Rethinking Mendelssohn /

"Rethinking Mendelssohn offers a new perspective on Mendelssohn's music and aesthetics, arguing for a fresh critical understanding of the composer, his music, and its central relationship to nineteenth-century culture. Building on the renaissance in Mendelssohn scholarship of the last two...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Taylor, Benedict, 1981- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, > 1809-1847 > Criticism and interpretation. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, > 1809-1847 Music > 19th century > History and criticism. Musique > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique. Classical. Genres & Styles. MUSIC. History & Criticism. Individual Composer & Musician. Music 1800-1899 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

Deformed beauty?: Narrative and musical form in Mendelssohn's Overture to the Tale of the Fair Melusina, Op. 32 / Thomas Grey
Brass topics, abbreviated recapitulations, and the bildungsreise: a new approach to the first movement of Mendelssohn's 'Italian' Symphony / Peter Mercer-Taylor
'Inner necessity': fabulation, frame, and musical memory in Mendelssohn's Lobgesang / John Michael Cooper
An epic voice with rhyme and reason: on rehearing Mendelssohn's 'Scottish' Symphony / Scott Burnham
Mendelssohn and the idea of the North / Sarah Clemmens Waltz
Sibling love and the daemonic: contradictions in the relationship between Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn / Angela Mace Christian
Mendelssohn and Droysen: historicism in practice and theory / Celia Applegate
Mednelssohn and sonata form: the case of Op. 44 No. 2 / Benedict Taylor
Expansion and recomposition in Mednelssohn's symphonic sonata forms / Steven Vande Moortele
Syntax and process in the first movement of Mendelssohn's Piano Trio, Op. 66 / Julian Horton
Form through sound: Klangfarbe and texture in Mendelssohn's instrumental compositions / Thomas Schmidt
The philosophical composer: the influence of Moses Mendelssohn and Friedrich Schleiermacher on Felix Mendelssohn / Leon Botstein
Mendelssohn's difference in faith: rethinking Kunstreligion in the context of his compositional aesthetics / Sabine Koch
Sacred sound and secular space in Mendelssohn's instrumental music / Lawrence Kramer
Mendelssohn's Deutsche Liturgie in the context of the Prussian Agende of 1829 / Laura K. T. Stokes
Reassessing Mendelssohn's song aesthetic through the lens of religion: the case of 'Entsagung' / Jennifer Ronyak
Changes of pace: expressive accelerations and decelerations in Mendelssohn's coval rhythms / Harald Krebs
'Time is, time was, time is past': Mendelssohn's songs of travel / Susan Youens
Fanny Hensel's Sechs Lieder, Op. 9: a brother's elegy / Stephen Rodgers.