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1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Mendelssohn's audience / Douglass Seaton -- Mendelssohn and the piano / Kenneth Hamilton -- Mendelssohn and the organ / Peter Ward Jones -- Performance of Mendelssohn's chamber and solo music for violin / Clive Brown -- Mendelssohn and the orchestra / David Milsom -- Mendelssohn as composer/conductor: early performances of Paulus / Siegwart Reichwald -- From drawing room to theater: performance traditions of Mendelssohn's stage works / Monika Hennemann -- Mendelssohn and the performance of Handel's vocal works / Ralf Wehner -- From notation to edition to performance: issues in interpretation / John Michael Cooper -- Mendelssohn's tempo indications / Siegwart Reichwald -- For you see I am the eternal objector: on performing Mendelssohn's music in translation / John Michael Cooper. |
Summary |
Exploring many aspects of Felix Mendelssohn's multi-faceted career as musician and how it intersects with his work as composer, contributors discuss practical issues of music making such as performance space, instruments, tempo markings, dynamics, phrasings, articulations, fingerings, and instrument techniques. They present the conceptual and ideological underpinnings of Mendelssohn's approach to performance, interpretation, and composing through the contextualization of specific performance events and th. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847.
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Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. |
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Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix. |
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Performance practice (Music) -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
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Performance practice (Music) |
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Germany. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Added Author |
Reichwald, Siegwart, 1967-
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Hogwood, Christopher.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Mendelssohn in performance. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2008 0253351995 (DLC) 2008013739 (OCoLC)216935814 |
ISBN |
9780253002617 |
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0253002613 |
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9780253351999 |
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0253351995 |
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