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This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the
field looks at various aspects of musical life in
eighteenth-century Britain. The significant roles played by
institutions such as the Freemasons and foreign embassy chapels in
promoting music making and introducing foreign styles to English
music are examined, as well as the influence exerted by
individuals, both foreign and British. The book covers the spectrum
of British music, both sacred and secular, and both cosmopolitan
and provincial. In doing so it helps to redress the picture of
eighteenth-century British music which has previously portrayed
Handel and London as its primary constituents.
This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the
field looks at various aspects of musical life in
eighteenth-century Britain. The significant roles played by
institutions such as the Freemasons and foreign embassy chapels in
promoting music making and introducing foreign styles to English
music are examined, as well as the influence exerted by
individuals, both foreign and British. The book covers the spectrum
of British music, both sacred and secular, and both cosmopolitan
and provincial. In doing so it helps to redress the picture of
eighteenth-century British music which has previously portrayed
Handel and London as its primary constituents.
This volume brings together a selection of the most stimulating and
influential writing on Haydn and his music in the English language.
Written by a range of established and younger scholars it probes a
variety of aesthetic, biographical, compositional, performance and
reception issues. A specially written introduction summarizes the
significance of each essay, directs the reader to appropriate
complementary material and seeks the common ground between the
essays; to assist with consistent referencing the individual essays
retain their original pagination. This representative compendium of
Haydn research provides the opportunity to explore the intellectual
diversity of recent scholarship and is an indispensable publication
for students of Haydn, whether new or old, amateur or professional.
The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. This book
explores the history of music in Vienna, focussing on three
different epochs, 1700, 1800 and 1900. The image of Vienna as a
musical city is a familiar one. Vienna has long been associated
with many of the most significant composers in Western music - from
Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, through the Strauss family,
Brahms, Bruckner and Wolf, to Mahler, Lehar, Schoenberg and Webern.
Today, venerable institutions like the Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Staatsoper and the Vienna Boys' Choir, together with
the shared pride of residents and visitors in its musical
inheritance, ensure that the image of a musical city is undimmed.
This book explores the history of music in Vienna, focussing on
three different epochs, 1700, 1800 and 1900, an approach which
allows the very different relationships between music and society
that existed in each of these periods to be distinguished.
Patronage, social function and audience are key considerations, set
within wider political and cultural developments. The volume is
populated by emperors, princes, performers, publishers and writers
as well as composers, and deals with institutional and commercial
characteristics alongside representative individual works. Music in
Vienna focusses on the political and social role of music,
broadening our understanding of the city as a musical capital. It
will appeal to a wide readership, including music historians and
political, cultural and social historians, as well as the
interested general reader. DAVID WYN JONES is Professor of Music at
Cardiff University.
Nuclear Medicine is a diagnostic modality which aims to image and
in some cases quantify physiological processes in the body to
highlight disease or injury. Within nuclear medicine, over the past
few decades, major technological changes have occurred and
concomitantly changes in the knowledge and skills required have had
to evolve. One of the most significant technological changes has
been the fusion of imaging technologies, to create hybrid systems
such as SPECT/CT, PET/CT and PET/MR. With these changes in mind,
Practical SPECT/CT in Nuclear Medicine provides a handy and
informative guide to the purchase, clinical implementation and
routine use of a SPECT/CT scanner. Practical SPECT/CT in Nuclear
Medicine will be a valuable resource for all personnel working in
nuclear medicine and it will be of particular value to trainees.
Marking the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, this volume
presents twenty-one completely new essays on aspects of Beethoven's
personal life, his composing process, his manuscripts, and his
greatest works. Beethoven's music stands as a universal symbol of
personal and artistic achievement. As we reach and then surpass the
250th anniversary of the composer's birth, Jeremy Yudkin has
commissioned a collection of new essays from some of the most
insightful writers on Beethoven's accomplishments and brought them
together in this remarkable volume. Filled with careful
explanations, this book gives us completely new insights into music
known and loved by people around the world. Ordinary music lovers
as well as scholars will find countless new discoveries about
Beethoven and his music. Listeners will hear his compositions
afresh, and scholars will find new results of research and analysis
and new avenues for discovery. Topics include Beethoven's cultural
milieu, his personal life, his friends, his publishers, his
instruments, his working methods, his own handwritten scores, and,
of course, his music. Many works are carefully discussed and
explained in ways that reveal fascinating and previously unknown
aspects of compositions that we thought we knew well. A landmark
publication for all who admire some of the greatest music of our
civilization.
This stimulating guide will help students and their teachers to
achieve stylish performances of music of the Classical period.
Individual chapters from leading experts focus on historical
background, notation and interpretation, and sources and editions,
presenting the latest thinking on performance in a clear, helpful
and practical way. There are also dedicated chapters of specialist
advice for keyboard, string and wind players, and singers, plus a
recommended playlist of illustrative, authoritative recordings.
Fully illustrated throughout with many music examples, facsimiles
and pictures, this is a valuable resource for students of the
Classical period which will also add to the knowledge and
understanding of amateur and professional musicians.
