Beethoven: Missa Solemnis

Klappentext The Missa solemnis is a document of extraordinary richness from the last decades of Beethoven's creative life. In this compendious and accessible guide! William Drabkin considers the work as a musical expression of the most celebrated text of the Roman Catholic faith! and as an example from a tradition of Mass settings in eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century Austria. Zusammenfassung The Missa Solemnis is a document of extraordinary richness from the last decades of Beethoven's creative life. In this compendious and accessible guide! William Drabkin considers the work as a musical expression of the most celebrated text of the Roman Catholic faith and as an example from a tradition of Mass settings in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Austria. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Critical perspectives; 2. Composition, performance and publication history; 3. Preliminaries to the analysis; 4. Kyrie; 5. Gloria; 6. Credo; 7. Sanctus; 8. Agnus Dei; 9. Concluding thoughts.

Product details

• Authors: William Drabkin, William (University of Southampton) Drabkin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.1991
• EAN: 9780521378314
• ISBN: 978-0-521-37831-4
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Cambridge Music Handbooks
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous