Grasnick 5 : Beethoven's Pocket Sketchbook for the Agnus Dei of the Missa solemnis, Opus 123 Hardback
Edited by Patrizia Metzler, Fred Stoltzfus
Part of the Beethoven Sketchbook Series series
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Long neglected in scholarship, the so-called Grasnick 5 documents reveal Beethoven working out concepts and ideas, offering fascinating insights into his creative method.
This critical edition, the third in the Beethoven Sketchbook Series, offers a facsimile and transcription of the contents of the stitched pocket sketchbook started by the fifty-year-old master during the summer of 1820.
At the time, Beethoven labored over the Missa solemnis , Opus 123.
The sketchbook's pages yield the entire record of his early ideas on the Agnus Dei of that work as well as a sketch for part of the Benedictus.
Patrizia Metzler and Fred Stoltzfus decipher the quirks of the composer's workshopping--the infamous penmanship, multiple generations of pencil and ink marks, and omitted notation--and wrestle with the legibility issues inherent in the task of dealing with aged documents.
Their commentary completes a fruitful scholarly journey and provides context for experts, musicians, and anyone else interested in this fraught period of Beethoven's creative life.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:144 pages, 78 color photographs, 8 black and white photographs, 8 music examples, 1 table
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:18/03/2016
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- ISBN:9780252039706
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:144 pages, 78 color photographs, 8 black and white photographs, 8 music examples, 1 table
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:18/03/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9780252039706