Masterworks of the Orchestral Repertoire
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Masterworks of the Orchestral Repertoire

A Guide for Listeners

  1. 685 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Masterworks of the Orchestral Repertoire

A Guide for Listeners

About this book

Masterworks of the Orchestral Repertoire was first published in 1968. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

The fullest enjoyment of an orchestral performance or a record concert comes with a background of knowledge about the music itself. This handbook is designed to help music lovers get the ultimate pleasure from their listening by providing them with that background about a large portion of the orchestral repertoire.

Professor Ferguson analyzes and interprets the most important classical symphonies, overtures, and concertos, as well as selected orchestral works of modern composers. He goes beyond a conventional analysis of structure since he believes (with a majority of the music-loving public) that great music is actually a communication -- that it expresses significant emotions. The great composers, on their own testimony, have striven not merely to create perfect forms but to interpret human experience. Mingled with the analyses, then, the reader will find comments on the expressive purport of the music.

For twenty-five years Professor Ferguson has supplied the program notes for the subscription concerts of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, and this volume is an outgrowth of that activity. In preparing the material for book publication, however, he studied the musical compositions anew, and the resulting chapters provide a much deeper exploration of the musical subjects than did the program notes. The themes of important works are illustrated by musical notations, and a brief glossary explains technical terms.

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Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. A WORD TO THE READER
  3. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750)
  4. BELA BARTOK (1881–1945)
  5. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)
  6. HECTOR BERLIOZ (1803–1869)
  7. GEORGES BIZET (1838–1875)
  8. ERNEST BLOCH (b. 1880)
  9. ALEXANDER BORODIN (1834–1887)
  10. JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833–1897)
  11. ANTON BRUCKNER (1824–1896)
  12. ERNEST AMEDÉE CHAUSSON (1855–1890)
  13. LUIGI CHERUBINI (1760–1842)
  14. FRANÇOIS FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (1810–1849)
  15. AARON COPLAND (b. 1900)
  16. CLAUDE ACHILLE DEBUSSY (1862–1918)
  17. PAUL DUKAS (1865–1935)
  18. ANTONIN DVOŘÁK (1841–1904)
  19. EDWARD ELGAR (1857–1934)
  20. MANUEL DE FALLA (1877–1946)
  21. CÉSAR FRANCK (1822–1890)
  22. EDVARD HAGERUP GRIEG (1843–1907)
  23. GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1759)
  24. FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN (1732–1809)
  25. PAUL HINDEMITH (b. 1895)
  26. ARTHUR HONEGGER (b. 1892)
  27. ZOLTÁN KODÁLY (b. 1882)
  28. ERNST KŘENEK (b. 1900)
  29. EDOUARD LALO (1823–1892)
  30. GUSTAV MAHLER (1860–1911)
  31. FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY (1809–1847)
  32. DARIUS MILHAUD (b. 1892)
  33. MODEST MOUSSORGSKY (1835–1881)
  34. WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)
  35. WALTER PISTON (b. 1894)
  36. SERGE PROKOFIEFF (1891–1953)
  37. SERGEI VASSILIEVITCH RACHMANINOFF (1873–1943)
  38. MAURICE RAVEL (1875–1937)
  39. MAX REGER (1873–1916)
  40. OTTORINO RESPIGHI (1879–1935)
  41. NICOLAS ANDREIVITCH RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF (1844–1908)
  42. CHARLES CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835–1921)
  43. FLORENT SCHMITT (b. 1870)
  44. ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG (1874–1953)
  45. FRANZ PETER SCHUBERT (1797–1828)
  46. ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810–1856)
  47. DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (b. 1906)
  48. JAN JULIUS CHRISTIAN SIBELIUS (b. 1865)
  49. RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)
  50. IGOR STRAVINSKY (b. 1882)
  51. PETER ILJITCH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893)
  52. RICHARD WAGNER (1813–1883)
  53. WILLIAM WALTON (b. 1902)
  54. CARL MARIA VON WEBER (1786–1826)
  55. RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (b. 1872)
  56. GLOSSARY
  57. INDEX