The School of Musical Composition, Practical and Theoretical: With Additional Notes and a Special Preface for the English Edition
The influential music theorist and composer Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795–1866) spent much of his career as a professor of music in Berlin and was a friend and mentor of Mendelssohn. He believed music should be part of everyone's general education and lobbied the Prussian government for a comprehensive national scheme for musical education. His compositions included many songs and choral works now largely forgotten, with the exception of the 1841 oratorio Mose. Among his publications is Gluck und die Oper (1863) which is reissued in this series in both the German original and English translation. His most famous and influential work, Die Lehre von der musikalischen Komposition, was intended for the students of the University of Berlin, setting out in simple terms the principles of music theory and composition for the untrained. This English translation, of only the first volume of the fourth edition, was published in 1852.
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The School of Musical Composition, Practical and Theoretical: With Additional Notes and a Special Preface for the English Edition
The influential music theorist and composer Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795–1866) spent much of his career as a professor of music in Berlin and was a friend and mentor of Mendelssohn. He believed music should be part of everyone's general education and lobbied the Prussian government for a comprehensive national scheme for musical education. His compositions included many songs and choral works now largely forgotten, with the exception of the 1841 oratorio Mose. Among his publications is Gluck und die Oper (1863) which is reissued in this series in both the German original and English translation. His most famous and influential work, Die Lehre von der musikalischen Komposition, was intended for the students of the University of Berlin, setting out in simple terms the principles of music theory and composition for the untrained. This English translation, of only the first volume of the fourth edition, was published in 1852.
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The School of Musical Composition, Practical and Theoretical: With Additional Notes and a Special Preface for the English Edition

The School of Musical Composition, Practical and Theoretical: With Additional Notes and a Special Preface for the English Edition

The School of Musical Composition, Practical and Theoretical: With Additional Notes and a Special Preface for the English Edition

The School of Musical Composition, Practical and Theoretical: With Additional Notes and a Special Preface for the English Edition

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The influential music theorist and composer Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795–1866) spent much of his career as a professor of music in Berlin and was a friend and mentor of Mendelssohn. He believed music should be part of everyone's general education and lobbied the Prussian government for a comprehensive national scheme for musical education. His compositions included many songs and choral works now largely forgotten, with the exception of the 1841 oratorio Mose. Among his publications is Gluck und die Oper (1863) which is reissued in this series in both the German original and English translation. His most famous and influential work, Die Lehre von der musikalischen Komposition, was intended for the students of the University of Berlin, setting out in simple terms the principles of music theory and composition for the untrained. This English translation, of only the first volume of the fourth edition, was published in 1852.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108063999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 04/17/2014
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Music
Pages: 572
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 1.14(d)

Table of Contents

Translator's preface; Preface; From the preface to the first edition; Preface to the fourth edition; Introduction; 1. The doctrine of elementary composition; 2. The accompaniment of given melodies; Appendix; Musical appendix; General index.
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