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The Creative Process in Music from Mozart to Kurtag

Author : William Kinderman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025209428X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Creative Process in Music from Mozart to Kurtag written by William Kinderman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-09-16 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great music arouses wonder: how did the composer create such an original work of art? What was the artist's inspiration, and how did that idea become a reality? Cultural products inevitably arise from a context, a submerged landscape that is often not easily accessible. To bring such things to light, studies of the creative process find their cutting edge by probing beyond the surface, opening new perspectives on the apparently familiar. In this intriguing study, William Kinderman opens the door to the composer's workshop, investigating not just the final outcome but the process of creative endeavor in music. Focusing on the stages of composition, Kinderman maintains that the most rigorous basis for the study of artistic creativity comes not from anecdotal or autobiographical reports, but from original handwritten sketches, drafts, revised manuscripts, and corrected proof sheets. He explores works of major composers from the eighteenth century to the present, from Mozart's piano music and Beethoven's Piano Trio in F to Kurtág's Kafka Fragments and Hommage à R. Sch. Other chapters examine Robert Schumann's Fantasie in C, Mahler's Fifth Symphony, and Bartók's Dance Suite. Kinderman's analysis takes the form of "genetic criticism," tracing the genesis of these cultural works, exploring their aesthetic meaning, and mapping the continuity of a central European tradition that has displayed remarkable vitality for over two centuries, as accumulated legacies assumed importance for later generations. Revealing the diversity of sources, rejected passages and movements, fragmentary unfinished works, and aborted projects that were absorbed into finished compositions, The Creative Process in Music from Mozart to Kurtág illustrates the wealth of insight that can be gained through studying the creative process.

The Creative Process in Music from Mozart to Kurtag

Author : William Kinderman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252037162
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Music as Creative Practice

Author : Nicholas Cook
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199347808
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Music as Creative Practice written by Nicholas Cook and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not long ago, ideas of creativity in music revolved around composers in garrets and the idea of genius. In the last decade there has been a sea change in thinking: musical creativity is seen in terms of collaboration and real-time performance. 'Music as Creative Practice' attempts to synthesise both perspectives.

Cognate Music Theories

Author : Ignacio Prats-Arolas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003846408
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Cognate Music Theories written by Ignacio Prats-Arolas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the possibilities of cognate music theory, a concept introduced by musicologist John Walter Hill to describe culturally and historically situated music theory. Cognate music theories offer a new way of thinking about music theory, music history, and the relationship between insider and outsider perspectives when researchers mediate between their own historical and cultural position, and that of the originators of the music they are studying. With contributions from noted scholars of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, this volume develops a variety of approaches using the cognate music theory framework and shows how this concept enables more nuanced and critical analyses of music in historical context. Addressing topics in music from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, this volume will be relevant to musicologists, music theorists, and all researchers interested in reflecting critically on what it means to construct a theory of music. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Music Sketches

Author : Friedemann Sallis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521866480
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Music Sketches written by Friedemann Sallis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction provides students and scholars with the information and skills they need when studying composers' sketches.

Mozart the Performer

Author : Dorian Bandy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226828557
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Mozart the Performer written by Dorian Bandy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mozart today is known as one of the foremost composers in Western music; yet, during his lifetime, his compositional mastery seemed to pale in comparison with his achievements on the concert platform. Mozart knew that his fame was due to his piano playing and improvisations; and, as a result, much of the music he wrote was intended to serve a single aim: to set the stage, quite literally, for compelling and captivating performances. In his piano works, symphonies, and operas he sought to amuse, stir, and ravish an awe-struck public. Mozart the Performer brings to life this elusive side of Mozart's musicianship. Over the course of five "variations," Dorian Bandy traces the influence of showmanship on Mozart's style, imbuing his output with a theatricality and evanescence easily lost behind the scrim of familiarity. This insightful and imaginative book reveals the countless ways performance influenced Mozart's compositional habits, ultimately offering a genuinely novel understanding of why, centuries later, Mozart's music still captivates us and inspiring new ways of listening to it"--

