Experiencing Beethoven - A Listener''s Companion

Designed for those unversed in composition or music theory, this book places Beethoven's compositions within the context of his personal and professional life and social and cultural milieu. This volume offers readers an enhanced experience of key works by exploring Beethoven's lyricism, heroic style, and unwaveringly idealistic musical vision.

List of contents

1. "The Spirit of Mozart" (1770-1792)
2. "From the Hands of Haydn" (1792-1801)
3. The "Heroic" Style (1802-1806)
4. Fidelio: Beethoven's One and Only Opera (1805-06 and 1814)
5. Symphonic Alternatives to the Heroic Style (1807-1814)
6. Beethoven and Song
7. The Late Piano Music (1816-1824)
8. Daiku: The Big Ninth
9. The String Quartet in C# Minor, Op. 131
Glossary
Selected Reading
Selected Listening

About the author

By Geoffrey Block

Summary

Designed for those unversed in composition or music theory, this book places Beethoven’s compositions within the context of his personal and professional life and social and cultural milieu. This volume offers readers an enhanced experience of key works by exploring Beethoven's lyricism, heroic style, and unwaveringly idealistic musical vision.

Product details

• Authors: Block, Geoffrey Block, Professor Geoffrey Block
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2016
• EAN: 9781442245457
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-4545-7
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Listener's Companion; Listener's Companion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Theory of music & musicology, Composers and songwriters, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), Classical style, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology