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Chamber music : an essential history /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Radice, Mark A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012.
Subjects:
Chamber music > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The nature of early chamber music
  • The crystallization of genres during the golden age of chamber music
  • Classical chamber music with wind instruments
  • The chamber music of Beethoven
  • The emergence of the wind quintet
  • Schubert and musical aesthetics of the early Romantic era
  • Prince Louis Ferdinand and Louis Spohr
  • Champions of tradition: Mendelssohn, Schumann,and Brahms
  • Nationalism in French chamber music of the late Romantic era: Franck, Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, and Ravel
  • National schools from the time of Smetana to the mid-twentieth century
  • Nationalism and tradition: Schoenberg and the Austro-German avant-garde
  • The continuation of tonality in the twentieth century
  • Strictly confidential: the chamber music of Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Two fugitives from the Soviet Bloc: György Ligeti and Karel Husa
  • Benchmarks: chamber music masterpieces since circa 1920.