Beethoven Forum articles from March 22 2002

Beethoven Forum archives from March 22 2002

Editor's note.
March 22, 2002... With its ninth volume, Beethoven Forum has moved to a new publisher, the University of Illinois Press, and appears in a new format as a semiannual journal, Spring and Fall. In making these changes, we are pleased to offer a more timely forum...

Abbreviations.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Abbreviations Literature Anderson Emily Anderson, ed., The Letters of Beethoven, 3 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1961; rpt. New York: Norton, 1985). Brandenburg ...

"Deine Zauber binden wieder": Beethoven, Schiller, and the joyous reconciliation of opposites.
March 22, 2002... "Zounds! I was never so bethump'd with words." Philip the Bastard's declaration, from act II of King John, might well serve as the epithet for any number of critical commentaries on the Choral Finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Since the...

Harmonic categories and motivic-thematic invention in Beethoven's "Appassionata" Sonata.
March 22, 2002... " Understanding Beethoven," as Theodor W. Adorno reminds us, "means understanding tonality." (1) The context of Adorno's assertion is philosophical and sociological; my intentions here are far more modest, limited primarily to technical and...

Performance, history, and aesthetics: a call for reviews.(Editorial)
March 22, 2002... Musical scholarship has its roots in performance. Our discipline originated in the quest to decipher older notational systems and to correct errors in printed editions; while we often study the printed text, the creation of new sounding texts...

Recent writings on Beethoven's late quartets *.
March 22, 2002... Even in our current age of artistic fragmentation and intellectual instability, Beethoven's last quartets remain a lofty testament to completeness and fulfillment that is felt by musicians and laymen alike. As the last of all his works they...

"Whose Beethoven?".(Beethoven)
March 22, 2002... William Kinderman. Beethoven. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995. xvi, 374 pp. William Kinderman opens his book Beethoven with a claim for the centrality of Beethoven to Western music: "No composer occupies a...

Moonlight reflections.(Beethoven: The "Moonlight" and Other Sonatas, Op.27 and Op.31)
March 22, 2002... Timothy Jones. Beethoven: The "Moonlight" and Other Sonatas, Op.27 and Op.31. Cambridge Music Handbooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.xii, 146 pp. Everyone always talks about the C[sharp] minor Sonata!" (p.ix). So opens...

Beethoven's concertos as show and text.(Beethoven's Concertos: History, Style, Performance)
March 22, 2002... Leon Plantinga. Beethoven's Concertos: History, Style, Performance. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. xi, 384 pp. plus booklet of music examples. $49.95. Music of the Western tradition can be thought of in two contrasting ways: either as a...