Did you know that Beethoven contemplated, however fleetingly,
writing more than forty symphonies and that for the Missa solemnis
he sought stimulus from a Latin-German dictionary? And what about
the underappreciated sociable side of Beethoven's music to set
alongside the familiar one of the heroic? Beethoven Studies 4 is a
collection of ten chapters that approach the composer and his music
from an appealing range of critical standpoints, aesthetic,
analytical, biographical, historical and performance. Alongside
essays that offer new information on Beethoven's compositional
practice and broaden understanding of the music's contemporary and
posthumous appeal, there are essays on his interaction with
specific environments, Bonn and post-Napoleonic Austria, and vocal
and piano performance practice. The volume will appeal to cultural
historians and practitioners as well as Beethoven enthusiasts.
Did you know that Beethoven contemplated, however fleetingly,
writing more than forty symphonies and that for the Missa solemnis
he sought stimulus from a Latin-German dictionary? And what about
the underappreciated sociable side of Beethoven's music to set
alongside the familiar one of the heroic? Beethoven Studies 4 is a
collection of ten chapters that approach the composer and his music
from an appealing range of critical standpoints, aesthetic,
analytical, biographical, historical and performance. Alongside
essays that offer new information on Beethoven's compositional
practice and broaden understanding of the music's contemporary and
posthumous appeal, there are essays on his interaction with
specific environments, Bonn and post-Napoleonic Austria, and vocal
and piano performance practice. The volume will appeal to cultural
historians and practitioners as well as Beethoven enthusiasts.
The music of the Strauss family – Johann and his three sons,
Johann, Josef and Eduard – enjoys enormous popular appeal. Yet
existing biographies have failed to do justice to the family's true
significance in nineteenth and early twentieth-century musical
history. David Wyn Jones addresses this deficiency, engagingly
showing that – from Johann's first engagements in the mid-1820s
to the death of Eduard in 1916 – the music making of the family
was at the centre of Habsburg Viennese society as it moved between
dance hall, concert hall and theatre. The Strauss industry at its
height was, he demonstrates, greater than any one of the
individuals, with serious personal and domestic consequences
including affairs, illness, rivalry and fraud. This zesty
biography, spanning over a hundred years of history, brings the
dynasty brilliantly to life across a large canvas as it offers
fresh and revealing insights into the cultural life of Vienna as a
whole.
The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. This book
explores the history of music in Vienna, focussing on three
different epochs, 1700, 1800 and 1900. The image of Vienna as a
musical city is a familiar one. Vienna has long been associated
with many of the most significant composers in Western music - from
Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, through the Strauss family,
Brahms, Bruckner and Wolf, to Mahler, Lehar, Schoenberg and Webern.
Today, venerable institutions like the Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Staatsoper and the Vienna Boys' Choir, together with
the shared pride of residents and visitors in its musical
inheritance, ensure that the image of a musical city is undimmed.
This book explores the history of music in Vienna, focussing on
three different epochs, 1700, 1800 and 1900, an approach which
allows the very different relationships between music and society
that existed in each of these periods to be distinguished.
Patronage, social function and audience are key considerations, set
within wider political and cultural developments. The volume is
populated by emperors, princes, performers, publishers and writers
as well as composers, and deals with institutional and commercial
characteristics alongside representative individual works. Music in
Vienna focusses on the political and social role of music,
broadening our understanding of the city as a musical capital. It
will appeal to a wide readership, including music historians and
political, cultural and social historians, as well as the
interested general reader. DAVID WYN JONES is Professor of Music at
Cardiff University.
Presenting a fresh picture of the life and work of Joseph Haydn,
this biography captures all the complexities and contradictions of
the composer's long career. In his lifetime Haydn achieved a degree
of fame that easily surpassed that of Mozart and Beethoven. Later
his historical significance was more restricted, regarded
exclusively as the composer who first recognised the potential of
the symphony and the quartet. However, Haydn had also composed
operas, oratorios and church music with similar enthusiasm and
self-regard. Too easily buttonholed as a Viennese composer, he
interacted consistently with the musical life of Vienna only during
the earliest and latest periods of his life; London was at least as
important in fashioning the composer's fame and legacy. To counter
the genial view of the composer, this biography probes the darker
side of Haydn's personality, his commercial opportunism and double
dealing, his penny-pinching and his troubled marriage.
An original study of the history of the symphony in Vienna during
Beethoven's lifetime, this 2006 book explores the context in which
the composer worked. Based on an extensive study of the wider
symphonic repertoire of the period and of the characteristics of
musical life that shaped the changing fortunes of the genre, from
manuscript and printed dissemination to concert life, David Wyn
Jones provides a multi-faceted account of the development of the
symphony in one of the most crucial periods in its history. The
volume offers a wide perspective on musical development in the
period, and will be of interest to musicologists and cultural
historians. As well as dealing with unfamiliar works by Czerny,
Eberl, Krommer, Reicha, Anton Wranitzky, Paul Wranitzky and others,
it charts the changing reception of the symphonies of Haydn and
Mozart, and offers insights into the symphonic careers of Beethoven
and Schubert.
