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Siegwart Reichwald - Mendelssohn in Performance - 9780253351999 - V9780253351999
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Mendelssohn in Performance

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Description for Mendelssohn in Performance Hardcover. Exploring many aspects of Mendelssohn's multi-faceted career as musician and how it intersects with his work as composer, this work discusses practical issues of music making such as: performance space, instruments, tempo markings, dynamics, phrasings, articulations, fingerings, and instrument techniques. Editor(s): Reichwald, Siegwart. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 b&w photos, 41 figures. BIC Classification: AVGC5; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 602.

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 through the theoretic actualization of performances of specific works. Contributors rely on manuscripts, marked or edited scores, and performance parts to convey a deeper understanding of musical expression in 19th-century Germany. This study of Mendelssohn's work as conductor, pianist, organist, violist, accompanist, music director, and editor of old and new music offers valuable perspectives on 19th-century performance practice issues.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253351999
SKU
V9780253351999
Shipping Time
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About Siegwart Reichwald
Siegwart Reichwald is Associate Professor of Music History at Converse College and conducts the Converse Symphony Orchestra. He is author of The Musical Genesis of Felix Mendelssohn's Paulus. He lives in Spartansburg, South Carolina.

Reviews for Mendelssohn in Performance
This book does a superb job of explaining the 19th-century sound environment of Felix Mendelssohn and his audiences. . . . Essential.July 2009
Choice
Mendelssohn in Performance . . . should be on the shelf of every performer, scholar and devotee of Mendelssohn's music. July 2010, Vol. 7.1
Nineteenth Century Music Review
[T]his book has something for everyone interested in Felix Mendelssohn: history, culture, reception, orchestras and instruments, editions and texts, Mendelssohn's sense of historicism, his performances of other composers, performances of his music in his time and later, and even modern films that use his music.14.1 2009
Performance Practice Review
[Reichwald] has produced an exceptionally valuable, eminently useful, and very readable book. Any performer wishing to execute an historically informed performance of Mendelssohn's music—or of any other early-nineteenth-century Austro-German composer for that matter—would be well advised to study it thoroughly.29.1 2010
Journal of Musicological Research

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