Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century

Vol 2

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Edited by Ian Bent, John Stevens and Huray Peter Le

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published April 2005, 320 pages, paper

ISBN 052167347X

In this second volume of nineteenth-century music analyses, Ian Bent provides a further selection of newly translated writings of nineteenth-century music critics and theorists, including composers such as Wagner, Schumann and Berlioz, and critics such as A. B. Marx and E. T. A. Hoffmann. Where Volume I, on Fugue, Form and Style, presented nineteen analyses of a technical nature, all the writing here involves a metaphorical style of verbalised description, some pure examples, and others hybrid forms mixed with technical analysis. The music analysed is amongst the best-known in the repertoire: Wagner writes on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, E. T. A. Hoffmann on the Fifth, Schumann writes on Berlioz, and Berlioz on Meyerbeer. Professor Bent presents each analysis with its own detailed introduction and each is amplified by supporting information in footnotes.

Contents

Preface to volumes I and II; Part I. Elucidatory Analysis: Introduction; 1. H. Berlioz: ë[Review: Meyerbeerís] Les Huguenots: The Scoreí (1836); 2. R. Wagner: ëReport on the Performance of the Ninth Symphony of Beethovení (1846); 3. W. von Lenz: ë[Beethoven: Piano Sonata in F, Op. 10 no.2]í (1852); 4. E. von Elterlein: ë[Beethoven: Piano Sonata] in F minor, Op. 57 (Appassionata)í (1856); 5. P. Spitta: ë[J.S. Bach: Three Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord, BWV1027-9]í (1873); 6. H. von Wolzogen: ëPreludeí, ëAct I [Scene 1]í, Parsifal: A Thematic Guide through the Poetry and the Music (1882); 7. H. Kretzschmar: ëAnton Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 [in E flat (ëRomanticí)]í (1898); Part II. Objective-Subjective Analysis: The Hermeneutic Circle: Introduction; 8. J.-J. de Momigny: ëAnalysis of Haydnís Symphony [No. 103 in Eb (ëDrumrollí)]í (1805); 9. E. T. A. Hoffmann: ë[Review: Beethovenís Symphony No. 5 in C minor]í (1810); 10. R. Schumann: ë[Review of Berlioz: Fantastic Symphony]í (1835); 11. A. Basevi: ë[Verdi:] Simon Boccanegraí (1859); 12. A. B. Marx: ë[Beethoven:]The Final Symphonyí (1859); 13. T. Helm:ë[Beethoven:] String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132í (1885); Afterword to volumes I and II; Bibliographical essay; Index.