Romanticism (1830-1890) / edited by Gerald Abraham.

Other author Abraham, Gerald, 1904-1988.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 1990.
Descriptionxx, 935 pages : music ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Romanticism in music.
Music--19th century. --History and criticism.

SeriesNew Oxford history of music ; v. 9
New Oxford history of music ; v. 9. ^A159522
Contents New tendencies in orchestral music: 1830-1850 / by Gerald Abraham. The concert overture ; Mendelssohn's overtures ; Mendelssohn's followers ; Berlioz's overtures ; Wagner's early overtures ; Schumann's overtures ; Incidental music ; Glinka ; Mendelssohn's symphonies ; Berlioz's symphonies ; The French Ode-symphonie ; Spohr ; Minor symphonic composers ; Schumann as symphonist ; Problems of the Romantic concerto ; Enlargement of the orchestral palette ; Berlioz and the Romantic orchestra -- Chamber music: 1830-1850 / by John Horton. Amateur and professional players ; Chamber music in France ; Conditions in England ; Combinations of strings and wind ; Schumann's chamber music ; Duet sonatas ; The piano trio ; Scandinavian chamber music ; Chamber music for strings by Mendelssohn and Spohr ; The period in perspective -- Romantic opera: 1830-1850. Grand opéra / by David Charlton. Staging and costume ; Auber's La Muette de Portici ; External traits ; A new design element ; Internal musical traits ; Meyerbeer's Robert le diable ; Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots ; Auber's Gustave III, ou le bal masqué ; Halévy's La Juive ; Halévy's Guido et Ginevra ; Halévy's La Reine de Chypre ; Halévy's Charles VI ; Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini ; Donizetti in Paris ; Meyerbeer's Le Prophète -- Opéra comique / by David Charlton. The composers and librettists ; Auber ; Halévy ; Adam ; Thomas ; Orchestration -- Italy / by David Kimbell. Italian Romanticism: art and politics ; The place of opera in Italian society ; Dramatic and musical principles ; Reappraisal ; Donizetti's mature operas: general characteristics ; Donizetti as musician and craftsman ; Mercadante's reform operas ; The inspiration of extra-musical ideas: politics ; The inspiration of extra-musical ideas: literature ; Hugo and Verdi ; Shakespeare and Verdi ; Schiller and Verdi ; Lesser masters ; The decline of Opera buffa ; The performance of Italian Romantic opera ; The appreciation of opera -- Germany / by Siegfried Goslich. Stage and composer ; The theatre conductors ; The leading masters ; Lortzing ; Mendelssohn and Nicolai ; Schumann ; Flotow ; Wagner ; Librettists ; The fate of the 'number opera' ; The overture ; The Lied ; The romanze ; Ballade, cavatina, and preghiera ; The aria ; Ensemble and chorus ; Scene composition -- Russia and Eastern Europe / by Gerald Abraham. Russia ; Verstovsky ; Glinka ; Dargomizhsky ; Poland ; Non-German opera in the Habsburg Empire -- Britain and the United States / by Nicholas Temperley. Bishop ; Barnett and Loder ; Balfe ; Wallace ; The United States -- Romantic piano music: 1830-1850 / by Willi Kahl. The piano of the 1830s ; The crisis of the sonata ; Schumann's sonatas ; Schumann's C major Phantasie [Fantasie] ; Schumann and the variation principle ; Liszt ; Chopin ; Other sonata composers ; Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte ; The Slav lands -- Wagner's later stage works / by Arnold Whittall. Life and works ; Theories ; Compositional procedures ; Tonality ; Der Ring des Nibelungen ; Das Rheingold ; Die Walküre ; Siegfried (1) ; Tristan und Isolde ; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ; Siegfried (2) ; Götterdämmerung ; Parsifal ; Wagner's heritage --
Contents Opera: 1850-1890. Germany / by Gerald Abraham. Cornelius ; Goetz ; Goldmark, Bruch, and Rubinstein -- France / by David Charlton. The 1850s and 1860s ; Opéra comique to 1862 ; Meyerbeer's opéras comiques ; Offenbach and operetta ; Gounod's minor works ; Berlioz's Béatrice et Bénédict ; Berlioz's Les Troyens ; Gounod's genius revealed ; Faust ; Gounod's later works ; Meyerbeer's L'Africaine ; Verdi in Paris ; 'Heightened lyrical speech' ; Thomas's later works ; Bizet's youthful works ; Bizet's style ; Les Pecheurs de perles ; La Jolie Fille de Perth ; Djamileh ; Carmen ; The 1870s and 1880s ; Saint-Saens ; Massenet ; Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann ; Lalo ; Delibes ; Reyer ; Chabrier -- Italy / by Julian Budden. The later tragic operas of Mercadante and Pacini ; Opera buffa and semiseria ; The middle generation: Petrella, Pedrotti, and Cagnoni ; Reform from the North: Faccio and Boito ; The Verdian synthesis ; Italian 'grand opera' ; The later Verdi ; Otello and Falstaff ; The conservatives: Ponchielli and Gomes ; The radical element: Catalani and Franchetti ; Towards verismo -- Russia and Eastern Europe / by Gerald Abraham. Russia ; Serov ; The new generation ; Borodin's Prince Igor ; Mussorgsky ; Rimsky-Korsakov ; Tchaikovsky ; Poland and Moniuszko ; Moniuszko's later operas ; Moniuszko's successors ; Czechoslovakia ; Smetana ; Smetana's contemporaries ; Dvořák ; Fibich and Kovařovic ; Hungary -- Britain and the United States / by Nicholas Temperley. British opera ; Macfarren ; Later Romantic operas ; Comic opera ; Sullivan ; The Savoy operas in the United States ; American operetta and opera ; Incidental music -- The symphonic poem and kindred forms / by Gerald Abraham. Liszt's overture poems ; Liszt's earlier disciples ; Liszt's Symphonische Dichtungen ; Liszt's influence in Russia ; Tchaikovsky ; 'Musical pictures' ; The symphonic poem in Germany ; English progressives ; The symphonic poem in France ; Franck and his circle ; Smetana and Dvořák ; The Wagnerian legacy -- Major instrumental forms: 1850-1890 / by Robert Pascall. Historical perspectives ; Programmaticism ; Nationalism ; Brahms and the piano sonata ; Liszt and the sonata ; Brahms's piano variations ; Piano variations by Brahms's contemporaries ; German organ music ; French innovations ; The suite ; The re-emergence of the suite in mid-century ; The suite in the 1880s ; The extract suite ; The serenade ; Varied conceptions of the symphony ; Stylistic characteristics ; Programme symphonies of the 1850s: Schumann, Liszt ; Raff's programme symphonies ; Revitalization of Classical forms: Bruckner ; Brahms's symphonies ; The symphonies of Strauss and Mahler ; The symphony in Russia ; Tchaikovsky's symphonies ; The symphony in France ; Dvořák's symphonies ; The concerto ; Variations for soloist and orchestra ; Chamber music ; Chamber music in Germany and Austria ; Brahms's chamber works ; Further contemporaries of Brahms ; Russian chamber music ; French chamber music ; Smetana's chamber works ; Dvořák's chamber works -- Solo song. Germany / by Leslie Orrey. Schumann ; The 1840 songs ; Schumann's later songs ; Mendelssohn ; Liszt ; Franz ; Wagner, Cornelius, and Jensen ; Brahms ; Brahms and the Volkslied ; Mahler ; Strauss ; Wolf ; Conclusion -- France / by David Tunley. The Romance ; Romance and mélodie ; The 1830s ; The mid-century ; New directions ; The perfection of mélodie ; The last decade -- Russia / by Edward Garden. Glinka and Dargomizhsky ; Balakirev and Cui ; Rimsky-Korsakov ; Tchaikovsky ; Borodin ; Mussorgsky ; Rubinstein -- Poland / by Rosemary Hunt. Chopin ; Moniuszko ; Zeleński ; Later nineteenth-century composers -- Czechoslovakia / by John Clapham. The Czech Renaissance ; Poetic sources ; Bendl ; Smetana ; Fibich ; Dvořák -- Scandinavia / by John Horton. Denmark ; Sweden ; Finland ; Norway ; Grieg -- Britain and the United States / by Nicholas Temperley. German influence ; Sterndale Bennett ; Pierson ; Sullivan ; Women composers ; Art-song in America ; Macdowell ; Art-song in the English tradition ; Indigenous song in the United States ; The 'sacred song' ; Parry and Stanford -- Choral music / by Gerald Abraham. Mendelssohn ; Schumann ; Berlioz ; Berlioz's contemporaries ; Liszt ; Bruckner ; Brahms ; Dvořák ; Verdi ; France after 1870 ; Poland ; Russia ; Spain ; Britain ; United States.
Abstract Provides a comprehensive overview of this most diverse of musical periods "the Romantic", sixty years between these two dates which harvested an astonishingly rich crop of great music, much of which has entered the standard instrumental, orchestral, and operatic repertoire. It gives due weight to the masterpieces of the period, but also reassesses lesser known works and placing them firmly in their historical perspective.
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Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 831-904) and index.
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