Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto

Tina K. Ramnarine (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-061154-5 (ISBN)

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Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto is the story of Sibelius as performer and composer, of violin performing traditions, of histories of musical transmission, and of virtuosity itself. It investigates the history and legacy of one of the most recorded concertos in the violin repertoire. Sibelius, a celebrated and influential composer of the late 19th and 20th centuries, was an accomplished violinist, whose enduring interest in the instrument has been paralleled by the broad success of the only concerto in his oeuvre: his violin concerto (premiered in 1904 and revised in 1905).

Considering how violinists engage with the work, author Tina K. Ramnarine discusses technology's central role in the concerto's transmission from Jascha Heifetz's seminal 1935 recording to contemporary online performances, gender issues in violin solo careers, and nature-based musical aesthetics that lead to thinking about the ecology of virtuosity in an era of environmental crisis. Beginning with Sibelius's early training as a violinist and his aspirations as a performer, Ramnarine traces the dramatic historical context of the violin concerto. It was composed as Finland underwent a period of heightened self-determination, nationalism, and protest against Russian imperial policies, and it heralded intense political dynamics relating to Europe's East-West border that have extended to the present. This story of the violin concerto points to the notion of Sibelius - and the virtuoso more generally - as a political figure.

Tina K. Ramnarine is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. Following a career as an orchestral violinist she has held academic appointments in music and anthropology. Her books include Ilmatar's Inspirations: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Changing Soundscapes of Finnish Folk Music (Chicago University Press, 2003) and Global Perspectives on Orchestras: Collective Creativity and Social Agency (Oxford University Press, 2018).

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Part 1:
Chapter 1: Sibelius as Violinist and Composer
Chapter 2: Helsinki's Musical Life (1880 - 1905): a context for Sibelius's Violin Concerto
Chapter 3: Composing the Violin Concerto

Part 2:
Chapter 4: Regional and Transnational Traditions of Violin Playing
Chapter 5: The Violin Concerto on Record
Chapter 6: Legacies

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Erscheinungsdatum	12.06.2020
Reihe/Serie	The Oxford Keynotes Series
Zusatzinfo	10 photographs; 6 music examples
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	206 x 137 mm
Gewicht	181 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
ISBN-10	0-19-061154-5 / 0190611545
ISBN-13	978-0-19-061154-5 / 9780190611545
Zustand	Neuware