Télécharger le livre :  Wolfgang Amadé Mozart

Mozart’s ambivalent personality offers a key to a deeper understanding of his music. He could be merry, even boisterous, but from many of his works speaks a deep seriousness. Both mirth and melancholy stamp his being. His operatic music includes both the comic and the...
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2019-12-12

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Télécharger le livre :  Listening and Understanding

To grasp music in its depth dimension is an art that can be learned and perfected. Categories of formal analysis here play a subordinate role – at least as important it is to be consciously aware of timbres, dynamic processes, musical characters and expressions....
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2017-12-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Gustav Mahler’s Mental World

With his extensive three-volume investigation, the author has newly drawn the image of Gustav Mahler for our time. Should Mahler’s symphonies really be categorized as «absolute music»? – Little-known manuscript sources contain significant hints to the contrary:...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2016-11-16

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Télécharger le livre :  Music as Message

Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences, literary, religious, philosophical, social and political ideas. Countless...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2016-02-12

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Télécharger le livre :  Brahms and Bruckner as Artistic Antipodes

In the last third of the 19th century Brahms and Bruckner were regarded as antipodes. Is this perception really true to the historical reality or had their contemporaries overestimated the «dimension of their distance», as argued later? Both wrote autonomously conceived...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2015-06-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Anton Bruckner

While unappreciated and controversial during most of his life, Anton Bruckner is today regarded as the greatest symphonist between Beethoven and Gustav Mahler – in terms of originality, boldness and monumentality of his music. The image of Bruckner the man, however, is...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2015-02-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Gyoergy Ligeti

This monograph is an authoritative study of the œuvre of one of the most important composers of our time. For the first time, Ligeti’s key works are presented in the context of their drafts and sketches. His personal and artistic development is set forth and...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-11-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Alban Berg

The central point of this book is the realization that the creative work of Alban Berg, which in recent years has moved to the forefront of scholarly interest, is largely rooted in autobiography, so that therefore one can gain access to the music by studying the inner...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-06-11

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Télécharger le livre :  New Ears for New Music

20th-century music is characterized by a bewildering multitude of trends and movements. Often several movements co-exist in contradiction to each other, in a reflection of the century’s intellectual currents and social and political changes, and the reactions they...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-04-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Gustav Mahler and the Symphony of the 19th Century

The subject of this book is the semantics of symphonic music from Beethoven to Mahler. Of fundamental importance is the realization that this music is imbued with non-musical, literary, philosophical and religious ideas. It is also clear that not only Beethoven,...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-01-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Humanism, Love and Music

«Music is no mere play of sound, no mere tonal texture, but has a significant psychic, spiritual/intellectual and social dimension. In other words: a musical art work is not merely an autonomous artifact but also document humain.» With this thesis – and with a view to...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-12-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Beethoven’s «Eroica»

With this study the author «opened up a previously locked door of Beethoven research» (Martin Geck). The book presents conclusive answers to questions that had occupied critics for more than a century. It makes clear what exactly Beethoven and his contemporaries meant...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2012-11-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Gustav Mahler. Visionary and Despot

With the terms «visionary» and «despot», the author seeks to circumscribe the multilayered personality of Gustav Mahler. Opening up a terra incognita, he draws a comprehensive map of the various aspects of Mahler’s inner biography: his unshakable belief in the...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2012-08-13

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