The Missa Solemnis is a document of extraordinary richness from the last decades of Beethoven's creative life. In this accessible guide, William Drabkin considers the work as an expression of the most celebrated text of the Roman Catholic faith and as an example from a tradition of Mass settings in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Austria. The opening chapters present various critical perspectives on the Missa Solemnis and chart the history of its composition, first performances, and publication. But, above all, the work itself is considered in detail, including the overall design, connections between the movements, the orchestration, word painting, and programmatic elements.
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The mass is analyzed from the perspective of being an expression of the most celebrated text of the Roman Catholic faith as well as a significant example from a tradition of Mass settings in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Austria.
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What Walter Riezler once called 'Beethoven's least approachable work', one that had 'been ignored by the commentators' (1938: 187), has in fact attracted a good deal of attention since it was published in early spring 1827, within days of the composer's death. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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What Walter Riezler once called 'Beethoven's least approachable work', one that had 'been ignored by the commentators' (1938: 187), has in fact attracted a good deal of attention since it was published in early spring 1827, within days of the composer's death. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bassoon quartet, germinal motive, closing fugue, second ritornello, missa solemnis, pocket sketchbooks, miserere nobis, dexteram patris, homo factus est, outline bar, qui tollis, tollis peccata mundi, nobis pacem, autograph score, orchestral introduction, fugue subject, sonata form, home key, solo violin, tenor solo Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Holy Spirit, Mass Ordinary, Beethoven's Mass, Jesus Christ, Michael Haydn New!
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- Violin Concerto (Penguin music scores) by Felix Mendelssohn in Front Matter
- The Letters of Beethoven by Ludwig Van Beethoven in Back Matter
- Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part I by Elliot Forbes in Back Matter
- Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by Malcolm Boyd in Front Matter
- Holst: The Planets (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by Richard Greene in Front Matter
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- Beethoven: The Music and the Life by Lewis Lockwood in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Beethoven: The Music and the Life by Lewis Lockwood in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism) by Daniel Chua on page 267, and Back Matter
- Chopin: The Four Ballades (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by Jim Samson in Front Matter
- Music as Philosophy: Adorno and Beethoven's Late Style (Musical Meaning and Interpretation) by Michael Spitzer in Back Matter
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