| Contents |
Introduction : Rethinking Mendelssohn / Benedict Taylor -- Interpreting the orchestral music. Deformed beauty? : Narrative and musical form in Mendelssohn's Overture to the tale of the fair Melusina, op. 32 / Thomas Grey ; Brass topics, abbreviated recapitulations, and the Bildungsreise : A new approach to the first movement of Mendelssohn's "Italian" symphony / Peter Mercer-Taylor ; "Inner necessity" : Fabulation, frame, and musical memory in Mendelssohn's Lobgesang / John Michael Cooper ; An epic voice with rhyme and reason : On rehearing Mendelssohn's "Scottish" symphony / Scott Burnham -- Historical and aesthetic contexts. Mendelssohn and the idea of the North / Sarah Clemmens Waltz ; Sibling love and the daemonic : Contradictions in the relationship between Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn / Angela Mace Christian ; Mendelssohn and Droysen : Historicism in practice and theory / Celia Applegate -- Analysing Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn and sonata form : The case of op. 44 no. 2 / Benedict Taylor ; Expansion and recomposition in Mendelssohn's symphonic sonata forms / Steven Vande Moortele ; Syntax and process in the first movement of Mendelssohn's Piano trio, op. 66 / Julian Horton ; Form through sound : Klangfarbe and texture in Mendelssohn's instrumental compositions / Thomas Schmidt -- Art, ethics, and religion. The philosophical composer : The influence of Moses Mendelssohn and Friedrich Schleiermacher on Felix Mendelssohn / Leon Botstein ; Mendelssohn's difference in faith : Rethinking Kunstreligion in the context of his compositional aesthetics / Sabine Koch ; Sacred sound and secular space in Mendelssohn's instrumental music / Lawrence Kramer ; Mendelssohn's Deutsche Liturgie in the context of the Prussian Agende of 1829 / Laura K.T. Stokes -- Mendelssohn and the Lied. Reassessing Mendelssohn's song aesthetic through the lens of religion : The case of "Entsagung" / Jennifer Ronyak ; Changes of pace : Expressive accelerations and decelerations in Mendelssohn's vocal rhythms / Harald Krebs ; "Time is, time was, time is past" : Mendelssohn's songs of travel / Susan Youens ; Fanny Hensel's Sechs Lieder, op. 9 : A brother's elegy / Stephen Rodgers. |
| Abstract |
""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. ""-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-498) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019052402 |
| ISBN | 9780190611781 hardback |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
