Mendelssohn, time and memory: the romantic conception of cyclic form

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An examination of cyclic form in Mendelssohn's instrumental music and its implications for conceptions of musical time, memory and history.

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Full title :Mendelssohn, time and memory : the romantic conception of cyclic form / Benedict Taylor.

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An examination of cyclic form in Mendelssohn's instrumental music and its implications for conceptions of musical time, memory and history.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 ressource en ligne (ix, 303 p.) : : notation musicale

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780511794384, 051179438X
oclc:ocn874520361
LC Classification:ML410.M5
Dewey Decimal:780.92

Cover; Mendelssohn, Time and Memory; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The idea of cyclic form; 1. End-orientated (circular) cyclic forms; 2. Non-end-orientated cyclic forms; 3. Combined- or single-movement cyclic forms; Historical context and development; The shape of history and historical self-consciousness; Subjectivity; Organicism; Origins and precursors of nineteenth-century cyclicism; Beethoven and Romantic cyclicism; Cyclic form in Mendelssohn's early works; 2 Musical history and self-consciousness: The Octet Op. 20.

Musical memory and self-consciousness: 'the Circuitous Journey'The Octet as a phenomenology of spirit; Cyclicism and the organic growth of material across the Octet; Organic growth: the first movement; Thematic connections between movements: the Andante and first movement; Cyclic recall: the finale; The Octet and musical history; Mendelssohn and Goethe; 'To me alone he told his secret', claimed Fanny:; 3 Returning home: The E major Piano Sonata Op. 6; The myth of the golden age; The Sonata in E major Op. 6; 4 In search of lost time: The A minor Quartet Op. 13; The A minor Quartet Op. 13.

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19e siècle Analyse musicale (Descripteur de forme) Criticism, interpretation, etc Cyclic form (Music) Esthétique musicale Forme cyclique (Musique) Histoire Instrumental music Instrumental music -- History and criti… Livre électronique (Descripteur de form… Mémoire Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix Musique instrumentale Musique instrumentale -- Histoire et cr… Ressource Internet (Descripteur de form… Temps musical