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Beethoven's symphonies arragned for the chamber : sociability, reception, and canon formation
- Title
- Beethoven's symphonies arragned for the chamber : sociability, reception, and canon formation / Nancy November.
- Author
- November, Nancy
- Publication
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2021]
- ©2021.
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- Description
- xvii, 258 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-435) and index.
- Call Number
- JMF 21-247
- ISBN
- 1108831753
- 9781108831758
- OCLC
- 1199056576
- Author
- November, Nancy, author.
- Title
- Beethoven's symphonies arragned for the chamber : sociability, reception, and canon formation / Nancy November.
- Publisher
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2021]©2021.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-435) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781108934831
- Research Call Number
- JMF 21-247