Music of the romantic period / Johannes Riedel.
| Author/creator | Riedel, Johannes |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Dubuque, Iowa : WM. C. Brown Company, 1969. |
| Description | x, 133 pages : illustrations, music, portraits ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | The Brown music horizons series Brown music horizons series. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Part I. Overview of the nineteenth century. Introduction: the social order and music. Expansion and the nineteenth century. The expanded musical audiences ; The Romantic concept ; The composer and society ; Use of folk material -- Musical materials of the Romantic period. Harmony and key areas ; Chromaticism and enharmonicism ; Orchestration in the eighteenth century ; Romantic orchestration. Mendelssohn ; Berlioz ; Wagner ; Rimsky-Korsakov -- |
| Contents | Part II. Musical forms. The sonata form. Beethoven and Brahms compared: Beethoven ; Brahms -- The art song: Schubert. Historical background ; Music, poetry, and the Lied ; Schubert's melodic gift ; Schubert's Lied forms ; The balance of voice and accompaniment -- The overture: Mendelssohn. The overture of the Romantic era ; Mendelssohn's melodicism ; The Hebrides Overture -- The opera: Weber. The rise of German national opera ; Weber ; Der Freischutz -- |
| Contents | Part III. Music, literature, and the arts. The poetic imagination: Schumann. Schumann, music critic ; Piano music ; Vocal music ; Schumann's scenes from Faust ; The symphonies -- The idee fixe: Berlioz. The image of Berlioz ; The "isolation of man" theme ; Melody ; Sacred music ; The Symphonie Fantastique ; The idee fixe ; The coloristic orchestra -- The symphonic poem: Liszt. Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words (Lieder ohne Worte) ; Program music with text mottos ; Liszt's piano music with descriptive titles ; Liszt's piano transcriptions ; Pianistic effects in Liszt's orchestral scores ; The piano sonata in B minor ; Liszt's symphonic poems -- The music drama: Wagner. Wagner's literary writings ; Opera and drama (1851) ; The Leitmotive ; Wagner and the libretto ; Wagner as innovator in symphony instruments ; Wagner and coloristic orchestration ; Wagner's orchestration as a part of his compositional technique -- |
| Contents | Part IV. Music of various nations. Italy. Nineteenth-century Italian opera ; Various influences on opera writing ; Rossini ; Bellini and Donizetti ; Verdi -- France. Foreign influences. Weber and Beethoven ; Rossini and Meyerbeer ; Wagner and Offenbach -- After 1870: the French Renaissance. National influences: Neoclassicism ; National influences: use of folklorical materials ; National influences: the Poetes Parnassiens and other Artists ; The materialism of Grand Opera ; Concern for French composers and performers -- In summary: two attitudes toward music -- Russia. Historical periods in Russian music. Russia's musical self-containment (-1600) ; Contact with Western music as imposed by the Tsars (1600-1750) ; Impact of Western music on Russian music as a whole (1750-1800) ; Russia's own ballet and art song (1800-1850) -- The mainstay of musical nationalism, "The Mighty Five," team of composers (1850-1900). Borodin: assimilation of Western Classicism and the folk music of greater Russia ; Rimsky-Korsakov: toward a modern Western sound ; Mussorgsky: ethnocentricism and social conscience in music -- Tchaikovsky: synthesis of West and East, Byron and Pushkin -- Czechoslovakia. Smetana and Dvorak. Czech middle-class music. Viennese musical dialect ; Mozart ; Smetana. Smetana and Mozart ; Smetana and the Czech dance ; Smetana and Czech nationalism -- Dvorak. Dvorak, the Spielmann (the player-composer) ; Dvorak, the symphonist -- Poland: Chopin. Polish elements. The Polonaise ; The Waltz ; The Mazurka ; Other Polish elements -- Chopin and Mozart ; Chopin's Zal ; Chopin and France ; Chopin and Bel Canto. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-128) and index. |
| LCCN | 69012431 |
| ISBN | 0697034054 |
| ISBN | 9780697034052 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML196 .R54 1969 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |