Nineteenth-Century Music

Name: Nineteenth-Century Music
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ISBN: 9780520076440

ISBN-10: 0520076443

ISBN-13: 9780520076440

Edition: 1991 (Reprint)

Authors: Carl Dahlhaus, J. Bradford Robinson

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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 clicheacute;. Cherished concepts like…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/12/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 0.70" wide x 1.00" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English