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The Beethoven Quartet Companion
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Description for The Beethoven Quartet Companion
Paperback. While the Beethoven string quartets are to chamber music what the plays of Shakespeare are to drama, even seasoned concertgoers can welcome guidance with these personal and sometimes enigmatic works. This collection offers Beethoven lovers notes on the listening experience of each quartet and a range of general perspectives. Editor(s): Winter, Robert; Martin, Robert L. Num Pages: 300 pages, 12 b&w photographs, 125 music examples. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC5; AVH; AVRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494. 300 pages, 12 b&w photographs, 125 music examples. Editor(s): Winter, Robert; Martin, Robert L. While the Beethoven string quartets are to chamber music what the plays of Shakespeare are to drama, even seasoned concertgoers can welcome guidance with these personal and sometimes enigmatic works. This collection offers Beethoven lovers notes on the listening experience of each quartet and a range of general perspectives. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC5; AVH; AVRD. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight: 444.
While the Beethoven string quartets are to chamber music what the plays of Shakespeare are to drama, even seasoned concertgoers will welcome guidance with these personal and sometimes enigmatic works. This collection offers Beethoven lovers both detailed notes on the listening experience of each quartet and a stimulating range of more general perspectives: Who has the quartets' audience been? How were the quartets performed before the era of sound recordings? What is the relationship between 'classical' and 'romantic' in the quartets? How was their reception affected by social and economic history? What sorts of interpretive decisions are made by performers ... Read more
While the Beethoven string quartets are to chamber music what the plays of Shakespeare are to drama, even seasoned concertgoers will welcome guidance with these personal and sometimes enigmatic works. This collection offers Beethoven lovers both detailed notes on the listening experience of each quartet and a stimulating range of more general perspectives: Who has the quartets' audience been? How were the quartets performed before the era of sound recordings? What is the relationship between 'classical' and 'romantic' in the quartets? How was their reception affected by social and economic history? What sorts of interpretive decisions are made by performers ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520204201
SKU
V9780520204201
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Ref
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About Winter
Robert Winter is Professor of Music at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of Music for Our Time (1992) and co-author of The Beethoven Sketchbooks (California, 1985). Robert Martin is Assistant Dean of Humanities and Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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