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1 online resource |
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Cambridge elements. Elements in music and musicians 1750-1850 |
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Cambridge elements. Elements in music and musicians 1750-1850.
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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Mendelssohn and the Genesis of the Protestant A Cappella Movement -- Contents -- 1 Back to the Future: Mendelssohn, Berlin, and the Protestant A Cappella Movement -- 1.1 A Need for Musical Reforms -- 1.2 Director of Prussian Church Music: It's Complicated -- 1.2.1 Music and Politics: Reform by Committee -- 1.2.2 Politics and Music: The Questionable Value of Occasional Works -- 1.2.3 A Brief Stint with a Lasting Legacy -- 2 Mendelssohn's Concept of Church Music -- 3 An Inauspicious Start: Music for Christmas 1843 |
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4 Ideals Proposed: Music for New Year's Day 1844 -- 5 Ideals Compromised: Music for Epiphany and Lent 1844 -- 6 New Ideals Conceptualized: Preparing for Departure -- 7 Mendelssohn's Lasting Legacy -- 7.1 The Berlin Cathedral Choir -- 7.2 The Liturgy and Its Repertoire -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
Drawing on his experiences in Berlin under Schleiermacher and his travels to the Vatican, Mendelssohn, as the Director of Prussian Church Music, wanted to offer an edifying worship experience where large-scale choral works would become an indispensable part of the liturgy, which he saw as a performative or representational act, centered around the life of Christ. Yet he quickly realized that the court and clergy were not interested in his foundational concepts; they merely wanted reforms based on the restauration ideals espoused by Winterfeld and Thibaut. Analyses of his 25 Domchor compositions and their revisions in this Element chronicle Mendelssohn's stylistic development and his ability to continue to offer a Christological worship experience within strictly prescribed parameters. The Berlin Domchor and its new repertoire by Mendelssohn and contemporaneous composers quickly became the model for the emerging a cappella movement throughout Protestant Germany |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 16, 2023) |
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Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847
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Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847 |
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Choral music.
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Choruses, Sacred, Unaccompanied -- History and criticism
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Choral music
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Choruses, Sacred, Unaccompanied
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781009119610 |
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1009119613 |
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