Nineteenth Century Music

Author : Carl Dahlhaus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520076443

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Nineteenth-Century Music by Carl Dahlhaus Pdf

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 the July Revolution in France, and around which coalesce the "demise of the age of art" proclaimed by Heine, the musical consequences of the deaths of Beethoven and Schubert, the simultaneous and dramatic appearance of Chopin and Liszt, Berlioz and Meyerbeer, and Schumann and Mendelssohn. But he keeps us constantly on guard against generalization and clich . Cherished concepts like Romanticism, tradition, nationalism vs. universality, the musical culture of the bourgeoisie, are put to pointed reevaluation. Always demonstrating the interest in socio-historical influences that is the hallmark of his work, Dahlhaus reminds us of the contradictions, interrelationships, psychological nuances, and riches of musical character and musical life. Nineteenth-Century Music contains 90 illustrations, the collected captions of which come close to providing a summary of the work and the author's methods. Technical language is kept to a minimum, but while remaining accessible, Dahlhaus challenges, braces, and excites. This is a landmark study that no one seriously interested in music and nineteenth-century European culture will be able to ignore.

Author : Jim Samson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521590175

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The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music by Jim Samson Pdf

The most informed reference book on nineteenth-century music currently available, this comprehensive overview of music in the nineteenth century draws on the most recent scholarship in the field. Essays investigate the intellectual and socio-political history of the time, and examine topics such as nations and nationalism, the emergent concept of an avant garde, and musical styles and languages at the turn of the century. It contains a detailed chronology, and extensive glossaries.

Author : Walter Frisch
Publisher : Western Music in Context: A No
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393929191

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Music in the Nineteenth Century by Walter Frisch Pdf

Nineteenth-century music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts. Music in the Nineteenth Century examines the period from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the advent of Modernism in the 1890s. Frisch traces a complex web of relationships involving composers, performers, publishers, notated scores, oral traditions, audiences, institutions, cities, and nations. The book's central themes include middle-class involvement in music, the rich but elusive concept of Romanticism, the cult of virtuosity, and the ever-changing balance between musical and commercial interests. The final chapter considers the sound world of nineteenth-century music as captured by contemporary witnesses and early recordings. Western Music in Context: A Norton History comprises six volumes of moderate length, each written in an engaging style by a recognized expert. Authoritative and current, the series examines music in the broadest sense--as sounds notated, performed, and heard--focusing not only on composers and works, but also on broader social and intellectual currents.

Author : Stephen Hefling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135887629

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Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music by Stephen Hefling Pdf

Nineteenth Century Chamber Music proceeds chronologically by composer, beginning with the majestic works of Beethoven, and continuing through Schubert, Spohr and Weber, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, the French composers, Smetana and Dvorák, and the end-of-the-century pre-modernists. Each chapter is written by a noted authority in the field. The book serves as a general introduction to Romantic chamber music, and would be ideal for a seminar course on the subject or as an adjunct text for Introduction to Romantic Music courses. Plus, musicologists and students of 19th century music will find this to be an invaluable resource.

Author : Bennett Zon
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1409403351

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Nineteenth-Century Music Review by Bennett Zon Pdf

Aims to locate music within the framework of intellectual activity pertaining to the long nineteenth century (c 1789-1914). This title focuses on the interdisciplinary scholarship that explores music within the context of other artistic and scientific discourses.

Author : Donna M. Di Grazia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136294099

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Nineteenth-Century Choral Music by Donna M. Di Grazia Pdf

Nineteenth-Century Choral Music is an in-depth examination of the rich repertoire of choral music and the cultural phenomenon of choral music making throughout the period. The book is divided into three main sections. The first details the attraction to choral singing and the ways it was linked to different parts of society, and to the role of choral voices in the two principal large-scale genres of the period: the symphony and opera. A second section highlights ten choral-orchestral masterworks that are a central part of the repertoire. The final section presents overview and focus chapters covering composers, repertoire (both small and larger works), and performance life in an historical context from over a dozen regions of the world: Britain and Ireland, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latin America, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia and Finland, Spain, and the United States. This diverse collection of essays brings together the work of 25 authors, many of whom have devoted much of their scholarly lives to the composers and music discussed, giving the reader a lively and unique perspective on this significant part of nineteenth-century musical life.

Author : Jon W. Finson
Publisher : Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110411860

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Nineteenth-century Music by Jon W. Finson Pdf

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.

Author : Carl Dahlhaus,Former Professor of Music Carl Dahlhaus
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1985-06-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521261155

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Realism in Nineteenth-Century Music by Carl Dahlhaus,Former Professor of Music Carl Dahlhaus Pdf

The music of the nineteenth century was - and still is - thought of as a 'romantic' art, whereas the main current of the literature and fine arts of the age was 'realist' from about 1830. Yet some works are consistently described as 'realistic': Nusorgsky's Boris and Bizet's Carmen are only the most frequently cited examples. Professor Dahlhaus sets out the criteria of realism, with particular reference to French and German theorists and examines the extent to which they apply to music too. While his findings do not reverse the verdict that the music of the age was in general romantic, he demonstrates that musical realism consists in much more than imitation of natural sounds or tone-painting. The notes are revised here for the English-speaking reader.

Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136731211

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Nineteenth-Century Piano Music by R. Larry Todd Pdf

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : David Beach,Ryan McClelland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136329753

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Analysis of 18th- and 19th-Century Musical Works in the Classical Tradition by David Beach,Ryan McClelland Pdf

Analysis of 18th- and 19th-Century Musical Works in the Classical Tradition is a textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in music analysis. It outlines a process of analyzing works in the Classical tradition by uncovering the construction of a piece of music—the formal, harmonic, rhythmic, and voice-leading organizations—as well as its unique features. It develops an in-depth approach that is applied to works by composers including Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms. The book begins with foundational chapters in music theory, starting with basic diatonic harmony and progressing rapidly to more advanced topics, such as phrase design, phrase expansion, and chromatic harmony. The second part contains analyses of complete musical works and movements. The text features over 150 musical examples, including numerous complete annotated scores. Suggested assignments at the end of each chapter guide students in their own musical analysis.

Author : Michael P. Steinberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400835737

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Listening to Reason by Michael P. Steinberg Pdf

This pathbreaking work reveals the pivotal role of music--musical works and musical culture--in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the "long nineteenth century." Michael Steinberg argues that, from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, music not only reflected but also embodied modern subjectivity as it increasingly engaged and criticized old regimes of power, belief, and representation. His purview ranges from Mozart to Mahler, and from the sacred to the secular, including opera as well as symphonic and solo instrumental music. Defining subjectivity as the experience rather than the position of the "I," Steinberg argues that music's embodiment of subjectivity involved its apparent capacity to "listen" to itself, its past, its desires. Nineteenth-century music, in particular music from a north German Protestant sphere, inspired introspection in a way that the music and art of previous periods, notably the Catholic baroque with its emphasis on the visual, did not. The book analyzes musical subjectivity initially from Mozart through Mendelssohn, then seeks it, in its central chapter, in those aspects of Wagner that contradict his own ideological imperialism, before finally uncovering its survival in the post-Wagnerian recovery from musical and other ideologies. Engagingly written yet theoretically sophisticated, Listening to Reason represents a startlingly original corrective to cultural history's long-standing inhibition to engage with music while presenting a powerful alternative vision of the modern. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Author : Martin Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317092261

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Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Martin Clarke Pdf

The interrelationship of music and theology is a burgeoning area of scholarship in which conceptual issues have been explored by musicologists and theologians including Jeremy Begbie, Quentin Faulkner and Jon Michael Spencer. Their important work has opened up opportunities for focussed, critical studies of the ways in which music and theology can be seen to interact in specific repertoires, genres, and institutions as well as the work of particular composers, religious leaders and scholars. This collection of essays explores such areas in relation to the religious, musical and social history of nineteenth-century Britain. The book does not simply present a history of sacred music of the period, but examines the role of music in the diverse religious life of a century that encompassed the Oxford Movement, Catholic Emancipation, religious revivals involving many different denominations, the production of several landmark hymnals and greater legal recognition for religions other than Christianity. The book therefore provides a valuable guide to the music of this complex historical period.

Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199796021

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Music in the Nineteenth Century by Richard Taruskin Pdf

The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks-the themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to a significant period in the history of Western music. In Music in the Nineteenth Century , Richard Taruskin offers a panoramic tour of this magnificent century in the history music. Major themes addressed in this book include the romantic transformation of opera, Franz Schubert and the German lied, the rise of virtuosos such as Paganini and Liszt, the twin giants of nineteenth-century opera, Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi, the lyric dramas of Bizet and Puccini, and the revival of the symphony by Brahms. Laced with brilliant observations, memorable musical analysis, and a panoramic sense of the interactions between history, culture, politics, art, literature, religion, and music, this book will be essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand this rich and diverse period.

Author : Ian Bent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994-03-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 052125969X

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Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century: Volume 1, Fugue, Form and Style by Ian Bent Pdf

This book demonstrates, in fascinating diversity, how musicians in the nineteenth century thought about and described music. The analysis of music took many forms (verbal, diagrammatic, tabular, notational, graphic), was pursued for many different purposes (educational, scholarly, theoretical, promotional) and embodied very different approaches. This, the first volume, is concerned with writing on fugue, form and questions of style in the music of Palestrina, Handel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner and presents analyses of complete works or movements by the most significant theorists and critics of the century. The analyses are newly translated into English and are introduced and thoroughly annotated by Ian Bent, making this a volume of enormous importance to our understanding of the nature of music reception in the nineteenth century.

Author : Rey Morgan Longyear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042616917

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Nineteenth-century Romanticism in Music by Rey Morgan Longyear Pdf