| Series |
The Oxford keynotes series
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| Contents |
Sibelius as violinist and composer -- Musical life in Helsinki (1880-1905) : A context for Sibelius's Violin concerto -- Composing the Violin concerto -- Regional and transnational traditions of violin playing -- The Violin concerto on record -- Legacies. |
| Abstract |
"This book highlights the unique insights the violin concerto offers into Jean Sibelius's musical imagination, violin virtuosity and connections between violin-playing traditions. It discusses the concerto's cultural contexts, performers who are connected with its early history, and recordings of the work. Beginning with Sibelius's early training as a violinist and his aspirations to be a virtuoso player, Tina K. Ramnarine traces the composition of the concerto at a dramatic political moment in Finnish history. This concerto was composed when Finland, as an autonomous Grand Duchy within the Russian empire, was going through a period of intense self-determination and protest against Russian imperial policies. Taking the concerto's historical context into consideration leads to a new paradigm of the virtuoso as a political rather than magical figure. The book explores this paradigm by analyzing 20th-century violin virtuosity in terms of labor, recording technology, and gender politics, especially the new possibilities for women aiming to develop musical careers. Ultimately, the book moves away from the political context of the concerto and a reading of the virtuoso as a political figure to reveal how Sibelius's musical imagination prompts thinking about the long ecological histories of musical transmission and virtuosity"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020936082 |
| ISBN | 9780190611538 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780190611545 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
