Beethoven and the Creative Process

Häftad, Engelska, 1992

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Beskrivning

Beethoven's habit of composing by making large numbers of preliminary drafts and sketches was sufficiently unusual to attract attention even during his lifetime, and his creative process has attracted a good deal more attention since. The present book incorporates the findings of recent studies on this fascinating subject as well as providing many additional new insights. Cooper examines Beethoven's underlying creative motivation and there is and introduction to his compositional methods in general. The final part of the book is a detailed study of particular compositional problems in six different works, selected to provide a wide range of genres, dates, and types of problem. The book as a whole adds considerably to our understanding of one of the greatest figures in the history of our culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1992-11-19
Mått:157 x 233 x 23 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Clarendon Press
ISBN:9780198163534

Recensioner i media

`his new book impresses not only for the quality of some of its insights into the sketches themselves, but for the exceptional clarity of its writing which should open its findings to lay as well as professional readers'Bayan Northcott, The Independent

Innehållsförteckning

Approaching Beethoven's creative process. Part 1 Factors affecting Beethoven's creative process: Beethoven's artistic aims; professional pressures; extramusical factors; recurring ideas. Part 2 Beethoven's compositional methods: the sketchbooks and their use; the visual appearance of the sketches; types and relationships of sketches; the sketching of form and key; the sketching of melody; the vertical dimension and finishing touches. Part 3 Stages in the creative process: first conceptions - piano concerto in D minor, Op 31 No 2; planning the later movements - string quartet in B flat, Op 130; musical structure and vivid pictorialism - "Meeresstille", Op 112; the problem of the joins - "Egmont" overture; a creation in three phases - the late bagatelles; a long-running revision - second piano concerto.