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  • String Quartets in Beethoven’s Europe

    Edited by Nancy November ...
    String Quartets in Beethoven’s Europe is the first detailed study of string quartets in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Europe. It brings together the work of nine scholars who explore little-studied aspects of this multi-faceted genre. Together, this book’s chapters deal with compositional responses to Beethoven’s string quartets and the prestige of the genre; varied compositional ... Read more

    $116.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Performing History

    Approaches to History Across Musicology

    Edited by Nancy November ...
    Designed for a broad readership including scholars, performers and amateurs of musicIncorporates the most recent approaches of scholars doing groundbreaking work in the fieldUseful for students considering approaches to the study of musicWritten in an accessible and engaging way, suitable for non-specialists ... Read more

    $78.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beethoven's String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131

    by Nancy November ...
    Series series Oxford Keynotes
    Beethoven's String Quartet in C-sharp minor Op. 131 (1826) is not only firmly a part of the scholarly canon, the performing canon, and the pedagogical canon, but also makes its presence felt in popular culture. Yet in recent times, the terms in which the C-sharp minor quartet is discussed and presented tend to undermine the multivalent nature of the work. Although it is held up as a masterpiece, ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Haydn Studies 2

    Edited by Nancy November ...
    Series series Cambridge Composer Studies
    Haydn scholarship has mirrored recent trends in musicological research with an increased interest in the cultural context and reception of his music, though he has not received the sustained consideration given to other canonical figures. Over the past decade, more consideration has been paid to Haydn's operas and oratorios which previously tended to be eclipsed by his chamber and orchestral music ... Read more

    $106.59 USD

  • Amateur Musicians in the Nineteenth Century

    Markets, Practices, and Identities

    Edited by Dr Nancy November, Dr Imogen Morris ...
    By carefully piecing together musical and documentary evidence, Amateur Musicians in the Nineteenth Century reveals the musicians that have so far been largely invisible in histories of music.Musical amateurs occupy an indistinct, low-status, peripheral place in musical life today. Often defined by what they are not and compared unfavorably to professionals, amateurs are found to lack expertise, ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Amateuring and Belonging in Music Education

    Local Voices, Global Resonances

    Edited by Imogen Morris, Nancy November ...
    This book investigates how education and participation shape musical identity across the amateur–professional spectrum, reframing amateurism as a space of passion, dedication and authenticity rather than deficiency. It treats the amateur–professional divide as a social construct—made in pedagogy and institutions—then shows how teaching and learning can unsettle that divide in practice.Once ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Beethoven's Theatrical Quartets

    Opp. 59, 74 and 95

    by Nancy November ...
    Series series Music in Context
    Beethoven's middle-period quartets, Opp. 59, 74 and 95, are pieces that engage deeply with the aesthetic ideas of their time. In the first full contextual study of these works, Nancy November celebrates their uniqueness, exploring their reception history and early performance. In detailed analyses, she explores ways in which the quartets have both reflected and shaped the very idea of chamber ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Opera in the Viennese Home from Mozart to Rossini

    by Nancy November ...
    Domestic musical arrangements of opera provide a unique window on the world of nineteenth-century amateur music-making. These arrangements flourished in especially rich variety in early nineteenth-century Vienna. This study reveals ways in which the Viennese culture of musical arrangements opened up opportunities, especially for women, for connoisseurship, education, and sociability in the home, ... Read more

    $95.19 USD

  • Music, Society, Agency

    Edited by Nancy November ...
    Musicologists have increasingly taken a wide-angled lens on the study of music in society, to explore how it can be intertwined with issues of politics, gender, religion, race, psychology, memory, and space. Recent studies of music in connection with society take in a variety of musical phenomena from diverse periods and genres—medieval, classical, opera, rock, etc. This ten-chapter book not only ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The Age of Musical Arrangements in Europe, 1780–1830

    by Nancy November ...
    Series series Elements in Music and Musicians 1750-1850
    This Element considers the art and culture of arranging music in Europe in the period 1780–1830, using Haydn's London symphonies and Mozart's operas as its principal examples. The degree to which musical arrangements shaped the social, musical, and ideological landscape in this era deserves further attention. This Element focuses on Vienna, and an important era in the culture of arrangements in ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Beethoven's Symphonies Arranged for the Chamber

    Sociability, Reception, and Canon Formation

    by Nancy November ...
    Early nineteenth-century composers, publishers and writers evolved influential ideals of Beethoven's symphonies as untouchable masterpieces. Meanwhile, many and various arrangements of symphonies, principally for amateur performers, supported diverse and 'hands-on' cultivation of the same works. Now mostly forgotten, these arrangements served a vital function in nineteenth-century musical life, ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Eroica Symphony

    Edited by Nancy November ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    This Companion provides orientation for those embarking on the study of Beethoven's much-discussed Eroica Symphony, as well as providing fresh insights that will appeal to scholars, performers and listeners more generally. The book addresses the symphony in three thematic sections, on genesis, analysis and reception history, and covers key topics including political context, dedication, sources of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD