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Series |
Hundred years series Hundred years series. ^A643236
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Contents |
After Beethoven. Music in the eighteen-thirties ; Romantic music: its spirit and forms ; Romantic music: its texture and style ; The neo-classical reaction: choral and chamber music of the period -- Wagner and the opera. Opera in the 'thirties and 'forties ; Wagner and the music-drama ; Wagner the musician ; Music in the eighteen-sixties -- After Wagner. Early nationalist schools ; Brahms and the great instrumental tradition ; The progress of non-wagnerian opera ; Music in the eighteen-nineties ; The heritage of Liszt and Wagner -- The music of yesterday and to-day. The reaction against romanticism: impressionism ; Later nationalist tendencies ; Music in the nineteen-twenties ; Post-war tendencies: neo-classicism and twelve-tone system. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-363). |