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Beethoven's Folksong Settings

Chronology, Sources, Style

Cooper, Barry (Senior Lecturer in Music, Senior Lecturer in Music, Manchester University)

Beethoven's Folksong Settings

Beethoven's Folksong Settings

Chronology, Sources, Style

Beethoven's Folksong Settings

 

The complete story of Beethoven's numerous settings of (mainly British) folksongs is told here in detail for the first time. The book rectifies many widely circulated myths about how, when, and why the settings were composed.


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Beschrijving Beethoven's Folksong Settings

Beethoven composed far more folksong settings than any other type of composition. Most are British songs, including Auld Lang Syne and the The Miller of Dee, with text by such authors as Burns, Byron and Scott. Yet Beethoven's settings, commissioned by George Thomson of Edinburgh, have been neglected by performers and scholars alike, and nearly all accounts of them are both superficial and startlingly inaccurate. This book is based on a very elablorate study of a wide range of sources, and dispels the many myths that have been circulating about this music. Every one of the 179 settings is dated to within a few weeks and an account is given of the souces of the melodies and texts, the difficulties of sending the music across Europe during the Napoleonic Wars (smugglers were even called upon to assist!), the fees Beethoven received, and when and how the texts were added. By comparing Beethoven's settings with those of his predecessors Pleyel, Haydhn and Kozeluch, the author demonstrates that Beethoven comprehensively transcended the bounds of convention, producing settings of extra-ordinary quality and originality. Suggestions are also made for overcoming the problems of presenting these songs in performance.


ISBN
9780198162834
Pagina's
282
Verschenen
NUR
660
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Clarendon Press

Muziek