Music in the nineteenth century /

A survey of the traditions of western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, this book illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taruskin, Richard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Oxford history of western music ; v. 3.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Real worlds, and better ones
  • The music trance
  • Volkstümlichkeit
  • Nations, states, and peoples
  • Virtuosos
  • Critics
  • Self and other
  • Midcentury
  • Slavs as subjects and citizens
  • Deeds of music made visible (Class of 1813, I)
  • Artist, politician, farmer (Class of 1813, II)
  • Cutting things down to size
  • The return of the symphony
  • The symphony goes (inter)national.