Nineteenth-Century Music: The Western Classical Tradition
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ISBN: 0139271791 / Publisher: Pearson, September 2001
Finson (music, U. of North Carolina) provides a guide to the basic literature of European art music from which the majority of repertory in modern concert halls and opera theaters is drawn. Exploring the standard works by such composers as Beethoven, Schubert, Rossini, Schumann, and others, he traces the various artistic threads woven through Western music between 1800 and 1900. Detailed schematic tables provide a guide to examination of the musical scores or as roadmaps to listening, and the text offers relevant biographical background on the composers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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This up-to-date view of nineteenth-century classical music places a strong emphasis on the history of opera and on schematic representations of musical structure and form. The book presents a highly concise survey of nineteenth-century music tailored for the increasingly limited amount of time available to readers for the study of any one period, and focuses specifically on the central repertory heard today in the concert hall and at the opera house. The volume provides an overview and background information on nineteenth-century music including the Viennese ascendancy, musical drama in the first part of the nineteenth century, the styling of the avant-garde, operatic development from mid century, the life of the concert hall after mid century, the diversity of nationalism and the new language at century's end. For musicians and music lovers interested in an introduction to classical music.
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