Inside Beethoven's Quartets History, Performance, Interpretation

Name: Inside Beethoven's Quartets History, Performance, Interpretation
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ISBN: 9780674028098

ISBN-10: 0674028090

ISBN-13: 9780674028098

Edition: 2008

Authors: Lewis Lockwood, Joel Smirnoff, Ronald Copes, Samuel Rhodes, Joel Krosnick

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The string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven, the signal achievement of "that noble genre," have rewarded the engagement of scholars, performers, and audiences for almost two hundred years. This book and its accompanying recording invite you to experience three of these profound and beautiful works of music from the inside, with a leading Beethoven scholar and a premier performing ensemble as your guides. Lewis Lockwood provides historical and biographical background along with musical analysis, drawing on the most important insights of recent scholarship on Beethoven's life and works. The members of the Juilliard Quartet share the fruits of decades of performing and teaching these…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2008
Binding: Mixed Media
Pages: 304
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Lewis Lockwood is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus at Harvard University. His publications include Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.



Preface


Note on the Scores


Opus 18 no. 1


The Opus 18 Quartets


The First Movement


Conversation


Annotated Score


Opus 59 no. 1


The ldquo;Razumovskyrdquo; Quartets


The First Movement


Conversation


Annotated Score


Opus 130


The Late Quartets


The First Movement


Conversation


Annotated Score


Appendix: Opus 18 no. 1 (Amenda Version)


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index


Audio CD


Op. 18 no. 1, mvt. 1 (final version)


Op. 18 no. 1, mvt. 1 (Amenda version)


Op. 59 no. 1, mvt. 1


Op. 130, mvt. 1