Rethinking Mendelssohn
by Benedict Taylor, ed
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Rethinking Mendelssohn offers a new perspective on Mendelssohn's music and aesthetics, arguing for a fresh critical understanding of the composer, his music, and its central relationship to nineteenth-century culture. Building on the renaissance in Mendelssohn scholarship of the last two decades, the present book sets a new tone for research on Mendelssohn, challenging the traditional modes of discourse about this composer in moving beyond rehabilitation and source studies to engage in rigorous criticism and analysis. In a word, it seeks to rethink the issues that shaped Mendelssohn, his music and its reception from his own day down to the present. This volume includes contributions from younger, emerging scholars as well as from some of the most prominent figures outside specialist Mendelssohn circles in order to open up new ways of understanding the composer and set out future directions in Mendelssohn studies. Particular attention is given here to Mendelssohn's contested views on the relationship between art and religion, the analysis of his instrumental music in the wake of recent controversies in Formenlehre and his historical importance in this field, and the burgeoning interest in his previously neglected contribution to the German song tradition, besides offering new accounts of some of this composer's most familiar orchestral pieces.
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- Title
- Rethinking Mendelssohn
- Author
- Benedict Taylor, ed
- Format/Binding
- Very good
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0190611782
- ISBN 13
- 9780190611781
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2020
- Pages
- 506
- Keywords
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Criticism and interpretation, Music 19th century
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