Presenting a fresh picture of the life and work of Joseph Haydn,
this biography captures all the complexities and contradictions of
the composer's long career. In his lifetime Haydn achieved a degree
of fame that easily surpassed that of Mozart and Beethoven. Later
his historical significance was more restricted, regarded
exclusively as the composer who first recognised the potential of
the symphony and the quartet. However, Haydn had also composed
operas, oratorios and church music with similar enthusiasm and
self-regard. Too easily buttonholed as a Viennese composer, he
interacted consistently with the musical life of Vienna only during
the earliest and latest periods of his life; London was at least as
important in fashioning the composer's fame and legacy. To counter
the genial view of the composer, this biography probes the darker
side of Haydn's personality, his commercial opportunism and double
dealing, his penny-pinching and his troubled marriage.
The music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven forms a cornerstone of the
modern repertoire, but very little is known about the context in
which these composers worked. This volume of twelve essays by
leading international scholars considers some of the musical
traditions and practices of this little-understood period of music
history. Beginning with the early decades of the eighteenth
century, the volume documents selected aspects of musical life and
style from the late Baroque period through to the early years of
the nineteenth century. The four main areas covered in this
exploration of music history are orchestral music, sacred music,
opera and keyboard music. Georg Reutter (Haydn's teacher), Antonio
Salieri (Mozart's colleague) and Woelffl (a rival of Beethoven) are
just three of the period's prominent musicians who are discussed at
length.
An original study of the history of the symphony in Vienna during
Beethoven's lifetime, this 2006 book explores the context in which
the composer worked. Based on an extensive study of the wider
symphonic repertoire of the period and of the characteristics of
musical life that shaped the changing fortunes of the genre, from
manuscript and printed dissemination to concert life, David Wyn
Jones provides a multi-faceted account of the development of the
symphony in one of the most crucial periods in its history. The
volume offers a wide perspective on musical development in the
period, and will be of interest to musicologists and cultural
historians. As well as dealing with unfamiliar works by Czerny,
Eberl, Krommer, Reicha, Anton Wranitzky, Paul Wranitzky and others,
it charts the changing reception of the symphonies of Haydn and
Mozart, and offers insights into the symphonic careers of Beethoven
and Schubert.
'My compositions bring me in a good deal ... I state my price and
they pay.' Beethoven was an inspired composer but he was also a
working musician with sound commercial sense. David Wyn Jones's
account of Beethoven the man and composer reveals the life of a
creative musician in Bonn and Vienna in the late eighteenth and
early nineteenth centuries. While paying due regard to the image of
Beethoven as one of the most single-minded composers in the history
of music, this biography places his work in the context of the
musical life of the period. Through an understanding of the
changing nature of musical patronage, the private and public
concert, the impact of the Napoleonic Wars on culture and society,
and the increasing ambition of musical life in the period after the
end of the wars, a varied and dynamic picture of Beethoven's
musical career emerges.
The music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven forms a cornerstone of the modern repertoire, but very little is known about the context in which these composers worked. Beginning with the early decades of the eighteenth century, the essays in this volume consider some of the musical traditions and practices of this little understood period of music history. Four main areas are covered: orchestral music, sacred music, opera and keyboard music.
Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony is in many ways his most startlingly original. It has a programmatic content, it is in five movements, and its mood is quite different from the usual barnstorming image of the composer. Why did he want to compose such a work? Why did it take him five years to realize his vision? What was he hoping to communicate? How did he achieve it? Finally, how was the work received? David Wyn Jones addresses all these vital questions in a fascinating account of this popular work and the context in which it was written.
This account of Beethoven reveals the life and times of a creative musician in Bonn and Vienna in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While paying due regard to the image of Beethoven as one of the most single-minded composers in the history of music, this biography places his work in the context of the musical life of the period. Through an understanding of the changing nature of musical patronage, the private and public concert, the impact of the Napoleonic Wars on culture and society--in addition to the effects of Beethoven's increasing deafness and his difficult relationships with both patrons and the musical institutions of the day--a varied and dynamic picture of the life and career of the musical genius emerges.
Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony is in many ways his most startlingly original. It has a programmatic content, it is in five movements, and its mood is quite different from the usual barnstorming image of the composer. Why did he want to compose such a work? Why did it take him five years to realize his vision? What was he hoping to communicate? How did he achieve it? Finally, how was the work received? David Wyn Jones addresses all these vital questions in a fascinating account of this popular work and the context in which it was written.
Presenting a fresh picture of the life and work of Joseph Haydn,
this biography captures all the complexities and contradictions of
the composer's long career. In his lifetime Haydn achieved a degree
of fame that easily surpassed that of Mozart and Beethoven. Later
his historical significance was more restricted, regarded
exclusively as the composer who first recognised the potential of
the symphony and the quartet. However, Haydn had also composed
operas, oratorios and church music with similar enthusiasm and
self-regard. Too easily buttonholed as a Viennese composer, he
interacted consistently with the musical life of Vienna only during
the earliest and latest periods of his life; London was at least as
important in fashioning the composer's fame and legacy. To counter
the genial view of the composer, this biography probes the darker
side of Haydn's personality, his commercial opportunism and double
dealing, his penny-pinching and his troubled marriage.
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