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Closed, Closing, and Close to Closure: The Nineteenth-Century “Closing Theme” Problem as Exemplified in Mendelssohn’s Sonata Practice
Benedict Taylor
Music Theory Spectrum, Volume 46, Issue 2, Fall 2024, Pages 263–287, https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtae009
Published: 10 October 2024
... until now been barely explored; nevertheless, it speaks to a genuine feature of nineteenth-century sonata practice. This article examines the use of apparently rhetorical C themes in a precedential situation in the first half of the nineteenth century, taking the sonata expositions of Felix Mendelssohn...
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Judaism and Temporary Community: Moses Mendelssohn on imperfection and truth
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Dustin N. Atlas
Literature and Theology, Volume 35, Issue 1, March 2021, Pages 22–39, https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/fraa028
Published: 24 March 2021
... This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract Moses Mendelssohn’s work on imperfection might cause us to rethink...
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Alternative Paths, Phrase Expansion, and the Music of Felix Mendelssohn
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Brian Edward Jarvis and John Peterson
Music Theory Spectrum, Volume 41, Issue 2, Fall 2019, Pages 187–217, https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtz009
Published: 03 June 2019
... provide a more nuanced view of passages that might otherwise be described by the more generic terms “parenthesis,” “interpolation,” or “purple patch.” We use Felix Mendelssohn’s works to demonstrate the effectiveness and flexibility of our approach, though the theory of alternative paths is by no means...
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Published: 10 December 2009
...For Fanny Hensel's twenty-eighth birthday, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy finished a landscape painting and a major new composition, the Fair Melusine Overture, op. thirty-two. However, Felix, ever the perfectionist, could not yet bring himself to part with his score, about the fabled...
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Published: 10 December 2009
... thin, wafting chants soon lost in the vast recesses of St. Peter’s. Fanny divulged to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy that at the pope's entrance into the Sistine Chapel on Christmas Eve the musicians broke into a fugal passage, allying sacred polyphony with the centuries-old authority of the church. Fanny...
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1858–1862 Sullivan at Leipzig; Gilbert at Law
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Michael Ainger
Published: 22 November 2002
...The conservatory at Leipzig had been founded by Felix Mendelssohn only 15 years before Arthur Sullivan's arrival in September 1858. Its director was Konrad Schlemitz, although Ignaz Moscheles, who had originally been invited by Mendelssohn to take charge of piano tuition, effectively ran...
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Reception History
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Russell Stinson
Published: 15 February 2001
... history, and its influence on composers. Johannes Brahms, Cesar Franck, Felix Mendelssohn, Max Reger, Arnold Schoenberg, Robert Schumann, and Ralph Vaughan Williams are some of the great composers in music history that enjoyed the Great Eighteen. Agricola Johann Friedrich Bach Johann Sebastian BWV 599...
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The Oratorio from Haydn to Elgar
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Chester L. Alwes
Published: 15 September 2016
... and it lacks the clear narrative voice of the seventeenth-century historicus . The trend continues in works by Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Schumann, Liszt, and the stable of composers that serviced the oratorio marketplace in late nineteenth-century England, who all sought to compensate for the loss...
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Part Song in Nineteenth-Century Germany and England
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Chester L. Alwes
Published: 15 September 2016
...In many ways, the small, usually unaccompanied choral songs composed by such Austro-Germanic composers as Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Reger, Cornelius, Bruckner, and Rheinberger all grew out of the Liedertafel movement started by male members of Zelter’s...
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From the Church to the Concert Hall: J.S. Bach, Mendelssohn, and the Imaginary Chorale
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R. Larry Todd
Published: 02 February 2021
...R. Larry Todd, From the Church to the Concert Hall: J.S. Bach, Mendelssohn, and the Imaginary Chorale In: Theology, Music, and Modernity: Struggles for Freedom , Edited by: Jeremy Begbie, Daniel K. L. Chua, and Markus Rathey, Oxford University Press (2021). © Oxford...
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The Third Paralogism
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Ian Proops
Published: 22 April 2021
...’ of the concept of a person and of his conception of what immortality would have to consist in if there were to be such a state. It scrutinizes in detail Kant’s criticisms of the separate arguments of Moses Mendelssohn and of David Fordyce for the immortality of the soul. Finally, it examines Kant’s sympathetic...
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Published: 21 January 2021
... Heinrich Hensel Fanny Cäcilia née Mendelssohn Mendelssohn Bartholdy Felix Schubert Franz Tieck Ludwig Schumann Robert Klingemann Karl Hensel Sebastian Hensel Wilhelm Günter Klein Hans Lenau Nikolaus Mendelssohn Bartholdy Paul Burnham Scott Wolf Hugo Strauss Richard Fanny Hensel Felix...
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Published: 14 February 2022
... about this bias in the film, little attention has been paid to the role of music, since the film does not have an original score. Erich Wolfgang Korngold arranged its score from Mendelssohn’s incidental music as well as various other works by the composer. Most discussions of Korngold’s work on the film...
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Elijah and the Enlightenment
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Eliyahu Stern
Published: 22 January 2013
... through his hermeneutic idealism, while his opponent, Moses Mendelssohn, ardently defended the historical rabbinic tradition to German-speaking audiences. Aderet Eliyahu Elijah ben Solomon Elijah ben Solomon approach to learning Talmud Graetz Heinrich idealism Mendelssohn Moses on authorship of text...
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Published: 18 June 2013
...This chapter examines the works of Richard Wagner and the conditions of German-Jewish composers in the nineteenth century. It analyzes Wagner's 1850 polemic Judaism in Music and the works of Felix Mendelssohn, which showed a reverence for tradition that would become a feature...
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Reading the Fairies: Shakespeare in Concert with Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Marian Wilson Kimber
Published: 01 January 2017
...Between 1850 and 1920, readings of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by women took place in conjunction with concerts of Felix Mendelssohn’s incidental music, popularized by actress Fanny Kemble. The practice responsed to criticism of the physicality of theatrical stagings...
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Clive Brown
Published: 11 May 2003
...Many members of Felix Mendelssohn's immediate family had remarkable intellectual achievements in such fields as philosophy, the arts, and the sciences. His grandfather, Moses Mendelssohn, was a famous Enlightenment philosopher and powerful reforming influence on Judaism in Germany. Moses's...
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Social and Intellectual Environment
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Clive Brown
Published: 11 May 2003
...Several first-hand accounts offer a glimpse into Felix Mendelssohn's environment and activities, as well as the people who belonged to his close circle during his teenage years in Berlin. Eduard Philipp Devrient noted how the regular intellectual and musical gatherings that took place...
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Charles Edward Horsley
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Clive Brown
Published: 11 May 2003
...Although Felix Mendelssohn was not an enthusiastic teacher, he appeared to be successful in stimulating and guiding the composition and performance studies of his pupils. He always encouraged talented musicians to strive for self-development and derived satisfaction from their progress...
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The Opinion System and the Re-Formation of the Individual (Hobbes, Locke, Mendelssohn, Fichte, and Goethe)
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Kirk Wetters
Published: 15 October 2008
...This chapter explores the development of a liberal-secular concept of private individual opinion. Focusing on Moss Mendelssohn's revision of Locke, it attempts to exclude the dogmatic conception of belief from the public sphere. The concluding sections return to the crisis of opinion that re-erupts...
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