| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xiii, 523 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Norton introduction to music history
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Norton introduction to music history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-508) and index. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
I. Introduction. Historical background ; Music, patronage, and the public ; The composers training ; musical aethetics ; Historicism in music ; "Romantic" -- II. Beethoven in Vienna, 1792-1808. Early stylistic growth: piano sonatas ; The String Quartet Op. 18, No. 6 ; The Tempest Sonata ; Op. 31, No. 2 ; The Eroica Symphony ; Fidelio -- III. Beethoven: the late years, 1809-27. Formation of the late style ; The Diabelli Variations ; The Missa solemnis and the Ninth Symphony ; The late quartets ; Contemporary assessment -- IV. Beethoven's contemporaries: instrumental music. Schubert ; Music for piano: Clementi, Dusík, and Field ; Czerny, Moscheles, Hummel ; Schubert's piano music -- V. The Lied: Schubert and his predecessors. The Berlin school ; Southern Germany and Vienna ; Schubert -- VI. The rise of the nineteenth-century opera. Rossi ; Donizetti and Bellini ; Opera in France ; German romantic opera -- VII. Paris from 1830-1848. Grand Opera ; The virtuosos ; Liszt ; Chopin ; French Romanticism ; Berlioz -- VIII. Schumann and his German contemporaries. Schumann ; Mendelssohn ; Other contemporaries -- IX. Wagner and the music drama. The Ring of Nibelung ; Tristan and Isolde ; Die Meistersinger ; Later triumphs -- X. Italian and French opera in the later nineteenth century. Verdi ; Italian contemporaries and followers ; French opera of the later nineteenth century -- XI. Nationalist music. Hungary ; Bohemia ; Tomášek and Smetena ; Dvořák ; Poland ; Russia ; Glinka and Dargomïzhsky ; "The Five" ; Musorgsky [Mussorgsky] ; Rimsky-Korsakov ; Tchaikovsky ; Scandinavia ; England ; Spain -- XII. Crosscurrents in the late century. Liszt and the "New German School" ; Brahms ; Bruckner ; Leipzig ; Paris ; The century's end in Germany and Austria. |
| Subject |
Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| ISBN |
0393951960 : $21.95 |
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