Title: Beethoven Papers Read at the 1986 AMS Meeting
Abstract: Six papers concerning Beethoven and his music were presented at the fifty-second annual meeting of the American Musicological Society held in Cleveland from November 6-9. Ian Bent (University of Nottingham and Columbia University) read a paper on Erlauterimg and Schenker. world F,rlauterung means explanation or illustration; Mr. Bent discussed the theorist Heinrich Schenker's use of the word in the title his 1910 study of J.S. Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue (subtitled Erlauterungsausgabe) and his Erlauterungsausgabe editions of Beethoven's late piano sonatas (excepting Opus 106, whose autograph is lost), tracing the historical uses of the word and its meanings. Although the study and its treatment sounds quite limited in scope, this very interesting and thorough paper explored the nature of analysis of music in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Ellwood Derr (University of Michigan) presented his Young Beethoven's Pieces on Mo/art Models: A Study in Compositional Method. In this controversial paper, Mr. Derr argued that Beethoven's reuse of Mozart's material extended many layers of Beethoven's work, including such details as descending bass lines and Alberti bass figures. significance of the relationships Mr. Derr found between the Mozart and Beethoven works was not addressed. John Platoff (Trinity' College, Hartford, Connecticut) gave a well-reasoned response indebted Goran's Influence in Art and Literature (Princeton, 1975), explaining that the three criteria for evaluating such similarities should be the extensiveness, precision, and exclusiveness of the similarities. Liszt's relationship Beethoven continues interest many writers. Allan Keiler of Brandeis University discussed this topic in his Liszt and Beethoven: Creation of a Personal Myth. In a stimulating paper, Mr. Keiler attempted to show that Liszt, probably during the decade of the 1830s, created as part of his biographical self-image a personal connection the actual figure of Beethoven that had only the most tenuous relationship actual events. (This includes the famous incident of the Weihekuss, which we illustrated in the second issue of this volume.) opening sentence of the paper's abstract is The figure of Beethoven had a central importance in the creative life of the romantic composer; the illustration of this thesis in Liszt's reinterpretations of his historical encounters with Beethoven is quite convincing. session on American Music chaired by Richard Crawford (University of Michigan) included an interesting paper by Anne Dhu Shapiro (Harvard University) titled The Travels of a Tune: Beethoven, Sam Cowell, and 'Sweet Betsy' ; therein she traced the wanderings of a tune set by Beethoven as an Air Ecossais its use in the very popular parody of the ballad William and Diana its appearance in various songbooks of the goldrush days as Sweet Betsy from Pike. …
Publication Year: 1986
Publication Date: 1986-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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