Wagner's Parsifal

Author : William Kinderman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190623543
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Wagner's Parsifal written by William Kinderman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Kinderman's detailed study of Parsifal, described by the composer as his "last card," explores the evolution of the text and music of this inexhaustible yet highly controversial music drama across Wagner's entire career. This book offers a reassessment of the ideological and political history of Parsifal, shedding new light on the connection of Wagner's legacy to the rise of National Socialism in Germany. The compositional genesis is traced through many unfamiliar manuscript sources, revealing unsuspected models and veiled connections to Wagner's earlier works. Fresh analytic perspectives are revealed, casting the dramatic meaning of Parsifal in a new light. Much debated aspects of the work, such as Kundry's death at the conclusion, are discussed in the context of its stage history. Path-breaking as well is Kinderman's analysis of the religious and ideological context of Parsifal. During the half-century after the composer's death, the Wagner family and the so-called Bayreuth circle sought to exploit Wagner's work for political purposes, thereby promoting racial nationalism and anti-Semitism. Hitherto unnoticed connections between Hitler and Wagner's legacy at Bayreuth are explored here, while differences between the composer's politics as an 1849 revolutionary and the later response of his family to National Socialism are weighed in a nuanced account. Kinderman combines new historical research, sensitive aesthetic criticism, and probing philosophical reflection in this most intensive examination of Wagner's culminating music drama.

Mahler's Seventh Symphony

Author : Anna Stoll Knecht
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190050578
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Mahler's Seventh Symphony written by Anna Stoll Knecht and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony stands out as one of the most provocative symphonic statements of the early twentieth century. Throughout its performance history, it has often been heard as "existing in the shadow" of the Sixth Symphony or as "too reminiscent" of Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Anna Stoll Knecht's Mahler's Seventh Symphony offers a new interpretation of the Seventh based on a detailed study of Mahler's compositional materials and a close reading of the finished work. With a focus on sketches previously considered as "discarded," Stoll Knecht exposes unexpected connections between the Seventh and both the Sixth and Meistersinger, confirming that Mahler's compositional project was firmly grounded in a dialogue with works from the past. This referential aspect acts as an important interpretive key to the work, enabling the first thorough analysis of the sketches and drafts for the Seventh, and shedding light on its complex compositional history. Considering each movement of the symphony through a double perspective, genetic and analytic, Stoll Knecht demonstrates how sketch studies and analytical approaches can interact with each other. Mahler's Seventh Symphony exposes new facets of Mahler's musical humor and leads us to rethink much-debated issues concerning the composer's cultural identity, revealing the Seventh's pivotal role within his output.

Diagrammatic Representation and Inference

Author : Peter Chapman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331991376X
Total Pages : 831 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Diagrammatic Representation and Inference written by Peter Chapman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Diagrams 2018, held in Edinburgh, UK, in June 2018. The 26 revised full papers and 28 short papers presented together with 32 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 124 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: generating and drawing Euler diagrams; diagrams in mathematics; diagram design, principles and classification; reasoning with diagrams; Euler and Venn diagrams; empirical studies and cognition; Peirce and existential graphs; and logic and diagrams.

Rethinking Schubert

Author : Lorraine Byrne Bodley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190200103
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Schubert written by Lorraine Byrne Bodley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What this volume provides, then, is not only a fresh portrait of one of the most loved composers of the nineteenth century but also a conspectus of current Schubertian research. Whether perusing unknown repertoire or refreshing canonical works, Rethinking Schubert reveals the extraordinary methodological variety that is now available to research, painting a contemporary portrait of Schubert that is vibrant, plural, trans-national and complex. - Lorraine Byrne Bodley is Senior Lecturer and Director of Research at the Department of Music, Maynooth University. Julian Horton is Professor of Music and Head of Department at Durham University.

The Cambridge Companion to the ‘Eroica' Symphony

Author : Nancy November
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108422586
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the ‘Eroica' Symphony written by Nancy November and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating, up-to-date overview of the genesis, analysis, and reception of this landmark symphony.

Musicology: The Key Concepts

Author : David Beard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317298098
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Musicology: The Key Concepts written by David Beard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in an updated 2nd edition, Musicology: The Key Concepts is a handy A-Z reference guide to the terms and concepts associated with contemporary musicology. Drawing on critical theory with a focus on new musicology, this updated edition contains over 35 new entries including: Autobiography Music and Conflict Deconstruction Postcolonialism Disability Music after 9/11 Masculinity Gay Musicology Aesthetics Ethnicity Interpretation Subjectivity With all entries updated, and suggestions for further reading throughout, this text is an essential resource for all students of music, musicology, and wider performance related humanities disciplines.

