California Studies in 19th-Century Music – serie
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Between Romanticism and Modernism
Four Studies in the Music of the Later Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 1989
246 kr
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Carl Dahlhaus here treats Nietzsche's youthful analysis of the contradictions in Wagner's doctrine (and, more generally, in romantic musical aesthetics); the question of periodicization in romantic and neo-romantic music; the underlying kinship between Brahms' and Wagner's responses to the central …
Brahms and the Principle of Developing Variation
Häftad, 1990
290 kr
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In this analytical study of eighteen important works by Brahms, Walter Frisch makes skillful use of Schoenberg's provocative concept of 'developing variation'. Frisch traces a genuine evolution through Brahms' compositions; he considers their relationship not only to each other, but also to …
Nineteenth-Century Music
Häftad, 1991
417 kr
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This magnificent survey of the most popular period in music history is an extended essay embracing music, aesthetics, social history, and politics, by one of the keenest minds writing on music in the world today. Dahlhaus organizes his book around 'watershed' years - for example, 1830, the year of …
Music as Cultural Practice, 1800-1900
Häftad, 1993
412 kr
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In Music as Cultural Practice, Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the nineteenth century collaborates on equal terms …
Decadent Enchantments
The Revival of Gregorian Chant at Solesmes
Inbunden, 1998
520 kr
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The oldest written tradition of European music, the art we know as Gregorian chant, is seen from an entirely new perspective in Katherine Bergeron's engaging and literate study. Bergeron traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at …
Returning Cycles
Contexts for the Interpretation of Schubert's Impromptus and Last Sonatas
Av Charles Fisk
Inbunden, 2001
617 kr
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This compelling investigation of the later music of Franz Schubert explores the rich terrain of Schubert's impromptus and last piano sonatas. Drawing on the relationships between these pieces and Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, his earlier "Der Wanderer," the closely related "Unfinished" …
Music in Other Words
Victorian Conversations
Inbunden, 2004
1058 kr
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Just as the preoccupations of any given cultural moment make their way into the language of music, the experience of music makes its way into other arenas of life. To unearth these overlapping meanings and vocabularies from the Victorian era, Ruth A. Solie examines sources as disparate as …
Beethoven after Napoleon
Political Romanticism in the Late Works
Inbunden, 2004
1058 kr
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In this provocative analysis of Beethoven's late style, Stephen Rumph demonstrates how deeply political events shaped the composer's music, from his early enthusiasm for the French Revolution to his later entrenchment during the Napoleonic era. Impressive in its breadth of research as well as for …
Mimomania
Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera
Häftad, 2004
412 kr
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When Nietzsche dubbed Richard Wagner 'the most enthusiastic mimomaniac' ever to exist, he was objecting to a hollowness he felt in the music, a crowding out of any true dramatic impulse by extravagant poses and constant nervous movements. Mary Ann Smart suspects that Nietzsche may have seen and …
