| Series |
Western music in context : a Norton history
Western music in context. ^A1192164
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| Contents |
Nineteenth-century music and its contexts. Around 1815 ; The final decade of the century ; From 1815 to the 1890s ; The "Tristan" chord -- The romantic imagination. The reaction against classicism ; Romantic longing ; Music in the romantic imagination ; The religion of art ; Fantasy versus reality ; Romantic irony ; Romanticism and nationalism -- Music and the age of Metternich. The congress of Vienna ; Biedermeier culture ; Ludwig van Beethoven ; Franz Schubert ; Virtuosity, virtuosos -- The opera industry. Italian opera ; French opera ; German opera ; Russian opera -- Making music matter. Criticism and performance ; Music journalism ; Civic engagement: the case of Felix Mendelssohn ; Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and the musical salon ; Clara Wieck Schumann and the keyboard -- Making music speak. Program music and the character piece ; Absolute and program music ; Romantic piano music: the character piece ; Robert Schumann and the Lied -- Beyond romanticism. The revolutions of 1848 ; Anti-romanticism and pessimism ; Ideal versus materialism ; Realism ; Historicism ; Nationalism -- Richard Wagner and Wagnerism. Wagner's early life and career ; Wagner's theories of operatic reform ; The Wagnerian artwork of the future ; Wagner's mature operas ; Wagner's nationalism and anti-semitism ; Wagnerism -- Verdi, operetta, and popular appeal. Giuseppe Verdi ; Operetta ; French opera -- Concert culture and the "great" symphony. Concert culture ; The great symphony in later nineteenth century ; Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner in Vienna ; Concert culture in France ; Russian concert culture and Tchaikovsky's Sixth (Pathétique) Symphony -- Musical life and identity in the United States. Federal Boston ; Spanish colonial America ; New Orleans and Louis Moreau Gottschalk ; Stephen Foster and American popular song ; America at the opera ; Classical music in the cities -- The fin de siècle and the emergence of modernism. Connections and contradictions ; Strauss, Mahler, and the modern world ; Italian Verismo in opera ; Color and sonority: Claude Debussy -- The sound of nineteenth-century music. Pianos ; Chopin at the keyboard ; The romantic tenor ; Orchestras in the nineteenth century ; Instrumental color: the case of the brass ; Three works, three recordings. |
| Abstract |
This book examines the period from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the advent of modernism in the 1890s. The author traces a complex web of relationships involving composers, performers, publishers, notated scores, oral traditions, audiences, institutions, cities, and nations. The book's central themes include middle-class involvement in music, the rich but elusive concept of Romanticism, the cult of virtuosity, and the ever-changing balance between musical and commercial interests. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (page 253) and index. |
| LCCN | 2012028569 |
| ISBN | 9780393929195 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0393929191 (pbk.) |
