Series |
Prentice-Hall history of music series. Prentice-Hall history of music series. ^A256410
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Contents |
Romanticism and music. Can Romanticism be defined? ; Romantic writers and music ; The end of Romanticism -- Romantic musical elements. Elements of Romantic musical style ; The continuity of Romanticism in music -- Form in Romantic music. Romantic instrumental forms ; Romantic vocal forms -- Beethoven and his predecessors. Precursors of Romanticism ; Ludwig van Beethoven: his apprenticeship ; Influences on Beethoven's first period ; Beethoven's first period ; Beethoven's second period ; Beethoven's final period ; Beethoven's legacy -- Beethoven's contemporaries. Jan Ladislas Dussek ; Johann Nepomuk Hummel ; Louis Spohr ; Carl Maria von Weber ; Franz Schubert ; Lesser composers, mostly pianists -- The German Romantic efflorescence. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy ; Robert Schumann ; The German Romantic legacy -- Italian and French Romanticism. Italian opera, 1813-1853 ; French operatic genres ; Fryderyk Chopin ; Hector Berlioz -- The music of the future. Ferenc Liszt ; Richard Wagner ; Other composers -- The rebirth of absolute music. Neoclassicism in nineteenth-century music ; Anton Bruckner ; Johannes Brahms ; The "French musical renaissance" -- Nineteenth-century nationalism in music. Russia ; Bohemia ; Scandinavia ; Hungary ; England ; United States -- The twilight of Romanticism. Italian opera after La Traviata ; Central Europe ; France -- Nineteenth-century musical Romanticism and its audience. Sociology of musical Romanticism ; Romantic performance practice. |
Abstract |
Though this volume has been substantially expanded from its original form, it is still a survey rather than a comprehensive history of nineteenth-century music; approximately 150 composers are discussed in this study. |
Local note | Little-100297 - $6.60 |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
LCCN | 72003962 |
ISBN | 0136226701 |
ISBN | 0136226477 (pbk.) |