempest'), aimed at pianists, students, and music lovers. It begins with the works' historical background - the emergence of a 'piano culture' at the end of the eighteenth century, Beethoven's aristocratic milieu in Vienna, and his oft-quoted intention to follow a new compositional path. An account of the sonatas' genesis is followed by a discussion of their reception history, including a survey of changing performing styles since the mid-nineteenth century. The concept of the Sonata quasi una Fantasia is examined in relation to the cult of artistic sensibility in early-nineteenth-century Vienna. The study concludes with a critical introduction to each sonata.

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