The Beethoven Quartets
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (719 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393009092 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 408 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Joseph Kerman was a leading musicologist, music critic, and music educator from the 1950s to the 2000s. He wrote Listen together with his wife, Vivian Kerman. He reshaped our understanding and appreciation of Western classical music with his first book, Opera as Drama (1956), to his last, Opera and the Morbidity of Music (2008), including his studies on Bach, Beethoven, William Byrd, concertos, and more. . He was a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, where he served two terms as chai
"very interesting book" according to A Customer. Don't be scared away from this book, which is actually very interesting and well writen. I don't have a degree in music but have read little bit about music history, hamony, fugue and some music forms, which seems enough to comprehend this book. I do prefer the music analysis in detail rather than a few sentence of descriptions or generization of a piece of music, especially from the great composer like Beethoven. I just got this book and have read only a few pages, but it already attracts me. It has very detailed historical background of each Beethoven's string quartet and the analysis of it. I am really pleased to have this book!. Edward Wolpert said but needed a better sense of the more global aspects of the peace. The author goes into minute detail about some of the technical aspects of each quartet. But somehow, I found that he lost the "big picture" about how the piece was structured. I never got a sense of the overall structure of each movement of a given quartet. His presentation of the minutia (key changes, chordal sequences, etc) was mildly interesting, but needed a better sense of the more global aspects of the peace.. Excellent with caveats! KenOC This is an excellent book for people who want to more fully understand and appreciate Beethoven's string quartets. It is fairly technical, but if you can read music at all passably you should be able to follow the many examples. Mr. Kerman obviously knows his subject VERY well and he places the works into historical and musical perspective as he explores the formidable technique that went into them.Two caveats: First, he really doesn't like some of LvB's music very much! For example, re the fugue ending the third Razumovsky Quartet (an all-time favorite of mine), he speaks of the main theme's "rare flatulence" and says, "Few movements in Beet
A critical study of the structure, style, and significance of the sixteen string quartets. Beethoven's quartets show a technical mastery, depth of thought, and intensity of musical inspiration unsurpassed by any other composer. This brilliant survey, by one of America's leading musical scholars, has already achieved classic status.
He reshaped our understanding and appreciation of Western classical music with his first book, Opera as Drama (1956), to his last, Opera and the Morbidity of Music (2008), including his studies on Bach, Beethoven, William Byrd, concertos, and more. He wrote Listen together with his wife, Vivian Kerman. Joseph Kerman was a leading musicologist, music critic, and music educator from the 1950s to the 2000s. . He was a professor at the