Music in the Nineteenth Century The Oxford History of Western Music

Name: Music in the Nineteenth Century The Oxford History of Western Music
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ISBN: 9780195384833

ISBN-10: 0195384830

ISBN-13: 9780195384833

Edition: 2009

Authors: Richard Taruskin

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The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial five-volume survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin. Now this renowned work is available in paperback--both as a set and (for the first time) individually. This volume examines the music of the nineteenth century, ranging from Schubert and Berlioz to Wagner, Verdi, and Brahms. Taking a critical perspective, Taruskin sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history. He combines an emphasis on structure and…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/27/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 880
Size: 7.01" wide x 9.96" long x 2.32" tall
Weight: 3.784
Language: English




Real Worlds, and Better Ones


Beethoven vs. Rossini


Bel Canto Romanticism



The Music Trance


Romantic Characterstucke


Schubert's Career



Volkstumlichkeit


The Romantic Lied


Mendelssohn's Career


the Two Nationalisms



Nations, States, and Peopl


Romantic Opera in Germany (Mozart, Webter), France (Auber, Meyerbeer), and Russia (Glinka)



Virtuosos


Paganini and Liszt



CriticsSchumann and Berlioz



Self and Other


Chopin and Gottschalk as Exotics


Orientalism



Midcentury


The New German School


Liszt's Symphonic Poems


Harmonic Explorations



Slavs as Subjects and Citizens


Smetana, Clinka, and Balakirev



Deeds of Music Made Visible (Class of 1813, I)Wagner



Artist, Politician, Farmer (Class of 1813, II)Verdi



Cutting Things Down to Size


Russian Realism (Musorgsky, Chaikovsky)


Opera Lyrique


Operetta


Verismo



The Return of the Symphony


Brahms



The Symphony Goes (Inter)National


Bruckner, Dvorak, beach, Franck, Saint-Saens, Borodin, Chaikovsky


Notes


Bibliography


Index