Chusid, Martin.
Hillsdale, NY : Pendragon Press, [2013]
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Part of the series Monographs in musicology no. 16;Monographs in musicology no. 16.
Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-257) and indexes.
- The minuets (for winds, piano, and string quartet) — The ecossaises — The early German dances and ländler — Published waltzes, ländler, and German dances I : for the Carnival seasons of 1822 to 1825 — Published waltzes, ländler, and German dances II : for the Carnival seasons of 1826 to 1828 — The polonaises and dances for piano duet : Schubert and the Esterhazy family at Zseliz — The dances published after Schubert’s death : Diabelli and op. 127 (D. 146) The dances edited by Brahms The remaining dance publications.
- Of the several genres comprising Schubert’s prodigious compositional output, the one that has attracted the least attention from scholars has been his approximately 500 dances. Of these, more than 200 were published during his lifetime, twice as many as his songs and they were received enthusiastically by the public. Yet, strangely enough, there has been only one slim volume devoted to the subject and it is in German, Schubert und das Tanzvergnügen (Schubert and the Enjoyment of the Dance). A translation of the opening section of that book forms the Introduction to our volume where it is entitled Dancing in Vienna in the Early 19th Century. Although the composer’s dances have been enjoyed in the United States and England by pianists and their pupils for generations, the current book is the first in English about them. Furthermore, there are relatively few articles or commentaries of substance that treat them seriously. Our publication begins with chapters on the minuets, all of which were written for members of his family, and his ecosaisses, primarily itended for his friends. Later another section is devoted to the polonaises and his other four hand dances, works that Schubert composed mainly for his only serious students, the Countesses Marie and Caroline Esterhazy. But by far the largest portion of the volume is devoted to the quick, triple-meter compositions Schubert labeled German dances or ländler, although his publishers most often gave them the title of Waltzes. The composer, however, used the term Walzer just once in his lifetime and he did so in the course of a humorous poem to rhyme with the word Pfalzer, an inhabitant of the Rhine region of Germany, at the conclusion of a dance he in fact called a Deutscher (German dance). In the course of studying the dances a number of points insufficientally, or not at all, discussed in the Schubert literature has emerged. For one thing forty, approximatel 8% of these relatively short compositions–most are only 16 or 24 measures in length–begin a
Subjects:
- Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828 — Criticism and interpretation.
- Dance music — 19th century — History and criticism.
- Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. (DE-588)118610961 gnd
- Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. fast (OCoLC)fst00000102
- Dance music. fast (OCoLC)fst00887533
- 1800 – 1899 fast
- Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635
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