Mendelssohn: The Hebrides and Other Overtures (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (760 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521407648 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 132 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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 among the most enduring of the nineteenth-century orchestral repertoire. His clearly structured and accessible text is supported by a wealth of primary documents, including Mendelssohn's correspondence, memoirs of his friends, and nineteenth-century critical reviews.. Larry Todd offers a historical, stylistic, and analytical guide to these three remarkable works. R
Marx, particularly in relation to their respective work around Goethe and Shakespeare." Steve Sweeney-Turner, The Musical Times . "Todd certainly does deal eloquently with the intertext between Mendelssohn's stance and that of the aethetician Adolph B
Informative and well-organized Dr. Larry Todd who wrote this book is my professor. He is really knowledgable about Mendelssohn and this book is a good resource.. "What's behind your sensation" according to A Customer. The book is easy to follow, even for a reader like me, that is, one with little or no background in formal musical education. (I knew nothing about the sonata form, except for the name itself. But now, while listening to the Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, I can tell when the exposition part ends and the development part starts and so on.) The author meticulously demonstrates how Mendelssohn tried and succeeded in synthesizing form and content, that is, the traditional sonata form and extra-musical contents such as landscape, poetry and drama to which the composer strove to give musical expressi