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 Free Download Barry A.R. Cooper, "The Creation of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies" English | ISBN: 1783277912 | 2024 | 320 pages | PDF | 22 MB  Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination: Politics, Identity, and the Sound of 1933 English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009172786 | 287 Pages | PDF | 6 MB The symphony has long been entangled with ideas of self and value. Though standard historical accounts suggest that composers' interest in the symphony was almost extinguished in the early 1930s, this book makes plain the genre's continued cultural dominance, and argues that the symphony can illuminate issues around space/geography, race, and postcolonialism in Germany, France, Mexico, and the United States. Focusing on a number of symphonies composed or premiered in 1933, this book recreates some of the cultural and political landscapes of an uncertain historical moment-a year when Hitler took power in Germany, and the Great Depression reached its peak in the United States. Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination asks what North American and European symphonies from the early 1930s can tell us about how people imagined selfhood during a period of international insecurity and political upheaval, of expansionist and colonial fantasies, scientised racism, and emergent fascism.  Beethoven's Symphonies Arranged for the Chamber: Sociability, Reception, and Canon Formation English | 2021 | ISBN: 1108831753 | 277 Pages | PDF | 13 MB 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.  Dimensions of Energy in Shostakovich's Symphonies By Michael Rofe 2012 | 274 Pages | ISBN: 1409407454 | PDF | 5 MB |
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