Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century

by Edited by Ian Bent

• ISBN13: 9780521673471
• ISBN10: 052167347X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book demonstrates, in fascinating diversity, how musicians in the nineteenth century thought about and described music. The analysis of music took many forms (verbal, diagrammatic, tabular, notational, graphic), was pursued for many different purposes (educational, scholarly, theoretical, promotional) and embodied very different approaches. This, the first volume, is concerned with writing on fugue, form and questions of style in the music of Palestrina, Handel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner and presents analyses of complete works or movements by the most significant theorists and critics of the century. The analyses are newly translated into English and are introduced and thoroughly annotated by Ian Bent, making this a volume of enormous importance to our understanding of the nature of music reception in the nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

Preface to volumes I and II	xi
List of abbreviations	xx
General introduction	1	(30)
Part I: Elucidatory analysis
Introduction	31	(8)
`[Review: Meyerbeer's] Les Huguenots: The Score' (1836)	39	(19)
H. Berlioz
`Report on the Performance of the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven' (1846)	58	(11)
R. Wagner
`[Beethoven: Piano Sonata in F, Op. 10 no. 2]' (1852)	69	(5)
W. von Lenz
`[Beethoven: Piano Sonata] in F minor, Op. 57 (Appassionata)' (1856)	74	(7)
E. von Elterlein
`[J. S. Bach: Three Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord, BWV 1027--9]' (1873)	81	(7)
P. Spitta
`Prelude', `Act I [Scene 1]', Parsifal: A Thematic Guide through the Poetry and the Music (1882)	88	(18)
H. von Wolzogen
`Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 [in E (``Romantic'')]' (1898)	106	(21)
H. Kretzschmar
Part II: Objective-subjective analysis: the hermeneutic circle
Introduction	121	(6)
`Analysis of Haydn's Symphony [No. 103 in E (``Drumroll'')]' (1805)	127	(14)
J.-J. de Momigny
`[Review: Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor]' (1810)	141	(20)
E. T. A. Hoffmann
`[Review of Berlioz: Fantastic Symphony]' (1835)	161	(34)
R. Schumann
`[Verdi:] Simon Boccanegra' (1859)	195	(18)
A. Basevi
`[Beethoven:] The Final Symphony' (1859)	213	(25)
A. B. Marx
`[Beethoven:] String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132' (1885)	238	(29)
T. Helm
Afterword to volumes I and II	267	(4)
Bibliographical essay	271	(14)
Index	285