Beethoven's habit of composing by making many preliminary drafts and sketches was sufficiently unusual to attract attention even during his lifetime, and his creative process has attracted a good deal more attention since. This book incorporates the findings of recent studies on Beethoven's creative process and examines his underlying creative motivation, the interrelationships between his various works, and how his output was determined by external factors and his personal life. Including an introduction to his compositional methods and a detailed study of particular compositional problems of six different works, the book provides insight into the creative life of one of the greatest figures in musical history.
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"One of the most original monographs on the composer to appear in recent years."--Musical Times
"Open its pages and discover genius....His book is a work of scholarship, in language the layman can understand."--Times Literary Supplement
"Cooper has indeed offered valuable and substantive comments on topics of broad interest to music historians and theorists, as well as to the general reader."--Notes
"[Includes] the best narrative description of Beethoven's sketch materials now available....The book will surely provoke heated response, but is bound to be an important source."--Choice
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Barry Cooper is at Manchester University.
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An extremely well-written and inspiring work, Cooper succeeds in bringing us Beethoven the artist.
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WHAT was the underlying motivation for Beethoven's compositional activity? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cadenza sketches, finale sketch, continuity drafts, variant sketches, further sketching, major sketches, sketches arc, autograph score, remaining sketches, score sketches, main draft, subsidiary keys, extended draft, sketching process, triple concerto, further sketches, trio section, earliest sketches, concept sketches, compositional activity, late quartets, metronome marks, transitional material, different sketches, melodic shape Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ninth Symphony, Archduke Rudolph, Violin Concerto, Choral Fantasia, Fifth Symphony, Die Ruinen, Ferdinand Ries, George Thomson, Tiefe Stille, Prince Galitzin, Egmont Overture, Fgmont Overture, Karl Amenda, Karl Holz, Prometheus Variations, Recurring Ideas New!
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WHAT was the underlying motivation for Beethoven's compositional activity? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cadenza sketches, finale sketch, continuity drafts, variant sketches, further sketching, major sketches, sketches arc, autograph score, remaining sketches, score sketches, main draft, subsidiary keys, extended draft, sketching process, triple concerto, further sketches, trio section, earliest sketches, concept sketches, compositional activity, late quartets, metronome marks, transitional material, different sketches, melodic shape Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ninth Symphony, Archduke Rudolph, Violin Concerto, Choral Fantasia, Fifth Symphony, Die Ruinen, Ferdinand Ries, George Thomson, Tiefe Stille, Prince Galitzin, Egmont Overture, Fgmont Overture, Karl Amenda, Karl Holz, Prometheus Variations, Recurring Ideas New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- FĂ1/4r Elise (Classical Guitar Tab Edition) by Beethoven on page 266, and Back Matter
- Don Giovanni in Full Score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on page 20
- From Beethoven To Shostakovich (Music Book Index) by Max Graf in Back Matter
- The Letters of Beethoven by Ludwig Van Beethoven in Back Matter
- The Compositional Matrix (Da Capo Press music reprint series) by Allen Forte in Back Matter
- The String Quartets of Beethoven by William Kinderman on 7 pages
- Beethoven, Revised Edition by Maynard Solomon on 6 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Glenn Stanley on 5 pages
- The Galitzin Quartets of Beethoven by Daniel K.L. Chua on 4 pages
- Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by Robin Stowell in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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