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.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| 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.