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Beethoven's Symphonies Arranged for the Chamber: Sociability, Reception, and Canon Formation
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Main Details
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Beethoven's Symphonies Arranged for the Chamber: Sociability, Reception, and Canon Formation
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Nancy November
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Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:300 | Dimensions(mm): Height 175,Width 250 |
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Category/Genre | Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830) Bands, groups and musicians |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781108831758
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Classifications | Dewey:780 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
Illustrations |
Worked examples or Exercises; Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
10 June 2021 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Early nineteenth-century composers, publishers and writers evolved influential ideals of Beethoven's symphonies as untouchable masterpieces. Meanwhile, many and various arrangements of symphonies, principally for amateur performers, supported diverse and 'hands-on' cultivation of the same works. Now mostly forgotten, these arrangements served a vital function in nineteenth-century musical life, extending works' meanings and reach, especially to women in the home. This book places domestic music-making back into the history of the classical symphony. It investigates a largely untapped wealth of early nineteenth-century arrangements of symphonies by Beethoven - for piano, string quartet, mixed quintet and other ensembles. The study focuses on three key agents in the nineteenth-century culture of musical arrangement: arrangers, publishers and performers. It investigates significant functions of those musical arrangements in the era: sociability, reception and canon formation. The volume also explores how conceptions of Beethoven's symphonies, and their arrangement, changed across the era with changing conception of musical works.
Author Biography
Nancy November is Associate Professor in musicology at the University of Auckland. Recent publications include Beethoven's Theatrical Quartets: Opp. 59, 74, and 95 (2013); a three-volume set of fifteen string quartets by Beethoven's contemporary Emmanuel Aloys Foerster (2016); Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven's Vienna (Boydell Press, 2017) and the Cambridge Companion to the Eroica Symphony (Cambridge, 2020). She is the recipient of a Humboldt Fellowship; and two Marsden Grants from the New Zealand Royal Society.
Reviews'... innovative study ... Recommended.' D. Arnold, Choice Connect
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