Bach to Brahms

Author : David Beach
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580465153
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Bach to Brahms written by David Beach and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bach to Brahms presents current analytic views by established scholars of the traditional tonal repertoire, with essays on works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Brahms. The fifteen essays are divided into three groups, two of which focus primarily on the interaction of elements of musical design (formal, metric, and tonal organization) and voice leading at multiple levels of structure. The third group of essays focusses on the "motive" from different perspectives. The result is a volume of integrated studies on the music of the common-practice period, a body of music that remains at the core of modern concert and classroom repertoire. Contributors: Eytan Agmon, David Beach, Charles Burkhart, L. Poundie Burstein, Yosef Goldenberg, Timothy Jackson, William Kinderman, Joel Lester, Boyd Pomeroy, John Rink, Frank Samarotto, Lauri Suurpää, Naphtali Wagner, Eric Wen, Channan Willner. David Beach is professor emeritus and former dean of the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Recent publications include Advanced Schenkerian Analysis, and Analysis of 18th- and 19th-Century Musical Works in the Classical Tradition/ (co-authored with Ryan McClelland). Yosef Goldenberg teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where he also serves as head librarian. He is the author of Prolongation of Seventh Chords in Tonal Music (Edwin Mellen Press, 2008) and published in leading journals on music theory and on Israeli music.

Rethinking Mahler

Author : Jeremy Barham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199316090
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Mahler written by Jeremy Barham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the most popular classical composers in the performance repertoire of professional and amateur orchestras and choirs across the world, Gustav Mahler continues to generate significant interest, and the global appetite for his music, and for discussions of it, remains large. Editor Jeremy Barham brings together leading and emerging scholars in the field to explore Mahler's relationship with music, media, and ideas past and present, addressing issues in structural analysis, performance, genres of stage, screen and literature, cultural movements, aesthetics, history/historiography and temporal experience. Rethinking Mahler counterbalances prevailing scholarly assumptions and preferences that configure Mahler as proto-modernist, with hitherto neglected consideration of his debt to, and his re-imagining of, the legacies of his own historical past. Over the course of 17 chapters drawing from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, the book pursues ideas of nostalgia, historicism and 'pastness' in relation to an emergent modernity and subsequent musical-cultural developments, yielding a wide-ranging exploration and re-evaluation of Mahler's works, their historical reception and understanding, and their resounding impact within diverse cultural contexts. Rethinking Mahler will be an essential resource for scholars and students of Mahler and late Romantic era music more generally, and will also find an audience among the many devotees of Mahler's music.

Harrison Birtwistle Studies

Author : David Beard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107093740
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Harrison Birtwistle Studies written by David Beard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection represents current research on Birtwistle's music, reflecting the diversity of his work through a wide range of perspectives.

The Act of Musical Composition

Author : Dr Dave Collins
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409471314
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Act of Musical Composition written by Dr Dave Collins and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of musical composition has, in the main, been informed by anecdotal after-the-event accounts or post hoc analyses of composition. This book presents the first coherent exploration around this unique aspect of human creative activity. The central threads, or key themes - compositional process, creative thinking and problem-solving - are integrated by the combination of theoretical understandings of creativity with innovative empirical work.

Essentials for Composers

Author : Jonathan Middleton
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478635207
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Essentials for Composers written by Jonathan Middleton and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastering the technical skills needed for fruitful music composition is relatively straightforward compared to the development of crucial creative-thinking strategies. While most introductory texts emphasize techniques, this affordable guide goes far beyond the initial stage of methods instruction to engage readers at a profound level. The author believes composers, as a first priority, must know what they are doing creatively and why they are doing it before segueing to learning the basic tools for the task. Unique yet practical, concise yet comprehensive, Essentials for Composers guides novice composers through a set of basic steps, examples, and concepts to help them work through stages of the creative process in manageable and stimulating ways. Middleton explains how to approach each topic (harmony, melody, counterpoint, orchestration, variation) and explore the creative process through experimentation by completing related exercises. Such direction, which prompts efforts toward defining, developing, discovering, and shaping one’s own creative process, unseals the essence of music composition. Relevant for students with interests ranging from film scoring to preparing music for digital games, Essentials for Composers is suitable for those who compose with or without the aid of technology. Bibliographies, score summaries, interviews with two composers, and analytical interludes prompt further investigation of topics.