Mendelssohn perspectives

by Grimes, Nicole Mace, Angela R.

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Full title :Mendelssohn perspectives / edited by Nicole Grimes and Angela R. Mace.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ashgate Pub, Surrey, VT
Place of Publication:Farnham
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

The Physical Object

Description:xxii, 368 p. : : ill., ports., music ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781409428251, 1409428257, 9781409428268, 1409428265
oclc:ocn820640109
LC Classification:ML410.M5
Dewey Decimal:780.92

Cover; Contents; List of Figures, Plates and Illustrations; List of Tables; List of Musical Examples; List of Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Mendelssohn's Jewishness; 1 Never Perfectly Beautiful: Physiognomy, Jewishness, and Mendelssohn Portraiture; 2 Mendelssohn's 'Untergang': Reconsidering the Impact of Wagner's 'Judaism in Music'; 3 'Wordless Judaism, Like the Songs of Mendelssohn'? Hanslick, Mendelssohn and Cultural Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna; 4 Mendelssohn's Conversion to Judaism: An English Perspective; Part II: Between Tradition and Innovation5 Norm and Deformation in Mendelssohn's Sonata Forms; 6 Mendelssohn and Berlioz: Selective Affinities; 7 Between Tradition and Innovation: Mendelssohn as Music Director; Part III: Mendelssohn and the Stage; 8 Converting the Pagans: Mendelssohn, Greek Tragedy, and the Christian Ethos; 9 The Phantom of Mendelssohn's Opera: Fictional Accounts and Posthumous Propaganda; Part IV: Style and Compositional Process; 10 Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte and the Limits of Musical Expression; 11 Improvisation, Elaboration, Composition: The Mendelssohns and the Classical Cadenza12 Cyclic …